Wolfs tooth/ Niko Almost Ran Away

The day before yesterday and yesterday were SO wonderful!!!! Well I already told you about Sunday but not yesterday!!! Ok... ready.... I found.... a..... wolf's tooth!!! I'm not kidding seriously I really did!! I was beach combing down by the wood shop and I saw what I thought was a cool looking rock. At first when I picked it up it looked kind of like a crabs claw that had a funny shape and all the meat still in it (which would be REALLY weird) but I wasn't sure so I brought it up to Kevin and asked him what he thought it was. While he was looking at it I was thinking that it might be a tooth or a talon from a bird! He finally said that it was probably a tooth from a dead animal. I went to show it to my dad and he said that it might be from a bear. I was still not sure because it looked a bit too small for a bear. We have a wolf's skull up on the mantel and I compared the tooth I have to the canines on the skull and it was the same size, soooo...... I'm really sure its a wolf tooth!! I think its old because its got a little rust on one side and its kind of brittle.

It was really cold, rainy, and windy today and I only went outside to haul wood and then came back inside. We thought Niko ran away because when Dad let him out he bolted away and ran up the river where the wolves are. He might try to be one of the pack but they don't let strangers in and they are sooo hungry that they would probably eat him. My Dad went after him and brought his gun in case he met with wolves but soon he was back with Niko. He said that Nik just had to stretch his legs and that he was alright. The whole time they were gone I was praying that both of them would stay safe and that Niko would come back... my prayer was answered.

A Wolf Song

I heard the wolves again but this time they were right across the river and it was if they were next to me!! Hearing the wolfs howl was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life. My favorite animal used to be the brown bear but now its the Alaskan wolf. I wish all of you had been here. The wolfs earlier were on the other side but now they have split up because they are probably hunting deer. Even though they sound and look beautiful they are very dangerous and I need to remember that.

Wolves

Guess what!!!! I heard wolves this morning before lunch, it must have been like 4 or 5 of them! The sad thing is that my dad said that we need to trap at least one so they don't come to close to the lodge. I just got back from him showing me how to boil the traps so they don't have any human sent on them. If we get one I will take a picture of it so you can see. We are probably going trapping tomorrow, hope its not raining!

When I was down at the dock I counted 213 star fish, not including the ones that must be under the dock!! They are probably mating, you would think it would be a weird time for it but the water doesn't change in tempter very much so it must not mater.

P.S. I'm working on another poem.

Weather

This morning it was so foggy that it blocked out the satellite signal and the TV would not work but now its clearing up. Just about all the snow is gone now...booooohoooooo!!!

Here is the poem I have been working on, it took me so long because I put it off for a couple days.

~ Alaskan Winter ~

Cold and clear

Ouch on my ear

Frost bites my tows,

I hear a cold whip

That stands on the tip

Of blowing right though my clothes

Happy Day After Thanksgiving

I  am very sorry that I didn't post yesterday, my mom didn't let me, she said that today was a family day and I agree with her. Any way, I am thankful for my family, where I live, my friends, that I have freedom to read the Bible, that I have food to eat, that I have good clothes to wear, and more. We had a great meal and I had barely any room to eat the pumpkin pie that I helped make and I am still kind of full!!

The weather right now is foggy and really damp, almost all the snow is gone and its raining lightly. I really hope it snows again soon so I can finish my igloo that is melting right now.

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and and a pleasant day with your family!!!

 I almost got to go to town a couple days ago with my dad but he said that he had to many stops to make and that I need to stay home and do school so I guess I just have to wait till Christmas to see all of you. Mom and dad are sneaking packages into there room and when I go up there I can't find them, I bet there good! Although I did catch my mom looking at (or trying to find) a dance pad thing without having to buy the wii thing, you know what thing I'm talking about... right?

I went out in the snow again today and made a snowman with my sister and I'm working on a igloo made out of big snow balls. It will take a while but it'll be huge, airy, and the first igloo I've ever made!! I promise to take a picture of it when its finished.

Right now it is raining but next week its supposed to snow a lot!! I am very excited for Christmas and to see all of you.

Michael

Snow!!!

Today it snowed, a lot... finally!!! I had to shovel all the way from our house down to the lodge but its good exercise. Today is also my brothers Birthday and we had some brownies for desert... yum, but for the entertainment Art set off fireworks!! Right now I am watching DWTS the finale (dancing with the stars) and I can't wait to see who wins, Kyle and Lacey, Bristol and Mark, or Jennifer and Derek!! I admire dancing but I am HORRIBLE at it, some day though I want to learn how.

Tomorrow I will wake up to see everything covered in snow, I'll have breakfast then I will have to shovel it... boohoo poor me! I hope I stay warm!

Miss ya all and can't wait to see you!!

