tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56391286239260297112024-03-13T09:08:14.161-07:00Life's PathA little aviation, food, subsistence, and life in bush AlaskaJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-525047679807041482023-01-16T17:26:00.011-08:002023-01-16T17:42:01.193-08:00Grit<p><span> "Should I send in some powdered eggs?" I asked in preparation for my first year on the island.</span><br /></p><p><span><span> "Why, what are those?" the person on the other end of the phone replied.</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span><span> "Well, they are dried eggs that you rehydrate... never mind, can I get eggs there?"</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span> "Yes, they sell them right in the store."</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span> I had been out to Saint Lawrence Island the year before as a part of a church mission trip, but we had traveled there with all of our own supplies in boxes we carried onto the plane. There had also been a potluck held as part of a church conference we were there for. I still think back in awe to the size of the bowl containing green jello that seemed to evaporate as people moved through the line. So, I was not thinking about what I would eat for an entire year for the three days we had visited like I was now in preparation for my first year as a middle school teacher there.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p> I had grown up reading <i>Hatchet, My side of the Mountain, </i>and watching movies like <i>Swiss Family Robison, </i>and <i>Mountain Family Robinson.</i> Living in a tree with a pet raccoon seemed like an ideal existence to me even at the age of twenty-two. When I had walked into the job fair in Anchorage, I knew that I could not walk out without a job. I didn't have the pet raccoon yet, but I was willing to live in a tree.</p><p><i> "W</i>hat would it take to make you happy in Alaska?" Jim Hickerson, the Bering Strait School District representative had asked.<br /></p><p><span> "Well, I grew up in northern Michigan, and so I'd like good fishing, hunting, and trees," was my very simple response.</span><br /></p><p><span><span> I had laughed when he offered me Savoonga, "I've been there and know they don't have trees."</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span><span> He began describing the other offering as clinging to the side of a rock in the middle of the Bering Sea, and all of a sudden Savoonga looked really appealing.</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span> While at new teacher in-service, I bought one box of silver salmon and one box of king crab from the local fishery in Unalakleet. I ordered what seemed like a fortune at the time in groceries from Sam's Club's bush department. They informed me that my food would arrive in Savoonga in a week.</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span> When a week came and went, I waited another before calling them.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span> "We have no record of your order," the frank individual informed me, "but we would be happy to help you place one."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Having two boxes of crab and salmon, I was not starving, but fish on the menu every night was starting to get old.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "You need to call Steve and Sherry Frank," my two new teaching friends, Cory and Susie insisted.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "You need one spark plug, and you can call them up and they'll get it for you," Cory had explained.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Or, if you need a fifty-pound bag of rice, they'll get that for you," Susie added.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> I needed the rice.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Two decades later, and Steve and Sherry of ASAP Shopping Service still hold a position of sainthood in my heart. They found everything on my list and shipped it, and when they were all done, I still had both my arms and legs... and my belly wasn't growling anymore.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> When the boxes arrived via the local airlines, I felt like the wealthiest man in Alaska. I unpacked each box slowly on the kitchen table, almost drooling over the contents as I dreamed of what I would cook first on my avocado colored cook stove two feet away. I packed the perishables in the freezer/fridge. In 2001, I never gave a second thought to the longevity of 1970s appliances, but I wonder now if a new teacher was greeted to that same duplex by the welcoming glow of a pilot light from that same cook stove this year.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> I made breakfast the next day and looked out of my living room window, around the clod of mud lodged between the two panes of glass, with idealism.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Food was not the only hurdle that greeted me upon arrival. I walked into the room that would be my first classroom and was met by a bare plywood floor, tables with boxes piled three high on them, and shelves full of library books and the reading primers for the entire school. The old school library was being converted to become the new seventh grade classroom, and I was assured that in a week that the boxes would be gone, the floor carpeted, and my room ready for the twenty-two young teen bodies that would be occupying it. I optimistically took the new assistant principal's word and loaded on the plane for the all staff in-service that would be taking place in Unalakleet. Oh, and my living room window would be replaced by maintenance before I got back.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> All staff in-service in the Bering Straits School District is a unique experience. There is no hotel in Unalakleet and no possible way that the few bed and breakfasts could host the teaching and administrative staffs of fourteen visiting schools. So, it is basically a huge adult slumber party with single males occupying one batch of classrooms, single females in another, and married teaching couples spread around to smaller offices and support rooms.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> There were no cell phones at that time, internet was limited, and so we did what people did in our off hours: cards, board games, read, talked, and the younger folks (this included me at the time) would play pick-up basketball in the evenings. The working hours were occupied with meetings on Success for All (the reading program I was told I would not be teaching), curriculum, and a few just for fun classes mixed in (I learned how to make a fire with a bow drill at one one of my early BSSD all staff in-services). At night, I'd crawl into my sleeping bag over a Thermarest sleeping pad on a hard classroom floor. In the morning, I'd wake early in an attempt to get a shower in the small locker room before the other couple hundred educators woke to start their day. All the meals were served in the school lunchroom. Being fresh out of college, I was still very used to cafeteria food, and not having much food at my apartment back in Savoonga, was not very picky about what I ate.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> I sat down with a retirement counselor and set up my retirement investments because it seemed like the right thing to do, not because I ever thought I would reach retirement age. That was an eternity away, and I was only planning on being in Alaska for three years. In fact, I had promised my mother that I would return to Michigan to teach and farm after that time. She cried anyway watching me pull out of the driveway.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> When inservice was over, optimistic teachers from around the entire district waited their turns to board airplanes heading back to their sites. It was a Friday, and school started on Monday. We were excited and ready for another, I was ready for my first, year.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> It didn't really bother me that the mud clod was still in my window when I arrived home. I was sure maintenance would get to it. And, when the visiting Success for All (SFA) facilitator told me on Sunday afternoon that I would end up teaching an SFA class after all, I took it in stride as though it was something normal to find out I was teaching a class I had never taught before the day before I would be teaching it. I spent Sunday night preparing my SFA lessons and setting up my classroom (which did have carpet albeit the books and shelves were all still in there) for SFA.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Clean shirt and tie, I stood before my first classroom of students for homeroom on Monday.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "John?" I read from my classroom roster.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "He is at fish camp," a student replied, "and probably won't be back until after whaling season."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Oh, how long is that?" I asked naively.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Next month or the month after," the same student offered.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> I tried to hide my shock and went on to the next name, an evidently feminine one.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Here," came a voice from the middle of the class.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> My students knew I was a first-year teacher, and evidently were trying to pull a fast one on me.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "This is a girl's name," I pointed out.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I'm a girl," came the same voice again and I reassessed her short bowl-style haircut.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Oh, yeah, of course you are," and I continued on down the roll discovering that most, if not all, of my students went by their native names rather than the English ones listed on the paper the office had supplied me with.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> I somehow survived day one, came back for day two, and went on to have a great first semester filled with more than my fair share of learning experiences, bumps in the road, and hurdles. Somehow during that time, I learned all 22 of my students' English names as well as all 22 of their native names. I picked up a small Siberian Yupik vocabulary to the point that I could understand when a student was calling me stupid (which I was on some occasions). I also made the choice somewhere in there to love my students like they were my own kids.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Are you coming back after Christmas?" a student pointedly asked.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Of course," I answered.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> The thought of not returning after Christmas had never crossed my mind, but evidently it had crossed my students' minds as it was something they had experienced with teachers in the past.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "You came back," was the chorus that greeted me from a class of smiling faces after the holiday break.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> It was not all easy sailing after that. Students didn't just magically start doing what I asked of them. Attendance for some was a real challenge, homework was almost impossible to get back, classroom management was held together by a thin thread at times, and I continued to try to fit into a culture very different from the one that I had grown up in, but the simple act of returning after break made a big difference in the trust my students had in me.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Hey, cut it out," a young man in my classroom corrected one of his classmates, "you need to hear this, Jason cares about us."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> His classmate quit his screwing around and got back to work. I hope my student advocate understands how much I needed and appreciated his help.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> After the students left on the last day of my first year of teaching, I held my hands above my head and made a guttural noise of elation. I had made it. My first year was behind me and living through and enjoying two more in Alaska seemed much more attainable than it did on day one.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> A couple of days later, I packed up my bag and took one more look past the mud clod in my living room window and headed out to the airport.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRMQ5lC2nne9s735LQOqvCqZU4oadaqgnru0qKVy9P20HfRRAfG5RApJz_0WJ3LaG44g4xNcyT6DRGKaFzYbKLRPoFcLyfbDQVZRXtvvIQkchGX8pfBoOOLqG-yKPNhydeAVE4EqPRDpZxB7PhDnOFtXBbTQKfRGNAXqeN1RsA-fPTywVu1yNHjh8/s4032/jason%20in%20sva.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzRMQ5lC2nne9s735LQOqvCqZU4oadaqgnru0qKVy9P20HfRRAfG5RApJz_0WJ3LaG44g4xNcyT6DRGKaFzYbKLRPoFcLyfbDQVZRXtvvIQkchGX8pfBoOOLqG-yKPNhydeAVE4EqPRDpZxB7PhDnOFtXBbTQKfRGNAXqeN1RsA-fPTywVu1yNHjh8/s320/jason%20in%20sva.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first kitchen in Savoonga</td></tr></tbody></table><span><span><span><br /><span><br /></span></span></span></span><p></p><p><span> </span><br /></p>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-3381379873585548192022-03-13T17:39:00.004-07:002022-03-13T17:54:31.664-07:00Corporal Wheeler<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span> "That's not him," Amouk insisted as she looked down at the obituary pulled up on the small phone screen. "He had blonde hair and blue eyes."</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span> She continued to read down through the announcement. It was already five years old, he had passed in March of 2017, and she closed her eyes to see backward better.</span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span> "He never talked about his family," she said as her eyes opened and she looked down into the picture of an old man and saw the boy she had known. "I'd be a widow now then... well, I'm a widow already."</span><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span> Amouk's mind traveled back in time 75 years.</span><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span> "Ellen, marry me," the young Corporal proposed. He was from Chicago and would return there, hopeful that she would accompany him.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I'll have to ask my mama," she had answered, and so she did when she went home from her walk with the handsome corporal.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> After some thought, her mother had answered, "I want to be able to speak with my son-in-law and his family," The answer had been spoken in Inupiaq.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Ellen had just looked away.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "And it is so far. You would be so far away from me," her mother had continued.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Returning to the present for a moment, Amouk explained, "She had just lost my sisters as they were about the age of being married. My one sister was engaged when she died from the flu. 1945. Daddy had gone back to herding reindeer that season. They buried the girls. I couldn't leave her too."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I'm flying out, and I want you to come with me," the Corporal explained.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I can't," was Ellen's only answer.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Ride with me in the taxi to the airport?" he had asked.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> She did, and the ride had been a tearful one, the young man unable to convince her to continue on with him.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Amouk looked back down at the obituary and saw the names of his children, "We could have four children, he had told me. It couldn't be. I went home and decided I couldn't even keep his picture. Someday my future husband might come home and see it. I got rid of his photo."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Amouk braced herself with one hand on the countertop and swung at my arm with the full force of her 92-year-old frame. I stood still to allow the impact.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I told you not to go searching for him," and she shook her head as she made her way to the living room.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> She sat on the couch, "We were such good friends. We could just walk and talk and talk. It must have been 1947, but my mom had just lost my sisters."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I met Howard, my husband, later and had to learn to speak Siberian Yupik to talk with his family. My mom couldn't speak with his family either," Amouk laughed at the irony.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "You made me promise not to move your daughter too far from you," I reminded her of our conversation when I had asked for her daughter's hand.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Amouk returned my smile. I now had a better understanding of the importance of that promise.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1UIfYTPb51FiEHtA3bcWdsLUJpPiLlsGJgzWS7O9Eg62VPY-8F_HF0d4eSrAJ8fzRjTNUgWL7xmBB752gjkUdNGCrmrHl6lQSqE_tVe4Hvx9XoquphOCCwnCvDoeeOX8TVl1BnCSkD_IdaW9MoIJRJQhAkTtlfeIgxJz1iaPP54XjdYDAwu8gvAi0=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1UIfYTPb51FiEHtA3bcWdsLUJpPiLlsGJgzWS7O9Eg62VPY-8F_HF0d4eSrAJ8fzRjTNUgWL7xmBB752gjkUdNGCrmrHl6lQSqE_tVe4Hvx9XoquphOCCwnCvDoeeOX8TVl1BnCSkD_IdaW9MoIJRJQhAkTtlfeIgxJz1iaPP54XjdYDAwu8gvAi0=w240-h320" title="A young Ellen in Nome (early 1950s)" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Ellen in Nome (early 1950s)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br /><p></p>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-86483398852138526862021-03-27T13:12:00.000-07:002021-03-27T13:12:56.634-07:00Suffer the little children...<p>But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." Matthew 19:14 (NLV)</p><p><br /></p><p><span> "You're not in trouble," I started my usual spiel. "There are a couple of people that would like to ask you some questions in the office."</span><br /></p><p><span><span> The unsure girl who stood up to my waist followed closely behind me as I attempted to maneuver so that we were walking side by side.</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span><span> "Okay," she said, her hands fidgeting, looking for something to do.</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span> We turned the corner, and she stepped through the office door before me. The adults in the office attempted reassuring smiles, smiles of strangers who meant well, but had difficult questions to ask.</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span> It is not required that a school official be present at meetings like this, but I always offer, "Would you like me to stay with you through this?"</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Stay," the little girl said barely above a whisper.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Introductions, easy questions, and then the tough ones always start.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Can you describe the last time you were afraid? When was the last time you saw the police? Does anyone in your family drink? When was the last time? Do they get physical when they drink?"</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> My older girl was this girl's age at one time, my younger girl goes to class only just down the hall from her.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "What is your favorite food?"</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Moose soup," the girl smiled back.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Moose soup, I enjoy that quite a bit myself. Do you get enough to eat?"</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span>"When there is food in the house," she said looking down and the words trailing off.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span>"Does your dad have a wife or other significant other?" the questions continued.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> The little girl answered about topics that I didn't even know about until my twenties, her voice always quiet, a tear once in a while would work its way down her cheek.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I'm sorry," the case worker said at one point, "I don't mean to make you sad. Do you have someone to talk to when you feel sad?"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> The little girl looked up into the face of the case worker, but she didn't have an answer.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "What is something you enjoy doing with your dad?" he worked at changing the mood to something positive for the girl to hold onto.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> When she didn't answer, he prodded a little to give her help in the question, "When was the last</span> time you had fun with your dad or what is something that you really like about him?"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I don't know," she looked at her hands in her lap.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> What if this was one of my girls? How would they answer? What is something you like about your dad? When was the last time you had fun with him or something you really like about him?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> My thoughts went to walking in knee deep snow, breaking trail for a ten-year-old who was not terribly keen on walking so that we could check her little trapline. I went back in my mind to a four-year-old on skates pushing a chair around a rink, family dinners, books at bedtime, pulling the covers up around the chin of a sleeping teen with her dog pressed tight beside her.</span> </span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> We are given these gifts for such a short time.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "Okay, that is really all the questions I have," the case worker began wrapping things up, "you can go back to class."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I can walk you back," a voice I recognized as mine brought me back to the present, "if you feel you are ready."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> "I'm ready," the little girl said as she stood from her chair.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> We walked in silence to the gym where her class was happily running around in a game of caribou, caribou. She jumped right in as though the last ten minutes had never happened and crossed the gym evading her classmates acting as wolves. They were not the first she'd seen.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWcFr5lU2DK6FvpuTeTyCDCfyXHG1Ciy2OzWeULCbG1GkZ0qxmZFy4GoCe1U65RQ3sI0bDGdeFLve311vdq4Lb-tT8uJzAX_I5LnIu1Z7eSylTc6YheyB_usa_ZhtBKWcefxvTP1Am-Ng/s2048/bub+on+skates.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWcFr5lU2DK6FvpuTeTyCDCfyXHG1Ciy2OzWeULCbG1GkZ0qxmZFy4GoCe1U65RQ3sI0bDGdeFLve311vdq4Lb-tT8uJzAX_I5LnIu1Z7eSylTc6YheyB_usa_ZhtBKWcefxvTP1Am-Ng/s320/bub+on+skates.HEIC" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are given these gifts for such a short time.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-47838563825307127542020-11-21T12:13:00.002-08:002020-11-21T12:13:39.005-08:00A Seed Is Planted: Year One Results of the Unalakleet Muktuk Marston Victory Garden<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhv3m-RaweKNq9vQEkEYK5UPub5M6iiTI_NzT9bqmwraVufE1QcgNvA2dsn8k3yvhFYjA7pJiEXedKw_YhutN2pbRchYvna5RyAoUuHSBpEFofGA_AGgeuhdhvciDxedpq-XF9aLr7Pvc/s640/kids+delivering+potatoes+to+elders.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhv3m-RaweKNq9vQEkEYK5UPub5M6iiTI_NzT9bqmwraVufE1QcgNvA2dsn8k3yvhFYjA7pJiEXedKw_YhutN2pbRchYvna5RyAoUuHSBpEFofGA_AGgeuhdhvciDxedpq-XF9aLr7Pvc/s320/kids+delivering+potatoes+to+elders.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students helping deliver this year's crop to local elders (Photo courtesy Nick Bruckner)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> There is something magical about the potato. Dig a hole, drop it in the ground, water it (or don’t), hill it (or don’t), and it multiplies itself.</p><p> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When we started planting the victory garden this spring, no one was sure what to expect. More than a handful of volunteers didn’t realize that a seed potato was just a potato. When 1600 pounds showed up, they were somewhat shocked.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The ground that had not been worked for years fought our efforts at first. It was too wet and sucked in the equipment we used to break it up. Then it was too hard and resisted every attempt to sink a spade. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The volunteers invested their sweat equity with smiles on their faces, but secretly were unsure they would ever see a dividend. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This summer’s growing season in Unalakleet was about ideal. There was plenty of sun and it rained at least every couple of days. We were set up to irrigate, but conditions were such that we only got to fire up the new water pump once.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXj1Mc9s09ltWHJ1GavE64-pxc7sr-A6yCZzrBtpjykhgvHSouW_ZORL5BE0DaWE8G5s5fy9PtAJP4mjQroFSeexWMUtK_04OMlvmQfjMEHZhcHMaL2TlskknWvCv82CyGmH_qjPXjokQ/s2048/potato+plants+poking+through.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXj1Mc9s09ltWHJ1GavE64-pxc7sr-A6yCZzrBtpjykhgvHSouW_ZORL5BE0DaWE8G5s5fy9PtAJP4mjQroFSeexWMUtK_04OMlvmQfjMEHZhcHMaL2TlskknWvCv82CyGmH_qjPXjokQ/s320/potato+plants+poking+through.HEIC" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who could tell what was going on below the soil in these mulched potato rows?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We mulched for weed control as much as our young 4-year-old apprentice would allow.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Dad! I’m getting eaten,” I would hear from across the field.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In Ellen’s defense, she does not remember interior Alaskan mosquitos.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Let’s go Dad, I’m itchy!”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They were slow at first, but with each trip up to the field, we were greeted with more and more plants pushing up through the clay. Even so, it was hard to say what was really going on below the surface.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first killing frost knocked back the plants and signaled that it was time to harvest. There is a short window in Alaska between killing frost and frozen like concrete. Families gathered at the field unsure what to expect.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Wow, this comes from one seed?” a surprised volunteer laughed as he turned his first spade full of soil over and beautiful Yukon Golds tumbled out.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kids ran through the field looking for the biggest, smallest, weirdest… bounding from hill to hill “helping” the adults draw the harvest from the ground.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>By the time the whole field (about a half-acre) was harvested, the small crew of volunteers had gathered around 3000 pounds of potatoes.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It’ll be a little easier next year,” Abel commented as he loaded his crew into their truck.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We will have more things in place when we do this again,” another dad agreed.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Yeah, next year…”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This year, a seed was planted. Yes, potato, but beyond that, a seed was planted showing families that we can produce our own food again like our parents and grandparents did. And, maybe we can even live out Muktuk Marston’s ideal of an agriculturally self-sufficient bush Alaska. At least in our little part of it.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghO1OXQ25exU6IqVNq5n7p2_hICYpZ3DOeZm2S61rODU0_9lVNVo2234yp5Fn7GsWyxHNE9ECpF-7aM-mzCmerM5EJrlfjK_tPfPn-idkKa0muY-8fCcD66F_9BbPk3V_pCKSxQnx2HSo/s518/potato+holiday.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghO1OXQ25exU6IqVNq5n7p2_hICYpZ3DOeZm2S61rODU0_9lVNVo2234yp5Fn7GsWyxHNE9ECpF-7aM-mzCmerM5EJrlfjK_tPfPn-idkKa0muY-8fCcD66F_9BbPk3V_pCKSxQnx2HSo/s320/potato+holiday.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potato Holiday of the past (photo courtesy Jeff Erickson)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This Year’s Numbers:</p><p>1600# of Seed Potatoes (About 1000# planted)</p><p>½ Acre Planted</p><p>3000# of potatoes harvested</p><p>75 Elder Households fed</p><p>30 Volunteer families receiving shares of potatoes</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you again to our partners:</p><p>Marston Foundation<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Northern Air Cargo<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Everts Air Cargo<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AK Specialty Crops</p><p>Susitna Organics<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Unalakleet Covenant Church<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bering Straits Native Corporation<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </p><p>North River Bible Camp</p><p>Native Village of Unalakleet<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Norton Sound Seafood Products<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><br /></p>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-10910289840953650742020-11-13T23:11:00.003-08:002020-11-13T23:13:26.778-08:00November Is Apple Pie Month <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> November is apple pie month. In a year of fierce disagreements, this is a simple fact that is not up for debate. Plenty of people have told me that they don’t like apple pie, but it is just because they have never had the right one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They picture a Marie Callender’s apple pie coming from the freezer section, going into the oven, and coming out… ordinary. Nothing against Mrs. Callender, I am sure she is a fine woman, but her apple pie comes up short and is only one of the examples that have caused Americans to move away from what was once the very epitome of what was great about this country.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Oh no,” I have been corrected during debate, “my mom made homemade apple pie, and it still is not my favorite.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Upon further investigation, “homemade” was a store-bought crust and a can of pie filling from the shelf at IGA.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“My mom,” I begin, “can make a pie.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It is hard to even write about it without my salivary glands waking up and paying attention. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pies in my parents’ house growing up started with my dad and I picking a truck load of apples. As fall drew near around late August or early September, he and I would climb in his full-size Chevy Blazer, connect the utility trailer my grandfather had built what seemed like to a young kid a hundred years ago, and pointed the nose of the truck toward Posen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My dad was a UPS driver with his route taking him to the small agricultural town just outside of Alpena. He easily made friends with his customers, one of whom offered the apples from the trees lining his cow pastures. The cows would push through the fence to get the apples that fell in the ditch, and the farmer was happy to have them gone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My dad and I would work our way down the fence line, tasting apples from the trees as we went, determining which ones would go in pies, which would become sauce, which would get eaten fresh, and which ones the deer would get in the feed piles near our hunting blinds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They were all wild apples from trees that had sprung up of their own accord and were left to fend for themselves. And, they produced some of the best tasting apples that so many of my childhood memories are made of.