tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59417757984079703912024-03-13T03:43:24.233-07:00Keebler/Beaver AdventuresTozikarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14288938912699147447noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941775798407970391.post-58889834317108320742018-12-29T12:25:00.000-08:002018-12-29T12:25:16.244-08:00Keebler/Beaver Adventures 2018<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(103, 78, 167); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #674ea7; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The new year found us still grieving our losses from the burglary of our Fairbanks home </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">12/14/17, but our spirits were lifted throughout 2018 by our re-establishing old friendships as well as forming some new ones. We weren't far into the new year when we got a call from Tom and Nancy of Kenai, Alaska. Newly retired they had joined the flight of snowbirds south and were camped in an RV park not far from our Sun City abode. We met them at their campsite for a meal and a visit and we got to meet their recently adopted puppy, Boomer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 16px;">Toward the middle of the month we hosted Helen and Ray in Sun City. They were en route to Hawaii. Karen had visited them at their home in Massachusetts a couple of times since Helen left Alaska in the 80s, but Jack hadn't seen Helen in a long while and had never met Ray. We enjoyed a three-day reunion sharing stories and food and took one day to drive to Sedona and Flagstaff where we met Joe with whom Helen had kept in touch since he'd moved from Alaska to Arizona. We all enjoyed what Karen insists is "the world's best pizza" at Nimarco's in Flagstaff.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198);">Having read and enjoyed Ron Chernow's massive biography, </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198);">Hamilton, </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198);">Karen was thrilled to learn the traveling production, based on the book, would be at Arizona State University's Gammage Hall in February. She landed a ticket and attended the show shortly after Jack's departure.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198);">Mid-month Karen boarded a flight for San Jose, Costa Rica where she spent 3 days revisiting that city while awaiting Robin and Ari who would join us for the week of Ari's February break from school in Hamilton, NY where she attended 4th grade. Hamilton is the community of Colgate University where Meg was in her 2nd year as visiting faculty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">After taking a couple of hours getting through immigration and customs, Robin and Ari emerged from the airport to join Karen for the ride to Enterprise Car Rental. Once we had Robin's rental car, we collected groceries and Karen's belongings from Vida Tropical B & B and headed for Miramar in central Costa Rica. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One day we drove up to a high meadow from which we could look down on the village of Cedral and posed for a selfie of our group.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From Cedral we drove down to the Pacific coast to spend five nights in a 3-bedroom house with a small pool on the front patio.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We were a couple of blocks from the beach. Seth and Jessie drove down from the cloud forest and continued our visit with them for a couple of days.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After Robin, Ari, Seth & Jessie left, we took a cab to Tamarindo where we rented a small house. It's a surfer's paradise there and largely attracts young surfers. After 3 days Jack returned to Playas del Coco for another week and Karen bussed to San Jose to catch a flight back to Phoenix.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Back in Arizona, Karen drove down to the Tucson Book Festival. She attended sessions by her favorite poet, Billy Collins, hiked in the Sabino Canyon, and visited The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. A female Costa Hummingbird in the Hummingbird aviary kept flying within inches of where Karen sat to snatch fibers for her nest from a backpack resting on the bench.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(106, 168, 79);">We topped off Mary's visit with a drive to Sedona for Mary to meet up with people with whom she would ride to an event in New Mexico.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">March saw the birth of Jack's 3rd great grandchild. Annabelle Sophia, Grandson Brian's and Addie's daughter, has been a special blessing to Kim whose husband, Phil, was killed last year.</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still in Sun City until 12 April, we got dressed up for Easter Sunday and attended a brunch that didn't measure up to expectations based on our years of attending Sunday Brunch at Pike's in Fairbanks. Seems "there's no place like home" after all. So we packed up our luggage with attractively priced food that travels well and flew back to Alaska.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(106, 168, 79);">Fairly soon after we arrived home in Fairbanks, we were contacted by State Troopers Johnson and Halbert who had identified the perpetrators of the December burglary of our house. Several items of importance to Jack including his father's shotgun and the hide of the first bear he shot after we moved to the Tozi in 1974 were recovered. It was a great relief to have solved the mystery of "who" and "how" even though not all our treasures were recovered. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(106, 168, 79);">We had named our first Tozi bear "Buster." Jack had tanned the hide himself. Back there in June of '74 we dried, canned and salted most of the meat from Buster, developing bush living skills along with providing ourselves and our dogs with protein.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(106, 168, 79); font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After a month of catching up with our social life in Fairbanks, we arrived back home on the Tozi where our social life continued to thrive with visits from Tom, Nancy, & Boomer as well as Tozi neighbors, Russ & BJ and Tom F. At the end of the month Robin and one of our Fairbanks "kids," Trevor joined us for 9 days.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;">We had a week to catch up with each other at our Tozi home before Robin and Trevor arrived and shifted our focus to Robin's building project on the T & M site They spent a week sawing boards and digging post holes for the saw barn that would provide a roof under which Robin could saw boards for his house out of the rain and which, it is hoped, the band sawmill might be protected from falling trees as well as a snow load in winter. The photos of that project were taken by Robin; associated text is also by Robin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">The four of us returned to Fairbanks 9 June, in time for Karen to pack and catch a flight to Santa Rosa, CA where she would spend four days reconnecting with Vivian who, in the course of the past year and a few months, had lost her husband, Jack, been evacuated from their home in Redwood Valley because of wildfire, and then experienced the inability to learn what effect <span style="caret-color: rgb(191, 144, 0);">Hurricane Maria had had on friends and relations in Puerto Rico as well as her house in Rincon, P.R.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #bf9000;">On their last day together, Vivian drove Karen to Santa Rosa to catch a bus to San Francisco after lunch with Karen's friend Margie with whom Karen hadn't seen or had contact for almost 50 years! Margie and Karen were both members of a student project in Peru in '62.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(191, 144, 0);">Fall Tozi Time brought Robin and Ari to Fairbanks 14 August. We flew to the Tozi on the 16th, but before we left we fulfilled a promise Karen had made to herself several years ago -- to present a 1974 photo from our move to the Tozi to Bob Bursiel. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(191, 144, 0);">Bob, who, as chief pilot for Wright Air Service, flew the Fairbanks-Tozi charter and 4 shuttles between Tozi and the village of Tanana for our move from Fairbanks to Tozi 17 April 1974. After owning the air service and serving as its president for many years, Bob sold the company in 2017, but kept the Heliocouriers we depend on for Tozi transport and continues to fly for Wrights.