Posted in alaska on Jul 30th, 2007 13 Comments »
For a slightly early birthday present, dh took Superboy out on a charter fishing trip today. They did VERY well! Here are some highlights: Superboy’s got a hit! (that’s the charter boat captain looking on from behind) It’s a king salmon! His first of the season! Not to be outdone, dh scores this monster of [...]
Posted in alaska, nature study on Jul 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
Here is a lovely scene with a little Sitka black-tailed deer we saw browsing in a field of purple flowers. Does that make up for the bear poop post?
Posted in alaska, nature study on Jul 28th, 2007 7 Comments »
regarding bears… Yes, they do.
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof... on Jul 27th, 2007 6 Comments »
Today the boys (Superboy and Cityboy) got up early and went out to perform a good deed. They went with the elderly neighbors out to the docks to scrub their boat clean for them. They were surprised and thrilled that in return they earned a guided fishing trip out on that boat tomorrow if the [...]
Posted in alaska, nature study, Random Ramblings on Jul 26th, 2007 6 Comments »
Here are just a few random shots of stuff we’ve been seeing here. These are two of the boats featured on the show “The Deadliest Catch.” The Time Bandit And the much bigger boat Cornelia Marie Apparently Superboy’s favorite boat, the Northwestern was here in Kodiak just before we got here. We keep hoping to [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Jul 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
Your Superpower Should Be Mind Reading You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive. You understand people better than they would like to be understood. Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details. You figure out what’s going on before anyone knows that anything is going on!Why you would be a good superhero: You [...]
Posted in alaska, Random Ramblings on Jul 22nd, 2007 4 Comments »
we still have our priorities! What’s that Cityboy is doing on that cliff? Lets take a closer look… You guessed it! That’s the new Harry Potter book he is engrossed in! I guess the wildlife will just have to wait…
Posted in alaska, nature study on Jul 21st, 2007 6 Comments »
Well, we finally saw our first Kodiak bear! How exciting! Cityboy spotted it first, as we were out fishing on the Buskin River about 10 pm this evening and here it came wading down the river, catching fish and devouring the salmon carcasses left behind by fishermen! We were a bit nervous (Ok, a LOT!) [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Jul 20th, 2007 12 Comments »
I am trying my hand at tinkering with my blog by adding a custom header image. What I have up there now is a picture of the bay here in Kodiak that I took from on top of Pillar mountain. It doesn’t fit exactly perfectly, and I am not sure how to fix that, but [...]
Posted in Random Ramblings on Jul 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I have been tagged for a ton of memes lately and been a bad blogger not passing them on. I’ve gotten three “Rockin Girl Blogger” tags and two “middle name meme” tags. and I think there was another one…I can’t remember right now. As for the rockin girl blogger I am flattered, but I am [...]
