Comments on: Alone in Aialik http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php Jen Funk Weber on needlework, reading, writing, and life. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:47:37 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Needle and ThREAD: Stitching for Literacy » Blog Archive » Out to the Bush http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php/comment-page-1#comment-9880 Needle and ThREAD: Stitching for Literacy » Blog Archive » Out to the Bush Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:53:29 +0000 http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php#comment-9880 [...] caretaking for the Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge during the month of October. It will be much like our adventure last Jan-Mar. Same cabin, similar conditions, similar plan, but shorter duration. Only a [...] [...] caretaking for the Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge during the month of October. It will be much like our adventure last Jan-Mar. Same cabin, similar conditions, similar plan, but shorter duration. Only a [...]

]]> By: Dad/Dick http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php/comment-page-1#comment-9267 Dad/Dick Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:13:25 +0000 http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php#comment-9267 Fantastic photos and captions! Wish Brother Calvin could access your Blog - he'd be awed too. Glad you're safe there. I was curious about the propane heater thing too, but it makes sense now - thanks Shelly for asking. Millard and I read your Blog this morning before I got on the road back to Maryland. All is quiet here. Love ya, Dad/Dick Fantastic photos and captions! Wish Brother Calvin could access your Blog – he’d be awed too. Glad you’re safe there. I was curious about the propane heater thing too, but it makes sense now – thanks Shelly for asking. Millard and I read your Blog this morning before I got on the road back to Maryland. All is quiet here. Love ya, Dad/Dick

]]> By: Jen http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php/comment-page-1#comment-9265 Jen Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:09:36 +0000 http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php#comment-9265 Tons of tea and cocoa, thanks. Tons of food in general. The propane heater is intended to be used "with supervision," not one to be left on while sleeping--open flame, fumes, etc. That's all. It's not safe to leave it on. That's a bad sentence. The heater bit is parenthetical, explaining the brrr! comment, and has nothing to do with Jamie needing to sleep on the boat because of icebergs. Aialik = eye-AL-ick Say "AL" like a nickname for Albert. Tons of tea and cocoa, thanks. Tons of food in general.

The propane heater is intended to be used “with supervision,” not one to be left on while sleeping–open flame, fumes, etc. That’s all. It’s not safe to leave it on.

That’s a bad sentence. The heater bit is parenthetical, explaining the brrr! comment, and has nothing to do with Jamie needing to sleep on the boat because of icebergs.

Aialik = eye-AL-ick

Say “AL” like a nickname for Albert.

]]> By: Shelly http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php/comment-page-1#comment-9264 Shelly Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:21:14 +0000 http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php#comment-9264 Thanks for sharing all of this with us! I get such wonderful vicarious enjoyment of your adventures. Tell me, how does one pronounce Aialik. I want to say "I-uh-lick," as though I'm not sure if I lick something or not. I'm having a bit of trouble following the reasoning behind not burning the propane heater during the night on the boat. How does that affect whether an iceberg takes them off to sea? I suspect that an iceberg doesn't much care whether there's a propane heater burning in the cabin. (This is where Tomas would get really frustrated with me, because I can't follow his line of reasoning and I have a strong need to understand. So I end up asking all sorts of questions when he believes the answers are obvious. Sometimes I'm a bit obtuse. Sometimes, though, I think his statements themselves are obtuse!) By the way, I love Weather or Not as the boat's name. Thanks for sharing all of this with us! I get such wonderful vicarious enjoyment of your adventures. Tell me, how does one pronounce Aialik. I want to say “I-uh-lick,” as though I’m not sure if I lick something or not.

I’m having a bit of trouble following the reasoning behind not burning the propane heater during the night on the boat. How does that affect whether an iceberg takes them off to sea? I suspect that an iceberg doesn’t much care whether there’s a propane heater burning in the cabin. (This is where Tomas would get really frustrated with me, because I can’t follow his line of reasoning and I have a strong need to understand. So I end up asking all sorts of questions when he believes the answers are obvious. Sometimes I’m a bit obtuse. Sometimes, though, I think his statements themselves are obtuse!)

By the way, I love Weather or Not as the boat’s name.

]]> By: Becca http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php/comment-page-1#comment-9263 Becca Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:00:26 +0000 http://jenfunkweber.com/alaska/alone-in-aialik.php#comment-9263 The pictures are incredible! I hope you have lots of tea and cocoa with you. The pictures are incredible! I hope you have lots of tea and cocoa with you.

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