Thursday, September 15, 2011
Menagerie of pets
With a little sunshine the farm animals really start to look beautiful. For your viewing pleasure here is Ginger in her fall glamour shot and the chickens dust bathing in my flower beds. On a similar note I just opened up the linen closet to put away a towel and out jumps Spy cat like it's her usual to be in the closet all morning, she just rubbed my leg and walked over the food bowl, as if to say, "Good morning Bonnie, I'm simply famished, have you eaten yet?"
The picture of the dog and the chicken happens to be our newest friendship. David Green, something of a loner chicken has developed a taste for Ginger's canned dog food and stops in the arctic entry around 6 ish each evening to clean-up whatever Ginger doesn't care for, David Green is the first up every morning, last to bed and now her plucky resolve has been rewarded, she is the only chicken eating beef in a rich gravy each night. Yes, she may look like a cross between a taradactal and a drowned chicken but she is very smart. She is named after a local fur coat retailer because she wears a fur coat and owns no feathers.
Baby Room
September
Well, it seems August has morphed into September here in Anchorage and hopefully it starts to be a little less rainy around here. You know it's fall in Anchorage because Ashley and Scott are back in town, school has started and now Pat and Caroline are back in town, I guess it's time for schedules, snow and darkness here soon.
On a good note the blueberries were great, I don't want to brag but I really made a pretty good haul for someone who can't bend over very well. My salmon haul was good too but turns out not worth it, I pulled a ligament in my belly while lifting a backpack full of fish and now it won't heal, with a large belly it turns out this is becoming more painful and more of a pain, just rolling over in bed is becoming an event, poor Seth.
Over the last weekend a trip to Homer was made to pack things up for winter and add stairs to the new dock. Seth found some incredible bolts, wires, rock drills and epoxy to make sure the dock won't float away in the ice this winter. While working we watched an otter clean himself obsessively every morning, a baby eagle learn to soar (not gracefully) and Kingfishers chase each other. It was relaxing to have no appointments or job, a quiet evening playing cards and reading sure helps to calm you down.
Now, it's back to the race, Seth and I should be well schooled after childbirth class and hypno birth class with a little breast-feeding class thrown in for good measure. Let the crazy times begin.
Here are a few pics of the deck all buttoned down for the winter, hope your fall is swell.
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