'Alaska' Category
Peas, Glorious Peas!
The garden channel is turned to Snow Peas. I’m giving blanching and freezing a whirl. We’ll see if they turn out to be mush when re-heated.
I took Jane’s advice last week and made a dip for my raw veggies, primarily the turnips. I made hummus. The verdict: I like raw turnips as a vehicle […]
Good Eats
I get up in the morning, take the dog outside, and select the day’s food from the garden. Today’s menu: salad greens, turnip, beet, broccoli, snow peas, radishes, parsley, strawberries.
Seven one-gallon bags of blueberries in the freezer and counting.
While I was out collecting berries yesterday, I heard a bunch of coyotes yapping and howling. […]Abundance
I just picked, washed, and ate 14 strawberries.
The turnips are in the freezer, cubed-and-blanched and cooked-and-mashed.
First round of collards are in the freezer (with the earlier chard, spinach, and kale).
Second round of spinach coming on.
A gallon-and-a-half of blueberries in the freezer.
It was inevitable. A young moose broke in and tromped through the beets, carrots, and […]A Fish Story
Can you handle another Life in Alaska post while I get caught up after two recent work stints at the new Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge? Oh, who am I kidding? There are going to be a bunch of Life in Alaska posts: the garden, the tomatoes, the blueberries, oh my!
But this is a Fish Story. […]Fishing
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One evening recently, we tried fishing instead of shrimping. In theory, we’re fishing for halibut, which most of us have never done. In this attempt, we wound up catching……pacific cod. We […]
The Catch
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The whole shrimping thing is a team effort. Everyone contributes. The first attempt yielded bupkiss in the way of shrimp, but we did get the traps set up, the lines tied, […]New fun to be had
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When the work’s all done…wait, that’s not accurate…After ten hours of working, it’s time for some fun. A new source of fun for us, since we’re living in Aialik Bay, is […]
Neighbors
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Tall grass may or may not hinder our satellite reception, but it definitely hinders our bear spotting. Unless they’re standing up on two legs (generally the hind ones), they can be […]
Still here!
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Sometimes things don’t go the way I plan. During the first stint out here at the lodge site, internet access was pretty regular. This time, however, that has not been the […]Guess Where I Am
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That’s me and our nephew, Ryan, on the boat, heading to the work site for the future Kenai Fjords Glacier Lodge.
On the way to the lodge, we saw several humpback whales.
And […]
