Hello there family....surrounded by kitties.... they are happy... I am happy. Good to be home...it is mighty quiet here. I am still watching the tour every night. My big race is coming up fast, I leave to San Fransisco in 10days. I guess I am ready....? At least I am not hurt!
Everything is growing... waiting patiently for next garden spot.
I hope to talk to Jack someday.... I think I still have a son... I remember something about red hair.. getting taller... maybe he'll call me?
Hope all is well with the rest of the family... Mom and critters are well... including Cloudy.
:) Mom

Sat July 14th

Morning fog has kept us on the for most of the AM. Checked on a few things on the mountain in the PM . Shane got a face to face with a young bear in the brush, both parted ways unscathed.Biding our time till the drillers show (Tuesday) then its full speed ahead getting the equipement on the mountain and start making holes. Mom should be home today...and the critters will be happy. Don't forget about the snake!

Love DAd

HI dad
well I don't realley have to much to talk about.I hope you are having a good time
Jack

Firiday the 13th and nothing terrible has happened...... Finished building the drill pad on the hillside today. The bugs have risen from 33 mile where we stay to the 3600' level where we worked. In fact we swatted bugs at both places!! got to shoot a 22 cal pistol at lunch with the pad guys , hit (grazed) an orange from 15 yards away after emptying 15 shots in its direction. Gang Banger I'm not. Weather started promising but returned to rain something I bet you both are not experiencing now in you prospective holiday venues. Quiet and pretty lonesome tonite as usual, maybe a MacGyver and to bed. Hope my loved ones are well..Love DAD

Hi All,

Rainy and windy. Flew around for just abit this morning. Saw some goats an the hill that so far have been very scarce to find. No real work done. We found the mystery pad under the snow today which gave us some exercise shoveling at least. Kind of a day off I suppose. Hope all is well. Jack see if you can post another thought on the blog. Thinking about you both

Love as ever,

DAD

Kind of a Grounds Hog day situation here. Wake up , usually watch a little of a dvd movie , have breakfast and fly to the drill site. It's different everyday but you have absolutely no idea what day it is because it doesn't matter. Made friends with an ground squirrel/gopher kind of a guy today. He won't eat my fritos and I said I wouldn't smash up his rock house. so far it's working out.

Rain most of the day.... Did some smelly laundry and gave myself a buzz cut (both hairs).

Mom, The flowers here are typical wild flowers of AK. They are all taking turns blooming and dying off to make room for the next guy to do the same. Some are very pretty when you look close at them and of course it reminds me how hard you work to make our garden beautiful, thank you.

Love Dad.

Howdy,
If I were computer smart like Dad.. I could show you the deck plans..... but.... there you go. Hopefully they will start on the deck before you all come home. I am working on some garden ideas... not sure how far I will get... gotta work too. I continue to slowly shovel out the house, the cats are helping..hah!
I am off to another long run this morning, then work. Tomorrow I fly to Vancouver... think I will be out of communication until Sunday afternoon. Don't think my cell phone works on an international basis. House is quiet... I miss you all!
love,mom

HI fam!
Just got hooked up to the net. I'm at 33 mile roadhouse up the road from Haines. So far we have built a couple of landing pads on the side of the hill for the helicopter and one pad (deck) for the rock drill to go on.

I'm staying in a trailer and thank you jack for letting me watch some of our MaGuyvers and some of the other vid's left at the house. Mom have they called about our Netflik's coming in?.
All for now,

Love you XOX DAD

Hi everyone!
The cats are all good! The weather is misty... my plants are growing. The tour de france in England is...... on!!! I haven't caught up with Jack yet :( .... working long hours, saving lives ?...
The house is slowly getting cleaned up... I am off to Vancouver this weekend... excited!
Ran 11 miles today... tired and sore..
Hope the tree house is underway.....
Love MOM

HI, Im back from a tirying trip