Moose season ended successfully with us shooting 10 moose – we already knew about Kathryn, Tony, Chris, Brad, Tommy, and Rich. Near the tail end of the hunting season, Jarred, Seth, Kevin, Cody each shot a moose. We did have trouble with bears getting into the meat that was shot at East Fork. One night when Tony went to get the meat, the bear and her cubs had hauled away and buried some quarters. Tony and the boys moved the buried meat to a different location. Once the bear figured that out, she was highly bothered. Then when Tony went up to East Fork to get another batch of meat, the bear had gotten into that meat as well.
Rus B had a successful lens transplant surgery. He is very happy with his doctor, his treatment, his recovery, etc. On their way home from Anchorage, Rus and Millie stopped at Sapa for Ted Hesser’s memorial. While driving home from Sapa, Rus tapped the butt of a moose. All passengers were unharmed; the car has a little body damage, and the windshield needs to be replaced. On the whole a productive trip! When one considers that Bro. Rub is in his mid 80's it is amazing.
Garth took some folks to Sapa for Ted Hesser’s memorial. I guess that went okay? I never heard anything about it.
I think Kevin and Jill Brandes went home today. Olivia, their daughter, is staying with the Milliron seniors for the school year and I have a Rosetta spanish class with her...
We’ve been cutting meat several times a week to put away our many moose. We lost most of our carrot crop this year due to weed spraying followed by rain. Whitestone Farms generously gave us 30 bags of carrots equaling ¾ to one ton of carrots. This coming Sunday, we should be harvesting our potatoes.
We had super high winds on Sunday night. Andy said the winds were 60 mph, gusting to 114 – 117 mph. It was a miserable night if winds are bothersome nobody could get a good nights sleep, in our house the kids came downstairs and tried to sleep in the living room... When we woke up, several of our large spruce trees were down, Cathy P’s back porch mostly blew away, one of Garth’s dormer windows is damaged, Ben and Tom’s solar panel poles were injured. Along the creek bank, there were so many trees down that it looked like a logging site. Bob and Betty’s road was un-drivable. Tony and Kevin were going to go meat packing up East Fork way, but they had to return home in order to get chainsaws to clear their path. The trees that fell were all so huge that the horses could not step over them. Big messes! The guys all stayed home from work on Monday to clear the roads and paths and to pick up all huge fallen debris. Some of the women went out in the afternoon to help pick up some of the smaller debris. We haven’t had winds like that since ’76; it was definitely worse than the windstorm of ’81. I posted some pictures on facebook so I put the link on here for you all to see. As far as personal dwellings are concerned, nobody's got damaged, as far as I know, but the LAM kiln lost its roof and some other stuff got damaged and thrown around. Some folks had large trees fall on their roofs but thankfully nothing got badly dented.
I went about, as did others, and took some photos. Click these links if you want to see some.
Ok, more another day. Have a great week!
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