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(191, 144, 0);">Prior to our departure for Tozi on 16 August, we had Bob called into the charter office and made the presentation of the '74 slide that Robin had digitized and placed on canvas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ari, who was born 34 years to the day after that Tozi move entertained us with her viola on this Tozi trip. She also made the traditional cherry pie with Grandma, fished for grayling and pike with Grandpa, practiced shooting the air rifle of her dad's youth, hiked with her dad and grandma, assisted her dad in building the saw barn, and read a lot of books.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 165, 0);">Our faithful friend, Jay, deposited us at FAI airport before midnight on 6 November for our "red-eye" flights to SEA and PHX. We arrived at the condo shortly after noon to find one of our kitchen ceiling lights was hanging by its cords in front of the fridge, neither the phone nor internet had been turned on as we'd ordered, and a couple of pictures had fallen off the walls. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 165, 0);">Robin, Meg, and Ari scheduled Thanksgiving for their Albuquerque house. So we drove over and enjoyed family-time company, food, conversation, board and card games for a few days. We scheduled our drive back to Sun City with a stop in Flagstaff for pizza at NiMarco's.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Starting out on a walk, Robin and Karen stopped to appreciate the Sandia Mountains to the east of their house.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Returning from our walk, we happened upon a Ross store. Karen prevailed on Robin to let her check it out. She didn't find anything to buy, but Robin found a unicorn he knew Ari would love.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Karen left most of the Thanksgiving photography up to Robin. All of the following November photos are by Robin, which is why he's not in them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On 25 January Jack departed for his annual 6 weeks in Thailand. He was extra eager because Robin and Ari planned to visit him there for a week in February. Envious, Karen started trying to think of how to compensate herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She came up with the perfect plan: spend two weeks in Costa Rica -- the first with college friend, Sandra, and the second visiting Seth in his </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">mountain village. The latter would enable her to meet Seth's lady, Jessie, whom Jack had not yet been able to meet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After spending a night in Alajuela, Sandra and Karen drove a rental car to the west coast where they visited Manual Antonio Park and went on a whale watch --- no whale sightings but we got some ocean time. Back in Alajuela, Seth met us. After seeing Sandra to the airport, he accompanied Karen on the bus ride to Miramar. We stocked up on food for the week and took a taxi up to Seth's house in the cloud forest where Jessie waited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Besides enjoying meeting Jessie, Karen got to help a bit with Seth and Jessie's harvest and processing of their organic coffee beans, observe lots of birds, and visit around the village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If March went out like a lion, it was on very soft pads. Karen seems not to have documented much after her return from Costa Rica. Maybe life was just too quiet with Jack recently returned from Thailand? His jet lag was very pronounced and got us talking about whether the annual Thailand journey involved too much of a time change for him. We started thinking we might both spend some time in Costa Rica in early 2018 -- Jack for 4 to 6 weeks; Karen for a shorter visit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And then there was our 51st Funniversary for which Karen baked her first cheesecake. Tom also came up to help celebrate and partake of cheese cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On 15 June Jack finally got to work putting the new axle on the trailer. As he was doing that, a big wind came up and he heard a crash. After a while he turned around and realized a tall spruce had fallen onto the bear fence with its top a couple of feet from where he stood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We returned to Fairbanks on Summer Solstice and resumed what has become a Friday afternoon reunion with Trevor and Deanna and their GripAll crew. We meet at either HooDoo Brewery or The Tap House down town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In mid-July Mary visited from Anchorage. She and Karen spent time at the Georgsson Botanical Garden, took in a musical event of Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, and enjoyed walking around at Creamer's Field and downtown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once again, Seth was in town for R & R when we were there, overlapping by a day with Robin and Ari's arrival. Robin plywood to package for shipment to the Tozi via Tanana. Seth helped with that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later Trevor joined us for a pizza send off, providing a photo op that Karen likes to call "My Three Sons."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robin, Jack, Ari, and Karen departed Fairbanks on 17 August for Tozi. Jack and Robin flew commercial to Tanana to await a shuttle of the plane that flew Ari and Karen directly to Tozi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes getting from the airstrip to the house entails challenges that make it handy to have a strapping young man along to remove obstacles from across the trail and to figure out how to get the load back on the trailer that dumps when the 4-wheeler driver who will not be named tries to negotiate a bump in the trail at high speed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We've hoped Robin would get to meet the Ericksons who own the store in Tanana and were an immense help in receiving and storing freight for the several shuttles required to get the sawmill, all of Robin's plywood, and other supplies out for the fall trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On 21 August the charter with 750 lb of sawmill arrived. We have 4+ minutes of video not included here showing Robin, Jack and pilot, Bob, carefully extracting it from the heliocourier onto the back of the 4-wheeler. Robin drove it to the site he'd selected for it while the plane shuttled to Tanana to pick up his colleague Andrew, neighbor, Tom, and the rest of the mill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's a 6lb. pike she played perfectly and then glided into Jack's net, fulfilling the prophecy of the Lego figure with which she presented us on her arrival in Fairbanks:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With our departure scheduled for the day after Jack's birthday, we decided to celebrate the weekend of the 16th-17th -- a good decision as the weather turned rainy on the 18th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meg and Robin are officially residents of Hamilton, NY, home of Colgate University where Meg is visiting faculty in economics. Robin continues to commute and telecommute between Albuquerque, Hamilton, and wherever his position as principal scientist at Sandia National Labs takes him. He accumulates a lot of air miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Mid-month we enjoyed a visit from Mary and took her to lunch at the historic Lon’s at the Hermosa, a top choice for fine dining in the Phoenix area. Before dropping Mary off at the airport for her flight back to Anchorage, Karen and she hiked at Dreamy Draw, another favorite venue.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Jack spent his customary 6 weeks from late January to early March in Thailand and Cambodia. Meanwhile, Karen got to take Ari to Hawaii in mid-February where they spent a week exploring the island of Kauai’. Their adventures included visiting a coffee plantation and trips to beaches.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Karen escorted Ari back to Granby, MA where the kids were living while Meg was visiting faculty at Mt. Holyoke College. Robin was commuting and telecommuting between Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque and Granby. Before returning to AZ, Karen took advantage of the location and had a coffee date with a young friend, Zandra, from Kenai, AK who is attending Mt. Holyoke and then spent a couple of days visiting Helen and Ray in Natik outside of Boston. It had been 12 years since we saw Helen and daughter, Monica, at Robin & Meg’s wedding. Meanwhile, Monica had married Jose and had three children — Poli, Anya, and Annalise. They live in Rhode Island where Helen and Ray drove with Karen one afternoon so she could catch up with those kids.