tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55043527558869611422024-03-05T16:01:55.554-08:00Carters In AlaskaColleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-34544569023495665602014-03-04T20:39:00.000-08:002014-03-04T20:39:39.756-08:00Iditarod 2014<strong>I know those of you who are in the "deep freeze" in the Lower 48 do not want to hear this, but I got sunburned at the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod in Anchorage last Saturday. That's how nice it was. </strong><br />
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<strong> I didn't take any photos of the start in downtown this year. You can check out my past years' post for those pictures.</strong><br />
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<strong>We did go to a point about half way through town to watch the mushers pass through later in the day. Last year we learned a new term: "trailgating" (instead of tailgating). Horizon Transportation served free food to all in attendance. There were foot-long hot dogs, chili, cheese, sour cream, chips, cookies, hot chocolate, etc. They wrap hot dogs for the mushers and their passengers, and then someone hands them to the mushers as the teams pass by. Sometimes the mushers stop, but most often the hot dogs are delivered "on the fly".</strong><br />
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<strong>The mushers give lots of high fives, since they are so close to the crowds. It was a great family atmosphere. Kids were sliding down small hills, skating, skiing and playing in the snow nearby, well within view or their parents.</strong><br />
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<strong>There was serious consideration to moving the start of the race to Fairbanks, due to the lack of snow cover in Anchorage, and more importantly, in areas of the race which are dangerous and rough even with normal snow coverage. You can check out many of the Iditarod stories for this year's race on </strong><a href="http://kttu.com/"><strong>kttu.com</strong></a><strong> and on </strong><a href="http://iditarod.com/"><strong>Iditarod.com</strong></a><strong>. Many of the mushers have already been injured and have had to scratch, just a few days into the race.</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red;">For those of you who have kids or are teachers, you can go to Iditarod.com and click on the EDUCATION link. Under that link you will find another link called Zuma's Paw Prints. These are Iditarod stories written from the viewpoint of several dogs. Kids really enjoy reading the stories.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Crowds along the race trail in Anchorage</span></strong></div>
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Trail guards (one of the jobs that are staffed by volunteers)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Activities near the trail</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Delivering hot dogs to the mushers</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white;">Cat-In-the-Hat Musher Hugh Neff, always</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: large;">promotes children's literacy when he races</span></div>
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-35436969479758320232014-02-11T15:50:00.001-08:002014-02-11T15:50:55.921-08:00Back In Alaska!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">We returned to Alaska on Friday, January 31 for a visit. Our plan was to get in some cross country skiing and do some of our Iditarod volunteer activities during February. (Our ulterior motive was to return to where it was much more pleasant during the winter than in Nebraska and South Dakota).</span></strong></div>
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Our flight arrived late Friday evening, so we booked a motel room and stayed the night. A friend picked us up on Saturday morning and drove us back to the Valley to get our car. We had left our Suburban here with friends, as we had planned to return for visits such as this one. It was quite foggy in Anchorage. But as we neared the Mat-Su Valley, the sun popped out and the skies turned blue, revealing the gorgeous mountain ranges all around. We knew why we had come back!</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>We are staying in the apartment that we rented last fall, before we left Alaska. This is the gorgeous scene that we awoke to on Sunday morning. The pictures were taken from our apartment window. The lake is completely iced over (and solid enough to drive a four-wheeler on), but there is no snow on the lake - or anywhere else.</strong></span> </div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">As we were driving to Big Lake for Mass on Sunday, we saw that Denali (Mt. McKinley), Mt. Hunter and Mt. Foraker were all in glorious view. So after Mass we headed up the Parks highway about 15 miles to a pull of that gave us a view of the entire Alaska Range of mountains (including the three mentioned above). It was so clear we could see mountains and blue sky across the horizon as far as we could see. It was a great way to start the week. I couldn't believe it, but I did NOT have my camera with me. Guess I have to get back in Alaska mode.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">We went to friends' house to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon. The game began at 2:30 PM here. They have had a cow moose and calf who hanging around before Christmas. The calf was born last spring. Mama moose had taught the calf to eat out of the bird feeders at our friends' house. After Christmas the calf kept returning without his mama. So they assumed that has has been killed. The calf apparently returned to where he felt safe. He comes charging out of the trees when he hears the bird feeders being refilled.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">He stayed right outside the house the entire afternoon, despite the fact that Doug and our friend were 10 feet away getting our car ready to go, and the 5 boys (ages 5-10) were outside playing a good deal of the afternoon.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Monday we watched this moose across the lake from our apartment.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">We also saw neighbor kids playing and skating on the ice. A Zamboni could not have done a better job of preparing the ice for skating. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The weather all week was quite pleasant with no wind. But on Friday the wind came with a vengeance. We had high wind warnings and 80mph gusts. (It was almost like being in Nebraska and South Dakota again). Doug saw an upside down canoe blow across the ice on the lake. Later we saw our neighbor kids again playing on the ice. That is a story for the next post....</span></strong><br />
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-45506618304549460842013-05-04T17:12:00.003-07:002013-05-04T17:13:12.637-07:00Hiking the Butte - 4/28/13<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">We finished our “first” week of retirement by hiking
up the Butte on Sunday. It took
about an hour to hike to the top.
It takes much less time if you are a canine or 12 years old! But it was worth the effort. When you reach the top, you are
rewarded with a 360* view of the Chugach Mountains (including Pioneer Peak, the
Knik Glacier), Matanuska Peak, Lazy Mountain, the town of Palmer, the Matanuska
River, the Knik River, the Reindeer Farm, the Talkeetna Mountains, eagles,
planes, cranes, geese and great people who will take your picture. It was here, as we sat at the top of
the Butte watching an eagle soar for miles without ever flapping his wings,
that we decided that we were retired folks – and really liked that idea!! That idea was short-lived, however. For the next two weeks Doug and I are both doing testing at several Valley schools. </span></b></div>
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<u><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sleeping Lady - also known as Mt. Susitna</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Legend has it that her peaceful tribe had to go to war to defend themselves. She was to be married to a warrior who was killed in the war. She was sleeping when the news of his death arrived at their camp. The other women covered her with flowers so that she would sleep forever and never find out about his death. The left side of the mountain is her head and it looks like her hair is flowing out behind her as she lays sleeping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Matanuska River</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Twin Peaks and the Knik River</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Kink Glacier</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pioneer Peak </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">We were half way to the top at this point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Overlooking the Knik Glacier </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Looking toward the summit - we still had a ways to hike!</span></div>
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<b>Pioneer Peak in the background</b></div>
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<b>Knik Glacier in the background</b></div>
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<b>Knik Glacier</b></div>
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<b> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">On Saturday we took our annual four-wheel trip to the
Knik Glacier.<span> </span>This year we
went a week earlier than we usual.<span>
</span>Normally the trail is muddy and/or full of muddy water.<span> </span>This year, it was full of ice and ice
water.<span> </span>Our “breakup” (when the ice
breaks up and melts) is late this year.<span>
</span>This, combined with our earlier trek to the glacier, did not bode well
for us.<span> </span>The prior weekend four
wheelers easily made their way all the way to the glacier, because the ice had
not melted much on the creeks and streams that you need to cross to reach the
glacier terminus. They were even they were driving on the bottom of the glacier
itself. We did make a few crossings, but after a couple of machine problems and
a couple of our group going in the water up to their waist, our leaders
reassessed. They decided that we could probably make it all the way to the
glacier, but when the sun came out in full force and melted more ice, returning
safely would be a real gamble.<span> </span>The problem with the ice this time of year is that it can
look solid, but has melted and the river is flowing underneath.<span> </span>So after a couple of hours we turned
around and came back.<span> </span>So – no photos of us right beside the glacier this year.<span> </span>:<(</span></b><style>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Knik Glacier in the distance (center of photo)</span></div>
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<b>We did sit in the hot tub one more time Thursday morning
before we left to drive home. You
can tell from the pictures that the sun did decide to shine. As a matter of fact, it did shine all
the way up the coast. We saw five
volcanoes and the entire Alaska Range across the inlet. We did not stop to take
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home. You would think I had never seen a mountain before. I could <u>not </u>stop taking
pictures. The rain from Tuesday and low temperatures in the higher elevations
had made lots of fresh snow on the peaks and, with the sun shining on Thursday,
everything was gorgeous. I will try to take you on the drive with us so you can
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<b>Snow machines on the mountains having a great day</b></div>
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stopped at a bed and breakfast where we will be staying this summer for a
couple of days. This is the view
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-56184140118448269752013-04-30T08:53:00.002-07:002013-04-30T22:03:22.536-07:00Otter in the Homer harbor - 4/24/13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>As we got to the end of one dock in Homer we saw a young
otter. He entertained us for 45
minutes. I would probably still be
there taking pictures and video, but the battery on my camera finally gave
out. He dove under the dock where
we stood and came up with 2 or 3 clams and then floated around until he ate all
of them. He would place the extras on his tummy while he cracked and ate one at
a time. Then he dove again to get
more. He ate 30-40 while we stood
and watched him. You can even hear him cracking the shells on the videos I
took. (More videos below).</b><br />
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-73425878351001695372013-04-29T21:33:00.000-07:002013-04-30T08:54:48.276-07:00Homer Harbor - 4/24/13<br />
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<b>After our trip to the jelly lady (Sweet Berries of Homer),
we drove to the Homer Marina on the Homer Spit. The Spit is an irregular shaped piece of beach that has
formed with the ocean tides and sand.
It was wiped out in the 1964 Good Friday earthquake (the BIG one here in
Alaska) and was rebuilt. </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Homer Spit</b></span></div>
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<b> The Spit has a
harbor, marina and few year round businesses, but mostly is has tourist season
businesses. We strolled around the harbor and watched the activity. The Homer harbor is ice-free year
round, so there were a few fishing boats and water taxis coming and going. </b></div>
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<b>Here are some of animals/sights we saw as we walked around
the harbor. You can see that is
was still gray and cloudy (although it was not raining). But in Alaska, you do
not wait for the sunshine. You just go!!</b></div>
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<b>We saw loons, eagles, sea gulls and ravens.</b></div>
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Boats at the Homer harbor with the mountains and glaciers in the background</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"> <b> Same backdrop for </b><b>baseball
practice at the harbor – quite a
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a photo I took last summer. It is a hayfield across the bay from the same glaciers </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">in the pictures above. What a place to farm!!</span></div>
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-35535214475142726302013-04-29T21:32:00.002-07:002013-04-30T08:54:33.935-07:00Homer Inn and Spa Moose - 4/23/13<br />
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<b>We arrived at the Homer Inn and Spa on Tuesday and got
checked in. By 6:00 PM it was
still raining an Alaska rain – a very fine mist that you cannot see if you look
out the window. But if you are out
in it, you will get soaked. We decided
to go in the hot tub. After all,
that is the reason we booked this place.
We were in about an hour and then returned to our room on second floor
to have some cheese and crackers with the complimentary home-brewed blueberry
pinot wine that was made by the owners.
We were sitting at the table when we spotted a moose crossing through
the yard. As you can see in the
pictures, there is no vegetation in the yard, just rocks and pavers. The moose passed through very quickly –
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<b>We were quite sure that he would not be returning because we
have been told that you cannot pattern moose like you can deer – that they do
not follow the same trail all the time.
The next evening while we were in the hot tub, I joked to Doug to be
sure and tell me if he saw the moose coming, since I had my back to the
direction from which he came the night before. It was not 5 minutes after I
said that to Doug that he said very quietly; “there’s the moose. He just jumped
the yard fence.” We sat very quietly and he passed by us – six feet away from
us! After he passed we realized
that we never even heard his feet on the rocks or on the pavers. Again, no pictures because we did not
have the camera with us in the hot tub. </b></div>
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<b>View across the bay the day that we arrived.</b></div>
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<b>View from our balcony. Note that the tree stump to the left of the tall tree is carved to look like a breaching whale. If even has a flipper on the side facing us.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">On
Wednesday afternoon before our moose/hot tub adventure, we spent some time in
the beautiful Homer public library and then drive a long way out East End Road
to find the jelly lady so we could buy some of her awesome apple-habenero
jelly. We called her to get
directions to her place. A few
minutes after we hung up, she called us back and said, “Since you are coming
around lunch time, there is this place along the road to my house that has
great food, homemade bread and soups….”.
Only in a small town would you get that kind of neighborliness.</span></b></div>
Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-38873958491927459022013-04-29T21:31:00.003-07:002013-04-30T08:54:16.870-07:00Mountain goats on the Seward Highway - 4/23/13<style>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style>
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<b>We took a trip to Nebraska – South Dakota over
Christmas. Since we returned to
Alaska in January, Doug & I both have been working in the schools quite a
bit. We have been doing
standardized and individualized testing.
We are scheduled to test again for the next two weeks. I tell you that
because this past week we had a truly exceptional week. We kept remarking about it all
week. By the time Sunday rolled
around, and our remarkable week was continuing, we figured out what was so
different. This was the first full
week that we were both retired and acted like we were retired, with nothing to
do and no schedule to dictate to us. </b></div>
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<b> <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">Migrating ducks have started landing in our yard and
in our neighbor’s yard. We have
had up to fifty ducks. They are
eating the feed that is leftover from our bird feeders. We have both stopped feeding the birds
now because the bears are waking up.
Bird feeders attract bears, so we do not put bird feed out after the
bears come out of hibernation.</span> </b><style>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style></div>
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<b>We have seen thousands of ducks, Canadian geese, snow geese and swans in their migration this spring. </b></div>
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<b>I did start the week by going to work. I subbed in a
classroom on Monday morning. Then
Tuesday we drove to Homer because we had bought a Groupon for a place to stay
in Homer by the Kachemak Bay.
Tuesday was cold, rainy and gray. When we drove to Anchorage we saw
about 10 moose, 7 of them in one group.