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“This one’s a good one,” Dad would squint one eye as he bit into an apple tart enough to make his whole face pucker up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He would hand me a sample, I’d agree, and those apples would get set aside for pies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>At home, in the evening after work, my dad would go out to where the apples were piled by our shed, grab five gallons worth of pie apples in an old bucket, bring them into the house, head down to the basement, turn on the news, and begin to peel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My mom would always act surprised when he would return up the stairs after the news with a bucket of peeled and cored apples.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Oh, my,” she would exclaim in the same way about every time, “what am I supposed to do with all these?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He would look at me out of the corner of his eye and say something like, “Well Mom, we haven’t had a pie in a while now.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Time is a relative thing, but “a while” in reference to pie in my childhood home in the fall referred to approximately two days.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Well,” she would sigh, “I guess I’m due to make a pie.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Evidently “a pie” is a collective term for six pies, because when she was done, there would generally be a half-dozen put together, crusts from scratch, filling from real ingredients, some for the freezer and a couple for eating right away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My Dad would drop a pie off at Chuck Allison’s place about once a week. He was a good family friend and was like an uncle to me. He was also a special challenge for my mom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“All right Chuck,” she would say as he handed her the empty pie plate at church, “how was this one?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Well Nan,” he would him and haw a little, “not going to lie to you. It was a pretty good pie.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mom would smile knowing Chuck had not completed his review yet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“But,” he would continue, “it could’ve used a little more cinnamon, and if you send another my way, I’ll gladly try it for you again and let you know if you get it right.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mom would laugh, shake her head, and walk away with the empty pan. Chuck would look at me, push out his dentures and wink. He knew he’d be getting another pie next week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Traditions changed a little when I left for my first year of college. I missed gathering apples, but more tragically, I wasn’t there when the hot pie came from the oven. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>At the dining hall, I bit into a piece of apple pie, tasted it and let my fork fall to my plate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“What’s wrong?” my roommate asked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Well, it isn’t exactly home cooking,” I complained.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“The food here is just as good as what my mom makes,” he replied.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I silently mourned for this poor guy’s childhood.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mom found a way though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You think it will ship?” she asked my dad as she held up a freshly baked pie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He took it from her, shrugged his shoulders, found a box and started a forty-five-minute process of armor plating that pie to improve its survival chances. When he was all done, he stood in front of my mom with the box at chest height, turned it upside down, and dropped it to the floor. He picked it up, opened the box and pulled the perfectly unscathed apple pie from inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It’ll make it.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My roommates and I were on a first name basis with the UPS guy. He’d come in with a box we knew held pie, sit down, and drink a bottle of coke that we offered him. When he would head back out, the guys in the dorm room would celebrate pie day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“What’s pie day?” Bob, a new initiate to the celebration naively asked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Well, you see,” my roommate started, “Jason’s mom bakes a pie and ships it to us about once a week. When it gets here, we eat it.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bob looked on not completely understanding the sheer look of excitement in my roommate’s eyes as he did a Wile E. Coyote dance across the room looking for the knife. It was, after all, just a pie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Well, I guess I’ll try a slice,” he shrugged.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We opened up the pie, I looked down holding the knife, and asked the logical question, “How do you cut a pie into thirds?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“What?” Bob asked incredulously, but he had found a new understanding as we all laid around the room enjoying the euphoria that came from eating a third of my mom’s apple pie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>From then on, Bob just kind of knew when the UPS truck would show up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tradition changed once again upon my accepting a job in Alaska. I hugged my mom and assured her it was only for three years and that I would move back to Michigan to teach after scratching the adventure itch. Inadvertently, I moved out of pie range. Though my dad was sure he could armor plate a pie to survive even the beating USPS and the village airlines would put it through, my mom was not convinced it would not spoil in transit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They began armor plating apples and sending up two boxes of a bushel a piece. Kids in Savoonga began finding out that there were more than the two varieties they knew: red and green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I don’t like red apples,” a student exclaimed as I handed him one to try.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“That’s because you have only had Red Delicious your whole life,” I said as he took the Mac I was offering. <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Wow, this is good,” he said as his eyes opened literally and figuratively.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And, I began making my own pies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Jody,” I called my sister, “do you have Mom’s pie recipe?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Uh,” she responded, “I don’t need it. I just drive over to her house.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mom sent me a box with all of the necessary recipes for adult life shortly thereafter. I think she has tried to give them unsuccessfully to my sister too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As I made my first pie, I read the note next to the teaspoon of cinnamon, “I use more.” I couldn’t help but think of Chuck as I turned the cinnamon container over and began beating the bottom.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shortly after making that first pie, I met the woman who would become my wife, and it kind of put a little kink in my three year plan. Mom and Dad celebrated with us at the wedding, and then continued sending two bushels of apples each fall. We adopted a daughter who quickly earned the nickname “Two-a-Day Romay,” because, unchecked, she could eat a half-dozen apples on her own in a couple hours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Myra and I took apple pies to family gatherings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You guys are in charge of the pies from now on,” my nephew mumbled through a mouthful of his second piece.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In a year when we can’t travel to see family back east and the tie to home is blatantly more important, my younger daughter squealed as I carried a box up the porch stairs, “Oh, that one smells wonderful… its apples. Open it Dad, open it,” she encouraged as I put it down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Besides needing the same limit we put on her sister, Ellen has also taken up her mom’s habit of sneaking an apple out of a freshly baked pie. I pretend to be upset, but all that does is encourage the both of them to continue their bad behavior.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> This year marks my twentieth in Alaska, and people continue to ask if I miss Michigan and if I ever think about moving back. I have gotten slower to answer. My mind drifts to the sun rising over Lake Huron, the red and orange painted across the hills of hardwood in autumn, the feeling of the first dip of the year in the lake, the smell of fallen leaves during bird season, the sound of a summer breeze kicking through the aspen, and the taste is always apples.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But, this is where God has me now, and I am happy in that.</div><div><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikN6aK1B2g0MGBV1CrPsIteSoREGYcg04yRQPHI6RM6xvgyngrkhAzg1Y_NuEugIj10nlT3bFFEGFoMlwv3pSVIiydhAYqq2IzqLsTywPKLPa-wlLyT79cxEtZfr-fmrDSsUec8eMu4yg/s2016/apple+pie.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikN6aK1B2g0MGBV1CrPsIteSoREGYcg04yRQPHI6RM6xvgyngrkhAzg1Y_NuEugIj10nlT3bFFEGFoMlwv3pSVIiydhAYqq2IzqLsTywPKLPa-wlLyT79cxEtZfr-fmrDSsUec8eMu4yg/s320/apple+pie.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-84561609579360499702020-11-01T09:56:00.003-08:002020-11-01T09:57:34.454-08:00Halloween 2020: Coming out of Retirement<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BHIZFXOh6dnqKt6W1fQcYTe-bAz9UyYlvskVHIkcclMqY_HDTN6-DK0rOMT_DxgxhKpDsoqmYR2Ux9OW8Sjefzjg5ygqpMBgpmpChtq2ROJoHrktouULsjXHUQpKss-Olx-p58Yzw7s/s275/1385816_10202288100501764_771840632_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4BHIZFXOh6dnqKt6W1fQcYTe-bAz9UyYlvskVHIkcclMqY_HDTN6-DK0rOMT_DxgxhKpDsoqmYR2Ux9OW8Sjefzjg5ygqpMBgpmpChtq2ROJoHrktouULsjXHUQpKss-Olx-p58Yzw7s/s0/1385816_10202288100501764_771840632_n.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romay grew a mustache one Halloween.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p> “Dad,” Romay used the voice she always employed when she wanted something. It was almost sweet enough to give cavities. “Can I drive the truck to go trick or treating with my friends?”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It was the voice that almost always worked, but I had pictures of a sixteen-year-old girl hopped up on candy driving a full-sized pickup while other kids ran around the roads hopped up on candy.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I’m happy to drive you,” I answered.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>She smiled, grabbed my arm, and began pulling me toward the door, “Okay, Dad, let’s go.”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I spent the rest of the night driving three teen girls from house to house as they ran an assault on the village of Galena. By the time they were around 16, Romay and her friends had Halloween down to a science. They knew which houses gave out full candy bars, popcorn balls (still the coveted item in Alaskan villages), cans of pop, etc. and would map out in advance and give me my driving orders as we went.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To be honest, I knew which houses I wanted to stop by as well as the dads would send out treats for me who they knew was sitting in the truck while the kids stood at their doors.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The action was fast and furious. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Go, go, go,” the girls would start yelling before the truck had even fully stopped while the girl sitting close to the door struggled with the mechanism. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The goal was to get as much candy and goodies as possible before the houses ran out. After finishing up, we would return to our house where the girls would spread their take on the kitchen table and divide up their plunder. I felt like I was watching buccaneers in a pirate cave. Kemper, our yellow lab, looked on with great interest as the girls opened their popcorn balls to enjoy first.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Shanda makes the best popcorn balls,” Romay said as she unwrapped hers. The absolute joy on her face changed to sheer terror as she lost grip on it and it began falling to the floor. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The ball never hit the ground. Kemper had seen his opportunity as though it was the moment he had been training for, snatched it from the air, crunched twice and swallowed. He looked pretty proud of himself as Romay sank to her chair groaning.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Romay and her friends trick-or-treated all the way up through their senior years. It was something that I secretly looked forward to at least as much as they did. Senior year Halloween came, and I knew Romay would be heading off to college the next fall. I wanted that Halloween to last and tried my best to hold on to that evening for as long as I could. I was not ready for trick-or-treat retirement as I felt I was still in my prime, but all good things come to an end at some point.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We moved on from Halloween to the rest of the roller coaster that is a kid’s senior year. As parents, Myra and I did our best to hold on for the ride. Romay’s basketball season started and we moved on to going from game to game and cheering her on. Just as the season started, Myra came down with a flu that seemed to drag on forever. She couldn’t shake it.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A couple of weeks of the flu, and we got smart to what was really going on.</p><p>“What are you guys planning on doing with your empty nest,” Andy asked as I sat down next to him at the Grace Christian School basketball tournament. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Well,” I smiled, “we won’t have an empty nest. We’re backfilling.”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We had only just started telling family that Myra was pregnant, Andy is my cousin, and so fit that circle.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Oh, well,” Andy smiled back, “congratulations.” </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He found out only fifteen minutes before our older daughter who laughed and cried and excitedly looked forward to being an older sister, even if there was to be eighteen years between them.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our backfill baby was born that July and entered the world in much the same way that her older sister exited the truck while trick-or-treating. But, when Halloween came that year, Ellen didn’t even dress up. The next Halloween came, and though she dressed up like a dog, she didn’t pull me toward the door to go raid our neighbors for candy. She fell asleep before our candy bowl at home was even empty. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Halloween number three and four came, and she finally started getting the idea. It helped that she could walk, and she found it novel that the three houses we went to gave her candy just for knocking on their doors.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Halloween number five, and her mom asked, “Do you want me to take you trick or treating, or Dad.”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Dad,” she said as she grabbed my arm and started dragging me to the door.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My heart beat a little faster.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>She looked at me in the car and started talking strategy, “I want to go to Harper’s, Miss Vicky’s, Ms. Martins, Cassidy’s…”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I have called my older daughter on occasion and apologized for her role as my experiment child I had learned with now that her younger sister is the one benefiting. She always says something to put my mind at ease, but with this child, this time around, I don’t take anything for granted. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ellen opened the car door and ran for the next porch and for a brief moment, I saw her older sister doing the same thing. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In the car by myself, I whispered a short, quiet prayer, “thank you, Father,” and watched as Ellen scampered back down the steps, to the car, and climbed inside.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Let’s go to Papa Jeff’s now,” she requested and we drove off for our next stop, her smile matching mine.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I wasn’t ready to be done with Halloween.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_UoPUlHpZzd6AaraqmcMgUyfezrULwusCKW7OQhhgkoMLR3T2R2hQPoykYcQqA4eNu0v3WhIAFRHVlG5u5oT7ki14iLsm91RXuOvV4Ottl0uYK1DKCt1o50UZd97sJjoCiDWUeB1wJ5E/s2048/Ellen%2527s+first+halloween+costume.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_UoPUlHpZzd6AaraqmcMgUyfezrULwusCKW7OQhhgkoMLR3T2R2hQPoykYcQqA4eNu0v3WhIAFRHVlG5u5oT7ki14iLsm91RXuOvV4Ottl0uYK1DKCt1o50UZd97sJjoCiDWUeB1wJ5E/s320/Ellen%2527s+first+halloween+costume.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two good dogs (Halloween 2017)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div><br /></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-7058494743894659862020-10-08T17:07:00.001-07:002020-10-08T17:07:55.101-07:00Square Dance: Getting Our Garage Foundation Ready to Build On<p> We needed a smoke house. We had some recycled OSB and 2x4s that had at one time been crates and so I slapped together a box figuring that the sheets were square, the cuts on the ends of the board were square, the box would be square. It made no sense to me when the shed roof went on and it just didn’t fit right.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Weird,” I said to myself standing back to admire my work.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Later on, I would make the fire in the smoke house too hot and bake my fish right off their skins and onto the ground. I was twenty-five and definitely had not yet arrived.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Before building our first house, I did a little bit more reading and remember being completely blown away by the diagonal rule: the diagonal drawn from one corner to the far diagonal corner had to match the diagonal of the corresponding corners in order for the building to be truly square. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Who was the genius that came up with this method,” I whispered to myself as I put my book down.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Out at the building site, I had placed a spike in the ground where I wanted my first corner, measured out the 33’4” to where the other corner would be, measured 16’ in a direction I thought was perpendicular, and worked my way around the perimeter of a rectangle that looked pretty “square” to me.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I dragged a tape from one diagonal corner to the next and then repeated the process for the other diagonal only to find out they were different by about six inches.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“What’s a half a foot between friends?” I mumbled to myself as I pulled a stake and moved it in the direction I thought would make the building square. I moved its friend the same distance and remeasured.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“How have I made it worse?” I sighed to myself.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I mentally and physically wrestled with those pins for the next forty-five minutes until the diagonals were within less than a eighth inch (close enough when using pilings as I would have to square it up with the sill logs later). Much mumbling and scratching of my head took place during that time. A couple of times I walked to the wrong corner and measured the same diagonal twice.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Perhaps I am a simple man, but there was something tough to picturing the actual shape in my head based off of the concrete measurements I took. I danced around the square gesturing with my hands, drawing in the dirt, and then by sheer luck and the will of God, it lined up.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ten years later, and the square dance is continuing. My family, with the help of some good friends, just poured the pad for our garage.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Build your garage first,” Dave pointed out, “and it will make the house build easier.”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He paused for effect.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You just have to convince your wife that it is a good idea.”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Myra was on board from the very beginning and she jumped right into the conversation.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I want the garage built first,” she emphasized.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dave and his crew built a pad of gravel harvested from a borrow pit on our property. We checked it for square to assure the garage footprint would fit. Myra and I measured out where the forms would go and squared all the corners with stakes, then we built the forms, checking for square as we went adjusting how the short walls connected with the long walls.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRvrKMmwK61Cah-zvG4WTogNtbGzA2wlYoUsq8APtB_2Nguf5CEUX1ghKibQKLCuzl6G94XyFyB9kEkx7On7eFsdqsL2TeReyDhjWUxn3fIziYp6zet0lT2LHf5nfN3IEPuJhwMwCR_vA/s2048/bub+running+the+compactor.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRvrKMmwK61Cah-zvG4WTogNtbGzA2wlYoUsq8APtB_2Nguf5CEUX1ghKibQKLCuzl6G94XyFyB9kEkx7On7eFsdqsL2TeReyDhjWUxn3fIziYp6zet0lT2LHf5nfN3IEPuJhwMwCR_vA/s320/bub+running+the+compactor.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am blessed with good help... once she got the hang of it, she wouldn't let me run the compactor anymore.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQaWsG1hGq9-awIpPJiA3FcfG5rZhyphenhyphenpTJ8DXZGPGipuCLUk0LTFqMEaAluramgW4NQ3V3-C0w4jpX2wZ3z4JnOYTJDZsNITG0uH5wLJAY5SlKoo6tdc87bLcSRHdlULBolofryjjKAYg/s2048/putting+in+foam.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBQaWsG1hGq9-awIpPJiA3FcfG5rZhyphenhyphenpTJ8DXZGPGipuCLUk0LTFqMEaAluramgW4NQ3V3-C0w4jpX2wZ3z4JnOYTJDZsNITG0uH5wLJAY5SlKoo6tdc87bLcSRHdlULBolofryjjKAYg/s320/putting+in+foam.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dane putting down insulating rigid foam with his help. <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> Barn raisings are still a thing in the rural communities, and Myra and I felt very blessed early on a Saturday morning when our neighbors and relatives showed up to start a long work day of pouring and smoothing cement.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuywtglxfSZyr_24U_oNLamK1UFGkdPpJsZeLL3Riku7NWZtVRVxF3OQmqbatTRsV-64ZpMPwszi8hERD8saLYOHkAEIDlcD91WiTVqAP4ghX5zv0-QG4SolAoT7HypIfOO6iFh75oHU/s2048/just+before+cement+pour.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuywtglxfSZyr_24U_oNLamK1UFGkdPpJsZeLL3Riku7NWZtVRVxF3OQmqbatTRsV-64ZpMPwszi8hERD8saLYOHkAEIDlcD91WiTVqAP4ghX5zv0-QG4SolAoT7HypIfOO6iFh75oHU/s320/just+before+cement+pour.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forms square, 4 inches of rigid foam, rebar in place for footings, two loops of pex for infloor heat, wire mesh... ready for the pour.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The pour itself only took a couple of hours, but the smoothing of the concrete took the entire day and involved a lot of kneeling on hardening concrete. The crew just kept coming back.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I think this is my last time up here today,” Dave repeated the phrase he had been using each trip up. It just became his greeting each time. “I think you guys have it from here.” </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I was not surprised when he was the first one back to the site when I arrived the next time to continue trowel work.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJ_VV3Zo0kJUj4fgmLq6S9GJY0msphedodsR6i3xbnmaLegMWTIFaIx3ucltzdJiaVT3FdMEH4svK6iYq4hxpTDDtzrBb78hEGmhtEDr4QghWiga4ka6uwutkIC7AV1GQW_ZyJAosQeU/s2048/dave+smoothing+cement.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJ_VV3Zo0kJUj4fgmLq6S9GJY0msphedodsR6i3xbnmaLegMWTIFaIx3ucltzdJiaVT3FdMEH4svK6iYq4hxpTDDtzrBb78hEGmhtEDr4QghWiga4ka6uwutkIC7AV1GQW_ZyJAosQeU/s320/dave+smoothing+cement.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Uncle" Dave Cunningham troweling for "his last time that day."<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thanks to that group of friends, the concrete set up beautifully, smooth, level, and pretty much square. Later, I laid out my lines for the sill plates and assured that the corners were again correct. The dance was taking less and less time. I got ready to snap my lines and then remembered that I needed to set the lines back an extra inch to make up for the cdx I was using to sheath the walls. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I danced a little more, changing the location of the corners to make up for the sheathing. Myra and I each held a different end to the chalk line and snapped out the marking that would allow us to put down straight, square walls.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bub then hijacked the process and had me making purple chalk lines on a sheet of plywood she had claimed for her chalk art project. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We drilled all the holes for the sill plates and spent two days getting them all into place. The level said we were good to go from that point, and measuring for square was only done for the sake of saying we did it.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We’re off by ¾ inch,” I yelled from my corner.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Is that close enough?” Myra asked.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“No.”</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We jimmied the corners around and found the front wall was not quite on its line.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Half inch,” I said.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“That’s better,” Myra consoled.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It was, and with the light fading, it would have to be good enough for that day, but at home I rolled in bed all night trying to find that half inch. I watched in my head as the walls went up and the sheathing didn’t fit quite right, and my dreams only got worse as I worked my way through putting the roof on.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We’ll pull each plate, and make sure each one is correct a wall at a time,” I greeted Myra as she walked down the stairs rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Coffee,” she mumbled.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When we got back up to the site after work, I pulled the east wall plate and found it was not at the line like it should have been. A half hour later after drilling out the holes more to give the wiggle room necessary, and bolting them back down, we remeasured.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It’s an inch off now,” I frustratingly shook my head.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As I pulled the west side plate, the chalk line looked a little funny. We had held the line at the new adjusted corner mark on one side, and had held it on the old corner mark on the other side. We had chalked out a diagonal line.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>45 minutes later and I was truly doing the square dance as the diagonals were exactly the same.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Man, this building will be up in no time,” I promised Myra as she grinned at her crazy husband.</p><div><br /></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-25885065001234259972020-08-16T16:52:00.004-07:002020-08-16T19:03:12.209-07:00Plains, Trains, and Wood Chippers
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4KZHcWHY11lZtZ29nQnglYUGT_bGhKPbV9P6-Am4-p8JIw6hzQGTLpHm8kvfXI7rMG0XqK-V13s7shP_yKrFCLgTl9QahbUxV3qx1-NI35BLX1fpPbCguWAtjTc_BmwZEamhBc897gk/s2048/DR+chipper+not+working.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV4KZHcWHY11lZtZ29nQnglYUGT_bGhKPbV9P6-Am4-p8JIw6hzQGTLpHm8kvfXI7rMG0XqK-V13s7shP_yKrFCLgTl9QahbUxV3qx1-NI35BLX1fpPbCguWAtjTc_BmwZEamhBc897gk/s640/DR+chipper+not+working.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At this stage, it was a beautifully painted boat anchor.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Myra and I are to that stage in life when we get excited
about things like wood chippers.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Man, all
these willows along the road that need to be cleared… they would make great
mulch,” I began anew the conversation we had been having since May when we
ordered our DR Power Equipment chipper/shredder.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Yeah,
would work great at the potato farm, playground, around our house,” Myra
continued.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> It was a
well-worn mental path that we continued walking down into late July when Craig
Taylor equipment contacted us to let us know that the chipper they had promised
us two months ago was finally ready to ship to us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Just leave
it crated,” I reminded them, “it’ll ship easier, and since it has never been
fired up, we will avoid the hazmat charge when it gets air freighted.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “That is
the plan,” the salesman assured me. “I’ll
get it dropped off to Alaska Airlines tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Tomorrow
came, and Alaska Airlines called me. “Before
we can proceed,” the cargo representative informed me, “we need to receive
payment for the hazmat fee.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “It is
brand new, in the crate, and never fired up,” I pointed out.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Yeah,
probably has fuel residue in it though and that makes it hazmat. It’s a $120 fee.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I mumbled
to myself as I dug for my wallet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “And, since
we don’t ship directly to Unalakleet, I’ll need to receive payment for transferring
it to another carrier in Nome when it gets there,” she continued.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “But, you guys
do directly ship here.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “No, we don’t.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Okay, but
I saw a plane at the runway today that said Alaska Air Cargo on it. It is still parked out there. I can send you a picture if you want,” I said
without being sarcastic (that is a difficult thing for me to do in cases like
this).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “No sir,
according to my computer, we don’t service Unalakleet,” she insisted.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well,
according to Chuck Williams (name changed to protect the innocent) who came and
did the training of the Ryan Air employees, you do service us directly,” I insisted
back.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Oh,”
recognition of the name evident in her voice, “I’ll have to call you back.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Fifteen
minutes later, I received another phone call from Alaska Air Cargo looking for
payment to ship the chipper/shredder directly to Unalakleet, “We do ship to
Unalakleet,” the woman informed me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Another two
days, and we received the long-awaited phone call from Ryan Air letting us know
the anticipated freight had arrived.
