Pauls first KING...

We have been here for a little over two years now and have not caught a king up until this point. Of course we have only went out a couple times to fish for them. We usually fish for sockeyes.
Our neighbor took Paul out this morning and he caught his first King:) Ahhhhh what a proud moment. This is a good 8 dinners for us!

Just a few pics...

Fluffy Butt...

This is a young bear that seemed to be motherless. We saw him on our way to Anchorage a couple weeks ago. I just now downloaded the pics.

The closer we got the more scared this poor little guy was... So he climbed a tree.

I pulled up underneath him and opened up the sunroof to get this shot. He was sooo cute, I named him Fluffy Butt. We watched for awhile and then finally let him be. Again this was about 2 weeks ago. We saw another bear that we think was Fluffy Butt tonight (May 28th) on our way home from Anchorage but I didnt get any pics.

Just a blurb...

Well its I been awhile since I last posted so I thought I better come up with somethn. Nothing to exciting has happened but Im happy to say that May has felt like the summer we missed last year. Lots of sunshine!!! I just hope the rest will be the same.

Justina is the only 10 year old that has NOT finished school, poor thing. This was my fault:( We still have a couple weeks left. Im being pretty flexible though. The kids have been staying up late due to the midnight sun and then sleeping in really late. Mercy got up at 11:15 today and Justina not much earlier. So school has been starting at noon lately.

We have enjoyed many walks and bike rides as we live next to a great bike trail. I was hoping to do some cool hikes this year but it will really depend on how big of a gun I can shoot and how many people are with me. Ive made the mistake of reading a book called bear tales. If you plan on coming up here do NOT read this book. You may change your mind after reading about people being eaten by black bears and having brown bears shake people around by their head with their scalps torn off. Ughhh. Ok those stories are really old, but just last year we had quite a few bear attacks (most due to people being complete morons) and one girl who was walking only a few hundred yards from the princess lodge in Cooperlanding. Her scalp was torn off but she did live. Im not gonna let this deter me from enjoying some amazing scenery, well maybe a little. Im not even sure why the heck on going on about this.

Were getting ready to go do some serious hardcare camping in the motorhome. I hope I dont forget the DVD player:) We will be fishing for king salmon in Homer and on the Anchor River. Eventually we want to do a long roadtrip up towards Denali and camp and fish along the way.

Well thats all Ive got for now...

Our little secret...

Ok Im not sure how to get this little video to play by just clicking on the pic but I will give you a link that will allow you to view this fun little video of Paul on the wii fit hula hooping. If you turn up the volume you will here him say "if you put this on the web I will kill you", sooo if anything happens to me just refer authorities to this little presentation. We really need to keep this hush hush as he does have a video of me on his phone that he threatened to send to everybody he knows if I showed this. Yeah, Paul may look funny doing this but he does not have a butt that seems to be going a different direction than the rest of his body like I do. So please, this will be our little secret! I just couldn't keep this to myself:)

P.S. Sorry about my high pitched laugh...

http://picasaweb.google.com/carmellbarlow/532009#5331760958580406274

The weather has been sooo beautiful lately. Yesterday it actually hit 72! We went rock hunting at the beach and we hope to maybe polish some of them this year. Today I went on a bike ride with a friend, we went 9 miles. She was wearing really smelly good sunblock and with that I could smell somebody barbecuing on a charcoal grill, mmmmm, it smelled like SUMMER!