each day an adventure in alaska: Happy Easter i guess...

nearly ready to turn in for the night. will toss in a few words and photo's.

start towards finishing March before i head to April and beyond.

we are moving a bit more out of the bog except between shifts. i've also moved away from the 3 short walks. it's a bit icier out there so i'd rather be more cautious about where we head out to.

her new bionic knee is doing great. the other knee is sore at times. need to refill the cbd oil i think. seems to help. whatever i can do to prolong the next surgery or avoid it would be great. then part of me thinks how good the first knee looks and how it would be good for her to have both done at some point. such a hassle and tough for her and me both.

as you can see from above she is back on the bed and couch. the pen was actually taken down last night.

on my last two nights of work, Tusker was in the pen with her as the gate has been open unless i head to work. it was a sign of solidarity. on my last night of work i just left him in there and the pen open.

we all survived. can't keep her penned up forever. the other leg will just do what the other leg will do.

i closed the notebook after week 8 was complete...so no longer keeping dutiful notes of everything.

i think she loves having her freedom. loves hanging with the other critters and loves being able to just go out and sit on the deck.

this was a walk we took as she was at the vet getting her final xrays. we are nearly 2 weeks out from that. i still walk her on leash for the walks.

trying to find the new normal.

yesterday we took a drive after we did a loop in N. Biv. drove down to portage lake and back. that lake is still frozen and people are still walking/skiing/biking back to the glacier. seems like it could be pretty dicey at this point and i have heard of some falling in and needing to be rescued i guess. it must have been frozen this time in 1964 when the big quake hit. that hit on good friday. there were folks out there and they had to make their way off the lake through some broken up ice. of course, the glacier would have been much closer at that time. now it's a good 2-3 miles walk one way across the lake to get back there.

below is a SH selfie. she is queen of the selfies.

Ivy on the bed.

she seems pretty sure she is back to normal. bringing me the tennis ball a bit more now.

we aren't there yet.

so cute to watch them walk together. between shifts i even braved walking them together down patterson...they actually did really pretty well. i had treats. we stop often and she tends to sit which means i can do her sit to stand exercises as we walk.

her post xray.

this week i worked ER-ICU-ICU. kept busy. was tired when i got home and it's actually still quite cold in the mornings, then warms in the afternoon and snow begins to melt again. i'm happy with this slow melt as it will help prevent flooding.

got a new water heater put in the day i headed to work so not much sleep that day.

i've been watching Leah Remini's program on Netflix. some of these "religions" are insane. Scientology is even more nuts. such a secret, paranoid group. total scam...they take all their members money, could care less about them. have learned more about the whole crazy set up and the abuses. that one is for sure a cult. she also did one episode about Jehovah's Witnesses because they have some cult like tendencies. any group that requests you to cut off from the outside world should be concerning.

the JW's do it with shunning...the Scientologists have a whole sub-organization of taking on their perceived enemies..which had got to be hard to keep track of. super organized and seemingly a lot to try to hide. any organization that feels the need to hide who they really are is another big red flag. these groups take full advantage of their tax exempt status. it's insane, then many of them do not even use all the money they collect to actually do any real Christian good works. instead they just re-invest it all, buy properties. anything but help their fellow man.

hard to imagine people getting sucked in and then giving away their money.

how much money does God really need? how much wealth does God need to accumulate? many do not help their own members when times get rough. i doubt Scientology is giving their subjects a break on purchasing classes due to covid and the economic trials. they just harass their members to take out loans even to get them money to buy more and build more. empty buildings mostly. they don't seem to have any regular church services like one would expect

i think, any time you leave any well organized/all encompassing religion you will find yourself isolated from the family...these two organizations take that to the most dramatic levels.

i know for me with Mormonism. it was mostly unsaid. i left and i wasn't openly shunned or barred from contact. i do recall there were times i flew in to visit and i would be told that i should come to church with them....that was where they were going to be if i wanted to hang with them. it was more subliminal. i didn't though. that was the end of that really.

Mormons do not seem to be very confrontational. they prefer to get along and put their best face forward. i've not doubt that leaving has put a gap that will never be filled between us. again, nothing like what many in groups such as the JW's and scientology have to deal with.

religion is always interesting...and i suspect always on the verge of cults. a lot of control and a lot of threats, many unspoken really or just of things in the next life..or like the JW's of armageddon and being killed off.

liked this one of Tusker with the light. that was on one of the morning walks in the bog.

above is Ivy's first trek up on the couch.

and here, Miss Breezy Chatterbug is giving her some love.

need to try and sit down and do the taxes this stretch. i know they've given an extension but i'd rather just get them done.

need to seriously consider flooring and i do occasionally look at various car options.

my art work in the snow. won't be long until it's mud out there.

still seeing some little tracks out there. the critters are going about their business.

i did have a moose visitor the other day. mostly the large mammals just wander through the neighborhoods here unnoticed but the other day i think the dogs perked up...so i peeked out front and there was a young moose nibbling on the brush by the front deck. i've seen that young male in the bog as well. must have just gotten kicked out by mom. they do that...getting about time to have the next one and let the last kids fly.

she could have been killed or died as well. hit by a car or just starved, old age? regardless, there does seem to be a young male moose hanging nearby.