Myra and I danced around the living room like two kids on Christmas
morning as Ellen stared wondering what kind of mental breakdown her parents
were going through.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “You are
going to want another guy or two to move it to the job site,” Myra recommended.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “We’ll see,”
I said absentmindedly smiling as I dreamed of feeding the huge piles of willow
brush through the machine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Ryan Air forked
the crate onto a borrowed trailer and I drove it out to our building site. Upon removing the crating, assembly was
pretty self-evident. Two long bolts to
put the feeding shoot onto the shredder and a spark arrester that easily
screwed on to the muffler. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The machine
weighs a little over 200 pounds, and so I did an interesting dance down a ramp
I had temporarily erected from 2x10 header material. My 42-year-old body was happy that the boards
only bent and did not snap as I bounced down the ramp, dragged behind the
chipper.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Not heeding
my wife’s advice, I had gone out to the build site by myself. For some reason I thought the wheels on the chipper
would be larger than the toy wagon wheels it came equipped with. The pull handles on a DR chipper/shredder are
just slots cut into the feeder shoot.
They are far from comfortable, but I had gotten the machine this far and
wanted to try it out later that day. Two
months was a long time to wait to hear it run.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “How hard
could it be to drag it across fifteen yards of tundra and another fifteen yards
of uneven, willow stump strewn ground?” the stubborn voice in my head piped
up. And as if I needed further
encouragement, “Weren’t you a college athlete once?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Twenty
minutes later, and it was my own voice giving the machine I was dragging “words
of encouragement.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “The next
time I move this stupid thing, our driveway will have been put in,” I said to
nobody in particular while wiping sweat from my forehead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I hobbled
back through the stumps, tripped over the tussocks, and climbed back into the
car. I knew Myra would want to be with
me for the first time the machine ran and needed to pick up oil since it was a
new machine that had never been started.
It had been shipped without oil.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> We ate dinner,
smiling the whole time about how much work we were about to get done. Two twenty-foot long piles standing over six
feet tall and another six foot at the base stood waiting for us. I could see them start to quake in fear as I
dragged the machine into place earlier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I grabbed a
full quart of oil and another partial since the book said nowhere how much oil
the engine should have. It was a small
little Briggs and Stratton motor, and I would be surprised if it took more than
the partial quart, but I didn’t want to have to drive all the way back to the
house for more.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> When we got
to the chipper, I took out the dipstick, saw the oil reservoir was empty, added
oil, and replaced the dipstick. The plan
was to allow the oil to run in and settle in order to get a true level
reading. In the meantime, I filled the
gas tank.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The
dipstick (the one in the machine not the one adding the oil) still showed low
oil and so I added again. I began
pulling the warning stickers from the machine.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Do not run
engine without oil,” was printed on one blocking the choke. “Add oil before initial running,” was printed
on a tag connected to the recoil rope.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I took one
more look at the owner’s manual and was greeted by, “Check oil before running,”
on the very first page.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I pulled
the dipstick and saw the oil level was at that hashmarks, replaced the
dipstick, adjusted the choke and throttle, turned the fuel valve to on, and
pulled on the cord.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Ooofda,” I
said looking at Myra, “this thing has some compression.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Four more difficult
pulls and the motor sputtered to life. I
worked it through the choke and throttle settings until it was puttering at a
strong idle and excitedly reached for the first small willow branch in the
pile. I smiled as I saw the branch
consumed and turned to beautiful chips, turned to grab another branch and listened
to the engine bog down and die.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “What
happened?” Myra asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Must have
gotten that willow jammed in the chipper,” I said as I tried the recoil again.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> It wouldn’t
budge. It was stuck solid. Because I didn’t want to be known as nubby or
have people feel awkward when asking if I needed a hand, I removed the spark
plug wire from the plug before beginning work on the chipper mechanism.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The willow
had gotten jammed in the flywheel and pulling a couple of bolts allowed access
to a screen covering the works. I pulled
what I could reach that way, and attempted to manually turn the fly wheel. It made a terrible screeching noise
indicating that a willow was still stuck somewhere in the flywheel up against
the housing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Two more
bolts, and the feed shoot was removed so that I could reach down through the
top of the chipper. This was not the
first time in my life that I wondered if being a contortionist might have been
a wise and applicable job skill to have acquired at an earlier age. I also wondered if this was normal practice
after each branch. The videos of this
machine that Myra and I had drooled over while shopping for it showed none of
this laborious process.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The pencil
size stick that had gummed up the works pulled free, the flywheel was able to
spin again, and I put everything back together including pushing the spark plug
wire back onto the plug.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Huh,” I commented
while pulling, “the cord still won’t budge.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “I’ll look
for the trouble shooting guide,” Myra said as she tried convincing Ellen to
surrender the book the little girl had begun running around us in circles with.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Ellen giggled
in recognition of the new game.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> A trade agreement
was reached, and Ellen walked away with the warranty information guide.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Jammed
recoil… remove any material that may be jammed in the flywheel… well, that’s
done,” Myra scanned further down the list.
“Pull spark plug and pull recoil rope.
Oil or fuel may have filled the cylinder and blocked the piston.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> On the DR
Chipper Pro 400, the spark plug has been strategically placed under a muffler
cage. I could only guess this was done
to keep thieves from walking off with the valuable plug. It was a sufficient deterrent as I struggled
to get the spark plug socket past the cage and onto the spark plug. I mumbled encouragement to the socket as I
wriggled it into place. Ten minutes later,
and the plug and all of the tools used to remove it were free.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Huh,” I commented
as the recoil again wouldn’t budge.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Myra
scanned further, “Check oil, engine seized.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Really, it
jumps to that?” I asked with disappointment evident in my voice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I pulled
the plug wire again just to assure that this boat anchor engine wouldn’t jump
back to life, and then began digging for the right socket to remove the drive
belt cover.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “If it is
just a jammed recoil, the pulley on the back of the motor should still turn,” I
reasoned aloud.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> It did not.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well, I
guess we call tomorrow when Craig Taylor is open again,” Myra suggested.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> We all
walked back to the car. I walked back
defeated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Yeah, that
sounds like something that should be covered by the warranty,” the salesman at
Craig Taylor said. “I’ll start reaching
out to DR, but they are usually more receptive hearing right from the
customer. You should probably give them
a call. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll
communicate with them too, but they’ll answer you quicker,” he went on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> DR’s
customer service has some great bluegrass for hold music. This was a real plus as I waited an hour for
anyone to pick up. I am prone to exaggeration,
but in a world in which cell phones have timers on them for how long a call
lasts… this is not an exaggeration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “DR Power
equipment, how can I help you?” a friendly voice broke through the bluegrass.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I went
through my spiel and everything I tried.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Did you
pull the plug and then pull the recoil?” the kind lady asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Thankfully my
eye rolling is not as loud as a teenager’s and was not audible on the phone, “yes,
that was second thing I did. I am
thinking it is seized and that I got a dud.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Okay,
well, just bring it to the dealer, and we’ll get it checked out for you.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Mam, I
live in rural Alaska. We don’t have a
dealer. The machine got here by
air. It will cost me as much as the
machine to send it back and then get it sent back here after it is checked out. I’m the mechanic you’ll be working with,” I
said calmly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well, in
that case, go out and take the drive belt off.
It might be binding and keeping the motor from turning over.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “If that
doesn’t work, what should I do?” I asked to get the next step ready.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Call us
back.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I waited
for Myra to be done with work for the day so that I could go out and try the
next problem-solving approach as supplied by tech support. The drive belt cover was already off from the
day before. The drive belt itself was
under considerable tension, but loosening the motor mount bolts allowed me to
then work the bolt that adjusts motor placement and belt tension. The belt came off and I pulled on the recoil. Still stuck.
I grabbed a hold of the drive pulley and tried to manually turn it… didn’t
budge.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “It’s seized,”
I shook my head looking at Myra.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The next
day I called back for my one-hour bluegrass session… “take the recoil off and
see if it is jammed…”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I did, it
wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Yeah,” the
tech said the next day after I waited through another hour of the same
bluegrass song on repeat, “sounds seized.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “So now
what?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well, in
order to be covered by warranty,” I was told, “we would have to have a shop
look at it and determine what caused the engine failure…”<br />
This was sounding more and
more like a large company escaping responsibility.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “And so?” I
asked during the pause.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well, I
can offer you a discounted motor for $300 plus shipping,” I was told.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> My blood
pressure went up. I had seen a motor on
Amazon for $350 with free prime shipping.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Mam, you drive
a brand-new Ford off the lot and the engine blows up on you, how much are you
paying for the new engine that goes in it?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “I
understand sir, but…”<br />
“So, how many days do I have
to return the machine to the dealer for a full refund?” I quickly asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Excuse me?”
came the other end.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “How long
for a 100% refund?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well…
thirty days… give me a minute, I’ll have to put you on short hold.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> More blue
grass.<br />
“$150
is the best I can do, and shipping will cost $20,” she said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Not as good
as free, but better than $300,” I conceded.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “I’ll just
need your address so that I can tell the truck where to drop it off,” she
informed me. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> After all
we had gone through in explaining rural Alaska, DR was still convinced they
could truck ship me the new motor.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “You’re not
truck shipping it,” I said calmly. “Put
it in a box and drop it off at the post office.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well, we
don’t do that, we truck ship.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “If we had roads,
I would have driven it to a service shop, drop it off at the post office.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “I’ll have
to work on a quote for you...”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Three days
later and we still didn’t have a quote.
I got someone new when I called DR for my bluegrass session who told me
there was no note about a shipping quote on my account. He’d get back to me… when he did he told me
we were in luck since we received barge shipping in Unalakleet. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “You missed
the last barge. Next barge will get here
in June of next year, put it in a box and drop it off at the post office.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Well, I’m
not sure how much the motor weighs, it might be overweight…”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Amazon
says 41 pounds,” I informed him.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Oh, well,
that is within USPS limits…”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Yup…”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “I’ll get
back with you in a couple days on a quote.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> In a couple
of days, he told me that he could ship it to Anchorage and that I’d have to
figure out the shipping from there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Ship it to
my folks in Michigan. They’ll put it in
a box and drop it off at the post office.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> He seemed
relieved and I told him how excited I was to start chipping with the machine
that looked really good… until he cut me off midsentence and said he really had
to get to his next call.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The motor
was dropped off to my parents’ house in a crate. My dad pulled it out and repackaged it,
dropped it off at the post office and had it to me in a week. Four bolts on the motor, a pulley puller to
pull the drive pulley, all back together, filled with oil, filled with gas,
double checked the oil, and the new motor fired up in one pull.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “Wow, that
sounds a lot better than the first one,” Myra commented. “That first motor wouldn’t pull over and
sounded terrible.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> We let it
idle for five minutes, and grinned as it began eating the willows we had
ordered it to deal with three months ago.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> The DR
chipper shredder works like the pro it is labeled as. The Briggs motor happily spins the heavy
flywheel with ease eating through pretty much anything four inches or smaller
that it is fed. What I didn’t realize
was how much of a gamble it would be to work with a company like DR. I was originally happy to work with an American
company that used American made motors to power their equipment. It really is a well-built machine and functions
well… with an operable motor, but I don’t think I’ll be going with a DR Power
Equipment product anytime in the near future.
They just don’t stand by their products.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> For some
reason, at the end of this whole adventure, I felt like I should be eating
Thanksgiving dinner with a shower curtain ring selling John Candy. I guess feeding willows to a machine that
finally runs will have to suffice.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxQcK628OerzrnL9bMj4_bARLeEsSMZbWbbMPP4LjKaG4Y12HEAvYRMJXxM0Nb6wa6NPgAXEq-8YO2yF0ww0moQI3L2M9K10tXZKmjl_fSd1cSi6vsQj2d8L9dQei7c-GDnJrfKrC9H8/s2048/DR+chipper+working.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxQcK628OerzrnL9bMj4_bARLeEsSMZbWbbMPP4LjKaG4Y12HEAvYRMJXxM0Nb6wa6NPgAXEq-8YO2yF0ww0moQI3L2M9K10tXZKmjl_fSd1cSi6vsQj2d8L9dQei7c-GDnJrfKrC9H8/s640/DR+chipper+working.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It makes short work of our willows... just took three months to get started.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<!--EndFragment--><p> </p>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-49883379860314719782020-07-20T23:31:00.001-07:002020-07-20T23:31:59.163-07:00A Brand New Mourning: A bush funeral.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibj8OeyZDgw4u6JbAspXX1orEOmZ7Ya-TJPtM6Qrb_2FkoLtonAl4nuWyhblaSozvNiz7If6l_3QB8NXVrfuv5ArgYH1mQOb7mew7fbYwurZQcM6sNSynHf4S-bnzEAjhPDyElIbmACpE/s2048/Funeral+gathering+at+cemetary.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibj8OeyZDgw4u6JbAspXX1orEOmZ7Ya-TJPtM6Qrb_2FkoLtonAl4nuWyhblaSozvNiz7If6l_3QB8NXVrfuv5ArgYH1mQOb7mew7fbYwurZQcM6sNSynHf4S-bnzEAjhPDyElIbmACpE/s320/Funeral+gathering+at+cemetary.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Funeral in the Bush<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> I grew up in rural northern Michigan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life was far from sterile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pulling venison off of my dad’s meat
saw in our garage by the time I could just see over the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did my fair share of manure shoveling and
spreading on the backyard garden and killed my first deer on my own when I was
twelve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew the feel of fish slime on
my hands, dirt under my finger nails, and slivers in my palms.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Losing family
members and friends, on the other hand, was a very sterile experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a teen before going to my first
funeral, and it was orchestrated from the beginning to remove me, as well as
the rest of the audience, from the true act of the person passing from this
world to the next.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Don’t get
me wrong, the tears and pain we felt at that funeral were real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew that my great-grandmother was gone
from her body, and what was in the casket was just her shell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, when the pastor was done, the last hymn
was sung, and the casket closed, that was it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I walked out to the car, and my grandmother was gone.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I will
never tell someone how to mourn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
a very personal experience and is a path that we all have to walk on our own,
but there is something different about how we do it in the culture that has
adopted me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to claim it is
better, but it does work better for me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My family
recently lost one of our close members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He went hunting on his own, and while out, experienced a stroke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Search and rescue was made up of family and
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We searched all over town,
checking the homes of his friends, we looked across the river at his old cabin,
and then finally took the search out of town where he liked to hunt spring
bears.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A friend
spotted his four-wheeler from the air and called others to go out by
four-wheeler to find him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they got
there, he was conscious, but had signs of a stroke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They loaded him on to a four-wheeler and met
up with others who had gone out with a side-by-side that made transporting him
easier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The clinic
staff met us in the very early hours of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The physician assistant was the spouse of one
of our local teachers, his helpers my former students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When our loved one made it to the clinic,
there were no introductions necessary as we strategized how to best assist.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Due to Covid,
a medivac without an accompanying family member was arranged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My sister-in-law flew in later to be with her
brother.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He didn’t
get better, and the reports from the hospital indicated that it was only a
matter of time and that we should say our final goodbyes and make
arrangements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Making
arrangements in the village means that family contacts the pastor, speak with a
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>friend with coffin making experience,
talk to the city about where to dig a grave, and decide who should make the
grave marker.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR9IVj2lC6v5T1AfsjKhEK3-_4hpVO3MOvf0lv8HF0JgUJwyL-nZGS01dpzEgY7S2HO4CndX4TJhJWhgq2-t0FeMczzrbbaX7ExM5GkqVA1r-pBKCpWJCK7cf0DINk9yfgia1jhjUJapQ/s2048/building+a+casket.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR9IVj2lC6v5T1AfsjKhEK3-_4hpVO3MOvf0lv8HF0JgUJwyL-nZGS01dpzEgY7S2HO4CndX4TJhJWhgq2-t0FeMczzrbbaX7ExM5GkqVA1r-pBKCpWJCK7cf0DINk9yfgia1jhjUJapQ/s320/building+a+casket.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gary allowed me to learn from him. Knowing how to build a casket is an important skill in the village.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You live
in the olden days,” my sister texted me when she found out what was going
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
Michigan, people don’t make caskets for loved ones.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The school
district donated pine, and a family friend (we’re all related in the village
somehow) offered to lead building the casket as well as teach me what he knew.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dave, who
donated materials and shop space, commented as the casket took shape, “Gary, if
I go first, this is the style I want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Looks like something right out of a western movie.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well,
Dave,” Gary responded, “if I go first this is what I want you to make for me.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dave and
Gary are brother-in-laws.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We worked
on the casket for three nights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra and
Ellen came along for the last two with Ellen helping around the shop, sweeping
up sawdust, helping to clear coat the pine, and picking up scrap wood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What are
we building, Dad?” she asked at one point.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ellen is
three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a casket, would not have
been a sufficient answer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well…” I
started, “Uncle didn’t get better when he was sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a box to put his body in since his
soul doesn’t need it anymore.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Uncle isn’t
real anymore?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Admittedly,
her question took me aback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
three, but made me think about death in a whole new way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been fishing plenty of times together
recently and the way she verbalized the difference between the fish when they first
came splashing from the water and what they were like after being in the
plastic tub was the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living fish were
“real.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dead fish were “not real.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And, I had
to say, that a person’s body after that person had passed looked nothing like
the “real” person he or she had once been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That body wasn’t a real person anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What had made it real was missing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Where I
grew up, the hospital and funeral home made all the arrangements for transportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the bush, we worked with a friend on
shipping, met the plane with a truck, and transported the body to the clinic where
it would be until the funeral.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Three guys
and Ellen went to get the casket (we dropped Bub off at home before going to
the clinic), and we carefully transported the beautifully crafted pine box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We moved the body to the casket, and one of his
sisters put socks on the body that she had knitted for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The funeral home had taken care of the rest
of the dressing, though that is not always the case with bush funerals.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_v7g8SgdOgq8FzWf2fbGacAKwzsWliPOQqRcgUhdVpuk_Xu9sdKIwbukgjIqSWinWaMElHvvIQEFrNGpcokYQJrBj_W6xdaID3thIClRGLFcbC3HywZkkfkBSWFDbFPjGWm5Ddgir8Go/s2048/finished+casket+exterior.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_v7g8SgdOgq8FzWf2fbGacAKwzsWliPOQqRcgUhdVpuk_Xu9sdKIwbukgjIqSWinWaMElHvvIQEFrNGpcokYQJrBj_W6xdaID3thIClRGLFcbC3HywZkkfkBSWFDbFPjGWm5Ddgir8Go/s320/finished+casket+exterior.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The casket matched the man: He was an outdoorsman who lived a rugged life. The handles (not seen in this picture) were made from an ax handle that he must have used for years at his camp.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Earlier in
the summer, a friend, Bub (she goes everywhere I go), and I went logging up the
river for trees calving off the river bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had milled a number of them up into boards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An electric planer cleaned two of them up,
and I fashioned the marker for the grave.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The grave
it would mark was that of an outdoorsman and artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its natural simplicity and straight lines
were purposeful for who I was building it for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The school shop teacher laser engraved it, and we decided to leave it
natural spruce with just a clear coat.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He would
have passed that tree on the river a lot during his life,” Myra pointed
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Now it is his cross.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The pall
bearers assembled at the clinic and loaded the casket into the back of a truck
and took it to the church where the same discussion we have before every
funeral took place.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do we need
to take the center post out of the entry door?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Nah,”
another pall bearer responded, “the casket should fit.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After a
failed try…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How does
this center post come out again?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>People were
sent for tools that were brought to the church just as my nephew, Merle, was
getting the center post out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will
remember how it works for next time… and still have the same conversation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Covid has impacted
everything, funerals only being one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
viewing was limited to just a few family members and friends before we moved
out to the cemetery.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A long-time
family friend and pastor, Chip Swanson, lead the service on the most beautiful
day we had experienced in weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chip
had spent a lot of time with the family, at times even sharing a room with the
man we were now burying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Nowhere in
the Bible,” Chip spoke, “does Jesus say, ‘are you ready?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just says get ready.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We laid the
casket we had built with our hands to rest in the grave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Michigan, there is a fancy lift that
lowers the casket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the bush, the pall
bearers lower the box by rope by hand.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Those who
believe in the resurrection of the body,” Chip said, “are welcome to put some
soil on the casket.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The men
then provided their final service to the one who had passed and began filling
in the grave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city left around a
dozen shovels for the job, and as one man tired, another tapped him on the
shoulder for his shovel.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The first
shovels-full were somber and the workers sad, but there is something about the
work and working together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stories were
told of the person’s life, and smiles began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was rhythmic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was healing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How will
he get out, Mom?” Ellen asked as I removed my kuspuk in the heat of the sun.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“His soul
isn’t there anymore,” her mom answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In
the end days, the grave will not hold him.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mourning is
a process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t claim this way is
better, but it works better for me.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGFb6AC4RI8ZVsb-oi9sWFYhqLsOrRrfHL5p6Y3WFQKF10Q_88FWVjoORVcxkpS7iAiwseZhgaW3GHNeCKv5DOyHbK31cTLh3KokVWPBNORnQoSZaOEFHRYME032r8XgKcvUYmEccg8Q/s2048/walter%2527s+cross.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGFb6AC4RI8ZVsb-oi9sWFYhqLsOrRrfHL5p6Y3WFQKF10Q_88FWVjoORVcxkpS7iAiwseZhgaW3GHNeCKv5DOyHbK31cTLh3KokVWPBNORnQoSZaOEFHRYME032r8XgKcvUYmEccg8Q/s320/walter%2527s+cross.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walter would have passed the tree his cross was made out of multiple times on his way up and down the river as late as this spring when he went out on the ice to catch trout.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfc98xv6nfNGaM25IC2FB8i84OMRQ5Vi5ZkaUebsNWyulzsZ4FQHqzlSD2fTJCKSxkHcKNduxoyARvxruJtPiDtITZTtcK_KEQGC640aDGUKYHADRwuOQsidndcJ9ZwopJ0TwaUYoyiOM/s2048/walter+in+high+school.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfc98xv6nfNGaM25IC2FB8i84OMRQ5Vi5ZkaUebsNWyulzsZ4FQHqzlSD2fTJCKSxkHcKNduxoyARvxruJtPiDtITZTtcK_KEQGC640aDGUKYHADRwuOQsidndcJ9ZwopJ0TwaUYoyiOM/s320/walter+in+high+school.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walter J. Slwooko<br />1/2/1954-7/2/2020</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-16799959408506109222020-06-16T14:05:00.003-07:002020-06-16T14:05:52.024-07:00Egg-Free Thousand Island Dressing: The Next Installment in the Conservative Hippy's Cookbook
