internet access again! yayyyy!

Kick'n Murphy to the curb now!

well...the marathon computer troubleshooting started last night with Faith's computer.

She has been having trouble for about 6 weeks now and last night it crashed...

stopped connecting to the internet.

Many hours last night and all day today finally, a new modem,

tweaking and into the bio's to get rid of a nasty bugger of a virus/worm

that got by her anti-virus we are back in business!

I do have my laptop but did not want to hardwire into her modem until

I knew what was wrong with her system.

So now photo's from yesterday...

no I have not even had time to look at the CF card with the 100's of photo's

to see if I can fix it to retrieve the photo's. 

Faith and Owen's property in Homer....what a gorgeous oasis...

truly a "secret garden" parcel of land

walked up the road to look at the 1 acre piece that could be bought

abuts Faith/Owen's property

walking on Homer Beach area...heavy overcast and drizzling

just had to take pictures of the textures patterns made by the receeding tide

something about walking on the ocean is so good for the soul

 

this noisy couple was not happy that I was in their space

 

the driftwood is fabulous here in Alaska

this is looking back at the mainland area of Homer from the Spit

the unopened buds of this flower are really really neat to see

all scrunched up...the photo's are a bit hazy as it was misting rain

and ground fog

 

looking across Cook Inlet to the mountains

 

Homer Spit from the beach

 

more shots of across Cook Inlet with Lupine flowers

the first row of boardwalk store/restaurants on the Spit

the next shot is better but I just had to get a shot of the old 

antique truck! looks to be a Model A

 

the glacier across Cook Inlet

 

more of the Spit

 

The Salty Dog ...nope didn't go in...not to many people around even though 

there was a cruise ship in....but it was getting time to get back to the car

and retrieve my cell phone to call dear hubby

Poor hubby is stuck back in MA in an unbearable heat wave

the Seafarer's monument on the Spit in rememberance

of all who have been lost at sea

last year I photographed this eagles nest located right next to the road

on the corner of Lake Rd as you turn to go down to the Spit

doesn't seem to bother the eagles that they are right on the edge of town and

next to a busy intersection

I had been waiting patiently with the camera to my eye for such a long time

waiting for momma eagle to come an feed the fledgling

an of course....this couple started to ask me if there were actually eagles in 

the nest....I took my eye away from the camera and sure enough

momma landed in the nest!

damn missed that shot

momma feeding one of the fledglings...click on the photo and enlarge it

you will see there is a second fledglings head just under momma's

chin/neck area

 

 

baby is not happy that momma has left

foiled again...

I still jump when an eagle takes flight!

so none of my shots are clear of the flight out of the nest onto the branch 

for cleaning of her beak...even though I am using a monopod

that might be part of the problem as it is not as easy to track an

eagle in flight with the monopod

beak cleaning time

I have watched many time this ritual...the eagle cleans it's beak then flies off

into the nearby tree that the male sits in

and yes once again the taking flight startled me and

movement of the camera on the monopod didn't allow for an

easy tracking shot

  

darn I wish this shot had come out clear...

will have to go back an try again....

pretty much know the feeding time...that is if it stops

this drizzling rainy weather

 

  

momma and poppa eagle squawking up a storm after feeding the babies

of course they were probably protesting the amount of people who had by now gathered 

to take photo's of them

today I did go an looking at a couple of properties/houses that are sale

the first house...yikes....$137000 is the asking price and oh my gosh

when the realtor said it was a fixer upper she wasn't kidding.

but she didn't even realized how bad a shape the house is in as it is not

her or her companies listing.

It is a complete tear down...the owners let the corners rot so the house has

shifted so bad that all the picture windows on that end of the house are 

pressure fractured... large cracks where the ceiling a roof meet, mold in

and on the walls....the views are spectacular!

Not a project that hubby and I want to get into unless they sold the property for

like $45000. I say so low as the yard is a junk yard of old vehicles, just plain

junk everywhere and not maintained...the electric is still a power cord run from

the temporary hook up to the house that has been run over by a lawnmower

and electrical taped in places, the septic is probably a crib holding area.

Then off to see the next place....again beautiful property with potential..

one top log though has hollowed out and rotted back into the log about 

a foot or so...cute TINY cabin but aside from the hole in the top log...well maintained

almost 2 acres and the place to build would be just above this cabin on the back 

part of the land as a house would look right over the top of the cabin.

Road is already in for building up there.

asking $147000.....steep price for what it is.

Our plan of building what we have for floorplans is looking like a better option still.

well hopefully I will get out an take photo's again tomorrow...still waiting on a phone call so I can go back

up to Nikiski to winterize and tarp the motorhome.

then I can be on my way for exploring up around Anchorage and above areas.

Hope you all enjoy the photo's and that this adventure is not too boring to read...

Later folks

Murphy is still hanging around here in Homer Alaska

Well damn Murphy and his fiddling!

I am unable to upload all the photo's I took today to my smugmug

account so...I will try again tomorrow.

I am posting many here but....

I took about 84 shots today here in Homer.

Woke up to a drizzling rain, overcast and the mountains clouded in.

I can see the bay and mountains right from Faith's windows! yayyyy!

The best part of the day around here really is after 2 pm until about 10 pm

for photo taking.

Yesterday Faith..bless her and I am very grateful to her as

she drove me all the way up to Nikiski to deal with hubby and my

motorhome.

No it did not want to start so my brother had to go borrow jumper cables

to get it started.

I drove it over to another friends house where it will spend the winter.

I still have to return to stable the gas and tarp it.

Faith has never been up to Nikiski so I showed/walked our property

on the lake with her. It still is not cleared as the excavator has not been

repaired! ....damn

As we drove thru Soldotna she showed me a fabulous bookstore!

