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It is now October, and it feels like it-- with frost on the windshield and fresh snow on the mountains. Ralph and Vince have brought in a huge moose (60 something inches),  and tomorrow is local election day, which means we get to vote for assembly and school board...

A friend called and said there had been a shooting early yesterday morning on Small Tracts Road,  my regular dog trot loop around the neighborhood. Was there an angry gunman on the loose? A robber? A crazy person? Should I lock the door? My friend didn't know, and...

  Best to keep it short this morning, as my little friend is running around the house in her underpants, breakfast is bubbling over, there's a wet dog on my bed, and the phone is ringing. We had a great salmon dinner and sent off the cross country team last night....

Here's breaking news: There is a 10 dollar a plate gourmet cooking class prepared salmon and Caesar salad dinner tonight at 7:00 at the school, because the cross-country team  is heading to Anchorage for the state championships and they need, as always, to raise the...

  The good news is that we had a great time at a different tent camp on the mid-Chilkat River, where we spent three days (two sunny, one rainy) and saw lots of moose sign, a bull that was not legal, and a cow, and entertained company between the morning and evening...

Now that three seasoned outdoors folks  have had to spend the night on a log in the middle of the Chilkat River after their skiff  motor quit, then they were swept into a dead tree and it oveturned dumping them and its contents in the water and leaving them wet and...