"HE is before all things, and in HIM all things hold together"... Colossians 1:17 Wish I'd known that verse before we left Destruction Bay. But maybe it wouldn't have mattered. What I did know that morning .... God's handiwork dazzled our eyes around every turn. It was too big to capture with a cheap camera. …
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Into the Snow ….. 3rd of series
...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. …
Dan Bronson…”Nothin’ but the best” ……….
I've been thinking a lot about my grandfather today. It's his birthday. He was a cowboy and a truck driver. In his mind, his family deserved "nothin' but the best" ...and it was evident in how he cared for all of us. I had the privilege of seeing him rock each one of my children …
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 …
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