Wood Flooring - Yahoo!!

The wood flooring I've been talking about forever was finished this week (yesterday)!!  It's been a long two weeks with lots of cleaning (sweeping-my least favorite chore), shifting, more people in the house, walking around new pathways, piled out counter tops, wood junk on the porch, trash in the boat, hauling & hauling trash... (Notice the blue light outside - this was taken just after midnight.)

White oak from the living room to the bathroom.  Hickory in my room. 

Nulato, Alaska

Next stop, Nulato!

The route?  Bethel - Anchorage - Fairbanks - Nulato. 

Ceramics (Spring 2011)

These are some of my completed ceramics pieces.

Fall 2010:

Spring 2011:

These last bowls were fresh off the wheel... to be donated to the "Fill the Bowl" fundraiser for the Bethel Food Bank.

Brain Map

I just finished spewing everything that I have on my mind currently for work and personal endeavors onto a giant Post-it.
(Don't try to read the fine print. ^_^)

I realize my family and non-Alaska homies might be forgetting what I look like.  All the books I'm surrounded with at work are lovely!  Aren't they?

Baker aka Best Tricks Maven

I realize that I should write on here more.  By now, probably the people who actually know me have stopped checking this site.  This is no long update blog post, which is probably what is deserved at this point.  What can I say, I've been fortunate, living life and "being here now."

This is to brag a lil' bit about my puppy (almost 2), Baker, who dominated the 8th Annual Bethel Dog Show on 02/20/11.  His trick? - sign language.  He knows about 20, but showed the crowd: sit, left and right shake, roll over, wait, and eat. 

Here's KYUK's post about it.  There is a short blurb from the broadcast at the top.  These photos were on there too.

KYUK - Bethel Dog Show
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While we're talking about dogs, K300 is a pretty badass Iditarod qualifying race blasting off from Bethel.  KYUK has a lot of snapshots from this year, and probably past years too.  But, this is the year that I actually got to see the teams take off.