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We had another opportunity to have lunch at Lon’s at the Hermosa when Doug and Sara came to town in March for their annual visit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">For several years we've been hearing from our "Montana Kids," Russ and Erin, about the mountain cabin they've been working on with Erin's family. We decided we needed to check it out and planned our return trip to Alaska with a short side trip to Montana where we stayed with Russ and Erin at the cabin. We enjoyed visiting with Jim and Kate, Erin's parents and her brother Tyler and his wife, Sierra, who joined us there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Arriving back in Fairbanks in early April, we leaped back into catching up on our Alaska social life with brunch at Pike’s with Joyce and Julian and dinner at our place with Ashley, Trevor, Deanna and Roxy (who helped Karen dip strawberries in chocolate for dessert).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We continued to work on catching up with our Fairbanks social life while anticipating a spring Tozi trip where we wouldn’t have much social life as our Tanana-Tozi neighbor had planned a trip to Minnesota to visit his brother. Tom stayed one night with us in Fairbanks before we took him to the airport. We were able to include him in what has become a Friday afternoon ritual of meeting with our Fairbanks kids — Trevor, Deanna, and Ashley at Hoodoo brewery and tasting room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Spring Tozi Time commenced with our flights from Fairbanks 22 May when we were greeted by reminders of the previous autumn’s damage to the yard between the house and the slough. Water had coursed from the Little Tozi behind the property and through our yard, cresting at about a foot and gouging a 20-30 foot ditch in our front yard. Nothing had changed with Break-up, which was a relief.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Our social life even suffered from a dearth of wildlife although we found some wolf tracks in the sand by the river. We had a few swallowtail butterflies and learned they are particular about the color of flowers they patronize when we saw them pass up pink roses and yellow arnica while checking out a blue tarp. They like bluebells.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">At the end of our Spring Tozi Time we finally had a visit from wildlife larger than a bird. A cow moose with two calves sauntered down the gravel bar in front of our property.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">From Summer Solstice in late June to early August community events taking advantage of the long days and warm weather provide Fairbanksans and visitors with plenty of activity. It’s a good time for us to catch up with our Alaska social life at First Fridays, the Farmers’ Market and the Tanana Valley Fair as well as at home with Jack’s famous barbecued baby back ribs. It seems we were too busy to take many photos, but here are a few.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">On 13 August we drove to Anchorage where we met Robin and Ari at the airport and spent the night and next morning with Mary, Eric, and middle son, David, at their home in Eagle River before driving to Fairbanks. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">14 August Mary and Eric joined us on the first leg of our drive to Fairbanks. We stopped for brunch at The Cadillac Cafe where they had a chance to catch up with Robin and Ari.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Once we arrived back in Fairbanks, we scrambled to get to the Tozi for our Fall trip. On 16 August Jack, Robin, and Ari boarded Wright Air’s commercial flight to Tanana to spend a day and night visiting. Charlie and Ruth made their home available. Russ provided his truck. Tom provided tour guide services. They visited Pat & Tom's fish camp where Ari found a new friend with whom to explore. Robin got to float his drone and get aerial video.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">After an easy 3/4 mile trek with the 4-wheeler from the airstrip to our Tozi homesite, we were greeted by an extended erosion of our front yard by July or early August flooding from the Little Tozi diverting through our yard to join the main river. The Summer House was threatened as it had been last August when Robin, his friend Josh, and Jack pulled it out of danger with the chainsaw winch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">. . . and then it was just the two of us dealing with the freight that came out on their flight and the chores Robin assigned us on his departure.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">We had plenty of time in December to bake cookies and banana bread and to decorate for the holidays as Robin, Meg, and Ari, after spending Thanksgiving at Club Med in The Dominican Republic and Christmas in Connecticut with Meg's sister's in-laws, scheduled their holiday visit with us for the days between Christmas and New Years. Meg is visiting faculty in economics this year at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. Robin continues as a principal scientist at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM while telecommuting and physically commuting between there and NY and numerous other places around the world for conferences and collaboration with other quantum physicists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">The day after Christmas, a bird Karen had never seen nor heard of came to feed on one of our hummingbird feeders. She identified it as a verdin, which appears no further north than southern Arizona and may be diminishing in numbers. It returned the next morning when Robin and Ari got to see it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Once the kids arrived, </span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Grandpa, Grandma and Ari spent a day at the World Wildlife Park in nearby Litchfield. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Ari and Grandma made up their incomplete grade in pie baking, having not had time on the Tozi, by making a cherry pie in Sun City. Ari and Grandpa did their traditional chocolate candy making. Robin and Ari joined us on the warmest-sunniest day of the week in one of our recreation center pools. We exchanged gifts, among which were games like trivia and bingo we found time to play. The night before they flew back to New York, Robin and Meg treated us to a delightful dinner at a new-to-us Japanese sushi/steak restaurant, Uni.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">. . . including cleaning out the cherry filling cans.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ari's also very good at cleaning chocolate off her fingers.</span></td></tr>
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We're pleased to get this newsletter published in time to wish everyone a Happy Three Kings' Day as well as peace and joy in 2017. As always, we look forward to seeing many of our family and friends in the new year and remind you that we have guest rooms in Fairbanks and in Sun City.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Bisbee we stayed at the historic School House Inn where our room was The Principal's Office.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ari was a great help at camping, but between the bugs and a broken camp bed disaster that sent the three of us into hysterical giggles for the next few days, we gave up on camping and spent our second night in a motel before heading to Albuquerque in time for E. Bunny's annual visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That sneaky E. Bunny visited during the night and hid eggs all over the yard and in Ari's bedroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back in Fairbanks we hustled to catch up on our social life while preparing for Spring Tozi Time. We caught up with some of our young family friends like AJ, EJ and SJ Worley and Trevor, Deanna and Roxy Miles. </span></div>
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Later that month while running an errand in North Pole we came across a cow moose and twin calves who weren't the least bit intimidated by our car on the road inching along so we could take photos.</div>