We saw a total of about 20 by the time we got to Homer. </b></div>
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<b>We were driving
on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage and came to the place called Windy
Corner. It is called that for GOOD
reason (think-- hurricane). We
passed a mountain goat and her kid RIGHT beside the highway. So we pulled over
and got out of the car to take pictures. (To those of you who have visited, you
know we call the Seward Highway the Death Highway). But remember, we were retired people driving the highway in
the middle of the week and it was not tourist season. So there wasn’t nearly as much traffic as there was when you
visited us. I would most likely be
posting this for you from the after-life if we had attempted this during
tourist season! Anyway, the goats
pretty much ignored us and let us take all the pictures we wanted. An eagle
floated overhead as I was taking goat pictures.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">Dear
Valerie S. – We thought of you twice this trip. Once when we stopped at the
Moose is Loose on the way to Homer and once when we stopped at the Moose is
Loose on the way home. For
everyone else – the Moose is Loose has the most unbelievable donuts in the
whole world!!!! You cannot drive
by without buying some. We bought
enough for our stay in Homer and then we stopped to get some for our trip home.</span></b></div>
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Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-12365693820631157192012-03-20T10:33:00.011-07:002012-03-20T10:52:56.076-07:00Early Morning Visitor - March 20, 2012<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">When Doug got up at 6:00 this morning, he looked out the bedroom window and saw this moose resting right outside our back steps. About 30 minutes later, I spotted the calf just below the other bedroom window. He munched on our tree for a minute and then also settled down to rest. It finally got light enough to take some pictures. We tried to be quiet in the house and not turn on many lights so we didn't disturb mama.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> She and the calf stayed for about two hours.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnXkdO50TWJZhMKl1HfUJa4R4K_lCghd7SxdDREk7kOfdJvOHpk4to8mJrTmPsxdoKPv3Kq_qXXD4KG9NSY4ZEFID9hYka3b7QKc-nd2R5D90K3GCsGB680P3sv8oDzFFV0lJ-g-EL_NI/s1600/100_2335.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnXkdO50TWJZhMKl1HfUJa4R4K_lCghd7SxdDREk7kOfdJvOHpk4to8mJrTmPsxdoKPv3Kq_qXXD4KG9NSY4ZEFID9hYka3b7QKc-nd2R5D90K3GCsGB680P3sv8oDzFFV0lJ-g-EL_NI/s400/100_2335.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722034671304501298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMHfrCK4RH95pTbLzPf2EyXIVbTMHgRjHZEMnncLjap9h4eXj5HvOSvpbQkZnbnui6gTmSCJcEifJj42pOpRDPUu3fVfX92lxnTKQ5ADGrHd-jDQ27kSQdN2Wvc-w5F8IfeTVYULwcNwM/s1600/100_2349.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbg89SZZv2tWeDXt4h9jI3zEHcugpqLFdBodJpvj_BwiVsHLJE4YdUaMRsb50T0GbU0mdkK66c1rAJrVaKPXEnVH1J9jfcHYmyeB4TxI4xvjx4PQ-lzFK73MqPQw72Yt7RzxGn4WabUs/s400/100_2354.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722034649389863298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Moose calf going past our family room window, headed for our trees.<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLwgdb63t3m6wytlZpxF70pqUCQ3yeSXawdO0hQ0IOF0xR61_4rNusyb9LvMBDaJs19jsZ7t0P4Zz4EWsBhmP8_gHgufvb4R1RervxEIdyFXrBEZ1yGC7DnfMCsY5n-z-TuJBaPRVDIPY/s1600/100_2356.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLwgdb63t3m6wytlZpxF70pqUCQ3yeSXawdO0hQ0IOF0xR61_4rNusyb9LvMBDaJs19jsZ7t0P4Zz4EWsBhmP8_gHgufvb4R1RervxEIdyFXrBEZ1yGC7DnfMCsY5n-z-TuJBaPRVDIPY/s400/100_2356.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722034645788897234" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE4ssQ3W4fS0gdB0oj2wsYWQOrd_ZlaPzSAmOKhdyHJM4wNurnYCZr8fCBd08ggrwMcXeqMNSxvM3Rgjs2NUHC9_MdGl56ur_D90lscGJoEd6PKSqrQxWtUXtJeo14HryaZZYpjlW7b90/s1600/100_2342.JPG"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mama getting ready to leave.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwCePUmJJfToe2kk_ykDjIs0SaHPq4VCKF_5mH0h0FDMg1Thx2QgWm3NGPgfXib_M4C0YZ1qRdM3BukJ8JC8w_0dgY-dskxyEDzpNR4BZf2OgcAzhW0kyr9E73U5PX5T_Mlqh5wkoQeI/s1600/100_2358.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpA9JqTZW9QwcmeIAqYzyROoi8rSDyAVtiV0wrEYb4q0fc6MDUaTmCbpa1fpYOCPitVrkOuoThYfen2GL5-fuaXEk34bIGRGNG2axXIYJ5jEIkQxm05JK8cDZfXKWYBeYmBs_slcOslgU/s400/100_2363.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722036183849921842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We live on a hill. Although that perspective is hard to see in this photo, our yard goes downhill and our </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">trees go to the bottom of the hill. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> As I was watching the moose, I saw the dog in the neighbor's yard below (just over the back of the moose calf). The dog headed toward our trees at the bottom of the hill. Very shortly I saw the dog turn around and go back home. Good choice, Fido!</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfOpwBW1IqjaLARC5CXjnbk_isPEhOe1rMwwMWSogrWYQnD70ufqS36aO5jJMLTkB8S2Tm9BaNggkA9jlSTT9dWv__kvY4Q8KOIQF1Tsz28QTGdR2MnlpMNwUgFJcFuW422j90pdD6Wog/s1600/100_2367.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfOpwBW1IqjaLARC5CXjnbk_isPEhOe1rMwwMWSogrWYQnD70ufqS36aO5jJMLTkB8S2Tm9BaNggkA9jlSTT9dWv__kvY4Q8KOIQF1Tsz28QTGdR2MnlpMNwUgFJcFuW422j90pdD6Wog/s400/100_2367.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722036175889302146" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-25167292020146628282012-03-19T22:29:00.008-07:002012-03-23T10:11:42.277-07:00Skiing in Anchorage - March 2, 2012<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On Friday (between the Mushers Banquet and the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod) we decided to try a new cross country ski trail in Anchorage. As we skied we saw eagles in the trees just above the trail. One of them had a green tag. They were pretty acclimated to humans. It didn't bother them at all that we were there and taking pictures.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKegPN9uhON56TkTHrApUIfAwjNEjCNDE-vksdRed9Yw6W9iN_bZlRLOdhAZ2nDGd3Lepxsl0ER2eXK2g0oIDG8rGbGeQJSG_iB5u269oxZw1Lx55n2haGiO_zzXHxkswJfSqCrljCiZE/s1600/STH78380.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKegPN9uhON56TkTHrApUIfAwjNEjCNDE-vksdRed9Yw6W9iN_bZlRLOdhAZ2nDGd3Lepxsl0ER2eXK2g0oIDG8rGbGeQJSG_iB5u269oxZw1Lx55n2haGiO_zzXHxkswJfSqCrljCiZE/s400/STH78380.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721847857124113970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9_3TuBsm-Yf70AzgRv8h_1qvTHQ7O7PLrif32qT4rdvPT5FS5aPYVKraHI2TOcZPNKQJOBGVD4lVXHr90Xm2d5F7doSY0YcXgVJ-5taRsTrXClvQt6y6V8McnZIFO_Y73AJ0EbU_i0k/s1600/STH78378.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9_3TuBsm-Yf70AzgRv8h_1qvTHQ7O7PLrif32qT4rdvPT5FS5aPYVKraHI2TOcZPNKQJOBGVD4lVXHr90Xm2d5F7doSY0YcXgVJ-5taRsTrXClvQt6y6V8McnZIFO_Y73AJ0EbU_i0k/s400/STH78378.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721847846581289618" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br />We were near the airport. A plane took off about every two minutes over our heads. You can read the writing or the pictures on the sides/tails of the planes. You can also see that it was a gorgeous day to be outside.</span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaSMW1YKYw4rHXXO01KfWc1slwQ7qGr-6LgRyZoIKvqLHDKfow8Qx99B_ypqfTQS7LTAgdLVZBBQ1Ghcshqq_-JBQJkcfw6_2Nj4KwNfodvActgsYCXXJ26XWokWl3BgcWWc9Qc96W4rE/s1600/STH78385.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaSMW1YKYw4rHXXO01KfWc1slwQ7qGr-6LgRyZoIKvqLHDKfow8Qx99B_ypqfTQS7LTAgdLVZBBQ1Ghcshqq_-JBQJkcfw6_2Nj4KwNfodvActgsYCXXJ26XWokWl3BgcWWc9Qc96W4rE/s400/STH78385.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721847863129502498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcwlv1QxM7NMssFs1irR5Z2av1efEefeUyzlLPboWaroN3CbDQ8wBlsUCHOEskjVLNYmnx_dzBe63j5JuvLP3Ey73db5-dcPTpm_OEhPKtWl82Zf5e2lEb2Vmwc-1wkpf4E8Z42qxHDoU/s1600/STH78390.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcwlv1QxM7NMssFs1irR5Z2av1efEefeUyzlLPboWaroN3CbDQ8wBlsUCHOEskjVLNYmnx_dzBe63j5JuvLP3Ey73db5-dcPTpm_OEhPKtWl82Zf5e2lEb2Vmwc-1wkpf4E8Z42qxHDoU/s400/STH78390.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721848513912978882" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5fESu24DoHxTQkIkc1Gbz8NM2doF-bPYciE8kNqz2RDADNKYUgdkNVUhuhAaIYH0yrLiXZfSIQ84Za8KRX0pjKnJ_8Y3y6qVzhleEhe3n7HiqbWTTZdA9fKbTinxuAYiLRIkISPC9-I/s1600/STH78384.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5fESu24DoHxTQkIkc1Gbz8NM2doF-bPYciE8kNqz2RDADNKYUgdkNVUhuhAaIYH0yrLiXZfSIQ84Za8KRX0pjKnJ_8Y3y6qVzhleEhe3n7HiqbWTTZdA9fKbTinxuAYiLRIkISPC9-I/s400/STH78384.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721848512037443634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-kqjNPzDJvZE_McorRzX4lLLQEoNoJPQk0KtY-JGdAl4F2u5u-KJD_7Z7pX3KVUo2OkQgAvKIeajRKxNFgxw1111BF0w97hcYJf_hq9WNr4YAFNyphLnBlzccgIPBj-JkT0RHnww8nJE/s1600/STH78387.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-kqjNPzDJvZE_McorRzX4lLLQEoNoJPQk0KtY-JGdAl4F2u5u-KJD_7Z7pX3KVUo2OkQgAvKIeajRKxNFgxw1111BF0w97hcYJf_hq9WNr4YAFNyphLnBlzccgIPBj-JkT0RHnww8nJE/s400/STH78387.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721848506924720754" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUxOZFFAkOFzHng8JtmN3mXy78RrVPLht62N6WRoIIS-E0s9xjBtK0XuoLufWRkdCJvZBy_FFBjCeHy41B7a1JWoJkLUC1xb9DZptGRsC9eh8iEHweTejgq13r4uGkL5exW83fnPt_x5E/s1600/STH78391.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUxOZFFAkOFzHng8JtmN3mXy78RrVPLht62N6WRoIIS-E0s9xjBtK0XuoLufWRkdCJvZBy_FFBjCeHy41B7a1JWoJkLUC1xb9DZptGRsC9eh8iEHweTejgq13r4uGkL5exW83fnPt_x5E/s400/STH78391.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721848501790691010" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-80752389655430595162012-03-19T22:10:00.005-07:002012-03-23T10:06:50.447-07:00Greenhouse Visit in Anchorage - March 2,2012<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">We visited a greenhouse in Anchorage that grows tomato plants...thousands of tomato plants! But look past Doug in each picture and look out the windows. What you see is snow, snow, snow. You can see how deep it is.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlsUhXd1mF5VZybD9sKCKj2sVdGXwFkIFr6YN5kvbh2HTPBH3WyNUJ_Fy8QHzbCnSC8o2RcTRai8M2YL95aQhnxHhDv4KNC_CJIGGI2dtMQm8PRKnP-1s5zYsUEDuosrp0TBrBtV95_RM/s1600/STH78356.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlsUhXd1mF5VZybD9sKCKj2sVdGXwFkIFr6YN5kvbh2HTPBH3WyNUJ_Fy8QHzbCnSC8o2RcTRai8M2YL95aQhnxHhDv4KNC_CJIGGI2dtMQm8PRKnP-1s5zYsUEDuosrp0TBrBtV95_RM/s400/STH78356.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721843383434161522" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hot air is forced through these plastic tubes to tubes that are lying on the ground beside the plant rows.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDapyHJAODDs7XHFIooGgdYkFFgU6oSILVVVgBdpwb3nRy60q6OFDwncQ-ZbRMEK7eMTupg6ShYI_WUDN7ltE6o5ZS9lVOQa0nGNq22AxRtPzNMbf1rOsPX1ieEEoPDJmOyxe3gFx5QAQ/s1600/STH78370.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDapyHJAODDs7XHFIooGgdYkFFgU6oSILVVVgBdpwb3nRy60q6OFDwncQ-ZbRMEK7eMTupg6ShYI_WUDN7ltE6o5ZS9lVOQa0nGNq22AxRtPzNMbf1rOsPX1ieEEoPDJmOyxe3gFx5QAQ/s400/STH78370.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721843379742649634" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOFyOkeuPEvbRFwmvb_t56MOUxinjAV0s6mvB40GvWnhiCZawWINMtzrDoeXFetXgaM0uVCmLxhNvJ6BbEVVpKv9Si7NRrD-cDvxBrzfxG6vU819Ay0VuwX1XG3E4vHrypDJ_4tBZMV8g/s1600/STH78372.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOFyOkeuPEvbRFwmvb_t56MOUxinjAV0s6mvB40GvWnhiCZawWINMtzrDoeXFetXgaM0uVCmLxhNvJ6BbEVVpKv9Si7NRrD-cDvxBrzfxG6vU819Ay0VuwX1XG3E4vHrypDJ_4tBZMV8g/s400/STH78372.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721843371906208434" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Once the tubes on the ground are filled with hot air, a hole is punched beside each plant so that hot air blows directly on each plant.<br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9xP0nukejpXx6BNKap-SgjrJ_J8vBhDbHQwkBIfX4q_ASyvp3JsEC871UxEzOihD5JfAOql_wSJES6KFsecWgubnr3VZhjeJG7GrGGrLlB4_ChgLXKXuJ3TtyACsEF11MP4hCqU6gFU/s1600/STH78363.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9xP0nukejpXx6BNKap-SgjrJ_J8vBhDbHQwkBIfX4q_ASyvp3JsEC871UxEzOihD5JfAOql_wSJES6KFsecWgubnr3VZhjeJG7GrGGrLlB4_ChgLXKXuJ3TtyACsEF11MP4hCqU6gFU/s400/STH78363.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721843368985676786" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOixz3rCzc7O6SeuW6q0kpyCnePd9QTEU3ODXPOMo3MABXM8V7xy9_9urSWk7vxgsPLbF4WUlBzX_iG8GLCNG_5TWwngqlJVcSL_tbytMGcWEY5TcewN-TLKBce-Oacv0MzCxpWXYfWk/s1600/STH78359.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOixz3rCzc7O6SeuW6q0kpyCnePd9QTEU3ODXPOMo3MABXM8V7xy9_9urSWk7vxgsPLbF4WUlBzX_iG8GLCNG_5TWwngqlJVcSL_tbytMGcWEY5TcewN-TLKBce-Oacv0MzCxpWXYfWk/s400/STH78359.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721843361881768738" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-80964727182560842062012-03-19T19:51:00.010-07:002012-03-23T10:00:55.959-07:00Iditarod Ceremonial Start - March 3, 201<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This year we made dog foot ointment and packaged it for use on the trail. We have done that the past three years. We volunteered for a new activity this year. We moved merchandise from the central race headquarters to the auditorium where the Mushers Banquet was held on Thursday evening before the race. We sold a lot of merchandise through out the evening. The highlight of the Mushers banquet is that each musher draws for his starting position in the race. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">One of the highlights for us was meeting some folks from Schade Vineyards, a South Dakota winery. They had made an Iditarod wine and placed labels with each mushers picture and information on individual bottles. A silent auction was held for those bottles of Iditarod Ice wine. They also had designed some Iditarod wine glasses which they sold. The big surprise was that they knew Chris & Melanie (our kids in South Dakota).</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On Friday we went cross country skiing (I put that in a separate post). Then on Saturday we attended the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod in downtown Anchorage. I have taken lots of pictures of the start and have posted them previously. So I didn't post any from downtown this year. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> In this post, I did post some pictures from the Campbell Airstrip, where the teams end up after an 11-mile run through town. </span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpJ1JuCbUALzumktBFHDdTY7slbdfKPHE3IscfNpuWfK8AvrRxpNmvjh-21VC0-GzogfEeBXkXeVPyajYRJbkqxwjpL9OHoKwyXMhAhw-n6SULAn_J28eRdXSe0_t4F6aSqTVA-os19pE/s1600/STH78334.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpJ1JuCbUALzumktBFHDdTY7slbdfKPHE3IscfNpuWfK8AvrRxpNmvjh-21VC0-GzogfEeBXkXeVPyajYRJbkqxwjpL9OHoKwyXMhAhw-n6SULAn_J28eRdXSe0_t4F6aSqTVA-os19pE/s400/STH78334.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721840591475045202" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">******</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Musher Hugh Neff is a huge supporter of reading. He wears a red & white stove pipe hat and his dogs wear striped red & white jackets (symbolic of The Cat in the Hat). These dogs even wear these jackets on the trail during the race.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MJQ622RA-M1mT39TlKMAB1cRjPJm9yVpRSvMvbrsnWGmPea-xGLlgWZgjXXYOPFVGmfCX_3wUmNfxL_yFoIMQLXSvoM_57HZCZPrAtMAR9C_Lj4phKnuYb_42fE2urd1XJVBjJa6WrM/s1600/STH78394.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5MJQ622RA-M1mT39TlKMAB1cRjPJm9yVpRSvMvbrsnWGmPea-xGLlgWZgjXXYOPFVGmfCX_3wUmNfxL_yFoIMQLXSvoM_57HZCZPrAtMAR9C_Lj4phKnuYb_42fE2urd1XJVBjJa6WrM/s400/STH78394.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721840587842260258" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The people in the sleds are Iditariders. You can bid for a chance to ride with a musher. Some folks have come for years and ridden with the same mushers. At the start of the race in downtown as his team pulled up to the starting line, musher Lance Mackey was riding in his sled and his elderly musher was standing on the runners. So he got a chance to drive the sled for a few blocks, in addition to riding in the sled through Anchorage.