This is an image I’m putting on the Eyakfish website. I think Keith took it while at our camp. Very cool!

Best Mom ever!

I thought I’d share some pics of my home-away-from-home.

Here’s my cozy tent:

And my handwashed laundry, hanging in the sun:

Anna and Oscar’s side of the tent:

And the office side of the tent:

I have a solar panel and deep-cycle battery setup that allow my laptop to charge, and I installed a wireless network around the island. It makes a peaceful place to work for sure! I’ve been setting up a website for the Eyak Environmental Department. You can see my progress at Eyakfish. It’s not at all fancy, but I think it will be better than no website, which is what they’ve had.

What can be better on the 4th of July than an action movie in Widescreen next to a raging fire, in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? We couldn’t think of anything better last night!

Today for a change, Joe and I crossed the river and took the pups for a hike along the old railroad bed that connected Cordova to McCarthy back in the copper days. We hiked about 5.5 miles upstream to Haily Creek and back. It was a really beautiful day. Even the mosquitos were enjoying it!

There are so many salmon here, I decided today to order a pressure canner and take care of some of it for the folks back home. It will be nice to have this canner for canning garden stuff when I finally settle down too.

If you click on the picture, you can see a description of the All-American 21qt canner. It should (Cross your fingers) get delivered general deliver to the Chitina Post office.