Saying Goodbye is Sad

June 24th, 2008 / Categories: Family, inspiration, knitting, sad, WOW! / 2 Comments »

these bags are from Ms. Hiroko A, a friend of Keiko who sent bags previously for the project.

So many times we get caught up in our lives – caught up in the lives of other people – caught up in projects (some good and some not so good – you all know the types) – and we put our hearts and souls into all these things . . . .

. . . . and then they come to an end – or at least the end of our part in them. Such is the Share-A-Square project and the offshoot Bag Project. Yesterday I received the last 5 bags needed (from Japan, no less!) to make up the 70 bags I had promised Shelly I could gather together.

Tomorrow I will box them up and ship them off to Shelly in time for her to take them, along with 140 precious afghans, to the children at Camp Sanguinity. Yes, friends, they are precious – they represent hours of love and work YOU have put into them – and, THAT is precious.

From the bottom of my heart – THANK YOU for helping Shelly reach her goal – thank you for your support in so many ways.

You are each very precious to me!

Here’s a very nice article about the entire project.

Sadly I won’t be able to join Shelly and Sherry and others to deliver the afghans – I had hoped to be able to go along – but, someday I trust and hope that I will get to meet these two dynamic ladies. You’ll all be the first to know when that happens!

Last day of Vacation

June 22nd, 2008 / Categories: Alaska, Family, Moose Nuggets, Moosin Around / Comments Closed

Okay – it wasn’t really a vacation – but I did take a bit over a week off work. June 30 is the end of our fiscal year and we cannot carry over more than 160 hours of annual leave. I was right on the cusp of that so needed to take some time off.

Didn’t go anywhere – but did have some much needed down time. I did have to go to work four hours last Wednesday for my CPR training – missed it in January when I had that pesky little heart attack. Other than that – no work for me.

Came home with BIG plans to clean my house and the like – haha! Didn’t happen. Well, I actually got this room straightened a bit – enough that I can at least walk into the room and find my way back out – without having to tie a rope around my waist for safety’s sake.

Hubby and I spent some time with Master TAT a week ago – and TAT and I had that lovely time with Miss Jackie, but other than that I actually kept pretty close to home – taking it easy. It was a much needed break (and, don’t tell anyone, but it is going to be a bit hard to go back to work tomorrow). 😉

Hubby and I decided that I couldn’t let the whole time slip away without at least getting out of town. We thought about running up to Anchorage, but he had some business appointments – so, we thought, how about Seward? It’s closer – so that even if we weren’t able to get a room for Saturday night (and we were not!!! Durned tourists! okay, just kidding) – well, it’s close enough for a day trip that wouldn’t wipe us out completely.

The plan was for us to sleep until we woke up this morning – get breakfast – get coffee – and get on the road. We headed for Seward just about noon. It was a drizzly sort of day, but we did find some sun spots here and there – and we had a lovely time together.

We saw some flora:
that’s an Arctic Rose – stopped alongside Kenai Lake and found a couple of huge bushes – can you see the rain drops? Well, maybe not in this smaller picture, but I hope to get some prints made of the larger shot. By the way – I know of at least one reader who likes to borrow other folks’ pictures. I don’t really mind, but please don’t forget to give credit where credit is due – okay? And it would be nice to ask first. But then, you all knew that.

We saw some fauna – first a shrew hightailed it across in front of our car – it made it safely into the underbrush. We saw a moose on the way home – and we saw a LOT of roadkill – looks like it is a big year for rabbits. (they are cyclical – I can’t remember if they have high years one in seven or one in two – I think it’s one in seven)

We visited the SeaLife Center and saw lots of animals there – harbor seals, and the like.

But on the way back from Lowell Point we saw:

see those two dots????

Here . . .

Sea otters just playing and rolling and eating while a fisherman sat quietly nearby watching them – and while we watched them. So cool!

On looking closer we noticed he did not even have his line in the water – he was so captivated by the otters – and I think he didn’t want to chance getting them tangled up in his line. You see the rushing water next to him? He is sitting on rocks below a spillway I guess you’d call it. Across the road where I am standing is a waterfall – it comes under the road and rushes into Resurrection Bay. His truck was parked nearby – and he walked down onto the rocks where he is sitting.

We also saw some kayakers –

We ate a late lunch/early dinner, walked along the harbor for a bit and then headed home. I took several more pictures in Seward and a couple of shots on the way home – I’ll show you at least the ones from the trip home next time.

I need to get off to bed soon – swimming early tomorrow and then off to work . . .

Mirror, Mirror

June 21st, 2008 / Categories: inspiration, Moose Nuggets, Moosin Around / 2 Comments »

Look into the mirror and tell me what you see . . . that is what Shelly is asking. Okay, she is ACTUALLY asking for one of those horror stories we all have in our closets – the one where we got all ready to go out and thought we were at our very, VERY, best-est (is, too a word!) and somewhere along the line, sometime much, much later (mayhaps even after we had gotten home) we discovered that . . .

. . . our hem was torn and hanging, or
. . . our slip was torn, hanging, AND showing, or
. . . we had GREEN stuck in our teeth (no WONDER he didn’t care to kiss us good night), or
. . . we had a “ladder” in our hose – or our seams weren’t straight, or

well, you get the idea. Each of us has something like that in our history – maybe it even happened TODAY!

What’ve you got? What’ve you got to lose? Head on over to Shelly’s and get the skinny on the contest, write it up and email her with a link.

Then, tell all of your friends about it!

Oh, yeah, there are PRIZES, too!!!! How much fun is that?

Divine Appointment

June 21st, 2008 / Categories: Moose Nuggets / Comments Closed

It’s a God thang . . .

Left hubby at the breakfast table – a buddy of his joined him as I left, so it was all good – to go and meet some of the Soldotna knitters for coffee.

I had not checked the Ravelry board before going over – figured even if nobody showed up I would get a cup of good coffee out of the deal. None of the knitters were there . . . but . . .

an acquaintance of mine – met through work – was there and introduced me to her friend – who it turns out I also have spoken with before because of work (on the phone). We sat and chatted about an idea they have for a women’s Bible study group where I work – and some of the road blocks that can (and/or have) come up due to the type work I do and the type of agency for which I work.

“normally” they would not have been at that coffee shop, but their regular meeting place was too crowded – “normally” (if I had checked the board before going and known nobody was going to be there) I would not have gone. BUT, God had a different idea and allowed the three of us to come together for an hour of chatting – work related and personal, too –

all in HIS time. His appointed time.

I love how things like this come together.

TAT’s day in pictures

June 15th, 2008 / Categories: Moose Nuggets / 2 Comments »

Okay, TAT’s mama says I can share piccies – so here you go

Here is TAT with a friend of hubby’s – Sport Lake – this is where hubby and sons-in-law and friends take the boat each spring for its first post-thaw run. Gotta check everything out beFORE you put her into the big water, you see.


You might be asking yourself . . . what is that line in the front of the picture?

mama duck and four little ducklings scooting along in front of us. Cute, huh?


And, here is Paw-Paw showing Master TAT how to cast out into the lake, then to tease the fish a bit until the bobber goes under – and then PULL! Have you ever seen such concentration?
😉


Looks like he caught on, huh?


this is one of my favorite pictures of the day – he just sort of hunkered down and waited and waited and waited some more – this was after he had caught two fish – there was another really good bite, but that fish was lost – after that it was just wait, and wait some more.

I’m pretty sure TAT had a good day – I KNOW that Paw-Paw and I had a good day. Now we just have to build up our strength in case the other 6 grandkiddos request a sleepover with Nana and Paw-Paw.
😉

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