Berry picking
Fall is in the air, so that means its time to go berry picking. Yesterday we took a family hike to Ptarmigan Valley, a place we discovered last year. You can definitely see signs of fall, especially as you gain elevation.
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Busy...
Zach and I have been busy with work and house projects. Here's a quick update:
All of the easy to get to wallpaper is down in the kitchen and the walls have been painted. Now we're working on getting rid of the hideous yellow trim.
The garden continues to grow and we were able to finally get some of the starts outside the last two days to start to harden them off. Unfortunately, the weather doesn't seem to be cooperating again today.
We were also able to relocate the chickens back outside. Yeah, we get our garage back!
Darby is famous!
Darby, the fat corgi, is now in a book. The book is LOL Dogs from Ulysses Press, which you can get here. Darby's on page 75 and Zach has a photo credit in the back.
Darby's picture reads: "HE'LL NVR FIND HIZ WALLET HEER."
As you can see from the picture, Darby was very excited when Zach showed it to her.
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Snow and Ice Cream
We took some time this week to go and look at the Fur Rendezvous snow sculptures and to visit the Dimond Center Native Alaska Crafts Fair. With the warm weather we've been having we got to see about 1/2 of the sculptures in tact and the others in various stages of melt. At the Native Crafts Fair we picked up three wood block prints from an Alaska Native artist from Haines, Alaska.
Fur Rondy, as we locals call it, is the festival that leads up to the kick off of the Iditarod, which started ceremonially started today in downtown Anchorage and will re-start tomorrow further north in Willow. Our fist winter here we went to the re-start. It's kind of one of those events that only needs to be attended once.
Instead of going to the ceremonial start, where the rest of Anchorage was, we stayed close to home, walking the dogs to the vet for vaccinations. All of the dogs put on a little winter weight, but hey, who doesn't, and they are otherwise healthy.
We also decided to make avacado frozen custard and ginger grapefruit ice cream. As you can see, Zach really like the avacado frozen custard. It should make for a good dessert tonight, what's left of it anyway!
Otherwise Zach and I are both very busy with work and the house. We're also counting down to a tropical getaway in about a week and a half.
Ptarmigan Valley and Roundtop
Zach and I went for a hike yesterday. We took the whole family - Honey, Frodo and Darby (aka Fatty). In all we hiked about 10 miles roundtrip and gained about 4000 feet in elevation. Several times during the hike, I certainly considered turning back and Darby laid down along the side of the trail many times and took lots of encouragement to keep going. There were long up hill sections that just didn't seem like they would end. But, about 2 1/2 hours later, we opened into a gorgeous valley ablaze in fall colors. Also there were alpine blueberries as far as the eye could see.
Today, my ankle hurts and Darby can barely walk. Nonetheless, we'll be back to this spot, likely next fall with a tent and buckets so we can pick blueberries to our hearts' content.
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