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<p class="MsoNormal"> For being a small village, our two stores really do offer
some decent grocery options.<span> </span>However, having
a kid with food allergies limits that a little bit.<span> </span>We are planning on having salmon quesadillas
for lunch today with some Thousand Island.<span>
</span>So, Thousand Island dressing… great condiment, but it is made with mayonnaise
which is of course made with eggs.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Chances of
a three-year-old liking salmon quesadillas?<span>
</span>Pretty slim, but if I make them with an egg-based condiment that she can’t
have… pretty much a guarantee that she will insist that they are her favorite
food ever.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>In comes the
Conservative Hippy’s Cookbook- egg free thousand island dressing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It really is pretty easy.<span>
</span>Four ingredients:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 Cup Vegan Mayonnaise (egg free by definition)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1/3 cup sweet chili sauce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2 Tablespoons minced green bell pepper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 Tablespoon minced onion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Place all the ingredients in a pint jar and thoroughly stir.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first time I made this, I only had Sriracha… which is
chili sauce, and from the perspective of a spice loving eater… made a heck of a
condiment.<span> </span>My not so spice-loving family
members disagreed with me.<span> </span>If you like
spice… give that one a shot.<span> </span>Great for
dipping celery, wings, makes a great spicy Rueben.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Put a lid and ring on it and refrigerate.<span> </span>Goes great on sandwiches, quesadillas, salad, Big Macs (don’t tell McDonalds I gave you the recipe to their secret sauce), pretty much anything that would benefit from some zing.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietus4_61GZfTjVo3-YxL6UO654EPurvkuuLmXOkyxVnTejB14z4Gvt_EdSy0-dO_SqU6SESyDrG3NCYzhDboQX7UO2bD-shNxTE8rLcx7BIMZl3OFCyNmrAZBFJaNOuoULAcgeGSnckg/s4032/thousand+island.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietus4_61GZfTjVo3-YxL6UO654EPurvkuuLmXOkyxVnTejB14z4Gvt_EdSy0-dO_SqU6SESyDrG3NCYzhDboQX7UO2bD-shNxTE8rLcx7BIMZl3OFCyNmrAZBFJaNOuoULAcgeGSnckg/s320/thousand+island.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty basic ingredients. Our village stores don't carry vegan mayo, but that is an easy find on Amazon.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-53397682033498379082020-06-10T20:23:00.002-07:002020-06-10T20:24:51.618-07:00Mrs. McBride's Sweet Potato Pie: Twenty Years in the Making
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<p class="MsoNormal"> “Steve,” my mom asked, “is there a kind of pie that your
family usually has on Thanksgiving?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Steve and I
had traveled up to Alpena from Hope College during Thanksgiving break for some
time away from college, a chance to do some laundry for free, and for some home cooked
food.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Well, my mom
usually makes sweet potato pie every year,” he answered.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Oh… well,
I’ve never made sweet potato.<span> </span>I make
pumpkin and it is pretty close,” she said concerned.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Mom is the
classic Midwest housewife.<span> </span>It was her
goal, when I brought anyone home, to feed us good food until we were near
bursting.<span> </span>It feels like people from
Michigan will pretty much go 20 miles out of their way in order to avoid being
rude.<span> </span>Steve, a big guy who can lift
small cars with his legs, has a similar disposition even with his slightly more
intimidating stature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“I’m sure
it will be just great,” he smiled.<span> </span>“I
like pumpkin.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Mom took it
as a personal challenge to overstuff us, “Would you boys like some more of
anything?” she asked after we had had thirds on the first course and two pieces
of pie: one of apple and one of pumpkin.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Oh no,
Mrs. Harris, I’m good,” Steve had politely declined.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Yeah, Mom,
I couldn’t eat another bite,” I added.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Oh,” she
looked disappointed as though she had failed, “you didn’t like it.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Steve and I
groaned as we worked on a third slice of pie and mom smiled.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Years
passed, and I thought of Steve pretty much every time my family had sweet
potatoes.<span> </span>Little Ellen came into our
life and quickly established pumpkin pie as her favorite.<span> </span>She also fell in love with sweet potatoes
baked and sprinkled with brown sugar.<span> </span>So,
it is 20 years late, Steve lives in Michigan and I’m in Alaska, but I am
finally getting to that pie.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Steve was
gracious enough to send his mom’s recipe and I have made a few changes to fit
within our dietary constraints.<span> </span>I’ll
include both recipes and encourage you to try either or both.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Again, our
family has made some dietary changes for Ellen’s sake (she is allergic to eggs
and we think dairy might affect her eczema), and Myra’s gluten allergy (we use
Einkorn or gluten free flour for her), so this is kind of another installment
of the Conservative Hippie's Cookbook.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mrs. McBride’s Original Sweet Potato Pie Recipe:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 1/3 cup butter or 1/3 margarine, softened <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 1/2 cup of sugar <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 2 eggs, lightly beaten <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 3⁄4 cup evaporated milk <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 2 cups mashed sweet potatoes <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 1⁄4 teaspoon salt <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* 9 inches unbaked pie shells <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mrs. McBride’s Sweet Potato Pie with my vegan substitutions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1/3 cup Crisco (I was out of vegan butter)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">½ cup of sugar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3 t of Ener-g Egg replacer<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">¾ cup canned coconut milk (mostly the cream if possible)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2 cups mashed sweet potatoes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 t vanilla extract<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">½ t ground cinnamon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">½ t ground nutmeg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">¼ t salt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9 inch unbaked pie crust (leave a comment if you want our
gluten free crust recipe and I can post it)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DIRECTIONS <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter (or Crisco) and sugar. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Add eggs (Ener-g egg replacer); mix well. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Add milk, sweet potatoes, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and
salt; mix well. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Pour into pie shell. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6. Reduce heat to 350 degrees; bake 35-40 minutes longer or
until pie tests done. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7. Cool; Store in refrigerator.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Should you make the vegan version without the eggs, just know that it will come out of the oven a little wobbly and won't pass the toothpick test. Given time to cool down a little, the pie will firm up.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCKfzoWY0EigCeIAizwQNh9un6gf48q-hRBkPPuQ-Rej50GkeFhXcCf5NDp5YcBvDpNmN7l30qcYrb9zTZG5A6r1CDaYoEfpl6QyXhlIs7-vQz-oRIaqBRPmqSk5VHEf0mMBQxIvJk6bA/s4032/sweet+potato+pie.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCKfzoWY0EigCeIAizwQNh9un6gf48q-hRBkPPuQ-Rej50GkeFhXcCf5NDp5YcBvDpNmN7l30qcYrb9zTZG5A6r1CDaYoEfpl6QyXhlIs7-vQz-oRIaqBRPmqSk5VHEf0mMBQxIvJk6bA/s320/sweet+potato+pie.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well worth the 20-year wait- Thanks Mrs. McBride for a new Harris family favorite.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<!--EndFragment--><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-84098840320002932042020-06-09T11:52:00.002-07:002020-06-09T11:54:43.119-07:00Planting Day 2020: Marston Victory Garden
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikscHDHbIrgBgfwMjVBWg8a05TtOyCctk77hfUyggvKazuuSvMUbBP5-__aJ3fA0QcBFyl8s4ip-Aw1zvp3QwEbEKW_aO6uZK-qyGc-MBUGsepolBYSD-i0GwskauR_uxNbM4F7OC8oj0/s960/marston.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikscHDHbIrgBgfwMjVBWg8a05TtOyCctk77hfUyggvKazuuSvMUbBP5-__aJ3fA0QcBFyl8s4ip-Aw1zvp3QwEbEKW_aO6uZK-qyGc-MBUGsepolBYSD-i0GwskauR_uxNbM4F7OC8oj0/s320/marston.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Muktuk Marston Advances on the Field (Photo courtesy Ken Anderson)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>“Remember how Mr. Anderson used to make all of this easier
and fun?” I overheard someone say as he inserted his spade into the earth.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Twenty or
so of us had gathered to put in the half acre that had been tilled as we worked
toward the full acre that was the goal.<span>
</span>We were reclaiming a field that had been left fallow for nobody could
remember how long.<span> </span>I didn’t take the
comment as a barb, but more as a challenge.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“This field
used to produce so many potatoes and carrots,” was what was voiced with each
shovel full of clay-heavy earth that was moved.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Our spades
hit willow roots and sod as we fought back the forest overtaking the field.<span> </span>The little Kubota that was used to till the ground
was no match for the years nature had been working on it, and the old John
Deere A disappearing into the trees overrunning the field acted as yet another
stark reminder of what had been.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“I had an
older guy teach me how to use a shovel correctly,” another man spoke up.<span> </span>“Did you know the back of the shovel is
designed for your foot to put weight on?” he asked his shoveling partner to the
right.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Evidently
time had not only been taking back the field, but had begun erasing the
knowledge of how to put one in.<span> </span>We were
catching it just in time for more reasons than one.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>It was not
really doom and gloom though.<span> </span>Even as people
wore blisters onto their palms and sweat ran down their backs, smiles were on
their faces.<span> </span>They were waging the battle
happily.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“We used to
have potato holidays,” Ike smiled as the spade went back through sod and clay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Potato
holiday,” Jeff educated me, “was what the school called it in order to con the
kids into thinking they were getting the day off while they were actually
getting free labor out of us.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“We would
get prizes for biggest potato, smallest potato, ugliest potato,” Doris smiled
as the memories turned over in her mind as she turned the soil over in front of
her.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQI81Z9MlrPcc5KMkXTxcFV0k0CHD6UPli0T9Wu6TIgt8V7KMl4cAIqPi82tUl50HH-U3LO4rspo_YU1qhRT9Y1MYYmxqeikVVYwwYdsOvapCjKCxyTabhVJWbVhox68h3oyXM3H8qbs/s960/farmer+anderson+harvest+and+kids.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQI81Z9MlrPcc5KMkXTxcFV0k0CHD6UPli0T9Wu6TIgt8V7KMl4cAIqPi82tUl50HH-U3LO4rspo_YU1qhRT9Y1MYYmxqeikVVYwwYdsOvapCjKCxyTabhVJWbVhox68h3oyXM3H8qbs/s320/farmer+anderson+harvest+and+kids.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ken Anderson displays a little of the harvest with his apprentices at his sides. (Photo Courtesy Ken Anderson)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>A slew of
kids showed up as the first cut potato seeds were brought to the field, and they
ran through the rows dropping seed a little more liberal than the adults intended.<span> </span>They laughed and bounded, their energy both
contagious and enviable.<span> </span>Adults went and
thinned and covered seed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“I’m glad
our kids are seeing this,” a mom voiced, “it is important to know where our
food comes from.”<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Potato
plants come from potatoes?” her young daughter asked incredulously as she and
her brothers ran about putting in seed, covering it up, and hauling compost.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span> </span>To them, this was the potato holiday
revived.<span> </span>They were loving the free labor
they were giving.<span> </span>Dirt coated their
hands and decorated their cheeks.<span> </span>The
sun was warm, and a light breeze kept off the mosquitos.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bcSAvh4Yt8aMFZB3C3pU5kMYi7CAc3PGNeA4p8Ydhs1SVV4xVq248x9X0q30pUhRekemcptwvmgA8BQLQzekPrBdo6ngU3H9H9wbJVgSIzR9T7jGcX84re4rWhdO78ep_zqt11PcBeY/s4032/kids+planting+potatoes+2020.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bcSAvh4Yt8aMFZB3C3pU5kMYi7CAc3PGNeA4p8Ydhs1SVV4xVq248x9X0q30pUhRekemcptwvmgA8BQLQzekPrBdo6ngU3H9H9wbJVgSIzR9T7jGcX84re4rWhdO78ep_zqt11PcBeY/s320/kids+planting+potatoes+2020.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin Follet with some eager assistants</td></tr></tbody></table><span><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>A group of
adults cut seed at the picnic tables, a group of kids ran them to the field to
plant, and another group of adults formed the rows and covered the seed.<span> </span>It was labor intensive, but progress was
being made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>The
original plan was to eat a potluck meal together after getting the field done,
but the field had done us in.<span> </span>Families
packed up and went home having completed just a quarter acre, but it was a quarter
acre in production that had been willows and tall grass before we had gotten
there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Another
quarter acre was put in by small groups throughout the rest of the week.<span> </span>A couple people here and there would head up
to the field.<span> </span>An unknowing group of
Alaska Airlines workers on a walk around town were roped into the project.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Hey,” they
said as we drove by, “where you guys headed.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Up the
road to the potato field, want to come?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Yeah, why
not?” and they put in ten rows over two days.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Though they
would probably shake their heads at how we got it done, I am hoping Marston and
Anderson would be proud of what we had accomplished.<span>
</span>We’re taking back their field one potato seed at a time and reestablishing
our self-sustaining lifestyle.<span> </span>Nobody
said it would be easy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Special Thanks to our volunteers:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alaska Airlines Crew (Shawn, Mike, Brian, Feletti)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brad and Kamy Webster Family<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Doris Ivanoff<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ike Towarak<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff and Talon Erickson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff and Kristin Follet Family<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Luke and Kristen McDonald</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nick Bruckner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marty and Jessie Towarak Family<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Reid and Angie Tulloch Family<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSa4mMqvAyF1e_o-JkZ6AmZOadh9j_P_qNcRMo-PbEs2zbD-Man5ulD6qFyranNAPYux2edAee9nuXvspwPB2r3TlU7Pf_G16ACC_xztavlRPioP6X386lTMQg5iLODUojBZKsSeVFyuM/s2093/putting+in+a+row.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2093" data-original-width="1570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSa4mMqvAyF1e_o-JkZ6AmZOadh9j_P_qNcRMo-PbEs2zbD-Man5ulD6qFyranNAPYux2edAee9nuXvspwPB2r3TlU7Pf_G16ACC_xztavlRPioP6X386lTMQg5iLODUojBZKsSeVFyuM/s320/putting+in+a+row.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first row of 2020 (from left to right: Luke McDonald, Nick Bruckner, Jason Harris, Marty Towarak) <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<!--EndFragment--><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GxJIJCX5i1zWJjUE1kCIjredJjYhKxjo-7ECjQJs01ZP65e2EVfT0QKZgGqp4ilJIiVH7HBXPWZIP3COX5rcyXJ7eiXe3jwvMEP5QdXScn4Ljp1UEa3g-0E9jRhvkANV-5nWW3Tx_b8/s320/another+row.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another row with Jeff Erickson and Ike Towarak in the foreground- our memory banks of what the field was.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-90757819437960589772020-06-04T13:57:00.001-07:002020-06-04T14:09:37.776-07:00The Choice to Be Good People: Delivering Lunches During Covid-19
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv1X4PVBZtMj1X5CVscs0ypDp7NKy9XPDjn1_O_Ar5sHr7QndG4mqLyhAi5CSiLSFAVkFc1_IWkNDwpBeC2lQjj8Q-bFdtGkGPm3l8AZBbABscc9-5rkeHRUEanOHjdX2IdFZKU_ri1DU/s4032/delivering+lunches+at+14-plex.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv1X4PVBZtMj1X5CVscs0ypDp7NKy9XPDjn1_O_Ar5sHr7QndG4mqLyhAi5CSiLSFAVkFc1_IWkNDwpBeC2lQjj8Q-bFdtGkGPm3l8AZBbABscc9-5rkeHRUEanOHjdX2IdFZKU_ri1DU/s320/delivering+lunches+at+14-plex.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last delivery at the 14-plex (photo Courtesy of Ellen Harris)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>I walked down the steps of the fourteen plex in Unalakleet
hoping that it would be the last time I delivered lunches there- not because I
minded doing that job, but because delivering lunches meant my students were
not in their classrooms.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>And
honestly, delivering lunches had been a great job.<span> </span>I now know where a large number of my
students live, and to a small extent, a little more of how they live.<span> </span>I delivered lunches to houses with moms and
dads, some with uncles, some to grandmas or grandpas, some to friends, and a
couple to guardians.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Early in
the process, my nephew and work partner, Merle, voiced some frustration, “Doesn’t
seem to matter what good we try to do, people still complain.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“We are going
to be good people and good to people,” I voiced what had become my mantra.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Okay,” he
said shaking his head, “even if they aren’t good to us?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Even then,”
I smiled.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“We’re
going to be good people,” he repeated and we finished delivering that day’s
lunches.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>It was a
decision we made and continued to repeat to each other pretty much every day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Good to be
working,” he smiled on one occasion as the talk had been of all the people in
our country unemployed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Merle and I
pretty much lived the post office’s creed as we tiptoed around icy puddles,
pushed stuck trucks out of snow banks, ran to houses through the rain, and were
often greeted by dogs tied up outside of the houses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“You can
deliver this one,” Merle handed me a lunch and looked out the passenger side
window at a large interested dog tied to the porch of a house that was on our
list.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5D6pbrILxXyCu8VFSTj6BrhyTvLNTYOFmKXfKjJepF1zdmfbQAsnY2P6i9vvQBGHthLf_S4rMsLeJ5_4t-2Tlp8VpZh64ijqjJ0MHSbJ3Mg41ApC_-YRCgQhdIqpdtCCmPmuuJZGECI/s4032/middle+school+drive+through.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5D6pbrILxXyCu8VFSTj6BrhyTvLNTYOFmKXfKjJepF1zdmfbQAsnY2P6i9vvQBGHthLf_S4rMsLeJ5_4t-2Tlp8VpZh64ijqjJ0MHSbJ3Mg41ApC_-YRCgQhdIqpdtCCmPmuuJZGECI/s320/middle+school+drive+through.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Middle School Drive Through<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>On top of
handing out lunches, our school district had decided to do distance learning
through packets that kids would pick up from the school.<span> </span>The middle school had set up a “drive through”
window where parents would pull up and get the work for the day.<span> </span>Elementary and high school both had something
similar.<span> </span>Those who could not make it to
the building had their packets delivered with the lunches on Monday.<span> </span>This made Mondays pretty interesting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“How many
lunches here?” I asked Merle at one of the stops.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Three.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“I can only
find two homework packets for this house, though,” I pointed out.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Maybe that
is all of them?” Merle questioned.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>On the
other side of town, we would find the other packet mixed in with another kid’s.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Guess we
go back,” Merle would smile.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Mondays
were also pizza days.<span> </span>As part of an
incentive program for students doing their work at home, names would be put
into a hat and drawn for Papa Murphy Pizzas.<span>
</span>The back seat of the truck would be piled with three boxes of student
packets, 30+ sack lunches, and five large pizzas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“We’re
pizza delivery guys now,” Merle laughed as we dropped off the first one at a
very happy child’s house.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>As if
pizza, packets, and lunches were not enough, Merle and I were approached about
adding two more things to the back of the truck.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Dad,”
Ellen said looking up at me, “can we help you deliver lunches?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Yeah,” Harper,
her partner in crime, echoed, “can we go deliver lunches?”</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZnlHrkfJ7iioHYaeF7MvcFGd7UB3NoNXFAVgJziU9BP-HOYoQ0t_-MlUeX0Zupqo7AP1F3_1gTeNcAiiiZ2ggZ2exPfEK8AJCWvw7NS9snPGr6NfGIw_m9YpmT4PHqfWNqcHQFzaceE/s4032/harper+delivering+lunches.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDZnlHrkfJ7iioHYaeF7MvcFGd7UB3NoNXFAVgJziU9BP-HOYoQ0t_-MlUeX0Zupqo7AP1F3_1gTeNcAiiiZ2ggZ2exPfEK8AJCWvw7NS9snPGr6NfGIw_m9YpmT4PHqfWNqcHQFzaceE/s320/harper+delivering+lunches.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harper Ellis lunch delivery apprentice (Photo Courtesy of Ellen Harris)</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span> </span>So, Merle and I gained a
couple of apprentices who would count lunches out and hand them to us from the
back seat as we stopped for deliveries.<span>
</span>Granted, as three-year-olds, there were times when they got distracted,
but for the most part they were great help.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Oohhhwoowoo,”
Ellen and Harper yelled out the window.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Looks like
we have gained a siren to aid in our deliveries,” I commented to Merle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Each day,
we continued repeating our mantra: we were going to be good people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>As we were
backing out of the driveway of our last delivery for the day, I caught the eye
of a person glaring at me.<span> </span>I waved… I’ve
always been a little slow on the uptake with things like that.<span> </span>He continued to glare and so I stopped,
rolled down my window, and said hi.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>The
complaint I received is not really important.<span>
</span>It had been a long morning, a long week, and we had been into the whole
Covid thing for what felt like an eternity.<span>
</span>I thanked the person for the input, rolled up my window and began backing
up again, grumbling under my breath.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“We are
going to be good people,” Merle said quietly without looking at me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I continued my grumbling.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span> </span>“Even when people are not good to us,” he
added.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>It was a
choice we had to remind each other of from time to time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>For the
most part, people were happy to see us.<span>
</span>The kids were strangely happy for the homework we were bringing
them.<span> </span>My own daughter would jump up and
down cheering as I brought hers in each week.<span>
</span>She was excited to see what her teacher packed for her.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“See, Dad,”
she said earnestly, “my teacher hasn’t forgotten me and still loves me.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Kids would
run out to greet the truck as we pulled into certain neighborhoods.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“We need to
play the ice cream truck music,” Merle joked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Yay,” the
kids would yell, “the lunch truck is here.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>The last day
of deliveries came and went.<span> </span>School,
though arguably over for quite some time, came to its last day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>We still
don’t know what school will look like in the fall when the first day is upon
us.<span> </span>If Merle and I are back to
delivering lunches, we’ll happily tackle the job. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span> </span>Our hope is, though, that we will be
welcoming our kids back through the doors and maybe we can apply what we
learned through what is hopefully the only pandemic we see in our
lifetimes.<span> </span>We’ll be good people.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9FMg-VuRXYA523OMqQONwa6-O1g4ZJLjBMYUdB5RXR9O-xbt2zpPcn3i4KoEOwdQdY1vksOlss12kZJyQTlsaf1lCxpFoVcbH-KgXd3WmDfyX1Y9jJ7Bo2Cw3NcovngikyNY1GjhfHEI/s4032/bub+and+harper+selfie.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9FMg-VuRXYA523OMqQONwa6-O1g4ZJLjBMYUdB5RXR9O-xbt2zpPcn3i4KoEOwdQdY1vksOlss12kZJyQTlsaf1lCxpFoVcbH-KgXd3WmDfyX1Y9jJ7Bo2Cw3NcovngikyNY1GjhfHEI/s320/bub+and+harper+selfie.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evidently mirror selfies are a skill learned early in life (Photo courtesy Ellen Harris)</td></tr></tbody></table><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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conversation about the victory garden started.<span>
</span>“The soil up there was always very nutrient rich, and produced potatoes
without adding much.”<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“The
fertilizer we ordered is actually compost,” I answered. <span> </span>“It will help build the soil and will aid in
water retention.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Oh, that
soil holds water,” the person continued.<span>
</span>“In fact, it will sometimes hold so much that it pools on top.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“That
sounds like clay to me.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>When the
road was finally clear enough to drive, Brad headed up to the camp to fire up
the tractor and start turning over the soil.<span>
</span>We went up with him to get an idea of what kind of shape the field was
in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“There’s
Brad now,” Myra pointed out when we pulled into the road running through the
field with our car.<span> </span>“Better get out and
take some before pictures.<span> </span>He is getting
it tilled up right now.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>The camp’s
cute little Kubota was driving toward us cutting into the grass and soil with
its PTO driven tiller.<span> </span>In standard farm
kid style, Brad’s son Elwood was riding in his dad’s lap.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bub saw her friend, and bailed from the car as soon as we
were stopped.<span> </span>I pulled my phone out and
snapped some quick shots wanting to get a good batch of before pictures to include
with the beautifully tilled after pictures.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9x_y1RQkAUx9Y3THjsIdYZFfsm3t4ap5Fjfi-6gkSvuAhT_qKNooC1QAINAvCnNMcRU-aKx6y-6UyFR2yWkAeO9DJr2WQSoE9B_pMbx9jk8d9wdxv_EgNojWAOsdFUn43edUXQFFLgeA/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9x_y1RQkAUx9Y3THjsIdYZFfsm3t4ap5Fjfi-6gkSvuAhT_qKNooC1QAINAvCnNMcRU-aKx6y-6UyFR2yWkAeO9DJr2WQSoE9B_pMbx9jk8d9wdxv_EgNojWAOsdFUn43edUXQFFLgeA/s320/potato+field+before.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cottonwoods, willows, and grass are starting to reclaim the field.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Brad shut
down the tractor and clambered down with Elwood to give us a tour of the out
buildings and help us take stock of what we had on hand and what we would need
to work the field that summer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>A log “barn”
held some ancient equipment and what we hoped were vacated yellow jacket
nests.<span> </span>There was a raft frame, an old
air force generator, some machine made from a steel frame and chicken wire, and
enough dust to plant another field right inside.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>The plywood
shed held spades and hose that looked like it would add nicely to that which we
had ordered.<span> </span>The building itself showed
the signs of years of being left vacant on the side of a field.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Brad
climbed back on the tractor and Myra, Bub, and I continued to look around the
field and the equipment we hoped we could get operable again to be put into
service in the potato field.<span> </span>The next
time we turned around to take a look at Brad’s progress, he had the tractor
wedged cross ways between two large tire ruts dug into the earth.<span> </span>The tractor wheels were coated in clay the
consistency of Crisco.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>No amount of
shoveling, wedging willows under the wheels, or rocking back and forth was
going to budge it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“I’ll go
get the camp’s Kubota side by side,” Brad explained, “a little tug should get
me out.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>And, it did.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Can you
drive this over to the other side of the field and park it on the road?” Brad
asked as he climbed back onto the tractor.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Sure,” I
smiled, excited to operate a little equipment myself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>I pointed
for the other end of the field and where a trail had been worn through the
grasses.<span> </span>I figured if others had driven
there, that I should have no problems with a little side by side.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Brad was
shaking his head as he walked up to where I was sitting… up to the frame of the
side by side in mud.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“I didn’t
want you to feel like you were the only one,” I sheepishly explained.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>We hooked
the tractor to the side by side and Brad attempted to pull me out.<span> </span>The field was the consistency of a wet sponge
albeit less supportive.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Our car was
sitting on firm gravel and so we hooked a rope between it and the stuck Kubota
to give a kind of tandem pull.<span> </span>Myra got
behind the wheel of the side by side, Brad pulled with the tractor, I pulled
