tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18228801141974091242024-03-13T01:58:17.216-08:00Mays' MissiveDaphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827727431058877818noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-64401845011983951952016-06-24T13:07:00.000-08:002016-06-24T13:07:27.660-08:00Road trip!So I suppose I ought to update this poor, neglected blog with house progress pictures, but that's too big a job to tackle today so I'll just start with our recent ROAD TRIP!!! It was AMAZING!!! The VanDaams moved to Oregon and we offered to drive their car down for them so off we went! We had always wanted to make the trip back down by car and this was the perfect opportunity! We camped, hotel-ed and stayed with friends and family as we made our way down the road! It was such an amazing trip that we want to do it again and take even longer! We allowed 12 days to drive about 2500 miles so we weren't terribly pressed for time but there was sooooooo much to see and do that we would like to take a few months next time! We had wanted to get down to northern California to see Crescent City where my uncle used to live and see the Redwoods but we didn't quite make it. We hit the Oregon coast on Father's Day weekend and ran out of steam. Roads and campgrounds were full and though the scenery was amazing, the traffic was not. We had also passed by a number of places where we had really wanted to spend more time so we turned back north a bit earlier than originally planned and moseyed back up the coast and headed to VanDaams to deliver the car and chill out for a few days. It was great to spend a little time there relaxing and visiting and also gave us time to visit with another friend near Portland. The entire trip was so great that it is hard to put into words! So I'll start with pictures! <br />
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One of the reasons I haven't updated the blog is that I hate it when the pictures take so long to load so I always try to edit pictures so the files aren't so large. In order to actually put together an update I confess that I'm going to give up on doing that! I'll apologize in advance if you have slow internet! <br />
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One of the highlights of the trip for me was BEARS! We saw 15 bears over the course of three days! The first was in the Yukon just before we crossed into BC. It was a really pretty, cinnamon colored black bear probably a couple of years old. He was not at all bothered by our presence and just stood there munching grass and looking around. <br />
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We camped that night not far from where we saw the bear right next to a lovely little stream that babbled alongside us through the night. The next morning we crossed over into British Columbia and got on what is called the Cassiar highway that runs through the Cassiar mountains along the coast of British Columbia. Not far down the "highway" (impressive word for an unmarked two lane road barely wide enough for larger vehicles to pass by each other) we stopped to look at a gorgeous little lake surrounded by wildfire burned trees, noting the bear proof garbage receptacles and a picnic table with a 55 gallon drum for garbage that was clearly NOT bear proof! It had been knocked over and the contents strewn about. Rodney made a pit stop in the woods and then we continued on. Not a quarter mile down the road we met the local hoodlums who had likely knocked-over the garbage barrel - a pair of young black bears! One was another lovely cinnamon and the other quite black. They weren't too concerned about us but they also weren't planning to stick around any longer than necessary. I have pictures of those two, but not all that clear as they headed off into the woods. As you'll see later, there's no sense bothering with those pictures. The lake:<br />
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And we just kept on seeing bears. This is another cinnamon colored one who was likely a young female. Momma bear was there too when we stopped, but she took off like a shot! Baby just hung out right there, completely unconcerned about us watching her.<br />
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We stopped at a jade place there that had jade BOULDERS! Crazy!<br />
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And we saw more bears...<br />
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And then we saw Ferdinand. This bear was just laying in the patch of seeded dandelions and rolling around munching on them. Rodney must have been driving at that point because as we went by I said, "There was a bear there laying in a patch of dandelions!" Rodney had not seen it and we debated if we should turn around and go back and we eventually did. We drove back but didn't see it and then just as we were getting ready to turn around again we saw a bear! But we both thought it was farther than Ferdinand so we went a little farther so as not to disturb this bear and we turned around and headed back down the road and when we FINALLY got back to that point, sure enough, there was this silly bear still lying there rolling around and munching on dandelions! Silly old bear! <br />
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And another, and another. We ended up seeing 12 more bears that day!<br />
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We had talked to some Australian tourists that day who had seen many bears at a wildlife viewing walkway in Hyder, AK. We camped that night in more bear country in BC, near the highway out to Stewart, BC and Hyder, AK. We'd had such fun watching the black bears the previous day that we decided to take the highway out to Hyder and see if we could see some grizzlies. Just a little bit out from where we camped we saw another young black bear crossing the road in a hurry! And just a little bit beyond that encounter we saw a grizzly crossing the road! He was far too quick for me to grab the camera but it was still an amazing encounter just the way I like it - with the car between us!!! We didn't see any more bears that day but we had a lovely time seeing the scenery and trees on the way to Stewart and Hyder and then we had a lovely breakfast in Stewart talking with the locals. It was a delightful side trip!<br />
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BC was a little dull through the mid-section but probably only because the other part had been so spectacular in scenery, bears and lack of traffic. We did drive through a couple of small villages with incredible totem poles:<br />
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And we took a hike out to a fish counting setup that was pretty interesting. It wasn't really the prime season for that, but it was still interesting. We mostly admired all the plants and trees growing along the road, and the bear droppings. A rather disturbingly large pile, other smaller piles were fresher...<br />
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This almost felt like home! Except the mountains weren't nearly high enough. <br />
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There were fields just FULL of wildflowers! Imagine an entire field with this orange hue!<br />
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We also saw a few mule deer though we didn't catch any pictures. It rained quite a bit through our BC mid-section day so we ended up in a couple of hotels. That wasn't all bad. We really needed showers by then anyway. ;) On our last night in BC we stayed in an adorable hotel called the Nomad which was an old style motel completely remodeled. The owner was a delight to talk to and the rooms were updated, but you sort of felt like you were in a time warp! It was one of our favorite stops! The next morning we would cross over into the US again, but not before driving through three distinct areas. Clinton has sort of a hilly prairie topography, then you drop down into the Fraser River canyon which is a sage-brush mountainous desert and when you come out the bottom of that canyon you are back in Pacific northwest rain-forest! It was mind-boggling the major changes through such a short drive! I didn't take pictures in Clinton, but this is the Fraser River canyon and the next shots are southern BC.<br />
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I did manage to catch up with my cousin who lives in West Seattle so we went into Seattle the next afternoon (that was enough to cure us of any interest in living in that area) to Pike's Place market and then went to visit my cousin that evening. Pike's Place was definitely interesting, but an hour was plenty. We aren't good shoppers. I had not seen my cousin since we were both very young (maybe 5 and 10?) so it was great to actually get to meet and get to know each other a bit. We will need to repeat that when we can spend a little more time!<br />
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The next morning we headed west to catch the famous highway 101 which runs along the coast of Washington and Oregon. We tried to stick to the coastline as much as possible, occasionally taking smaller side roads to get even closer to the coast. We did have a great time along the coast! The scenery was amazing and we saw so much wildlife! We didn't see any more bears, but we did see whales! Amazing! We were able to camp almost on the beach one night. You could hear the waves crashing not far from our tent! Well, until I put in my earplugs...<br />
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Then as we moved in from the coast once, we ran across this sand dune area. It was beautiful in its own way, but just so different from anything we had seen previously!<br />
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And then all of a sudden I saw this strange sight! It looked like someone had plowed the dune! It took us days to unravel the mystery! We traced back up the coast at one point looking for an available campground and we found a place that catered to ATVs. This dune was where they were allowed to ride the ATVs! <br />
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And really, the pictures barely scratch the surface! It was an amazing trip which we hope to do again only taking even longer! It's time for an adventure vehicle! And if no one complains too loudly about the size of the pictures, maybe I can dig in and update the house progress over the last few years of blog neglect!Daphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827727431058877818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-83517940999698790932014-05-13T21:42:00.001-08:002014-05-13T21:42:39.270-08:00October 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thankfully Barry stuck with us! <br />
