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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.

I made it back into Cordova Monday night, after a month of heavy travelling. I’m ready to slow down and work! I spent yesterday working in town on various projects, and this morning loaded the phantom boat at the Million Dollar Bridge and headed upriver to Baird camp.

Here is a view of Child’s Glacier from the Million Dollar Bridge:

Taking the boat through Abercrombie rapids by myself was fun. I didn’t expect the rapids to be so strong, and I while was snapping the picture below, I was thinking it wasn’t the best time to be taking photos! When I looked to my side, I realized the boat was actually going backwards.

Click the picture below to start a slideshow of my visit into the city today!

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Originally uploaded by mainelife.

Toby and I were busy this morning cutting, splitting, and stacking nearly a cord of firewood for this coming winter. I’m tentatively planning to move back here over the winter and put a basement on my cabin.





Cabin with "Indian Corn" stain

Originally uploaded by mainelife.

I was able to get the three finished walls of my cabin stained on my short trip to Maine. The stain is a semi-transparent oil-based manufactured by Cabot. It covered the rough pine with a single coat, and went on quickly and easily. I have the siding for the east wall (you can see I left it unfinished), and will probably get that and the gables finished after the foundation is done.