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Three Days to Christmas Post Card
At our house, when we ask "what's the schedule for tomorrow?" that really means who needs what times for a workout or an outdoor activity (and right now, who is staying back to watch the very small kids.) With the big winter snowstorm in the works for the next few...
A Floating Memorial
After popular fisherman and father of three daughters, Richard Boyce, slipped off his gillnetter and drowned on the 4th of July, his friends decided to do something positive and honor his memory by providing flotation devices in the form of inflatable suspenders for...
Sunday’s Thought
From poet Mary Oliver- "Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we only look, and see."
Food With Thought
When a friend asked for volunteers to make dinners for Michael and the two little girls while his wife Melissa is in an Anchorage hospital, 800 miles away from Haines, on complete bed rest, until hopefully December, to keep a baby in her womb who apparently wants to...
Where Have I Been? A Postcard
Let's just say there has been a lot of family time this week. We needed to get a tree stand up for moose hunting season, golf, berry pick, enjoy a few more sunny summer days at the beach, can some salmon, take a few walks, and spend some time rainy-day time indoors...
Camp Postcard
It is more than a little nice to spend a few days with a little bit of the family (actually the very littlest right now) at a cabin on a pond out of internet and phone reach, without electricity or plumbing. My grandchildren will no doubt mess up all those popular...
A Few Things To Know for this Weekend
Tonight at 7:30 in the Chilkat Center the Haines Arts Council presents the Alaska String Band and Triple L Band-- it's a family friendly show of bluegrass, old time, gospel, and swing tunes. Tomorrow from 10-noon there is a Farmer's Market at the Fairgrounds. Sunday...