Foiled again!
No moose chili this winter!
Hunting season is over and the only moose Robert saw were female or too young to take. Oh well, I didn't want buy another freezer yet anyway.
However, he did discover a blueberry patch to pick in next fall!
The snow is marching smartly down the mountain at the rate of about 500 feet a night. We should have snow at our house by Friday. It was 39 this morning when I took Squirt outside - about time to close the windows. I broke down and turned the thermostats to 60 degrees today for when it does get seriously get cold.
Hard to believe Fall starts Monday. It has been here for about 3 weeks.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
My Mother - What a Sense of Humor
I told Mom Robert was out hunting moose.
She asked if I was going to clean it.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
She asked if I was going to clean it.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Friday, September 12, 2008
Here Comes Ike!
Good luck to family and friends as Ike roars ashore tonight. I hope everyone that was ordered to evacuate got out early and safely to avoid the lines and everyone ordered to stay has nothing more than a nice relaxing thunderstorm.
We are off to Denali National Park today. It is cloudy so I am sure we won't see the mountain. Maybe we will see some wildlife. Before we go, we need to take our hanging baskets to the green house. The winter winds have started to blow and beat them up plus I don't know they can last another week outside without getting nipped.
On a side note, the moose hunt is still jeopardized...Robert has been diagnosed with Plantar Fasciitis. While sounding exotic, it means he overstretched the tendon covering the arch and has to wear supportive inserts and he can't go barefoot anymore. (Ut OH - he's reached the age where words like "supportive" are being used with regards to clothing.) Of course, it hasn't healed enough for him to walk very far, let alone pack meat out from somewhere. But there is still 6 days before the hunt. From the sounds of it, we are leaving the spurs alone for now.
We are off to Denali National Park today. It is cloudy so I am sure we won't see the mountain. Maybe we will see some wildlife. Before we go, we need to take our hanging baskets to the green house. The winter winds have started to blow and beat them up plus I don't know they can last another week outside without getting nipped.
On a side note, the moose hunt is still jeopardized...Robert has been diagnosed with Plantar Fasciitis. While sounding exotic, it means he overstretched the tendon covering the arch and has to wear supportive inserts and he can't go barefoot anymore. (Ut OH - he's reached the age where words like "supportive" are being used with regards to clothing.) Of course, it hasn't healed enough for him to walk very far, let alone pack meat out from somewhere. But there is still 6 days before the hunt. From the sounds of it, we are leaving the spurs alone for now.
Monday, September 08, 2008
Two years ago today...
Robert, Squirt and I drove into Anchorage after the long trip from Houston, Texas ready to start our new adventure.
I wouldn't trade a single day of it for something else!
I wouldn't trade a single day of it for something else!
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Moose Hunt Jeopardized!
As I mentioned yesterday, a lot has happened this last week. First, the berries. Raspberries everywhere. I have lost actual count but I know we have picked, cleaned and frozen approximately 6 gallons, we have eaten at least another gallon and given away 3 gallons. Of course it takes about 45 minutes a quart to clean them plus and hour a day to pick the berries. Enough with the raspberries - the bears are welcome to the rest!
We also picked wild blueberries - once. We have a quart of them in the freezer.
And then there was the road construction issue. Our housing addition has only one "usable" entrance / exit. Not a problem until the DOT spends 4 days to repave the only street you have to use to turn in to the addition and threatens hour long delays! We do have a "back" fire exit for emergencies. Well, everyone in the addition (except the people on the cul-de-sac next to the emergency exit) considered the threat of hour long delays an "emergency". However the people in the neighboring housing addition did not. There was much gnashing of teeth, calling of authorities, people standing at the back exit and stopping cars arguing with drivers about using the bank road and closing the gates when no one was looking. So much for being neighborly - they're off my Christmas list! (Not that they were there, but now they definitely won't make it!)
And THEN there is the hint of fall... no wait... fall is here. Leaves are turning and then falling, the air has the briskness to it associated with fall, there is more snow in the mountains in the higher elevations and it is dark at night now. Really dark. Good thing I found a new winter coat on sale yesterday! (Of course I needed the new ski bibs also!) Wednesday is boiler check day - we still have our windows open but I want the furnace in good working order when it does get cold!
But the real question running through your minds is, "What does all of this have to do with jeopardizing the moose hunt???"
Good question.
Robert has been hobbling around this week unable to put weight on his right heel. I finally convinced him to seek medical advice. At the GP office, they took an x-ray and the Dr. came back shaking his head and said. "You have three of the biggest bone spurs I have a ever seen. I don't know what to do." After a round of general congratulating Robert for his over achievement, the Dr. gave us the name of three specialists to go to. Since it was Saturday, we couldn't make an appointment so there is no update yet on where this is going. However, for the medically inclined in the family, see the picture below. Those two "fangs" pointing downward and the arch pointing back from the heel aren't normal. We'll keep you posted on the moose hunting!
We also picked wild blueberries - once. We have a quart of them in the freezer.
And then there was the road construction issue. Our housing addition has only one "usable" entrance / exit. Not a problem until the DOT spends 4 days to repave the only street you have to use to turn in to the addition and threatens hour long delays! We do have a "back" fire exit for emergencies. Well, everyone in the addition (except the people on the cul-de-sac next to the emergency exit) considered the threat of hour long delays an "emergency". However the people in the neighboring housing addition did not. There was much gnashing of teeth, calling of authorities, people standing at the back exit and stopping cars arguing with drivers about using the bank road and closing the gates when no one was looking. So much for being neighborly - they're off my Christmas list! (Not that they were there, but now they definitely won't make it!)
And THEN there is the hint of fall... no wait... fall is here. Leaves are turning and then falling, the air has the briskness to it associated with fall, there is more snow in the mountains in the higher elevations and it is dark at night now. Really dark. Good thing I found a new winter coat on sale yesterday! (Of course I needed the new ski bibs also!) Wednesday is boiler check day - we still have our windows open but I want the furnace in good working order when it does get cold!
But the real question running through your minds is, "What does all of this have to do with jeopardizing the moose hunt???"
Good question.
Robert has been hobbling around this week unable to put weight on his right heel. I finally convinced him to seek medical advice. At the GP office, they took an x-ray and the Dr. came back shaking his head and said. "You have three of the biggest bone spurs I have a ever seen. I don't know what to do." After a round of general congratulating Robert for his over achievement, the Dr. gave us the name of three specialists to go to. Since it was Saturday, we couldn't make an appointment so there is no update yet on where this is going. However, for the medically inclined in the family, see the picture below. Those two "fangs" pointing downward and the arch pointing back from the heel aren't normal. We'll keep you posted on the moose hunting!
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Here comes PFD!
A lot of things happened this week...I have tons to write... there's the neighborhood back gate conundrum, all of the friggin berries I have picked and cleaned, plus a little fallish nip in the air (Studded snow tires in 10 days)... but the best is probably the PFD announcement. This year we get $2069 / person + $1200 energy rebate. That should help with the groceries! (Considering some native towns have topped $24 for a whole chicken, $10-$12 / Gallon for home heating oil and $6-$8 for gas.) We are just lucky to live in the city with a port, roads into and out of and a major airport. With our Gov in the new now daily (at least here) I'll bet you hear about it soon!
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