</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0neR2I45FSqpy51bKDM446Q0Jq68POJgcaL09M4Nklktlcgj1UL1UhFyUgGE15gtQrXq3nkuJiB9V-CCMBFxmpA1kb63pDdf6nygFHbj8K7POph5BuHSCBMMW8N2wgyqiSVS77CQ9bQ/s1600/STH78397.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0neR2I45FSqpy51bKDM446Q0Jq68POJgcaL09M4Nklktlcgj1UL1UhFyUgGE15gtQrXq3nkuJiB9V-CCMBFxmpA1kb63pDdf6nygFHbj8K7POph5BuHSCBMMW8N2wgyqiSVS77CQ9bQ/s400/STH78397.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721840574011381298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFEr0aGvlszA2RJYFpwdb0KNfGdpRcMTCP6fbqZjXhGi6pST75W1RePgUbe_p4myqB59fL3hKw9CZzait6zq7wFMBVWef3hYG_DwNacM7EiHWTVKcW7zr9gzhHr8FwCDTT3EvnhNFBS0/s1600/STH78400.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFEr0aGvlszA2RJYFpwdb0KNfGdpRcMTCP6fbqZjXhGi6pST75W1RePgUbe_p4myqB59fL3hKw9CZzait6zq7wFMBVWef3hYG_DwNacM7EiHWTVKcW7zr9gzhHr8FwCDTT3EvnhNFBS0/s400/STH78400.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721840567223133538" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">One of the Berington sisters. Kristy is a three-year veteran and her twin sister Anna was a rookie this year.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Rjfhn35UA4FxI1zsjo4r_8qktL4DSJ8Oto89Rha7kSAis1SIM0faad29HiTYWesBU-0HobwRk6FR7ZY0QEiBKZwFbNeBKvIChh4eZURBQcIS_FLsrORIFEQcpXw_3DRlknxz3jlabyU/s1600/STH78402.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Rjfhn35UA4FxI1zsjo4r_8qktL4DSJ8Oto89Rha7kSAis1SIM0faad29HiTYWesBU-0HobwRk6FR7ZY0QEiBKZwFbNeBKvIChh4eZURBQcIS_FLsrORIFEQcpXw_3DRlknxz3jlabyU/s400/STH78402.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721840563957013234" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The person on the trail sled is reaching out to give "high-fives" to people right beside the trail. In these next pictures you can see how close people can get to the teams. Just past this last group of people there was a huge whole in the trail. Because the mushers were interacting with the crowds, many of them did not notice that all the dogs on the right side of the line were dipping into that spot as they ran by it. Eventually many of the sleds tipped over in that spot or else had a near-miss.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPPZSZFC5m2S4HhCjMfM3Imx1zKfr8XrmhRE6v2QQ6dveNgCeANvlIZlX32tRabRs8PjNH6j9EBL7jrXrhU_iVs5hDZHd3F1_axhZPZssUFoWDfsgrWM3KGs2wOfYMg7GDnSeU15yKV4/s1600/STH78405.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPPZSZFC5m2S4HhCjMfM3Imx1zKfr8XrmhRE6v2QQ6dveNgCeANvlIZlX32tRabRs8PjNH6j9EBL7jrXrhU_iVs5hDZHd3F1_axhZPZssUFoWDfsgrWM3KGs2wOfYMg7GDnSeU15yKV4/s400/STH78405.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721837854182048210" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg-Qh2Xm13hjSK4cbHAqjN3aXTi_gyckSXZ4pcPAsmITJWPX-1bYbLKz-U85psKEan4OZoKMTgT1npqfrLZZbaFTSoy1vYXVD5wmaS_ofckAUy_x6omzrMmh_EJ3P5cHS9wlmx_K2unYs/s1600/STH78407.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg-Qh2Xm13hjSK4cbHAqjN3aXTi_gyckSXZ4pcPAsmITJWPX-1bYbLKz-U85psKEan4OZoKMTgT1npqfrLZZbaFTSoy1vYXVD5wmaS_ofckAUy_x6omzrMmh_EJ3P5cHS9wlmx_K2unYs/s400/STH78407.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721837851794515010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBq3U7IZdlmhgyz37GVT7fdVlznejeHLt-VOJyqdh39eSRdKkvxUNG2x9c50zVVLsELsy0Lt8SZmQbvwGpkl5-HDLnwXjsQjx0Qkh5BpctdhgWEqa4o3op5lmRO65Z4UMGfX-jifCKwe4/s1600/STH78412.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBq3U7IZdlmhgyz37GVT7fdVlznejeHLt-VOJyqdh39eSRdKkvxUNG2x9c50zVVLsELsy0Lt8SZmQbvwGpkl5-HDLnwXjsQjx0Qkh5BpctdhgWEqa4o3op5lmRO65Z4UMGfX-jifCKwe4/s400/STH78412.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721837837684550994" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jW3ZraSorr-x_4rd6jBdIlmfCZ1ufIpB4Ld7HEML_uA1QFY2o-7YVIl7_h3gx1JumS4A4A-zQbrCWxRaNtK7HdaKpQaarC2h6lIdMVYQdOTCUOWW_lpHKHHJHCj4GH0lJxEbduxp_T0/s1600/STH78411.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jW3ZraSorr-x_4rd6jBdIlmfCZ1ufIpB4Ld7HEML_uA1QFY2o-7YVIl7_h3gx1JumS4A4A-zQbrCWxRaNtK7HdaKpQaarC2h6lIdMVYQdOTCUOWW_lpHKHHJHCj4GH0lJxEbduxp_T0/s400/STH78411.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721837833237733250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Musher and Iditarider. (And yes, it was really snowing!)<br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGt8Q1F9VmBiilJKGbUre9GbgGn0QfUmBCBIt4FOkQnZvBXguQdCX0kdLeKgVxzVeOpRa5YGWSBjcJH3One5V574xVs-sQFLzx1JHLLb6ITo-Nkbe0wpD9OPPuCvRO5ceBfPm9Ea8Ct0/s1600/STH78421.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGt8Q1F9VmBiilJKGbUre9GbgGn0QfUmBCBIt4FOkQnZvBXguQdCX0kdLeKgVxzVeOpRa5YGWSBjcJH3One5V574xVs-sQFLzx1JHLLb6ITo-Nkbe0wpD9OPPuCvRO5ceBfPm9Ea8Ct0/s400/STH78421.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721837829209843442" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0pHEPtDN6iMKJIQTNy0FG3SEzvSAlY4eUd7ief0gsyGGnUGjoThvFvSoNgE-GwNzHy5Nb1StI5Wf0BnH6jDF5Aw1ofX8iZHq9-ACo0mWIvqiphwREb5h7Y2BwTGMKrV3Egm7lCdQw78/s1600/STH78422.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ0pHEPtDN6iMKJIQTNy0FG3SEzvSAlY4eUd7ief0gsyGGnUGjoThvFvSoNgE-GwNzHy5Nb1StI5Wf0BnH6jDF5Aw1ofX8iZHq9-ACo0mWIvqiphwREb5h7Y2BwTGMKrV3Egm7lCdQw78/s400/STH78422.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721835644420596130" border="0" /></a><br />*****<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Beautiful dog team</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizpONIUiNY_yr0nC_XoulHfYjwkOkrUbdzKzhS8qpJtXeaqf2H2ieTDdbOKQ4zc3TReJJ5ul2LVqjfz0g76l_Lz7ARy42Z63zV4mMEeILj2bTzhVBctEK_dgAjwBntMYVhzzM87HKGkI/s1600/STH78425.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizpONIUiNY_yr0nC_XoulHfYjwkOkrUbdzKzhS8qpJtXeaqf2H2ieTDdbOKQ4zc3TReJJ5ul2LVqjfz0g76l_Lz7ARy42Z63zV4mMEeILj2bTzhVBctEK_dgAjwBntMYVhzzM87HKGkI/s400/STH78425.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721835639419966370" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;">Musher Dan Seavey - 74 years old. He ran in the first Iditarod race in 1973. This was the 40th anniversary of the Race. It was also the 100th anniversary of the Iditarod Trail. Dan wore bib number 100 to commemorate the Trail anniversary. Also running in the race was Dan's son Mitch (a former Race winner) and his grandson Dallas. Dallas Seavey won this year's race and set a record for being the youngest mushers to win. Dan's other grandson Conway (Dallas" brother) won the Jr. Iditarod this year.</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUiBqyS2LnaRIpgc6WzIigVitfdmb4ogac5bfF0ZuV3v0zoreCQPgVWA9FCuutIhCODrKio-1N9RpKFqYYyBhHA9SeszL7YVPqQ9U-UPs0Yxzq2qVemW-2IYvFwjoJFuNR_lerfYMX3cw/s1600/STH78434.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUiBqyS2LnaRIpgc6WzIigVitfdmb4ogac5bfF0ZuV3v0zoreCQPgVWA9FCuutIhCODrKio-1N9RpKFqYYyBhHA9SeszL7YVPqQ9U-UPs0Yxzq2qVemW-2IYvFwjoJFuNR_lerfYMX3cw/s400/STH78434.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721835625802176530" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXKaARZgQdYwuRDzmXVBP62NcItxt72Heh2lZSgE7m01gLZlALBtkBkPS9jCRRyejU53LDIbmAydsNpJ3WflsxkXalGcGsQwhqcBb5MVoAjJv35VmEPwAD3FRvB1lnZxy0yrWgvn9Ro1Q/s1600/STH78429.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXKaARZgQdYwuRDzmXVBP62NcItxt72Heh2lZSgE7m01gLZlALBtkBkPS9jCRRyejU53LDIbmAydsNpJ3WflsxkXalGcGsQwhqcBb5MVoAjJv35VmEPwAD3FRvB1lnZxy0yrWgvn9Ro1Q/s400/STH78429.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721835630346425794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Walking back through the park from the Campbell Airstrip (where the Ceremonial Start ended)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8clbFNHwDYg38fLO8qEZkZFT-Ha86gF1GWvBm_kV5Do10XkqmGi1TS_f-j9XRJa3ebDqZHs4MM54-4LBwgRF2lTUwlbTVqbxIa2kElsIoj6OXNHAV6KevYHXUQV23kQQ0CyUAEEzMNY/s1600/STH78435.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP8clbFNHwDYg38fLO8qEZkZFT-Ha86gF1GWvBm_kV5Do10XkqmGi1TS_f-j9XRJa3ebDqZHs4MM54-4LBwgRF2lTUwlbTVqbxIa2kElsIoj6OXNHAV6KevYHXUQV23kQQ0CyUAEEzMNY/s400/STH78435.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721835616708625458" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-46050890510260302952012-03-19T17:36:00.005-07:002012-03-23T09:30:07.554-07:00Cool Stuff!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">A picture of the sunrise over the mountain, taken from our bedroom window on March 15, 2012.</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEYkA80Qctp4oQUac3DnHwWpbnql0viOM_-P8YHQYDtvha-i57GHz9eOEMFvWSRM6WwE8GrZeUU-ZjXJvKoDWU_GzHeaWFnIIYTUz1A6mhh4WqArEtkMWmV85DDPjyYViuzjPRlOYAL2Y/s1600/Sunrise_3_15_12.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEYkA80Qctp4oQUac3DnHwWpbnql0viOM_-P8YHQYDtvha-i57GHz9eOEMFvWSRM6WwE8GrZeUU-ZjXJvKoDWU_GzHeaWFnIIYTUz1A6mhh4WqArEtkMWmV85DDPjyYViuzjPRlOYAL2Y/s400/Sunrise_3_15_12.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721772134089547794" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">We now have over 12 hours of daylight each day. </span><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">A neat photo that I took when the evening sun shone<br />through our living room window in January, 2012.<br /><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhm5X-8_LDDh-ZM3KodWE4HB3NBltuQkkBBfxIIT6A7PdZZ_ZgGjhUcs39F6mYuiD-RAEQxhbdtcI4M0fvSafzsAR83bQsjyBD1cRCjiwWTGCosYygqBbcS3o5ljVVkvWwsMtqfEMMUQ/s1600/Angelcopy.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhm5X-8_LDDh-ZM3KodWE4HB3NBltuQkkBBfxIIT6A7PdZZ_ZgGjhUcs39F6mYuiD-RAEQxhbdtcI4M0fvSafzsAR83bQsjyBD1cRCjiwWTGCosYygqBbcS3o5ljVVkvWwsMtqfEMMUQ/s400/Angelcopy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721772130391093186" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Carter Children - Matt, Melanie & Dan.<br />All are doing VERY well!</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWf7BDG7R8dOJYt3UGqzVqDzH90y_fRLaD1tYU8Vjl0dRh0WC-IKxpmPY9vY9ulJ079taa5COnf8QoaeY38u6Ky4KmZTTNckyEEdd6CbEu7dgeNtx8CwYEukio18i-qHdU92SH398vI10/s1600/ThreeEmployedKids.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWf7BDG7R8dOJYt3UGqzVqDzH90y_fRLaD1tYU8Vjl0dRh0WC-IKxpmPY9vY9ulJ079taa5COnf8QoaeY38u6Ky4KmZTTNckyEEdd6CbEu7dgeNtx8CwYEukio18i-qHdU92SH398vI10/s400/ThreeEmployedKids.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721772120195479650" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-53503632196444302072012-03-19T17:22:00.013-07:002012-03-23T09:29:38.003-07:00How much snow? - Winter 2012<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This picture of our camper and the pile of snow which we blew out of our driveway, </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">was taken on January 17, 2012.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircEG4agCr81zySdI3EsaZgBTtUdFFw_K7SXFKJwzkBhispf7rCWBNgp6QTQffr8rlsg2c5JGstBmQT9Ot4v0JSlReh2G52D2xPjsDfHiVI7Ruev_twAKjylnnLgGzaRXMtZc2QhfvQL8/s1600/Camper_1_17_12.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircEG4agCr81zySdI3EsaZgBTtUdFFw_K7SXFKJwzkBhispf7rCWBNgp6QTQffr8rlsg2c5JGstBmQT9Ot4v0JSlReh2G52D2xPjsDfHiVI7Ruev_twAKjylnnLgGzaRXMtZc2QhfvQL8/s400/Camper_1_17_12.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721777487959475490" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And then MORE snow came and came and came.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The pictures below were taken on February 29, 2012.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcT8U-Wr_b2MjDpKSYcvMzS7ASGTvCKpThF7L2hD1Ji41v200kR8-oZYBw6rJCEPWq_d56fzV8CKUjqbBc9ZXeiac8Pn3mNajZ1pwIiwohjTKu6r2lVv8-CkyPWlP27TSlBcW4NIidH9Y/s1600/Snow1_1_29_12.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1CLIpmC7Ditg93GfUYcp3MJUFxHKtKyq8g9iI_qg5IOEtfuZaDeppnyJGFXCzM9i6gyode76lKtLPGJLenPGNSutGukNjAv5LfUA8zjz38_77blRueLAQVUOZUKxWdoMM3vsD-VC-HiI/s400/Snow3_1_29_12.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721770153511528578" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPLpT6PryqsirgpUH046lvVV0evvDYW50zNpWIXSZoXU5MTfxcESouI8m7rNxmMALQ-Hta4C2HpwBi0wytiisjwbk9cWQGtJZhP4IuuPMvuhcyfY3fa4kfw_x-sOE0kAlvIWxaP26kmSw/s1600/STH78330.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPLpT6PryqsirgpUH046lvVV0evvDYW50zNpWIXSZoXU5MTfxcESouI8m7rNxmMALQ-Hta4C2HpwBi0wytiisjwbk9cWQGtJZhP4IuuPMvuhcyfY3fa4kfw_x-sOE0kAlvIWxaP26kmSw/s400/STH78330.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721770141647521970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I wish I had thought to take a picture of my neighbor one day when he was out with his snow blower. He had on a Hawaiian short sleeve shirt (no coat) and was blowing 12" of snow off of his sidewalk!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Only in Alaska!</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu91uJWCC9S0D_uagGsrURrrOKVvNUBbjHsBSNjj0AbtVtOnXOq5BxZipteizDO3wd_MoKW9VWCctEhHy5w6iFGtBqVOesiRvRnTuiXcQvzaLXmpZVGCCdCTfPzv7W76-xuybrxdOm3Qw/s1600/Camper2_2_27_12.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu91uJWCC9S0D_uagGsrURrrOKVvNUBbjHsBSNjj0AbtVtOnXOq5BxZipteizDO3wd_MoKW9VWCctEhHy5w6iFGtBqVOesiRvRnTuiXcQvzaLXmpZVGCCdCTfPzv7W76-xuybrxdOm3Qw/s400/Camper2_2_27_12.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721769058101214802" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Doug has tried to keep our little Ford Festiva unburied.</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAW7Ckphr07c4M0IEXP2NJrf4UwkZhb92JC0Xd4IDJe3DXmIZZ-CWlITZbGrGL8lMzUrWIk-1qZMvVO-RfWUL4BP3W8SzF347OibHLYOBQag1YxfBxTiCfdXhms8CJ3u-Ygv8wO2TSVCA/s1600/Festiva_2_27_12.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAW7Ckphr07c4M0IEXP2NJrf4UwkZhb92JC0Xd4IDJe3DXmIZZ-CWlITZbGrGL8lMzUrWIk-1qZMvVO-RfWUL4BP3W8SzF347OibHLYOBQag1YxfBxTiCfdXhms8CJ3u-Ygv8wO2TSVCA/s400/Festiva_2_27_12.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721769055251368130" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Doug stands head and shoulders above our mailboxes.<br />The packed snow he is standing on is about 2.5 feet deep.<br />Even I can see over top of the mailboxes right now!</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDpjLD5brmXClHGbPK2f8cJ_POnT4u52q-T4zuZ4R0i5LRfSfkC5_tDamhsVLp2RyISxamxX_kNvdPHCX5xo8N0NKeBdG4sFE-jcaVifiVeTAQVW05y5azhzdJlhg4LGlUJM7_4r0TsY/s1600/DougMailbox.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDpjLD5brmXClHGbPK2f8cJ_POnT4u52q-T4zuZ4R0i5LRfSfkC5_tDamhsVLp2RyISxamxX_kNvdPHCX5xo8N0NKeBdG4sFE-jcaVifiVeTAQVW05y5azhzdJlhg4LGlUJM7_4r0TsY/s400/DougMailbox.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721769050969633778" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We went to Thomas' house last week. (Remember Thomas? - many of you sent postcards to him.) Thomas has three brothers. He and his two older brothers built a cool snow fort in their yard. They just had to tunnel through the huge drift where the snow from their driveway had been piled. His older brothers also have a snowboarding jump ramp in the yard.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5_ZuRjYWwpMu5FgvEbIKgSUx1rN6Y_H3Or0wFq_3u_2LkpfdA-g6s9_hqYLih7mS4eFNpKEBUv3gThb0oSm8YO2_26pIXWf1KXOTI9AtbHCBgXd4mXJYEYWIJxXGbtxgOFanlLq-kUtc/s1600/Snowfort1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5_ZuRjYWwpMu5FgvEbIKgSUx1rN6Y_H3Or0wFq_3u_2LkpfdA-g6s9_hqYLih7mS4eFNpKEBUv3gThb0oSm8YO2_26pIXWf1KXOTI9AtbHCBgXd4mXJYEYWIJxXGbtxgOFanlLq-kUtc/s400/Snowfort1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721771332468351458" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-1I6-WokW83s5UUAvAA67Gtc7tNzq0C_9RV_Oq_2P3TXnxz4oMXNFVff66oOIolKiZ0Pm2xdXtwZt2IJZbH43UetCZQaX-5lXoyDe62G-YSYG4cExPoizaT8JlB3pfSAkrB41A_4EJM/s1600/Snowfort2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-1I6-WokW83s5UUAvAA67Gtc7tNzq0C_9RV_Oq_2P3TXnxz4oMXNFVff66oOIolKiZ0Pm2xdXtwZt2IJZbH43UetCZQaX-5lXoyDe62G-YSYG4cExPoizaT8JlB3pfSAkrB41A_4EJM/s400/Snowfort2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721771324537679362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMOzslvHLw8y1Z4qr_uXUtgcXgTK-Y8PPj-UgWEFUWoTDAEH5KEVB6WJxyR4CdO2EvTSKYu6Kv_6Vs1p7aaNDpcuTLXP6Bu8XntaalEG3Y2Qxt_bGbs2V9d2IuTuJKYHXByePS1Tw4ujo/s1600/Snowfort3.