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  • Labor Day Guests

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    An overcast, drizzly Labor Day was brightened by a visit from some feral friends …a single mom and her youngun’. Fortunately, we didn’t have to prepare a large meal … strict vegetarians, they insisted on trimming the shrubbery 😊 “All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The…

  • Labor Day Levity

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    Hope this Labor Day holiday proves to be an extra-special one for y’all. Thought perhaps some might enjoy some ‘laborless’ levity from up here in wilds of the Last Frontier. Yesterday our game cam captured a truly incredible incident right in our front yard … a mythological Bigfoot emerging from the woods chasing a wild…

  • Uncertainty Therapy

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    The Last Frontier summer is rapidly fading into fall, and this aging ragamuffin’s fall season of life has already experienced winter’s first snows.   Uncertainty is a certainty of life. Lately, life’s uncertainties have been edging into my ponderings. A comforting quote I recently heard helps mitigate the ‘worry’ of uncertainty … “Write your plans…

  • Rainbow Promise Prints

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    A woods wander, interspersed with sunshine and rain, was graced with my Creator’s celestial watercolors. “Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow occurs in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy…

  • Glacial Grandeur

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    In the Chugach Range lies the magnificent Matanuska Glacier. Creeping slowly forward at a rate of 1ft./day, this 27 miles long, 4 miles wide colossal frozen sheet births the headwaters of the Matanuska River, and is the largest glacier in the United States accessible by car. Practically in our front yard just 25 miles up…

  • Who’s Roaming Your Digs?

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    Urbanites utilize doorbell camera security 😎 to record whoever may be roaming their premises. Here in the Last Frontier we rely on game cameras 😊 Here’s a couple recent vid clips of wanderers in our backyard. Fortunately, Mr. Grizz didn’t decide to visit at the same time as Mama and Bullwinkle Jr. came by 😧…

  • Seeing God

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    Recently the sun has taken a hiatus behind the clouds, and Ellie and I took a short ride up the road for dinner. The food was scrumptious, but the cloudy day mountain vistas catered a celestial feast for the eyes no earthly menu could ever describe or serve up. The Good Book tells us, “No…

  • Silent Soul Stirrings

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    Deep early morning’s shadows draping the river valley, and mystical mountain mists silently stirred tranquility in my soul. A hen turkey suddenly peering in the kitchen window silently stirred a smile in my soul, and “The mountains are calling and I must go” yearning … so I went … up the trail to Castle Mt.…

  • Lucrative Fishing Fun

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    The annual Sockeye salmon run in the Kenai River is peaking.  Huge schools are swimming upstream to their spawning tributaries. Sooooo …… Grant and I decided to make a 3 hr. scenic trek south in hopes of transporting some Sockeyes from the river to our freezer. Dipnetting is a favorite method of harvesting salmon in…

  • Planting Restoration

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    The emergence of fireweed blooms heralds the beginning of summer’s exit and the impending entrance of fall in the Last Frontier.  Much like the ubiquitous dandelion ‘Wonder Weed’, fireweed is edible and nutritious, possessing medicinal qualities attributed to mitigating migraine headaches, insomnia, anemia, delirium tremens, infections and colds. Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) is also one of…