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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Moose snacks, Snapshots and One Step Beyond
October, November, December and here is another post. Everything is great up here and we are enjoying a snowy winter. Maybe I'll remember to bring the camera on an outing one of these days. At the rate Muddington News gets posted it would be March before the next post, but we'll try to not let that happen.
Halloween, a Gypsy, Pirate, and Pinka Bell.
Momma found a snack.
Junior gets in on the action, at this point there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth as the kids watched these ungulates dine on their craft projects from SRBC fall party.
EI in pops hat, making it look better of course.
This is how big sis plays, AK tells EI and IM to sit and pretend to be in school, please raise your hands if you have any questions.
On her own EI will resort to this type of play, more like her pop every day.
Lazy Saturday morning, waiting for jalepeno cheddar moose sausages and eggs on toast prepared by none other than the pop, making me hungry just thinking about it.
um...well...lets just chalk this one up to the amazing AK and what she'll do whilst reading.
handsome young spud.
Here we are in December at the church play, AK was amazing of course, sang a little duet.
EI wishing you a Merry Christmas
Here is a little youtube Madness
Blimey those Brits can dance,
Later M
Halloween, a Gypsy, Pirate, and Pinka Bell.
Momma found a snack.
Junior gets in on the action, at this point there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth as the kids watched these ungulates dine on their craft projects from SRBC fall party.
EI in pops hat, making it look better of course.
This is how big sis plays, AK tells EI and IM to sit and pretend to be in school, please raise your hands if you have any questions.
On her own EI will resort to this type of play, more like her pop every day.
Lazy Saturday morning, waiting for jalepeno cheddar moose sausages and eggs on toast prepared by none other than the pop, making me hungry just thinking about it.
um...well...lets just chalk this one up to the amazing AK and what she'll do whilst reading.
handsome young spud.
Here we are in December at the church play, AK was amazing of course, sang a little duet.
EI wishing you a Merry Christmas
Here is a little youtube Madness
Blimey those Brits can dance,
Later M
Sunday, November 21, 2010
FROZEN TOES AND MORE
My friend and I decided it would be fun to load up a carload of gear and kids and do an overnight. This happened to coincide with the first really cold weekend of the year. But we being the burly Alaskan's the cold was met with a shrug of the shoulders (and a BUNCH of extra blankets). Here is the story of a wild weekend of frozen toes and much much more.
The crew. I was pushing the stroller loaded with sleeping gear and other necessaries.
We actually had zero idea as to where we were going to camp. No one in our group had been down this trail before. That increased the adventure quotient and we had many stops to see what we could see.
By the look on AK's face one would expect that we had been hiking several hours at this point when in fact it was more like 45 minutes.
Our spot offered us tons of wood for a warm warm fire.
Lots of benches.
And a lovely creek to lull us to sleep at night.
The kids were intent on raising my blood pressure by attempting to knock as much ice into the water as possible. This was done by stomping on the thin ice over about 4" of water, NICE! Dry toes are happy toes everyone off the ice now!
The next morning we went on a hike and met this little guy on the way up to check out some snow we saw from the trail. Cute little porcupine, we named him Sticky.
Our snow pack turned into a snow cave that was in need of some exploring.
Beautiful...
more beauty...
It was snowing out so we had a snack with the cover of the snow roof for protection.
Group photo, the snow stopped and we were off onto bigger and better explorations.
The boys. On our way out from an excellent trip, with many more to come.
Mambo is nice...
Later M
The crew. I was pushing the stroller loaded with sleeping gear and other necessaries.
We actually had zero idea as to where we were going to camp. No one in our group had been down this trail before. That increased the adventure quotient and we had many stops to see what we could see.
By the look on AK's face one would expect that we had been hiking several hours at this point when in fact it was more like 45 minutes.
Our spot offered us tons of wood for a warm warm fire.
Lots of benches.
And a lovely creek to lull us to sleep at night.
The kids were intent on raising my blood pressure by attempting to knock as much ice into the water as possible. This was done by stomping on the thin ice over about 4" of water, NICE! Dry toes are happy toes everyone off the ice now!
The next morning we went on a hike and met this little guy on the way up to check out some snow we saw from the trail. Cute little porcupine, we named him Sticky.
Our snow pack turned into a snow cave that was in need of some exploring.
Beautiful...
more beauty...
It was snowing out so we had a snack with the cover of the snow roof for protection.
Group photo, the snow stopped and we were off onto bigger and better explorations.
The boys. On our way out from an excellent trip, with many more to come.
Mambo is nice...
Later M
Friday, November 5, 2010
AK and CJ Hike
So, AK and I went on a hike a couple weeks ago. More like a month ago now, actually. We climbed Little O'Malley peak, which is the shorter peak on the left behind AK. This picture is about a half a mile into the hike.
The post on the left is where our trail joined the main trail.
AK had to empty her shoe on the bridge.
You can see ice forming on the rocks in the creek.
This is the view from Little O'Malley peak.
The pointy peak in the background, which is the real top of the mountain, is called,guess what, O'Malley Peak.
This is the view in another direction.
Yet another view. I promise that AK was not as miserable as she looks in this picture. It was really cold and windy up there, though.
The post on the left is where our trail joined the main trail.
AK had to empty her shoe on the bridge.
You can see ice forming on the rocks in the creek.
This is the view from Little O'Malley peak.
The pointy peak in the background, which is the real top of the mountain, is called,guess what, O'Malley Peak.
This is the view in another direction.
Yet another view. I promise that AK was not as miserable as she looks in this picture. It was really cold and windy up there, though.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Green .5 (sorta)
AK actually wants to call the place "The Ranch" and I asked her about the Muddington label and she said that was just a borough on "The Ranch." The pictures were taken from the Muddington Borough. Here you go on the latest development as we continue to reclaim the lot from the forest.
Did anyone actually think I would not put this video up, of course I would. Farm livin' is the life for me......goodbye city life.
Later M
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