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMOzslvHLw8y1Z4qr_uXUtgcXgTK-Y8PPj-UgWEFUWoTDAEH5KEVB6WJxyR4CdO2EvTSKYu6Kv_6Vs1p7aaNDpcuTLXP6Bu8XntaalEG3Y2Qxt_bGbs2V9d2IuTuJKYHXByePS1Tw4ujo/s400/Snowfort3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721771320080702466" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It was bitterly cold here for several weeks in January. But now that the temperatures are more moderate (in the 20's - I know you folks in Nebraska don't know what that is like this winter!), we have been able to get in a lot of cross country skiing the last few weeks. Having this much snow is great for outdoor activities like skiing and fort-building. Anchorage has had a LOT more snow that we have had this winter. They need only 3" to break their record. We are thankful that we haven't had as much as they have had. So far 14 roofs have collapsed under the weight of the snow - everything from loading dock roofs, to private homes, to church auditoriums. Two firefighters were hurt when there was a collapse at a fire that they were fighting. One of them was buried under an estimated 6 tons of debris and snow. Miraculously, he was only in the hospital for a couple of days.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6CeLrA2PlN0hyphenhyphenzOfeWlZlJvbiVeaDMr-vcEbLnfWcHc_o1_xPJCRa-i-wEmzrNF67sBeLcozpF4uaqnHQ9rUxAgzQUeGPV0tG065jdI01Nxq6QtULz96cI5Pd3thADPAIHZO9t0LLfE/s1600/Sunrise_3_15_12.JPG"><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD9Dl-JuIn_ChUKFbtLrMh4s-ghrP2OQIoLyzQLkRGbxkqu404h99oR4hhhSVi993-3qTH3FsSfRvbCFiHBS-rCXiM5Yg0B57bVRXTyXiIdMeWWXTC8kYPezOP9rMPGMD2CB1CIFZE-Ew/s1600/Angelcopy.JPG"><br /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-59593652812673652202012-03-19T17:06:00.009-07:002012-03-23T09:28:18.004-07:00Moose Sightings - 2012<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This fall Doug & I both commented that we had seen no moose all summer - not even in the very common places where we always see lots of them. But with all the snow this winter, the moose have been driven down from the high country to places where it is easier for them to walk and find food. Because of the severe winter, many of them are starving and a record number have been killed on the roads. 495 so far just in our valley! That does not count the ones who are injured. They have begun a program to feed them to keep them off the roadways. It is difficult for them to get through the heavy snow, so they take the path of least resistance - the highways and roads. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">So we have had lots of sightings this winter. We were skiing last weekend at a nearby school trail. When we were finished we drove past the front side of the trail and saw two moose in a yard. We had just skied on the trail past the back of that house twice within the last 30 minutes. I am glad we did not meet them on the trail.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Beside the road (Hyer Road) that goes into our neighborhood.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWY_RYMd5wXK0_j6V-ADe_sjuviVuUDskURu6cQGj7uLt9UaUe34pD1E57Ripx4ADsmxJ5QLuWh0y0uR4vlb6tjNQzFSict-j1VvO_ZXC9lIj7-SZuCQXVI0k1G3iNbJ5j1C2CUnXp2g/s1600/STH78159.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoWY_RYMd5wXK0_j6V-ADe_sjuviVuUDskURu6cQGj7uLt9UaUe34pD1E57Ripx4ADsmxJ5QLuWh0y0uR4vlb6tjNQzFSict-j1VvO_ZXC9lIj7-SZuCQXVI0k1G3iNbJ5j1C2CUnXp2g/s400/STH78159.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721766726080502034" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This moose, like most of them, was pretty unconcerned when we stopped by the road to take her picture. But I think the longer we sat there, the more she didn't appreciate our presence. Note that in the first pictures her ears were straight up when she looked at us. In subsequent pictures her ears became more laid back - NOT a good sign. Seeing that she was beginning to get a bit unamused, we went on our merry way.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr-SZ5HW-PIH27SqFCxXoMu6ZHpyeKOe6b0E8ABry1Eocevlrm1udQm_WapHXaqQnfQYv9SwiG1LapIEebV8kfKH8hYtno9NxaxUnkj0z5vzELRg5W6e_wzVAXNwl4pvobLofEzZW-cVg/s1600/STH78226.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr-SZ5HW-PIH27SqFCxXoMu6ZHpyeKOe6b0E8ABry1Eocevlrm1udQm_WapHXaqQnfQYv9SwiG1LapIEebV8kfKH8hYtno9NxaxUnkj0z5vzELRg5W6e_wzVAXNwl4pvobLofEzZW-cVg/s400/STH78226.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721766722493077362" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_o4fJhAA3SPtc8w2KKEVzQgWNWnUXTSmURCLMr6ckR9bZK7GkRfn_4_cLgHBi1Co2TVAEv72ErksEGlPu9aZe-W0-6uIIKaFA8XyTfLFTnbvjB5_oRWGcBkDXBfQ6-yYQ0_Rap1eyXws/s1600/STH78229.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_o4fJhAA3SPtc8w2KKEVzQgWNWnUXTSmURCLMr6ckR9bZK7GkRfn_4_cLgHBi1Co2TVAEv72ErksEGlPu9aZe-W0-6uIIKaFA8XyTfLFTnbvjB5_oRWGcBkDXBfQ6-yYQ0_Rap1eyXws/s400/STH78229.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721766716353479042" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi1Ki_8O2Rs-AOKkiq7RahqozAeO8GJehdSSSJQzRFI0-0CwU5n5pBGZqHa_5mhH9w8JYIegGgEnv18ghkoZX7sl8RG9CDLnncBoklInbMAOmMqhXe0Pt98M1mRtr0-1QhcM5kaq_7SSw/s1600/STH78231.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi1Ki_8O2Rs-AOKkiq7RahqozAeO8GJehdSSSJQzRFI0-0CwU5n5pBGZqHa_5mhH9w8JYIegGgEnv18ghkoZX7sl8RG9CDLnncBoklInbMAOmMqhXe0Pt98M1mRtr0-1QhcM5kaq_7SSw/s400/STH78231.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721767302259623122" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCe3OFc32QIMehge5Gk3dzlyeU8UcBv_khdT9CRoUlET0BebMM1zIfIH68Y__2Do2JWCJhW5tmm51IRnkFIUYcnZ72KeKU_sEAq0sCdpeQprw6QVt-24LU0I-T4LirPrVxxgnyzTU3ySg/s1600/STH78234.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCe3OFc32QIMehge5Gk3dzlyeU8UcBv_khdT9CRoUlET0BebMM1zIfIH68Y__2Do2JWCJhW5tmm51IRnkFIUYcnZ72KeKU_sEAq0sCdpeQprw6QVt-24LU0I-T4LirPrVxxgnyzTU3ySg/s400/STH78234.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721767293380743154" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XnTHkc3FWT4TOJuAqxXge_nV6LwyiI4Eyp_Bl8-SbG6XMDlr9lSHHdIVKoxfqC9wjSWidO_b6u4-46Gg2D-la8c0PYh_XWsJ1DOIEV8A0Xmc9mVpzdXgI29p-ZGNDPNdVxkxwnEn_LE/s1600/STH78236.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XnTHkc3FWT4TOJuAqxXge_nV6LwyiI4Eyp_Bl8-SbG6XMDlr9lSHHdIVKoxfqC9wjSWidO_b6u4-46Gg2D-la8c0PYh_XWsJ1DOIEV8A0Xmc9mVpzdXgI29p-ZGNDPNdVxkxwnEn_LE/s400/STH78236.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721767285320080594" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">************<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We spotted these two moose beside the road when we were on our way to the Willow airport to meet our pilot who took us to the Junior Iditarod checkpoint. When we were in the air, we saw a huge number of moose around the airport.<br /><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbokSt3-SFy3kP0lWAxpM4YGvr24OTKCY0qlqJ1YzXveqFSKV8XVpnLdIfX365qFmt3K8xQ66wDK4fgOwF0z9ukFvLcIaHsheGnHKl2c2mPRm7IbUQoPBJ2OiIk1xqbSmd9PyLqq1ixY/s1600/100_2299.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbokSt3-SFy3kP0lWAxpM4YGvr24OTKCY0qlqJ1YzXveqFSKV8XVpnLdIfX365qFmt3K8xQ66wDK4fgOwF0z9ukFvLcIaHsheGnHKl2c2mPRm7IbUQoPBJ2OiIk1xqbSmd9PyLqq1ixY/s400/100_2299.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721765660274409218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYPfYOrbjoObPHV43tkutEQA0P74eKfc8gETeuKsSEfTxG4C0w1g3AH18_mN9xIpUM4o8438sQze-klxbHyYSdBovbfsxgqobfBPHih4BqhwxHI6dlBdrNvMp2AC2PrQfJWWEfKOEYH4/s1600/100_2296.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYPfYOrbjoObPHV43tkutEQA0P74eKfc8gETeuKsSEfTxG4C0w1g3AH18_mN9xIpUM4o8438sQze-klxbHyYSdBovbfsxgqobfBPHih4BqhwxHI6dlBdrNvMp2AC2PrQfJWWEfKOEYH4/s400/100_2296.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721765668851442034" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2vMJOBdQEfaR-7_Y7NL7ncprg6sHP2tGErsqFKOzp-haCxDSELr59O22H2zmF1tVRFYnMrLOTECqgIkbkTAHux4xis165QU_I1KYM7HRin0zNNGhAX0kPgZgs0Irniy5U9DMwyz8678/s1600/100_2300.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2vMJOBdQEfaR-7_Y7NL7ncprg6sHP2tGErsqFKOzp-haCxDSELr59O22H2zmF1tVRFYnMrLOTECqgIkbkTAHux4xis165QU_I1KYM7HRin0zNNGhAX0kPgZgs0Irniy5U9DMwyz8678/s400/100_2300.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721764831825419826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2q07SQr9zPJ-4K47jtCwUL7tBOP983ax1SYKI-RjYGDyfhhOkDQt8sVXq9y0MsHLg4hQgMiefDaqoSelko7SMFin6V0tbpv1gcdjcPzdRbu-UGs7ssTdOAJRxcf7Ka935DKNsfj3icY4/s1600/100_2301.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2q07SQr9zPJ-4K47jtCwUL7tBOP983ax1SYKI-RjYGDyfhhOkDQt8sVXq9y0MsHLg4hQgMiefDaqoSelko7SMFin6V0tbpv1gcdjcPzdRbu-UGs7ssTdOAJRxcf7Ka935DKNsfj3icY4/s400/100_2301.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721764836792319554" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNz3r5DJCNtDN1jIppdxC0YJ7JGzBlnXniXEqCfpAftQ1-Ws2p0qAjKE_HGJCZwidsgDTaaOiC55AR7w3xgcYljPThaTdKGHv0Q1eRGDze5xudCRDOTKho73p7gxkvFT7AXRb1pvdR-Qs/s1600/100_2302.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNz3r5DJCNtDN1jIppdxC0YJ7JGzBlnXniXEqCfpAftQ1-Ws2p0qAjKE_HGJCZwidsgDTaaOiC55AR7w3xgcYljPThaTdKGHv0Q1eRGDze5xudCRDOTKho73p7gxkvFT7AXRb1pvdR-Qs/s400/100_2302.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721764842807721410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Both of these were bull calves. You can see where they are beginning to get their antlers. Doug would still like to go to Point MacKenzie, where he knows several farmers, to pick up some moose sheds (antlers they have dropped). The only problem is that not only are the moose thick, so are the brown bears in that area (also known as grizzly bears). I am a bit hesitant to go on that adventure!</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2biQ8Lzw3_IIB_9QIbkbLTefiXyywLEC2XaNbWCEuiAStcmInEC5E0gjrxFbtKecXFXgJTaS4kggvxiuvrqz4epaZDJJ4JFBXf2i0HgC6XMEAS5CUVETzz5uXHZ20bJb0mpCl9bed5Qk/s1600/100_2303.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2biQ8Lzw3_IIB_9QIbkbLTefiXyywLEC2XaNbWCEuiAStcmInEC5E0gjrxFbtKecXFXgJTaS4kggvxiuvrqz4epaZDJJ4JFBXf2i0HgC6XMEAS5CUVETzz5uXHZ20bJb0mpCl9bed5Qk/s400/100_2303.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721764848098628626" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqDT-Y1QMu8MwIu57YzICN7c-t7vDfq3u1eBPDabrK3IW4ecc7pICUpZ9hrA6lgko6ZPOjeskvjvU3kzaEk1NlcLf93m5No40rwBrL1VBBY-_Sg-Jv6UjfxLA_icHSdsYM580oudhEnU/s1600/100_2304.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqDT-Y1QMu8MwIu57YzICN7c-t7vDfq3u1eBPDabrK3IW4ecc7pICUpZ9hrA6lgko6ZPOjeskvjvU3kzaEk1NlcLf93m5No40rwBrL1VBBY-_Sg-Jv6UjfxLA_icHSdsYM580oudhEnU/s400/100_2304.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721764855118994994" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We went to Anchorage last week and saw 12-15 moose on the Hay Flats. For those of you who have visited us, that is the area around the Knik River Bridge that is on the way to Anchorage. The Hay Flats used to be the most wonderful farm ground in the Valley. in 1964, when the huge Good Friday earthquake struck Alaska, the Hay Flats ground had sunk 8 feet when all was settled. The river backed up and covered the ground. It eventually became a swamp. It is still soft and spongy and no farming can be done on the area. Hundreds of acres of prime farm land were lost. </span><br /></div>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-56134272738735480762012-03-19T15:50:00.005-07:002012-03-23T09:18:20.157-07:00Jr. Iditarod 2/25/12<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">We flew to the first checkpoint for the 2012 Jr. Iditarod. We watched the teams come in. People on snow machines went ahead of the teams to break trail and put out trail markers for the teams. The kids go about 80 miles out to a roadhouse. After a mandatory 8 hour rest, they turn around and follow the same route back. Conway Seavey won this year's race.<br /> His brother, Dallas Seavey, won this year's Iditarod.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Checker Jane watching the musher care for his team.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KQXWf_dRl3aIpBL0HAA_dtMJJCUG94IElt8WGvtSRH56ppg0YEB5_oilS7sVfySqbclAjr_scUXsfVma1D7KqdH8auWcX1w_7Yl7NKM2p-VflaHMDyixvepgLcvHM_Lh8k7LostwiZQ/s1600/+STH78295.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KQXWf_dRl3aIpBL0HAA_dtMJJCUG94IElt8WGvtSRH56ppg0YEB5_oilS7sVfySqbclAjr_scUXsfVma1D7KqdH8auWcX1w_7Yl7NKM2p-VflaHMDyixvepgLcvHM_Lh8k7LostwiZQ/s400/+STH78295.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721745311169075538" border="0" /></a><br />Musher snacking his team<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4la4HhyphenhyphenoeROvxk5wLKTnydjTtNZjTsQOEB-ZwuINJ2qXufx267ofyW-VN3uHHRoNn4i-B93tpPFKGnZzqLtBeiYXucC5i8Z2dMTnddpAzWVZniOf_TyeuU-0QGBlYLRgtTyNlaMAuCw/s1600/+STH78297.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUhKPoJ_C6YhRv7QQXuQPnt5gNJb6feKg5xdt4dt7sY2uhDJ3PtNiVId4ksb9Pd9oH6ti5ewG3tc7gIXJQwiSYiEkFm60gChHVH_8j1YEN0e1M9IWXXtisUc9V6yhJ7zFZHNv-lQI9sFY/s400/+STH78308.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721745919434388866" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Conway Seavey checking in<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSdb3ggCUHOJHfdvkqCXFx5bL7PozbDcSCxGA4a9cw6aBtSrU2qc-ckKfbsCmAG41Kzn2F-tRGx_BQ7n2ZGj-z5CRq8e72GXXPaO7vutqJGPhnyaaVRQ7OH7sMEGVK6RiXCy__ks_BaIg/s1600/+STH78310.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSdb3ggCUHOJHfdvkqCXFx5bL7PozbDcSCxGA4a9cw6aBtSrU2qc-ckKfbsCmAG41Kzn2F-tRGx_BQ7n2ZGj-z5CRq8e72GXXPaO7vutqJGPhnyaaVRQ7OH7sMEGVK6RiXCy__ks_BaIg/s400/+STH78310.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721745913124574194" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Doug & Colleen<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFbJ_1azSV885K1GF9W9sgkjZJhKKgy-jEnZmUslXj3qfBCeGlFwlBk8QeelrPiw87kc80az_NMJcJ804F3oEvdB5eIxsNPAQ_17Uk7gxHxKAhHthql-QgXlOa1HpC5gU_fZ0s_rB0yg/s1600/+STH78313.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFbJ_1azSV885K1GF9W9sgkjZJhKKgy-jEnZmUslXj3qfBCeGlFwlBk8QeelrPiw87kc80az_NMJcJ804F3oEvdB5eIxsNPAQ_17Uk7gxHxKAhHthql-QgXlOa1HpC5gU_fZ0s_rB0yg/s400/+STH78313.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721745908129117090" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-26992193949429734992012-03-19T15:17:00.030-07:002012-03-23T09:21:33.271-07:00EagleSong February 25, 2012<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Doug has friends, peony farmers, who live at Trail Lake, which is at the base of Mt. Susitna. Mt. Susitna is also known as Sleeping Lady. The farm, which is their year-round home is only accessible by float plane in the summer and by ski-plane or a 2 1/2 hour snow machine ride in the winter. The farm is the first checkpoint on the Junior Iditarod. The friends made arrangements for a pilot to fly us to their farm the day the race started. They were a bit worried because the forecast was calling for them to get an additional 21 inches of snow by Sunday.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">******<br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">It was a gorgeous day for flying and the views were awesome. We saw a lot of moose around the airport and on the way to the farm, as well as lots of snow machine traffic. When we left to fly home, we even saw one of the dog teams on the trail.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">*******<br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">A checker, a vet and the race judge were there to meet the kids and their teams and make sure they had everything that they were supposed to have in their sled and that the dogs were doing okay. We toured the farm as we waited for the first sled dog teams and mushers to arrive at the checkpoint. Other friends of theirs flew out for a cup of coffee or lunch. People here travel by place as easily and frequently as we do in our cars.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Doug watching our pilot fuel the plane</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgakOSBxvjRSdwKdbSYF5w8d1IV8nyWyXpkKZzlVCKtZd84wo-SMbYzUuf2Sokfp1TbQ-5e4kEXhkNyUJ3khLQpAsbHZOXtOKSMdDJar9sYugkGLuXD7FQev3LND6JM8Y4ph8N-Eybiwl0/s1600/+STH78239.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgakOSBxvjRSdwKdbSYF5w8d1IV8nyWyXpkKZzlVCKtZd84wo-SMbYzUuf2Sokfp1TbQ-5e4kEXhkNyUJ3khLQpAsbHZOXtOKSMdDJar9sYugkGLuXD7FQev3LND6JM8Y4ph8N-Eybiwl0/s400/+STH78239.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721736973977534034" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Plane skis<br /><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiuzQw4w75aMBVLeV4KXPy7RxAbKzkutj7TTdLJZwGnBlwhUsQ0N9WyBgIW2QGK5PlURdPABmCAsUlA-W6ysOT5aKDEmwhlGF6tYPruGa4Xu6XHAQqL0aSN7CcbYgbs2A3tcN_b9Fksk/s1600/+STH78240.