January Happenings

January has been a month of rest. I finally finished the bead work on one of my fish prints. I am enjoying walks with Molly and Emily and Molly is loving the wood stove.

Here are some pictures from Summer 2009.  The new house in Baranof Warm Springs is my focus:)  The house is the one you can see with 2 windows facing the bay and one window below with the deck in front, it is gray.

I still have not figured out how to write by each picture so this maybe out of order.

I have been out in the boat several times fishing. The beauty and sea life around this area of Alaska are amazing. This sea lion came right up behind the boat as to say HI. Actually I think he was looking for food but the fish were not biting so he was out of luck.

The spring wild flowers are in bloom. This picture was taken near Lincoln Rock. There use to be a lighthouse on the rock in 1910 or so. The winter winds blew it away, twice, and now there are lots of wildflowers. I always think of them as a little bit of beauty in an area that is not beautiful in an Alaskan storm.

Molly and Emily have become great buddies. Last night Emily was going to go for a walk with some friends, Molly stayed behind to guard me. As Emily got further and further down the drive way Molly began to bark at her. Soon Emily was back on the porch to help with the guard duties. Usually one of them takes up sentry at the front door and one at the back door. It would be bad if I happened to get out a door without them knowing it. Silly girls.

I just returned from a trip to Pelican, Alaska. Pelican is a fishing village one mountain range away from the ocean seas. As you can see by the pictures it is beautiful. The Mountains rise right up out of the water! It is amazing. The whole community is built on the side of a mountain with all homes and businesses on a boardwalk. The people were delightful!. I spent one evening with the volunteer fir department doing the spring cleaning of the firehall. I am now a member of the Pelican Volunteer fire department. It was a great new Alaskan Adventure.

May 2009

I know, it has been awhile since I lasted posted anything on my blog. Got kind of side-tracked when I returned to Alaska. Dr. Bill and I have been busy getting the RV Park ready for this summers clients. It is now all cleaned up and ready to rumble! Our first clients left on Saturday and had a very successful bear hunt. I am adding three pictures this evening.
The three bucks that were walking down the road in front of the house eating the new grass.
Dr. Bill signing the closing papers for the purchase of a home in Warm Springs, Alaska. The exciting part is that this house has water rights to the hot springs and its own private hot tub that is feed by the hot springs.
The final picture is of my correspondence student violin concert. That is her Mom/teacher playing with her and another student. Aunt Lynn and I attended the concert together.

Back to Alaska

We are back in Alaska now. Unloading the truck, wondering why we brought everything we did, and catching up on visiting. We had dinner at Becky and Brian's last night. Alex and Andrew have both grown taller since I left in November! It was great to see everyone and get lots of hugs.

The ferry trip form Bellingham to Ketchikan was beautiful!