with the car, and the little Kubota crawled out of its mudhole.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“Well, I
think that is enough progress for the day,” I said looking at a field with
almost no tilling done to it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>“It’ll need
to dry out a little anyway,” Brad agreed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Day one of
our farming work and we had managed to get both pieces of equipment stuck and
the most soil we turned over was due to the tires digging into the ground.<span> </span>Clay, clay, clay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>With some
time, the field would dry out, but my wheels started spinning on how to get a
bigger tractor to work the field of heavy wet clay.<span> </span>Like with anything, the start is the hardest
part.<span> </span>If getting stuck counts as getting
started, we were on our way.<o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixsOgQuBlbMS-51UIRNjQrf-rCgRcBBFBnOSbSaeHAlVrvSBjj77CHtLcgwnhiJZEkfuknVxF46G8DYhYJDUe5Epcn9dFOeubXwoYGGcOsddDGRH71mN-zXNmLN9Jvl6gxr-Ty9J9o27k/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixsOgQuBlbMS-51UIRNjQrf-rCgRcBBFBnOSbSaeHAlVrvSBjj77CHtLcgwnhiJZEkfuknVxF46G8DYhYJDUe5Epcn9dFOeubXwoYGGcOsddDGRH71mN-zXNmLN9Jvl6gxr-Ty9J9o27k/s320/water+logged+trail.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe the boat parked on the side of the field should have been a clue to how much water it held. This is the trail I buried the side by side in.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
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“Are we going to start building my rainbow house today?” Ellen
asked me as we ate breakfast.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’re
working on it, Bub,” I answered trying to figure out what I was going to do
that day to truly be “working on it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ellen had
no understanding of permafrost, had no idea why clay was going to be difficult
and expensive to build on, didn’t know the cost of gravel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her mind, houses were built on the ground
with wood… clay counted as ground, and we had some pallets made out of wood up
at our lot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Considering
I thought people in Alaska lived in igloos when I was three, Ellen is lightyears
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</span>However, she does hold my feet to the fire in a way that can make for a
stressful life at home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hey dad,” she
asked as I pushed her on the swing later that day, “do you have my rainbow
house figured out yet?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Not yet,
Bub,” the swing squeaked as I pushed out and away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, how
about my pool then,” she asked about the other back burner project I have begun
researching, “are you working on that today?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m
working on it, Bub,” I said as my brain went to the hurdles that stood before
me on that project.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Back in the
house, I began calling around, “Hi, I heard you had a lot you were thinking
about selling…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes, I
have a lot up on the hill I would sell,” the voice responded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How much
were you wanting for it?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The other
end answered and I choked on my gum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How much?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What was
the asking price,” Myra asked when I got off the phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I whispered
it in her ear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh my,” she
stepped back and stared at me with wide eyes, “well, I guess that one is off
the table.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We called
around some more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Answers ranged from I
decided to keep it to I have decided to give it to my grand-daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Property does not really sell in western Alaska.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Multiple generations traditionally live under
one roof, and when it comes time for a new owner, the house or lot gets handed
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though Myra grew up in Unalakleet,
in a way, we are both kind of transplants there, which makes getting property
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I sent a
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showing he was still typing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Try
Leonard Brown, he is a heck of a guy, will do right by you, and has property
for sale.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leonard
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typed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now was an okay time, and so I
called him only to go right to his voicemail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Should I
text him?” I asked in our chat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh,
please, no…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I chased
Leonard around for a couple of days before catching up with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was puttering around his yard getting it
ready to plant gardens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drove up with
him to where he was planning on selling some land and he pointed it out from
the road.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It is this
area here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have several acres that I
am ready to let go, and could sell you a couple right here if you like.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There were
spruce and willow and signs of much better buildable soils.<o:p></o:p></div>
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a tentative agreement and because you cannot go away without shaking hands at
the end of a deal when working with a man of his generation, Leonard and I
shook on it… pandemic or no pandemic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A battle
with a borrowed earth auger later that involved replacing a throttle cable with
a bike brake cable, and then dragging it out to our test site, Myra earnestly stated,
“You’re going to have to find somebody to run this with you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I have
found somebody to run this thing with me,” I smiled as I nodded toward her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh, okay.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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connected to a Honda lawnmower engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Down we went to the end of the auger to the point where we were pretty
much sitting down on the ground holding the handles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We pulled it out and I shoved my arm down as
far as it would go into the hole and came back with a piece of gravel the size
of a golf ball.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Good sign,”
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We drilled
another hole with the same effect.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I think we
can make this spot work,” Myra and I agreed.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the ocean and Besboro Island from our new lot.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Back at
Leonard’s, Ellen ran around the house playing with his great-grand-daughters.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You want
to pay a third today?” he asked as he put pen to paper.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’ll pay
it all today,” we said, completely decided on what we were setting out to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh, oh,”
he smiled, “I’ll need to get a new piece of paper.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He came
back with a new agreement showing us paying in full, “It will make you a good
home up there,” he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leonard is
a wealth of historical information and we sat talking airplanes and flying and
traplines and land and work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given
enough coffee and time, we could have talked for hours.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Later his
grand-daughter expressed her gratitude, “Thank you for your patience in working
with my grandfather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a saying
around here, ‘Leonard’s way is the only way.’”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh, I
think we have a new friend,” I assured her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was hard
to get Bub to leave her new buddies.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Can’t we
stay a little longer?” she whined.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We have to
go start your rainbow house,” Myra answered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Amazingly,
getting to the car was not a problem after that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bub and Harper, our two grizzly bear cubs, foraging for last year's cranberries up at our new lot. The willows and spruce are back where the house and garage will be.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eunice Ryan with a giant Unalakleet grown turnip (Photo Courtesy Jeff Erickson)</td></tr>
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I looked out the window at our garden beds after reading the
headlines from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wallstreet Journal </i>and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both sources warned of possible food shortages.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“If this
thing truly does go sideways,” I said to Myra without taking my eyes from the small
beds, “these gardens aren’t going to be enough to feed us and our neighbors.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We need to
plant more food,” was her response.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unalakleet,
once the self-proclaimed garden capital of the state, is not covered with the
crops that used to be seen in every yard anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted, we are blessed by what the country
gives us-- berries, fish, birds, moose, wild greens, sea mammals, but we import
pretty much all of the vegetables we eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We pride ourselves on our subsistence lifestyle, but even with that
bounty, there are many homes that don’t have food to last more than a couple of
weeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>People used
to have root cellars filled with potatoes and carrots and shelves filled with home-canned
vegetables, but the steady supply of fresh produce in the stores has made life
easy, and perhaps arguably not as healthy.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“There is
the potato farm,” Myra voiced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We could
replant the potato farm with enough food to feed the whole community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Potatoes are pretty easy to plant, easy to
maintain, and give a good yield.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We began an
online chat with some people in town that we thought would be interested in
this kind of project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Marston
Foundation was mentioned due their involvement in agriculture in Unalakleet in
the past.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Marston
Foundation is online (see resource section on the right side of this blog) and
I shot off a quick note through their contact page expressing what we were
looking at doing and how great it would be to continue Marston’s legacy on his
homestead in Unalakleet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I left my
contact information and figured that was that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to their website, we were way past the deadline for any grant
help.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A couple
hours later and my cell phone rang with an unknown number.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“This is
Blythe Marston with the Marston foundation…”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am not
really sure how long it took for me to respond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In all honesty, since reading Muktuk Marston’s book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Men of the Tundra</i>, I’ve been a little
bit of a fan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Blythe
Marston you said?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes, I got
your message about planting at my grandfather’s old homestead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad and I are pretty excited about the
idea.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Blythe, I
have to admit, I am kind of geeking out right now,” I laughed, “your
grandfather is a kind of hero of mine.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Marston
foundation is named after Major Marvin “Muktuk” Marston, the founder of the
Alaska Territorial Guard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a lot
of things: driven military leader, pioneer, advocate for native rights, and a
strong proponent for agriculture in bush Alaska to name a few.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of the
chapters in his book is entitled “Fish and Chips is Great,” and it outlined his
plan for agriculture as the future of a self-sufficient bush Alaska with
Unalakleet being his proving grounds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, my dad
and I think it is neat idea, and we would like to help you out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put together an informal proposal with what
you think you will need to make it work, and we’ll bring it to the board.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potato field in front of a cache and fish rack full of fish. Proof that we can truly feed ourselves with effort. (Photo Courtesy of Jeff Erickson)</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And so, the
wheels began turning and a meeting of like-minded Unalakletians was called
(social distancing was of course observed).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’ve been
meaning to till up that field anyway,” Brad voiced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I want to level it, and that seemed the best
way to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be good to put
some hours on the camp tractor this summer.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Brad is the
Bible Camp caretaker with the field that everyone in town refers to as the
potato farm. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So how big
do we go?” I voiced.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jeff who
remembers working the old potato field piped up, “Do a whole acre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can till up enough for an entire acre and
if we can find enough seeds to do that much, we plant the whole thing.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’ll start
calling around for seed potatoes and fertilizer,” I offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Would be nice to go an organic route with
fertilizer to start rebuilding the soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do I ask for tools?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Go big-
tools, water pump, seeds, fertilizer, worst they can do is say no,” Jeff said.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jeff’s wife
Donna walked in on the already going conversation.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What are
you guys talking about?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Planting
the potato field with the Marston’s help,” Jeff quickly summarized.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh, they
are such nice people,” Donna said sweetly, “Muktuk’s grand-daughter stayed with
us last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is such a nice lady…
what was her name again?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blythe?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I sat and
listened to Jeff and Donna’s memories of what the field had been when they were
kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We had to
go and work that field as dorm kids at Covenant High,” Donna explained with a grin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We dug potatoes, carrots… we would race into
the field and down to where the carrots were planted, pulling a handful out,”
Donna’s eyes disappeared in her huge smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Dunk them in the river to wash them and bite right in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sweetest carrots ever.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“This whole
town was full of gardens,” Jeff added.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We would
dig the potatoes,” Donna continued and pack them in sawdust in the basement of
the dorms and eat potatoes all winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
worked at Brown’s lodge, and he got potatoes from the farm too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d go down in the cellar and dig them out of
the saw dust, come up wash them, run them through the French fry cutter…
kerchunk,” she made the motion of operating the arm on the cutter, “made the
best fries.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We adjourned
our meeting and I typed up the proposal based off of the prices I was finding
for seed and fertilizer online.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ms. Marston
contacted me with a tentative $5500 for the project dependent upon board approval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I scrounged around for seed potatoes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I have
some,” the voice on the other end of the phone replied, “how many do you need.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“1600
pounds,” I answered.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh boy, I
can maybe get you 300.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Seems that
in light of Covid-19 that our group was not the only one planting
potatoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty much all of the seed in
the state was flying off the shelf.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I called
around finding seed suppliers that could fill part of my order, and it was
beginning to look like we were going to have a collection of seed from every
potato dealer in the state.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I don’t
have a lot of variety,” Jeff at Alaska Specialty Crops told me over the phone, “but
I can maybe help you… how much do you need?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I went
through my spiel explaining the project and that we were partnering with the
Marstons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I expected the same answer I
had gotten on every other call concerning the ability to fill part of the order.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, as
long as you are okay with Yukon Gold and Cal White, I think I can do that,”
Jeff responded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I don’t
have the money yet, but Marstons said I could probably get it,” I explained.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’ll put
the seed on hold for you for a couple of days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I respect the Marstons, and their name is good with me. I have done some
work with them going out to bush communities for garden consulting and I have
talked back and forth with them about bush food access issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get them for a buck a pound… I can deliver
them to the airport for you for a buck and a quarter.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Calling
around for organic fertilizer was a similar experience until reaching a person
at Susitna Organics.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, I can
deliver a full pallet of bags (60x 20 pound bags) for a little over seven
dollars per twenty pounds, but I can sell you a super sack (900 pounds) for
$3.33 per twenty pounds delivered to the airport.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Blythe
wrote me with an update saying we got the go ahead for the $5500 and that I
should check with the air carriers to see if they would be willing to donate freight.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was a
couple day process, but Everts Air Cargo agreed to haul the first 1000 pounds
of potato seeds for free and charge us 83 cents a pound for the remaining
600.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northern Air Cargo agreed to
hauling the 900 pounds of compost for free.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And now,
word is getting around town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are
excited to see the field planted and growing again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are excited to work it, learn the skill,
teach their kids, be outside, growing food for themselves and their community.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The goal,
when the harvest comes in, is to sell the potatoes at a low price to the
consumer… basically just enough to build a little fund to supply seeds,
fertilizer, and increase our variety of crops next season.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Marston
dreamed of a self-sufficient, locally grown Unalakleet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That vision took a short vacation, but with
the help of some very generous sponsors seems to be back on course.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful Unalakleet Garden where the church and parsonage stand today (Photo Courtesy Jeff Erickson)</td></tr>
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</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-70184497987553124612020-05-12T17:35:00.000-07:002020-05-13T10:03:18.610-07:00The Ptarmigan and Rabbit Budget<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two young, happy hunters with meat for the pot.</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“What do you want me to get out for dinner?” I asked Myra
from the kitchen as she got ready for work.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ptarmigan
stir fry sounds good,” she responded from the back bedroom.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I grabbed a
Ziploc of frozen grouse-like bird from the freezer and moved it to the
fridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could pull the frozen stir-fry
vegetables out as the bird was frying in the cast iron later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ziploc I grabbed was a lot like the other
ones in the freezer each containing a couple of birds or maybe a couple
rabbits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grouse we had shot in the
early fall were by this time all gone.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I put the
frozen birds still in the bag in the sink to thaw out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was just the meat: skinned out breasts and
little stubby drum sticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mixed with
some Yoshida’s, the stir fry vegetables, and served over a fresh bed of long
grain white rice, and we had the makings of a gourmet, organic, locally sourced
meal.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We felt
like we were adulting pretty well, two twenty-five-year-olds walking down the
hill to work from our trailer house where meat was thawing for dinner that
night.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The thing
was, it wasn’t about being organic, healthy, trying to join some back to the
land movement, or being locally sourced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were young, newly married, and broke.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra, God
bless her, had married a man who had gone to a private Christian liberal arts
college and now was carrying the bill that went along with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted, she also went to a private Christian
liberal arts college… there was a $20,000 difference between the four years she
intelligently took to make it through and the five I took.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scholarships and summer work had pretty much
covered all of her schooling, and had covered the first four of mine.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shortly
after getting married, we sat down and discussed our finances and the strategy
we were going to take to manage them.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We have no
money and we’ve got a bunch of debt,” Myra pointed out as she opened the
discussion.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We have
jobs, and can try to almost buy nothing,” I added.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah,”
Myra agreed, “if we keep spending to a minimum, do very little travel, and put
one of our checks a month toward the loans, we can have them paid in a couple
of years… and, we can sell my truck.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Are you
sure,” I asked knowing how much Myra loved her new truck.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was a
fully loaded, brand new, Chevy S-10 with the off-road package.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very much Myra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We don’t
get a chance to drive it very often, but are still paying on it every month,”
she pointed out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It makes sense to let
it go.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I can still
remember her being brave as we walked (didn’t have a ride or money for one)
away from the dealership on the day we sold it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We really didn’t say much as we made our way to the airport to fly back
out to the village.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We walked
everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure if things were
really built to last longer then, or we were just built to make them last
longer, but our hiking boots saw multiple seasons even with the mileage they
were getting put on them.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra would
grab a hold of one end of our cooler, I’d take the other, and we would walk the
couple of miles out to Mukluktulik to see if we could manage to put a couple of
silvers in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People would pass us on
four-wheelers on our way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Roger
Nassuk, an elder in the community, stopped next to us to talk as we took a
break, “You two are the only Eskimos left in this town,” he laughed with his
characteristic heh, heh, heh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Walk to
fish, walk to hunt, walk, walk, walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nobody does that anymore.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I smiled at
hearing the pride in Roger’s voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was giving us a compliment, and as a man new to Alaskan life with Irish
genetics evident in my glowing white skin, I appreciated it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra’s dad had known Roger when they were
both younger, and his comment gave a nod to her upbringing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On good
days, we would walk back with a half-dozen thick, orange silver filets (filets
were lighter than whole fish) in the cooler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On slow days, we would still walk back.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When in
Anchorage, each time I would enter a sporting goods store, I’d check the price
of shotgun shells and pick up a couple boxes if the price was right (this is
still a habit I have).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I averaged around
four bucks a box for #6 lead 12-gauge shells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>20 shot shells per box made for 20 cents a shell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was careful, I could put enough meat on
the table for both of us for 60 cents.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I would put
on my hiking boots, strap on my snow shoes, and head north of town where
ptarmigan had been spotted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though no
longer stylish, my Columbia Bugaboo ski jacket was the perfect ptarmigan
coat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had a million pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d stuff loose shells in three or four of
them and trudge across the snow banks looking for white birds on a white
landscape.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once I got
used to seeing them, they stood out like sore thumbs: little white footballs
waddling across the open tundra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I
was by myself, a couple quick shots would put two down and I watched to see
where the flock landed after their short flight away from me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Myra was with me carrying our other
shotgun, we’d count three and each drop a bird before they could take off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d stuff the two birds into a coat pocket
and then follow the flock, repeating the process until light had waned, my
shells were gone, or my pockets were full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unloading my jacket was an interesting process when I got home, much
like watching clowns come out of a car, ptarmigan would just continue to
materialize out of my pockets.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The birds
would get skinned, rinsed, and thrown into Ziplocs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra has forever been an accountant at heart,
and she would figure out how many birds we needed to last us to spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each subsistence activity received the same
accounting exercise.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“1 filet
per meal, 2 filets per fish, 1 meal per week, 4 weeks per month, September,
October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May,” she would count
through until we would be on summer break again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“36 filets, 18 fish we need to put away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More, and we have fish more often.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not only
did we forget what beef tasted like, our bodies refused to digest it when we
did get a taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flour, sugar, and
butter were cheaper than baking mixes and so everything was made from
scratch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt like a pioneer when we
would go through the checkout on our rare trips to town: coffee, sugar, flour,
rice, bacon, and ammunition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clerk
must have thought we had a covered wagon parked in the lot out front, but we
were slowly climbing out from under our debt.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Easter day
2004, Myra and I headed up the road (we bought a last year’s model snow machine
with a small loan) toward Devil’s Hill where we put on snow shoes and walked
the draw that went between it and Star Mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rabbit seemed like an appropriate budget meal
for Easter Dinner, and so a tradition was born.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Easter rabbit hunt</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>People
would ask how we prepared our rabbit and ptarmigan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Considering it was a meat we ate sometimes
two or three times a week, we had quite a collection of recipes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“There’s
ptarmigan fajitas, ptarmigan stir fry, ptarmigan and noodle soup, roast ptarmigan,
breaded ptarmigan, ptarmigan on the grill with salt, shish kabob ptarmigan, bbq
ptarmigan, ptarmigan sandwiches,” in my best Bubba from Forest Gump voice, “yeah,
that’s about it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that’s about all you
can do with ptarmigan.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One evening
Myra was feeling extra brave in her culinary experimentation and recommended ptarmigan
breakfast burritos for the next day made with breast meat she would grind the
night before.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So what do
you think?” she asked the next day after I took my first bite.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I may need
some water,” I answered.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“A little dry?”