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiuzQw4w75aMBVLeV4KXPy7RxAbKzkutj7TTdLJZwGnBlwhUsQ0N9WyBgIW2QGK5PlURdPABmCAsUlA-W6ysOT5aKDEmwhlGF6tYPruGa4Xu6XHAQqL0aSN7CcbYgbs2A3tcN_b9Fksk/s400/+STH78240.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721736965607824642" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ready for take-off<br /><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_fq86shjg6kw3K-GOzvrKs8qmWENmAWNKA08HMSkSZ0YKEYkB73fIgMkAK8xORCwMeOKnSTazNmV9P7zAHaMGTlY5u1gCvJXNkXlbGQmiGUDVLj100dZoUGQORrOBmLV7lMzCMFRYAQ/s1600/+STH78242.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_fq86shjg6kw3K-GOzvrKs8qmWENmAWNKA08HMSkSZ0YKEYkB73fIgMkAK8xORCwMeOKnSTazNmV9P7zAHaMGTlY5u1gCvJXNkXlbGQmiGUDVLj100dZoUGQORrOBmLV7lMzCMFRYAQ/s400/+STH78242.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721736960708417058" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSfzw6Nk_dCTJpVLszrdELvqCY7MXRmRMFqP02yRSkIiShftRI7OJvEn-bQgK59wKMoh7IA_ScOyh0bfvBPfZw0YZeRTqRIP8p1vGjEPyAwfb3XtFOpSpt8cPQsnGTvxm5hhpic6-YqaE/s1600/+STH78243.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSfzw6Nk_dCTJpVLszrdELvqCY7MXRmRMFqP02yRSkIiShftRI7OJvEn-bQgK59wKMoh7IA_ScOyh0bfvBPfZw0YZeRTqRIP8p1vGjEPyAwfb3XtFOpSpt8cPQsnGTvxm5hhpic6-YqaE/s400/+STH78243.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721736951815454610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mt. Susitna (Sleeping lady) in the distance<br />The snowy patch in the trees one of the rivers<br />The rivers become main highways when the freeze over. But there are always melted places and open water, so you have to be alert when riding a snow machine on the river, even in the winter.<br /><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9LwFzhr6hpUmoOLLqLaddRVixQFvYSgD042YH8t80Andli2lirTIF9GBarvexdNzolWOI3_hNp1kJIU0ST2ey3svc0wjLj1zD5NjIrhM5J9upPkhkZ8KnaJmpQz36bR3loUJAjpoloRg/s1600/+STH78251.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9LwFzhr6hpUmoOLLqLaddRVixQFvYSgD042YH8t80Andli2lirTIF9GBarvexdNzolWOI3_hNp1kJIU0ST2ey3svc0wjLj1zD5NjIrhM5J9upPkhkZ8KnaJmpQz36bR3loUJAjpoloRg/s400/+STH78251.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721736946695351314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Phj6CVMhd7w2S7dZ4VzCM4Xblaf6qdJXSP3fUIlAZWRNAM2MXXhjNFDz7kxVJ9lKZFsDgNBb19NOHi3gSfzvztvDenfpDryzm39W-a1RjNJuJdBxRbCSk_LjTDw-XV5V8OpKyAmVdAY/s1600/+STH78253.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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font-weight: bold;">Click on "Tour of EagleSong Farm" for more great pictures. The water right in front of the house is where our plane landed on the snow runway.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Note the 1/2 oval on the left side of the picture. That is the landing strip which Mike has groomed on the frozen lake. He grooms a complete oval so the planes can land, taxi around to the house and them complete the oval to take off again (instead of a long, narrow runway where they would have to go the end and turn around to take off again.) He constantly has to keep the runway groomed so they do not lose their access to the rest of the world. 2 1/2 hours on a snow machine (one-way) is a lot different from a 20 minute plane ride to the outside world.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQG9YPRIfBL1vd0XtYesed7pHGE8em8-B0657XDbroyyxjaSK-CfE5BwYADEhLcniNGbtoXE_zwApVo2x7wAWsB3jy78X1lxdqiH8JhSWEKLukbU8nW8Y-Jjjyl7_WrQ7LiruQwKQlRs/s1600/+STH78259.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQG9YPRIfBL1vd0XtYesed7pHGE8em8-B0657XDbroyyxjaSK-CfE5BwYADEhLcniNGbtoXE_zwApVo2x7wAWsB3jy78X1lxdqiH8JhSWEKLukbU8nW8Y-Jjjyl7_WrQ7LiruQwKQlRs/s400/+STH78259.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721739165269890850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/eaglesongalaska.com"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:180%;" ><cite></cite></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The large flat places behind and to the side the farmstead are the peony fields.<br /><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFRPBrmklBprby3m1G9Lz02rot7qWxdZnEErkRjMEAeEa1Bnhn2ZnU-nx6kC_Xr8JeYq2gKxjlmrpFSlvph7n566BqScJzNxFdSH_lqqkPtlQ4gbeIWERywSzQe6DtSMH4yxGu0pgoM8/s1600/+STH78260.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFRPBrmklBprby3m1G9Lz02rot7qWxdZnEErkRjMEAeEa1Bnhn2ZnU-nx6kC_Xr8JeYq2gKxjlmrpFSlvph7n566BqScJzNxFdSH_lqqkPtlQ4gbeIWERywSzQe6DtSMH4yxGu0pgoM8/s400/+STH78260.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721739154004875778" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTQ9KyQCO1fMuUy9v0kS6eW3wocqqFmA1Xf33IcsIhQSVAXAWR8Hnggz1zFNMPgyfLNkMS50revSkYK4wbO0hZAMd_P7wa7rnzEPH5kbS1f-RQ5i27X7gb-9sE3qGNq55Q33rbse_fpQ/s1600/+STH78261.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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So </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mike grooms the areas by packing the snow down. It is four feet deep of packed snow. You have to go down about four feet to get into any of the buildings.<br /></span></span></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN7Mtf9AoAQghYK4DRsM6Gcd0YOaV-Nj7zvkQuNbWWWspuhp-pw0E-xzBJRjzhtyzOnfKpNkUHjU4kQYqKBj9Of-6RtvK9vHwccYCmZcqwSVEdteVOSz5LB2IPKGbl5sWzvHGdKB980YA/s1600/+STH78275.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN7Mtf9AoAQghYK4DRsM6Gcd0YOaV-Nj7zvkQuNbWWWspuhp-pw0E-xzBJRjzhtyzOnfKpNkUHjU4kQYqKBj9Of-6RtvK9vHwccYCmZcqwSVEdteVOSz5LB2IPKGbl5sWzvHGdKB980YA/s400/+STH78275.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721741323809591954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPA4LblGC8GFfUgAZUZUx7ZWl17gZ3NJ9KZ-UDMfjxUERWrN1-0XB0J3pEsSMYX1ZlDVDk03IjXqK02Ytw5k9bfnIg7vSMKizAh-zxsMsWs7_63x9sseQtU540n13af7fxrqKtcGZcJhE/s1600/+STH78277.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPA4LblGC8GFfUgAZUZUx7ZWl17gZ3NJ9KZ-UDMfjxUERWrN1-0XB0J3pEsSMYX1ZlDVDk03IjXqK02Ytw5k9bfnIg7vSMKizAh-zxsMsWs7_63x9sseQtU540n13af7fxrqKtcGZcJhE/s400/+STH78277.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721741316297173122" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAmvyY0L63ePHtNWmtRKtwKsWU_-Bo8yIVBGO8mxqFagaNoiFGkdZ2OKK984KC1UlFguSB3NfBqKz9mwWoEB-gjGkRYi2Xk1R-6GIzuMm9684nvTYgONjN8REwrjdD3fIkoolxxfYMAe8/s1600/+STH78279.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAmvyY0L63ePHtNWmtRKtwKsWU_-Bo8yIVBGO8mxqFagaNoiFGkdZ2OKK984KC1UlFguSB3NfBqKz9mwWoEB-gjGkRYi2Xk1R-6GIzuMm9684nvTYgONjN8REwrjdD3fIkoolxxfYMAe8/s400/+STH78279.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721741307625275298" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you go to the website, you will see that Mike makes beautiful birch bowls and other wood items. These are pictures of the birch burls which they have harvested. They will be cleaned and shined and Mike will make bowls from most of them. The burls are formed when the birch trees get an infection or imperfection and the tree heals itself by growing over the problem.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">When they harvest them, they just cut them off the trees. No two are the same shape.</span><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYvajpu-yzxiasBBlK1LsN1vs3CABfQ1aPL5vTRXJEUiyw7V0_nLtXfOqkloR4u5D3OjYZ_oFTMQF7LyTeHZHZ5WiE6JZHfkZMkTTuESM3jEd3G0FjjBDkqpPf1PduQoU-R7Pue3sKnM/s1600/+STH78281.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYvajpu-yzxiasBBlK1LsN1vs3CABfQ1aPL5vTRXJEUiyw7V0_nLtXfOqkloR4u5D3OjYZ_oFTMQF7LyTeHZHZ5WiE6JZHfkZMkTTuESM3jEd3G0FjjBDkqpPf1PduQoU-R7Pue3sKnM/s400/+STH78281.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721741302216230818" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDfckOuBN4g4Ww7GihwWm68aH9Bl45m7NpSNnDXNf8XKHKWDUQFopXKnRFCddhbz8KzPbNtpHOqCdTrItyyuPdC04F7VBXYbhJsJUxOjJfpXWg2RFyfoXHs_0YuYRe7VNlrPgOeGZ8dQ/s1600/+STH78282.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDfckOuBN4g4Ww7GihwWm68aH9Bl45m7NpSNnDXNf8XKHKWDUQFopXKnRFCddhbz8KzPbNtpHOqCdTrItyyuPdC04F7VBXYbhJsJUxOjJfpXWg2RFyfoXHs_0YuYRe7VNlrPgOeGZ8dQ/s400/+STH78282.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721741297262909682" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">These are a couple of the huge snow machines that they use, along with the sleds they pull. The sleds can be expanded to haul things like lumber or other large loads. Mike had hauled 55 gallon drums of fuel to the farm on the sleds and had more drums to pick up and bring out to the farm. One trip takes most of the day. That is a long day on a snow machine.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAbLsNujRGBNalEVRiXM0Tp2J8K7KVL650xFfCRwAAz1s4pxCbup2Gdi4QWBwhl64vagDLSm1IOxHlYYfs_WWv54IhDNC3GCNMgX1yU2RgGjli14qf5D4kU5RWyg2VxZK_v4BZEcLDMs/s1600/+STH78286.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAbLsNujRGBNalEVRiXM0Tp2J8K7KVL650xFfCRwAAz1s4pxCbup2Gdi4QWBwhl64vagDLSm1IOxHlYYfs_WWv54IhDNC3GCNMgX1yU2RgGjli14qf5D4kU5RWyg2VxZK_v4BZEcLDMs/s400/+STH78286.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721742556395188578" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUeA0_wFKzRKMhyIiPBDshpbPwOHc7QXnjuiqTdv07zCvlgGO5OFsFpKFDf3u4NhMQFm5WRHaCWfFskKiczUBioVBAvBQke0OMxDXbWYnRpYILggIs4UzCrcz2in4RuSNvuUVTwwsoAc/s1600/+STH78287.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUeA0_wFKzRKMhyIiPBDshpbPwOHc7QXnjuiqTdv07zCvlgGO5OFsFpKFDf3u4NhMQFm5WRHaCWfFskKiczUBioVBAvBQke0OMxDXbWYnRpYILggIs4UzCrcz2in4RuSNvuUVTwwsoAc/s400/+STH78287.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721742553741285058" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Going down into Mike's wood shop<br /><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkAv-OB1LX5xqXVpOQeQBS3AVPOdngRX18qhCHP2848KbBbcuXRnEcX4kvYT4KFvRP5zM0fNMxYhLLhZDlcFuy05nLKjHTzZnDshbguBuiqZZ-il2AXqVXMQB2Tbd2zVvBU6Uf6viNbEE/s1600/+STH78289.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkAv-OB1LX5xqXVpOQeQBS3AVPOdngRX18qhCHP2848KbBbcuXRnEcX4kvYT4KFvRP5zM0fNMxYhLLhZDlcFuy05nLKjHTzZnDshbguBuiqZZ-il2AXqVXMQB2Tbd2zVvBU6Uf6viNbEE/s400/+STH78289.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721742542937879506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsgwDo5EwvhvL_1uDiw-uLWON38yDN_Lf2WurIOlmCcu3pPI2rLvKz5LhrJACwo_vCMma_vi9iL8j86wphxU3EL4OJZzrjtP7XqISkp9L1W_Ebg64yrUZP07uaOmxjZ2nmrjqmZgEtvB8/s1600/+STH78291.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsgwDo5EwvhvL_1uDiw-uLWON38yDN_Lf2WurIOlmCcu3pPI2rLvKz5LhrJACwo_vCMma_vi9iL8j86wphxU3EL4OJZzrjtP7XqISkp9L1W_Ebg64yrUZP07uaOmxjZ2nmrjqmZgEtvB8/s400/+STH78291.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721742539138948898" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our pilot was anxious to leave before all of the dog teams had come through the checkpoint</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> on Saturday.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When we got in the air, we found out why he was in a hurry. We could that we were flying into snow. He still had to make another trip back to EagleSong to pick up a photographer.</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgeYqWQ4db3-1mVyNrXvqyc5puHsp8zZeamdKKnmtCMRRRLH1XtsCY2TwhXtWE3gymwDPrEJWnq-KUInWn4ct7cZ-0wrRDA6sNZJtOhaXdK0Kg-QK-LC_cPD5BaOpguG1NLYPGR12WOfo/s1600/+.dave.chickencoop.after.jpg"><br /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Snow machines below us on the river.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7mWiUiIFWPrngxAdb4VM27YDhCd1Y8AhN88WnW7jRhYCcKBJRTWW6TZseFltZTnGLzXpvO7ole_7ZMA5Dnik8N-TsJ07ClN68CgkywS3cfzgql3lLLDLOdW1wgLbGU7rX-gVbuGQ9-4/s1600/+100_4821.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7mWiUiIFWPrngxAdb4VM27YDhCd1Y8AhN88WnW7jRhYCcKBJRTWW6TZseFltZTnGLzXpvO7ole_7ZMA5Dnik8N-TsJ07ClN68CgkywS3cfzgql3lLLDLOdW1wgLbGU7rX-gVbuGQ9-4/s400/+100_4821.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721743619600447458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Cabins on the river</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFvuwzKvA2C8aU9BbkLWjJdnS_InCmpUAzphB_RLymhn6L2EWLX4I4FCzUJ7T3yDea9TZ2TcYCRWSKF4VzKZPI2WK3bmuOvs9FlzGJAAL5j7pG7yB-kv5YgQ28RgHd-1zwi2xK_J0sHU/s1600/+100_4824.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUFvuwzKvA2C8aU9BbkLWjJdnS_InCmpUAzphB_RLymhn6L2EWLX4I4FCzUJ7T3yDea9TZ2TcYCRWSKF4VzKZPI2WK3bmuOvs9FlzGJAAL5j7pG7yB-kv5YgQ28RgHd-1zwi2xK_J0sHU/s400/+100_4824.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721743611223099794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />Fields near the airport</span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv12xIpFe0pECz6sA530UTHcAQZVgj5psJ1qq9K9GCXdKt16WxKyTikScBMcYVjA2jlH0d8amMxhYjXL7zFqfWgTVFRn1Kt42K0McimDtkW-0yZj_EOI5u3mg3_iU_4hgaSaJmc7MkhRM/s1600/+100_4827.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv12xIpFe0pECz6sA530UTHcAQZVgj5psJ1qq9K9GCXdKt16WxKyTikScBMcYVjA2jlH0d8amMxhYjXL7zFqfWgTVFRn1Kt42K0McimDtkW-0yZj_EOI5u3mg3_iU_4hgaSaJmc7MkhRM/s400/+100_4827.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721743604435224434" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Apparently we got out just in time. The pilot made it back to Willow with the photographer. But the snow was so heavy that the pilot was unable to continue on to Wasilla to his house where he had a hangar for his airplane. He had to have someone pick him up at the Willow airport and drive him home.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">(Remember the story of the old gentleman who was stomped by a moose at the Willow airport and his teeny tiny elderly wife rescued him by beating on the moose with a shovel? We saw him at the Willow airport walking his two dogs. The Willow airport is where the moose attack took place while he was walking his dogs. We did not see his wife with him, so he was on his own this time.)</span><br /><br />********<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Mike was justified in worrying about getting the 21" of snow. But instead of 21", they got 36 inches!!! This pictures he sent us are of the Iditarod folks who got stranded there for a few extra days. They were unable to get out of there until Tuesday or Wednesday. All of the "guests" helped shovel snow. But that's Alaska!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">They got another 4 feet last week!!!!!</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV3PodYEfG2MvhPDkupaEMjqCbTMuchV4keXeQbMJTPYxVx6sQ3jZw8uq9rzqT0TM5vX-cluogj1lN9EOpQIcAn9m2yd_nYVcUOPjZ-lg7sFQBxodKGSVW7taz-bSnAe2hDN_YQNh37hs/s1600/+.jane.after.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV3PodYEfG2MvhPDkupaEMjqCbTMuchV4keXeQbMJTPYxVx6sQ3jZw8uq9rzqT0TM5vX-cluogj1lN9EOpQIcAn9m2yd_nYVcUOPjZ-lg7sFQBxodKGSVW7taz-bSnAe2hDN_YQNh37hs/s400/+.jane.after.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721742992211791586" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Chicken Coop - (the same one that is in the pictures above)<br /><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgeYqWQ4db3-1mVyNrXvqyc5puHsp8zZeamdKKnmtCMRRRLH1XtsCY2TwhXtWE3gymwDPrEJWnq-KUInWn4ct7cZ-0wrRDA6sNZJtOhaXdK0Kg-QK-LC_cPD5BaOpguG1NLYPGR12WOfo/s1600/+.dave.chickencoop.after.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgeYqWQ4db3-1mVyNrXvqyc5puHsp8zZeamdKKnmtCMRRRLH1XtsCY2TwhXtWE3gymwDPrEJWnq-KUInWn4ct7cZ-0wrRDA6sNZJtOhaXdK0Kg-QK-LC_cPD5BaOpguG1NLYPGR12WOfo/s400/+.dave.chickencoop.after.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721742530603820770" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UwaICpLJ5FgBNMkdeiR9YehhBgwhxYK2ZI8zxVCPHfqLGaT8AAVOV0mn5K-qRmu8SSj1XTIVWDbCreKNclnjso2246A5Lm2kg6qWauZyhb5rUBIkJzyNoajGYtjFu_GerRygIWHwmQE/s1600/+.kevin.after.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UwaICpLJ5FgBNMkdeiR9YehhBgwhxYK2ZI8zxVCPHfqLGaT8AAVOV0mn5K-qRmu8SSj1XTIVWDbCreKNclnjso2246A5Lm2kg6qWauZyhb5rUBIkJzyNoajGYtjFu_GerRygIWHwmQE/s400/+.kevin.after.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721742985737969426" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-58955044015206535232012-02-26T17:19:00.016-08:002012-02-26T20:38:43.388-08:00X-Country Skiing - February 18, 2012<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We went cross country skiing for my birthday last weekend. Our plan was to try some different different trails. As you can see from the pictures, it was a gorgeous day. We drove about an hour and a half toward Talkeetna. We first stopped at Fish Lake. We talked to a lady in the parking lot who had just finished her ski. Fortunately, she was a local and could fill us in on the helpful hints. We pretty much surmised that she was a regular, since she had just finished her ski with a baby on her back. This was a "lazy ski". It was about three miles around, but it was all flat. We were actually skiing on the lake, not on the ground around the lake.