Moose in the Garden

August 9...

My vegetable gardens. (As I go back through my summer I'm realizing I sure don't take photos like I used to).

August 11....

August 13....

Nick, Olivia and I took a 45-minute drive to the top of Murphy Dome to pick blueberries. They were so thick you could sit in one spot for 20 minutes without moving. We really should have gone several more times, but never got around to it. 

You can see the smokey haze behind Nick from the forest fires.

This is a stand of trees that I really like, but we decided to take them down. It's hard to gauge in the the photo, but with those ten or so trees gone we can fill in a fairly small hole and extend our usable property another 75 feet.

The cow and twin calves who have been destroying my flowers and vegetables showed up while we were outside. Of you look at the Impatiens in the lower right you can see where she ate the ends the night before. Those plants were two feet tall.

We chased her away and she just stood on the other side of the road watching and waiting for us to go inside. They want to drink out of the little pond. Our summer has been so dry and hot that the ponds in the area dried up.

We stood back and her she came walking right through the gate that isn't.

We chased her off again and later she snuck back around the other side of the house.

Ran her off again and she just came back in the middle of the night and ate. Next June and July we have to finish the fence before she comes around in August.

Some Alaskan Scenery

August 4...

One day it is a soccer Championship and the next day Emily is off to Tok to go to Shen Bible Camp. Busy girl! These photos are from our drive. It's a 400-mile round trip. I took Olivia and Lucas with me and they were outstanding... we drove straight down, spent 5 minutes dropping off Emily and headed back. We stopped 3 times on the way home. Alaskans really don't think twice about driving those kind of miles in a day. We just jump in the car and go.

Here's a calf moose we saw on the way down. 

Apparently camera shy! :)

This was the first stop after dropping Emily off. I could not resist picking up rocks for the pool.

Then we stopped in Delta (halfway) at the drive-in for lunch.

One last stop at the Knotty Shop for ice cream cones.

Finally, croquet at home in the beautiful weather. (And there is that bank still half done).

Nice Day....Big Animals

A few days back I spent part of the work day with my husband. I saw a whole herd of horses (must have been a dozen or so) and took a few photos. This horse was huge although that doesn't seem to come across in the photo. His hooves were almost dinner plate size!


Lori of Skoog Farms has a herd of horses of her own in New York. You should check them out. I'm sure she'll be disappointed to see these guys aren't wearing coats...it was pretty cold and windy plus it was snowing. In fact, we saw several dozen horses throughout the day and none were wearing coats or protected from the elements. I guess care is just different here than there. Anyhow, she has a beautiful herd and they are pampered!

We also saw a cow and calf moose on our drive. They didn't pay much attention to us even though we flew by them, backed up down the road and took a few photos.

A great day with an awesome man seeing some fabulous creatures.

Morning Moose

I ran out to get the dogs out of their fenced yard. Rusty was busy barking and wouldn't come to me. I looked up and this is what he was barking at.
Look who Mama Moose has following her. Twins!
The babies were checking me out.
They decided I wasn't a threat and went back to eating.

Daisy and Hans wanted to know who was walking around their yard.

Time to go. Thanks for visiting.
Mama Moose leads the way down the road.
The obedient little ones follow. What a great way to start the day!

Camera Critters

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This "little" lady was standing along the road on our way to Valdez last month.



Normally a moose will just stand there and let you take their photograph, but she was a bit jumpy and ran.



But not very far. She's standing just on the other side of this brush, but is almost invisible. This illustrates just how easily moose are hit....flying by at 60mph you wouldn't know she was there, but if something spooked her in a flash she'd be on your hood.