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Starting to come together.<br />
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And the ridge pole going in!<br />
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The Keurig was a welcome addition to the "tools of the trade". Mornings go a lot better when there is strong coffee involved. It also seems to aid with the "cyphering".<br />
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You can more clearly see the gables in this picture.<br />
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And the first roofing going up! Very exciting!<br />
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This clearly shows a problem that we had to correct this spring. The liner in the valley should have gone on under the pieces of liner on the roof. <br />
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Steep roof! <br />
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The snow is getting closer!<br />
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Here is the lift in life saver mode! <br />
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More roofing done!<br />
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The inside of the upstairs room. <br />
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The roof mostly done!<br />
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Metal delivery! Chuck was working at the neighbor's house across the road so he helped to unload it. <br />
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And the wood/coal boiler was delivered as well. That'll keep things toasty! That lift is soooooooo handy! Such a huge help!<br />
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And a few more tools of the trade. The air compressor ran pretty much non-stop during the framing! So did the crock pot! With so much help it was a handy way to keep them energized!</div>
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Windows arrived in that same time frame and we were able to get those in with some help on the bigger ones in front.<br />
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<br />Daphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827727431058877818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-42019542233896731912014-05-13T20:59:00.000-08:002014-05-13T20:59:57.533-08:00September 2013There's behind, and then there's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind! I'm in the latter category right now! Yikes. We'll see what I can do about catching up. When I left off we had just finished the main floor. Hold on tight! This will be a whirlwind update!<br />
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As usual, life is never dull. Just as soon as we got the main floor done it rained. And when I say rain, I mean RAIN! Ugh! I got a super duper squeegee and squeegeed it out. <br />
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Next step was the sill plate - bolting that down.<br />
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One simple line that is rather important - the center line. </div>
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Tools of the trade:</div>
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Battery powered! What a life saver!</div>
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I was trying to take a picture of the scaffold, which has been hugely helpful, but then I noticed the ladder. That ladder is our main "staircase" even now! Another very important tool of the trade!<br />
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This lift has been a back saver and probably a life saver too! You'll see why in later pictures. <br />
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Slowly but surely the gabled ends go up.<br />
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With much work done under plastic to try to keep dry. It was either gorgeously sunny or raining, sometimes both in the same day! Not much mediocre weather this past fall! <br />
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Barry was incredibly faithful in helping out! There's no way we would have gotten it all done before snow flying without him!<br />
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We put up Bituthene and then treated plywood over the area that would soon be back filled. <br />
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Mike didn't take long at all putting in the septic - that's our tank on its way to its new home. <br />
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Tamping it in.<br />
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This is Alaska. Yes, you put insulation over your tank. <br />
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Beginning to back fill. The house looks more like a house and not just a huge white blob!</div>
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It looks so much nicer once Mike finished the dirt work around the house!</div>
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And he put the electric base in place! Now to wait for the electric company to get around to hooking it up! Our neighbors across the road were waiting too.</div>
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It's a rough life but someone has to look at all that scenery! This took us through the end of September. </div>
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On the way to town this week - the pictures don't begin to do justice to the light on the mountains around the rainbows!</div>
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So this will be a quick post! The main floor is up, or rather was up as of two weeks ago. Starting again today to put in the ceiling of the main floor, floor of the top floor. Then on to the roof! We worked in the rain a number of days over this last build portion and it is rainy again this morning. Here is one front passing through.</div>
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Pouring the main floor. Lots of good help!<br />
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In between building spurts, there is work to be done - Rodney to the slope and me at Victory. There's a lot of catching up on paperwork to do in between! The Victory parking lot:</div>
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There are only two more weeks of camp left this summer. I feel like I've missed most of it this year. Every so often though, I'll catch a glimpse that makes my heart happy. Like this:</div>
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But on to the building project! The basement will be what they call a daylight basement. Three sides will be back-filled when we are done but the south facing side will look out onto the driveway. The door and two windows face south. The small room off to the west will be cold storage/root cellar. There is no heat in the floor there and there will be insulation above that room to help keep it cool, but not freezing. There will be an exterior door between the basement and the cold storage room. On the main floor (above the cold storage) that room will be the arctic entry - an entry with doors going to the outside and into the house that helps keep out cold air. You enter through one door and then after that door has closed you can enter into the main building. </div>
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We're using Amvic insulated concrete forms to build the basement and main floor. In addition to being very energy efficient, Amvic is mold resistant (great for my allergies), fire resistant (did you read the last post?), insect resistant, generally doesn't require a lot of upkeep and they are made with 60% recycled material. A good choice all around. The other benefit for us is that Rodney and I can put up the structure ourselves. You just lay the block and tie to the rebar that was set in the foundation. Ok, so maybe there's a little more to it than that, but not much. Concrete is later poured in all those spaces between the foam though, so you'd better make sure you've left room for windows, doors and other perforations BEFORE you pour your concrete! That meant a lot of trips to town to finalize those decisions before we got too far laying block!</div>
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That reminds me, I need to post some pictures of everyone's favorite - Long Lake. There have been a LOT of rocks sliding down that hill! A lot of BIG rocks!</div>
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It seems like every time I go through, there is less road and more rocks. There are plenty on the other side as well:</div>
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But Lion's Head always takes my breath away whenever I get up that direction:</div>
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And the clouds overhead one morning were amazing too.</div>
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And some overheating by me from trying to work in the heat. So I laid on the cool concrete and noticed the pretty clouds overhead.</div>
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But after overheating again the next day, I figured out that the rebar cutting could be done in the shade and was relatively stationary work, so I took that over to help cut down on the overheating and allow Rodney to focus more on laying block. But after hours of cutting rebar with a grinder, my arms were getting rather sore. We decided to see if we could borrow Dan's saw to do that job. I was immediately in love.</div>
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It may not be pretty, but it cuts through that rebar like... well, not like butter, but it does go a LOT faster than the grinder! Ooooo, baby, yes, I am in love! </div>
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And no overheating for me. :) If those walls seem a little blindingly white, they are. Literally! There were times you'd have to close your eyes to rest them from the whiteness. </div>
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And finally done laying Amvic for the basement!</div>
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But still plenty of work to be done - foam glue along the inside and outside bottom edge to help secure the Amvic to the slab and prevent blow-outs, bracing the windows and doors, bracing the corners inside and out, and around the top edge outside, inside under the bolts for the ceiling/floor, and perforations for utilities... Thankfully Chuck showed up early the day of the pour to help finish some of those details. </div>