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">This photo was taken from the parking lot as we approached the lake. The next three photos were taken from beside the snow bank where you can see that the trails drops off toward the lake.<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50bZyF2Zqt_R5NzHRbxpKGW8ZAO0Xvd4vbIUPbKu-0jgE-Y_veApw7nbyvCTl0J5hwZnIkUpLX9Lsm8VwHH-GD-rsaD0NPrHI5v9XO6Bd1lchSRbQlJr9ph_nz8EwwzB3keGPRMVqX1I/s1600/STH78185.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj50bZyF2Zqt_R5NzHRbxpKGW8ZAO0Xvd4vbIUPbKu-0jgE-Y_veApw7nbyvCTl0J5hwZnIkUpLX9Lsm8VwHH-GD-rsaD0NPrHI5v9XO6Bd1lchSRbQlJr9ph_nz8EwwzB3keGPRMVqX1I/s400/STH78185.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713619840415577394" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">View of lake to the left.</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdcBdE_jd8H74ddulR1cowdeUY7opbJ3B-3ZE-zOfvALJRGQIm3mH-ODnmYSYB3io8ffpSUEt8OrCDv_1NNzQ1FjtCv3_FVsIoVLpl3KbY3hDi9eM_O5b17N-h59azgbg62dG7AATqRc/s1600/STH78187.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdcBdE_jd8H74ddulR1cowdeUY7opbJ3B-3ZE-zOfvALJRGQIm3mH-ODnmYSYB3io8ffpSUEt8OrCDv_1NNzQ1FjtCv3_FVsIoVLpl3KbY3hDi9eM_O5b17N-h59azgbg62dG7AATqRc/s400/STH78187.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713619868634120258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">View of center of lake .</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1nCseQlbSHz7_v_zJwoXp1k1RHGDEg7zeBtUAHFKY3crjmUQUe3eNm6wAp59S9TT4kKhpfoKavt_YpuDs-AQZFO7yh7h_ArlRLVNvvwZ9m3Wo5-vUK20YCZ1iDJynEvsvdS0PpIqlHmc/s1600/STH78186.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1nCseQlbSHz7_v_zJwoXp1k1RHGDEg7zeBtUAHFKY3crjmUQUe3eNm6wAp59S9TT4kKhpfoKavt_YpuDs-AQZFO7yh7h_ArlRLVNvvwZ9m3Wo5-vUK20YCZ1iDJynEvsvdS0PpIqlHmc/s400/STH78186.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713619876688694370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">View of right side of lake.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2MBqvVNULLtUmnCj_5g2rgdzcJXJsskMrFWL535OjVN9KhzxPwgSoERMpN18dp6vfWB_qgGFfF1kJlo_4ejI-xTJWqDHa3OLemEKnwX5YXaA8LMETDYL02EeP8dReWS-snhWYe2ua3yA/s1600/STH78188.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2MBqvVNULLtUmnCj_5g2rgdzcJXJsskMrFWL535OjVN9KhzxPwgSoERMpN18dp6vfWB_qgGFfF1kJlo_4ejI-xTJWqDHa3OLemEKnwX5YXaA8LMETDYL02EeP8dReWS-snhWYe2ua3yA/s400/STH78188.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713619880851810850" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The friendly lady in the parking lot told us to ski in a clockwise direction around the lake. She said that it would be a pretty view. Holy cow! She failed to mention that the pretty view was of Mt. McKinley, Mount Hunter and Mt. Foraker. If we had skied in a counter clockwise direction, we most likely never would have noticed this view, as we would have been skiing with the mountains to our backs. By the time we would have gotten to the other side of the lake and faced the mountains, we would have been too close to the trees to get any view of the mountains.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zfNrDWUAdxYMfpU92rwfQ9okEqoDsvyhpHVqdQSM9BU6pIUSIaotk2JdpGpJylPpsSmlUyL5asEH1LHVNUT_vmeacd6X4c58sEyYBLAiJdwjU0s3fU3ocyljIubvFGSvnAoHWOQYUqo/s1600/STH78190.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zfNrDWUAdxYMfpU92rwfQ9okEqoDsvyhpHVqdQSM9BU6pIUSIaotk2JdpGpJylPpsSmlUyL5asEH1LHVNUT_vmeacd6X4c58sEyYBLAiJdwjU0s3fU3ocyljIubvFGSvnAoHWOQYUqo/s400/STH78190.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713619884346281842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />The friendly parking lot lady had also told us that there were some brand new trails just 3 miles up the road toward Talkeetna. So after we finished at Fish Lake we headed to the X-Y trails. These new trails had just been put in last fall. They went around X Lake and Y Lake (but not around Z Lake).</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This ski was not difficult, but it did have up and down slopes. We were skiing on trails that are used as hiking trails during the summer, so we were not on the flat lake.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">These pictures of Denali (Mt. McKinley), taken from the X-Y trails.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9SJAL9Y93rFv48ld6yEENX4muAD1A9nphv40rQjULG-qiHUyQn-m06-W-dOtdECVV3rbKVTY_f6hdYkO7KzAGq2WMH7tvsU329VnxJXkgTiaYYoXWNelLixNEBwOv9ZzTszuS-Xry_20/s1600/STH78192.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9SJAL9Y93rFv48ld6yEENX4muAD1A9nphv40rQjULG-qiHUyQn-m06-W-dOtdECVV3rbKVTY_f6hdYkO7KzAGq2WMH7tvsU329VnxJXkgTiaYYoXWNelLixNEBwOv9ZzTszuS-Xry_20/s400/STH78192.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713621619977873842" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLaX-uzn0pXfEWqmSxAnaI-7IHcZOAf1hN1O_2o1jnZzXc96chouud8UHRGsGOJJZr_K9l5ACYYLmtaCOXmwBmK9_0QKCo78mG6tbiae85I_QdBHeyWuP21bru2CFk7I6kcYkPTfaVA8/s1600/STH78194.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLaX-uzn0pXfEWqmSxAnaI-7IHcZOAf1hN1O_2o1jnZzXc96chouud8UHRGsGOJJZr_K9l5ACYYLmtaCOXmwBmK9_0QKCo78mG6tbiae85I_QdBHeyWuP21bru2CFk7I6kcYkPTfaVA8/s400/STH78194.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713621616875643458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0fglKCVtRBf3icpvZn8KUQZdaffS0SDXVlrGIU23bihr3fP6BPoFdDhZDDknBaW-NiFMw6ewxdIwQ4E5QU1LkQ4dLCPMqjq8Cpq6GpDWnZhhV7Re3w_fjJz8DsOCgjvI1GmQl9Woip_g/s1600/STH78195.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0fglKCVtRBf3icpvZn8KUQZdaffS0SDXVlrGIU23bihr3fP6BPoFdDhZDDknBaW-NiFMw6ewxdIwQ4E5QU1LkQ4dLCPMqjq8Cpq6GpDWnZhhV7Re3w_fjJz8DsOCgjvI1GmQl9Woip_g/s400/STH78195.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713621608720345122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After our ski we stopped at the local grocery store for a birthday dinner of peanut M&M's and Pepsi. Awesome! Actually we did have reservations Saturday evening at a very nice restaurant in Eagle River. But we were having such a great day, we completely forgot about it. We didn't remember until the next evening that we had missed our dinner reservations.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">We have had a LOT of snow here this winter. <br />These pictures are of some of the mailboxes along the roads.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6iCm8zsC9gTaDaUt0u_3B0hZaUvZ6Tif7aAOyWVh4ldth3wqPF9HD0Z3u-0qeRHCz32sVqJYHiPjmOnpnPtuc9Dg-fi-NZ30w1EoSfzsaT74Cej43sMxCJPkwbK0kvfTY9_gZm5T2MQ/s1600/STH78197.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6iCm8zsC9gTaDaUt0u_3B0hZaUvZ6Tif7aAOyWVh4ldth3wqPF9HD0Z3u-0qeRHCz32sVqJYHiPjmOnpnPtuc9Dg-fi-NZ30w1EoSfzsaT74Cej43sMxCJPkwbK0kvfTY9_gZm5T2MQ/s400/STH78197.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713621598399447362" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNGdioVJW0x1JqDkfZUgoYpRRm-U6A_D1Kq6mElhmqPEnmjeVWMQwQZ7_CfJV8L6ZQsK3bZ7nTyPkxOQNR8LYHt_TRIb7aHWyUiWEizyw3AYI4AOJH3PTkddZvyvMG8CgA82S10zC8mas/s1600/STH78202.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNGdioVJW0x1JqDkfZUgoYpRRm-U6A_D1Kq6mElhmqPEnmjeVWMQwQZ7_CfJV8L6ZQsK3bZ7nTyPkxOQNR8LYHt_TRIb7aHWyUiWEizyw3AYI4AOJH3PTkddZvyvMG8CgA82S10zC8mas/s400/STH78202.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713621589600371138" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Sunday we skied another new trail at what is called the Moose Range. We didn't have a map for this one. We skied and skied for more than 45 minutes and never did get turned in the direction of what we thought was heading back to where we parked. The good news is that we could just turn around and follow the trail backwards. We still got our exercise in. The trail was fun, but did not have the spectacular views from our Saturday trails.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Doug was off work on Monday so we skied at Independence Mine at Hatcher Pass. It was challenging because it was overcast and the light was what they call "flat light". There was no definition or shadow in the snow. You could not see the groomed area unless you were standing directly on the trail. The hillside looked like one big glaring white sheet. <br /><br />One whole hill is the sledding hill and is really packed down from all the sledding. A guy in the parking lot asked us if there was a safe place to take his daughter sledding. We pointed out the sledding hill to him. The reason he was asking for a safe place is because they have avalanches in Hatcher Pass. You would not want to sled down any old hill if you could not tell that the snow was packed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All in all it was a wonderful weekend!!</span>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-1189917971548843062012-01-16T14:24:00.000-08:002012-01-16T16:38:07.200-08:00Week in Review January 16, 2012<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">Wildlife in the neighborhood in January</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Last Saturday when Doug got out of the bed, he looked out the window (as we always do - looking for wildlife and/or Northern Lights) and spotted moose tracks in the snow in our yard. The tracks were right beside our deck and patio door and led around the side of the house. We went from window to window and finally decided that the moose was no longer in our yard. When Doug went out later to scoop snow. he discovered the tracks led to the corner of the house right outside our laundry room window. The young (judging from the size of the tracks) moose had munched on what was left of our flower barrel in the corner. While the moose was dining in the corner by the house, he apparently got tangled in the extension cords of our outside holiday lights which Doug had placed "out of the way" off the sidewalk by the flower barrel. Doug found quite a tangled mess of cords on the sidewalk and the snow on the sidewalk pretty trampled down. It looked like the moose had quite a time extricating himself from the cords. Sorry - lots of evidence, but no pictures!</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />*****<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">On Sunday when the sun came up we found new visitors to our bird feeders. These are Bohemian Wax Wings. As you can see they are much larger than our regular customers, the red polls, nuthatches and chickadees. Doug saw one that was orange-red from his head to his tail. He did not stick around for a photo- op. We see pictures of them in the Anchorage newspaper every winter, but have never actually had them at our house before this year. A couple of them have been back a few times this week.</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZmgqqd5hnFRm5_ebqpVhxK5d6f4qxGK3eVfC5KPS8Z1JlC_x5Yf2PbHWfsrtBCu3e6e-KLBbY5B0ktw_BSoh-RX-0-RHe7AiaueigOAq_4n-chyphenhyphenalOCJ3ApXxV2vr_531CQ8mypys2s/s1600/100_2251.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZmgqqd5hnFRm5_ebqpVhxK5d6f4qxGK3eVfC5KPS8Z1JlC_x5Yf2PbHWfsrtBCu3e6e-KLBbY5B0ktw_BSoh-RX-0-RHe7AiaueigOAq_4n-chyphenhyphenalOCJ3ApXxV2vr_531CQ8mypys2s/s400/100_2251.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698372999369802610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYTqgRexO9x1xqxXc-vRb2fmlLQGcP5ZRhrxPyPLfVbvet72tXXtZx7LKyf-XhE6sd6m3_wSL7cCFDvIjvThrodYYdhK3ms9RXlzZw6cNL2GgjASZbpO93UFSevWpaBT_uvvF5ajeCQI/s1600/100_2275.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYTqgRexO9x1xqxXc-vRb2fmlLQGcP5ZRhrxPyPLfVbvet72tXXtZx7LKyf-XhE6sd6m3_wSL7cCFDvIjvThrodYYdhK3ms9RXlzZw6cNL2GgjASZbpO93UFSevWpaBT_uvvF5ajeCQI/s400/100_2275.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698373521280874338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGpg3wa4oH1Bx0G-QlgstcWP0P_MwLmE6vxA2kGsJ-Cp5H7E55PomTdGuVevJkuzrpFpXcG8ZG93ql9GxiuMcLRNI9ppdYcwqDqtuzcACwBK6AxFsfFqg4tHVQZ1HysScBcGj8GRq17A/s1600/100_2270.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaGpg3wa4oH1Bx0G-QlgstcWP0P_MwLmE6vxA2kGsJ-Cp5H7E55PomTdGuVevJkuzrpFpXcG8ZG93ql9GxiuMcLRNI9ppdYcwqDqtuzcACwBK6AxFsfFqg4tHVQZ1HysScBcGj8GRq17A/s400/100_2270.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698373516040352002" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can really see the red breasts and red caps on the red polls.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAuamLPM9OyljiGRTfYUmYtocfBq5XwhxEGo46mVBEB2mtHJYN_cNUjqm2TmesgARNGnYlRAabl65s5_GZ2yH5uw7ejJZIM3yjy79LHCmtLIewLT9kbbifcF7lZLWZ_07xhbA75Oajw5I/s1600/100_2266.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAuamLPM9OyljiGRTfYUmYtocfBq5XwhxEGo46mVBEB2mtHJYN_cNUjqm2TmesgARNGnYlRAabl65s5_GZ2yH5uw7ejJZIM3yjy79LHCmtLIewLT9kbbifcF7lZLWZ_07xhbA75Oajw5I/s400/100_2266.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698373019817272242" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At first when the red polls were at the feeder, the nut hatches and chickadees flew away. But they are now sharing the feeder more frequently.</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqlLiOJJjRXUO4jvtny1aOw997sfnhbRbIOKt_LoB4fp9KQxc9Fj1w8_khEW1Z0xenrDPxU2wu4M5Ie_4tEFixOLe-J0szzCmOqNIdzqthgN2Se5Af8EyA4RWLFYBUMpVAEnQap-AOAw/s1600/100_2267.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqlLiOJJjRXUO4jvtny1aOw997sfnhbRbIOKt_LoB4fp9KQxc9Fj1w8_khEW1Z0xenrDPxU2wu4M5Ie_4tEFixOLe-J0szzCmOqNIdzqthgN2Se5Af8EyA4RWLFYBUMpVAEnQap-AOAw/s400/100_2267.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698373010921727906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEBz5yvNPW-3J7oZAK9ZrF7ZvpDi3bxji33AxxO2YaA50pVXcJg6DatTjmGei7pMQyQwVxTMjCpZ-GtvWbPzEjaqucyM0BpnKdVxA46BU_VRZuW_7zIgzTb0ymc9sWkYiyZXniCrAG8g/s1600/100_2256.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEBz5yvNPW-3J7oZAK9ZrF7ZvpDi3bxji33AxxO2YaA50pVXcJg6DatTjmGei7pMQyQwVxTMjCpZ-GtvWbPzEjaqucyM0BpnKdVxA46BU_VRZuW_7zIgzTb0ymc9sWkYiyZXniCrAG8g/s400/100_2256.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698373005493657426" border="0" /></a><br /><br />******<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZmgqqd5hnFRm5_ebqpVhxK5d6f4qxGK3eVfC5KPS8Z1JlC_x5Yf2PbHWfsrtBCu3e6e-KLBbY5B0ktw_BSoh-RX-0-RHe7AiaueigOAq_4n-chyphenhyphenalOCJ3ApXxV2vr_531CQ8mypys2s/s1600/100_2251.JPG"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We have had tons of birds, probably because we have had TONS of snow! Doug puts feed out every day. Sometimes we have 30-40 just on the porch feeders. They also feed on the ground under the deck. You can also see the red hanging feeder in these pictures.</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kHU28hMLy2f2Hwubrgf7o_KYvnU8IhvDNUWTC1hIRD86L2Nzwf6g6cjtPI5V3nKcrpiMlfoCFoorAI9ioK24ZLPskAqf3b-Xur4YsWwBwizfsndS3Z8HIZ4zpHIYZLnRPWpNZR29ZxU/s1600/100_2257.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kHU28hMLy2f2Hwubrgf7o_KYvnU8IhvDNUWTC1hIRD86L2Nzwf6g6cjtPI5V3nKcrpiMlfoCFoorAI9ioK24ZLPskAqf3b-Xur4YsWwBwizfsndS3Z8HIZ4zpHIYZLnRPWpNZR29ZxU/s400/100_2257.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698371971319053282" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Note the snow on the hanging feeder in the left center of this picture.</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The feeder is down the hill about 20' from the deck.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ht1fhcORNSDTwuEsa29QclLzGBYbJ4xVMgcl-0yqZFIRfxJf5h3FJOnrmaCIqsCzd2AFldKfKz4MeL-tx3NFLSGSQjzdMEnSvGcKiMzvRx-dLufbO87qVnl65WsH61Pdkffhh_cgjhA/s1600/100_2259.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Ht1fhcORNSDTwuEsa29QclLzGBYbJ4xVMgcl-0yqZFIRfxJf5h3FJOnrmaCIqsCzd2AFldKfKz4MeL-tx3NFLSGSQjzdMEnSvGcKiMzvRx-dLufbO87qVnl65WsH61Pdkffhh_cgjhA/s400/100_2259.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698371975741085186" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In this picture, between the porch railings, you can see the squirrel feed shelf on the tree about 40' down the hill. When the squirrel is not there, the birds help themselves to his feed.