New Fireplace

Today we finally got our new fireplace we have been waiting for. It was too tall to take under the lodge so we had to slide it up 2 beams on the front stairs. It took all of us including Kevin Johnson who had to come from town just to help us move the fireplace. It is now positioned right in front of the gab in the wall where the old fireplace was. The following week the guys will be adjusting everything so the new fireplace will fit perfectly!

We are coming into town tomorrow and will leave next week on Friday if the weather is good.

Pictures....

New fireplace all packaged up

"Make my day!"

Love this picture

Sandy, My Lizard

Bad news. My 9 year old lizard gecko, Sandy, died yesterday. This morning we wrapped him up in some cloth and put him in a cardboard box and then went down to this spot behind my tree house and buried him there. We collected a bunch of rocks and made a rock mound on top of where we buried him. It was really hard for me to bury him because he was the first real pet I ever had. A lot of people believe that animals don't go to heaven because they don't have souls. I know this might sound childish and maybe even stupid, but ever since my moms dog, Dax, died years ago I made up my mind that I think animals do go to heaven. God says he loves all creation and so why wouldn't he bring the animals up to heaven when they died and not just humans.

Ok now for some good news...We are going to town on either Wednesday or Thursday and we are staying for about a week. I have to do testing. The Hunger Games movie is playing and till today I thought I wasn't going to be able to see it but my dad told me that since the plans had changed and we are going in a couple days earlier dad and me are going to see the movie Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooo excited!!

My Ankle

Last Saturday I was climbing a tree next to my tree house. I was just about to get my feet up on the first branch when when I slipped and landed in a half standing half sitting position. My left ankle was angled wrong when I fell. Even though I didn't really fall that far down, my ankle still kinda hurt and when I stood up and tried walking it really hurt. Like REALY hurt! I found a long stick near me and used it to help me limp home. I found saylor playing in her jeep and she helped me the rest of the way. When I got home I put a pack of ice on my ankle and just rested on the couch all through the weekend. I feel a lot better but I still have a slight limp.

I love the Hunger Games books so much that I finished the last book yesterday. They are definitely on my mental list of the best book I've ever read! I would totally recommend them to anyone who likes books that full of action, keep you tense till you put it down, that you can't put down and on occasion (if your a girl) cry. Well at least I did, (like every time I began reading)! I am sorry the books had to end, I wish they could have just kept going on and on and on.  It was only that one night that I stayed up till 4:30am reading but all the nights after that till I finished the books I limited myself to only staying up till 1:00 to 2:00am. Now I am working on catching up on my sleep lol.

The Hunger Games Book

Still nothing has really happened except that last night (or I guess you would call this morning) I stayed up till 4:35am reading a book. I don't normally read this early into the morning but this was a great book. I had only gotten it, The Hunger Games, last night at 7:00pm on my Kindle but from then to this morning I didn't even put it down. Staying up till 4:30 this morning was probably not one of my best choices. But really I didn't know it was that early in the morning till I looked at my watch. Even if I had stopped I would have had to pick it up again I was totally hooked on the book. Oh and I also finished it......
I've been practicing my guitar which I got last time I was in town. I love it!!! The only thing is that I have been having to teach myself guitar because no one else in my family knows how to play it. But it's really not too bad. I'm actually really liking it because I can go at my own pace and not feel rushed and I can really work on a song before going on to the next.


Here's a couple pictures.....

Saylor being crazy.... as usual. :)

Cinder smiling because I'm scratching her neck.

Nothing Inpirticular

I haven't been doing much latly and nothing really has happened but I just wanted to post something for the joy of blogging. This morning my dad left for town. He is leaving on a plane tomorrow morning and is headed for Longbeach, California for advertising the lodge. Dads ankle is doing great! He can now walk all around and his ankle wont swell up, but he still has a limp. Just a couple days ago he saw a line on his ankle. It is a calseum deposite where the break had been. Right now I am here inside doing school while it is sunny and though only 35 digress outside it still looks soo beautiful and inviting. There is still some snow on the ground but only in patches where the sun can't get through the trees.

Minks

The past few days we have been seeing mink everywhere!! The dogs killed one the day before yesterday. It was on the beach in front of our house at low tide, they had trapped it under a rock and the mink was screaming. Then it darted out and Cinder grabbed its neck and Coby grabbed it legs and they tried to take it from each other. Then they all were on it. I had to smack Cinder with a stick to get her to drop it. It tried to get back up but a couple minutes later it died. I felt soooo sorry for it. It was so sad when it tried to get back up but couldn't.

Just today I have seen 2 mink at the same time on the beach in front of the lodge and this morning I heard one screaming when the dogs were chasing it. I got a really good photo of one that was on the beach today and it almost got me when I got close to take a picture. It was hissing and baring its teeth at me and even took a couple steps toward me but the dogs scared it away. It jumped into the river and started swimming away so I ran to the river edge to take more pictures. When it saw me it started swimming back to get me but then it changed its mind and swam away. Dad said that the mink are mating so that's why we are seeing them everywhere.

Mink

I spent the morning on the beach...

The way Yes Bay got its name is the native Alaskans who used to live here called it Yaz Bay, Yaz means blue mussels. But it was easier for Captain Cook, the guy who discovered Yes Bay, to say yes instead of yaz.