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The next day was the pour. One LARGE pump truck and 4 or so concrete trucks pumped 31 yards of concrete into those walls. That's a lot of concrete! The concrete trucks backed up to the pumper and dumped their loads into the back of the pumper which then pumped it up and through the hose to wherever it was needed. They pumped it to about 2-3' high the first time around and by that time it had set up enough at the beginning to go back over and pump it to the next level. They went all around the house about three times. I think. Not sure I actually counted. It was pretty busy.</div>
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And that was it for the pour! Then it was just a matter of waiting. The next day we came back to check out our handiwork and then remembered that we still had some work to do. We'll have to lay the next layer of block on top of this, so anywhere that there was concrete that interfered with the next block, it had to be removed. Not too bad at this corner, but there was plenty of work in a couple of spots, especially where they had to go over the edge of the wall to get to the other wall. It wasn't too big a job, just a little slow and tedious, but it's all done now and ready for the next layer! Now we just need to catch up on other work and rest up for the next go around. Thankfully both of our jobs are relatively sedentary so we can physically rest. We'll see you back in about another month with the next level!</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">I've gotten a bit of flack recently for the lack of building updates here. I've been keeping up somewhat with pictures on Facebook, but this always seems like it needs to be more edited, more "correct" so I always hesitate to sit down and do it. Maybe I should just wing it in favor of keeping up. We did start work on building the house starting in June. Our summer was pretty late in coming this year, but once it came, it came fast and hot! The first thing that needed to be done was to get supplies and start work on the site preparation. Rodney started work on the North Slope (oil) so he works two weeks on, two weeks off. I'll have him post details on that later. It has a huge impact on the work on the house though because everything is intense for two weeks, then the project comes to a halt for two weeks. You can probably guess where we are in that cycle right now. </span><br />
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Dan and Rodney doing additional site preparation:</div>
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The water line from the well to the house. The nice thing about digging in the spring after a winter like this is that they could see exactly where the frost line was and dig down below it. Insulation over the pipe helps ensure that it won't freeze below that point.</div>
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The building pad after the pipes were all put in. Moose walking through the woods as I took the picture. </div>
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HOT!!! This is ALASKA in the mountains, not far from the ocean, not interior Alaska or New York!<br />
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Rodney and Dan did most of the site preparation work, but when it came time to set the foundation forms, Doug Maxwell came in along with Ryan Beachy and Jesse Lee. If Doug is in charge of the pour, he wants it done right and wants to be there to be certain that it is done right. Sounds good to me! This is a gifted group of men! Might as well have good help if you're going to have help! Doug is in the plaid shirt giving directions.</div>
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While the other guys were working on the foundation, Jared Thiessen was cutting trees for the electric line. He's in there if you look closely.</div>
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That night strong winds blew in smoke from a forest fire a few hours away. You could hardly see the mountains around us. We'd been too hot and too dry for too long. </div>
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We were supposed to pour the foundation the next morning, but we got a call around midnight that Ryan Beachy had struck a moose on his motorcycle and died. His girlfriend, Tracy, was with him and is still recovering from the crash. The pour was called off and we, along with the rest of the community were left in a state of complete shock. When someone dies, people always seem to say good things about that person, like all of them were good people (how can that be?), but with Ryan it really was true. Ryan was a builder and a fisherman, not a person you'd think would have a huge impact in the world today. The big difference was that Ryan poured his life into the lives of others around him and that made a world of difference. His loss has hit hard all across the state. While a senior in high school, Ryan wrote this mission statement. He certainly accomplished it to perfection! </div>
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<strong>And to be known as an overall nice person.</strong></div>
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<strong>I will be more hardworking</strong></div>
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<strong>I will be more fun to be with,</strong></div>
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<strong>And a good friend to everybody.</strong></div>
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L-shaped rebar were inserted into the concrete along the outside edge of the foundation to tie the foundation in to the wall. We'll see that the next time around!<br />
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So many people say they could never handle the darkness of winter here in Alaska. In honor of those people I took a bunch of pictures at the darkest point of the winter. Calculating the length of our day is a bit challenging in winter. Reality is that it greatly depends on exactly where you are situated both in elevation and near what mountains. According to Wikipedia twilight is when "the sun itself is not directly visible because it is below the horizon". <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight</a> I suppose by that definition we don't have honest to goodness daylight for a while through the winter. The interesting thing is that if you go down the road a bit or up in elevation, you might have sunlight. Most of camp is within the shadow of Amulet so we don't really get direct sunlight because the sun is low enough on the horizon that it can't get past Amulet. This picture was taken mid-day on one of the shortest days of December. </div>
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Turning around (and moving around a little to get a better view) this is what it looks like above and behind me. There's our sunbeam just up the mountain a bit! With the brilliant snow and clear skies, we actually get quite a bit of daylight, just no direct sun for a while. </div>
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It's still spectacularly beautiful.<br />
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And when the moon is out on a clear night reflecting off the snow, it might as well be twilight. The first is twilight, the second moonlight.<br />
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The lack of light does seem to bother a lot of people. It doesn't really bother me, especially if I make sure to get out during the day and go for a walk. Between the exercise and the daylight and the fresh air I don't seem to have a problem. I actually have more trouble in the summer trying to sleep when it is light all night long. If I wake up at 2 am and my brain sees light, it thinks it is time to get up and quite often doesn't want to be convinced otherwise. <br />
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This winter we had very little snow early in the winter. It was quite a welcome change when it finally came!<br />
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But the reality is that it was too little too late. The frost went so deep so quickly that many people have had problems with ice. The road crews spent a lot of time clearing ice off the roads rather than snow. It's beautiful, but destructive.<br />
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Almost two weeks ago we had a water main break at camp and while fixing that, the lines froze at Alpine camp as well as the main line to the community. It took 10 days to restore water to most homes with one that went to an alternate setup until summer when we can figure out how much additional damage there is to the line. Fortunately the group at Alpine that weekend was a Russian youth group. Most of the kids were not born in America where we are used to turning on the faucet and getting water. They were amazed at how hard the maintenance guys were working to restore water to them. "In Russia it could take a month or more." They enjoyed the view up at Ranch camp where they went to take showers. It was an interesting perspective!<br />
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We do have more snow now, enough to make it easier to enjoy winter activities. The days are also getting longer quickly. I sat in the sun for quite a while today editing pictures for this and the last post.<br />
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The longer days make it easier to get out and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors!<br />
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I've still got quite a ways to go to catch up
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up by 2020! If things stay quiet – that's funny! I'd best go back
to last fall and catch up on my trip back east to start. This was the evening sky on the day I flew out. Moonrise over Anchorage.<br />
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I suppose I could also cut out Anchorage and still have a pretty picture, but I think half of the beauty to me is that you can hardly get away from the scenery in AK. There are some dull places to be sure, but especially around where we are, there's more scenery than not. It slaps you across the face no matter where you are, like at the airport, on the road in, walking out of Lowes or Walmart. Ok, so I'll remove Anchorage now and see what you think. The first one is still my fave. It's my Alaska.<br />