she asked concerned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh boy,” she
continued after she took her first taste, “yeah, probably not.” <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She walked
to the pan, picked it up, and poured it into the garbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ptarmigan and rabbit are pretty versatile
meats, but even they have their limitations.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finances
were pretty tight still when we added kids to our family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ptarmigan and rabbit became not only food,
but a means of teaching our young hunters how to provide for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, it meant that with kids who wanted to go
look for birds every day that we had a constant stream of ptarmigan and rabbits
making its way into our freezer and frying pan.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Grouse
season would open up in the fall, and we would hunt the trails for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snow would fall and the grouse would be scarce
in Koyuk, but then the ptarmigan would show up in flocks, sometimes crashing
into the power lines of town, and we would put on snow shoes and walk the willow
lines for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Summer would come and we
would start putting fish and berries in the freezer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We lived on the subsistence calendar with the
school calendar being placed over top of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Money was not as scarce and so we did a little traveling, but we pretty
much relied on the countryside to fill our freezer and help stretch our
dollars, paying down our loans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Small game
like grouse, ptarmigan, and rabbits have populations that go on cycles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They boom, with predator populations
following suit until reaching a peak and crashing before starting over
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life goes in seasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we were in need, the bird and rabbit
population just happened to be there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
population began to go down in the cycle, but our financial need was not as
large, and life found us in a season with less time to hunt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We have
started over with another batch of kids… Ellen is 3 going on 4 and has
expressed a desire to begin hunting (interestingly enough, the rabbit and
ptarmigan populations are on the upswing again).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Let’s put
the boat in the river and go fishing,” Ellen said as we drove across the bridge
spanning the ice-filled slough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It isn’t
quite time yet, Bub,” I explained, “it is more spring duck season right now.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ellen’s
eyes were drawn to a pintail flying across the road as she continued, “So let’s
go shoot ducks then.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who knows
what seasons and cycles life will hold in the future, but hopefully they will
involve chasing birds and rabbits with our little girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black hair on my head, white hare in my hand, and one of my best friends with me.</td></tr>
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<br />Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-25400662409082040862020-04-24T00:38:00.000-07:002020-04-24T00:38:04.552-07:00The wise man built his house on the rock: Back to square one in our Unalakleet build.
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“I want to go with Dad,” Ellen declared as I got out of the
car.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She reached
for my hand and we walked the rocky (literally and figuratively) road to its
end just before our lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is where
it met a snow filled gully at a willow line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Someone had cut a trail through the willows a year or so before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I crouched down and felt her arms reach up around
my neck before I stood back up with my little burden, trudging through the snow
breaking trail for her Mom and Dave.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We were
there figuring out where to dig our test holes to determine location of our
house, garage, and drain field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
an extraneous act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lot directly
south held a ton of gravel, the one just down the hill to the west of us looked
like a gravel parking lot, and the other developed property just to the
north-west had beautiful rock for building.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, I am
pretty confident,” Dave said as we walked up the hill, “but one thing I have
learned is that I don’t always know.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At $100 a
piece, the holes would be cheap insurance, but once they were dug, we were
planning on immediately pulling the trigger on ordering supplies to get a
garage up as a base to build our house out of.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I can get
the excavator up here this week,” Dave stated, “We’ll come up with a time, and
you can come out and see the holes being dug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like the owner to be there.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As we
walked back toward the car, Ellen was visibly confused and frustrated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where are
we going?” she asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Aren’t you going
to build my house?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, Bub,”
her mom explained, “we need to get materials shipped in, a foundation put down…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“There’s
wood right there,” Ellen gestured to the pallets we had brought up the hill to
build garden beds out of.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’re going
to need a little bit more than that, Bub,” I tried to clarify, “but today was a
step closer.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, don’t
forget that I want a telescope in my room,” and she turned and reached up to me
to be carried back to the car.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dave’s son
Reuben, Bub (of course) and I went up to the lot a couple of days later once
they had the excavator in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bub had
seen equipment being worked on television, but it was something that had her in
awe as the heavy tracked vehicle crawled its way through the snow we had just
struggled through and then worked its way up the hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would stand as close as I would let her
and then retreat when I would yell for her to move back as the machine continued
its approach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj95GX2ax1PKDiiL1mPdltDX295OpberrZc2GqrdqWpLJTijoaOJ4bBnJ-aJNrOjrBQe769zP1TbYXYmyERqJ2LdpbbtKLRmKKugyNXzfo0wrC_lEG-pZxvciQuAK_tMjoBBk0k-vWOnCs/s1600/excavator+on+property.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj95GX2ax1PKDiiL1mPdltDX295OpberrZc2GqrdqWpLJTijoaOJ4bBnJ-aJNrOjrBQe769zP1TbYXYmyERqJ2LdpbbtKLRmKKugyNXzfo0wrC_lEG-pZxvciQuAK_tMjoBBk0k-vWOnCs/s320/excavator+on+property.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bub's first real-life experience with an excavator was awe inspiring... but even this impressive machine struggled with the concrete hard permafrost found just below the topsoil.</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The bucket
punched through the top layer and began struggling with what it found underneath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smiled as I saw large chunks dropping out
of the bucket.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Wow, he
hit rock fast,” I said to Ellen who was wrapped around my left leg watching
with mouth open.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The going
was slow and it got to the point that Reuben was only able to remove about a
five-gallon scoop at a time and the front of the tracks were being lifted up
off the ground with each effort. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began
realizing that it wasn’t rock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
only four feet into the ground when Dave walked up behind me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Wow,” Dave
commented, “didn’t expect to find that.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Permafrost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rock that Reuben had been extracting was
actually large chunks of frozen clay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was
pretty much the same thing we had built our Galena house on, but it was kind of
a game changer in Unalakleet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one,
we were planning on harvesting rock from our lot to finish building the road to
our property as well as building the driveway to the garage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There was
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still frozen clay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Let’s try
over by those willows,” Dave pointed toward the south boundary line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Maybe we can find something there for your
drain field.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The ground
was not frozen there and the bucket penetrated easily: a better sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was still mostly clay, but the bucket
started turning up signs of gravel… and then signs of water.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, it
looks like we could get deep enough to do a septic before hitting the water,”
Dave said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So, that is a better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t build on it, but this would work for
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the hill to see if we can find a good building site with better soils.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The third
hole started out okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reuben punched
through the thin layer of top soil and began pulling up full buckets of
material, which quickly turned into partial buckets filled with more frozen
clay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Huh,” I gave
my very educated opinion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah,” Dave
agreed, “not what I figured we’d find.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That
pretty much determines that we shouldn’t build here,” I yelled to Dave over the
roar of the excavator.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, I
wasn’t going to make that decision for you, but that is what I was thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No need throwing good money after bad,” Dave
agreed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Reuben shut
off the machine and we began walking down the hill.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hey,” Ellen
yelled confused again, “I thought we were going to build my rainbow house.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Evidently
after meeting no resistance to her telescope proposal she figured she’d go for
broke.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, Bub,
not quite yet,” I said a little disheartened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Looks like I won’t be getting my shop just yet though either… but,” I
continued, “I’m working on it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra was waiting
expectantly at home when Ellen and I walked through the door.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Celebration?”
She asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Not exactly,”
I answered, “permafrost.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Wow,
really?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Back to square
one,” I said trying to sound okay with it, and honestly the more we talked
about it, the more we were.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This was
not the first building project that we ran into hurdles on or heard the answer
of “not yet” on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first house we
built had multiple not yets that all turned into God taking care of us (don’t
know how else to explain it) better than we could have taken care of ourselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We said
grace just in time to beat Bub’s first shovel full of noodles into her mouth.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We didn’t
build my rainbow house yet,” she said not looking up from the noodles she was
urgently working on.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Not yet,”
Mom replied, “but we’re working on it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />
“Dad?” Romay anxiously asked as we both stood looking at a
stick that was much wetter than it had been about twenty minutes ago.<br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah,” I
responded, “the water has gone up,” and before she could ask, I continued,
“we’re going to be okay.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She had
just gotten back from helping a friend move empty fuel barrels and a snow
machine to higher ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only days
before, the entire community of Galena had been cruising around in our cars,
windows down, enjoying the early spring heat, and keeping a light-hearted eye
on the Yukon as the ice began to rot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While Romay
and I had been working outside helping our neighbors, Myra had stayed behind to
get a few things in order in our home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We weren’t worried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we had
built, we knew that ground level on our property was above the hundred-year
flood line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as we watched the pond
across the road grow, Myra took some time to get things ready just in case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The winter
of 2012-13 had been one in which multiple puzzle pieces had fallen exactly in
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fall got cold quickly,
dipping down into negative numbers shortly after the end of moose season, and
though we got a little snow early, we never really got dumped on like usual.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Snow is
kind of a counter-intuitive thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
touched, its cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course- it is frozen
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, snow holds air and acts
like nature’s fiber glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good foot
of snow on river ice keeps the ice from thickening as quickly because even
though the mercury could drop to negative twenty, the insulation keeps the ice
just below freezing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fall and winter
cold in interior Alaska without insulative snow meant thick ice… feet and feet
of ice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Later in
the winter, the mountains in Canada where the Yukon River is born got dumped
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A record amount of snow fell and
accumulated waiting for spring thaw to push it into the Yukon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was like a healthy savings account of
water for the river.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then, the
spring had stayed cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ice really
never got the slow rot that we had experienced in earlier years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was solid, thick, and hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then it got warm… hot: short sleeves and
shorts weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stock pile of snow
in Canada cashed out all at once and began pushing down the river.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the
river broke, we gathered in ice watching parties awed by the school bus size
pieces of ice tumbling in the current of the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stood near the break wall at the end of
the runway and felt the power of the river shake the ground beneath us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Water began
pouring into Alexander Lake, a good thing for a float plane lake that had not
been recharged in quite some time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Is that a
crack forming near the culvert?” I asked Myra as we were out for a walk and
crossing the “new road” bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
bridge had been built by mounding earth over a steel culvert large enough to
drive a snow machine through while standing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, sure
looks like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we should let
someone know about it,” she had commented.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A day later
a surge of water pushed through the lake and snagged the culvert lip, lifting
it and tearing it through the ground like it was made of paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, a group of us stood by watching and
nervously laughing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Man, that
is going to take some work to fix,” a local heavy equipment operator shrugged
as we stood talking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Honestly
though, none of us was worried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
the first time in recent history that our most respected elder had not said,
“Prepare for a flood this year.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sidney
had said it just about every other year that we had ever come close.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Though the water was high, the ice
was pushing on down river with no signs of slowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, almost without warning, it just
stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A couple of bends down from Galena, Bishop Rock towers above the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A solid, enormous, building-sized boulder
shaped the river rather than allowing the river to shape it causing a
ninety-degree bend and water depths of sixty to eighty feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Large chunks of ice had got caught in the
corner, piling onto each other until an ice dam spread the width of the river
and pressed to the bottom holding a two-mile-long sheet of ice behind it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Water and Ice continued downstream with
nowhere to go other than up and over the swollen banks filling in dry lakes and
sloughs that had not seen water in decades.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And the
water kept coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t care that
the normal overflow holding ponds were full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It hadn’t read about 100-year flood levels, and there is a reason that
water is described as running, not walking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, Romay and I had stuck a stick in the mud a couple inches up the hill
above the lake across the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
figured if our yard was going to get wet, that was where the water would come
from.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
seeing the stick wet, we walked back across the road and gave Myra the
update.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, the
lake is definitely higher, but it does not look like it will really make it
over the road,” I encouraged.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I followed
Myra’s eyes as she looked down and watched a small stream of water run past our
feet coming from behind the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had not even considered the lake behind the house filling up and that the flood
would come from there.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’ll get
our emergency stuff together,” Myra said as she turned and headed back to the
house with Romay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You should probably
load the tools into the truck.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>We
grabbed Myra’s little chainsaw and threw it in the boat along with the bug out
bag she had put together: food, change of clothes, first aid kit, fresh water,
jet boil, fire starter, axe shotgun, rifle, and shells for both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We finished putting the tools in the back of
the truck to drive them and it to higher ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the flooding got out of control, we were
going to need those tools to put our house back together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra and I drove the truck and Romay followed
on the four-wheeler.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Higher
ground was the parking lot next to the school shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A number of other cars were parked there
already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without thinking about it, someone
parked their vehicle in the gate blocking the way for many of us to park our
cars up and out of the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had
locked the doors, taken the keys, and left town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We parked our truck and four-wheeler just down
the hill on the highest spot we could find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We hoped it would be enough and walked back to the house. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Wow,”
Romay said in disbelief as she looked where the truck had been parked in our
driveway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The river had made its way
into our front yard and washed out half of the drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had we waited any longer, the truck would
have been stranded.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Water kept
pouring in, the town’s emergency siren sounded like an air raid warning and
then everything went eerily silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
city had shut off the diesel generators whose humming was just interwoven so
strongly into the background fabric of noise that we no longer noticed it until
it wasn’t there.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I began
grabbing lose propane bottles around the yard and strapping them to trees to
keep them from floating away if the water should get that high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shut the house’s propane off as well as the
stove oil.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I think we
should go check in at the emergency shelter,” Myra said, and we walked back to
the school.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We have
flights coming to pick up people who would like to evacuate now,” the mayor
announced to a group of us standing in the parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If you want to go, come and put your name on
the list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just people, no pets.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You and
Romay are going,” I insisted.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What are
you going to do?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Kemper and
I will stay here and keep an eye on the house,” Galena was and is a great
community, but there are always a couple in every community that make the rest
of us keep an eye on our stuff.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Concern was
evident on her face.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’re
going to be okay,” I forced a smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Things are going to work out.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The road
had a foot of ice-cold water running with a slow current when we walked back to
the house to get bags for the girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
feet went almost immediately numb in my running shoes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometime
during the day, Myra had the forethought to cook a meal, “There is a plate of
brats on the kitchen table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should be
enough for you and Kemper for quite some time,” she said.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The girls
hugged the dog and we trudged back to the school while he waited back at the
house for me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At the boat
that would take them and a half-dozen others out to a waiting bus at the dike,
we said our quick good-byes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra ended
hers with, “You two boys be careful.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was an
order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, they got in the boat
and were gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked back to the
house.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well
buddy,” I said to the dog, “it’s just you and me now.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He looked
up at me with his big brown knowing eyes that didn’t require words to express
what he was thinking, “We’re going to be okay.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper and
I sat on the porch in the warm sun watching the water go up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well Kemper,
it gets past the fifth step on the porch, and we head for the boat,” I
explained the plan as he looked me straight in the eyes, “after that the water
is over my chest waders.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then I
began addressing the only one who could do anything about the situation, “God,”
I said aloud, “we need a little miracle here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please, please bring this flood down.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Almost
immediately I watched the water recede an entire step on the front porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It dropped almost faster than it had been
going up and I began to dance with the dog on the porch.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Thank you,
Father, thank you, God!” I yelled looking up to the sky.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I looked
back down to the water and saw the recession stop and the water begin creeping
back up the stairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had gone down
one, but in half the time it had taken to do that, it came back up two stairs.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hey,
that’s the wrong way, God,” I pointed out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“It’s supposed to be going down.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I ran
inside and threw on waders and shoved a brat in my mouth and gave one to the
dog.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Here we
go, buddy,” I encouraged stepping down the porch and into water that was now
only an inch below the tops of my waders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper
followed and immediately began swimming behind me toward where the boat was
parked and floating above the trailer (we had given it some slack and tied it
off to a tree earlier).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I climbed in
over the transom, put a hand behind the retriever’s head so that he could
leverage himself aboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kemper, true to
form, stood next to me as he shook off the ice-cold water from his short polar
bear plunge.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We tried to
get comfortable as we watched the water submerge the snow machine that I
thought I had parked high and dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
then the water went up and over the motor of the go cart that I had just
changed the piston and cylinder in the day before, and it continued to go up
the steps, stopping one before the very top.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unbeknownst
to either Kemper or me at that time, Myra and Romay had shot through a road
that was actively overflowing with a steady current full of pick-up sized
icebergs cruising through the current.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The standard teen, Romay caught the action on the camera of her device.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They had
safely made it to the bus, rode to the airport, and were awaiting the flight.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The state
has called off the flights,” the RAVN representative announced<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What?”
Myra asked in disbelief.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A number of
ladies started crying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It truly had been
a classic evacuation of women and children first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The men of the town had sent their wives and
kids out with the understanding that a flight was on its way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some state representative had decided that it
was not enough of an emergency to send a plane.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Word was
relayed back to the mayor who responded, “Send the plane, we’ll figure out how
to pay for it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the
water had surged up the steps of our porch, it had also surged up the sides of
the dike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A handful of local heavy
equipment operators were waging their own counter assault on the advancing
river which was licking at the top of the dike and threatening to spill over,
breaching, and flooding onto the runway completely eliminating that means of
escape and leaving the women and children with no high ground to run to.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>RAVN sent
the flight, and our girls (Kemper laid claim to them as well) flew safely to
Anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The national guard followed
suit and between that evening and early the next day, all the women and
children were moved to safety.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Though
spongey on top, the dike miraculously held.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Back at the
boat, I was fighting a dog who was simply listening to his hunting
instinct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every rodent for the surrounding
five miles must have been taking refuge in our yard as he and I watched
lemmings and voles and mice swim by looking for their own piece of high
ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kemper whined as I struggled
with his collar keeping him out of the frigid water.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Stay in
the boat,” I yelled each time a water-logged rodent swam within tempting
distance of the dog.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I shared a
sandwich from the emergency supplies with the dog to keep both our minds off of
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found his food and put it in a
bowl in the bottom of the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and I
floated for six hours.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Kemper,” I
said, “This is dumb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re sitting
twenty feet from a perfectly dry and comfortable house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s go back inside.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I turned
the key on a boat that had not been fired up yet that year and listened to the
old four-stroke Honda jump to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think the both of us smiled as we motored out the driveway and then turned into
the break in the trees to motor back up the yard and to the front porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tied off and went inside where we shared
another brat from the kitchen table and moved to the living room where we could
keep track of the river’s progress based off of how much of the pig house roof
was showing (thankfully that year’s pigs had not arrived yet).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I opened a
book and began to read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could only
handle so much watching the river level go up and down and pleading with God.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Woof!”
