Spring is here we heard the first robin singing in the birches behind the house. Robins are some of the first spring arrivals, as the males start moving north as soon as there is enough open ground for them to feed on. They also want to start staking out their territories, in preparation for attracting the females, who will arrive in another week or two.
And so the wheel turns. Now, as for Alaska:
A woman in Ketchikan has, apparently, the world’s biggest mouth – and she’s not even in politics. Seems like a missed opportunity.
The next time someone tells you that you have a big mouth, tell them it’s not nearly as big as Marie Pearl Zellmer Robinson’s, the lifelong Ketchikan resident who has just earned her jaw-dropping place in Guinness World Records as the world’s largest mouth.
From a young age, Robinson knew she was different. “I’ve always kind of known I had a big mouth,” she told the Ketchikan Daily News, recalling childhood tests involving oranges, lightbulbs, and even Jenga blocks that she could fit into her mouth to entertain her seven siblings.
After years of mouth-gaping humor, she had her dentist measure her mouth and make the official record: It’s between 7.23 and 7.33 centimeters — significantly larger than the previous record holder, Samantha Ramsdell, who measures a mere 6.52 cm.
That’s… remarkable. And here I thought AOC had the world’s biggest mouth.
Alaska Man store: 5 moose nuggets. If you’re going to hold a world record, make it a good one.
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This is interesting while also being very Alaskan: a native seal hunter giving classes on how to process a seal for consumption.
Wielding a sharpened piece of volcanic glass, Tim Ackerman sliced into the thawing carcass of a harbor seal.
“You want to keep parallel to the hide like this, as close as you can to the skin,” Ackerman said, narrating his deft movement separating skin from fat to a dozen chefs, nutritionists and cultural practitioners on a recent weekday in the kitchen of a patient housing building at the Alaska Native Medical Center.
They crowded around the stainless steel table’s seal centerpiece. Chefs in black coats with plastic gloves reaching their elbows silently tracked Ackerman as he showed them how to cut around the seal’s fin so as not to tear the hide.
Then — with a “whoever wants to try it” — he offered his tool to a novice.
Only coastal Alaska native are allowed to hunt seals. They have been doing that, of course, for a long, long time, and it’s only just that they keep up their tradition. Mr. Ackerman has been donating seal meat to the Alaska Native Medical Center for their traditional foods program.
Alaska Man score: Another 5 moose nuggets, for maintaining ancient tradition and passing it on. Well done.
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And finally: Well, this is a relief. Maybe.
An eruption at Mount Spurr, the closest volcano to Alaska’s population centers, is now less likely, researchers said Thursday.
Last month, the Alaska Volcano Observatory warned Alaskans that observations indicated an eruption at Spurr was more likely than not. The volcano, which sits about 80 miles west of Anchorage, has only erupted twice in recorded history, once in 1953 and again in 1992.
More recently, though, the researchers are seeing fewer indications that Spurr will erupt, but they say it’s still possible.
“Overall, the likelihood of eruption has decreased from a month ago,” said Matt Haney, the observatory’s head scientist. “However, the earthquake activity, especially deep beneath the volcano, has not decreased, so the volcano is still at an unrest level that’s higher than background.”
So the odds of our being covered in an inch or six of volcanic ash have decreased, and most of the people I’ve chatted with about it in the post office and the lodge have likewise heard, and are breathing a sigh of relief. Living in the Great Land isn’t like living in lots of other places, and we deal with a lot of different things, but volcanoes, we’re happy to get along without – at least, without them erupting.
No score on this one; it’s just nature. Although a “well done” to the people at the Volcano Observatory.
Now then, let’s talk about hawks.
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