So it started raining a week ago Saturday and finally had beautiful weather all weekend. All the rain has caused the village to be in a boil water alert. Nanwalek's water comes from a spring and isn't pumped up into the tanks (if I understand the process correctly). Instead it just sort of flows into them at the pace nature has created. All the rain has caused the tanks to fill up faster than the treatment system can keep up with so we have to boil our water before use. It's kind of funny that I always thought of boil water alerts as a city problem, having always lived too far out to be on county water and here we are in the bush with such a "city problem". It's better than running out of water (which has already happened once since we arrived) so we won't complain.
While the weather was beautiful in Nanwalek this weekend (it resumed raining today), we missed it all because we had to go to Anchorage. We were hoping to do some serious fishing for silver salmon, but we are taking a college class that met Saturday. It will probably be a bit labor intensive, being for graduate credit, but it's free to teachers in this region so we're pretty excited. We'll save $1000 and it meets the criteria for one of the courses required for certification in Alaska so it's a little akin to Christmas for us. It's just the kind of gift you get and then spend the next three days assembling kind of Christmas. It's about the culture of the local native group and should be helpful and interesting. We were given Suk'stun (the native language - I hope I spelled it correctly) names this weekend. Mike is Pisurta which means hunter and I am Kuskaq which means cat - a name I thought appropriate for a crazy cat lady.
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