State seeks comment on Kachemak Bay heli-skiing

Alaska Dispatch | Oct 22, 2012

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Alaska's Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation is soliciting input from the general public in regard to "multiple" applications it has received seeking permission to operate commercial helicopter skiing operations in Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park.

If Seth was in town he would be kicking himself.  Seth loves to talk about his backcountry lodge at Kachemak Bay, looks like someone is planning on setting up a service, maybe they just need a place to operate out of.  Maybe they need a nice cabin on a island? We don't use it in the winter and if you flew to it, all the smoother.  Seth and Pat and Josiah finished the wiring, insulating and are now putting up interior siding and adding the secret children's loft.

Chicken day

Today was a big day and it is only 3:30.  The boys are on the same schedule so they need everything at the same time, yikes. As usual though, I type now while they are asleep.

We went to lunch with Grandma Rose than naps for the wee ones.  A photographer from my favorite online newspaper came over for a photo shoot of the chickens, really clear beautiful day so I hope those turn out well. Than a walk with baby Olivia, our soon to be new neighbor than a date to Lucky Wishbone for Anchorage's finest fried chicken and over to see Aunt Bonnie's new apartment.

The chicken pictures came on a fortuitous day.  There have been warnings on the radio for walkers and runner on DeArmoun road to be careful today, someone wounded a brown bear in their chicken coop and now it is on the lamb.  Just today there was a terribly sad picture of dead brown bear hanging in the air suspended from a forklift, it was in someone's chicken coop as well.  It all reminds me that our chickens will be the bears free dinner around here, I know where they rank on the food chain and I'd never consider killing a bear for those useless ladies.  There is an incredible picture at Grandma's of her next to a bear she shot at the homestead when the kids were all young, those were different times and chances are Grandpa was gone and she ran a hog farm and watched after 5 young kids so times they were different.  Grandma is more of a ''do no harm' gal these days, she was trying to live trap a fox who was after her chickens and just kept trapping the feral barn cats. Since our chickens rarely lay an egg and mostly just eat dog food from Ginger's bowl and poop in the arctic entry they have earned the status of zilch around here.

Here are a few of the photographers picture's of winter setting in on Turnagain Arm, he's pretty incredible ah?

Just a few pics of what we have been up to.  

Literacy time

They feed themselves?

The bluff at Kincaid

Last weekend we hiked along the bluff at Kincaid Park.  It was a gorgeous sunny day and the pictures were great.  Milo lost a glove, I imagine the glove situation this winter will be dismal as he sheds them like a snake.

Back to watching the boys.  The two weeks I work things are so busy and the two weeks off I make soup, jam, bread, go on runs and 'air the boys' daily.  It is really peaceful, today they are both napping and snow is quietly falling, I hate to really put the sap on but there is hot cider sitting on the table too and lentil soup cooking away, ah if I was ever cool that last paragraph really sealed that those days are goooone.

The boys are both getting so big and capable, yesterday at lunch they both ate in high chairs and fed themselves, although I think Ginger gets the majority of lunch off the floor.

Seth is busy finishing up jobs and packing up for a trip to the cabin, he leaves for 8 days with Pat and hopefully is joined by Josiah which means a lot will get done.  Our arctic entry is full of wires and new tools.  If they don't leave soon all the snack food I found for them will quickly disappear.

Chickens are finally laying eggs, maybe because this cold weather has them inside more often and less wondering around.

I hope your fall is going well and you have found some time to relax too.