First Kill Down



Snow!  How lucky are we to get to see this off
our front porch!



This weekend has been a mixture of work and play.  Since our professor discovered the button that adds us onto blackboard we are now able to begin the college course we enrolled in over a month ago and have been playing catch up this weekend.  It's been a bit time consuming, but the work isn't hard and the information is interesting so we won't complain.  The fact the course is also saving us $1000 helps us to see things positively as well.  First quarter has also finished so we are wrapping up the last grades before they are due tomorrow.  This is the point where I begin to question why I insist on giving writing assignments - it's like I teach Language Arts or something.  Ah, well.  Such is the price of living in such an amazing sample of God's creation.



Our last hint of a sunset - the sun is now
setting behind the mountain and
moves further south with each day.



Despite the work we were able to sneak a little bit of fun into the weekend.  We hiked up to Horseshoe Lake yesterday, but I didn't think to take my camera so I missed an opportunity for some amazing scenery photos.  The lake appears to have a grass sidewalk along the edge that one would assume is solid ground, but it sank a little with our footsteps and we could watch it move around us if we jumped on it.  What appears to be solid ground is actually the edge of the lake where the grasses are so thick they can be walked across.  We also snuck away today for a short excursion to the lakes and managed to bring home a couple spruce grouse for supper.  So we have our first Alaskan kill!  (fish apparently do not count)   We are looking forward to frying up some tasty tidbits - well, hoping they're tasty anyway.  We've never eaten grouse so we'll just have to hope we do not regret our afternoon's activities.