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Seth is one of our adopted kids. He works as a naturalist at Toolik, a research station on the North Slope of Alaska in summer and winters in Costa Rica. He had a schedule that had him in Fairbanks for R & R whenever we were gone to Tozi or St. Louis. It was convenient for us and for him that he could stay at our house though we were like the proverbial ships passing in the night. We finally were able to connect with him in late September and see him off at the airport. We went with him and Jay to Hoodoo brewery before heading to the airport. </div>
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As if fire and flood weren't enough, Ma Nature inflicted 14" of snow on us in a surprise 25 September storm. We considered ourselves fortunate to have power outages for only two days; many Fairbanks and North Pole residents had outages for up to a week. With the leaves still on trees, snow laden branches and whole trees lean on or fall on power lines. Many of us recall a similar snowstorm in September of 1992.<br />
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We were able to get together with Trevor, Deanna and Roxy for dinner at our place and for a farewell to us at Hoodoo. We also hosted Tozi neighbor Tom who was in Fairbanks for his annual visit to the VA clinic. Tom enjoyed meeting our long time friends, Milt & Lisa, whom we had over for dinner while Tom was with us. It had been way too long since we'd seen Milt & Lisa</div>
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And, perhaps the best farewell of all, before we left for Arizona in early November we had a wonderful view from our deck of "the mountain," now restored to it's Athabascan name, Denali.</div>
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We spent the first 4 days of November packing to take advantage of Alaska Air's Club 49 privilege of two free checked bags per person, bidding a winter's farewell to more friends and arranging for a house sitter. We joined Doug & Joan Braddock for a glass of wine and to meet their new puppy, Juniper. Khoa, this season's house sitter is a pharmacist who plays classical guitar.</div>
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We flew south 5 November. Our second evening in Sun City we visited our most recent favorite Mexican restaurant Rio Mirage Cafe where margaritas are $1 Monday evenings. </div>
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Then we jumped right into socializing with neighbors whom we treated to moose roast and salmon we packed frozen into one of those free checked bags -- the one we use on our return to haul inexpensive frozen meat home to Alaska. Karen met grad school friend Randi at St. Francis restaurant in Phoenix for lunch which they followed up with viewing the justifiably highly recommended movie <i>Suffragette. </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile we're wishing a wonderful holiday season and peace and prosperity in the new year to all who've shared another year of Keebler/Beaver Adventures with us either in person or through scrolling through this newsletter. We're eager to share our guest rooms both in Sun City and Fairbanks with friends or family who travel our way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once again, we're bringing an end to a busy year in which we enjoyed moving between our three homes in vastly different settings -- Fairbanks, Alaska, Tozitna River, Alaska, and Sun City, Arizona -- and visiting with as many of our friends and family we could squeeze into our 2014 calendar. Piling on the years, we still manage to keep up the pace despite relatively minor health issues and noticeably lower energy levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Later in the month Karen discovered on Facebook that our long-time friends from Kenai, AK, Tom and Nancy, were in the Phoenix area. We got together once before Jack left for his annual trip to SE Asia; they joined Karen for dinner on the patio before they continued towing their Mazda Miata in a trailer behind their RV. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jack's travels in January and February took him to Vietnam as well as to Cambodia and Thailand. He continues to nurture friendships with a number of ex-pats from various countries including Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Iraq, Australia, England, the U.S, . . . and to reassure himself that he's quite capable of traveling and taking care of himself without Karen's organizational skills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Karen exercised some of those organizational skills in taking herself to the Washington DC area where she visited cousin Dusty and Augsburg friend, Sandra, and reassured herself that she could still handle a snow shovel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jack made it back from SE Asia just in time to join Karen, Robin and Ari for two weeks in Colorado. Robin had a conference in Denver the first week and another in Aspen the second week. We got to spend a lot of time with Ari while her Daddy attended his conferences; and we managed to pack in some visiting of friends. One of Jack's Thailand friends owns a brewery in Colorado and we got the royal tour. En route from Denver to Aspen we spent a night with Karen's high school friend, Bobbi, and her husband, Tom, near Beaver Creek. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Several years ago, we replaced a gravel & tar roof with a rubber roof, not anticipating the entire snow pack sliding off the roof at once each spring! Jack now fortifies the deck each fall so it sustains damage short of having to be completely replaced. This spring he replaced four vertical supports and a main beam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Spring was more or less on time in Alaska this year. Karen started off the month attending the annual Girl Scout luncheon at which three outstanding women contributors to the community are honored. (To be honest, one of the few downsides of retirement for Karen is that she misses a chance to dress up!) One of this year's honorees was our book group member, Jane. Several of us were able to attend the luncheon on 1 May. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Having scheduled our charter flight to the Tozi for the 19th, we flew back to Fairbanks on the 17th. Neighbor Tom took advantage of our having two shuttles from Tanana to fly out with a couple of his dogs. He was a big help in getting all our freight over to the house, including a new 250 watt solar panel Jack and Robin hoped to install on the roof in July.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Arriving back in Fairbanks in mid-June, we took advantage of good summer weather to entertain on our deck and to catch up on our local social life. We went to Pikes for brunch with Jay who takes such good care of things in Fairbanks while we are on the Tozi in addition to taking good photos of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Unable to plan his Alaska physics conference to coincide with either our spring or our fall Tozi-time, Robin scheduled it for mid-July. His colleague Sarah and her husband, John, arrived a day early from Scotland for the conference and gave us a chance to reciprocate hospitality. We had stayed at their house in Waterloo, Ontario at Christmas time in 2008 in order to spend Ari's first Christmas with her and her parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Robin and Ari arrived 12 July. Robin and Sarah headed for the week-long conference at Chena Hot Springs the following day while John did some touring before joining them. Ari stayed with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On 20 July Robin, his colleague Pete, Ari, Jack, and Karen flew to the Tozi. Ari and Grandma flew the charter directly to Tozi while the guys flew commercial to Tanana where a number of friends gathered at the airport to visit before they were shuttled to Tozi. Robin still basks in the glow of having been the "helicopter baby" born on the Tozi and "raised by wolves" (to quote Best Man Matt at Robin's and Meg's wedding reception).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Major accomplishments this trip were installation of a floor in Robin's shed, 12 volt LED lighting in the house and exchanging the 80 watt solar panel with the much larger 250 watt panel. Karen documented the latter process with 67 photos, one of which is included here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In addition to the above, Jack, on the advice of neighbor Russ, got metal cleats to put on the roof to catch the snow-pack come spring and Robin put them up. This was a major improvement as it made it unnecessary (we hope!) to move the HEAVY wood heating stove with oven in the addition the stove pipe of which has been pushed off the roof by the snow-pack twice in the past.</span></div>