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This visit to NY was mostly about visiting. When my brother and his wife and kids invited me to come trick or treating, I jumped at the chance. I didn't quite realize that it was for adults too! The best part was little kids looking at my brother in awe! There were a few that clearly thought it really was Batman! His little sidekick sure was a hoot! I've got to say though, I don't remember Batman ever having such a gorgeous woman by his side!<br />
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My niece also had a birthday while I was there. Great timing! Yes, it really was a New York kind of warm, not just Alaskan warm! The kids really got into hitting the pinata! Since it was her birthday, she got to choose for herself what she wanted to wear and may also have encouraged her little brother to follow suit. Gotta love it!<br />
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Kids of all ages love to pop the bubble wrap!<br />
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While in NY I took a couple of side trips. One of those was a driving trip to visit a few friends, one in Massachusetts where I only stayed for a couple of hours (too much visiting to take pictures in that short amount of time!), one in NY on the way home (with only a dead camera with me at that point) and a visit with one of my college roommates in Connecticut sandwiched in between (where the only camera I had with me at that point proceeded to die). Despite what it looks like, I really seemed to be camera-challenged on this trip. I took two point and shoot cameras with me and still managed to be without on a number of occasions! First I left one at my brother's house, then I left the other there (taking the first one with me). Then one of them died permanently, though I didn't know it was permanent at the time. *sigh* Good thing I got SOME pictures! I confess that I was a bit bummed that this one was so over-exposed, especially since it was one of the few I was able to get in CT before the camera died. I had a great, relaxed time hanging out with Michele, Geoff and their kids and of course Lucy! <br />
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I was so blessed to have my nephew fly up from Florida for Thanksgiving. It's not that often that I get to see him any more and always a great time. We got to spend a day at the Corning glass museum which was cool in it's own way, but even more cool seeing the technological advances with someone who uses that stuff on a daily basis.<br />
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I also got to visit with another niece and her little girl and then Rodney's sister brought another niece's kids over until we had quite a roomful of energy! Such fun, but hard to capture in pictures!<br />
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I also flew down to North Carolina to visit a friend there. She lives very close to Duke University where her son works so we spent one afternoon walking around in the gardens there. Gorgeous! I had a great time catching up with her and catching a bit of the flavor of Durham. The temperatures were quite lovely there too!<br />
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This year when I got to NY there was one major change in my parent's household. They got a cat. Not just any cat, but an adult cat named Alley. The name ought to have tipped them off if "cat" didn't. When they took her to the vet the first time, he asked them if she had any bad habits because most people don't give up older cats unless they have bad habits. They assured him that she had none. My parents got a brand new couch. As in, no one had even sat on it yet kind of new. Guess who claimed it hours after it arrived?</div>
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And not just claimed it, but dominated it! No room left for anyone else to sit!<br />
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The funniest one though was the day I walked in the bathroom and saw the cat sitting on the toilet seat getting a drink! Nooooooooooo bad habits here! I was a bit slow with the camera - it's not like I carry one on me to go to the bathroom.<br />
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But the silly beast adores my parents so I guess she has at least one redeeming quality. When I left they were trying to figure out how they were going to take her with them to Florida for a couple of months! She definitely rules the roost! She and her Basset alter ego Ellie have a lot in common! <br />
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Goofy beast! Oh yeah, so she has another redeeming quality: entertainment. In that first cat picture you can see her collar dangler. That's a magnet. It opens her door so she can go in and out as she pleases, but none of the neighbor cats can follow. That magnetized collar provides hours of entertainment too. Out of the blue you'll hear a "click" or a "clank" or a "clunk". Depending on her whereabouts or the sound it makes, my parents can tell what the magnet has stuck to - things like the metal strip on the drywalled corners, the metal bin next to the wood stove, the fridge... Hours of entertainment. No, it doesn't make me want a cat, but I sure found it entertaining while I was there!<br />
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About a month after they left, I noticed a bunch of swans out on the lake one morning. It was still dark out at that point, but I made sure to grab my camera and get out there to get some pictures. I didn't realize when I started how many swans there were! They were starting to move when I got there so I'm glad I got there when I did! There were at least 50 swans and maybe even more on the other lake. It was an unbelievable experience!</div>
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<br />Daphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827727431058877818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-35529662349900692852012-12-23T20:05:00.001-09:002012-12-23T20:05:39.948-09:002012 Weather in ReviewI've decided that I'm never going to get caught up on blogging the way I'd like to, but if I don't do SOMETHING, the situation is just going to continue to get worse. For this post I've been collecting evidence and data for a while now. Most of you southerners (meaning everyone in the lower 48) will really like this post. I'm going to complain about the weather. Ya'll know it doesn't happen often, so you might as well bookmark this one so you can find it back again later.<br />
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I'll start with this past summer since I'm still in "catching up" mode. It was cold. It was wet. It was frequently both at the same time. I confess I didn't keep track carefully enough to be certain, but I do think we had snow every month this year. When I say we had snow, that doesn't mean we had inches and inches. We didn't even get it under our feet. But that is Victory Peak in the front, Anthracite in the back and both of them had a dusting more times than I care to admit. And if they had snow, it means that it sure wasn't 60 degrees a couple hundred feet below. This picture is from early July.<br />
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According to this news article it wasn't just our imagination: <a href="http://www.adn.com/2012/07/13/2541345/its-the-coldest-july-on-record.html">http://www.adn.com/2012/07/13/2541345/its-the-coldest-july-on-record.html</a> </div>
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But we did get some really pretty rainbows! And in this case we even had a double! Pretty stuff!</div>
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Not every day was cold. There were a few warm ones as noted below. For some of you, this doesn't even qualify as warm but for me, anything over 70 is a waste of degrees and by the point noted for the record, I'm thinking about air conditioning. That said, I wouldn't have minded a few more days closer to that 70 mark. </div>
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The really surprising thing about the weather this year was that it just kept going! We had record snowfall last winter which then melted off in rain this past spring, then more rain this summer, hurricanes this fall and a cold, almost snowless winter so far! Here's a news article about the back to back hurricanes: </div>
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The result of all that water was falling rocks, flooding, landslides and roads collapsing. Long Lake had a number of slides and people's cars hit by rocks. The plow trucks stayed busy all summer keeping the roads clear of rocks.</div>
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This slide was particularly interesting.<br />
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It occurred just days after they put up this sign. Maybe they shouldn't have put the sign there. Too tempting for the slide to occur once they did that! ;) They have new signs now in addition to these. They say, "Lane edge drops next 21 miles." Those are our roads they are talking about. They don't normally do much road construction through the winter, but the roads have gotten so bad in spots that they are digging up parts of the road to fix where it has washed out underneath. It sounds like they'll start working on permanent repairs this coming summer which will make the trip in to town take longer, but it will be well worth it in the long run! <br />
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Apparently we used up our quota of precipitation for the year already though because after the three hurricanes early this fall, we pretty much stopped having any precipitation worth measuring. It just got cold. Which was somewhat fun when the lakes froze. Hard. With no snow. That means you can see down, down, down. That was just plain COOOOOOOOL!!! It was so much more fun to look down through the ice than to skate! We didn't figure out that you could really go out on the lakes until the day before I left for NY so I really didn't get a lot of pictures. Apparently we could have been out there for a while though, because they were driving on it within days of my leaving! We do have a little snow now, but not enough to even go snow machining! We could use a LOT more, both for ground insulation and for snow machine fun!</div>
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Evelynn just cracks me up! :)<br />