Had a wonderful lunch there as there is a little bistro within the bookstore.

Being as we are both book hounds we spent time pawing over the selection

of books!

I had to keep telling myself "NO you can't buy any"

Today I spent walking on Homer Spit, the beach and just wandering.

okay computer glitzes and photo's will not download

so I will try again later

pop back in later please

Strike 3 for Murphy

Well friends and readers....Murphy is really really getting on my nerves!

It is day 4 of being in Alaska and Murphy's Law of what can go will go wrong

has struck again this morning.

I tooks hundreds of photo's of our putting new poppets on the trailer,

the trip down to Homer, of our fishing trip, the big ass fish Rick caught,

the pod of 60 or so otters out at sea...

Went to transfer the photo's this morning to update the blog

and my laptop would not read the card.

After fiddling around trying to figure out what was wrong...

I had reviewed the photo's on the camera periodocically while on the

water fishing so I knew the card was good.

Looking at the card in the little card reader I realized the card was sitting

crooked ...soooo...

removed the card and reinserted it...no go...

Then I took the card out and looked at the pins on the card reader

Crapweasel...one pin was bent, looking at the 8GB card the

pin hole was damaged by it so....all of my photos cannot be

retrieved.

thankfully I did not reinsert it into my camera and do damage to the pins in the camera!

I do have a second card and card reader with me so I am in luck that way but....

Lesson learned ...my card readers are now in a hard plastic carrying case

as somehow something got into the card reader just enough to bend the pin.

First time for everything!

So the news is....

Rick caught the big fish, 48lb Halibut...I caught 2 20lb'ers ...Barret (a child) caught the

first fish of the day! We had our limit withing hours after

going out 17 miles to fish.

Faith (Freezengirl) came to the camp area on Homer Spit and picked me up last night

and will be giving me a ride up to Nikiski at some point here in the next day or so to

retrieve my car and deal with stuff up there at our land.

The original loose plan was for me to be dropped off in Nikiski

and retrienve my car, deal with the land and things but...

When one is dependant upon others for transportation and things get Fubar'd

ya go with the flow.

The guys were already a day late for the fishing trip so I did not feel it was

right to ask them to now go a total of 65 or so miles out of

their way to drop me in Nikiski.

I'm glad I didn't ask them to do this

as it was we arrived at the camp ground at 9 pm so dropping me in Nikisk.

Plus I wanted to go fishing too...

That's about it for this post....an one final thing

damn it...Murphy take a flip'n hike.

well that was an interesting trip up!

Murphy's Law strikes!

had a 3 1/2 hr lay over in Philadelphia...no problem

 checked into the boarding gate early upon arrival...3 1/2 hrs early mind you

hungry so off I go to get something to eat, stopped by the bookshop to grab a paperback book as I am a veracious reader

go back to boarding gate..check that flight is on time..yup
US AIR lady comes in and announces that all passengers going to Frankfort Germany the gate has been changed...
flurry of people scampering, grabbing bags etc and run as this announcement is the plane is boarding now!
no advanced notice apparently....

soooo....
I ask this employee if the flight to Anchorage is still at this gate and on time...yes it is she replies.

so I settle in with my book as I have 1 1/2 hrs until boarding time.

again this employee comes in looking for passengers for the flight to Germany...mind you..no intercom announcement has been made regarding this. 
yup should have been my clue right there buuuttt...nooooo

again I ask about my flight...again told yes this is the gate and flight is on time. I start to read and a couple sits next to me ..as they are telling me they have a 3 1/2 hr wait I glanced at my watch...YIKES!

Holy crapweasel...it is 3:45!...no plane is in sight..no personnel so I grab bags and run down the concord...

I stopped at the next boarding area and start asking if anyone is going to Anchorage! NO...on to the next one...same question...YES they just boarded and they have un-docked the boarding shoot
  you can't get on the plane!

so off I go 3/4 aways back thru the airport to find the service counter....by now I am making phone calls as my friend who is picking me up thinks I am landing at 9:45 pm

Long story shortened here...I did scared the crap out of the service person into booking me on 2 flights, one not with the airline I had booked though as I was not waiting until 6 a.m. in the morning for a direct flight.
Hell we had fishing plans for early morning!

So off to SeaTac airport...then hang around for my next flight.
by now I have been up for about 24 hours...
leaving SeaTac was spectacular!
Fireworks being set off everywhere and from the air it was beautiful....if I had known I would have taken my camera out and not stowed it in the overhead compartment.

Okay soooo...finally I land in Anchorage at 12:45 pm! yayyy...locate my checked bag that went on with my original flight that I missed..

Robert picks me up and we make it to Wasilla by about 2 a.m....crash time....but I am up an moving by 6 a.m.

yup Murphy's Law strikes again...boat set to roll. 
Robert, Rick and myself..headed to Long Lake to launch the 
boat and do some trailer repairs (new poppets) for our trip down to 
Homer tomorrow...
but a mile down the road at a stop sign another car driver tells us there is smoke coming off the tire of the boat 
trailer....crapweasel.. 

 Robert and Rick check'n out the locked up brake

  we were at the interesection by the old railroad station
so I took a short walk for photo's while the
brake cooled off enough to do anything with it

remember to click on any photo to enlarge 

also go over to the photo link on the side

Alaska Adventures 2011 to see photos

all of the one's I took today are here

but in the coming weeks not all will be 

on the blog but in that link folder

 Rick going down the road to see if the road is thru road so we can test drive and see if the adjuster was turned the right way to free up the brake..


well made it back to the house and it is now 4 pm and still working on it!...still busting butt to make the trip to
Nikiski for me to get my car and them to continue to
Homer to fish.
I will meet up with them in a day or so to go out fishing. I need to deal with some things in Nikiski..
stay tuned to see if we have shaken Murphy off!