July 31st, 2006 at 10:16pm |
We kicked off our course, School Librarian’s Institute, at the University of Alaska Consortium Library. A beautiful new facility. Alice Yucht, nationally known instructor at Rutger’s University in the Library Science Departmenet, past school librarian, not to mention many other hats, is our main speaker for the week. Lots of valuable suggestions and ideas for [...]
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July 30th, 2006 at 9:05pm |
I left Valdez in the rain and it followed me all the way to town. The RV trafic was thick, which really slowed things down. I stopped off at Sheep Mountain Lodge to stretch my legs and get a hot cup of tea. Oh, and one of their awesome oatmeal raison cookies. Yum! Sheep Mountain [...]
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July 29th, 2006 at 7:21pm |
Today Katie treated us to a trip on the Stan Stevens Cruise that went to Columbia Glacier. Though the day was overcast we managed to see quite a bit of wildlife. Sea Otter, Stellar Sea Lions, a Minky Whale, 2 Sitka Black-Tail Deer, an occational silver salmon jumping, and of course a few eagles. The [...]
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July 28th, 2006 at 9:29pm |
Bill, being the scientific/gagety/wanna-be/outdoorsman that he is, learned about this nifty way to make a little cook stove using cat food cans from the “Leave No Trace” class he took earlier this summer. As soon as Katie heard about it she was on him to make one. Tonight he came up with the proto type. [...]
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July 28th, 2006 at 9:01pm |
Bill went flying this morning. He wanted to practice using the new CAP 206. Bill 3 and I played a quick game of frisbee golf down on the park strip. When Bill returned the guys headed out to check the shrimp pots. Check out the gallery to see some huge specimen. Bill, Katie and I [...]
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July 27th, 2006 at 3:59pm |
Yesterday Bill, Bill 3, and I headed out in Costello’s boat to drop a couple of shrimp pots. The secret: cat food! Here is our local “Vana” displaying some tastey cat fish just waiting to entice some nice fat shrimp to our pots. As you can see, the weather is nice. I think Bill 3 [...]
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July 23rd, 2006 at 6:38pm |
We got back to Valdez last night. Spent Saturday night with Chris, Robin and Aron. Brought back a Papa Murphy pizza and salad makings to their place. It was nice catching up, but we were pretty wiped out so we turned in for the night by 12:00. (3:00am Minnesota time). Great seeing Katie. We spent [...]
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July 19th, 2006 at 11:13am |
We had a great storm last night. Quite a bit of rain in a short amount of time. Some good lightening strikes as well. The rain was much needed. The fire hazzard is high right now. 3 more mice bit the dust on the cabin trap line this morning. Bill’s mom and dad relaxed with [...]
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July 15th, 2006 at 11:13am |
We’re into our third day of very hot and humid weather. We were up and out of the cabin by 9:15 this morning. “Art in the Park” was taking place in Bemidji this weekend and we wanted to get there early so we could check things out and head out to our land for the [...]
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July 14th, 2006 at 11:12am |
Another beautiful day at the cabin. We called and placed an order for one of the 8X8 foot sheds in Cass Lake. They will deliver it to our Debs property tomorrow and stay long enough to hep us get it in place and leveled. After many walks around on the property and much discussion we [...]
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