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Despite the wet summer, we didn't miss out on too much gorgeousness! I'll leave you with a few lovely shots and promise to come back with tons more scenic shots next time!</div>
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<br />Daphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827727431058877818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-33445824528622128052012-10-07T19:52:00.001-08:002012-10-07T19:52:32.468-08:00Denali and Denali Highway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This is another one of those posts where the pictures speak volumes! Longtime friends John and Holly Phillips came from NY to see Alaska in celebration of John's 70th birthday and 30 years of marriage. We were blessed to be able to hang out with them for a few days and catch up on life sprinkled with a few tears and plenty of laughter! They had a list of things they wanted to do including seeing Denali. Denali is more often not visible than it is visible, especially the way the weather had been this summer and fall. Interestingly enough, park rangers draw the view of Denali from the visitor center twice each day during the summer. I don't know why, but it perfectly illustrates the point: <a href="http://www.nps.gov/dena/photosmultimedia/images/20-2011-August-7pm.jpg" target="_blank">Denali drawings 2011-August-7pm.jpg</a> So when there came a sunny break between rain systems, we made plans to GO! Denali is like a ghost when you drive in toward it the first time. You catch a glimpse, but aren't sure what you saw. Could that have been it? So you look intently again, but you can't see it. Then all of a sudden there it is again! Finally you come to a point where there is no mistake. There it is, dominating the horizon. If you click on the pictures, it will take you to a larger view of them. I've tried to optimize the photos to get good clarity yet not take forever to download. Trust me. It will be worth the view!</div>
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We had never been this close to Denali before, so we didn't know the best viewing spots. We'd been as far as the lake spot above once before, but turned back as we didn't have time to continue on. We'd heard that the Princess Lodges often had fantastic views so we pulled off to check it out:<br />
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They did have good views, but not as fabulous as we had hoped.</div>
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Then just a little way down the road there was a pullout with a great view. By that point the clouds were starting to come in from the next weather system and Denali was already disappearing from view again!<br />
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We did manage to stay ahead of the storm and had an absolutely gorgeous day for travel. At one point we went past this... Well... Ummm... This thing. But completely gorgeous all around it.<br />
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We stayed overnight just inside the park and made a quick stop at the visitor's center the next day. Some kids never grow up. John is standard issue Alaskan. I kept telling him he fit right in! Probably half the guys over 50 in Alaska can all be described as not that tall, wiry, bearded, grey haired or greying, a bit hard of hearing, etc. I'll have to have Sandy Lee fill me in on the rest. I started a "standard Alaskan" list but hers was much better than mine!<br />
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The views heading out of the park were as spectacular as they had been going in!<br />
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We had decided to head across the Denali Highway which isn't nearly as civilized as the drive had been the previous day. If you think we are in the middle of nowhere, you're wrong. We live on the edge of nowhere. The Denali Highway is in the middle of nowhere! And it is dirt. More than 100 miles of dirt! According to Wikipedia: <i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The highway is now little used and poorly maintained, and closed to all traffic from October to mid-May each year.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> Only the easternmost 21.3 miles (34.3 km) and westernmost 2.6 miles (4.2 km) are paved; whether the remainder should be paved as well is a continual source of debate. Washboarding </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">and extreme dust are common, the recommended speed limit is 30 mph</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">But gorgeous!!!</span><br />
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And despite what Wikipedia says, it is remarkably well traveled! Well, it certainly is during hunting season anyway! It was caribou hunting season so there were tons of RVs and campers along the whole 100+ miles. I didn't want to ruin the view in the next picture, so I tried to keep the arrow minimal, but it points to a long line of RVs parked along the side of the road hunting. Oh, and the dust is also quite visible. But the scenery is well worth the drive!<br />
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And we passed at least three Princess buses flying along that road!<br />
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What a spectacular place to camp, I mean hunt!<br />
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By the end of that day the clouds were catching up with us and before long we headed into snow! Typical fall weather in Alaska - you can go from gorgeous sunshine and warm to snow all in one day! :) Thanks for coming along with us!<br />
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If you've followed the blog for any length of time, you know I'm just a little obsessed with our glacier. :) I think it is one of the most beautiful things on earth! I love the color, the ice, the beauty. I got a chance to go out on the glacier late this summer with one of my favorite work teams (they're Dutch so you know they have to be great). You can bet I didn't pass up that chance! To top it all off, the day was GORGEOUS! It was sunny, but not cloudless. There was actually rain coming in after a gorgeous morning which made for perfect picture-taking in my opinion! I love variable light! I'm just going to keep quiet for the most part from here on out and let the pictures do the talking. Here we go!</div>
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Yes, my backside is wet. It was a little slippery and better to slide than slip!<br />
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Many families in Alaska get their salmon for the year by dipnetting, basically dipping a net in the water and pulling your fish out. It sounds much less sporting and difficult than it is! Last year just the guys went dipnetting. It isn't exactly considered "girly" activity. This year Jenny Lee really wanted to go before she graduates from high school and I love to eat fish so I really wanted to contribute to the effort so a date was set and off we went! Here Dan checks out the trail before attempting to drive it. From this vantage point it looks easy...</div>
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But there are parts where staying upright on the ATV isn't as easy as it looks. From here it looks like Dan is just driving down an incline. What you can't see is Rodney hanging off the other side keeping it from tipping. </div>
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But surviving the trail is well worth the effort. We hit the salmon run on a great day and were at times hauling in two fish at a time. This picture does give a good perspective on the Copper River. The banks are incredibly steep so finding a good spot to fish doesn't always yield an easy climb out! The Copper is also incredibly fast running and silty - not a place you want to fall in! We made sure to tie off (blue rope) so that we wouldn't lose anyone. Jenny and Rodney did most of the dipping. The next person up (my job most of the day) hauled the net up to a small level spot where we would kill the fish and hang them on a stringer, then haul them over to the fish cleaner/fillet person (Dan). I knew that I didn't have the upper body strength to fight the water with the net (yes, it was quite a job just to fight the current) but I neglected to consider how much strength it was taking to haul the fish up the hill. I didn't sleep much that night due to sore shoulders! Here Jenny is showing off her catch:<br />
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They weren't all that pretty by the time we'd hauled them half way up the hill, killed them and strung them. They had been GORGEOUS before that! These are red or sockeye salmon and they were HUGE this year!</div>
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It was a gorgeous place to spend the day, even if it wasn't sunny!<br />
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The salmon were then taken over to a quiet cove where Dan filleted them. Once Jenny got tired of dipping she went over to help get them cleaned up before he filleted them. This is also back at the river level, but you couldn't get there from the dipping spot without going up and over. So once you got them half way up the hill you had to go back down to where they could be filleted.<br />
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The first 40 or so fish were fun, but by the time you hit 50 or 60, it was just plain hard work! Once they were filleted, they still had to be hauled back up the hill to the ATVs! A lot less weight by that point, but a lot longer haul!</div>
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Then we got to reverse our ATV ride and with a heavy load this time. Rodney used the winch to assist Dan's ATV up that steep ledge.<br />
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But what scenery!<br />
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Oh, really? Funny thing is, they actually take pretty good care of the trail out there...<br />
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The parking lots both right and left in this picture were packed. The tables by the stream are there for cleaning your fish. That road coming down on the other side was one narrow lane! Glad we didn't meet anyone coming around the corner! Almost everyone was pulling a trailer so there was no easy way to get out of there if you did meet someone! We didn't see any bears but others had seen them quite recently. Where there are fish there will be bears! They like to eat the fish probably even more than I do!<br />
