Pigskin Practice

Look out Alaska,,,Valdez High School football team is just warming up.

Shower Power

Nothing like a solar heated water power shower.

Make sure you bring your own towels. And sun.

Niki's miniWerks

Along with The Alaskan Trailer, Niki's miniWerks in Kenny Lake, shows many Alaskan scenes. Like the Chitina Fishwheel Scene pictured below.

Niki's miniWerks is housed in a 20ft Gertee which also serves as The Alaskan HOMESTEADER Museum, office and her workshop.

Camp Redington officially opens August 1, 2008. The Museum is ready for visitors. Inside the 20 foot model gertee at the entrance to the campground, it now has a wolly mammoth thigh and shoulder bone, traps, fossilized King Salmon skulls, carved ivory, Eskimo dolls, Iditarod momentos from the Redington family collection, homesteader pictures, an Alpine memorial, and more. Friendly visitors may be invited to visit the "real" museum (which is actually Tim's whole house). Come see our Alaskan miniature displays of traditional Alaskan lifestyles. Please contact Niki if you would like to lend your pictures, memories of Alaskans passed on, or AK collectibles for display during the summer season.

This is a "to scale" miniature of Niki's dream 20 foot gertee.

She also made the cutting board, tables and chairs. What a talented, creative artist/architect my sister is. I am very proud of her.

Stop in and check it out for yourself at CampRedington.com.

Earth Mover

Next time your on the Edgerton Hwy, right before Kenny Lake Mercantile - Welcome to KennyLake.com!, look to the left and check out a life long work in progress.

Kenny Lake Rainbow

Left pouring down rain in Valdez saturday and this was the view heading down the Edgerton Hwy into Kenny Lake. The sun was out and a raindow greeted us.

Had a great time visiting Camp Redington and seeing the awesome museum. Took lots of pics and as usual the weekend ended too fast and it was time to head home to rainy Valdez.

This was the view at the top of Thompson Pass heading down into Valdez tonight.

The Alaskan Trailer

"The Alaskan trailer, common dwelling in the 60s"



My sister made this miniature trailer to show in her museum at New Camp Redington, gertee photos.

Fresh Green Snow

On a clear dayyyy, you can see forever.

latest valdez tennis scores

Number of tennis courts - 1

Players _ - zero

Holler Down My Rain Barrel

Valdez has been pounding rain for a week straight with no end in sight. Some seniors are saying its going to rain til it snows.


This rain barrel reminded me of an old song grandma taught us in the 50's.

Playmate on the piano.

Written in 1894 by Philip Wingate

Oh, little playmate.

Come out and play with me

And bring your dollies,three

Climb up your apple tree

Holler down your rain barrel

Slide down your cellar door

And we'll be jolly friends

Forevermore

Oh little playmate

I can not play with you

My dolly's got the flu

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

Ain't got no rain barrel

Ain't got no cellar door

But we'll be jolly friends

Forevermore

Oh little playmate

Come out and play with me

I'll bring my dollies, three

Climb up my apple tree

Holler down my rain barrel

Slide down my cellar door

And we'll be jolly friends

Forevermore

Valdez Office Club

The Club bar in Valdez is the office. And a fun place for fisher people to congregate.

New Valdez Football Field

Good summer to lay down new turf. Don't have to water. By Indian summer it will have taken root and ready to play football.

Charm City Cakes

Chef Duff offers a fly Fishin themed custom cake LINK

Check out all the cool cakes.

Slugs out on first

What I eat when theres no fish.

Boys of summer.

Bear Signs on Dayville Road

King Pond

Supposedly King salmon are returning to this pond where they were released as smolts 5 summers ago.


Silvers are in the port. Big, bright and handsome.

Pinks are done.

Weather is raining and windy. Tourists are loving it.

Fish Don't Care If Its Raining

They still like to be caught.

Pictures are of two tenders in Port Valdez. Tenders are boats that suck up the salmon that the seiners deliver to. Then the tender buys them and takes them to the processor. They also sell gas and grub. Free root beer floats.

The fish in the bay now are pink salmon. Silvers soon.

Raining or not, fishing is good.

Ray of Sunshine

One Livingstone Daisy bloomed today.

Denali storm moving in.

A Beautiful Fish 2

A work in progress by tatoo artist "Allstar" Pete Meiners at B.P.U. 1637 College Road Fairbanks, Alaska 99701. 907-458-7464

He's still got red to add to A Beautiful Fish.

Cool Fish Bowls

Seeing these cool fish bowls makes me want a pet fish. Check out the rest of the collection via Dezeen.

Umbrella Sale

Party when it rains.

Smell Purple

These two lilac bushes smell great and stand out against the green scenery.

No sign of Livingstone Daisies blooming yet.

Window Mountain

Just missed a bear heading out to Robe Lake. The dead end road was clear on my way to the lake. The road block on my way back was steaming.

Valdez Grafitti

Who wants to pressure wash off paint in the pouring rain?

Lucky Me

Started a new job today and ran into an old friend. He just happened to spend his 4th of July weekend in Chitina working on his cabin and dipnetting the Copper River for sockeyes. He gave me this smaller than average size salmon thats perfect for baking whole.



I like stuffing the salmon with onions, garlic and lemon. Then wrapping it up with tin foil and baking them whole in the oven or on the bbq.

When you can smell the garlic the fish is done.


Let the salmon rest a bit as fish will still cook away from heat while its still hot. Open foil carefully and the skin will peel away and the fillets slide right off the bone cooked just right.

No picture of the final step because I was too busy eating my first fresh Copper River Red of the year. Lucky me. Thank-you Brad!!

Funny Graphs

A bunch of laughs.

Make a funny graph at GraphJam.

Funny Graphs

Rockett Dog

A Fourth of July cannot pass without me fondly remembering my old dog Rockett. He loved bottle rockets and would attack them, pick them up, and let them shoot out of his mouth. He didn't seem to be bothered by the noise and it was funny to watch the smoke blow out of his mouth. 4th of July was his favorite day of the year. RIP Rockett.


If you are into cats check out this blog. Its called No Cats Allowed!

Loud Colorful Skies

Early.

Later.

Whats the 4th of July without roasting 4 hotdogs on a spudfork?