each day an adventure in alaska: dogs and eagles...

and just a crap ton of eagles really.

these are at Deep Creek on the Kenai.

lots of eagle action out there.

my days seem to have waves of panic about the remodel. i follow this with waves of rational thoughts and planning.

this guy is filleting halibut on the beach...with eagles and seagulls waiting not so patiently.

that corgi was much more chill about the eagles than my pair was. they wanted to chase them all and did a fair job of it.

my new refrigerator arrived today. taller than the last one which led to yet another moment of panic about measurements and the cabinets. it's lovely though i must admit. so i have only moved a few things over there to the new one. as soon as i get the old one emptied and cleaned out I'll add it to the list of for sale items.

did get a guy with interest in the pool table tonight. he'll come over Friday to check it out....or kill me. one never really knows about these things really. probably why i give so much away...safety. so i played some pool this evening. I'll miss that. i do pop out and play from time to time. not really enough to justify taking up so much space though. i have enjoyed having it and for sure if i had a big house I'd want one again one day. right now this is home though and i don't see that changing.

chatted with the neighbor on the one side who remodeled her kitchen when she moved in last year. i asked about the one wall. she said they had been super careful taking it down and it wasn't a load bearing wall. she said the beam that comes across is actually really nice wood and they have it stained now. they took out some cabinets in the middle and added more to the side i think. she also said i could use some of her rocks...she ordered a big dump of the rocks and now she's seeing it was perhaps more than she needed. I'll grab some tomorrow i think and do that before i have work.

met with LS for a walk today. we just did campbell airstrip. there was a very generic sign about bears. "bear activity". that really could be posted at every trailhead in Alaska about. what kind of bear, when, what sort of activity?

saw a few of the old friends on the trail today. usually see them more in winter. always fun to see them though. you hike these trails enough you make friends out there.

met another friend for dinner tonight. he's in from Hawaii and it's his Birthday..he selected Carl's Jr...not my choice but it's his Birthday so we went to Carl's Jr.

a new supreme court justice has been put up for a run past the senate. they control all so no doubt he will be put in place. he's been vetted and no doubt made promises of loyalty to this potus. nothing like blatant corruption in the courts. perhaps they do what is right by the constitution and not make the court an extension of their conservative views.

the conservatives are willing to toss aside the intent of the founding fathers for their agenda's. they are willing to do whatever it takes to get their way because they believe they haven't gotten their way of late. in doing so they will destroy this nation.

for their agenda they make excuses and look the other way as he destroys our relationships with allies, they make excuses and look the other way as racists instill a racist agenda every way they can. they make excuses and look the other way as the environmental protections are destroyed. they make excuses and look away as children are taken from parents, and those parents are deported without them. parents who brought their families here to run from horrible situations in their nations.

they make excuses and look away as healthcare and education gets taken away.

all for their agenda. an extreme conservative agenda.

reminders of middle east...how there were so many Muslims who did not like the progressives agenda...they accepted a place at the table with extremist Muslims who then became even more extreme...so extreme they had become radicalized. it was not overnight. but they had yoked themselves to those who turned out to be more extreme and at some point the extremist devoured them. suddenly, there was no place to be a normal Muslim...the radicals had taken over and destroyed what culture was there. they all joined up against the progressives but in the end the radicals turned on the other less extreme Muslims...nobody was radical enough and if you weren't radical you had to be destroyed. they destroyed all.

our Christians are radicalizing. those regular conservative Christians are along for the ride, sharing a conservative agenda, battling against the progressives or liberals. if allowed to continue unchecked we will be in the same position...the radical Christians will control all and freedoms will be lost.

they want to tell us how to live, how to think, who to love, they want to minimize the education of the next generation which makes it easier to control them. they don't want to spend money on the people, only on their agenda. they are already in bed with Put...seems he controls the iitoo from Rus. a private meeting between Put and iitoo, instructions given. Put seems to already be taking over control of our nation.

we can only protest, vote. they control all and they are screwing it up so badly for the rest of us. but their base is thrilled because a new justice in their minds will overturn abortions. that is all they can see. blinded by the agenda that has been driven into them. for so many of them, it all comes down to that. abortion. stop it and then what? will they suddenly begin to spend money on education and healthcare to care for these offspring? no, not at all. they have lost all moral authority....locking up babies, taking them from parents. there is no way they truly care about the lost lives of the babies when they have zero interest in the offspring after they are born. zero interest in supporting the lives that already exist in this nation .

the puppies chase a bald eagle off a rock. thought the photo's turned out pretty cool .

we are powerless really. we can protest and we can vote but this is their mess. how far will they allow it to be destroyed before they finally realize this is more than just liberal vs conservative, this is how a nation ends. this is how corruption takes hold and destroys a place. this is what happens when you allow racist leadership to corrupt the minds of the people, to blame others for all the difficulties in their lives. to create a false narrative that they are the ones being side lined and marginalized, when all along it was their own buffoonery that has held them back.

so they will stock the courts with radicalized judges and use that to get their way. their way and only their way, because ultimately they want us all to follow their idea of what is right, what is moral. soon we are the theocracy they didn't realize they were creating.

they want the gays to get back in the closets, they want women to go back to back room abortions that then kill them. they want those of color and non white decent to be banished. they want the land shredded to line the pockets of the corrupt few at the top. they want only the wealthy to have access to health care and education.

a sinister cloud is over our nation at this time. if those who look away continue to look away in hopes that their agenda on certain items is met, we will all be in for some dark days .

for those who believe this is somehow Gods plan, it is not. i doubt any God would wish to see another religion bastardized for the benefit of the few.

they may win and overturn Roe or put dents in civil rights and women's rights in general, they may get their wall put up and stop many immigrants from coming into our nation...but in the end they will wake up one day to realize they have caused more problems than they cured.

they will wake up to see that the radicalized evangelicals do not see them as equals but instead see them as failed Christians.

they will find that the hate and the anger that they were made to feel and to direct at liberals and Obama and the Clintons...was a ruse. than none of these people were as bad as they were made to be, but that they were duped into fear and loathing as a tool for those corrupt few at the top who will take all the money they can and leave us a nation of waste. they will then abandoned even the radical evangelicals in their greed. discard them all. what do they care of abortions anyway?

this administration maddens me and i am disgusted and embarrassed by their racism, by nearly every thing they are doing to this nation. in truth what maddens me more is those who blindly are allowing it to take place. who have put their agenda on a few items above the greater good of the nation.

who have really just abandoned the basic tenants of what Christ taught...love and kindness.

the money changers have taken over and i see a time when the tables will be overturned and all the precious money will scatter.

the man filleting walked away

then the real eagle party began! madness.

life often is about choices. i read a great deal about the Holocaust, i remember always hoping that i would be the sort of person who would be on the right side of history. that i would die rather than allow the hate into my heart. too many now in our nation are not on the right side of history. they are allowing hate to rule, to take over. terrible things happen in any nation that allows hate to become normal. racism is up because it is allowed to grow. we need to bring shame back if we are to get through this. people need to feel shame for cruel behavior. people need to step up and help each other rather than go after each other.

a 92 year old man was beaten up the other day. he was simply walking down the street and had accidentally brushed up against a child. the mother took him down and began beating him and berating him for not belonging here. she then grabbed a brick and did more damage. this is who we are becoming as a nation. we can't allow this to happen.