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The efforts were well worth it! Copper River reds are incredibly yummy! Take a look at that meat! I'm drooling now! Time to go grab some from the freezer and fry it up for dinner! :)<br />
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<br />Daphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15050440238762006838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-6009063209429013972012-10-04T20:44:00.001-08:002012-10-04T20:44:19.049-08:00Summer Camp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Wow! It's October and the last time I posted was after the 4th of July! I guess I'll be posting furiously until I catch up! I do know how it happened, but it's kind of a long story. The short of it is incredible busyness coupled with a computer crash or two or five. </div>
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I might as well start with camp since that accounts for much of the busyness. I started the summer working the front desk at camp answering phones, helping with general office "stuff" like organizing and ordering supplies, keeping in contact with work teams and keeping the lost and found items organized. That was actually a lot of fun, especially catching up with a lot of the work teams that I have known for a number of years now and then getting to know the counselors and seeing them interact with their campers. </div>
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Then somewhere about the time of my last post I was asked to help out with some of the bookkeeping, mostly scanning in bills, receipts, etc. Pretty simple, right? Guess I wasn't paying attention! Someone said something to me about "becoming a VERY busy woman" and it sort of sailed right over my head. I've actually taken over much of the Victory bookkeeping, with a few parts of it parceled out to others. I can't say I don't enjoy it. It's been an interesting challenge and the attention to detail fits me pretty well. It has kept me incredibly busy though, leaving readers (and my parents too) wondering if I'd fallen off the edge of nowhere. I'm happy to tell you that I have not! If I manage to catch up all the posts I think you'll see where the time has gone! </div>
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I might as well start with camp since we're sort of there anyway. One thing I love about Victory is that everyone pitches in and does what needs to be done to make camp come together. Some of the bigger camp weeks leave us a little short-staffed in other areas when people who are not normally counselors get pulled in to be counselors for the week. On one of those weeks I offered to take pictures since one AV person was supposed to try to cover the entire camp's activities. I was so thankful I did! I got to see parts of camp that I'd never seen before! The climbing wall is one of the camp favorites: </div>
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I'm not sure if the air rifles or "Katniss" were the attraction, but it did seem to be mostly boys there...<br />
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The slack line was COOL!!! The slack line is sort of like a balance beam, but a lot harder. It is a line a few feet off the ground and you are supposed to try to walk across it. Most of the kids didn't get more than a few steps. They were beginning to think it was impossible until "Mulan" got up there and showed them how! She walked all the way across! <br />
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This is what most of the efforts looked like, with minor variations:<br />
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There were also quieter activities, but not too quiet with "JackJack" around! The activities staff helped me greatly expand my tie-dye collection! :) <br />
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Summer was almost over before I FINALLY got up to see the end of week horse show! They do such a great job! It is different every year.<br />
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"Sherlock" on the knee board wasn't too sure about horses, but by the end of the summer she was having a blast!<br />
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This was a crazy skit by "Cletus" and "Jedidiah". That poor stuffed critter is what they were hunting.<br />
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Sergei and Austin were in a race here. I'm thinking that Sergei should pick on someone his own size! :)<br />
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Kacie and Evelynn were enjoying the show too!<br />
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This was the summer for babies walking! If you remember the three babies born last fall, then add Evelynn and Cassidy to that mix, there were/are FIVE little ones all learning to walk! Such fun! Evelynn is walking like a champ now, but at this point she was still hanging on pretty tightly!</div>
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Nicholas is my little buddy! Probably because he has the same little naughty streak that I have! :) He cracks me up!<br />
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Cassidy is Nate and Maggie's granddaughter. Their daughter Bonnie and her husband Brad came up for the summer to help out with the pack trips. We've had a great time getting to know Brad and Bonnie and trying to talk them into staying on longer at Victory! Cassidy is such a character! She is so much fun! Here Austin and Charity are teasing her with the beloved keys. She wanted them sooooooo badly that she would take those dreaded steps to get them!<br />
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Oh! You TOOK my TOY!! GIVE!!!!<br />
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Got them again!!! Neener, neener!!! :)<br />
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The Glacierview Independence Day celebration seems to get bigger and better every year. This year's celebration started out with a fly-over by four of the Kingdom Air Corps planes. Nice job!</div>
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This was followed by a parade. I wasn't expecting much, so I was impressed! We've got a lot more parade-worthy people, critters and vehicles than I supposed! I only included a few highlights. There are actually three horses here but one is hidden behind the first.<br />
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Keep your eye on the markings on this car. It will be important later.<br />
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Prizes were awarded for the best in each category - best red horse, best spotted horse, best black horse... :)<br />
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Note the markings on the car. The one in back was the same one in the parade! They hoped to be able to drive it away and launch it again next year but I haven't heard yet if that is going to work.<br />
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Cassidy had a blast watching all the vehicles going by. I think she's got a thing for loud vehicles already!</div>
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And of course there's plenty of showing off too!<br />
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The zip-line attracted quite a few takers.<br />
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I should have taken a picture of the food! It was impressive! Imagine the biggest potluck you've ever seen, then double it. That MIGHT come close! I didn't stay for the bowling ball cannon this year so I'm afraid I was remiss in really including the WHOLE day! Ah well! I'll have to make sure to catch it next year! Then again, the way this thing grows, I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep up with all of it!</div>
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<br />Daphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827727431058877818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-55734175669569415192012-07-15T14:43:00.000-08:002012-07-15T14:43:32.859-08:00Summer driveway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I'm not sure why I put summer in the title here. I guess it is an Alaskan summer, but supposedly it is one of the coldest on record, at least where we are. We did have three days that got up close to 80 degrees which was way too hot for my taste! I'm one of the very few who has been enjoying the cool summer! I can't imagine how the rest of the country can survive with the temperatures as bad as they have been elsewhere! With all the snow from last winter and all the rain we've had this summer, the Matanuska River swelled higher and wilder than we have seen before. That river is always dangerous due to the cold, but it is also swift, full of silt and constantly changing course. I couldn't resist a picture.</div>
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With all the rain we had, there were also a lot more rocks falling along Long Lake than normal. I'm so thankful I wasn't there when this one came down. The picture doesn't do justice to how huge those divots were in the road. There's another huge rock on the opposite side that left quite a wrinkle in the road when it came down. <br />
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After taking a few pictures, I turned around to get perspective on the other side and decided I'd hung out long enough. There are plenty more big ones still hanging there and it looks like there's not much holding them.<br />
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Between the cloudy days and the point-and-shoot camera dying, these aren't the greatest pictures, but I figured I might as well use what pictures I did get. I've been hiking up to Inspiration Point (well, until recently when there has been a large grizzly hanging way too close for comfort) so I grabbed this picture one calm day. I'll have to try that again sometime with the Canon. </div>
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There aren't too many still days at camp (between weather and kids) so I quickly grabbed this shot with the mountain reflected in the water.</div>
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When I went to get some shots of the poppies, I noticed Victory Peak above and couldn't resist getting both in the picture. <br />
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The Fireweed is already blooming! It seems really dark in color this year for some reason. Or maybe it is always this color and it is just my imagination that it seems so dark.<br />
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Gratuitous scenic picture of the Matanuska Glacier:</div>
