Alaska living, home education, gardening, hunting, fishing, trapping and preserving the harvest
Field trip to Denali National Park
Checking out the displays in the Visitor Center
Lunch time
Group Shot of the Blessings
With the Moms
Waiting for the rest of the crew
Waiting for the bus to take us to the dog kennel
After we left the park we stopped for ice cream before heading home.
We began our 2012-2013 school year today, yes, I know it was Labor Day. Dad was moose hunting so Labor Day isn’t a big day for our family. And this year our fall weather has hit full force.
Elisabeth having breakfast.
Judith reading a book to Benjamin before breakfast.
Emmy’s first day of school photo, yep, she is excited.
Benjamin was happy to start school, he played with clay.
Working girls
Benjamin pretending to be Mommy
My students, this was a great beginning day to our school year.
Art on the first day of school? Yep, amazing I know.
I really enjoyed our first day with Paths of Settlement from Trailguide to Learning from Geography Matters. This is the curriculum that I would write if I could get my thoughts together. Levi is hanging out with us today and he will work through most of this with us in addition to other things he will be working on.
Benjamin painted for the very first time today, he was thrilled. He will have to paint more often.
My pile at the end of the day.
The Blessings cleaned up pretty well after school
I got my things cleaned up and in a bag for tomorrow. Looking forward to living on a schedule once again.
The Blessings and I were able to ride out on the river with the charter service while they checked on their customers. I cannot believe we were able to do this and that the guys were on a fishing spot that was safe enough for us to stay and visit for a while. Most spots are on a much steeper slope.
After this day of fishing we had dinner and headed home the following morning.
On Saturday morning the salmon processing began.
Yes, that is a garden cart in my kitchen.
The wrapper
These kids have been packaging meat and fish for so long that they are quite the little experts.
Our dinner Saturday night. Fresh, never frozen red salmon, salad from the garden and peas from a local garden that were shared with us. Talk about yummy!
Benjamin on the way out on Tuesday, I think.
Elisabeth
Benjamin casting his practice lure
Elisabeth’s silver salmon. She caught two fish on Tuesday.
The man and his fish
These pictures were taken while we were on our Alaskan vacation. They were in a friend’s yard. I don’t know how her flowers are still doing but mine are gone already.
I miss the color already. Our leaves are already beginning to turn yellow.
Benjamin is waking up Levi, good morning!
We went fishing for a few hours on Wednesday morning but I had a headache so there were not many photos taken while on the boat. I took a nap.
After fishing we loaded up and headed back north for our next stop. Chitina, Alaska. We actually stopped a bit before this and attended Wednesday evening service where we had camped on Sunday night.
We then headed to our camping spot.
My sweetie using his camp oven
My husband’s long time friend met us down here as they were planning on going out for salmon dipnetting the next morning.
Checking out the turkeys and chickens
The Blessings and I were able to go out on the river but I left all cameras at the camper. Judith had her camera so I shall have to upload those tomorrow.
