Good morning!

A Wednesday morning at Palmer. The sun is rising today at 8:49am and setting at 3:56pm.
I believe we get about 8 to 10 minutes more daylight each day. Of course we don't actually see all that sun due to the glacier that sits in our backyard but slowly we'll see more and more. The L.M. Gould left yesterday for a trip back to Punta Arenas with passengers and cargo, and will return here in a scant 13 days bringing, you guessed it cargo and a couple of workers for the coming summer season.
This past weekend or Sunday as we call it I woke up with a bit of hangover so my original plans of doing some coffee roasting, yes they have a coffee roaster here,in the morning was not to be. I did manage to get out for a bit of skiing on the glacier in our backyard. The wind was howling so simply hiking up making switchback passes was not to be so I donned a set of crampons, skis on my back and hiked straight up. I have to say I had a great time despite the wind which was gusting to around 30 knots. I skied down towards the Bonaparte peninsula and found plenty of signs of penguins but none of the little black and whites. On my hike back up I headed to the top of glacier to see what I could see and the accompanying picture doesn't quite do the view justice. Contrary to everyone saying the glacier was really icy. I found it to be a far cry from New England boiler plate. The top shatters quite easily and skiing back to the station was only difficult due to my lack of energy.
Another week started and I was back painting stairwells. The front stairwell always busy, in the back stairwell I was left to my thoughts and my ipod. Things get done more quickly when it's me and my ipod. So that's where I leave you today, me and my thoughts. Cheers