A Day After ...

Hello Everyone!

We trust you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.  We were thinking of you and are thankful that each of you has blessed our life.

Our Thanksgiving Day was one of snow and snow mixed with rain yet, we had a fantastic time. Although the weather kept us mostly indoors, we did get outside to put the boat up for the winter.

Later, Ernie 'fired' up the sauna so that we could finish our day with a relaxing sauna at 160 degrees F. Very nice!!

Today we had a beautiful sunshine day! Clear sky, no wind, temperature at 32 degrees and a day for us to enjoy the beauty!!  As we were getting ready to leave for our daily walk, we spotted two coyote's over at the mainland at Swan Cove. They were playing and looking towards the cabin.  Later we heard yapping and barking, and from all the yapping noise we could tell there were more than two coyotes at the cove.  As we were returning from our walk we could hear a lot of commotion coming from Swan Cove - seems the coyotes were disturbing the geese, ducks and swans that have not migrated.

Once the ice freezes on the lake, the coyotes may decide to come to the cabin.  So we will need to be very aware of the ice conditions in order not to be surprised by visiting coyotes.  Yes, we do have coyotes in Alaska as well as wolves. Mostly they stay away from man and are very cautious when they pick up the scent of man.

A view of the cabin from our moored boat.

Our windmill that produces our electrical energy. 

A view of our sauna & cabin from up lake.

This rock is covered by lake water during the summer!! If a boater does not know this rock is below the surface, they risk banging up their boat prop.  I named this rock - Whale Rock - because it looks like the nose of a whale.

Me - with the Chugach Mountains in the background. 

Ernie - with the mountains and Skilak Lake in the background.

Ernie's creative shovel work on the deck.