June 28 ~ Thursday ~ hazy with sun.
I've met the 44 magnum pistol I won at the Ninilchik fair last year...a Taurus Raging Bull with about a 52 inch barrel and HEAVY...thinking, if I'd have to defend against a bear, the bear would win. It'll be interesting shooting as I use my left eye and am right-handed...wonder if my nose will be the same after that first shot...
Cindy got up early to make cinnamon rolls...and, yes, they were almost as big as Braeburn's and just as yummy!... I slept in, but did drop her off later at the fair grounds so I could go down to the beach. Waves were rolling in due to wind, but no bore tide***SOMEDAY I'LL SEE ONE***. Watched three bald eagles, one immature, fishing...took numerous pictures of them, old wooden boats, the Russian Orthodox church on the hill, and Mt. Redoubt across the inlet. Either the immature eagle couldn't yet fly well OR he was too full to fly...kinda hopped and jumped over to an old dead tree and was still sitting there when I left 45 minutes later. Just lounged around the rest of the day...evening was very calm with the sunlight making everything glow.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
TO THE KENAI
June 27 ~ Wednesday ~ bright and sunny!!!
On our way down to the Kenai and Ninilchik to stay at David/Cindy's house...too late to go to the Heritage Center, but will catch that and other places in July. A beautiful drive and can even see Mt. Redoubt from the Sterling Highway 15 miles east of Soldotna...but can't take pictures due to the bouncing of the pickup and probably wouldn't have turned out anyway because of the blending of colors with the sky. Stopped at Freddy's (Fred Meyer) for fuel, etc., then on to Ninilchik, and 'our' parking spot at the Schnabl acres. The Caribou Hill's fire (73,000 acres)is partially contained NE of here, but fire camp is still at the school and business at Lindsay's coffee shop has been sorta brisk, along with the pizza sales made by Cindy and friends for the BB team at school. Tomorrow morning I should help Cindy...but will probably sleep in as she's at school by 6am...
On our way down to the Kenai and Ninilchik to stay at David/Cindy's house...too late to go to the Heritage Center, but will catch that and other places in July. A beautiful drive and can even see Mt. Redoubt from the Sterling Highway 15 miles east of Soldotna...but can't take pictures due to the bouncing of the pickup and probably wouldn't have turned out anyway because of the blending of colors with the sky. Stopped at Freddy's (Fred Meyer) for fuel, etc., then on to Ninilchik, and 'our' parking spot at the Schnabl acres. The Caribou Hill's fire (73,000 acres)is partially contained NE of here, but fire camp is still at the school and business at Lindsay's coffee shop has been sorta brisk, along with the pizza sales made by Cindy and friends for the BB team at school. Tomorrow morning I should help Cindy...but will probably sleep in as she's at school by 6am...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
BACK TO PALMER
June 26 ~ Tuesday ~ same...
David is whistling 'Dixie' and feeling better today...will see him next week at Ninilchik for a couple days. Didn't see the moose we've seen everytime we've driving past Sutton...probably taking the day off. Guess what today is! Laundry day, BUT there is a nice place in Wasilla that has a pre-dryer, a water extractor that really helps cut down on the drying time. Had 4 loads at $3 each...extractor (3 loads) at $1 each...and the dryer...a $20 bill, but the rugs and towels were included and had only done bits and pieces for a couple weeks.
Backed right into our space at Jeff and Janell's, hooking up the trailer to leave tomorrow for the Kenai. Hoping to stop at the Alaska Native Cultural Center tomorrow in Anchorage on the way down...no hurry, just meandering.
David is whistling 'Dixie' and feeling better today...will see him next week at Ninilchik for a couple days. Didn't see the moose we've seen everytime we've driving past Sutton...probably taking the day off. Guess what today is! Laundry day, BUT there is a nice place in Wasilla that has a pre-dryer, a water extractor that really helps cut down on the drying time. Had 4 loads at $3 each...extractor (3 loads) at $1 each...and the dryer...a $20 bill, but the rugs and towels were included and had only done bits and pieces for a couple weeks.
Backed right into our space at Jeff and Janell's, hooking up the trailer to leave tomorrow for the Kenai. Hoping to stop at the Alaska Native Cultural Center tomorrow in Anchorage on the way down...no hurry, just meandering.
DAVID'S WORKSITE AT HICK'S CREEK
June 25 ~ Monday ~ cloudy with patches of sun.