Kemper yelled at me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What the
heck?” I yelled back, “I’m the only one here, you don’t have to yell.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Woof!”
just as insistent.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper
never really had to bark at me for me to know what he wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He just looked at me and told me with his
eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evidently his bladder and bowels
had reached the point where just looking at me was not enough.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re
just going to have to go in here, man,” I said, “there is nowhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’ll be okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll clean it up.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He ran to
the door to make his point.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I followed
him and made what I thought was a stronger one: I opened the front door and
gestured to the yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do you see
anywhere to go poop right now?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper
jumped into the boat and barked again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Off toward Alexander lake I watched a sixty-foot spruce snap off as a
bus-sized chunk of ice went shooting up the lake.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re
kidding?” I asked refusing to move from the deck.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Woof!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m not
taking you to dry ground just to poop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can go on the porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll
just kick it off into the water for you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Woof!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“For crying
out loud,” I griped climbing over the bow after untying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This is dumb.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But we were
doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was on the search for dry
ground so that my dog who refused to go in the house had someplace to poop.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We motored
across the road and into the once small lake and pointed toward the school that
I hoped was still dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I approached a
fellow teacher’s house and took extra care when I got to where I figured his
truck was parked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t want to hit
my prop on the cab of his truck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
looked into the water and saw it about a foot down as we passed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A block
from the school, and the water quickly got shallow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tied off to a fire hydrant and coaxed
Kemper into the water behind me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
the way the current was, and me being unsure what I might hit, walking seemed
to be a safer way to go the last block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We needed a fully operable boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I watched Kemper tense up as he jumped into water that was up to his
belly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept him upstream from me so that
he would not be swept off of his feet and away from me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was this experience that caused him to
walk wide from water for a full year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was a born swimmer and avid duck hunter, but fast-moving liquid ice was not his
idea of a good time.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper happily
stepped out on the first dry ground he found, lifted a leg, and grinned as he
urinated for a solid two minutes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We walked
into the school yard and were greeted by Mrs. Smith who must have been one of the
only women left in town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was tending
to a pack of dogs who were all calmly lying next to bowls of fresh water.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Can he
stay with you for a couple minutes?” I gestured to Kemper.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sure,
happy to see you guys,” She replied.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Stay here,
buddy, I’ll be right back,” and I walked into the school.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The library
had been set up with a table containing water, and some easily grabbable
foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I snagged a pilot bread and some
water for the dog and I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Jason?” a
familiar voice said from behind, “is that you?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I turned
around.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Man, we
are so glad to see you alive. You were one of the last people we had to account
for.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’ve been
doing fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kemper and I have plenty to
drink, good food in the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to
come find dry ground so that he could pee.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One more
pilot bread with peanut butter for myself and then I prepared one for my
friend.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Here you
go buddy,” I said tossing him the pilot bread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kemper had been patiently waiting next to a fresh bowl of clean water
and snagged the cracker out of the air as it came to him.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Thank
you,” I called over my shoulder as Kemper and I headed back to the boat and
home.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper and
I made the same trip twice a day for the next couple of days just so that he
could go to the bathroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would check
in, I borrowed a satellite phone and called Myra and Romay to let them know
that we were doing okay, and then we would head back home.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On one of
the days, I got curious how a friend was doing down-stream on Alexander lake.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We should
go check on Kenton,” I said to an agreeable Kemper as we hopped into the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We drove
the boat up to the intersection that led to where the bridge had washed
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20 yards away, the water was till
ripping through, trees that were over 20 inches in diameter were swaying in the
current just hoping a chunk of ice would not come too close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slowed the boat to a crawl just as the prop
struck the road.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Be
careful,” I heard Myra’s voice say in the back of my head, and then it
fast-forwarded to a scene at a church with Myra explaining to the mourners
gathered that she had told me to take care of myself after she left.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“This is
dumb,” I said to Kemper and he looked at me in agreement as we turned the boat
around and headed back to the relative safety of the house.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Time
passed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Riddle II paddled by in a
canoe and we had a brief conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
man in a boat piled with what he explained as all he had left motored by the
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later I watched a boat going the
other direction fully on step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I yelled
after it as the wake struck the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The water had stopped going up a 2x4 width from coming into our
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The river did not require the
help of some random boat to lift it up and over the remaining dry one and a
half inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed no wake signs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We visited the school off and on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Bruce,
what happened to your hand?” I asked a fellow flood defiant (victim sounds too
passive).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I shot a
muskrat that had climbed up on my porch,” he started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I was going to eat him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I went to pick him up, he latched on to
my hand.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You should
get that looked at,” I grimaced.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’ll be
fine,” he answered while putting peanut butter on a pilot bread.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When Kemper
and I got back to the house, a Black Hawk helicopter circled us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I waved, but didn’t want to look too happy to
see him because I didn’t want to see a man connected to a cord coming down to
pick me and the dog up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d made it
this far, we’d see it through to the end.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finally,
during one of our visits to the school so Kemper could pee, we were given the
news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ice dam at Bishop rock was
beginning to break apart and we would be begin to see the water go down over
the next twenty-four hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kemper and I
headed for home and docked the boat at the front porch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay, we
need to stay awake and aware,” I gave Kemper the plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We need to get the boat back on the trailer
before the water goes too far down.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper
yawned in agreement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re not
helping,” I chided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’ll just go lay
down for a couple of hours.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kemper and
I pretty much had not slept for two days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I read, he took cat naps, no offense to dogs out there, but we never
truly rested.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He crawled
up into the bed next to me and we closed our eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I woke up to the sound of running water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was dusk when we had gone to bed, but now
it was full on bright morning and my muddled mind was struggling to place where
I had heard that sound before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Crap,
Kemper, get out of bed,” I shot up and headed for the stairs, “we gotta move
the boat.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The dog
came crashing off the bed after me and we dashed down the steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boat was propped at a 30-degree angle
with its rear sitting in the water and the bow jammed into the front
porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As much as I pushed and Kemper
encouraged, the boat just wouldn’t budge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I slammed my booted foot against the bow and it finally broke free,
knocking a wedge out of the porch that would act as a daily reminder the of the
flood rest of the years we lived in that house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The dog and
I jumped into the boat, started the motor and drove back out of the front yard,
into the ditch, onto the driveway and as close to the trailer as I could
get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The water was rushing out of the
yard at this point like someone had pulled the plug on the washtub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I pulled up to the trailer, the water
level dropped to below that of the trailer bumpers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Close
enough,” I decreed as I shut of the engine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Compared to
Noah’s 30 days and 30 nights, our three had been nothing, but Kemper and I had
some idea of how he must have felt when he stepped onto dry… soggy land
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kemper walked over to a tree in
the yard and triumphantly lifted his leg.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Firewood
was scattered over the entire yard, empty fuel drums were floating in the pond
behind the house, the boat was sitting off the trailer, our freshly planted
garden was completely gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kemper and I
smiled at each other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well
buddy, we made it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re okay.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And he
agreed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Isaiah 43:2 (NIV)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you walk through the fire, you will not
be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bishop Rock from above. This is the 90 degree angle in the river that is notorious for causing Galena's flooding.</td></tr>
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<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRF4_2VQj3f8IYK3Aq4AdDcPoGhILGJiCzp8Tuqx9-1YxBeFqtTgJPebo8rlsJf-FH-r1SM738yPlQSqWQcSzwwW9nW8HXc2SSKr6KrWDKtcH6sWGOisReoUzW6UHUrZDO7GVQlNQgSyM/s1600/garden+beds+in+just+before+the+flood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="360" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRF4_2VQj3f8IYK3Aq4AdDcPoGhILGJiCzp8Tuqx9-1YxBeFqtTgJPebo8rlsJf-FH-r1SM738yPlQSqWQcSzwwW9nW8HXc2SSKr6KrWDKtcH6sWGOisReoUzW6UHUrZDO7GVQlNQgSyM/s320/garden+beds+in+just+before+the+flood.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A day before the flood, we were putting in brand new garden beds for that year's planting.</td></tr>
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<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9AygHHESvL7hL1UVOq5DTEeB5iTHPbdVTKmNUII-xgfFnpF8fJQgC4TFkT_VGsy_1Cnw8u5KzzUlvD7d4S6HN2q-RUlG_vqUGDTobS4czCDQweBuZZ2BQy0u-gvJ_Jmd9bGz2wBZbywM/s1600/ice+bank+to+bank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9AygHHESvL7hL1UVOq5DTEeB5iTHPbdVTKmNUII-xgfFnpF8fJQgC4TFkT_VGsy_1Cnw8u5KzzUlvD7d4S6HN2q-RUlG_vqUGDTobS4czCDQweBuZZ2BQy0u-gvJ_Jmd9bGz2wBZbywM/s320/ice+bank+to+bank.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At this point, we thought we had dodged a bullet. Ice was bank to bank, water was high, but everything was moving. Eight hours later, everything changed.</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“We have family meals again, we spend time with our kids, we
bake, we exercise…” says every positive family meme showing up on Facebook
amongst the crazy time that is the Covid-19 pandemic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the village, someone dies, there’s
a flood, a fire, a tragedy, and we draw together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>“The village pulls together during hard
times,” we are reminded by everyone we pass on the road.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My younger
daughter is currently sitting about five feet away from me (closer than the
recommended 6, but hey, we’re all being quarantined together in this family) on
the window sill smiling at me as I write and giving her mom high-fives as mom
runs circles up and down our stairs (my turn is coming up and there is a
blizzard going on outside right now).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mom Running Stairs: Who needs a fancy gym membership with kids who like to "help."</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Though none
of us have been perfect home-schooling parents in the midst of this (most of us
are at least three generations out of practice), we have all spent more time
with our kids working the alphabet, reading books, doing art, teaching our kids
how to cook, teaching math how we learned it than we have during any other part
of their lives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellen loves her home economics class.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In Italy,
neighbors are singing with each other from their balconies unable to visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the United States, we are face timing with
neighbors, family members across the country, and sending texts just checking
up on each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In warmer climates neighbors
are setting up happy hours where they sit distant from each other having wine
and watching their kids play in separate yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are setting time aside in our stores to allow elders and those at
risk to shop while the stores are not so crowded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly we are just setting aside time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Those of us
who cannot stay at home because our jobs are deemed essential are being
publicly appreciated for the first time in years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nurses, grocery store clerks, truckers, and
teachers are all being hailed as superheroes who should receive raises at the
very least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are realizing that the
people we walked by everyday while they were just doing their jobs are much
more important than we ever thought.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What is
going to happen once we get through this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We will, after all, get through this just as our ancestors passed
through the bubonic plague and Spanish flu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The economy will get going again, we will go back to work, the stock
market will rebound, but what will we do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Will it be business as usual?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This is not
a time for New Year’s resolutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
a time for change of habit and change of heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am going to see the people in my community as people and care for them
as my neighbors regardless of political party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am going to continue to pray for my neighbors, community, and
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I am going to continue to
serve others not knowing what burdens they may be carrying.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’m also
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Villages,
after all, pull together in times of tragedy and challenge.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family project while out on "recess."</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Einkorn bread: flour, water, and salt.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I always
feel like when I talk about Einkorn that I am in some kind of an infomercial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just so you know, I don’t own stocks in any
companies that sell einkorn, I don’t own a farm that grows einkorn (yet), I don’t
sell einkorn baked goods (yet), but it is something that has really helped my
family.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shortly
after we got married, Myra started showing symptoms that were in the flu/cold
category.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was often fatigued,
congested, and got headaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not
willing to believe that it was an allergy to me or that her frequent naps were
an avoidance strategy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we started
ruling things out.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A mold testing
kit proved that our trailer that we were living in was perhaps not the
healthiest environment for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
symptoms could have been the result of black mold and maybe I wasn’t reacting
due to my years of allergy shots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We moved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We carted all of our stuff the twenty feet into a newly refurbished apartment,
and somehow, the symptoms followed us.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Years
passed with no relief. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra headed off
to grad school in Juneau where she ran into a fellow grad student who had
suffered from similar symptoms.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m allergic
to gluten,” she explained to Myra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I am
completely gluten free now, and I don’t have any more problems.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While at
school, Myra changed diets with amazing results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She came home recharged and excited about her
discovery.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So, I have
gone gluten free,” she exclaimed with excitement to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Huh,” I
said pulling two fresh loaves of bread from the oven, “what exactly does that
mean?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, I
just can’t eat anything with gluten in it,” she responded.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Like what?”
I asked as I began mixing up a batch of sourdough pancakes for the next
morning.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Stuff with
wheat,” Myra said nonchalantly.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You know
what has wheat in it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything has wheat in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pasta, bread, cereal, flour tortillas, a lot
of processed foods (we didn’t eat many of those anyway), pretty much everything
we ate had some form of gluten in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
went into mourning.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We began
experimenting with gluten free products… some we just threw out and ate the box
instead since the packaging was more palatable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We bought blends of gluten free flour (some are really good I have to
mention that in fairness) and it was like trying to make bread out of wallpaper
paste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pie crusts fell apart and could
not be rolled without sticking to the rolling pin for eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra’s chocolate chip cookies (the best in
the world) were a thing of the past… that whole better to love and lost than
not to love at all idea… yeah, that’s dumb.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gluten free
products have come a long way, and I have to admit, it is possible to make a
pretty decent pizza crust gluten free, but it still does not quite have the
right texture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then came
my binge watching of food documentaries on Netflix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t recommend this unless you want to
completely change how you are eating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
came across one entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sustainable </i>that
focused on organic agriculture in contrast to our current factory farm
methods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the guys on there was
growing something called Einkorn and a Chicago based baker was using it to bake
breads that people who have gluten allergies could digest without suffering any
symptoms they did when they ate modern bread.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Einkorn is
considered an ancient wheat (quite possibly the bread Christ broke at the last
supper was made from Einkorn) and it has never been hybridized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t confuse hybridization with Genetically
Modified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are two different animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have Labrador retrieves due to hybridization
after all, and any duck hunter will tell you that is a good and natural thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hybridization
in animals and plants is basic selective genetics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plants and/or animals that have traits that are
preferred are allowed to reproduce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
explains why labs have webbed feet and a water-repellent coat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generations of dogs that demonstrated these
characteristics were bred to bring about future generations characterized by
those specific traits.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Genetically
modified organisms come from the lab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
mood music is needed to bring about these altered offspring (sorry Barry
Manilow).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scientists inject information
at the genetic level from a fish into a tomato and bam, you have a tomato that
does not bruise in shipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No offense
was meant to geneticists in the simplification of this process, but that is
enough of a gist for this blog.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So,
technically speaking, modern day wheat farmers are not modern day Prometheuses
(Prometheusi?) creating new life in a lab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are like horse breeders trying to produce the fastest horse through
selective breeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case though,
wheat has been bred to be uniform, quick growing, bulk producing, easily
harvested grain.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A side result,
however, is that modern wheat is not as healthy of a food source as ancient
wheats like Einkorn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern wheat has a
lower protein content and a higher starch content (carbohydrates).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Bartolucci, “Einkorn contains
roughly 30 percent more protein than modern wheat and more protein than any
other grain, while having 15 percent less starch…”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In case I
am starting to sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher to you, Einkorn is good for
you in comparison to modern wheat.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So, I
figured, if it is better for those with gluten allergies (everyone really) than
it must have less gluten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That thought
pattern is incorrect though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who
has baked with “regular” modern wheat understands that gluten is what sticks
the dough together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The longer einkorn
is kneaded, the stickier it becomes (aka develops gluten).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It comes back to the protein though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The higher protein lower starch make-up of
the gluten is a more suitable food source for the human body to digest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our bodies break down this protein better
than the starch in modern wheat.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I googled
sources of Einkorn flour and came across Jovial foods (I’ll put a link to their
website in resources section on the sidebar).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jovial was started by a husband and wife team whose daughter was
allergic to gluten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She (Carla
Bartolucci) began experimenting with Einkorn, and her daughter’s symptoms went
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ordered enough flour to do a
little experimentation and a cook book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have pretty much loved everything we have tried from this book.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This is the
only cook book that I have ever read and found myself getting emotional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some may say that is reason enough to revoke
my man card, but I feel I still have enough credit on it to overcome a few
tears shed in reading about how Einkorn could possibly help my girls (Ellen
struggles from eczema which can be exacerbated by modern wheat).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I began the
week-long process of establishing a sourdough starter (fermented grains are
also thought to be more easily digested) so that I could bake bread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flour, though when mixed with water is stickier than sin, is a joy
to bake with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a very fine texture
that feels incredibly smooth when worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dough, when kneaded, becomes silky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first loaf I baked was made up of very few ingredients all of which
I could pronounce: flour, water, salt, and sourdough starter (fermented flour
with wild yeast activated in water).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I put it in
the oven and hoped it would be the answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Myra must have felt like a guinea pig as she took her first bite.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So,” I
looked at her as though she would grow a second head, “how do you feel?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Fine,” she
said taking a second bite, “this is really good.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Einkorn
lends a little bit of a nutty flavor to bread which is very pleasing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Any
symptoms?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Jason, I’ve
had two bites and it has been less than one minute,” she sighed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay, so I’ll
ask in another couple minutes,” this was a scientific study after all.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A couple
hours passed and no symptoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other
slices of bread, and Myra was not congested or fatigued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made sourdough cinnamon rolls (the cookbook
has a recipe for the best cinnamon rolls I have ever eaten), chocolate cupcakes
(egg free and dairy free for our family), pancakes, pizza, and crackers (didn’t
even realize I could make those at home).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each time Myra tasted something new, I would internally take note and
look for symptoms, but she felt fine, and the flavor was better than the modern
wheat recipes I used to make.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One of my
fears with going back to bread was that I would gain a bunch of the weight back
that I had recently lost, but the higher protein content and lower carbohydrate
content have meant that I have stayed exactly the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My body must be getting more of what it needs
from this bread without all the junk it does not need.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We do still
eat gluten free foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a gluten
free pancake recipe we like, I make gluten free cornbread, our spaghetti is
gluten free, but we finally have good bread back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a reason that Christ chose bread as
he drove home the message of the last supper, and I doubt it is just because he
had an extra loaf handy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am not a
doctor or a dietician.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t promise
you that Einkorn will work for you, and if you have been diagnosed with celiac
disease, I highly recommend you talk with your doctor before doing your own experimentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will say it was the answer for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more gluten allergies associated with bread,
and Ellen’s skin is clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Baking is a
joy again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What would we do without help in the kitchen?</td></tr>
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Bartolucci, Carla. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Einkorn
Recipes For Nature’s Original Wheat</i>. Clarkson Potter, 2015.</div>
Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15726315110650894922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5639128623926029711.post-14368388292139624282020-03-20T21:38:00.001-07:002020-03-20T22:59:59.849-07:00Raising Girls<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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“What are you going to do with your empty nest,” a number of
friends asked us as we stepped into Romay’s senior year of high school.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Funny you
should ask,” I laughed, “Myra is pregnant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re backfilling.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Uh,” many
would stutter in shock, “how do you guys feel about that?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I mean
after all, what question can you follow that answer with?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having adopted Romay when she was an older
kid (8 to be exact) when we were younger made us some of the younger parents of
a graduating senior that year, but in doing the math, that definitely would not
be true the next time around.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well,” I smiled,
“I get to buy another shotgun.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What if the
next child is a girl?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I still
get to buy another shotgun.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The child
arrived and we bought pink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have only
ever raised girls, and when we had our male lab, Kemper, in the house, I at
least felt he brought some balance to the force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have only experienced raising our girls,
and so I don’t know what normal is… I imagine my girls aren’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Dad, I’m
not going to prom this year,” Romay declared as she walked into the living room
where I was sitting.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh,” that
was one less thing for a dad of a pretty girl to worry about, “why?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I just don’t
think I would have any fun this year, and the ducks are back,” she said quite
seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do you think they would let
me go to after prom if I didn’t go to prom?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I don’t
see why not.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay,
well, Kemper and I will go out to our blind then, and then I’ll come back, get
cleaned up, drop Kemper off, and attend after prom,” she formulated her plan.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You don’t
think Kemper will get jealous that you are going to after prom without him?” I
joked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Just take the young man to the
blind and then ditch him for the party?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Dadddd,”
and she headed for her room.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She did go
duck hunting on prom night and when she walked up the porch she was carrying a
pintail and Kemper was proudly carrying a mallard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romay with the young man who would become her prom date (the blond guy holding the duck).</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><br /> </span>On another occasion
a young man walked into my English classroom displaying quite a shiner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a full-on black eye.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well Mr.
Harris,” he began talking immediately as he took his seat, “are you going to
talk with your daughter?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I smiled
starting to put the pieces together, “About what?” I attempted a naïve question.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“My eye,”
he whined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“She’s the one who gave me
this,” he indicated by pointing at the swollen purple mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We were playing ball at open gym last
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romay got the rebound, and when I
went in for the ball, she was holding it with her elbows out, pivoted and
caught me square in the eye.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I just smiled.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well,” he
prodded, “what are you going to say to her?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Way to go,”
I responded.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When Ellen
was just a little older than two, Myra and I bundled her up to take her and
Amouk (great-grandmother) ice fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It gave me a greater understanding of what my parents went through in
preparing for similar outings when I was little.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where are
we going?” Ellen insisted on details.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’re
taking Amouk fishing,” her mom replied.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh, okay,”
she answered and became more helpful in the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We had
taken Amouk out a number of times that summer for salmon when they were
running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ellen had dragged a decoy on a
cord behind the boat, dipped the landing net, Amouk’s cane, sticks, and anything
else she could get her hands on into the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fishing, in her mind, was fun had in the boat involving barely remaining
inside of it the entire time.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Upon
exiting the house, Ellen walked down the hill, trudged through the snow,
crawled up on the trailer fender, and began hoisting herself over the gunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Bub, what’re
you doing?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Going ice
fishing,” she honestly responded as I lifted her down from the boat and put her
on the seat of the snow machine.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once she got
the hang of it, she quickly got over the disappointment of ice fishing having
nothing to do with the boat.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ohhhhhh,
that’s a big one,” she would squeal as one of the adults pulled a tomcod
through the ice.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She would
run over to the hole, pick up the freshly caught fish, hold it to her chest and
then run back over to the lawn chair that none of us were allowed to sit in
because it was designated for her fish.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Weeks
afterward, I was accosted by her upon walking through the door after work
concerning when we would be going fishing again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three generations of women fishers left to right: (little) Ellen, Myra, (Amouk) Ellen</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Looking at
Myra, it is easy to see that I can’t take full credit for how our girls are
turning out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully, they have their
mom’s looks, but beyond that, Myra has never been one to stay inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m bored,”
Myra said into my ear as we drove up the road toward Devil’s Hill in Koyuk via
four-wheeler, “what is there to kill this time of year?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I bought
Myra her shotgun for our first Christmas as a married couple, I was accused of
buying her something for myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
denied it, but it was kind of true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had gone duck hunting together that fall and I found myself sitting in our
blind calling ducks into decoys while she held my duck gun.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Is it my
turn yet?” I asked trying not to sound about eight-years-old.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Just a
couple more minutes,” she urged as she looked to the horizon for birds.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When Myra’s
turn was up, she handed me the shotgun, stood up and began walking home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guiltily held my shotgun in my lap for five
minutes before gathering up my stuff and following her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I wanted to hunt ducks and spend time with
my wife, she was going to need a shotgun of her own.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Myra with a early spring rabbit that she shot with her .22 Mosquito</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Amouk has
told us on numerous occasions upon me returning from a hunt with my girls that
women in our culture don’t hunt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
then always follows by saying, “My brother let me borrow his shotgun while we
were out boating once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The eiders were
flying way out and he thought they were out of range.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amouk will look off gazing into the past
before finishing, “I shot once and dropped one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only duck I ever shot,” and she smiles.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Culturally,
women may have not been hunters in Inupiaq culture, but girls are all God has
blessed me with, and if they want to go, I can’t see leaving them home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They rarely complain, I know where my kids
are, I know they are learning skills that could help them survive, and I get to
spend time with my favorite people.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We can’t
leave yet,” Ellen argued as we packed up to go from her first fox hunt, “we haven’t
gotten a fox yet.” <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I could
hear Romay’s voice in my head asking for five more minutes in the duck
blind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who needs a boy?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
“Hey, that’s goal-tending,” my then girlfriend, Myra,
angrily protested after I had jumped up and swatted her 3-pointer as it was on
its way down into the hoop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Go ahead
and count it,” I shrugged.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We had
decided for some reason that it would be a good idea to play some
one-on-one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aside from Myra, me, and our
egos, there was no one in the gym.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra
was two years out of playing college basketball and I was just two years out of
college swimming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra brought
considerable skill with her into the situation while all I brought was pride.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I took the
ball out and clumsily attempted to drive past Myra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I drove too far, she would snatch the ball
from me and laugh as she dribbled back out to the three-point arch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I pulled up too early, she would face guard
me with the resultant air ball being easily retrieved by her with more accompanying
laughter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She was
having fun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I stood
below the rim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I jumped and swatted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not having fun, but at least I was in
control of how I lost.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You can’t
do that,” Myra said as I again hopped up and knocked the ball away from the
rim.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra had
spent hundreds of dollars to travel to Savoonga where I was teaching to watch
me pout as she handily beat me on the court.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The game’s
not over,” she called after me as I walked off the floor and sat in the
bleachers.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah,
pretty sure it is,” I moped.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The rest of
the visit went better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did what I imagine
normal couples do when they date: cooked food together, watched movies, talked,
went for walks.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That summer
Myra came down to Michigan to visit and meet my parents for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The childhood hoop was still up in the
driveway, but I could not remember where I had hid… had stored the ball that
went with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In place of playing
one-on-one in the oppressive Michigan humidity, we had epic wrestling matches
on the front lawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking back, I
wonder what the neighbors must have thought as we threw each other around.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I snatched
Myra by the legs and pinned her shoulders to the grass.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hey, you
cheated,” she complained, angry that I had won.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At that
time, I still filled out my shirts in the arms and chest rather than at the
belly like I do now.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Rematch?”