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adults in games, drawing, designing placemats . . . . She's a curious and active young lady who seems to enjoy being on the Tozi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pete had to leave the Tozi after five days, but Robin, Ari, Jack and Karen stayed until 2 August when Robin and Ari caught the red-eye to return to Albuquerque with ten days to spare before Ari started first grade in public school. She had graduated from Montessori One in May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our mid-summer Tozi-time had been scheduled far in advance and unfortunately precluded our attending the marriage of Jack's older son, Jay, to new daughter-in-law, Wendy, on 2 August.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We had sufficient sunshine at the fair to consume favorite fair foods, but were disappointed the huge gooey cream puffs we've come to associate with the fair were not there this year. Some changes just shouldn't be allowed! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Some time during the year a friend asked Karen to choose which of our three homes is her favorite. Any place in Alaska beats out any place "outside," but she'd have to say "Fairbanks."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Being in Fairbanks for the whole month of August gave us a chance to unpack and to stay a while to enjoy visiting friends and to explore new venues. One of our new Fairbanks venues is the relatively recently established HooDoo brewery where we stopped in August with Jay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our decision to spend the whole month of September on the Tozi rather than go from Karen's birthday in late August to Jack's in mid September was rewarded with great weather and the neighborly companionship of Russ and BJ. We were surprised to discover things to still be quite green when we arrived. Fall colors (mostly yellow) came out mid-month and the first snow of the season fell the day we left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Jack was finally able, after two years, to schedule prescribed surgery to open his tear ducts. Matching our schedules with that of the two doctors who perform the procedure was quite the ordeal, but he was able to get it done with several weeks for recovery before we departed for Arizona in early November.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yay! Another month for catching up on our Fairbanks social life. Early
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Leaving our Fairbanks house empty for the months we are in Arizona is not a good idea. Toward the end of every summer, we begin a search for a responsible person to house sit for us. This winter, Leanna, and her two children, Jack and Grace, are looking after things for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There may be no better send-off for Alaska snowbirds than to have a moose stop by to wish us well; and no better welcome to Arizona than to be greeted by a pair of one of the many bird species that visit our patio there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A special Thanksgiving treat was a visit from Fairbanksans Don and Carolyn Gray who popped in for a couple of hours on Saturday and helped us deal with Thanksgiving leftovers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Looking over our 2013 photos, including those taken since Christmas 2012, I'm inclined to dedicate this year's greeting. Aunt Lovie, my dad's "little sister" and last survivor of the seven children of Charles and Tressie Kohout has traditionally spent her winters in Sun City and was my bridge mentor for the past five years; she has decided to spend her winters close to her sons and grandkids in Minnesota. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Aunt Lovie was a great friend of our soft-coated wheaten terrier whose arthritis and doggie dementia had reached a point where we made the final decision on 11 November this year. So our snowbird life in Sun City has us missing Aunt Lovie and Butter, especially this holiday season. Good thing we got a photo of them lookin' good together 30 December 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Meanwhile Karen went to Albuquerque, and brought Ari back to Sun City where they and Butter held down the fort. Ari joined in celebrating her great-great Aunt Lovie's 90th birthday. All five of Aunt Lovie's living nieces -- Diana, Karen, Patty, Irene and Stevie -- were on hand to celebrate along with Patty's husband Dave. Ari and Karen enjoyed hosting cousin Irene for the couple of days she was able to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once back in Sun City we had less than a week to prepare for our flights home to Fairbanks on 18 (Jack) and 20 April (Karen & Butter). As Alaska residents we can check two free bags apiece on Alaska Airlines. We fill those bags with groceries, produce and dairy products that travel well (no tomatoes or eggs) and frozen meat all purchased at a fraction of what we'd pay in Fairbanks. This year we were especially eager to stock up on items to take to Tozi in May for the marathon work projects Jack and Robin had spent the winter planning. We were looking forward to spring. Unfortunately, Spring
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Aside from anticipating spring, the two things Karen looks forward to the most on her return to Fairbanks are visiting her hairdresser and hosting book group. The photo above left was surely taken before the hairdresser visit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We look forward to catching up on our social life when we're in Fairbanks, juggling having friends over for a meal with all the tasks of getting ready for our times on the Tozi -- a month in the spring and another in the fall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In early May we got together for dinner with Seth, recently returned from Costa Rica to resume his job as a naturalist at a research station in the Brooks Range, our friends Trevor, Deanna and Roxy and our housesitter for last winter and her friend, Anna and Josh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From 15 May to 16 June we were on the Tozi executing the plans Robin and Jack had been developing for the past 6 to 8 months. The first stage of the plan involved sawing lumber for a storage building Robin wanted to build. One half of our Montana kids, Russ of Russ and Erin, was able to spend from 15 to 27 May helping Jack saw lumber with the chain saw mill for the storage building Robin planned to build. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">July </span>- <span style="font-size: small;">With our travel schedule between Fairbanks, Tozi and Sun City, we often miss First Friday at the art galleries in Fairbanks. We were lucky to be in town for July's First Friday. The art of our former Tozi neighbors, Ann O'Brien and her daughter, Iris Sutton were featured at the Morris Thompson Cultural Center.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On 12 July we participated in the long awaited dedication of a bench designed by our friends Jay and Aaron Worley to honor wife/mother Pam at Creamer's Field. It was over a year since Pam, Karen's best Fairbanks friend, died; she is missed daily by many. 12 July was Pam's birthday as well as her and Jay's wedding anniversary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Weather-wise, July made up for our late winter weather with lovely summer weather. It seems the birds were, however, confused by the weather and we began to hear of odd behaviors by them such as not breeding. It's pretty difficult to live in the northern latitudes and not believe in climate change. We are witnessing such massive alterations of animal behavior as well as changes in vegetation -- not to mention receding glaciers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Probably the biggest event for us in July and August was Jack's hiring of a helper to get the yard and shed cleaned up. That clean-up included the sale of the tent-trailer we brought up from Arizona in 1990; it's been taking up space in our yard since then after which we never used it! </span><br />
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neighborhood had lost a much beloved friend and historian in January.
Jim Matthews died suddenly at age 85. He had been the Interior's first
Cooperative Extension agent and was our neighborhood's primo gardener.
