All of you readers who are here in the Great Land, and I know there are a bunch, are probably all sharing my happiness at the return of spring – and the end of this weird, weird winter. I went back and looked through some photos, and at this time last year, we had a foot of snow in the yard. Now the yard is clear, and with that comes another sign of the Alaska spring – the buzzing of light airplanes has picked up considerably. More on that in a bit. Meanwhile…
Boom! Back in the day, my friends and I could have probably written a military field manual on improvised explosives. If something could be made to explode, we’d find a way to explode it. But there’s no match for military-grade stuff, which can be seriously dangerous, so it’s troubling when someone finds one on a beach.
On April 24, 2025 the Alaska State Troopers received a report that an…
