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Cherishing the Chilkat on the last day of November
We love the way we live here. It's not an easy life, but it's a good life.- Lani Hotch It's simple for me. Because this is where I live. If you're not going to fight for that, what are you going to stand up for? - J.R. Churchill 8:40 am, snowing lightly, light...
An Anniversary to Remember & Haines’ “Cookie Water”
Boy is it windy-- gusting to 55 knots at the Eldred Rock lighthouse. It was work walking Pearl into the wind this morning. But we friends and dogs walked with light hearts from just living in these historical times-- what news-- gay marriage is legal in all 50 states....
There’s a Boil Order in Town
Yesterday late afternoon the Borough announced that a routine test of the town water system found E.coli, and told users to boil water for cooking and drinking (and I would add bathing babies), for two minutes. I think the test was taken Monday, and the results came...
Bike Race Postcard
My mother used to say that my quiet husband (especially around his in-laws) didn't say much, but what he said was "pithy." I thought about that when on Sunday morning Chip looked at the Fort Seward Parade Grounds, where the night before hundreds of cyclists had...
Sunday’s Thought
A year ago on Father's Day, the day after the annual Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay, we were at Harborview trauma center in Seattle and a team of doctors were figuring out how to put Chip's pelvis, ribs, and lung back together after a horrible crash in...
Crazy Solstice Busy Days
Well, this a first-- my walking pal and I were too busy this morning to meet at the same time and walk the dogs together-- she had to make breakfast in two shifts for her house guests, Chip and I had to fix the lawn mower and make granola so I could cut the jungle...
Joe’s Pretty Good Meeting
I went to Pizza Joe Parnell's harbor expansion informational meeting last night. (He took it on himself as a concerned citizen to hold a town hall style meeting that the Borough powers felt was not needed. Also, Joe was the assistant harbor master before being...