</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yFBlKjWBU6tP0L0RljbzqhpjV65zJS1G0yYltUlzEBHOBlTG_-SG-FYk6u7WorVerp1wCwonqOMwLNvdNXD2HOHvh5O1HOxXmME_sjnM11omiCIomLXAoH58id8I9jmOU1_gcKReQr0/s1600/100_2262.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8yFBlKjWBU6tP0L0RljbzqhpjV65zJS1G0yYltUlzEBHOBlTG_-SG-FYk6u7WorVerp1wCwonqOMwLNvdNXD2HOHvh5O1HOxXmME_sjnM11omiCIomLXAoH58id8I9jmOU1_gcKReQr0/s400/100_2262.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698371978567321714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2N9MyYLEPNZlIiyTSU4sRW4qqqftUaYBxLohylcW7U-6SfPl6xomt4x5HBOrSI9sYXQ1PiYcE6xaYNnLxvK9MGq38WvT6aShZKasXRJblwRwp-Tt30j6Hz7r5KLJaTDJ9qsEsuAM0My4/s1600/100_2263.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2N9MyYLEPNZlIiyTSU4sRW4qqqftUaYBxLohylcW7U-6SfPl6xomt4x5HBOrSI9sYXQ1PiYcE6xaYNnLxvK9MGq38WvT6aShZKasXRJblwRwp-Tt30j6Hz7r5KLJaTDJ9qsEsuAM0My4/s400/100_2263.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698371985803606658" border="0" /></a><br /><br />******<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We have had some resident eagles in the tree on a regular basis. The first couple of pictures were taken 2-3 weeks ago.</span> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We went through about 3 weeks of gray, </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cloudy weather.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As you can see by the snow on the house roof, this was taken before our last couple of weeks of snow, snow, snow.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But we do count our blessings. We do not have anywhere near the amount of snow that has fallen at Valdez and Cordova.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4H-VvzZdZ43vONu0lA7y607JCNMKgKlLYTAaSM-j9kXOKIrb3H-UWQ5GcctxMe1oZv2qxuEKg_cutrbtKplMH2wQzCRcrlrY2ahOopnmM67sUfmQRD7FgpvWGet028vl4ZRDQH9bCUrM/s1600/100_4791.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4H-VvzZdZ43vONu0lA7y607JCNMKgKlLYTAaSM-j9kXOKIrb3H-UWQ5GcctxMe1oZv2qxuEKg_cutrbtKplMH2wQzCRcrlrY2ahOopnmM67sUfmQRD7FgpvWGet028vl4ZRDQH9bCUrM/s400/100_4791.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698370571964963506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflhyphenhyphenltGTNI3dtrQQEViUmgcUtwTt4ZPBnoKO-MuEtUMufNGd5tguYeiV6lp0jsI3H0_-EtSrm0_mvbfFvsu99jOwaXoljV47roeoddnYuMy6um0GXnjrABsYiOJN-e5Fr9M1J0cACIFc/s1600/100_4793.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflhyphenhyphenltGTNI3dtrQQEViUmgcUtwTt4ZPBnoKO-MuEtUMufNGd5tguYeiV6lp0jsI3H0_-EtSrm0_mvbfFvsu99jOwaXoljV47roeoddnYuMy6um0GXnjrABsYiOJN-e5Fr9M1J0cACIFc/s400/100_4793.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698370566336836514" border="0" /></a><br />*****<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">These photos were taken on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Doug was outside chipping away at the ice on the driveway when he heard the eagles "talking" to each other. It is kind of a chittering noise. This house is four houses away from ours. You can see that the sun is out and the sky is blue. But it comes at a price. It has been about -15* all week and that trend is to continue this next week. It is VERY beautiful weather (if viewed from the inside). :>) And it is gorgeous outside if you are dressed for it. I have been substituting this past week and since it is not exceeding -20*, the kids still go outside for recess. They all bring their "gear" and out they go. Fortunately (for me), my current position does not require me to go outside with them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Since the winter solstice (big party time here) on December 21, we have gained back 4-6 minutes of daylight each day. Actual sunrise is currently at 9:55 AM (it starts getting light earlier than that), and sunset is at 4:23 PM - 6 hours and 28 minutes -- not much less than a normal winter day in Nebraska. Of course, we will keep gaining until we are almost at 24 hours of light by June.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPyWnJ10BILRTNn1eMziQo1W9HNRcH7UlQd2CT_qaghI9istHRBXndd-YD4eQFg2xhJDCLjX_VHxUEDUSeTmshM0BjAmki-JxLW_hfm4hnLah0NSNJoRwaTrVlfRbn4L3ErazKoQtuFY/s1600/100_4804.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPyWnJ10BILRTNn1eMziQo1W9HNRcH7UlQd2CT_qaghI9istHRBXndd-YD4eQFg2xhJDCLjX_VHxUEDUSeTmshM0BjAmki-JxLW_hfm4hnLah0NSNJoRwaTrVlfRbn4L3ErazKoQtuFY/s400/100_4804.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698370018790911602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCwxh8njrEp10IHMegXVxB92FA9yZ9EuwJFHPj1dPxhJmnwwTe7_R7UbC0-Whyer909_oacmHxnoyyTG8aQqAl7VBbMH4O8pAKxfhh5JjJVZkfbmaH4DxllGK4h_p8T1Ecf9c3qc_Vu0/s1600/100_4807.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCwxh8njrEp10IHMegXVxB92FA9yZ9EuwJFHPj1dPxhJmnwwTe7_R7UbC0-Whyer909_oacmHxnoyyTG8aQqAl7VBbMH4O8pAKxfhh5JjJVZkfbmaH4DxllGK4h_p8T1Ecf9c3qc_Vu0/s400/100_4807.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698370032642346706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkvO_-_R07okRDrhe61IjgkGeHZhV6diXGYZQDHbyzXFIpH4Ezeqb5ldgYKxuYxUarlozmIUMZbHARpZVzWxEUTdTwpNUXzIm4PlRdfVa5xoiOAKKR-25L3CbFxfRWN51drrBYFLHDx8/s1600/100_4798.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkvO_-_R07okRDrhe61IjgkGeHZhV6diXGYZQDHbyzXFIpH4Ezeqb5ldgYKxuYxUarlozmIUMZbHARpZVzWxEUTdTwpNUXzIm4PlRdfVa5xoiOAKKR-25L3CbFxfRWN51drrBYFLHDx8/s400/100_4798.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698370026095785602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3RwSpOgVzx9KD1Kbsbgxj7akOdzeZrlddHpi5pWJbAwMd_gUYMghUyBUt5KcLTXpl5zLRtZV_yxS31hQIye4FK7iYjU36XRTDFrYcFvzt_8XADCzN2SZU-WppJvvDqeFKf0CYLsxtJjs/s1600/100_4803.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3RwSpOgVzx9KD1Kbsbgxj7akOdzeZrlddHpi5pWJbAwMd_gUYMghUyBUt5KcLTXpl5zLRtZV_yxS31hQIye4FK7iYjU36XRTDFrYcFvzt_8XADCzN2SZU-WppJvvDqeFKf0CYLsxtJjs/s400/100_4803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698370049477973666" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxKJgnR19j6WfIxabrH5p25wRy0eWdeBCycssqX5qWQ4ZBdQSI_Yop-Pbq1W2kkbUtuEWONl93tmBH5l22uwHgs_vkHy1mi0uK6gBYlVY4kUJVN3Mc9vZSGyjOcZunR4l2bere9gqyhI/s1600/100_4802.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxKJgnR19j6WfIxabrH5p25wRy0eWdeBCycssqX5qWQ4ZBdQSI_Yop-Pbq1W2kkbUtuEWONl93tmBH5l22uwHgs_vkHy1mi0uK6gBYlVY4kUJVN3Mc9vZSGyjOcZunR4l2bere9gqyhI/s400/100_4802.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698370043176589826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCwxh8njrEp10IHMegXVxB92FA9yZ9EuwJFHPj1dPxhJmnwwTe7_R7UbC0-Whyer909_oacmHxnoyyTG8aQqAl7VBbMH4O8pAKxfhh5JjJVZkfbmaH4DxllGK4h_p8T1Ecf9c3qc_Vu0/s1600/100_4807.JPG">*********<br /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Speaking of "Wild Life"</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">These photos are of the spot where I slid into the ditch on the way home from school on Friday afternoon. It wasn't really a wild ride. It actually happened in kind of slow motion. Those of you who know me know that I can usually easily drive my way out of something like this. Not this time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It was snowing like crazy and I met a car in our neighborhood just two blocks from our house who felt that his half of the road was the middle of the road. I moved over to the right, not worrying about going too far, as there was a monster snow berm on the side of the road where the maintainer had made a ridge when he cleared the road. I figured I would crunch in the hard berm and know when I was over far enough. I forgot what I have been telling you - that Alaska snow is light and fluffy. The berm was not hard and crunchy. I got over just far enough that I started to slide down into the ditch, and there was no driving out of it--just sliding down and sideways. I ended up with my front bumper in the snow on the passenger side, tilted so I had to crawl up out of the drivers door, and with my wheels completely packed in snow so that I could not turn them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank goodness for cell phones. I called my Knight in Shining Armor (aka Doug) and told him of my predicament and told him if he wanted to pull me out while it was still light out, he should leave the office immediately. (Note that there was not an option given whether or not he would pull me out, just WHEN he would pull me out).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Doug shoveled on the passenger side and I shoveled on the drivers side. Then I got back in the car, ready to try again. Suddenly Doug knocked on the window and told me to look out the passenger window. There was a young moose munching on the tree in the yard beside us (picture #2, tree at the left side of the photo. You can see how close he was. The two-rail fence would not even have slowed him down if he headed for Doug. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As we were digging, the school bus arrived and dropped off kids. There was a mom waiting to pick up her kids from the bus. As often happens here, she had all the kids get in her car, in case the moose decided to attack. No "don't get in with strangers" in this case. The moose started walking toward the bus and her car. It apparently looked up and saw all the activity and turned around and went the other direction (Whew!) Sorry, no moose pictures here either.</span><br /></div></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha6m1pDpSrOfuq0EbXT57SbPbzvjiyeLU3crSKNRT3NDVwAEbx3ofuGCnMp34TlCqfQzAs5SoPbA3nD1cINaD0thES0EU58L47vxKChEtQNkeu5Uxo1_BgjzCPt0k2Q2b-lPx1sR3tKZ8/s1600/100_4808.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha6m1pDpSrOfuq0EbXT57SbPbzvjiyeLU3crSKNRT3NDVwAEbx3ofuGCnMp34TlCqfQzAs5SoPbA3nD1cINaD0thES0EU58L47vxKChEtQNkeu5Uxo1_BgjzCPt0k2Q2b-lPx1sR3tKZ8/s400/100_4808.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698369382092986514" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdj45mR-Y4Pw8WpPgvVbIIvLfWYtNZ94m5bBLCLdS7MvehUS3_rXuPnmXLmyo8J-FCUFojqURSWp6jgnAbYl3nvZmnCjHxAImMzVGcXkc59i2zvUjMih60PuYNnjh2haTo-tYXWK2zBI/s1600/100_4809.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdj45mR-Y4Pw8WpPgvVbIIvLfWYtNZ94m5bBLCLdS7MvehUS3_rXuPnmXLmyo8J-FCUFojqURSWp6jgnAbYl3nvZmnCjHxAImMzVGcXkc59i2zvUjMih60PuYNnjh2haTo-tYXWK2zBI/s400/100_4809.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698369388550527890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pictures, finally!!!!<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">When we got up this morning, Doug did the normal check out the window and not only saw moose tracks, but the actual moose! He was at the house next door. The tracks showed that he had been in our yard right beside our house earlier. I did get a few quick pictures before he disappeared down the hill. </span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyq8L_B3eWdp51IcuyTpwsjZzvVy9BpHVyPOlfZAqhf8MMnXgPzfSlVDaqy8ulUxHyozEyTHbUGZWr2BcE14NCWvFSMG-aW7Q7OBWePOOupnSwrMnFeGvGMZFOhcalUcIlUuWOMVsXe0/s1600/100_2279.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyq8L_B3eWdp51IcuyTpwsjZzvVy9BpHVyPOlfZAqhf8MMnXgPzfSlVDaqy8ulUxHyozEyTHbUGZWr2BcE14NCWvFSMG-aW7Q7OBWePOOupnSwrMnFeGvGMZFOhcalUcIlUuWOMVsXe0/s400/100_2279.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698368981968138274" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RtLrMRFcQ2Yc_cl7lfgdl4pjhY0CkukOU_leFDv1kZ88781lNFtb_P1kJKU5zCHspMNCu-dzgEwEBwMa1Iz6grCP74rmTr29CUJ2jYWbVxC61zc0nyXsVPFJMvsxGtlazLj4K71BABc/s1600/100_2278.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9RtLrMRFcQ2Yc_cl7lfgdl4pjhY0CkukOU_leFDv1kZ88781lNFtb_P1kJKU5zCHspMNCu-dzgEwEBwMa1Iz6grCP74rmTr29CUJ2jYWbVxC61zc0nyXsVPFJMvsxGtlazLj4K71BABc/s400/100_2278.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698368970490915250" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTIarZm4AbuAXPiPqB2USjmVJHaq6g1qLC1lrQWx4SawVichFUX06iDjyCT0GOa0l6yf1BZjU_zRt8hnpBiCp7BF0nBqL1v1Fr-Y1V-0cfnQEm6JAVkGFQbpgubun0H12OhOPdXVYGAc/s1600/100_2276.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTIarZm4AbuAXPiPqB2USjmVJHaq6g1qLC1lrQWx4SawVichFUX06iDjyCT0GOa0l6yf1BZjU_zRt8hnpBiCp7BF0nBqL1v1Fr-Y1V-0cfnQEm6JAVkGFQbpgubun0H12OhOPdXVYGAc/s400/100_2276.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698368963667424626" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-45420679224530084412011-12-27T15:04:00.000-08:002011-12-27T15:52:21.667-08:00Christmas Eve, 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b>Christmas Eve Treat</b></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>I arose early Christmas Eve morning to put some cinnamon rolls out to rise (since I had forgotten to put them out in the refrigerator to thaw the night before). Whenever we get up the in dark during the winter, we have looked out the windows to see if we can spot the Northern Lights. On my way back to bed I stopped by the bedroom which faces the Talkeetna Mountains to look, and THERE THEY WERE!!!! I hurried in and woke Doug and we went from one bedroom to the next looking out the windows. We could see the red, pink and green glow on the horizon in a 270* arc. They were not the large, dancing curtains which you see in photographs, or the ghostly swirls. They were just glowing area that grew brighter and then faded and changed locations on the horizon. After watching for just a few minutes we decided to get dressed and drive to a nearby hill to see if we could get a better view (the Schwabenhauf hill, for those of you who have visited us). We were at the hill in about 10 minutes. The reds had faded, and the greens were a little less. But we sat and watched them for another 20 minutes. Also, the range had diminished. We could only see them in one direction. As we sat facing the Lights, we could see an ice fog creeping up on us from the rear. It was still quite dark, but there were lots of highway and street lights that got fuzzier until they disappeared in the fog. Several hours after the fog passed the trees were beautiful, covered in a thick frost.</b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Sorry, I have no pictures of the lights. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> A photo taken with our small cameras could not do them justice.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I do have a website, sent to me by a friend, that explains the phenomena of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. What we have learned is that we should not just look to the north. They occur in any direction around us.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color: transparent;font-family:Palatino Linotype;font-size:85%;color:#000000;" ><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;"><a title="http://www.flixxy.com/aurora-borealis.htm" href="http://www.flixxy.com/aurora-borealis.htm" target="_blank">http://www.flixxy.com/aurora-<wbr>borealis.htm</a></span></em></strong></span></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">*************************************************</span></div><br /><br /><b>Later in the day we drove a little north of our house to scout a skiing trail that we had read about. We have a lot of snow at our house, but there was a LOT of snow just 20 minutes away from our house. The elevation is higher and the temperature was about 15* colder than at our house too.</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Note the snow on the power lines</b></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Q-uejgNbnP3tupVQveVwaqB_i-4TjQyfZCUcW1B8ZNUwYhmZ9XNog2YtXZgJaaO1TK7wMB1zjpGScIaEZZ2t9bqd14wkE3D29RaA_92PJ1Kt3Z_6Scm-mhVYySUU9ZvvqV3PytAbQBo/s1600/100_2211.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Q-uejgNbnP3tupVQveVwaqB_i-4TjQyfZCUcW1B8ZNUwYhmZ9XNog2YtXZgJaaO1TK7wMB1zjpGScIaEZZ2t9bqd14wkE3D29RaA_92PJ1Kt3Z_6Scm-mhVYySUU9ZvvqV3PytAbQBo/s400/100_2211.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690953265783072914" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntvTUODDsVZmTf5XKmu-dEEyFdsq4-jyjDvCz7X9kpqT2cS0t6UPlVW-B7O2CP6nLKl2qUarWV2Ec_8G_iukNPJrA1AMJpRwk8CgW5C3HWvc9LXrghuDjPFSUhbJnS-KXxtWCxPVF_sI/s1600/100_2215.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjntvTUODDsVZmTf5XKmu-dEEyFdsq4-jyjDvCz7X9kpqT2cS0t6UPlVW-B7O2CP6nLKl2qUarWV2Ec_8G_iukNPJrA1AMJpRwk8CgW5C3HWvc9LXrghuDjPFSUhbJnS-KXxtWCxPVF_sI/s400/100_2215.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690953256751515874" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZS3Jw4hvyDsA7g1O55gBYkhEQhKWZC6SY2T59eZas0ZQHqvQYYu0zyLYLUFbcVDmRELpff-fpdts1Cag8GYFUpviwSP7Y3fU2GaN44kni2EQDR3207nBc4NCCGeA8WEBICPgMreQy3s/s1600/100_2221.