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As promised, here are pictures of the progress on the driveway. The lighting is way off on these but at least you can see what has been going on. Here is the first cut in from the bottom.</div>
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This shot looks back from the top of the first curve to the glacier.<br />
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These are some of the timbers taken out to make the drive. Rodney started trimming the branches in preparation for milling, but someone stole a bunch of what he had trimmed so he's stopped work until we can figure out who has been doing it and make sure it doesn't continue. There's no sense doing all that work to get them ready for milling just to have someone turn it into firewood.</div>
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There is kind of a landing part way up the drive. This view is from that landing up the drive toward the house site.<br />
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Not that it looks like much, but this is the house site. They ran into frost at this point and had to stop work there to let it thaw.<br />
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Just a little muddy.<br />
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The next phase made it look much more like a driveway. This view is from the house site looking down toward the machinery sitting on that landing site.<br />
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Certain bad dogs enjoyed playing in the dirt. <br />
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This view is from the landing back toward the road.<br />
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Ellie does provide plenty of entertainment. There's not much funnier looking than a running Basket!<br />
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It's hard to beat the view from the top of the first part of the driveway.<br />
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The view from the road up the first hill.<br />
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Okay, these following photos are in no particular order. I (Rodney) was able to take an overnight trip moving a seiner (48 foot fishing boat) from the Port of Seward to the Port of Valdez. I have no photos of the Pacific Ocean as, I am told, I was quite green at the time. For the record I did not feed the fish.</div>
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The Boat is the Chelsea D owned and captained by a neighbor and friend who invited me to take the ride and act as an inexperienced deck hand.</div>
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Humpback whales were visible most of the trip. these two spouts were from a mother and calf. Sorry I was always to slow with the camera.<br />
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Another Spout<br />
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A glacier on the Prince William Sound.<br />
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This trip was taken on June 2nd and 3rd, and there is still snow at sea level. I live at 1800 feet and the snow pack is up around 5000 to 5500 feet. We had over 9 feet of snow They had much more here, probably more then 25 or 30 feet. Needless to say we saw none of the Sitka Blacktail deer.<br />
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These are porpoise and we were joined by as many as 6 on our voyage. 6 are in this photo.<br />
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A Sea Lion rookery I could not get a photo that showed all of them. Yes the water is that color.<br />
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We did have to pass through a flow of Icebergs. Many were larger than the Chelsea D.<br />
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A better Photo of my black and white friends, I found every encounter with them thrilling.<br />
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Another attempt at a Whale Photo.<br />
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Sea Otters at a distance,<br />
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the Sea Otters were plentiful.<br />
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The Falls were spectacular heading up to the pass out of Valdez. Lots of rain adds to their beauty.<br />
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The trip was fantastic with Lori and Brian. It was beautiful even when I was green. We saw many Humpback whale, Sea lion, Porpoise, and Sea Otter, a couple of Black bear and harbor seal. Countless unidentified sea birds along with some that I knew including a Puffin.<br />
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I still feel blessed with being afforded the opportunity to accompany them in moving the vessel and ensuring it was prepared for the upcoming seining season. Currently Brian is Gillnetting which is where the Red Salmon and Chum salmon are caught for sale. He will soon be seining which is used primarily for Pink Salmon or Humpies as they are also known. Earlier this spring I helped Brian with the maintenance necessary to make sure the Chelsea D was ready to go when he could move her to Valdez. I would love to make the trip again, and maybe see a Sitka Blacktail.<br />
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I was home a day when Brian's brother Dan stopped in and told me to grab my gun and tags. I was in smoothed soled shoes I only wear in the house and asked him why. He said we are going bear hunting. I grabbed my tags and pulled the rifle out of my truck. I climbed in his truck to find his daughter wearing flip flops telling a similar story to mine he came home and told her to get into the truck. He was on his way home from Anchorage when he spotted a bear (black) out feeding on the grass. To make a long story shorter, his daughter spotted the bear and we eased into position to take a better look and the bruin was sitting under a spruce tree. After I watched it for a little while Dan told me I better shoot it. So I did. Well it turns out that it was blind in one eye and had a hole that went into its sinus cavities right below his eyes. It looked like a moose kick wound. Yes, I needed a blind bear so I could get close.<br />
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Well Dan suggested we bearbeque the bear that following Sunday while I was cutting it up. I slow roasted most of the bear starting Saturday Night and we had a large gathering of people together on Sunday afternoon and had a wonderful time feasting on Bear and delicious food people brought to share.<br />
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Join us for an episode about ... a driveway.Daphne Mayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15050440238762006838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1822880114197409124.post-49680407859654762032012-06-18T20:08:00.000-08:002012-06-18T20:08:15.389-08:00Spring to summer in one post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Things green up incredibly quickly! The difference in pictures is just a few weeks apart. The critters sure enjoy all the greenery too. I always get a kick out of seeing Rick take his horses out for a ride. "Momma" horse just tags along behind her "baby" who is bigger than her!</div>
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Rodney has been cutting down trees for a driveway. Heavy equipment is coming this week to start moving things around. The view from the road is not quite as impressive<br />
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I think the glacier is particularly gorgeous this year!<br />
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And so are the flowers! I just love the variety of flowers! This isn't a native variety, but it sure is pretty.<br />
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There are some that I just can't remember and I don't have my wildflower book handy to look them up. I think this is Sandwort.</div>
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But I do remember that these are Lady's Slippers.<br />
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And I can't forget the lupines! We get so many lupines!<br />
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And then there's the other flower, that stinky Ellie Belle. Seriously, this dog is spoiled! She can't be bothered to come in for dinner, she expects it brought to her highniness! Note that she has her boobah with her. No one is allowed to touch the boobah. Not that anyone wants to. It has been left out in the rain a few too many times so it is a bit rancid.<br />
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Jake Klapak found a great patch of morel mushrooms and shared a few with me and I immediately became addicted. We went out morel hunting and found enough for a few meals. Now Rodney is trying to figure out if he can create some space that they might like to thrive. Seriously yummy stuff right there!!!<br />
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But most importantly, spring and summer bring camp and campers. I'm working part time at the desk in camp this summer and really enjoying getting to know the counselors a bit. It's crazy busy at times, but so much fun to get to see what goes on and be able to be part of that. We've had a lot of rain the first few weeks of camp, so sunshine the last few days has been so welcome! I snapped this picture yesterday evening after a short shower moved out and brought in some glorious sunshine. This picture sort of feels like my life right now - blessed with God's promises!</div>
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Ack! Blogger has a new format AGAIN and I'm too tired to figure out how to move pictures around so these are a bit out of order. We went out to dinner after Oksana's graduation so the first picture is the happy graduate between two of her best friends, Ruby and Alaura.</div>
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Every time I look at the mountains they look differently beautiful to me. <br />
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We've had plenty of rain this summer so far, and this momma moose with her twins just set up a beautiful picture in the mist.<br />
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This is the result of all the snow this past winter.<br />
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Oksana took a short trip to Hawaii for graduation. Not really. They came here!<br />
