tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425833.post7844495919420163740..comments2022-09-26T07:46:26.191-08:00Comments on Sunhusky's Alaska: OomingmatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425833.post-45370926496271553892007-12-04T21:51:00.000-09:002007-12-04T21:51:00.000-09:00Now you've made my spinner's fingers itch. I've a...Now you've made my spinner's fingers itch. I've always want to try spinning qiviut. It is the finest animal fibre on the entire planet, rivaled only by the rare cameloid of South America, the vicuna. Do they sell the unspun qiviut fibre at the Anchorage store?<BR/><BR/>This really is a flashback. The Musk Ox cooperative was just being organized when I lived in Anchorage in the early 1970s. That picture of Susan is priceless.<BR/>Thanks so much for sharing Alaska with us. <BR/><BR/>Like a magnetized needle my mind and thoughts keep turning north. <BR/>Both memories and recent events keep drawing my dreams back to the far distant lands of snow and ice. Before I left Alaska a young schoolmate, (a boy from a remote village attending high school in the "big city") said to me, "You will return one day, Alaska will call you back." Prehaps he was right...........<BR/><BR/>See y'all on the trail,<BR/><BR/>Sarida the Snowless<BR/>San Antonio, Texas<BR/>South-Paw Dirt (& Asphalt) Musher <BR/>1972 Graduate of West Anchorage High SchoolSaridahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10633206424248740611noreply@blogger.com