FALL NOOS FROM THE LAND DC ALASKA

ahhh Fall skies...so lovely! setting sun ATR (across the road AK highway)

cranberry pickin' is hard work!...gotta have that snack...lol (Robin)

love messin' about in boats, fish are a bonus!

FALL NOOS FROM DRY CREEK,

Yesterday’s weather was really strange.  We’d have these strong gusts of wind interspersed with strong, big dropped rain showers. And, it was cool outside – if I were to close my eyes, I could envision snow.  Hopefully, the sun will return so we can have a beautiful fall. 

Hunting madness has started.

Last weekend, Kevin, Chris, and Bekah each shot a grizzly bear. Baby Ella stayed with happy granparents Sarah & Rich.

A crew had also gone to Fish Lake to bring in the hunting camp and to look for caribou – that would’ve been Tommy, Chris Toby, and Jarred.  On their way home, Chris Toby shot a grizzly bear. 

• Last week, Sarah Rogers (Jennifer Milliron's sister) and her children returned to New York.  
• Nathan and Melani and children have moved to Delta. They are living in a rental from Jason Underhill.  
• Miss JoAn is still gone and is recuperating from her recent surgery. I haven’t heard any report on her recently.  
• Erica Greenleaf and Patrick Eckstrom were married over the weekend.  Mark Coy and Seth and May attended that wedding too. I drove Jannis and May to Rikas with Ani and Rob and dropped them off for their boat ride to the farm for the wedding reception, at Whitestone. Not many other people went either because they were busy or fear of catching the whooping cough. annis and May both spent the weekend at Whitestone, but they are now home.
•  Amaris will be moving out at the beginning of next month with the intent to begin her year with Seth.  She will live with Wenda. 
• Please continue to pray for my brother in law Don Burgess and my sister Alejandra, they are facing serious financial expenses as Don's condition continues to deteriorate...pray that their hope in God not fail, in the trial of their faith.
• Ani has closed down her bunny operation, sold all her last bunnies, even her nicer ones...she is done...until the next bunny fever hits her...lol
• Rob is done with his summer riding program. Fully enjoyed his 8 weeks of weekly riding and we hope to continue where we left off next summer. Thanks STARDUST STABLES, and Amanda Brown for being such an awesome instructor.
• Allyson had an important birthday on Saturday.  Anyone wanting to congratulate her could write tojon.ally.squires@gmail.com
• Cathy is slowly recovering from her knee surgery.  Therapy is progressing on schedule, if not even better. 
• Becky is back home to Delta recovering from her lung excise surgery.  If you want more detailed news on that, send me a note and I’ll send Becky’s last report. 
• Our greenhouse and garden went well but not as well as other years, mites, bugs and other stuff happened. I know the tomatoes had some kind of bug. We are grateful for what we had been able to harvest and put away.
• Canning ladies have been busy with salmon, pickles, beets, cabbage, squash, tomatoes, rhubarb, raspberries and an assortment of other goodies.
• Pat, Rob and self have been cranberry pickin once, not as good as other times but plan to bring in our regulatory 5 gallons for juicing for the winter. Gotta keep that vitamin C up...and a whole bunch of other good antioxids...all from the humble cranberry..
• Pat's planning another piano trip to SE Alaska...should be gone about a week, so Ani, self and Rob will man the fort.
• School is around the corner for us and so is Teacher's Prep...'course for me it never really ended, Rob tries to get in some Math, Phonics and Typing every day....harder in the summer when he wants to be outside with his buddies....

I better get to devotions and then on with my day.  Like I said, the hunting madness is upon us!  We are busy harvesting and buttoning up things for the winter and thinking about our next school year.  Summer is definitely over; fall is fully here.  We had a very hard frost last Wednesday. 

Have a great week. 

WEEK END EVENTS 8/12

SOME FARM NEWS AND EVENTS MAINLY FROM SARAH MY FRIENDLY NEIGHBOR...

Hi all,

I realize that I left out a lot of news the other day so I’m trying to write more.  Today Jeni and I are taking the cousins+ to Fairbanks to the fair.  We’ll meet up with Jake, Phanta, and Zay there.  Thomas will be flying in tonight so he’ll come home with us; Zay will come home with us too for a few days.  Thomas flew to Medford, CA, and was picked up by my folks.  After staying with them for a few days, my folks drove Tom to Eugene, OR, where he picked up a semi truck to drive home.  Thomas arrived home with the “new to us” semi truck just in time to hop on a plane to meet Tim in Jacksonville, FL.  There Tom and Tim sailed on the Tiger Cruise to Norfolk, VA.  Tom was able to spend a few days with Tim and his family before coming home. 