Getting Colder, Brrrrrr

I moved into Saylors room but I couldn't get very much sleep because she talks to much and she wouldn't stay off my bed!! I got cold the last 2 nights so I had to get in bed with Saylor and then I REALLY didn't get any sleep.

I saw a Blue Jay on the roof with all its feathers puffed out (guess he thought it was cold to) and I got a picture of him, (this is the only pic that turned out because he wouldn't stop hoping around).

Right now it is sunny and only a couple clouds in the sky but it is extremely cold, I can only go out side for like an hour and then I'm like an icicle, I even were a wool coat and still get cold!

I am really looking forward to coming into town, and the best part is that I will have my ipod by then and will be able to take pictures of everyone! I have a new trick to do at the pool and it will be much easier to do it there and not my bed (I have been risking falling off the bed which never feels good).

Friday

 The air is really cold and  when I look at the bay and the woods for some reason it gives me a good feeling, like that feeling you get when you think of a pleasant old memory. I have no idea why I get it!

I went to the back bay today and it was solid ice!! My dad drove right into it and I got some photos of the Ice,  it was really fun. I am making another poem and I will put it on here for you to see!

30 Digress/ Poem

The tempter out here has stayed at 30 digress lately and I have had to haul more wood because we are burning it quicker! I am probably going to sleep up in Saylors room tonight because it just gets way way to cold in my room, (sometimes I think that on of these nights I'm going to wake up with a frostbitten face!).

Oh and I got my Ereader!! I am figuring out how to work it and I hope I will have lots of books by tomorrow night! I can't wait for my ipod! I can not wait for the weekend, I am tiered because I have been reading late.

By the way how do you like my frog (notice that when you feed it a lot of flies, it gets fat!)

Here is a poem I made, hope you like it:

~A Misty morning~

Early in the morning

When red breast robin sings

Her song lures me to the window

I see the silvery green mist

Floating upon the water,

But soon a golden ball

With pink cotton around it

Rises to his daily throne

And casts the silver chains from the silent cloud

Letting it drift away to another far away land

Where it will make more mischief for a

Lonesome fisherman sitting all alone on the water

A Little Snow

It snowed!!! It was only a little bit but it was definitely snow! I can't wait till it snows a LOT because when it does we can slid off the lodge roof and walk on the ice in the bay!! I've never spent the hole winter out here but it sounds like I will this year.  I miss all of you though so keep emailing me!!

Back to Town

I know when I'm going to town!!! We are coming around a week before Christmas but we are going to come back out the spend Christmas here. I will only be in town for around a week but at least I'll have some time to go to PE and swimming and maybe even go rollerskating on Saturday night! Then after my dad comes back from his trips of advertising the lodge we will come again and have another week vacation to town which will be somewhere in February.

I might even be coming in sooner but just for a day with my dad... maybe, I'm not saying I am.

4 Wheeling / Cooking

I went 4 wheeling today with my brother (Art) and did some doughnuts down at the dock and a wheelie (Art does full power and drives strait up the ramp and we were in the air for a couple seconds and then slammed down!) he goes as fast as it will go and that's fast, its great to feel the wind in your face.

I get that same good feeling when I am on the top of my dads boat and he's going 34 mph I feel as if I am flying like a bird... or almost. It feels especially good when its mid summer and its hot and your all sweaty.

I just made apple dumplings and I can't wait to eat them, only 2 more min till there done, they are SOOO good, I looove them. My dad said that I have to make dinner every Friday night but my mom helps me a little and tells me what to do... cooking's fun.

g2g take the dumplings out of the oven!! Bye

Prowler in the Night

Last night my dad went outside to get some wood from the wood pile because it was getting a little chilly in the house but when he came in he put the wood down and got the flash light and went back outside. I went out side too and saw that the sewer line was broken!! I asked my dad if a bear had done this and he said that it was probably the baby bear that has been wandering around the lodge. My brother, Art and Kevin came and glued the pipes back together (it was 5:45pm when this happened and pitch black).

I forgot to say in previous posts that there is a baby bear who has stayed around the lodge that was abandoned by his mother and now has to fend for itself. The mother abandoned it probably because she doesn't think she can take car and keep both of the cubs safe. My dad said that the cub that was abandoned is probably a boy because if the mom can't take car of both of them she would keep the girl cub because the girl will reproduce and the boy can't. (I named the boy cub Jessy because he is mischievous and Jessy sounds like a mischievous name and also just because it fits him.

I sure hope the clouds clear off so it can be sunny and not so cold. How do you like my turtles?!

iPod

        I just ordered my ipod and got a purple cover for it!! It will be here in a couple weeks, I can't wait! I had a hard time on deciding if I should get a dark pink cover or a dark rich purple cover... I went with the purple.