We looked in on his lovely and equally kind widow from time to time when
we were in town. In June Ari and I had visited with Barbara and in
August we were on hand to "help" harvest Jim's awesome crop of
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then it was time for our Fall Tozi trip. We left on 24 August and returned 20 September. It was just the two of us for a month enjoying Robin's, Russ', Colin's and Mouser's contributions to our Tozi lifestyle in May-June. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">September - <span style="font-size: small;">After flying home on the 20th, we spent the entire next day in our jammies connecting with both Robin and Kim by phone. Getting ready for these transitions seems harder every year. We've taken to making checklists on the computer to be sure we don't forget something like turning on the electric bear fence that surrounds the house, which we actually did forget one year! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our neighbors' (Steve and Susan) daughter, Heather, is a jammer for the Raven Rebels. We've wanted to see her play. On 27 September we went to a match at the Carlson Center. We learned a lot and enjoyed! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">October <span style="font-size: small;">is one of two whole months we spend in Fairbanks. (July is the other.) We have one last chance in the year to catch up with friends, have hair and medical appointments and take care of home maintenance. With no snow until Halloween, we were able to enjoy an extended autumn. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Meanwhile, in Albuquerque, Ari was playing soccer and starting ballet . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. . . and back in Fairbanks social events rounding out the month included an evening with our Tozi neighbor Tom who was in from Tanana, Jay, Seth and his friend, Mike, another evening with another former Tozi neighbor Ann, her daughter Iris, son-in-law AJ and her granddaughter, Hazel, a birthday barbeque for Jay at his son and daughter-in-law's cabin, as well as a surprise visit from a friend and co-worker of Jack's from pipeline days, William.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">November <span style="font-size: small;">had to be the busiest month of the year. We'd learned in the Spring that Jack's daughter Kim and her long-time significant other would be getting married 30 November, that date having been selected so we would be sure to be there as we typically transition to Sun City in November. So, much of the month of November anticipated our trip to St. Louis for Thanksgiving with Jack's family and the wedding.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having traveled to Sun City 5 November, we had a week to settle in before having Ari for a week while her parents traveled for work. We picked her up at Sky Harbor airport 12 November and, on the 16th, drove her home to Albuquerque where we attended a birthday party with Ari and Robin. </span></span></span><br />
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25 November - After resting up the weekend at Jim & Judy's we spent Monday afternoon visiting Jack's youngest sister, Dianne, and her husband Ron at their home. Then we went down the street to Jack's middle sister Joan's and had a pork roast meal with Joan, Jack and daughter Megan.<br />
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On Tuesday, 26th, Robin and Meg drove to Fulton, MO for Thanksgiving with Meg's sister and brother-in-law, Sara and Nate, who had moved there earlier this year for Nate to begin his professorial career at Westminster College.<br />
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Over the next several days we visited with as many of Jack's family as we could arrange to see, winding that visiting up with Thanksgiving dinner in Jim & Judy's spacious family room space which is more like a church hall with a bar!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left to right: Bride's stepdad Jim, brother Jay's s/o Wendy, Robin, Meg, Ari, Karen, Jack, Bride's son's s/o Addie, Brian, Kim, Phil, Best Man Bob</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Monday 2 December, Jack and Karen each had lunch with long-time friends. Ron is a friend of Jack's from elementary school and high school. Karen met Peggy at a social work conference in the early 1990s and learned she'd gone to elementary school with Jack's sister Dianne. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We flew "home" to Phoenix on 3 December by which time Jack's "cold" was alleviating and Karen was coming down with it. We were looking forward to a visit from another old friend, also named Peggy. She was Karen's first woman friend in Fairbanks back in 1972 and she'd made a couple of trips to the Tozi in the late '70s before she left Alaska. Jack was sorry to miss seeing her after 3 decades, but Robin and Meg could use some help in the week before they left for their Caribbean Christmas Cruise. So Jack flew to ABQ and got a brief visit with Peggy via SKYPE on the evening of the 7th. Karen drove over to ABQ on the following Monday and returned with Jack on Thursday 12 December.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aunt Lovie's youngest son, Todd, and wife, Colleen, came down to Sun City to take care of the sale of Aunt Lovie's house and car here. They treated us to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Amuse Bouche on 21 December. Karen attended the <i>Nutcracker </i>ballet at Phoenix Symphony Hall with her grad school friend, Randi, on the 23rd. Our Christmas Day prime rib dinner was compliments of Robin, Meg and Ari who sent us a box from Omaha Steaks. New Year's Eve we joined Randi and Bill at the Luminaria festival and Chihuly exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden and then went to dinner at L'amore. We welcomed 2014 at Bill & Randi's with Champagne (gifted by Robin & Meg) and dessert.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2012 has been a year in which we've wondered just how long we'll be able to keep up all the fun and frivolity of retirement travel and entertaining. It's been a year of adventures, both planned and pleasantly surprising.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>January</b></span> began with the surprise visit of Mary, Eric and Sijo who called early one morning to say they would stop over at Sky Harbor Airport en route back to Anchorage from a family trip to Egypt. We picked them up that afternoon and took them to the condo for lunch on our sunny patio before returning them to catch their flight to the frozen North. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That visit was followed mid-month by what has become an annual visit by
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jack then departed for his yearly sojourn in Thailand and Cambodia. There's a bar by his Bangkok hotel</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, Nana, where, if you sit outside, you may be visited by an elephant begging bananas. He's promised that on his 2013 travels he'll take some photos with our holiday/year-in-review newsletter in mind. Meanwhile he's selected one of the elephant begging at the seat he usually occupies and of a temple and of the street seller kids outside the temple.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A nice surprise for Karen was the presence of former fellow Fairbanksan, Leanne, in the Phoenix area for the winter season. She and Karen hiked at Dreamy Draw Park in Phoenix in January; she and her sister-in-law, Joyce, were Karen's guests at the Arizona-Sonara Desert museum in February.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In <span style="font-size: large;"><b>February</b></span>, while Jack continued his stay in SE Asia, Karen accomplished a long hoped for visit to Reno, Nevada to meet one of her dad's four remaining maternal cousins, Lorna Dawn. The opportunity was made more enticing by the offer of a place to stay in Reno by Karen's high school classmate, Doug, and his wife Sara. After a stimulating hike in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas guided by Sara, Karen spent an afternoon with Lorna Dawn and an evening of pizza and looking at family photos with her and three of her four daughters. Only Gail, who lives in Michigan, was missing.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The most fun surprises are those serendipitous events when either Karen or Jack get to spend time with granddaughter, Ari. Her mommy had a meeting in Phoenix one day in February and brought Ari along to spend a night and then a morning of swimming with Grandma before Ari and Meg flew back to Albuquerque.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The baby hummingbirds at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum had started hatching out the day before Karen's mid-February visit with Leanne and Joyce. It was a nice surprise to find this mama still on her nest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Toward the end of March Robin and Meg flew over from Albuquerque en route to a weekend in Puerto Rico. They dropped Ari off to spend some time with us. We planned to drive with Ari back to Albuquerque, taking the southern route and camping along the way. So Ari's daddy had a new sleeping bag shipped to our house in anticipation of that adventure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We're happy to see Ari and her daddy sharing some of the interests and skills Robin developed growing up on the Tozi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last year we wrote about Robin's fall from a climbing wall that resulted in a nasty break in his lower right leg. We're happy to see him back to enjoying his many physical activities, including riding his bike to work at his new job, started in February of 2012 as a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Riding his bike to work takes a little longer than the commute by car of 20 minutes. That's a big improvement over the 100 miles one way commute he had to his previous job at Los Alamos National Labs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One of the most pleasurable activities Grandma and Grandpa enjoy when visiting Albuquerque is walking Ari to her Montessori School and picking her up at 3pm for an afternoon of inter-generational play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We celebrated Ari's birthday two days early on a Sunday with a party of her friends at the gym in the afternoon. Not every princess begins her birthday with a visit from the birthday gecko!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While April is a special and happy month for us with Ari's birthday on the 17th, it demonstrated it's capacity for being "the cruelest month" with the death from cancer of Karen's best Fairbanks friend, Pam Worley, on the 14th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Three decades of
