CARIBOU HARVEST, ETC.

Hi all, It’s been a few days.  It’s that time of year -  harvesting, putting up meat, franctic finishing of summer jobs, etc.  We’ve had some nice fall weather lately with sunny skies and calm wind currents.  Rob is down with walking pneumonia, have no idea how he got it...he's never sick so this is a new one for us. I can count on 2 fingers the times when he has been really sick with high fevers and upper respiratory issues. He is one fortunate kid cause DS individuals are notorious for being plagued with URI. Anyway, he is OK on the whole, except that he gets run down and has to take a break. Have him on meds for a bit. Because of this Rob missed Sarah school photo shoot, hope he'll get it done sometime. Pretty soon his riding lessons in Delta will come to an end as he will start school, actually already has with Alaska Gateway School District.

Tony, Cody, Chris Williams, Sam Geyer, Jarred, Seth, Kevin, and Jonnie Mac have gotten caribou in the past week.  Jonnie Mac and Chris Williams were the first slayers of caribou.  Seth Fouse made a big batch of salami or pepperoni type stuff from some of the ground meat.

The cranberry picking craze has hit everyone – gallons upon gallons of cranberries are being picked and stashed away for the winter’s supply of cranberry juice and jellies and coffe cakes.  We’ve had several frosts over the past few days so the cranberries are getting good and ripe.

Judy has written to say that little Owen will be released on Wednesday – he has gone several days now without those Brady episodes, and he’s weighing in at 7 lbs, 5 ozs.  Everyone is real excited.   Tony and the kids are madly cutting, raking, baling, and wrapping the hay. As tradition has it, Tony and the other crews will leave here on 31st  to set up camp for moose hunting which begins on the 1st of September.  Thus the frantic work on the hay and other fall farming chores!  Tommy Geyer has an all girl crew going to Fish Lake; I foresee that being a lot of fun (or not!).  Pat and May will be going on the second group to East Fork. Hope everybody gets a moose cause our freezer is sadly lacking in that department! We actually ate through every single bit of ground moose this winter. Jennifer’s mom will be flying in on Wednesday for a couple of weeks.  Her dad wants to come up later.  We’ll have to wait and see how that works out. Garth, Kim, and Kelly are in the Shepherd’s Inn area of Canada.  Garth is ministering at all the communities in the area, and Kelly will be attending the youth camp there this weekend.  The youth camp will be held at Shepherd’s Inn this year since Headwaters has some complications with health needs and such. The guys are getting some gravel dirt to put on the roads around the community.  It’s quite the process – someone gets the gravel at the gravel pit and drops it on the road, someone else spreads it and grates it, and someone else comes along with a packer.  We’ve needed to do this for awhile. We’ve discovered that our tabernacle septic system is completely full after having it pumped twice this summer.  The guys are devising a plan for putting in a new septic system.  We just redid the wellhouses’ septic last summer!  What is up with all this digging and messing with dirt and overflowing septics?  Probably all that hideous rain we had this summer!

Irene, Bonnie’s mom, has been sick for a little while.  It was difficult to discover what the problem was.  She was diagnosed with several things – congestive heart failure, blocked arteries to the heart, and more.  Finally, it was discovered that her electrolytes were low.   After being put on an IV, she is much improved.     Seth and Jarred are working at Wainwright this week.  I think they’re doing something with roofing.

A lot of people got together this afternoon to roll tortillas for the hunters (spoiled guys!).  Jonnie Mac was the only male volunteer.  Go Jonnie!!! Annie and I finally made it up the second hill after Lisa lake, rather a climb for me but glad I did it, we took some photos on the bridge and the mighty Tanana flowing underneath!

Pat, May and self went to Lisa and caught some huge rainbows. Never have seen such big fish here before! 18 inchers for sure! Fried them up and seasoned them and are eating them for supper and breakfast. A lovely and peaceful day floating on the water..."

Bring on that sun and keep it here Lord! What a beautiful Indian summer we're getting. The creek is still flowing. More another time, have a great rest of the week. Nice? It's the ONLY thing,' said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. `Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING--absolute nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing,' he went on dreamily: `messing--about--in--boats; messing----'

GOD BLESS YOU!

When God is about to reposition your life know that the devil will begin to attack! Read to the bottom - watch the water  If I don't get this back,  I will know you really  didn't read it. I got this from someone and  thought the last part  was really a good  thought....  Too bad that the person who sent it to me did  not know 10 people who  would admit to knowing  the Lord.  Do You Love Him?  This is a simple test:  IF YOU LOVE JESUS,  SEND THIS TO AT  LEAST 10 PEOPLE  The Poem  I knelt to pray but not for long,  I had too much to do.  I had to hurry and get to work  For bills would soon be due.  So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,  And jumped up off my knees..  My Christian duty was now done  My soul could rest at ease......  All day long I had no time  To spread a word of cheer  No time to speak of Christ to friends,  They'd laugh at me I'd fear..  No time, no time, too much to do,  That was my constant cry,  No time to give to souls in need  But at last the time, the time to die  I went before the Lord,  I came, I stood with downcast eyes.  For in his hands God held a book;  It was the book of life.  God looked into his book and said  'Your name I cannot find  I once was going to write it down...  But never found the time'  Now do you have the  time to pass it on?  If you look at what you do not have in life,  you don't have anything,  If you look at what you have in life, you have  everything.  Thomas Kinkade Paintings  (hope the water is moving!!)  READ THE FIRST LINE CAREFULLY. ....  If God brings you to it, He will bring you  through it.  Happy moments, praise God.  Difficult moments, seek God.  Quiet moments, worship God.  Painful moments, trust God.  Every moment, thank God.  This is a Thomas Kinkade painting. It's  rumored to carry a miracle!  The water is supposed to be running, so  if it's not moving then the picture  Didn't come through entirely.  They say if you pass this on, you will  receive a miracle.