        I made dinner tonight, it was Johnny's chicken, it tasted good and its pretty easy to make. My dad said it was good so EXTRA POINTS!!!

Random Pictures:

Looking up the river (wolverine creek).

My sisters (Saylor, Nicky)

 Me on my b-day (apple pie,yum!)

Darkness

        I didn't get a day off of school today like most of you probably did, boohoo!!!! Anyway, we went crabbing yesterday and got 14 crab. I had to go down to the dock tonight with my dad in the pitch black and get 4 crab for dinner and it was kind of scary because we still haven't put up the other side of the board walk (only one side was preserved from the storm) and I was scared that I would walk off and I would have if dad hadn't had his flashlight. It is pitch black out side by 4:30 out here, it feels kind of weird because in the summer it never gets completely dark at night.

I don't really have anything else to say so, g'night!!

Random Picures of out at the Lodge

Niko my baby!

This is Saylor holding a baby toad (she loooves toads).

Me holding my first fish of the year,(red snapper)

Saylor on the fish scale!

Fog right over the water in the bay.

Sun!!!

        (It seems like everything that happens here is in the morning) This morning I woke up to golden sun light warming my room! That night it had been very very cold but when the sun shined in it was almost to hot to stay in bed. It felt good to feel the warm sun shining on me again. I didn't have any school today because it was sunny and because I went shooting with my dad on the front deck of the lodge (the target was on the dock, (104 yds away). I got all my shots in a 4 inch circle but I can still improve.

This is a picture of what Yes Bay Lodge looks like from the bay.

A Work of Art

This is what my pumpkin looked like for Halloween, (notice what is in his nose). Pretty soon my dad and I are going to through it in the water and shot it, I can't wait to shoot my gun!!

Me

This is me paddle boarding by the dock this summer, the guy in the back of the picture is Kevin J. who works for my dad.

Nothing Much...Just Log Rolling

        This morning it felt sooo good to sleep in an extra hour, my bed was so warm but my room felt like it was 32 digress, actually it really was only 38 but you have to admit I was close.

        I don't have much to blog right now, nothing has happened out of the usual which is doing school, hauling wood, playing around the water when it is high tide. Wait that's something to talk about, just yesterday was one of the highest tides of the year but you probably already know that. Well anyway me and Saylor went down to the wood shop were the guys work chopping wood for the lodge and the houses and I balanced on the logs they have tied up there one started to roll so I jumped to the next, that one was bigger so it didn't roll as much. Then I jumped to a little floating platform that is tied up to the wood shop all the time but it didn't hold my wight and started to sink rapidly (I forgot to say that there is a square hole above the platform just big enough for me to fit though) I jumped up into that little hole and Saylor came over and helped me up. Even if log rolling means getting sopping wet it is still really fun, especially in the summer when it is hot.
        I need to go now and eat my dessert.


Michael

Day Light Savings Time Ends!!!!!!

        Guess what happens tomorrow night... day light savings time ends, and that means I get to sleep in a extra hour in the morning, now what is better than that... I can't think of anything, can you? So remember to set your clocks back an hour!! Whoohoo

         I just decided to buy the 4th generation ipod touch that is coming out soon, when I come back to town (if I ever come back to town) it will be the Christmas sale and I will buy it then so I can save some money. I've been wanting it ever since my other ipod broke, (I had forgotten it was in my pocket when I fell off my paddle board, which is half a log).

Good night.

Michael

Windy Again

        Last night it was a little windy just gentle enough to listen to while going to sleep, but in the morning it was blowing 60 mph!! I thought it was really early in the morning when I woke up because it was sooo dark but when I looked at the clock it said 7:30. The wind was howling and and shaking the house but not nearly as bad as the little hurricane we had earlier that I think everyone experienced. Since the windows are not all the way caulked, when its really windy it blows the rain at the windows and all the water pours in and I'm not joking when I say "pours in", we have to put towels on the window sills and hope the wind stops!!

         I didn't do much today just school and I went down to the beach to collect some cool looking rocks, posting on my blog, chatting and skyping but that's it.

Hope you had a good day.

Michael

Bear Picture

 

This is a picture I took this summer, I'm lucky I got it because seconds later Niko came and scared it away over the river.

Jolly Rancher Thief

        All day today the weathers been kinda weird, it will be really windy and then it will die down over and over again. I love the wind its so unpredictable, it can be gentile and warm or it can be fierce, powerful, leaving destruction in its path.

I still don't know when we are coming to town, my dad said maybe later this month (hopefully).

        I had a great Halloween, but it was not surprising that the weather was stormy which it usually is on Halloween. It would have been perfect if dad hadn't stolen all the jolly rancher suckers, hes hiding them somewhere in the house I just haven't found out were... yet.