David is renting a really neat log cabin...just like we would like...16X24...talked to the landlord/cabin construction guy last night after arriving. The cost for a shell is $30,000...a bit steep, I'm thinking. Last year we talked to a guy in Talkeetna and he quoted us about $16,000 for a 'stick-frame', just don't know if he's still around as his business site is for sale. ANYWAY, had a good visit with David who isn't really feeling very well today (hmmm...am wondering if it's our influence as to why people don't feel well the day after we arrrive...), but did fix him breakfast after he'd been up and at work several hours. He also said***now get this!***that he'd arrange for me to pull the trigger for a blast on the mountain for the road construction...WOW! I am soooo excited! But will have to wait until the next visit as we will be...not going to Talkeetna...but going down on the Kenai to Ninilchik for the rodeo this weekend and to stay with Dave's family until next week sometime. His two younger girls will represent Alaska in the high school rodeo finals in Illinois the end of July...pretty cool for them...and us!
Caught up on the journeling, enhancing and transferring pictures. It takes a l-o-o-o-n-n-n-g time to go thru 700 pictures. Burned some to CD's for Stan and Blooie, mailing tomorrow to be waiting for them when they arrive home early next week...and printing some pictures for a friend in Whitefish who doesn't have access to a computer. And...Dave told us to watch for grizzlies...just in case...
David is renting a really neat log cabin...just like we would like...16X24...talked to the landlord/cabin construction guy last night after arriving. The cost for a shell is $30,000...a bit steep, I'm thinking. Last year we talked to a guy in Talkeetna and he quoted us about $16,000 for a 'stick-frame', just don't know if he's still around as his business site is for sale. ANYWAY, had a good visit with David who isn't really feeling very well today (hmmm...am wondering if it's our influence as to why people don't feel well the day after we arrrive...), but did fix him breakfast after he'd been up and at work several hours. He also said***now get this!***that he'd arrange for me to pull the trigger for a blast on the mountain for the road construction...WOW! I am soooo excited! But will have to wait until the next visit as we will be...not going to Talkeetna...but going down on the Kenai to Ninilchik for the rodeo this weekend and to stay with Dave's family until next week sometime. His two younger girls will represent Alaska in the high school rodeo finals in Illinois the end of July...pretty cool for them...and us!
Caught up on the journeling, enhancing and transferring pictures. It takes a l-o-o-o-n-n-n-g time to go thru 700 pictures. Burned some to CD's for Stan and Blooie, mailing tomorrow to be waiting for them when they arrive home early next week...and printing some pictures for a friend in Whitefish who doesn't have access to a computer. And...Dave told us to watch for grizzlies...just in case...
Sunday, June 24, 2007
PALMER TO HICK'S CREEK
June 24 ~ Sunday ~ cloudy/rain.
The coffee lights are out for Stan for the last time...what WILL he do tomorrow!!! Now he has to remember to make his own coffee... Sad seeing our time with them come to an end...I HATE good-bys! They will be traveling over the Glenn and Tok Cutoff today, staying in Tok, then down the Alaska highway, possible going to Haines/Skagway and down the Cassiar to the Yellowhead highway and home. Will miss their company and faces so very much!
Visited with Jeff/Janell about relatives/mutual friends...blogged...and will be leaving for David's work place on Hick's Creek to stay a couple days, then on to Talkeetna until next weekend.
The coffee lights are out for Stan for the last time...what WILL he do tomorrow!!! Now he has to remember to make his own coffee... Sad seeing our time with them come to an end...I HATE good-bys! They will be traveling over the Glenn and Tok Cutoff today, staying in Tok, then down the Alaska highway, possible going to Haines/Skagway and down the Cassiar to the Yellowhead highway and home. Will miss their company and faces so very much!
Visited with Jeff/Janell about relatives/mutual friends...blogged...and will be leaving for David's work place on Hick's Creek to stay a couple days, then on to Talkeetna until next weekend.
BACK TO PALMER
June 23 ~ Saturday ~ sprinkles.
Left the beach a little after 8am, going to the military campground, where Steve and family have stayed, to pick up rockfish fillets, then on to Anchorage where we try to find parking spots for our vehicles (remember... S/B are pulling their 12 foot tin tent everywhere to live in...) so we can shop the Saturday Market (over 100 booths set up in a parking lot in downtown Anchorage). Didn't find a parking spot, but found a one-way street***going the other way***. Just another BEHIND thing on this trip, Jack's first blunder. (Stan's first one was leaving the accessories to their new Roadtrip BBQ home. Mine was burning our dinner one night. Blooie doesn't have any...YET!). Anyway...we did NOT stop at the market, but went on to find the Native Heritage Center where Blooie bought the moccasins she'd been looking for...then left for J/J's. We WILL be back to go thru the center...and shop the market...and experience an earthquake in a theater...using the 2for1's/freebies in our coupon book. Blogged during the evening while visiting with everyone...so relaxing here and friends fun to be with...sad it's our last night with S/B and Emmy Mae!
