September – 2010 – Wanderings and Ponderings

beventfulness

8 September 2010

I love summers in Homer, Alaska. And I love playing with my darling nieces.

Building forts. Playing chicken. Speeding around in the stroller. Peeing in the woods. Eating toast. Going to the toy store. Getting baby cones. Walking to the lake. Painting nails. Water coloring. Lots of lovely fun.

I’ve had many most beautiful beach evenings lately. Me and Cody boy go down there after cleaning boats. Boat cleaning has been slow, like two boats a night. So I’ve got lots of beach time with my ukulele and dear ol’ doggy. It was so so beautifully starry one night and I saw two shooting stars and made lovely wishes! How magical.

I cleaned my sweet ride yesterday. I lovey love Penelope Q. Subaru. Holly dyed my hair dark dark brown the other day. Love it. And I’ve been sending out lots of mail lately. And went to lunch with a captain, waiting for my camera to come, working on visa paperwork and enjoying summer very muchly.

Alaska, Uncategorized

Pops

7 September 2010

Here’s a birthday shout out to my favorite dad!

He’s pretty much one of the coolest dudes on the planet.
He’s hilarious too, always cracking me up.
And he is wicked healthy, taking such good care of the body.
He spends lots and lots of time out in beautiful nature, enjoying wonderful Alaska.
He takes me on all sorts of grand adventures.
And he teaches me all sorts of grand things.
I don’t know where I would be without this father of mine.
He makes my life so much better.
I am one lucky girl to have a dude man like him for my dad.
I have learned so muchos from him.
Hope you have the best day ever Pops!

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Missing Miss

5 September 2010

I’ve been going through all my thousands pictures on my computer lately, reminiscing on good ol’ times, and listening to Round Table Discussions.
I’m deleting oodles of images too because I just have so many. And if a picture isn’t a framer and you never look at it, there’s really not too much point in keeping it. And I’m running out of space on my hard drive, so time to deleto.
Speaking of pictures, I just bought a new camera. I’m so excited!
Looking through all my pictures makes me miss a lot of things, a lot of times, a lot of places, and a lot of people. I especially miss this girl Carla. I sure wish she was always around to adventure and explore with me.
At least I’ve got Cody as an adventure buddy around here, but he sometimes smells and is kind of hairy. He barks on occasion too. But other than that, he’s the greatest. :)

Alaska, Uncategorized

yurt + family + beach = :)

1 September 2010

Hop aboard the FV Arctic Assault! Katy (and Jordin) drove the fam across the bay a few days ago for a fantastic family fun filled weekend!

Natalie and her little backpack full of sleeping bag and coloring supplies.

THE YURT! Yurts are the coolest. I want one. :)

Natalie and I did some spelunking and cave exploring.

Holly and my flying monkey found some cool rocks.

Frankie Lemon found my other sister.

beach fun and exploring with tomato soup girl

My sharpie found a log and a few little friends.

It started raining so we went and had yurt time.

I love yurt time.

And coloring time.

And cuddling campfire time. This lovely campfire evening was also accompanied with many jams from my ukulele. Love it love it love it.

Then this little darling woke up!

She’s so funnnny.

My sisters are funny too. Oh love love love them.

Time for more beach explorations! Sand dollar hunting.

The weather wasn’t the greatest, but life can’t be all sunshine.

Stacy and Adam were swinging Natalie around…

…and her arms got three times longer!

I found Wilson’s uncle.

And then we came home.

It’s always a lovely boat ride with Matilda!

Phil followed us home too. :)

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Blackstone Spectacular avec mon kayak et mon pere!

1 September 2010

Pops and I went on grand kayaking trip. We drove 3 hours up to Whitter, went through the tunnel, and unloaded our kayaks and packed all our gear in.

We ventured back to Blackstone Bay in Prince William Sound. Perfect water. Perfect sky. Perfect day to paddle 18 miles.

We paddled up to a stream where there were hundreds of pink salmon, most of which were dead. Salmon die after spawning. We saw a little black bear there too.

We FINALLY got to a beach where we could camp after paddling like 7 hours. There were lots of buggies, hence the mosquito net hats. :)

Day 2 began beautifully with another jolly day of sunshine. I love tent time.

We paddled up to a little river, pulled up on the beach, and wandered around for a while. When we came back, the tide had come in some and pulled my kayak out to sea! No matter how much you know about kayaking, that’s not a good thing.