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Dear Louisiana: A Letter From Alaska To Tennessee With Love, From Sikik Grace Eegeesiak by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Monday, September 20, 2004
Rated "G" by the Author.
Sikik Eegeesiak in Barrow, Alaska, writes her friend a letter. She is worried about her since she found out that her friend had some flooding at her place due to the after-effects of a hurricane.
Monday, September 20, 2004, 1:16 p.m., Alaska Time~
Dear Louisiana~
I certainly hope you are okay! I have been worried about you ever since your last letter and you stated that you had flooding at your house! I hope it was nothing catastrophic, and I hope that all of you are okay!
Did you get your power back by now? How long were you without power? Did you lose any food as a result of the outage? Was there any damage at your place? I hope not, especially since you stated that you already had storm damage once this year, back in June! You have been in my thoughts, and I have been offering prayers to the Great Spirit for your protection from harm and danger!
It is chilly here: temps in the 30s and lows in the teens. Not exactly bathing suit weather (but come to think of it, I have never worn a bathing suit in my life! LOL). How is the weather there in Tennessee? (I know. HOT! says Sikik, blushing like an idiot. LOL) Have the leaves started to change into their fall coloring yet? Here, we don't have trees: too cold, for one thing! All we have is tundra, ice, and SNOW!! LOL Oh, we get some little scrubby-looking bushes, and there are flowers, but they only are out for a few weeks, and then they die; and everything is brown and ugly until the snows start about October! Then we have snow until June or even as late as July! (What would YOU do if you had snow as late as June or July? I bet you'd be very surprised! But here in the tundra of the Arctic, it is common here, and I am used to how the weather behaves up here!)
Has your company left yet? I know you have friends from Texas there, and I also know that you have a lady from Finland there. Are they okay? I bet they aren't happy with the recent spate of stormy weather you had there!
How are your kids, and how is your husband? Tell Johnny, Ronee', and Bill that maybe I will write to them soon! I sent Ronee' her northern lights sweat-shirt (the shirt is the size you requested, and it is aqua, with the Lights on the front; it is really pretty!), and I also got Johnny some books about Alaskan wildlife in the Arctic that he should find interesting. In it he will find information (plus pictures) of animals like the snowy owl, the walrus, the seal, the polar bear, the Arctic fox, the ptarmigan (that is a type of bird that turns white in the winter, and in the winter, you can't see him very well because he blends in with the snow!), the auk (another type of bird that we Inuit love to eat; it's a delicacy), and the wolf. I am also sending Johnny a hand-made flute that was made by a friend of mine; he should enjoy that! (Seems that Johnny doesn't get as much as Ronee', which is a shame, because Johnny is a very nice little boy who has had a bad time of it, and he needs some joy in his life!) The package should be there by sometime later this week or the start of next; so be on the lookout for it! I also sent you some books about our culture and our beliefs. So, happy reading!
I am happy to report to you that Mother is out of the hospital, but she is so weak. We have a nurse come over to help her, and to give me a break. The nurse stays the night, and then she goes home during the day, and while I am glad that Mother is out of the hospital, it behooves me to see her in such a weakened state. She also is on oxygen, like your son, and that bothers me too. We have a tank of oxygen set up in her room, and she wears this thin little tube that goes around her face, and two little prongs fit into her nose, and this is where the oxygen comes from. I am always so scared to go to sleep because I am afraid that Mother is going to start having breathing trouble or stop breathing, and when I awaken, I may find her dead. I know I am a worrywart, but Louie, I can't help it at times. That is my mother!
I AM glad to say that Mother is starting to get her appetite back. She is eating again, but she gets tired, so she sleeps a lot. It will be quite a while before she is back where she was before she got sick. Thank you for the prayers for her; they are much appreciated by all of us Eegeesiaks, and I am happy to say that we pray to the Great Spirit for you too!
Glad you had fun at your adoption picnic! That must have been interesting to meet families like yours! Such a wonderful thing, adoption: taking care of other people's kids, or taking in kids who are suffering and in need of a home or family! Such a noble gesture! If I were younger, I probably would have adopted a kid or two myself, but I live in a small house, and there isn't any room! Plus having my elderly parents here--that may prove to be too much for Mother and Father! So I just live here alone, and take care of Mother and Father myself; and my brothers and sisters help me out whenever they feel I need a break! (They come at least several times a week, and I am always glad to see them! I also can spoil my nieces and nephews! LOL)
Well, dear friend in Tennessee, I will let you go. Mother is calling; she says she messed up her bed. I think she may have had an accident in her pants. ICK! Poor Mother; she must be MORTIFIED! I will then feed her and bathe her; she should then feel somewhat better! I will write again soon; thank you for writing to me.
~Love, your Alaskan friend, Sikik Grace Eegeesiak. :)
P.S.: The picture I put on here was a copy of a picture that I took last week. Seems that a snowy owl visited me, and I thought it was pretty, so I took a picture of it. Enjoy!
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Monday, September 20, 2004, 1:16 p.m., Alaska Time~
