Weekend photos (lots of them!)

Schroom on Ballyhoo...doesn't really look that big in this photo..but, trust me, they are HUGE!

Eider, doing his part in the war against litter! (plastic water bottle in his mouth!) He actually dropped his rock in order to pounce on this bottle.

Beautiful fireweed just starting to bloom.

Huge container ship (Maersk) docked at the crane. You can see how foggy it is in the background.

Foggy shot of the fuel dock (where the Cornelia Marie often docks).

Tug boat towing a barge in the fog.

Another flowery, foggy shot from the other side of Ballyhoo.

Can't even see the "balls" on Ballyhoo....no planes lately due to fog...I think it's been 3 days since we had a plane in....Co-worker Annamarie has been stuck since Sunday, not even confirmed until Thursday! She's livin' it up in Anchorage....

My husband came in on Sunday (I got to see him for 3 hours, hanging out on his boat)....here he is leaving town :(

Mary & Emil had another one of their famous bar-b-que's on Saturday....they built an awesome fire pit in their yard (which I didn't get any photos of, DUH)...here is Emil with his "log"...LOL

Sweetie & her adorable son, Jesse....his hot dog is bigger than he is!

Johnny Bruce, son JJ, Mary & Emil drinking "Alien" tequilla...YUMMY! They said this came from Area 51....little did they know I worked there when I was employed by Lockheed...I was there from 1987 until 1989....Never saw any aliens, but I did see alot of weird shit!

And a close-up of the tequila..I have to admit, it was tasty...AND we didn't need training wheels. I only had one shot, that was enough!

Buck (guarding the food table)...Loren Starr and our host, Emil (that's Mary at the grill)

Bff Jan :) and Johnny Bruce!

Hey! Are we on the right blog? There's Goldfish & Chico at the "Balls of Ballyhoo"

We had quite the showing, I think it was Saturday on Ballyhoo....Goldfish, Chico, Sherrie, Hoover, Renee, Eider, Me & Buck...as long as we kept the dogs moving, there weren't any fights...oh yeah, Pam then showed up with Kimo....he likes to get in the other dogs' faces...and he also likes to hump them (doesn't matter if they are females or males...)...so, they get a bit irritated with him....but it all went well.

The cloud shots are for Mj in MD...I know she loves the cloud shots...so, here ya go, MJ!

I love how the rays of the sun come down in this photo....the sun really does exist!

More rays of sunshine...keep that sun shining!

Sherrie, Buck & Eider almost at the finish "post"....

The long, long road to the balls! Love the cloud formations in this photo....

More clouds for Mj.

Me & Buck on our way to Ballyhoo...

What a fun weekend! Despite the sun not being out very much, the barbeque was fun, Elaine was MIA up in the tundra behind Westward Seafoods, drinking her lips off and oh yeah, golfing in the Tundra Classic...haven't heard any stories about the goings-on that happened, but I'm sure we'll hear something soon.

Have a great week, everyone!

Flowers, a slug (ugh), Elaine, Hoover, Nephews

My darling nephews, Steele and Tyler....they just got in from Seattle and are going fishing on a long-liner. Sherrie brought them by the library to say hello to their favorite aunt :)

I spied Elaine walking Hoover across the street from our apartment building and snapped her photo without her knowing it. Well, then I yelled to her and she saw me, so I'm not very sneaky :)

Pretty flowers and bottle brush on my walk up Ballyhoo (where I got soaking wet in the rain)...believe it or not, I was the ONLY one up there...no one else wanted to walk in the rain. It was quite refreshing...

Buttercups...one of my faves :)

Gross slug on cute yellow flower.

Salmonberries are starting to change colors...it's funny to watch my dogs eat them right off the branch...and of course, they always want the one you are going for....little pigs!

I thought this photo would turn out better, but I like it anyway.

If you look real close at this one, there are rain drops dancing on it's leaves...was so pretty!

Fireweed, barely starting to bloom....

I love this picture...so simple, yet beautiful!

