Wow--it has been 2 months into the year already. Time flies--when you are having fun??--nope, it flies no matter what you are doing.

So far the year has been different...I made another "Crown Royal" quilt for the Stikine Sportsmen Dinner. Which is being held tonight. My husband went to that with our son in law. It is an event for all the men that are invited to get together, eat strange things (alligater, whale blubber, seal stuff, that sort of thing), swap fishing and hunting "stories" ( lies???) and have a great evening. The local business people or the ones that just love to do things--donate items for auction. The money from that goes to scholorships for the kids in town. It is a very popular event for men not only from Alaska but down south also.

As of Mar 1st I will close my business here on the island. My health is not great, and it is time for me to put my efforts into taking care of me and my family. The doc has recommended this and that I apply for disability. To me that is scary, but I do understand the docs point. So here is my next phase of life.

The weather has been wierd...hardly any snow, lots of cold and now it is spring. The summer could be interesting. But the hard core old timers are thinking that the gardens should be the best ever. I do plan on having a garden, we were going to do one last year but it never happened.

Tomorrow my husband goes to Anchorage to train for his new job with the Census Bureau. He will be gone a week. While he is there, he will turn 40. I was going to go all out but he just wanted it to go away...so I will get him on his 50th. I have 10 years to plan,,,,this should be a good one. AAAHHHH!!!! We are not sure how long his job will last but at least for now he is working..

The two younger boys have had a blast wrestling this year. Last Sat we took jet boats to Petersburg and spent 5 hours there wrestling. Today, Petersburg came here, we wrestled with them. Tomorrow, we wrestle Ketchikan. Then in two weeks, we will go to Ketchikan and wrestle again.

While we are in Ketchikan, --we go to see the orthodontist, have a middle school music festival, and wrestling..I am not sure that I could put anything else in those days at all. Well, I need to finish cleaning off my scrap booking table. Have another book down, and now am doing another one. So far I have the oldest two kids albums done, and am almost done with the 3rd one. Only 7 1/2 kids left to do albums for...Ha Ha Ha H

Only 5 more days

Only 5 more days and my sale is over....If any one sees something that they are interested in, please convo me and let me know. I will adjust the price accordingly--www.thegoldenthimble713.etsy.com I really wanted to sell some stuff as I have new things to put on there.

I am excited. My oldest son is in town. Not sure how long he will be here. But as long as I get to see him, I am fine.

Getting past the heat is something. Although it is going to help my tomatoes. As soon as they get a few more set on I will take some pictures and put them on here.

This last week in review

Wow, this has been a busy week. I retook most of my pictures for my etsy. My youngest daughter and oldest granddaughter were my models when needed. They did such a good job, both are very pretty and enjoyed the picture taking. That took an entire day. Then the 2 days, I put them on the website. All in all I think that the light was better this time. The pictures were taken in a different room with lots of windows. If it had been sunny, that would have been better too, but then living in Southeast Alaska sunny days are not always when you want them. Let me know what you think of them--www.thegoldenthimble713.etsy.com--Right now I am in the middle of some new projects for my store. I will let everyone know when I put them on. I was going to open up another store for just my baby things, but decided not to. Geez, it is hard enough keeping up with one, and all the marketing for it, so scrapped that idea.

My family and I drove out to the south end of the island last Saturday morning. It was so pretty out there. That is when I took the waterfall picture. We saw two black bears. The first one was a baby. Just kept on going, as we did not want his mama to have a fit. The second one was a 2 year old. He was on his own. Unfortunatly, both were to fast to take pictures of. It was still cool to see.

Yesterday morning we had a unusual thing happen. The neighbors friend landed a helicopter behind our houses. That was alot of excitement. The first thing I thought of was --alrighty who is going to get arrested, then of course, I thought--maybe I won the publishers clearing house--naw- knew that one would be to good to be true, but was very happy the first thought was not there.

For this week and next-- the younger 2 kids have swimming lessons. There are 6 levels here to pass. It is great for the kids, with all the water around here. There are two sessions in the summer and then during the winter, there is a program in the school.Speaking of school, trying to get ready for that now. The new thing is for the first time in our schools history, we are going to have hot lunches available in all 3 schools. Now, I know that for all the people down south, that may sound very wierd, as you guys have had school lunch programs forever. The island is small, and the problem as always been how to provide the food. This year the funding came through-money is always an issue--so one of the local diners is going to do the cooking and delivering. Not sure how much this is going to cost us. Funny that part was not in the local paper when the article came out...makes me wonder how expensive this will be.

I did figure out how to fix the whole--2 blog thing--when I write, I will paste and copy so both blogs have the same thing on them. That way not one gets left out. Another exciting thing is that I was able to put Sarah Palin on my blog and my twitter yesterday. For some that might not be a big deal, but for most Alaskans, it is. And we are very big Palin supporters.Well on my way out the door for swimming lessons.