Subsistance Whaling in Alaska

These photo’s are on  Anchorage Daily News.  They made me smile and so I wanted to share them.  There are a lot more photos on the ADN site but I can’t seem to get them to load, so you’ll have to follow the link I have attached to see more.

Taku

 

Radom pictures

These are some pictures my in-laws sent us that they took while they were here.

The first day they where here we took a hike up a new trail that was just completed this summer.  It’s actually a very old trail but a new trail head section was put in to hook up the old trail with a new trail head.  We only hiked the new portion but if you wanted to take the whole hike it would take a very very long time.

Everywhere we went Sherrad had to bring his fish net and pole.  Looks like Grandma really got a great catch this time.

Hammer Slough

Random pictures of the kids.

Fall Colors

Everything is so green all year long around here that a splash of color is very appreciated.

A Seagull

Maverick

This boat is memorable.

Moose

We just saw this moose out our window.

Potato Harvest

We planted some potatoes in buckets this year.  In one bucket, we planted the potato in new soil purchased at the store and in 2 buckets we used sawdust and seaweed.  We harvested the soil bucket a couple of weeks ago, before it had flowered.  I  don’t suggest doing that because the skins are nasty if harvested too soon and the potatoes smaller.  But, here’s how many potatoes we got from planting a half of a potato in a bucket.

Yum yum, eat-em up.

Growing carrots in a bucket

We ordered some organic mint seeds this year and when they arrived the company included some free carrot seeds and another variety of mint seeds for us to sample.  It was most thoughtful. We split the seeds up and planted them between 2 buckets.  By the end of the summer we had some delightfully smelling mint and sweet carrots.

Romance

Our most favorite boat!

Fun with the gimp program: