summer day

just a photo of pioneer peak on a warm and sunny alaskan day.

we are looking forward to some hot colorado sunshine and some rockin' good fun at red rocks this weekend.
look out.

somebody-
gimme a yeeeeehaw!

cowboy up and rock on

well a long week has passed by and once again we have packed up all we own.
again, we can conclude and we own far too much crap.
our lives in boxes and our week blown, we are now getting used to the new creaks, smells and kinks of our new abode. we accidentally flooded the laundry room with the first load of wash that was run through the machine.
whoops- got the first disaster right out of the way.

i am sitting in the living room, its currently 11:46 p.m. the view from the large windows is a blue- gray sky, last hints of the sunset pink on the horizon. the talkeetna mountain range is looming through the birch leaves. the green on the mountains now extends far up on the hillside nearly meeting the last few patches of snow.
the mosquitoes are buzzing and mixed up birds are chirping.
it appears the long alaskan days of summer are upon us.

we took in some of colony days on saturday last, and i only have one photo to show. jade picked the biggest horse and was pretty pleased with himself way up there.
this pic is taken in palmer proper. the library parking lot to be exact. we could be in colorado with those pretty mountains perched above town, but this is alaska.

grab hold

my grandfather used to say "grab it and growl" as every meal was placed on the table.
he had some peculiar sayings. this is something i haven't thought of in years.

lately i have been feeling a little pensive about the short but sweet summer months blooming here in alaska. and now when i think of my grandfathers saying, it has greater meaning, as the days are long but the summer fleeting before my very eyes.
grab hold while you can and enjoy the hell out of it.


we are spending long pre-solstice days painting our new abode.
recently we have decided to vacate our lovely 5 acre rental and move just down the way into our very own work in progress. we are hoping to spread the paint and then put down the brushes and hammer until the short days of winter find us again and we are forced to spend more time indoors.

i am astounded once again by the sheer greenness of the woods.
driving to and from work in the blazing sunshine there are seemingly one hundred shades of it. alaska is alive again, breathing and growing thick with the long summer sun.

my grass is blue

well hallelujah and hoedown!



















we found us some bluegrass music.
a mere 10 months after moving to the last frontier we actually found some real, live music!
the first annual sutton pickers retreat was thrown together just over one month ago by our friend bonnie.
she rented out glacier creek campground and called every bluegrass picker in this great state.

although the tiny little stage looked ant-like with the giant snow covered peaks surrounding the valley, the sound that come pouring out till 4am was anything but small.
you can see jadens priorities were not exactly pointed toward the stage when there was ice cream to be had, but he did do some dancin with his buddies jenna and hunter.

about 150 people of all ages came and went from friday to sunday and it seemed everyone had a great time under the midnight sun.




check out the view from "stage". can you find waldo and her friends?








hopefully this will be an annual event because we had a blast.
yes, it was as chilly as it looked, but man, if we waited for good weather to do anything fun around here, we'd be doing a lot of sitting around.