Poor Doggy

Yesterday Kaija got spayed. A special thanks to Dr. Phil Meyer of Wasilla Veterinary Clinic in Wasilla, Alaska. He comes to Kotzebue 4 times a year to provide us with quality health care for our pets. Without him we would have to send our pets out to Anchorage or Nome for spay and neuter surgery. He said that Kaija came through with flyying colors........


....but try tell that to Kaija. She doesn't look like she is feeling too colorful. We brought her home around 6pm yesterday and she was truly pathetic for the next 16 hours.


Doesn't she look pathetic?? Poor baby. at about noon today she brightened up a bit and ate a little bit of watery canned food and then went back in her kennel to hide. I truly feel sorry for her but I know that spaying her was the right decision for her health and safety.

Today the Boys and Girls club of Kotzebue is sponsoring a carnival at the elementary school. Kids games and food all for free. Uyaana is lookung forward to going. Maybe I will take my camera.

Berry Picking

We went berry picking yesterday evening. The low bush cranberries are just about ripe. Technically they are lingonberries....but around here we call them cranberries. I picked about 3 quarts.





Aren't those berries pretty. I like picking cranberries. You can pick them by the handful and fill up your bucket quickly.



Kaija had a great time digging for mice. Lucky for the mice she didn't find any.

Then I made her pose for pictures. She wasn't real thrilled about having to sit in one place for too long so her tail is down instead of all curly.





There were other people off in the distance also picking berries. She really wanted to go see them.





Ooh! What's that?!



It was raining over there but thankfully not on us.

Birthday Boy

Uyaana's birthday was September 7th. He is eight years old.

First Day of School

Today is Uyaana's first day of second grade. He was really looking forward it......that is until I had to wake him up this morning at 7:15am. As you can see he doesn't look quite as enthuastic as he did yesterday.

Summer's Last Hurrah.

This weekend may very well be summer's last hurrah. What a better place to spend it than out at camp. It was about 70 degrees.


Could it get any more beautiful out than this.......


or this....


or this.

Since it was so hot out we decided to set the net and go swimming.


There was a lot of clay on the beach and Uyaana had a great time playing in it......



....he smeared it all over himself and then as the clay started to dry on him he said...."hey my face is getting tight".



Even Kaija couldn't resist digging holes in the clay and smearing it all over herself.


After we set the net we decided to head to the other side of the river and swim at the sandbar and have a snack. Since this sandbar is on an island, with hopefully no porcupines, I decided to let Kaija run loose.


Kaija ran.....



and ran.......



and ran.



Meanwhile Uyaana found more mud.



He said that this was his "warm water hole". He spent a lot of time excavating it and building up the walls.



And then when he was done he sat in it.


After swimming we went back and checked out net. We caught two salmon and one itty bitty trout. We cooked salmon and trout on the campfire for dinner and then roasted marshmellows. It was a fun day.