well finally I am updating the blog! enough with the phone calls and emails already....

I took off down to Homer for a couple of days to visit with Faith and Fat Freddie!

Faith has become a dear girlfriend who I truly have enjoyed her hospitality, company and general "love taps" upside the head!

The universe meant for us to meet!

How many times in a lifetime do you get to meet someone and instantly become really close friends???

Faith and I have know each other in other lifetime.... 

well I came back to Nikiski only to find "lil brother had "the Alaskan Crud"!

Crapweasel....he was down and out with this cold and sure enough....I got it! 

Crapweasel....three to four days before flying out I came down with it...

needless to say I am still not over it so I have not felt like updating the blog until now.

Yayyyy!! the clearing of the land started!

the issue with the neighbor who clear cut 1/3 of our property changed our plans for the property so the clearing plans changed. yup had to go to a lawyer over this.

this is looking at the lake in the beginning of clearing

ahhhh...now I can see the lake better....the land sits up about 20 feet high over the lake with a steep banking on part of it then has a tapered area down to the lake front.

nice area to launch kayaks from

'lil brother double checking with Joey as he was not understanding what the clearing plan was

yup....clearing lasted one and a half days...

then Joey kilt his excavator with this tree!

He didn't want to push the tree down towards the lake or the other way and damage trees.

well he pulled the tree and it snapped a hydrolic line and drove the fitting up into the machine.

gotta wait for part to come from Seattle.

so needless to say I had to leave and will not get to see the progress of the clearing

took a many trips back to Bishop's Creek to see the salmon coming upstream..

there are four salmon in this picture fighting for position in the rushing water to go thru the culvert and go upstream

Common sight and road hazard...moose crossing.

I forgot to tell you all...

got a call one day that 5 Caribou were down on Bridge Access...so off I went

no Caribou to be found so I headed down Kalifornski Road towards Homer

after about a half hour of driving I decided to turn around as I had seen no Caribou.

About a mile later I almost had "bou meat! yikes....Caribou was on the move, dead run and came right towards me down the road...

found out that "lil blue has good brakes...

no i didn't get a photo as I was too busy avoiding the "Bou, downshifting and hoping to hell he didn't run into me.

Our flight was at 7 p.m. so I went riding around for the last chance at wildlife shots...

sure enough at the end of the driveway was momma moose and baby!

I sat with ambivalence the day we left. 

The fact that the land was just getting cleared after waiting for 6 weeks, the beauty of the lake and land...I really didn't want to leave.

But 7 weeks without hubby to share all the joys of sights, trips and the trials, tribulation was wearing thin.

I am glad to be home so that now this end of getting our lives wrapped up for the move can be done.

with what has happened with the neighbor our plans have changed for the land in Alaska.

I did get our Plan A somewhat in place in my last trip to Homer with the help of Faith!

will tell you about that another day.

Tomorrow the guy is coming to finish the Cherry kitchen! yeah no kidding it was suppose to take 2 weeks and it has been 10 weeks now! 

It was suppose to be done by the time I came home....

Dan doesn't handle things like I do....now it is time to kick azz on these slackers!

Lots to do so off I go!