Geocache

Jake and I went up the Knik to find a geocache today. I'd seen it on
an internet list last summer, and knew we could land near it. We were
only the second people to find it. It was real gusty and windy (a
Cub flying overhead advised me against landing on the radio... ), but
I made it on the second try at a longer strip farther away than I'd
have liked. We had a hard time finding it because my GPS coords were
24 feet off, which was a long way in the brush. We left behind a
necklace Julie made. It was a real pretty day and a nice hike...

Dave

Hanna's Glasses

Hanna thinks she has to wear glasses when she reads (like her ancient
blind parents) so a few months ago I gave her a pair with the lenses
removed and she wears them all the time - to read.



Dave

Julie's Store Opening

Julie is all moved in and ready to open tomorrow for Colony Days... Thanks to everyone that helped.
Dave

Miscellanea

Just wasting a little corporate bandwidth with some photos I'd forgotten about and found in my camera last night:

Heading for Fairbanks in my plane at 10K 2 weeks ago
me with the kids
and a burial house on Eyak Lake in Cordova.

Dave

Homer, Mar 05

From my Uncle......

I had some work in Palmer today, so I called to see if the Palmer
Earls would be up for lunch. They were, except they were going to do
it in Homer. I didn't have quite enough time for that, so I went by
the airport anyway to say hi. David was just finishing melting the
ice off the wings - with the assistance of the sun!

No clouds in sight, so I'm sure that they had a good trip.

Don

My Uncle Don was right - we did have a good time in Homer. After an
awesome lunch at Olives, we drove around some property we wanted to
see, went to the new Fish and Wildlife Visitors Center which was
pretty cool, then bought the kids some boots at the gearshed and went
down to the spit to let them play on the beach.

It wasn't very warm, but they liked it. Hanna kept saying beach over and over, and was much
happier than her photo would appear.

There were hundreds of Eagles at the end of the spit (I'm still not
clear on why it's a good idea to feed the Eagles?).

The weather was clear, very slight breeze for Homer, and no winds
aloft. Beautiful coming back in the dark, and over Eagle River we saw
an incredible meteor - a brilliant white light that burned off to a
long yellow tail and looked VERY close - scared my co-pilot!

See you, Dave