Left the beach a little after 8am, going to the military campground, where Steve and family have stayed, to pick up rockfish fillets, then on to Anchorage where we try to find parking spots for our vehicles (remember... S/B are pulling their 12 foot tin tent everywhere to live in...) so we can shop the Saturday Market (over 100 booths set up in a parking lot in downtown Anchorage). Didn't find a parking spot, but found a one-way street***going the other way***. Just another BEHIND thing on this trip, Jack's first blunder. (Stan's first one was leaving the accessories to their new Roadtrip BBQ home. Mine was burning our dinner one night. Blooie doesn't have any...YET!). Anyway...we did NOT stop at the market, but went on to find the Native Heritage Center where Blooie bought the moccasins she'd been looking for...then left for J/J's. We WILL be back to go thru the center...and shop the market...and experience an earthquake in a theater...using the 2for1's/freebies in our coupon book. Blogged during the evening while visiting with everyone...so relaxing here and friends fun to be with...sad it's our last night with S/B and Emmy Mae!
SEWARD
June 22~Friday~cloudy/sprinkles.
Lights on the ladder out early for Stan's coffee so he can leave by 5:30am for fishing. Blooie and I wait until 7:15 for the boat to go by, then almost miss Stan waving his arms off at 7:30. We break camp and go to city beach campground (dry camping on the beach-front for $12 OR $25 for water/electric with restroom and showers 50 feet away...nice ones, too!), set up and Blooie and I walk down to the docks to register for our evening dinner buffet cruise around the bay with Major Marine Tours. Also, bought another $25 jacket for Tasha and checked out the Kenai National Park Visitor Center. Met Steve's wife and family, eating with them downtown, then picking up Jack and going to the Sealife Center (started after the Valdez spill to manage the endangered marine wildlife~very interesting), trying to take pictures of the marine birds/mammals that are swimming/floating in the water. By the time we left Stan/Steve and the boat were back at the fish house with 25 black bass and 5 red snapper...all very good eating.
The four hour ~around the bay ~cruise on the Star of the Northwest was so very relaxing, even tho we couldn't see much due to fog and low clouds, but the meal was excellent (prime rib, grilled Copper River salmon, salad, rice pilaf, sourdough bread and dessert~$15~all you can eat buffet)and the company wonderful...'our last hurrah' before Stan and Blooie leave on Sunday. We did see GU-11's, puffins, sea lions, the tail fo a whale (breeching, when the tail flips up, usually means they are about to go deep into the water), sea otters and learned a bit about the geology of the fjords.
Lights on the ladder out early for Stan's coffee so he can leave by 5:30am for fishing. Blooie and I wait until 7:15 for the boat to go by, then almost miss Stan waving his arms off at 7:30. We break camp and go to city beach campground (dry camping on the beach-front for $12 OR $25 for water/electric with restroom and showers 50 feet away...nice ones, too!), set up and Blooie and I walk down to the docks to register for our evening dinner buffet cruise around the bay with Major Marine Tours. Also, bought another $25 jacket for Tasha and checked out the Kenai National Park Visitor Center. Met Steve's wife and family, eating with them downtown, then picking up Jack and going to the Sealife Center (started after the Valdez spill to manage the endangered marine wildlife~very interesting), trying to take pictures of the marine birds/mammals that are swimming/floating in the water. By the time we left Stan/Steve and the boat were back at the fish house with 25 black bass and 5 red snapper...all very good eating.
The four hour ~around the bay ~cruise on the Star of the Northwest was so very relaxing, even tho we couldn't see much due to fog and low clouds, but the meal was excellent (prime rib, grilled Copper River salmon, salad, rice pilaf, sourdough bread and dessert~$15~all you can eat buffet)and the company wonderful...'our last hurrah' before Stan and Blooie leave on Sunday. We did see GU-11's, puffins, sea lions, the tail fo a whale (breeching, when the tail flips up, usually means they are about to go deep into the water), sea otters and learned a bit about the geology of the fjords.
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