Clouds & Fog

Beautiful drive to work this morning...clouds were really low, then blue sky above! This was taken at the Dutch Harbor post office...happy I had my camera with me :)

Who wants to go to work on a day like this???

Oops I uploaded this one twice....note to self: don't talk on the phone while uploading photos :)

Ballyhoo Mountain with a skirt of fog around her base....so pretty.

Another shot of Ballyhoo with her skirt of fog on.

Ballyhoo completey encased in fog....

Same shot, LOL just a little closer.

Roll of the dice & a couple of honey-dos

So, Scott was scheduled to come home (to offload) on Monday, and we were keeping our fingers crossed that he would be done at the tramper and to the dock at 6PM on Tuesday, so that I could pick him up and take him home for the evening, and hopefully he could spend the night. Well, things weren't looking too good...They arrived at the dock (before offloading) at about 2PM Monday to have some crane work done (I went to the boat and got a quick kiss :)...the work took a couple of hours, then they headed to the tramper to offload..that usually takes about 24 hours...so it would have been perfect timing...offload, then to the dock around 4PM on Tuesday...

Well, they ended up finishing the offload early, thereby arriving at the dock at about 3PM Tuesday...they have to fuel, get groceries and do some general things to prepare for the next trip, about a 6 - 8 hour timeframe. It wasn't looking good for a sleep-over...Well, the Gods smiled upon us, because they were waiting for a new observer to fly in, and it was too foggy, so the plane stopped in Cold Bay and were sitting there on weather hold...I prayed they would just cancel the flight, knowing the Warrior could not legally go fishing without this observer...

Our prayers were answered! The plane canceled! Yay, I have never been happier to hear Pen Air canceled a flight! So, it was a roll of the dice and we won! I picked Scott up at 6PM, and took him home....for the whole night! It was so great to have him home, really hard to drop him off this morning, knowing I won't see him again for at least 10 days....Such is the life of a fisherman's wife.
I only had 2 "honey-dos" for him...tie the plants up, so they aren't dragging on the ground...he did a fantastic job!

AND....screw some hooks in above the closet, so I can hang my ball caps up there...I wanted my hats out of my way, since we live in a studio apartment, space is very limited.

I can't post any more photos of our time together...I don't want to get arrested....know what I mean, Lori wink wink!

Ballyhoo, Flowers, Schrooms & Pomegranate mojitos

A group of eagles feasting on some fish that a boater left on the boat ramp...They were getting pretty aggressive with each other...

More feasting eagles.....

And more....

Eider in the tundra with his rock...he's just about to roll around on it...you'd think that would hurt!

Not sure what type of flower/weed/plant these are, maybe some type of bottle brush? But they are an interesting specimen.

The dreaded putchki...it is nice to look at despite all it's badness.

Pretty yellow flowers....

This one is for Marja...I just love this photo.

More cute flowery things.

And more pretty flowers....

Purple flower...LOL as if you need me to tell you that :)

Schrooooooms!

Now, THAT'S a huge mushroom!

Pomegranate mojitos...YUM YUM!

Emil & Mary....they taught the bartenders at the airport bar how to make Pomegranate mojitos...with FRESH mint! Yummy!!!!

Patriotic beach glass & Weather layers

With all this talk of beach glass lately, I realized it had been a long, long time since I had been beach-combing. So I decided to take Eider and go to "Glass Beach" last night and search around...it was slim pickins' thanks to CB, CD & others, I have to find another secret spot....I parked my truck and saw a woman walking towards "my" beach and thought to myself, who the hell is infringing on my beach combing adventure. Turns out it was Angela Jones, who was thinking the same thing about me. LOL....if it had been anyone else, I would have had a problem, but we enjoyed sifting through the rocks together and catching up...I found these three pieces and thought to myself, how patriotic...red, white & blue....my new favorites!

My first attempt at photographing my finds....

In these photos taken out my window, I tried to capture the layers of weather. It looked alot cooler in person, hopefully you get the idea. I just LOVE my view from my apartment. Look how small that boat looks next to the tramper.

Here are the layers of weather...like I said it was way better in person.