each day an adventure in alaska: Marley Bear...

somebody took a little artistic license with the bear on the sign on Rovers Run. pretty funny i thought.

bought some super sized stuffed toys at the store...they were 70% off! the pups love them, however, LS did mention that this will be a crap load of stuffing when the puppies do decide to demolish them. had not really thought of that. we shall see how it goes. so far only one ear has been destuffed so far.

a few good walks the last few days. been getting our 4 miles in each day. the temps have dropped. today some fog dropped in so frost is always cool. should just get better and better...i'd be cool with some fresh snow too though. they have forecast it for weeks but have been wrong really. we did get a dusting but we are over due for a big dump.

stopped for a few errands....Ivy frequently takes over the drivers seat when i leave them in the car. she doesn't always give it up all that easily. i don't always have treats on me....

they are some cute pups though!

few days i did gasline/powerline/tank/stumphenge/field and then the other day we did a big loop of Rovers, cross to homestead and then return via the airstrip.

i think we came back via the airstrip. yes, we did. amazing how quickly i drop details....i have always been like that though.

some scattered frost shots.

today, i took down Christmas. it's always kind of a ceremony. it just gets so cluttered with the extra Christmas stuff out, the tree takes up room. so it's nice to get it taken down, cleared out. needles swept up, tree on front deck...i'll do the annual dragging of the tree next week or so.

we laughed today because we can greet people with the standard Happy New Years without getting looks. never mind that Happy Holidays was not unacceptable when i was a kid. now the radical Christians have been convinced that being greeted by Happy Holidays is some sort of war on Christmas. silly fools really...so we joked today that we would start a false war on New Years. how dare everyone assume we would wish to be Happy for New years....perhaps we want to have a dull New Year or some other emotion. who are they to decide.

they hate that they have been forced to become more politcally correct...some apparently miss making fun of special needs people or folks of different religions or ethnicities...but how dare you say happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas...or design a coffee cup that they become convinced is anti Christian. being Christian correct is the same deal.

of course, the Religious Right has changed a great deal these past few years...now it means you are free to be a pedophile or racist and still be welcomed. i suspect this will all come back to bite them all. this POTUS, he is a disgrace, an embarrassment. there is no agenda that is worth selling your soul for, but the GOP has done just that.

pretend all you want that Rus is a nothing burger...if it was they wouldn't be working so hard to squelch it. they are pretty nervous. they are going after Mueller, the FBI, anyone and everyone. eventually, they will piss off the wrong person. Put really must have something over a few of them. sad that so many fellow citizens have been convinced that none of this would matter. that any POTUS would have financial ties such as iitoo surely has, that this could not matter. of course, it matters.

part of the ice had water flow over so the other day i opted to not attempt to walk through the water that was on top of the ice....not keen on wet feet when it's near 0F.

the tennis ball freezes in the chuck it when we hit around 5. the spit doesn't help. so if i don't toss the ball quick enough...i end up tossing the chuck it along with the frozen tennis ball.

head back to work tomorrow for 4. i'll work over the New Year. they called tonight. i guess they had a no show. i was actually in my pj's pretty early, chilling, putting away Christmas.

nice scarf action on Ivy Rose

no moose sightings of late. it's been a bit...odd really. usually see more and more moose as winter sinks in deeper.

i have heard that there have been wolves spotted on the hillside. i had heard howls one day when i was out walking. enough to spook me and a few others on the trails. wolves have been known to take dogs, or humans for that matter. i guess someone saw wolves when they were out walking with their dogs. they headed back only to be followed by the wolves. no harm came to them but it's good to be aware.

need to explore the creek...looks pretty right now.

frost...so pretty.

these are just on little side creeks

made the pups new scarves. hoping they would be less long. they do stretch out over time. no doubt because they get tugged on.

they do look super cute with the scarves though.

time to put away the more holiday themed scarves anyway.

i think this was a remnant. perfect for puppy scarves.

we were able to rise above the fog today for our walk. always odd, you wake and look out to fog and then drive up the road a bit and it's gone.

my pretty girl catches the light.

frost on stems

always love the light through the trees as well this time of year.

fresh sheets and today new sheets. my brother and his partner got me a new comforter cover and shams. it's cool, denim. super heavy. bought some new sheets to match, so all are washed and on the bed. i hear it's good to sleep under heavy covers....more restful. will give it a go tonight. like that it's a tough material for the dogs.