Caribou Crossing

Today there were caribou crossing the ice from the mainland to the peninsula that Kotzebue sits on. This route brought them close to town and they caused quite the spectacle.




The caribou crossed in a steady stream for hours.




This is the most caribou I have ever seen at one time.




I wish the pictures I took were clearer but it was blowing snow and the light was low and it was freaking cold out and my hands were freezing.




As I said they caribou caused quite a commotion. There were cars lined up along the shore watching them pass by. There was also a big rush of hunters who took off to get some. There were lots of gun shots. Enough to make you nervous.

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Prints

The holidays are approaching and that means so are the craft fairs. Last year I decided to try selling some of my prints at the various holiday craft fairs that we have here in Kotzebue. I surprised myself by selling quite a few. It's kind of neat to know that someone wants to buy something that you created and hang it on their walls. So this weekend I will be spending some time going back through a years worth of photos and deciding which ones I would like to get prints of and in what sizes. I usually sell the prints with a simple black mat.

Uploading pics is a long tedious process because as many of you have heard me whine about before...Kotzebue's internet sucks.

I am still waiting for my camera charger to arrive. I had a yellow slip in my post office box today telling me I had a package but the post office counter was CLOSED (!!!!!) "due to illness". Our post office runs so short staffed here that you never know if it is going to be closed for whatever reason. Hopefully the charger will be here soon and I will be able to start taking photos again.

We are approaching the time of short days and low sun so the lighting will be a bummer for a few months....remember all those blue hued photos last year? I could photoshop the exposure, but then that wouldn't be keeping it real, would it?

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Cemetery Sunset

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Fishing and Fingers

Today Uyaana and I went hooking for tomcods. We had to go to the store first so I could buy those spikey things that you put on your boots. Last thing I needed was to slip on the ice and mess my knee up some more.




There were quite a few people here and there on the lagoon behind town. When I first got out there the tomcods were biting pretty good.




I caught 12 and then it slowed down.




I decided to move to another spot on the other side of first bridge.




There were more people fishing over there.




The fishing wasn't much better over there but there were other kids for Uyaana to play with so he was happy. Then I decided to go home and cook dinner. I left Uyaana with a friend of mine because he wanted to keep playing with the kids. He came home about an hour and a half later and he was crying like crazy. He and one of his friends were taking loose pieces of ice and hammering them with big rocks. He accidentally smashed his finger with the rock. His whole pinkie finger was purple and swollen. I really thought he broke it so I packed him off to the clinic to get it xrayed.




Lucky for him it wasn't broken but it is still really swollen and tender. He has this lovely splint on his finger now.




He wanted a picture taken of it from both sides.

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Close Encounters of the 737 Kind

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Still Waiting

I'm still waiting for my new charger to come. My camera has about two bars of power in it so I have just left is sitting on the desk. I have no pictures to post today. It was freezing rain all day today anyway and I just didn't have the time to dig back in my files for something I haven't posted. For the most part, if I like it I post it. The stuff that's not in the blog just didn't make the cut.

So now I'm just waiting for my charger and some better weather.

Rush

Rush is getting bigger. He definitely getting more of a big dog look to him.




Even though he is bigger he still has a lot of puppy in him.





Never in my life have I ever met a hungrier dog. You would think that poor Rush is deprived on a regular basis because he is OBSESSED with food. He eats his dog food in about 15 seconds. Literally. If he knows you are holding treats he is absolutely frantic. He is one of those dogs who would eat until he burst.




It seems kind of strange because I know for a fact that he has always been well fed, even as a small pup before I got him. He really is a nice pup, but poor thing....he's not very bright. Either that or whatever intelligence he does possess is far overshadowed by his frantic food freak outs.




Good thing he's cute.

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Yucky

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