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Stephanie Carey
PO Box 111473
Anchorage, AK 99511-1473

Labor Day Weekend

It was a beautiful weekend in the 60's. I went hiking with my friends Cheryl and Frances--Emma and Jelly too. We started at Thunderbird Falls and then moved on to Eklutna Lake. Eklutna Lake in is the Chugach Mountains--it's a very cool state park. You can rent bikes and kayaks--camp, 4 wheel--It's open year round, so I bet the X skiing is awesome!

We then explored the old village of Eklutna--there is a Russian Orthodox-Native Church and cemetery. These are Spirit Houses in the cemetery.

Moose Vandal!

Our garden was trash--the brussel sprout--ripped to shreds! The cabbage--gone! The climbing peas--I found 10! Broccoli--stems! The culprit...just look at the turds! The fence was trampled and at some places the big ole vermin just reached his head over and gobbled up the goods :( Guess what's for dinner next week!?!

Christopher Turns 21

Chris will be here for his 21st birthday. He arrives September 24 and stays until October 12th. I can't wait to see him and buy him his 1st legal beer! We may even go camping--LOL!

Honestly, I am a Teacher--Not just playing one!

It was Open House this past week at Mears Middle School. I was dressed in my finest teacher garb and had a big smile on my face!! Two an half weeks down--how many more to go? Note my awesome Smartboard and brand new textbooks--I had to show those off to the parents. Everything in the text is online as well--I can also project all onto to my "very" smartboard--and write on it as well--in colors no less! WORKSHEET MANIA--here we come LOL! Totally awesome--especially since I figured out how to use it all by myself!

Next to my desk is my Michigan wall--whenever I get homesick I just look at the wall of pictures--you are all there!

My new room is awesome--I have 3 big windows and a view of the mountains. I just love it!

Larry is off moose hunting for 2 weeks, so I am staying at Rabbit Creek B & B (Denise's) during the week. He already got one, so we can eat this winter. I just hope we can harvest enough taters from the garden to hold us over. Thanks goodness for the caribou he got last month--we can trade off vermin for supper! Ha ha, just kidding--I'm not that "backwoods" yet?!? We do have taters though! And Larry brought me back some caribou antlers (shed) from his trip. He kept the "rack" from our soon to be meals. It might turn into another coat rack or perhaps a towel rack for the bathroom, or maybe a flannel PJ rack? The decorating possibilities are endless...