• This past week Kylin, Andrew, and Landon came out to visit Bill and Kathy Casey.  Actually, they’ve come out twice in the past two or three weeks.  Such good children!  Vanessa (Jewel’s daughter) is out now spending a few days with her grandparents.

• Speaking of grandchildren, I do miss Ella and Essie. Wish they lived closer...such a bummer. I see other grammas cuddling theirs..oh well. Pat was called back down to Boise for fires with his crew...so Beth is home alone with the girls in Palmer. Such a trooper...not sure I could've done that alone and with 2 at that! Hope they can come for Thanksgiving.

• Sarah Rogers (Jennifer’s Milliron's sister) and her two girls plus Beth’s girl have come to visit for a month.  We sure are being overrun with girls!!!!  Someone better start bringing the boys home!  Oh wait, we did have some boys visit. On Sunday night, Charity Baltrum Timm with her two boys surprised us with a short visit.    

• Rachel and Sarah Jane Trotter have gone to Anchorage for the weekend to see Becky.  The latest reports on Becky are very encouraging – she’s doing better each day even though the pain is quite intense at times. 

• Jon Squires is down in the Pebble Mine area working as an EMT for a three week stretch.  That way, when September rolls around, he can take his boys hunting.  Hunting is so sacred around here!

• Michael Squires and Benj VanderHart spent five days at a little fishing camp or school last week.  They had a blast, of course. 

• Ann and Micah have had to go to town a couple of times this summer for a few days of intensive therapy for Micah.  That seems profitable.

• Garth & Jarred have had a lot of work to get done this summer – they are working long hours trying to get things buttoned up before winter.  Nathan, Craig, Seth, and John are their crew.

• Miss JoAn is recovering nicely, as far as I know, while spending time with her daughters in Wasilla/Anchorage area.

• My brother in law Don Burgess, is not doing so well. We are praying for a miracle and complete healing even though the doctors do not offer much hope...we pray also for strength for both him and my sister Alejandra, that their faith fail them not in this time of trial.

Hmmmm…. What else?  

• We did finish getting in our hay in good time.  The kids are mowing still or again – I’m not sure. Emy and I went out and got MORE pictures of them.  

• David Underhill and some of his offspring (J) came out last week end to put up a head stone for Miss Jay.  The graveyard seems to be shaping up nicely, mostly due to Sis Margaret’s efforts.

•  I noticed that the road behind Trotter's cabin and near the graveyard is badly eroded from the creek.  This week, Tony went down there since then and rearranged rocks and dirt – very impressive work.  I took some photos of that.

• Cody ordered ducks this year; they are growing nicely.  They are in a pen down at the end of the garden; I can hear them quacking often.  Cody dug and lined them a little pond in their pen.  Quite cute.  

• Jordan was out picking raspberries and got stung by a yellow jacket four times.  When I told him he was a brave boy, he said, “I know”. 

• BTW May also got stung by a yellow-jacket when she was cleaning out the bushes in the raspberry patch...ouch! I am amazed they nasty things did not get me since I was out there for a bit last week...

• The new greenhouse is coming along nicely, thanks to Steve, Andy, John, and anybody else who i recruited. It will be used for flowers to decongest our tomato/pepper greenhouse. Sadly the tomatoes did not do as well as was expected, not sure why. We are coming to the end of the season...it was nice to have all those goodies while they lasted! Now we are looking forward to our new potatoes, freshly dug out of the ground...yummmy...

• My brother Gavin who lives in northern Argentina in the province of Salta, is working for a Canadian company and is therefore, closer to Alaska. We are hoping that he can come up from Calgary to Alaska for a short visit before he has to fly back to South America. Waiting on the visa, hummm...I haven't seen him since '94, so that would be nice...my children have  barely met any of my relatives from Argentina...hope he can make it...fingers crossed..

• Ani sold one of her necklaces at a local store yesterday, she was pretty happy about that!

• Pat took us fishing and we actually got about 5 trout, which were promptly make into a delicious supper!! I love floating on water...Rob enjoyed himself although he left the fishing to us and preferred eating his sister's snacks., while keeping up a running commentary and scaring the fish away..ha!

Tomorrow is my Sunday cook day and we are making Chef Salad, with frozen yogurt and our own strawberries on top! Should be good. Visiting ministry for this week end are Janet Meyers and the Jahle's.

Okay, I better quit for now.  Have a great weekend!

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Family and Friends,
Here is a link to my recent report on Rob's progress, using the CHANGING MINDS FOUNDATION PROTOCOL (Treatment and Research for Down Syndrome).

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with his niece Ella

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