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She's looking a little pleased to be graduating!<br />
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Oksana graduated through a home school program called IDEA (Interior Distance Education of Alaska). This was one of a number of graduations held throughout the state.<br />
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All grown up! How does that happen so quickly? She is working at Kingdom Air Corps this summer helping feed missionary pilots training there. Duane King is working hard with her to help her learn Russian. She would like to study Russian this coming year so she's getting great practice this summer!<br />
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Yes, it's another disorganized blog post! Hopefully one of these days I'll catch up and get back into a more manageable routine!<br />
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So I've done it again! I've left blogging too long and now I have too much to catch up again. I'm afraid you're going to be stuck with another blog just full of pictures. I'll do it in stages again so that I don't overload the system! Besides, breaking it up allows each kid to have their own "graduation post". First, a couple of pictures of the tail end of the snow at the end of April. </div>
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Poor Eider is really missing his own air conditioning unit!<br />
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Just when we thought we were done with snow, we had a nice little dusting in early May! Pretty!<br />
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It cleared up in time for Andrei's graduation. He wanted a farm themed cake, so that is what he got!<br />
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This is the guy's senior project.<br />
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Glacierview had two graduates this year. There are MANY advantages to such a small school, but one of the disadvantages of only two graduates is that they both had to give speeches! Neither one was too excited about that, but Trayton was quite happy to be done with it!<br />
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So was Andrei!<br />
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Andrei left for NY the night after graduation and came back just in time to start camp. He plans to go to Frontier School of the Bible in Wyoming this fall.<br />
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Someone wasn't very quick on the "funny face" picture! Or maybe that is my funny face!<br />
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The ice on the lake was really thinning out by that point!<br />
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Pretty rocks that I'm planning on using for a project but you'll have to wait to see what it is!<br />
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I love dandelions! They are so sunny and cheerful! Good thing I got a picture that day because the moose came and ate them the very next day.<br />
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There is always a year end picnic at the school on the last day of school. This year they had an ambulance, a State Trooper and a fire crew there. Sergei and Jenny had both passed their ETT (Emergency Trauma Technician) training so they were practicing on some of the school kids. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that Sergei was one of the kids climbing around the ambulance with wide eyes! Then again, I guess he still is!<br />
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Pretty spring windflower!<br />
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The ice at the river started to turn to crystals. It's not that safe to walk or ride on any more at this point!<br />
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I thought there might be a bear up the tree, but it was just a porcupine. <br />
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I just thought the motorcycle parking was cute! The time between riding the smaller one and the larger goes so quickly!<br />
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I'm pretty sure this is the momma moose that ate the dandelions! You can see her twins on the other side of the slide.
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And one final picture of Ellie the neurotic. I have no idea why the floor was considered more comfortable than the seat!<br />
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Her Royal Highniness, Queen Smelly Pants, is good at making herself at home wherever she should not be.<br />
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Speaking of Russians... Oh wait, that was at the table, not here. But now that we're here, you might as well see the not-so-little Ruskies! Come to think of it, I wonder if that camera is dying. There shouldn't be any breath causing that cloud in this picture. It went from winter to warm overnight! <br />
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Here's this year's continuous flow ice sculpture:<br />
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This is a fence post that showed up! The snow WAS deeper! Pretty sure Sergei's feet weren't even touching ground! <br />
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This one cracks me up! Silly dog! It's hard to maintain the regal facade when your face looks like this when you run!<br />
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Some things never change! Brotherly love in action! More like brotherly wrestling!<br />
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Breaking up is hard to do... Literally when it is this kind of breakup! Miserable driving through camp for about a week!<br />
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I just loved how the moon was peeking up over the edge of the mountain in this picture:<br />
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Sunrise:<br />
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The sun hitting the tops of the mountains:<br />
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The snow is melting quickly at this point with temperatures up in the 50s most days. There's still PLENTY of snow to melt though as you can see here! This is the same view as the fifth picture down in the January post.<br />
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I've been able to get a few small projects done including this chair that has been sitting around for years. Lee Althens glued and nailed and tightened a few spots that needed work and then I was able to put in the new seat and back that my mom painted ages ago!<br />
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We drove up to Sheep Mountain the other day to spot sheep (and theoretical bears) and take pictures. This is the north side of the mountains. <br />
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A little different from the south facing sides! <br />
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Lions Head was gorgeous with storms and clouds dancing around it!<br />
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March was as beautiful as I've come to expect - mild temperatures and abundant, glorious sunshine. We took advantage with plenty of trips out on the snow machine. If you look closely, you can see two moose on the hill in the foreground on the far right. </div>
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This is a view of Victory from Inspiration Point, where John Gillespie, the camp founder, used to often go to pray. </div>
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It was a rough year for the moose with so much snow. They traveled on the roads more than normal to avoid the deep snow. As a result, many more moose killed by vehicles this winter than normal. We had way more close calls than I care to count! So thankful for God's protection while driving this winter! <br />
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The moose were abundant in camp too!<br />
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Sunrises are too early now for me to see them, but there was a short period of time when they coincided with my walk to camp to work. Here's one from that short week!<br />
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I just couldn't let this one pass. We don't get many commercial planes flying over and it painted such a beautiful picture with the clear blue sky in the background that I couldn't ignore it!<br />
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The busybody Basket thinks she has to see out the front when you're driving so she stretches across from the back seat to the console in front. Good thing she's a long little doggy! In case you can't read Baskit, that face is saying, "What are you looking at? I didn't give you permission to take my picture!"<br />
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White as far as the eye can see!<br />
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Bou. Carribou that is!<br />
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And ptarmigan. White on white makes them hard to spot! They just look like little shadows!<br />
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Dinner! They were sooooooooo yummy!<br />
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Fortress Ridge from the back:<br />
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The trail in and out isn't much fun, but still worth it to get to the gorgeous scenery! Bumpity bump bump bump!!!<br />
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Wow! It's been so long since I posted that blogger has gone to a whole new format and I've had to learn how to post all over again! That's pathetic! We'll see how this goes! I'm so far behind that I'm just going to upload photos from a month at a time and try to organize myself that way (not to mention that when I tried to upload all the photos in one post blogger had a conniption! So here are January pictures - tons of snow and you can't see it, but it was as cold as all get out too! People said it was a classic old time winter. Anchorage and Palmer set snow records, thankfully. Why get all that snow and not set a record? I don't think anyone keeps track out here! But it certainly was gorgeous! <br />
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Not that you can see, but Andrei is in the back and Todd and Becca are in front. The cloud in the second picture is the horse's breath! <br />
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