...if you've started reading our great adventure today, you can find parts one and two here and here. We've a few more pages left to this story...... It was snowing lightly that first morning in Haines. Reports said blizzard, so we hurried thru breakfast. We should have savored it ....it was to be the last "normal" meal for a while. …
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Courage to Stand ….. 2nd of series
I've known my husband over 43 years. Doug is an original thinker. He's not afraid to try the untested. He has faults, but being wimpy is not one of them. It's one thing to sit behind a computer screen and type what you believe....it's something totally different to stand in front of people and say and/or do …
The End and the Beginning …..1st of series
My first meeting with Doug he talked about living in Alaska. But he talked then (as he talks now) about a lot of things. I didn't give it much importance. Personally, life was good. We bought our first home a couple of years earlier, had a beautiful 2 year old son, had just found out our second child was on the way....plus I'd …
Doug’s Big Bite
During our first couple years of marriage, Doug racked up an impressive 64 stitches, two front teeth knocked out and an assortment of casts and slings.....this was just from playing ice hockey. There was more trauma, but we don't have time here. Before marrying Doug I had never seen the inside of an emergency room....afterward.... it was …
Tiny Sourdoughs…not the food kind
We raised tough kids...they had to be...just to survive us. Technically, the small versions of Ian and David didn't qualify to be called real Alaskan Sourdoughs. But I wouldn't tell them that... They were there every step of the way as we hacked our way thru the overgrown woods and helped Fred make our house more …
FRED
I grew up where you locked your doors and didn't talk to strangers. Although we'd lived in Alaska for three years before moving to Chugiak, I still clung to many of my big city attitudes. The problem with that (not talking to strangers in particular) is it's tough to survive an inhospitable environment without a little help …
Chugiak House
Would you believe this guy if he told you he'd found a great house on eight acres, close in to Anchorage and all for only $25 bucks a month?? Yah, neither would I... if my head was on straight. But it wasn't. So I did. I'm sure you're wondering ...what kind of house do you get …
Reluctant Hostess on Steroids
Stealthy, silent...I move to the bedroom drapes. I carefully look thru the opening and see the enemy...two carloads of them. With no time to escape I step inside the bathroom, lock the door...and wait. "Brooke, you in there? We're waiting! Dinner's on!", my mother's voice, filled with joy, beckons. Rats...there's no way out of this. It was …
Buddy Breathing
My husband learned to scuba dive in Alaska. I'd send him off with two thermoses....one with hot water and one with coffee. When he got out of the water he'd pour the hot water into his gloves so he could warm up his fingers enough to get out of his gear and drink the coffee. …
“it’s safe to move about the cabin”
My youngest son turned 29 last week and it reminded me how much I hate flying. Conversely, I flew a lot last week and that always reminds me of Daniel. Does it not occur to anyone but me how unnatural it is to hurtle thru space in a metal object? And while you're up there …
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