Sunday, August 24, 2008

Fish Anyone?


So I made it back from Seward alive. Didn't get sick, didn't fall over the side of the boat, but boy did we catch the fish! Of the 3 boats we (our company) were on, my boat was the only one that limited out on Salmon and rock fish....SCORE! While the weather could have been better - it wasn't miserable - and we got fish! It was well worth getting up @ 2:00 am and driving the 3-1/2 hours to get there.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Boy, did I mess up on this one or what? I had promised that in my most recent post to add pics and I forgot until after I had hit the lovely "Publish Post" button. So I'm trying to get to my pics on my camera and transfer them over to my hard drive.....DO NOT ask what button I hit or clicked or pressed or whatever but I somehow managed to delete the whole %&*)&^&$ page! The entire folder is gone. I can't find it. So now I'm regrouping, grumbling, and cussing trying to see if by some miraculous chance I've saved the majority of them on my flash drive. Oh lord, this is not good!

Updates finally

Well, where do I start? We’re mid-August and as I’ve whined and complained before, we’ve had no summer. Ok, last week we had a couple of nice days. But even they didn’t last the entire day. Sorry, this year the weather has just been so discouraging. The leaves are already starting to turn on some of the trees and we’ve got leaves falling! This is just plain wrong. I’m afraid this doesn’t bode well for winter this year. I haven’t checked the winter forecast and I’m afraid to.
Work is busy as usual. Nothing exciting going on. Does having our CEO arrested by the FBI count as exciting? Ok, so it was a joke for his birthday. It was pretty funny – he was sooooo serious, scared – and was so professional about the whole thing. He was quiet and reserved – until he caught on to the joke. It was funny and he swore to get each one of us back! He enjoyed it so much he closed the office and let us all go home early, to enjoy his birthday!
J had a rough week. It all started last weekend – well no, it started several months ago when J went to the dentist for a root canal that ended up being some kind of medicated filling. Last Friday he bit down on a peanut (or cashew or walnut or one of them) and I guess it knocked the filling loose. Here comes the pain. It got worse on Saturday and by Sunday morning the side of his face looked like he had been in a boxing match – the losing side. Come Monday morning he was in the dentist office and by Monday afternoon they had pulled two teeth. Ok so he’s on the road to recovery, right? Wrong! Tuesday and Wednesday were worse. His face continued to swell and the pain just got worse. He’s back at the dentist Thursday morning and they do a root canal on a third tooth and more meds. The swelling is starting to go down and the pain isn’t nearly as bad. He has to go back to the dentist on Monday to fill the hole left in the side of his tooth. It’s been rough for him.
We’re supposed to be going fishing this Friday, 8/22. My boss has reserved 3 fish boats in Seward for the day. We’re closing the office (yes, again) and we’re all going down to Seward for the day.
Monday, 8/18, the grandkids are back in school. I can’t believe D is in the 5th grade and R is in the 1st grade. How time flies by. Seems like just yesterday D was going to kindergarten for her first day. They’re both growing up so fast.
The truly exciting news…….some of the Ohio family is coming to Alaska! Oh my goodness we are so pumped! So many things to do, where do we start? We only one week so we need to start some kind of plan but we don’t want to run them ragged. We’d be perfectly happy to sit around for a week and talk and talk and talk. And of course we know they’ll want to go off on their own at times so we don’t want to crowd them. It’s just so darned exciting to see them again. I hope they’re ready for pics and pics and more pics. I wish we could get the rest of the Ohio family up here but I truly do understand. Maybe someday…I’ll keep praying and dreaming!
Love and hugs and kisses to Ohio!

Sunday, August 03, 2008

August already?




Wow, where has the summer gone? Hopefully y'all had a summer. Here in Alaska we've had a total of about 1 week, maybe. This has got the be the worst summer by far. 2 days that hit 70 - even that's bad for Alaska. Most days have been in the 50's with rain, rain, and more rain. Heck, Fairbanks has so much rain they've declared areas a disaster.


Anyway, South Carolina in June was beautiful. Walking the shore and feeling the warm sand and the warm water was wonderful. Yes, it was hot - over 100, and I loved every sweaty minute of it.


Texas was a short trip mid-June. We had the combination of sun, heat, rain, high winds - all in 3 days! Wow, it was something. And the trip back from Texas was a trip all in itself! First, we were an hour late leaving Dallas/Ft Worth, for no known reason. By the time we got to Denver there was a huge storm and we couldn't land. We circled for about an hour and then were told we were diverting to Colorado Springs because we were running low on fuel - oh fun. By the time we got to Colorado Springs the storm had settled in there but we were able to land. We get into the terminal and were told we were being bussed back to Denver - WTF? We get on busses and ride all the way back to Denver and stand around for hours waiting in line to get hotel vouchers, taxi vouchers, meal vouchers, etc. The hotel was over 15 mile away and of course when we get to the hotel we're in the same long line waiting to get our rooms. Remember, this is the entire airplane waiting in line. The taxi ride cost $40 so we pulled our taxi vouchers. I got to my room @ 2:00 am and had to be back down in the lobby by 8:00 am to catch the shuttle back to the airport in time for my flight - not to Anchorage but to San Francisco and then to Anchorage. So rather than getting home Friday night @ midnight I got home about 10:00 pm Saturday night. Oh did I mention my luggage was lost in the ordeal? Thankfully it did show up in Anchorage.


Then there was the "Community Appreciation BBQ" we had in Adak. We closed the offices and flew all the employees to Adak for the BBQ. Quite the adventure. Coordinating the shipment of all the food, grills, necessities to Adak and then pulling it all together once we got there was daunting at times. But the sightseeing was wonderful. The attached photo was taken on Adak - unbelievable, huh? You would think you were on some tropical island at times. The scenery is great.


So, back home in Anchorage and we're back to the rain...LOL!


Ok, enough for now. Glad to hear others had good vacations and have enjoyed their summer!