each day an adventure in alaska: slow start to this day...dogs waiting.

that is how it goes some days. especially lately.

these are still from visit with family. road trip, tide pools. happy times.

we had great low tides. always fun.

the kids are great at finding stuff out there.

carved the first pumpkin yesterday. met with a small group of friends for a mini pumpkin massacre.

the seeds are cooked and so is the pumpkin guts. a few loaves of pumpkin bread made and that was breakfast. nummy!

always love the foam.

i headed to Ruth Arcand park after carving pumpkins. found a cute lady bug keeper, others i just moved around. there were lots out there. i guess there was a rock hunt. was it there? not sure. anyway. halloween themed obviously

it's been cloudy out today which made for a great day to sleep and relax.

so i've accomplished very little today.

look at all those sea stars!! crazy!

some work friends! i work with some great people.

loads more have shown up. can't keep track of who is here for keeps, who is regular travelers and who are part of the FEMA group. we have had enough staff mostly, still low on beds. one FEMA person said a friend had been sent across town to our competition.....report was that it was a total mess there. they did have an exodus of staff at all levels over this past year. an RT that went to the Native Hospital is back already so not sure what is happening there.

still quite a lot of covid, younger, low sats, death. amazing how low their pao2, and sats can be and they are still talking. never seen anything like that before.

so many strokes. covid seems to have a tendency to lead to strokes post infections. with so many strokes one wonder if many of these folks had covid but didn't get tested or had minimal symptoms. we will never know really. so much about this that we may not understand for years to come.

the crazies that follow the GOP nuts are taking our nation down a path of destruction. we are mostly powerless at this point. you keep hoping they find their way back to some level of sanity and wake up but it seems less and less likely. they refuse to invest in our own nation, our own people. they would rather the money go to individuals and wars over seas. what has that gotten us lately?

i have mostly given up on it all. due to my work, i have just to deal with covid and what is right in front of me.

love this selfie my niece took of us. so sweet.

work, pets, friends, like minded family and nature...that is my world right now

it sickens me and saddens me that so many have just been lost to the lies and insanity. choosing to believe utter nonsense over truth and common sense at this point. so many i know often have always looked away from the nonsense. that was true with religion as well. the stuff that made them uncomfortable or would possibly make them question the religion they were raised in....they just have opted to look the other way. ignore the stuff that makes no sense or is so obviously untrue or nuts.

some can do that, others can't. i never was one who could put the crazy crap in a little box and seal it up. the crazy infects all the other stuff and at some point puts the whole in the crazy box right along with it. there is always a tipping point. you can try to make the crazy sane, but eventually the tipping point sends the whole mess cascading down a cliff.

dinner on the beach, since restaurants are not easy to come by at times. short staffing...why? well partly because our nation refuses to take care of all the citizens who live in the borders and instead focuses on the few, who want for nothing and have everything.

we are a wealthy nation but we refuse to raise up those who have less. to me a nation of healthy and well educated people seems far preferable. livable wages and hope for a reasonable retirement seem pretty basic.

so sick of the far right who make grand claims of caring about fetuses. so easy, cheap really. there is nothing required to fight for a fetus. they demand nothing in return...but as soon as they take that first breath, they are no longer cared about. that is what is so infuriating. if they really cared about each of these lives they should care about them just as much as soon as they are born, but if you look at what they support and what they don't support it is obvious their love of the fetus ends there...with the first breath.

then they prove they loathe the parents of these little ones so much that they then loathe the children as well. they finally have someone they can blame for all these little lives they cared so much about before that first breath.

they become enraged at the idea of paying for healthcare/education/food/shelter...for these kids and their parents. they prefer to support a fool like trump and keep him in the life he has grown used to...shitting in a golden toilet.

the Dems seem powerless to outmaneuver the corrupt right wing and they have a few Senators who seem to be more Republican than Democrat in their views and seem set on getting their own little power trips. so where does that leave us all. schmucks trying to vote with all the manipulation the gop can muster to make our votes no longer matter.

we have crazy people all over, angry at stuff that is not even legit but they are angry and so they want to blame someone. it's always the way it is. crazy and angry people just waiting for someone to tell them nothing is their fault but it is instead all the fault of the others...giving them permission to throw all their hatred at the others. kill if needed. there really is nothing new. we just always believe our culture and our society is above this sort of things, but no culture, no society is above hate. it's just so easy to manipulate those who have put hate in their hearts.

they can't see it though.

so here we are. waiting for whatever horrible outcome happens that will somehow relieve them of their hatred and put that hell of fury back in the bottle. in the past that has sadly meant death for many...murder unleashed in the name of some false platform they believe is righteous.

so today i sleep, watch old sitcoms that make me laugh and help me escape the crazy politics, religious fanatics and covid.

it is winter and my lips and nose are chapped. being in the hospital only makes the dryness worse, add a mask to that, the n95 and the dryness is even worse. i was in my post infectious covid patients room with my n95 and i started to sneeze. i sneezed like 15 times. it was so gross, i was coated in snot. you can't just remove your mask. you have to get out to safety, go through the process. when i removed the mask finally, it was covered with blood on the inside. bloody nose. nice. it was gross, funny and seemingly a sign of the current situation.

i worked ICU the first and last nights this last 3 nights. in the middle i worked as a sitter in the ER. a nice break really.

a very nice business owner brought in an entire freezer of ice cream and all the fixings so for two nights we got that sweet treat. there has been quite a bit of food donated these past weeks. overall, i know most in the community appreciate us.

we do have to deal with the covidiots though. the ones who believe it's some hoax. who become angry at basic screening questions because why are we asking them about something that doesn't exist. who get angry that they aren't being given ivermectin. there was an article about a guy who apparently died of covid, people who knew him were trying to break into the hospital, not really clear why it said they were doing that. they wanted to get ivermectin to him?

you wait for the madness to turn to violence, it will, it's really just a matter of time before one of these nut balls gets past security and does who knows what. they are just that filled with hate and anger.

people i know are on their team, they prefer to ignore the idiots that are a large part of team Republican or they make these false equivalencies convincing themselves that the other side is just as bad as these absolute hateful fools. they are not.

as more fools come out crazy and angry more, that were previously held back by the small amount of shame we all have, become emboldened and lose their shame as well. they are loose at this point just waiting to be directed by their chosen leaders to do whatever...the terrible thing is always that no matter what these fools do in the name of these chosen leaders...those chosen leaders will stay safe from any responsibility in their fancy homes and yachts.

JH fashioned fly swatters into sticks to cook our hot dogs and marshmallows on...impressive, needs must!

a little marmot at Independence Mine. coated in snow now.

sea anemone.

i really better get these pups out before the darkness falls. much of the snow has melted in the main town. it was kind of funny, the poor FEMA nurses were pretty anxious about the snow. i mean many heard they were headed to Alaska...a totally foreign place to many in the lower 48, especially with winter approaching. many will go from here to other more remote places...no shops really to speak of. they have cause to be anxious. the folks out there will help them out...that is how most Alaskans are really. easy to forget given our outspoken lunatics that have made national television.

walked with a friend, TO the other day, just Campbell Airstrip. as we walked suddenly a large bull moose opted to cross the airstrip right where we were. we just moved out of his way...because that bull had zero interest in moving for us. the moose didn't seem the least bit concerned of us or angry we were there...he was just on the move and he would have strolled right past us if we hadn't moved i suspect...but they are really big and who wants to stand there the fool and hope they do stroll right by. not us that is for sure.