tread lightly

seems alaska bloggers are enjoying almost as much attention as governor palin herself.
most are reporting massive increases in their daily "hits"
- exhale slowly everyone. we've got to pace ourselves till november.

i comforted myself the morning the republicans announced their veep choice by checking out how fellow alaskan bloggers weighed in on the situation.
(thank you folks for saying so eloquently what i think, but cannot convey).

kodiak konfidential wins the prize for expressing his opinion as only he can, and for producing this.
a lovely "photo" of governor palin is now enjoying a far flung trip around the blogosphere.
(no, not my photo of hubby and ms. palin, the one highlighted above) really, its worth a look.

enjoy the ride sarah.

for two more "inside views" of this craziness you can go here, and here.


there are of course some bloggers who are elated at the news that our small town girl is heading to washington. it feels to me as though they are pushing some sort of family duty to vote for the former beauty queen.

sorry.
i will not conform. i love my country too much.

it will come as no surprise that i voted against sarah palin for governor. but truthfully, i haven't been displeased with what she has done here in her short time in office.
she came in forcefully and stood up to business as usual in this manly 49th state, which was refreshing.
plus, she looks good doing it.

but do you really think this woman is ready to head to washington to play with the big boys, armed simply with a miss wasilla title, two terms on the city council, a bachelors degree in journalism and 20 months under her belt as governor of the least populated state in the nation?

uuuhhhh... id say no.

and governing alaska, well, im not saying i could do it or anything, there is that fact i don't have a political bone in my entire body-but she's the governor of alaska!
when people here leave to "go outside" they'll tell ya, they are "heading down to the states".

i've stopped correcting them.
its futile.

we don't even think of ourselves as being in the same country as you.
we do everything differently here.
this is simply not going to work.

isn't a veep supposed to be able to run the free world in the event the president keels over?
and maybe know a little something about diplomacy, and peace brokering, or running a war or two?
i mean, i like moose burgers, and snow machining, and that soft porn librarian look just as much as everyone else.

i dunno. maybe im being a little dramatic.
the choice has clearly left me scratching my head.

ive got just 3 words for ya governor-

come on home.

Hail Mary....er Sarah

school daze

ive let most of august race by with hardly a glance at my little slice of the web. there really hasnt been too much to blog about that would interest anyone, let alone to document for myself.
after two years, it seems ive run out of motivation to document every nuance about living in alaska and i've even given thought to closing up this space.
but alas, im not quite ready to throw in the towel just yet.

today, marked a milestone in our lives, as jade has entered the world of public school.
he was so excited he could hardly sleep last night.
here he is outside of his elementary school this morning.
handsome, isnt he?here he is now.

shhhhhhh. he hasnt taken a nap in over 3 months!
and to think, i remembered kindergarten as all scissors and Elmer's glue!


fall has come to our part of the world. no matter how i dig in my heels or grit my teeth, its making its presence known.
as we hiked at the reed lakes trail yesterday, the change was evident everywhere we looked.
we found an amazing patch of blueberries, and today the three of us are blue-mouthed as we have nearly devoured a pan of cobbler.

on a totally different note, a neighbor stole our obama yard sign last evening. so, after going to the local headquarters and paying $5.00 for a new one today, i fumed and stewed all the way home and then in black sharpy marker penned this right on the back of my new sign:

dear neighbor,
by stealing my yard sign, you have forced me to donate $5.00 to barack obama's campaign which i have thoughtfully put in your name.
every time you trespass on my property to take it down in the coming months, you can rest assured that i will donate money again to replace it.
you should consider exercising your own constitutional right to free speech in your yard and stay out of mine.

think that will work?
dont f*@& with me.
i WILL win.

mmmmmm

ahhh, the dog days of summer.
too much work and too little sun makes me yearn for greener pastures- but after a few minutes of riffling through the photos i realize we've had some good times recently, and indeed, alaska is amazing.

on a local hike last week, jade spied this tiny little snail just hanging out on a leaf. he's got some sort of strange bug radar--he can pick em out a mile away.
today, its off to seward for some salmon fishing.
look out fish, here we come!!

the fireweed is at its best right now.

some say when the fireweed blooms to the very top, there's a mere 6 weeks left before snow. isnt that uplifting?
(heavy sigh)
this is jaden standing amongst the flowers. click to enlarge.
stuff grows big around here!