friendship between the Worleys and the Blume/Kohouts -- sharing holidays
and the high and low points of our lives on an almost daily basis --
have left us all feeling keenly our loss of her. We returned to
Fairbanks 18 April to join the Worleys and Pam's countless friends in
grief as well as in the joy of having had her in our lives for many years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Among the passions we shared with Pam and Jay was watching birds at Creamer's Field. In April or May of 2013 we will join her family and other friends in dedicating a bench in her memory at Creamer's Field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As always, we returned to Alaska accompanied by the original snow birds that flock in spring to Creamer's Field in Fairbanks and to breeding grounds north, including the Tozi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We flew to the Tozi 13 <b><span style="font-size: large;">May</span>, </b>Mothers' Day. Our 3.5 weeks there are documented in the album<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">13 June Sunny Hills Book Group gathered at Alaska Coffee Roasting House as guests of Sonja to discuss <i>The Snow Child </i>by
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was a founding member; she and Karen had first met in another book group in
the early '80s. At their May, 2012 meeting, the Sunny Hills group had agreed to
honor Pam's membership with a ceramic book spine in the vestibule of Noel Wien
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Also in June we celebrated our 16/46 anniversary/funniversary with dinner at the Vallata and a drive out Chena Hot Springs Road where we were surprised to learn how a moose deals with an itchy nose.</span></div>
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Botanical Gardens, Creamers Field, Golden Heart Park, Morris Thompson Cultural Center, Hot Licks Homeade
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The highlight of the trip for us had to be showing Randi not one, not two . . . but five moose at a time in a pond off of Chena Hot Springs Road en route back from our soak at the springs. Unfortunately, Karen hasn't been able to upload a video to her blog, so we'll just show you the biggest and closest moose photographed that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The highlight of the whole year for Karen had to be her three-week au pair adventure with Ari and Robin in Europe from July to mid-<span style="font-size: large;">August</span>. It was a grandma's dream of a trip that took us to France, Germany and Austria. Robin had two weeks of business in Austria which allowed Ari and Karen to use their Eurail passes to visit friends in Germany after an initial visit with Robin to the Montpelier Whitworths (Ari's maternal great uncle and aunt) in France. We visited Karen's Book Group friend, Pam, in Schweinfurt, Germany as well as Sylke and Christian in Dusseldorf and Lehman, Germany. We spent intervening weekends with Robin in Paris, Vienna and Innsbruck.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">FRANCE - <span style="font-size: small;">Our time there was too short.</span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Germany <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">- <span style="font-size: small;">The best thing about it were </span></span>awesome public playgrounds and water parks associated with beer gardens<span style="font-size: small;"> where supervising adults can relax<span style="font-size: small;"> while kids play.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once Karen returned to Fairbanks, we had nine days to prepare for our autumn Tozi trip. Our album of photos for this trip is at </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earlier in the summer Karen had learned that two of her Wuollet cousins, Jim and <span style="font-size: small;">Dan, and their <span style="font-size: small;">wives would be in <span style="font-size: small;">Fairbanks at the end of an Alaska cruise. So we flew home on 18 <span style="font-size: large;">September</span> with a <span style="font-size: small;">10 lb <span style="font-size: small;">live <span style="font-size: small;">pike in a cooler so we could treat them to <span style="font-size: small;">Jack's f<span style="font-size: small;">amous fried pike the next evening. We missed Darlene, Jim's wife who was ill, but the rest of us enjoyed the company and, it seemed, <span style="font-size: small;">the meal. It was a special treat for Karen to have them visit. Of her 39 <span style="font-size: small;">Wuollet cousins, none has visited us in <span style="font-size: small;">Fairbanks in the 4<span style="font-size: small;">1 years we've lived in Alaska<span style="font-size: small;"> until <span style="font-size: small;">this visit!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">With 6-7 weeks before our departure for Arizona, Karen resolved t<span style="font-size: small;">o sleep in her own bed in Fairbanks every night until it was time to fly south. Our Autumn Fairbanks time is time get out and about to local events like First Fridays and to catch up on our extended family life with the folks we'll miss most <span style="font-size: small;">during our snow<span style="font-size: small;"> bird time<span style="font-size: small;">. By<span style="font-size: small;"> the time we see them again in the spring Trevor and Deanna's Roxy will be a year old and Silas Worley will be three and a half. Having these youngsters in our life gives us a hold on the future.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In <span style="font-size: large;">October</span> we <span style="font-size: small;">got toge<span style="font-size: small;">ther with<span style="font-size: small;"> the Worleys as well as <span style="font-size: small;">Trevor<span style="font-size: small;">, Deanna and Roxy<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">O</span>ur Tozi neighbor, Tom, who comes into town fro<span style="font-size: small;">m Tanana each <span style="font-size: small;">autumn came and spent a night as did another old friend from the <span style="font-size: small;">years we li<span style="font-size: small;">ved on the Tozi, C<span style="font-size: small;">harl<span style="font-size: small;">ie, whose <span style="font-size: small;">photo we neglected to get so <span style="font-size: small;">intent were we on catching up on him and his family</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.<br />
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days than anticipated had us driving 400 miles round trip between Sun
City and Algodones, Mexico for Jack's dental work. It put a dent in our
holiday preparations. So this season we're sending out Karen's
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Having vowed to complete this 2012 year in review by Christmas, Karen completed it in time to send it out on Christmas Day, allowing us to wish all who choose to view it </span><br />
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Tozikarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14288938912699147447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941775798407970391.post-85623613303723719812012-06-14T01:54:00.001-07:002012-10-08T22:31:48.044-07:00Bear, Beer and Biscuits on the Tozi“If I slice up that cooked chicken breast from last week, heat it up in gravy and put together some biscuits, would you be willing to sit out in the Summer House and bake them?” I asked Jack. It was already 9:30pm and we’d settled ourselves inside to listen for Trapline Chatter messages on KJNP, but we had yet to make supper plans.<br />
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We’d lacked an oven inside our house on the Tozitna River since 1998 when one or more black bears had ripped our full sized propane range apart in a wild orgy leaving the kitchen floor six inches deep in a mixture of beans, flour, rice, and bear urine, not to mention tearing cupboards off the wall and breaking or denting a good number of dishes and cookware.<br />
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It was now 30 May 2012 and we’d mostly recovered from that incident, having accepted that all foods had to be stored in the cache when we are not in residence, which is all of the year except a month in the spring and another in the fall. Jack had taken the extra step of installing a solar powered bear fence six feet out from and completely surrounding the house. <br />