I smiled and extended my hand.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She slapped
it away, “Rematch,” she nodded.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I laid off
and slowed down as Myra shot for my legs buckling me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
pinning my shoulders to the ground, she pushed off and stood up, “You let me
win,” Myra accused.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No,” I used
my best earnest innocent voice, “you’re pretty strong, My.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She wasn’t
buying it, “Rematch for real this time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I was
pretty sure that I couldn’t win no matter the outcome.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Again, for
the most part, the rest of her visit went pretty well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went out to eat, walked along the pier
with a beautiful view of Lake Huron in the background, we went hiking at
Presque Isle Lighthouse, went for drives, attended a high school buddy’s
wedding… normal dating stuff (again, at least how I imagine people must do
it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra got on a plane and headed for
Las Vegas where she would be working at a rescue mission for part of the year,
and I headed back up to Alaska and Savoonga for my second year of teaching.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Distance
was a challenge, but we did a lot of writing and calling, and when we met up in
Nome during the Iditarod Basketball Tournament (the one that accompanies the
famous dog race), I carried a ring with me, and I sat and watched her team win
the whole thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We did the stereotypical
couple of nights at Alyeska Ski Resort for our honeymoon and then made our way
back to Unalakleet and the North River Bible Camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The camp is a rustic camp (more so at that
time than now) with no running water or flushing toilets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we were newly married, Curtis Ivanoff,
who was running the camp that week for the young adult group attending, set us
up with the honeymoon suite: a tent on a deck with a bottle of sparkling grape
juice.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At the end
of the camp, we moved to Myra’s mom’s house and the comfort of a futon and flushing
toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra’s mom, Ellen, brought us
berry picking where the wrestling match took up where it had left off the
summer before.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You two
remind me of a couple of young grizzly bears,” Ellen said to Myra, shaking her
head and laughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Look at your kuspuk,”
she pointed to berry stains on the back.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I beat him
fair and square this time,” Myra answered and Ellen just knowingly laughed in
response.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young Love... the table that was the site of the Rumikub battle can be seen just in the back of us.</td></tr>
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<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That first
year on our own together in Koyuk… the first time we ever lived in the same
community together, was an interesting one best described through what we still
refer to as “the” Rumikub game.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We had
played for what seemed like an hour with both of our trays getting to the point
of a handful of tiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra drew marking
the end of her turn, but could already see where she could play her last
pieces.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That is
when I started rearranging the entire table. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I moved pieces from one side to the other creating
entirely new runs pulling tiles from my tray a couple at a time until I sat
with just one in my hand wondering where to put it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I borrowed a twelve from a set made up of all
twelves and then slid another from a run into it to make the three it needed to
remain legal, but then the run was without what it needed and so I tore it
apart moving it into separate strains until all the pieces were used up with
one empty spot that the ten in my hands just dropped into.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A moment of
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ahhhhh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no way, you just did that,” Myra
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I ducked
under the table just in time to hear it whizz overhead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra stood up to get a better angle on her
target and I started taking evasive action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Laughing while running did nothing to help me get away or calm my attacker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were still finding missing tiles in the
guest room across the trailer as well as behind the couch, in the vents, and wedged
in the chair cushions for an entire month after the battle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I think
both of us wondered if we could survive living under the same roof with each
other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We worked really well on the same
team, but if anything came down to competition, we both played to win with the
same ferocity we had in the college pool or on the college ball court.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fourteen
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betrayed her even though she too played as though she was preparing for battle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra took
the ball out beyond the arch, deftly dribbled between her legs and tried to go
around me, settling for a jumper that crisply snapped through the net.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I retrieved the ball and took it
out, licking one finger and holding it up checking for wind, “Let it rain,” I
sang out as I released, already running for the inevitable rebound while the
ball was still on its upward journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three
awkward rebounds and shots later and the score was tied.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra again
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absolute concentration on my face.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Let it
rain,” again I sang out as I hoisted the ball toward the rim, sprinting as it
was still heading heavenward in order to get my own rebound.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I don’t
remember the score of that game or who won, but I do know that neither one of
us was pouting as we sat down with our younger daughter on the floor tired from
laughing more than running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That will to
win is just as strong now that we are middle aged as it was when we did not
quite have fully functioning frontal lobes, but what and how we compete with
each other has changed dramatically.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Maybe just
after we got married I suffered from the illusion that I had won her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe she was under the impression that she
had to beat me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, somewhere
along the line we came to the conclusion that the game’s not over and winning
wasn’t to be the focus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The focus was
supposed to be the game itself all along.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“You going to make it out of here in this?” Myra asked
referencing what was becoming a decent rain with gray skies all around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ruby is showing
no clouds and it is supposed to be good all the way to Fairbanks from there,” I
answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We should come clear of this
just outside of Galena.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I sipped on
my one cup of coffee for the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The best way to assure I would need to use a bathroom mid-flight was to
put me on a plane without plumbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
little Tripacer definitely was not equipped.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Romay had
packed the night before, and as we shuttled her stuff from her room to the back
of Myra’s Scout, it appeared that she had included all of her worldly
possessions save her shot gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would,
after all, not allow her to have that in the dorms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The next
day was scheduled to be her freshman orientation at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, and much like my parents did when I went to Hope, I was going to go
with her to assure she was set up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike
when I went to school, we didn’t have the luxury of packing two cars with the
stuff she would survive on for the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm0ckNfc4JWYxjnFk2UbqIB86cvGkQQLtU8T-ELxCslnUZRICEd5ttWLJ5xWWDLVfQ7TEsu7vHrtUTRvnJNbd-9JngujC51Yf9_VaVDwUJ9GI-6dt5_u6KGpXLDSVAS9AlC0urP_HdNPo/s1600/mom+and+daughter+before+college.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="719" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm0ckNfc4JWYxjnFk2UbqIB86cvGkQQLtU8T-ELxCslnUZRICEd5ttWLJ5xWWDLVfQ7TEsu7vHrtUTRvnJNbd-9JngujC51Yf9_VaVDwUJ9GI-6dt5_u6KGpXLDSVAS9AlC0urP_HdNPo/s320/mom+and+daughter+before+college.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mom and daughter under the wing and out of the weather before Romay and I left for Fairbanks.</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I credit both
playing Tetris as a kid as well as learning from a dad who packed and unpacked
UPS trucks for a living with my ability to cram as much cargo into as little
of a space as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Romay and I
squeezed into the plane and out of the rain, all we had was a small spot that
looked like it had been molded to accept our bodies, my guitar from college
gently squeezed between the top of the pile and the headliner.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ltCEdcpIyU45pXU6zNO8ri350Lvai3NogMI5UBGqOaQOApnusLw6GeTuQdPU2A_cs6JsbQ3kU425yKaeyvbda2DXfAzhUdfs8Ik2N8zDxN-PJIcEkLegcWlFo-ah1vtelMFcx47h9pA/s1600/romay+to+college.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ltCEdcpIyU45pXU6zNO8ri350Lvai3NogMI5UBGqOaQOApnusLw6GeTuQdPU2A_cs6JsbQ3kU425yKaeyvbda2DXfAzhUdfs8Ik2N8zDxN-PJIcEkLegcWlFo-ah1vtelMFcx47h9pA/s320/romay+to+college.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just before getting underway... how do normal families do this again?</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Galena has
a long runway, but even loaded to the gills, we easily got off the ground and
climbed, the ground dropping away below as we pointed east toward
Fairbanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Yukon River was a brown
ribbon marking the basic path we would take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Five minutes, and the rain was no longer coating the windshield, and a
warm sun began drying the fuselage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You want
to take the controls?” I asked over the intercom?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No, I’m
good,” Romay answered, “I just want to enjoy the ride.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Five more
minutes, and she was snuggled against my shoulder and breathing the deep
contented breaths of a hard sleep.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As a
freshman in high school, Romay had often visited with the guidance counselor
just as a place to hang out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romay has
always liked to joke, and the counselor liked to laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one such visit, a boarding school student
unfamiliar with Romay walked in on the conversation.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“This is
Romay,” the counselor had introduced the two girls, “she is Mr. Harris’
daughter.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh wow,”
the girl had said, “you sure look like your dad.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah,
pretty strong genetics,” Romay had answered straight-faced, “I get that a lot.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
counselor just laughed knowingly without correcting the newcomer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knew that Myra and I had adopted Romay
when she was eight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also agreed how
uncanny it was how like me Romay was in looks and demeanor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re the
only Eskimo I know with a northern Michigan accent,” I had laughed when Romay
recounted the story to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The village
of Ruby, once a bustling town on the short list to become Alaska’s capitol, sat
quietly below and to the south of our path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Romay shifted, pulled out her phone, snapped a picture, and then
repositioned her head against the passenger window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could not even tell if she woke in the
midst of the process.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our first
meeting replayed in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A five-year-old
Romay bounced around in the waves at the beach just north of Unalakleet in Bering
Sea water that had been ice just three weeks before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Short pigtails stuck out from either side of
her head as she giggled and danced to a music only she could hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun was warm, but the cold of the water
was evident in the light breeze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
played until her lips turned purple and voiced her protest as we adults
insisted that she come out and warm herself by the fire.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At that point,
I had no idea that I would become her dad in three years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was still trying to figure out how to convince
the woman who would become her mom that I was worthwhile to keep around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was something magical about the
little girl.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A little
turbulence rocked the wings of the plane and Romay awoke, “Was I asleep?” she
asked groggily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, you
were twitching,” I responded.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Late
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hung out with Sweetsy, and then
didn’t start packing until after midnight,” she confessed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Awake now,
but just dazedly looking out the front of the plane at the terrain passing
below, it was like she was still asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought back to another early meeting.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Jason!”
Romay squealed as she headed full speed down the road, rubber boots splashing
through the puddles as I knelt down to meet her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I had come
to Unalakleet for teacher meetings and was walking down the road with some
other educators on our way to the store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I opened my arms for a hug and was nearly knocked over backward, Romay
never slowing down before throwing her arms around my neck.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Romay was
six and a force of nature.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“When did
you get here?” she spoke with a light in her eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Just this
morning,” I smiled back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’ll be here
for a couple of days,” and just as quickly as she had tackled me, she sprinted
back through the mud and water to where she had left her friends playing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Dad,”
Romay brought me back to the present, “where are we?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Uh, just
south of Tanana,” I looked out my window to see if I could spot the village, “little
over an hour left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How you doing?”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would never think we started in rain,
would you?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The day had
become beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those late
summer interior days with crisp yellow light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The air, for the most part, was smooth, and only a few wispy clouds
could be seen in the distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A line of
hills that marked we were getting close to Fairbanks came into view.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I thought
back to when she first called me dad.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So, can I
call you Dad?” she asked as she plopped down next to me on the couch of our
apartment in Koyuk.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She and her
brother had been living with us for a couple of months into what was only
supposed to be a year to help out her mom at that point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small voice at the back of my head warned
me about getting too close to a kid I would be sending home at the end of the
year.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I ignored
the voice, “I’ll never make you call me dad, but if you want to, it would make
me proud.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was as
though a switch was flipped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One moment
I was just some adult in her life and she was just some kid I was taking care
of, and then the next moment she was my flesh and blood as though she had
always been mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was just always
with me after that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hunting, fishing,
out for a ride, Romay was with me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We must be
close,” she commented as a car drove below us on the road between Fairbanks and
Nenana.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I dialed in
the weather report, got the information I needed, contacted approach, spoke
with the tower, and got cleared to land straight in at Chena Marina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not my first landing on the little
strip bordered on one side by tall spruce and on the other side by a float
pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had looked ribbon thin the
first time I had landed on it, and that was how it appeared to Romay as we
closed in on the ground for her first landing there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mains touched, the nose wheel came down
and we slowed in order to be able to turn around and back taxi.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Glad it
was you flying,” she commented over what had been an eerily quiet intercom
coming in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evidently, she had been
concentrating just as hard as I had on putting the plane down smoothly.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our friend and
mechanic, Steve, met us at the strip and shuttled us to the rental car place, we
got a car, drove back to Chena Marina, unloaded the plane into the rental car,
and at that point the trip to college became just like every other kid heading
off to school that fall loaded into the family sedan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On campus, Romay’s new roommate helped us
haul boxes to the closet the school called a dorm room.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We made
store runs, we picked up a computer, got her books from the book store, got her
settled in, and it came time for me to do the final drop off before heading
back to Galena.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I got out
of the car and smiled, wrapped my little girl in a tight hug and reminded her, “your
mom and I love you very much.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I know,
Dad.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Be good,
be safe, have fun,” I fell into the stereotypical father departure speech.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I will,
Dad.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay then.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Thanks for
everything, I love you,” and she turned and walked up the stairs away from the
parking lot and toward her dorm building.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I sat in
the car and watched her until she crested the hill and out of my sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I just sat in the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Childhood passes so quickly for parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A parent who starts with a kid who is eight
sees that childhood slip by that much faster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My little girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I waited for my
vision to clear enough to drive, slipped the car into gear and became just
another dad dropping off his daughter for her first year of college. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Romay saying goodbye to her little sister before getting in the plane headed to college.</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
My wife and her best friend from school days sat giggling
like two junior high girls as I walked by their spot in the stands at the volleyball
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rolling my eyes and shaking my head
only solicited more raucous laughter.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Later that
night, I mustered the courage to ask what the joke was, “So, what were you
girls laughing about tonight?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh
nothing,” and Myra began giggling to herself again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh, just something from when we were kids.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You girls
make me nervous,” I confessed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have told
Tera the same thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Good,” she laughed wide-eyed and
good-naturedly.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
According to Tera, she knew that
Myra and her would be fast friends the instant she saw Myra enter Mr. Kimber’s second
grade class in her first day of school dress, placing a hand on each side of
the doorframe and scoping out her new environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myra was the new kid in town, but she lacked
no confidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just the kind of kid a
girl my mother-in-law nick-named the Tera-izer would pick for a partner in crime.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Myra and Tera grew up like sisters
in a town that kids could safely walk the circumference of in around a half-hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thirty-seven years later, and thankfully
little has changed about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids are
still kids, and though there are now cell phones, village life has been slower
to change than that found on the road.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Original Unalakleet Three Amigos: Laureli Ivanoff, Tera Cunningham, and Myra (Slwooko) Harris</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br />
Tera’s house might as well have been
Myra’s when she was a kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The girls
would walk into the kitchens at either house and help themselves to what they
found in the fridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tera’s dad was “Uncle
Dave,” Myra’s mom was “Gram”, and both sets of parents kept equal tabs on the
kids as though they had been family since birth.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“I started wearing contacts,” a
sixth-grade Myra pointed out as Tera sat thinking.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“I bet I could put on my moms,”
Tera said as she came to what appeared the obvious conclusion.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Yeah, that would be cool,” Myra
encouraged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Let’s go try it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
And the girls made their way into
Tera’s parents’ bathroom.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Tera’s mom, Annabelle, wore the hard
pebble-like contacts that all mothers wore in the 1980s, and Tera now stood
poised to place it into her eye which she had opened the size of a saucer.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“You just put it in,” the
experienced Myra directed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Tera mustered all the confidence
her twelve-year-old frame contained and pressed the contact lens to her eye.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
“Owwwww,” she laughed
nervously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Owwww,” she continued (Tera
is the only Inupiaq I know who says ow with a Minnesotan accent).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Uh oh,”
Myra added.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Get it
out, how do I get it out?” Tera continued to laugh in pain.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Between the
two of them they finally figured it out and I am unsure if Annabelle ever
discovered their experiment.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now with
kids of our own, we watch ourselves in the little bodies running around with
seemingly endless amounts of energy.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Dad, can
we go ask Harper if she wants to come over?” Ellen asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I can just
text her dad,” I answered.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We could
ski,” she said as she scrambled for snow pants, hat, mitts, coat, ski boots and
skis for the 50-yard expedition to her friend’s house.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The two
girls are three and have known each other ever since they were… two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somewhere in there they became sisters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it is a village thing, maybe it is a
girl thing, but blood does not evidently matter.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ellen stood
at the base of the stairs with her skis still on, “Go knock on the door, Dad,”
she directed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I knocked
with no answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no car parked
out front after all.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Just go in!”
Ellen yelled.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m not
just going to walk into somebody else’s house, Ellen,” I answered trying to
impart some kind of knowledge on social interaction to my little girl.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Why
not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just Harper’s house,” she
pointed out, and since they are sisters in a way that I can’t understand, it
all makes sense to her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“They aren’t
home, Bub.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, let’s
go check on Charleigh,” and I helped her ski back down the little hill.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thirty
years back in time, and a young Myra and young Tera stood outside West Coast
Aviation looking at a large ice burg washed up on the beach during break up.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Let’s go
climb it,” one of the girls voiced and they found themselves six feet above the
beach on an ice shelf.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Okay, I’ll
count three, and then we’ll both jump,” Tera said setting the plan.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tera
counted three, Myra jumped with both feet high up in the air, and came crashing
down on the shelf at the same time Tera took two steps back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra lay on
the beach in a pile of ice with Tera laughing hysterically above her, hands on
her knees, tears in her eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A present-day
Ellen removed her skis, walked up the steps of Charleigh’s house and opened the
arctic entry door.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Bub, it
doesn’t look like anyone is home,” I said again noticing no car in the drive.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Come on Dad,”
Ellen motioned for me to follow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without
knocking, she opened the inside door, took one step onto the laminate floor and
fell into a heap, another victim of slippery cross-country ski boots on a slick
interior floor.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m okay,”
she quickly said unsolicited, “but looks like you were right, Charleigh isn’t
home.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charleigh
makes up the third member of the amigos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As a teacher once pointed out, “I don’t really worry about Charleigh,
when Ellen and Harper are getting into trouble, she just kind of stands back
and watches.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For some
reason that didn’t really bring any comfort.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A car drove
up as we walked down the steps of the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charleigh got out and gave her standard greeting, “Aghghgh.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh, hi
Charleigh,” Ellen answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Want to come
over to visit?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charleigh
gave some answer that Ellen understood, she turned to her Mom who then
consented, and I figured what was communicated was affirmative.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Come on
Chuck,” I said, “Let’s go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See you later
Brittany,” and we bid adieu to Charleigh’s mom.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Harper’s
house is on the way home from Charleigh’s and by this time Harper had returned.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Can I go
visit Ellen?” Harper asked, and at that point I was being followed by three
girls none of whom were above my waistline in height, but all who have
confidence levels around that of professional athletes.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once inside
the house, it looked like all three had been raptured by the immediate piles of
snow pants, boots, socks, hats, mitts, coats, and neck warmers that miraculously
appeared in little piles throughout the living room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the girls had disappeared, but the
giggles coming from upstairs reassured me that they were still in the house as
I tried to bring order to the chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A half hour
into the visit and nearly every toy had been taken out, played with, and then
discarded for the next, at which point the plane I had been waiting for flew
over our apartment signaling a need to pack the three girls up into the car to
go and pick up the students who would be staying the night at the school.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In 1990s
Unalakleet, Tera and Myra climbed up onto the bench seat of Uncle Dave’s 80s era
F-150.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You know
how to drive a stick?” Tera asked Myra before sliding over to make room.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, no
problem,” Myra answered having learned that year in a family friend’s little Escort.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As Myra
depressed the gas pedal and released the clutch both the difference in
horsepower as well as the size of the clutch became apparent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The engine surged with life as the clutch
came shooting up at her foot, the truck bunny hopping its way out of the drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The journey through town became one marked by
a series of engine revs, shooting gravel, a hopping truck, and two teen-age
girls giggling uncontrollably.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As they exited
after the drive, both girls continued laughing while holding the backs of their
necks.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We’re
going to feel this when we’re older,” they laughed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The three
girls I was responsible for somehow all ended up with the proper winter gear on
and out the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even I managed to somehow
get a coat, hat, gloves and boots on before prodding them down the porch steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the girls piled into the back seat of the
car, lifted one at a time into their spots just in time for Charleigh’s parents
to pull up to get her for dinner.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Somehow the
three of us made it out to the airport just before the plane pulled up, the
girls not allowing me to get one word in as they talked in their only volume in
the backseat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harper’s dad was at the
airport where he helped me get the visiting kids from the plane to the school
where they would be sleeping and he assured they were fed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somewhere in there, it was decided that
Harper would come home with us to continue playing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m hungry,
Dad,” Ellen exclaimed as I pulled fish from the oven while the girls played in
the living room.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Harper,
would you like me to check if you can eat over?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“My mom and
dad are making dinner for me at home,” she said as I got a plate ready for
Ellen with silver salmon and braised cabbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“But maybe you could text my dad,” Harper continued as the smell reached
her nose.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Permission
granted, the girls sat side by side at the kitchen table inhaling food with the
only words being requests for more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evidently
salmon baked with salsa and braised cabbage cooked with bacon are the perfect
foods for three-year-old girls as I had to fend them off the last little piece
of fish that I was saving for Myra who was at basketball practice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Can I have
more fish, please,” Ellen asked eying the one small section left in the baking
dish.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“We need to
save some for Mom.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Why?” she
asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Back at
play, the two girls pulled out a Duplo Lego box filled with dress up clothes,
found two sets of wings (one set of bee, one set of ladybug), and proceeded to
chase each other around in tight circles the evidently high sugar content of
wild salmon and braised cabbage kicking in.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Myra came
home, sat down with her plate to bring me up to speed on basketball practice
and continually shooed a hovering Ellen away from the fish she was eating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brendan came over to retrieve Harper and act
as reinforcements with adults finally outnumbering kids in the sense of
numbers, but far outmatched in the sense of energy.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Brendan is
the father of three young kids with Harper being the middle child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The craziness occurring in our living room
was soothing to him, and so he sat down in a recliner for a visit.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Somewhere
along the line the wick burnt short and Harper began to fall apart.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well,
Harper, it is about bed time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why don’t
we say good night and head for home?” Brendan prompted.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I could
just sleep here Dad,” was Harpers epiphany.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I don’t
think that is a good idea,” was her Dad’s quick reply.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah it
is,” came out just as quickly.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Harper, we
would happily have you sleep over another night, but this is a school night,” I
came to Brendan’s aid as Harper melted into a puddle on the living room carpet.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah,” Ellen
ever the peacemaker added, “you can stay over another night, Harper.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The next
day at work I pointed out my observation to a coworker who has known Myra and
Tera forever, “I think Harper and Ellen have the potential of becoming another
Tera and Myra.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Uh oh,”
came his very deep voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Which one is
which?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Does it
matter?” I replied.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Get ready,”
he laughed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, if
nothing else, the ride should be fun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two girls ready for their next adventure (photo credit: Brendan Ellis)</td></tr>
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