catch up

I will try to catch up for the last 3 months. On July 26 I became a official Alaska resident I was like the old comercial with the people at the store looking in and saying open open to the wilflife office to get my hunting license. I finally can hunt Alaska without paying a arm and a leg. I got moose caribou and bear tags. I was thinking that even if I don't get one this year they are going on the wall on a plaque. During Christmas I brought my rifle up from Louisiana that was the one I brought across the border. I ask as many questions about moose as I could without making people mad. I started looking around and checking the woods.
 I will get back to the hunting in a little bit. We made it to the house and it is a nice place. It was probably one  of the newest houses in McGrath. It is well insulated and should be warm for the winter. I had bought a 4 wheeler here so now we have his and hers. I knew that was the only way we could survive here. I could just here you don't need to go fishing or hunting I need it to go to school.  It's the first time she has drove one and that was a experience. It was better than teaching her to drive a standard transmission truck. That might be why I don't have alot of hair left. That's another story for another day. I can't make her to mad when she  reads this. But we had a good time riding around going up to the lakes and fishing. It is about a 25 mile ride to the lake so she got use to it pretty quick. The fishing here is fresh water so it's pike (I call them jackfish) that's what we called them back home and would never even think about keeping them to eat. But ours were small 18 inches was a big one there. Here they get up to 40 I havn't seen one but I did catch a 20. I fried it up and it was pretty good.
  The principle called and asked if I wanted to go with him to work his dog. I went and it brought back so many memories of bird hunting with my Dad. We always had bird dogs and hunted quail back home so it was a treat. He was training his dog for trials in Anchorage. Fritz did pretty good in the trials he did win a couple of ribbons. I like the the way Matt trained him and used a gopro to check how he did in the training and he could fix he mistakes. That is when I got the idea that would be neet for this blog. Now I am going to warn you before I start posting them you will hear me talk. SOO no judgments.
  We have met alot of great people here they brought us veggys out of their gardens. Man that was good stuff I love fresh veggys. I eat all of them except the collar greens she loves them so I cook them for her. A lady brought us some rubarb  I never had that looked like red celery. She told me it makes a great pie. I didn't make a pie but I did make a crisp and that baby was good. I will try to make a garden next year. There was a couple that was moving to Washington state to take care of her parents they sold us furniture and all kinds of stuff to help us out. That is one thing about the small villages they know when people move in and try to help get them settled in.
   Now this isn't in the order that it happen I can't remember that way I barely can remember what I ate for breakfast. I will try to get better when I catch up on the time. The only way to get here is by plane I didn't remember if I told you that see what I am talking about. We went to Anchorage for another test I went around and got what we needed this time the last time I just thought I knew. I didn't have a clue. But we flew out on the big plane now I said big it has 2 props on each side and holds about 20 or 25 people. The other airline has 1 prop in front and maybe 10 people we flew back in. It just how much cargo they have to deliver they are the UPS of  McGrath and the other villages around. The flight out was fine but the flight back it couldn't get high enough to get over the mountain range so we flew through the valleys and over the smaller peaks. flight out 1 hour 5 min flight in 2 and a half hours. Now on the way back you stop at the villages along the way. But this one was a little concerning we stopped at the first village it had a gravel road for a runway after 1 and half flight I wasn't impressed with the road. It was funny that when we landed all of the people in the village met the plane 6 were getting off and they had a lot of stuff they had coming in. We unloaded and the pilot ask if it would be ok that we would mind if we make another stop before McGrath. It was just me and her so we said sure no problem. We took off and went to a weather station they had 2 guys that were ready to go home they had been there sense April and now it's October. We were fling along to there and the pilot pointed and said look at the snow geese now that was not what I wanted to see. I remember the movie where the jet went down in the Hudson river because of them. We flew around this mountain and I looked out the window and saw the runway above us on the mountain I thought we are little low to make that. We made a circle and climb up and started to land. It was about 4 inches of snow on a dirt road and landed needles to say I was puckerd up for the landing. When we landed we were on top and you could look around all down. So now I guess we are official bush people. We finally made it back I didn't want to kiss the ground but I did need to find a bathroom real quick. There was a couple we met here the principle mom and dad picked us up and brought us back to the house they are some good people. They were concerned about the test she took. She is having trouble with it she knows the material but that clock that is timing her she just freaks out about it and rushes through. She will get it I know she will.
  They have a cabin up on the other river and they took me up she couldn't go had to go teach. It was beautiful up there. Dave told me that there was a few cabins for sell up the river. I don't know about that I could get into a lot of trouble with something like that. Me and the girls would probably stay in trouble I could see us staying there for a few weeks and that wouldn't be good she wouldn't have supper on the table and clothes washed. It just makes me shutter to think of all the huffs that I would get.
  I had to cut fire wood for the first time in 30 years it was something I was not looking far. But I had a guy here brought me out and showed me where to go and cut. He even helped me cut a couple of loads. So the next week I started to cut and haul it gets down to -40 here so I figured I needed to get started. It wasn't as bad as I thought after I got started it was pretty good. I hauled 3 little trailer loads a day for 5 days and it piled up pretty quick I had cut 5 foot long and hauled it back then I cut it up in the length I needed. I don't know what it was I never like cutting fire wood back home but I really enjoyed it here I guess when you get older things slow down I cut a little drank coffee and cut a little more. When I was younger I had other things that I wanted to do instead of cutting wood. I remember cutting wood in a ice storm because I ran out because I had other things to do.
  I have more things to do here than the Island well one I can hunt now I couldn't there I wasn't a resident then. I seem to find more things to do I am helping the principle wrap his house with typar to protect it so he can put siding on it this summer. It is a lot colder here it has already got down to 8 degrees here it only got down to 11 on the Island for 2 days in January. It hasn't got above freezing in 2 weeks here in  mid October. I will see how I can handle the cold it will be a test for me but so far it has been a nice.
  I will get back to the hunting on the next post for you hunters I have a video that is a must see. I will let you know I am not a good camera man but the phone didn't like the sun but it is a good watch.