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZS3Jw4hvyDsA7g1O55gBYkhEQhKWZC6SY2T59eZas0ZQHqvQYYu0zyLYLUFbcVDmRELpff-fpdts1Cag8GYFUpviwSP7Y3fU2GaN44kni2EQDR3207nBc4NCCGeA8WEBICPgMreQy3s/s400/100_2221.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690953248419416514" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfO-0eMDXLMjinx3hB_br1w5YbKD9Pn5KCjWSemt-XujxKrvAsmuXnH5lJ_UCAzJSx5ZcBAdI5sbqttCKXdV71r-IetZEgOHxshqJJkf7FHvFX_FQl-CscWhJDXMFaRdqjysEOBTQquw/s1600/100_2229.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfO-0eMDXLMjinx3hB_br1w5YbKD9Pn5KCjWSemt-XujxKrvAsmuXnH5lJ_UCAzJSx5ZcBAdI5sbqttCKXdV71r-IetZEgOHxshqJJkf7FHvFX_FQl-CscWhJDXMFaRdqjysEOBTQquw/s400/100_2229.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690953241440188962" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); ">*************************************************</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>These pictures were taken from our house in late November. These are the mountains we can see from 3 separate sides of our house. For those of you who have visited, I have included the location from which the photo was taken, because the first one is the only view you can see in the summer. We can only see the other mountains once the leaves are off the trees.</b></div><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Talkeetna Mountains</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(photo taken from bedroom at the end of the upstairs hallway)</b></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKbmGs-JVGoTH1J4bIqw8dj_WkHx16agi6k8WDIR9Ldcjydm6beQJ8nBIAQZtclXK76WPJ_CUTPNNHZ5D0rFjvl_QiqNg_PazZdj1j4-1UA4gNSVuHN2scPcQ2U0lk8wlQAeEjMJTrck/s1600/100_2122.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMKbmGs-JVGoTH1J4bIqw8dj_WkHx16agi6k8WDIR9Ldcjydm6beQJ8nBIAQZtclXK76WPJ_CUTPNNHZ5D0rFjvl_QiqNg_PazZdj1j4-1UA4gNSVuHN2scPcQ2U0lk8wlQAeEjMJTrck/s400/100_2122.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690955348964537714" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chugach Mountains</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(photo taken from our bedroom window, looking to your left)</b></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhud4Ark6gjPofex8RMk7rB-uuRdxErgvKoLyF_eN2h1o0PYxqz2XQK17wMi6-LGtRyFKgIn0JXip4tE-MRdZ7_ca1f81-sB5UnS-tuQ_Qm1ukeVAbL8Jx_p4ccSdKDvX9dtbjWvqp_Un0/s1600/100_2124.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhud4Ark6gjPofex8RMk7rB-uuRdxErgvKoLyF_eN2h1o0PYxqz2XQK17wMi6-LGtRyFKgIn0JXip4tE-MRdZ7_ca1f81-sB5UnS-tuQ_Qm1ukeVAbL8Jx_p4ccSdKDvX9dtbjWvqp_Un0/s400/100_2124.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690955337254223042" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; "><b>Chugach Mountains</b></div><div style="text-align: center; "><b>(photo taken from our bedroom window, looking to your left)</b></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPB9h-R-zyZsDgSOFFCfrMYIrVnCAa2vZt7zpIZDCYwFP1UoAeUy0oBIVicaU0zMzsNdsN7lPuJiZJLGIRPUU0KUC8mAfhFO-jMvfdLkuhq1gFIfKSBsyxMQ0ijYIcjtH1EEFum8Tcfr8/s1600/100_2129.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPB9h-R-zyZsDgSOFFCfrMYIrVnCAa2vZt7zpIZDCYwFP1UoAeUy0oBIVicaU0zMzsNdsN7lPuJiZJLGIRPUU0KUC8mAfhFO-jMvfdLkuhq1gFIfKSBsyxMQ0ijYIcjtH1EEFum8Tcfr8/s400/100_2129.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690955333872911234" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><b>Pioneer Peak in the Chugach Mountains</b></div><div style="text-align: center; "><b>(photo taken from our bedroom window, looking to your right)</b></div></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxHIvXpFPAbGdAec2DRXybXEU-WIwtgiefhkXQ32iah7AK-9QOUrP8j1OThPAUdPdY8S_qbPvnIy24gwPixlfB5vpiRxKmrJKY3ourQwutW9Dw-Q7eMK5tU3jLTd_uff-GpPMTfDN14s/s1600/100_2131.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxHIvXpFPAbGdAec2DRXybXEU-WIwtgiefhkXQ32iah7AK-9QOUrP8j1OThPAUdPdY8S_qbPvnIy24gwPixlfB5vpiRxKmrJKY3ourQwutW9Dw-Q7eMK5tU3jLTd_uff-GpPMTfDN14s/s400/100_2131.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690955320848018834" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><b>Chugach Mountains</b></div><div style="text-align: center; "><b>(photo taken from our bedroom window, looking straight ahead, toward Palmer)</b></div><div style="text-align: center; "><b>You can see the fog which follows the Matanuska River in the picture - at the top of the tree line and the base of the mountains. The tall peak is Matanuska.</b></div></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB0OZRbgrMyQulfy8Y7A-_hX_AeoVjBlLPVf06WhUknVZioCDr0kzh80pXahqHbCdTd_tZJWLesM6pba9lZmRGUX4T9XNIJ5C_r7PxFGn6IA_YqcojuMSolNeTLnUZxvQ69U1DzDm1XaY/s1600/100_2133.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB0OZRbgrMyQulfy8Y7A-_hX_AeoVjBlLPVf06WhUknVZioCDr0kzh80pXahqHbCdTd_tZJWLesM6pba9lZmRGUX4T9XNIJ5C_r7PxFGn6IA_YqcojuMSolNeTLnUZxvQ69U1DzDm1XaY/s400/100_2133.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690955318219015378" /></a><br /></div>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-36755674148593297392011-12-27T14:22:00.000-08:002011-12-27T15:04:44.773-08:00Feeding the Birds<div style="text-align: justify;">The birds have been regular visitors to our bird feeders again this winter since they discovered them. We have had red polls, nuthatches and chickadees. We have also have had a downy woodpecker. It is a very large bird and none of the other birds will come to eat when it is at the feeder. It is a very messy, particular eater. It flips a lot of feed out fo the feeder, so we shoo it away when we see it. One day it caught a red poll on the porch, after the red poll had hit our patio door. When I approached the door, the woodpecker flew away with the unconscious red poll in it's grasp.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The feeder is mounted on the feeder right outside our patio door. I took these pictures from just inside the door. We also have a hanging feeder and a shelf for the squirrels on a tree about 20' from the house. Some days there are 50-60 birds. It is fun to watch them that close.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">RED POLLS</span></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNjvUubjv4NxffWoFT1BCQJa3JreQ3WxLZ6Ax_z2k_26mLUkM5CpYnYOgbnRNXGKWmBoHqpXk5CENwobxWkk_hBDjp6_8avibEOaDfALWxHoBbE1EVmzcHRWTA0272_NNN1VteA-gZ68/s1600/100_2139.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNjvUubjv4NxffWoFT1BCQJa3JreQ3WxLZ6Ax_z2k_26mLUkM5CpYnYOgbnRNXGKWmBoHqpXk5CENwobxWkk_hBDjp6_8avibEOaDfALWxHoBbE1EVmzcHRWTA0272_NNN1VteA-gZ68/s400/100_2139.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690945309567031858" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilDy56D7_-vSROBagyAZJVQTdZ3uqgZFV0efv-HUjFqbjUBkC-gxq8OOUvNxjXfBhXNyMAkt8EGIWHelhU45dG01SKaLamMnoRBu4n5JX4PoV1pKyZeRE1uvYtPyeKuU4p2gloaTehX1w/s1600/100_2140.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3A6GOY7ENJVU0DIF4PBekmdzyygUcJQAdMqhCtHe3OoTVoKAoOAXXQnX8eieBYbZIyZk7f76go1cWwtX2RYC_Yfmu6PBjiHKencTc8zNH5ReUYYBatVbSWyXLcWrfEmlnKpHV1sEcTAQ/s400/100_0666.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608202511259028194" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Enjoying an ice cream cone after our tour of the Musk Ox Farm.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Musk Ox Farm has free admission for moms on Mother's Day. So we made our annual visit a couple of weeks ago. It was a chilly day, but it was sunny. Generally the wind REALLY blows out there. This year there was just a gentle breeze. You can see that it was sort of cloudy off in the distance. The mountains in the background were not as clear and sharp as they sometimes are. Nevertheless, it is quite a place to be farming!!! Imagine that view every day as you look across your field.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> They had a record eleven calves born this spring.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After our visit to the Musk Ox Farm we did our annual Mother's Day greenhouse tour to shop for plants to put in our yard and our planters.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYST_MbatWGwsT5W3eMTlrkx1xjZ69H0Cb7-PDW0N6JuBhviwbBh3-8xhmsVBJQUg2sGJT_xkCP_Q3ZjWTRe1pbdn3TuOZpT9tffLX1ompJi-Fey9SMjtk9fuFYQIRHKAXuyOjTgQGx4/s1600/100_0651.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYST_MbatWGwsT5W3eMTlrkx1xjZ69H0Cb7-PDW0N6JuBhviwbBh3-8xhmsVBJQUg2sGJT_xkCP_Q3ZjWTRe1pbdn3TuOZpT9tffLX1ompJi-Fey9SMjtk9fuFYQIRHKAXuyOjTgQGx4/s400/100_0651.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608215109291714642" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXo-zF6iMEpF3EgNH_FC3MHpXnJgZ-y24-m7NzCS2FhEmgrzMYyK5XzdKFRwrwsJx538FK0sQa1WFkgNHHXHboJO23-9OcsCZ0ldhtTeZqfepBxp8lUVjgqfva9GB5TDUGnoGgXdV9HGg/s1600/100_0652.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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It was a nice day, but somewhat windy. As we neared the glacier it got colder and the wind became a factor. You can see many dust swirls in some of the glacier pictures. The glacier dust is finer than sand. That is one of the reasons I wear my helmet with a visor. If you breathe in too much glacier dust it causes respiratory problems. I learned that lesson on our first trip. I did not have a face mask or goggles that first year. I suffered from a double dose of dust when the volcano was erupting and the volcanic ash came up the Knik River valley.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">***********************</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" >PANORAMA VIEW OF THE KNIK GLACIER</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_BPvAOC8sKhzdQ5fXT2G0OLRD4Pw4PGhqFKGqO_2Lfv8FtEnDXVF3dWtYK7xj3YKyZFr43KHruT5UoU0dG96QMc_kMP645QwAZ8SJ7SOtkxdQ50PLfAqBn10WJ5guFhGU15u4BH8Nwo/s1600/100_0699.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_BPvAOC8sKhzdQ5fXT2G0OLRD4Pw4PGhqFKGqO_2Lfv8FtEnDXVF3dWtYK7xj3YKyZFr43KHruT5UoU0dG96QMc_kMP645QwAZ8SJ7SOtkxdQ50PLfAqBn10WJ5guFhGU15u4BH8Nwo/s400/100_0699.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608083406486240786" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcJFbTStk-axnOnjZAuR4J9KDcl2s7KxLWvTfwcNPdZVetQ0G9VtMX-g35tmSuiDY0aVYW9dDViGLzdqJOMhOuxhrDnv9Rc1R6fEsuaUmVIztRutKxpK4HEhkhoThTNxJYcKQbZ6rYFcE/s1600/100_0716.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcJFbTStk-axnOnjZAuR4J9KDcl2s7KxLWvTfwcNPdZVetQ0G9VtMX-g35tmSuiDY0aVYW9dDViGLzdqJOMhOuxhrDnv9Rc1R6fEsuaUmVIztRutKxpK4HEhkhoThTNxJYcKQbZ6rYFcE/s400/100_0716.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608083414366080114" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NOTE DOUG'S FACE - HE DID NOT HAVE A FULL VISOR</span><br />- AND WE STILL HAD TO MAKE THE TRIP BACK IN THE DUST!<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMlmS0hLtsjzGz_Cd5n8NF51OSdmCgS_-KUV6HuS2_8gOK42HPIJv-v9qDE9HSKDmDSEdTMr0v7aIz2uPs90xDyG1FuaStpfOsCVwk0TYjd62yz8PKik6s3W02evCGnIoY3Ds_N6DjtE/s1600/100_0717.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZMlmS0hLtsjzGz_Cd5n8NF51OSdmCgS_-KUV6HuS2_8gOK42HPIJv-v9qDE9HSKDmDSEdTMr0v7aIz2uPs90xDyG1FuaStpfOsCVwk0TYjd62yz8PKik6s3W02evCGnIoY3Ds_N6DjtE/s400/100_0717.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608083421445879410" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">LUNCH BY THE GLACIER</span><br />YOU CAN SEE A RAVEN IN THE PICTURE FLYING OVER THE GLACIER<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8tt-0N9qdvWyRDLhhKJNNgJ3KUV2_dVoJMM4WUw33kyizTgounpQBlPCM6kkALEstS5g8A3H-pcQSrmQIIwNMjzVXOmwGEONrXC1xKNLiMyuIPFXagw6lEZXYkaVMLhR2clAKPXkhNQ/s1600/100_0726.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8tt-0N9qdvWyRDLhhKJNNgJ3KUV2_dVoJMM4WUw33kyizTgounpQBlPCM6kkALEstS5g8A3H-pcQSrmQIIwNMjzVXOmwGEONrXC1xKNLiMyuIPFXagw6lEZXYkaVMLhR2clAKPXkhNQ/s400/100_0726.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608083423225868338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">TWO OF THE GUYS WHO WERE LEADING THE WAY FOUND A BIT OF A DEEP SPOT. 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4SaR0SASGbVRbZ1FYrZ6lDVlFDUIvosfNMl8x0cGbOs5ucWgkH-nfwBn9gReDCGgJLLxb4HJ_SWhphSmNWJt1q5wqhrCsawsmp8pS-XiZuXJTc_OZQT7c3G_pgrDEHRkUkfVCB_oLU8/s400/100_0734.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608092470517280130" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5504352755886961142.post-13049863987437716312011-03-14T22:13:00.000-07:002011-03-15T11:26:49.828-07:00IDITAROD IN ANCHORAGE - March 5, 2011<div style="text-align: center;">We attended the ceremonial start of the Iditarod. We had a great location from which to watch. Nearly every team stopped right in front of us on the way to the start line. One team caught our eye. This is musher Wattie McDonald from Scotland. You can see that his team, his handlers, his color guard, and all his helpers are decked out in traditional Scottish regalia. Note: He did not wear his kilt the next day at the start of the actual race. :>)<br /><br />(If you are new to my blog, there is an Iditarod post in my past postings.<br />You can see more race pictures there).<br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mGvQplsbjwfuZkMK8zbf8GxQFB8dX5Kl9-5o7QwRWRsO33n578hi5GjzQ-Ice4HQOGX-sQaEgBm4hJxZBLO_HTIuYyK3fAeMsDXWAGjCbQPYdXoKcg9OFvHAI80clRLkGqaLFa5ecDM/s1600/100_0600.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mGvQplsbjwfuZkMK8zbf8GxQFB8dX5Kl9-5o7QwRWRsO33n578hi5GjzQ-Ice4HQOGX-sQaEgBm4hJxZBLO_HTIuYyK3fAeMsDXWAGjCbQPYdXoKcg9OFvHAI80clRLkGqaLFa5ecDM/s400/100_0600.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584174494482917506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjF5-uvZIsnlJ88JlzUhldu8If1uR3Zf5Z4gBCuEmZU7n6Iyf1UZIyIZKCCr-TBUiAAcdyf0TidYhoCuLf1eLJhsJidGV9snT0SJ6ivafU40TBsMnH52bZ6COmpzPppMJ-39G3YIDa2RA/s1600/100_0606.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjF5-uvZIsnlJ88JlzUhldu8If1uR3Zf5Z4gBCuEmZU7n6Iyf1UZIyIZKCCr-TBUiAAcdyf0TidYhoCuLf1eLJhsJidGV9snT0SJ6ivafU40TBsMnH52bZ6COmpzPppMJ-39G3YIDa2RA/s400/100_0606.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584173812448996914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBW0A8PVKoiqcJeKl8YERCBUramOqlCvLm5fwV2cS2Irx3CqwPYqqhOVVinWsQd8JL_JGJCOnBHiRdjqLClWeNxc1EhLLFlzEZ_tzMG4ssU5_VZ89Udlg8T8SOCDsG0QDXttv4wkVUXGE/s1600/100_0605.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBW0A8PVKoiqcJeKl8YERCBUramOqlCvLm5fwV2cS2Irx3CqwPYqqhOVVinWsQd8JL_JGJCOnBHiRdjqLClWeNxc1EhLLFlzEZ_tzMG4ssU5_VZ89Udlg8T8SOCDsG0QDXttv4wkVUXGE/s400/100_0605.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584173808149238738" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The person in the sled is an Iditarider.<br />You can bid at auction for the chance to ride in the sled during the ceremonial start.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_D7YG1NBYK6tm4jkO8bDbiNuOS58iRE4pUQr8pH4CqNVUc83fpdFXtAuL9hFAYLwrqKuM87lzdKNTwXE2PCF_vA0q83yNX9M_73o3xWd3K2rnw8op9_HiXLf-XYWXEKEp371m93GyHE/s1600/100_0604.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_D7YG1NBYK6tm4jkO8bDbiNuOS58iRE4pUQr8pH4CqNVUc83fpdFXtAuL9hFAYLwrqKuM87lzdKNTwXE2PCF_vA0q83yNX9M_73o3xWd3K2rnw8op9_HiXLf-XYWXEKEp371m93GyHE/s400/100_0604.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584173801394226930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9g1QO3Otw8mT88Ud2BcCNHpOb4-aKCxkGwecYz62gOj-fsWyXbJXayDc_5V7e5C5G_M7CnVnNXTbgM34QkiWF4UAd19YNfxbsSroeBndkxIJfAO57UwF5j-Qm7D8rl1b5b8scQU1FtHo/s1600/100_0602.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9g1QO3Otw8mT88Ud2BcCNHpOb4-aKCxkGwecYz62gOj-fsWyXbJXayDc_5V7e5C5G_M7CnVnNXTbgM34QkiWF4UAd19YNfxbsSroeBndkxIJfAO57UwF5j-Qm7D8rl1b5b8scQU1FtHo/s400/100_0602.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584173798513553426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJ5F1usAneiusiF5wQ1KalSPGfsB-7bTIyrOByODXDTQe7CF0zigLFzzXWAzU7DSa5tekBTOjKL1YVDVgy6saY-XPDLWXkxnSKVdALyGyw5klx1JOe3IvNDAoGFEaWO1sBev6oEG252s/s1600/100_0601.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJ5F1usAneiusiF5wQ1KalSPGfsB-7bTIyrOByODXDTQe7CF0zigLFzzXWAzU7DSa5tekBTOjKL1YVDVgy6saY-XPDLWXkxnSKVdALyGyw5klx1JOe3IvNDAoGFEaWO1sBev6oEG252s/s400/100_0601.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584173791582362818" border="0" /></a>Colleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05406635280171069440noreply@blogger.com