7-29-16

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First fruits from the tomato garden. Small. Not many buds left to turn into tomatoes. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... B...

7-28-16

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I bet you'll never guess what's in this thing. My grad student gave it to me. It's precious!
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7-26-16

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Dan wired my lamp!!! It was a pain in the rear end for him. Now for a lampshade that doesn't belong to another lamp, and I'll...

7-23-16

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Can you believe I took this photo with my iPhone? The museum is lovely tonight! And 200 people are here playing games :) I made...

7-22-16

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Nana is learning how to use Pokemon GO from her grandsons TheBeard and Squirt

7-21-16

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I finished my first baby blanket. I'm not sure who it will go to, but my plan was to give it to my first grandchild. I knitted it in A...

7-20-16

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Yesterday was all about going to Montgomery to a neurologist who put me on more medicine and told me, "My mother always said, 's...

7-18-16

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I gave blood today. To the lab to be tested. Five vials. Looking for anything the may be causing the facial nerve pain. I'm resigned...

7-17-16

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I made a creative dinner for family and friends tonight. Tried out a few dishes I'd had in Alaska (got pretty close) and some new ones...

7-16-16

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Today my Nana would have been 108. I think about her every day. Seriously. So grateful for the love she gave me in my early years. I was h...

7-15-16

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What day is it? We landed in Atlanta this morning, and it was 9am by the time we got home. The usual unloading and unpacking and washing o...

7-14-16

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Headed home. We had breakfast at the Roadhouse Inn in Talkeetna this morning, re-packed our suitcases and left for Anchorage. Killed some ti...

7-13-16

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The birds were chirping and bright sun was pouring through the slit in the canvas tent on the Jeep roof. I was relieved THAT night was over....

7-12-16

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After a night spent in a campground near what sounded like the Indy 500 (the Park Hwy) we headed south and decided to stop at Denali State P...

7-11-16

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Today was all about Denali. Getting there. Dealing with crowds. Riding a bus with 50 other people to see some Alaskan Huskie sled dogs. We w...

7-10-16

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Today we tried to drive the Denali Highway, a 130 mile road with only 20 paved miles. We got 10 miles into the gravel and shredded a tire. F...

7-9-16

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Today we decided to go for a flight around the glaciers near Kennicott and McCarthy. It was 40 minutes of sublime peace with amazing things ...

7-8-16

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Ok so today was 180 degrees different from yesterday. Yesterday I had six different reasons to be miserable. Pretty much they were all based...

7-7-16

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Today was awful. We are in McCarthy and I don't like it one bit. We got two flat tires on the road here. Two. At the same time. We ...

7-6-16

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Our drive today has been really interesting. We stopped at a Musk Ox farm plus a lot of other places I can't remember right now. We a...

7-5-16

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Today we headed out of town on our adventure north.

7-4-16

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We spent the morning at the Anchorage Museum. It was so interesting and soothing. I was there for something like 4 hours.  Then we re...

7-3-16

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We went to the Alaska Native Heritage Center today and it gave me a bit of peace. This is a kind of gathering place found on the Aleuti...

7-2-16

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Tunnel to Whittier. On our way to Anchorage we took this side track. The tunnel was cool. The small town with more vehicles than resid...

7-1-16

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Today our big adventure was taking a ferry to Seldovia, a fishing village only accessible by water or air. We saw a pod of whales along...

6-30-16

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This morning we went to the visitors center. I was so tired it was hard to read all the information on the displays. It feels like swi...

6-29-16

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We left Seward at 9am after a partial (very partial) climb of Mt. Marathon. The drive to Homer took about five hours with several stops alo...

6-28-16

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A six hour cruise. That's what we went on today. While we did not shipwreck into an iceberg, I did get sea sick and slept on the flo...