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We had replaced the stove with two propane burners and got along with a funky stove top oven for ten years until 2008 when I purchased a Coleman propane camping oven with warnings that it not be used inside. It was installed along with a camping stove in the plastic and screen covered Summer House which has lots of ventilation but allows for monitoring cooking and baking inside and away from mosquitoes.<br />
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<span id="goog_659232584"></span><span id="goog_659232585"></span>The Summer House is located on the river bank some 50 yards from the house. It has plastic or screen windows on its west and north corners allowing a view of the river and the bluffs across the river as well as the forks upstream where the Little Tozi joins Dagislahkna Creek for its 60-70 mile meander to empty into the Yukon River. Last summer Jack had put in a screened window on the south side to allow for a cross breeze to avoid baking ourselves when the sun hangs low over the bluffs to the west and heats the Summer House to temps that make it ideal for taking showers even in early spring and early autumn if we drop the plastic window coverings over the screens.<br />
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A few days earlier I had mentioned once again my concern that the east wall had no window. “What if there’s a bear between us out here and the house?” I asked Jack. “Don’t you think we should have one of the rifles out here? You’ve got that Weatherby 300. Couldn’t we put that out here? You’d still have the 45-70 in the house.” <br />
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“If that’d make you happy, bring it out,” he said. So I’d brought it out and Jack hung it on a peg on the east wall; and there it hung on the evening of the 30th when Jack dutifully supervised the baking of four biscuits in the Coleman oven while nursing a beer and reading his book as he lounged in his chair on the bank of our slough inside the Summer House. He and I checked back and forth with each other on hand held radios.<br />
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“Keebler Kookie,” he radioed, “how’s the rest of the stuff doing? The biscuits are just getting a little brown on top.”<br />
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“Everything else can be ready when they are,” I answered. “Just bring them in when you think they’re done.” I’d just turned the burner off under the sliced chicken and gravy when I wondered if Jack had pot holders with which to carry the small aluminum sheet on which I’d placed our four biscuits. “Big Beaver,” I called on my radio, “Do you have something you can use for potholders?” Getting no response I thought he must already be on his way into the house with his hands full. <br />
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I headed for the stairs and looked out the workshop window through which I would expect to see him approach as I descended the stairs into the addition. Not seeing him out that window, I called again on my radio, “Do you have potholders?” Still getting no answer I crossed to the door on the other end of the wall of the addition that faces the Summer House, but from which it is no longer possible to see much of the Summer House because of the wood shelter. Looking out the window of the door, I was able to see Jack standing at the southwest corner of the Summer House with the 300 Weatherby in one hand and his radio in the other. <br />
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As I opened the door I heard him say, “Damn, I was on channel 18. She didn’t hear a thing I said about the bear!” I called to him from the door asking what’s going on. “Did you see the bear?” he asked.<br />
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“What bear? Where?”<br />
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“Never mind, I’m coming in. I’ll explain it to you when I get there.” Back on Channel 17 on his radio, he said, “Damn, I lost a biscuit outside.” Then Jack’s voice came over my radio, “Wait, no, here it is on the floor. I was sure I dropped it outside. It’s just a little stepped on.”<br />
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I waited at the door and watched him traverse the path from the Summer House with the sheet of biscuits in one hand and a glass of beer in the other. As I held the door for him I could sense an adrenaline rush. “Are you okay? What’s this about a bear?” <br />
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“I need to sit down,” he said as he placed the sheet of biscuits on the table next to his plate and headed with his beer to his recliner. I noticed one biscuit half crushed. I picked up one of the undamaged biscuits and dropped it onto my plate. <br />
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“Those are yours,” I said as I gestured toward the damaged biscuit and the remaining good ones.<br />
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At first, when we’d sat down at the table to eat he looked down at the plate on which he’d smothered his biscuits with chicken slices and creamy rich gravy. He said, “I can’t eat all that.”<br />
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“Oh, you probably can,” I said. “When you’re flooded, your digestive system shuts down. As a matter of fact, all the systems do except the ones needed for fight or flight -- like, blood rushes to your arms and legs and your heart rate goes up.”<br />
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“I guess that’s right,” he said. “I sure didn’t feel like pooping.” Throughout our meal, bits and pieces of Jack’s most recent encounter with a bear came out. By the time we were ready to leave the table, his plate was clean. We moved into the living room where I pulled out my computer and got ready to take dictation.<br />
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“Okay,” I said, “now let’s hear it from start to finish.”<br />
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<i>As I was walking toward the house I thought “I could have called Karen on the radio,” -- but oh well, she was expecting me. With both hands full and the biscuits balanced on a flat aluminum sheet I was . . . concentrating pretty steadily on the balanced biscuits. . . . I came around the end of the wood pile, still concentrating on my biscuits. <br />
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. . . [V}ery suddenly my vision was filled with a big pile of jiggling wiggling fur. I could see feet up in the air, couldn’t really see the head, but at some point, realized it was a bear on its back, feet up in the air, wriggling and scratching right in front of the house door. At that point we were probably [ten to twelve] feet apart. <br />
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[My] thought process was pretty garbled, but I did an immediate 180. My first thought was, “‘With all that jiggling, I don’t think he’s seen me.” I’m sure a bystander watching would have been very amused as I was digesting the information my eyes had sent to my brain -- I guess the limbic system is what turned me around. Then the frontal part [of my brain] tried to assess what was happening and what should happen in the future. <br />
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. . . [I]n that process came the memory of Karen bringing the 300 Weatherby rifle out to the Summer House [a few days ago] after saying, “Well what if we went out of here and there was a bear between us and the house?” I thought it was a little overblown at the time, but discretion being the better part of valor, I supported the idea of leaving the loaded rifle hanging on the wall of the Summer House. <br />
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I’m also trying not to spill the goddam biscuits. I’m heading back to the Summer House and the rifle at top speed while trying to balance 4 biscuits on a slippery plate and carrying a beer in the other hand. I felt like a waiter trying to balance fifteen glasses of champagne on a tray. A very brief thought flitted across my mind -- “you’re carrying food that would smell good to a bear.” That thought didn’t go far. <br />
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I rounded the Summer House corner [and] popped the door open. One of the biscuits hit the floor. The other three and the beer I set safely down on a table by the door -- [I] couldn’t imagine messing up Karen’s biscuits. The rifle [was] hanging exactly where it was supposed to. I cranked a shell into the chamber. [F]or the previous 10 feet I [had been] trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do next. <br />
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[I] grabbed the radio and said, “Karen this is really important. There is a grizzly bear right outside the door. Don’t go outside. I’m in the Summer House and I’ve got the 300. Stay inside.” I put the radio back in my pocket and went out the door and turned left. <br />
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I figured I’d get the best view of the front of the house from that direction. As I looked around the corner, I saw the bear come running from behind the wood pile. I raised the rifle, but [then] realized it was running out of the yard along the four wheeler trail. I never did want to shoot it. But I didn’t know if I might have to. I waited until the bear was on the trail headed for the airstrip before I yelled, “Get! Get outta here! Get the fuck out of here!” as I grew braver. <br />
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I took the radio out of my pocket and said, “Karen, did you see that bear?” As I looked down at the radio, I saw it was on channel 18, not 17. So, she hadn’t gotten my earlier message. <br />
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I switched to 17 and repeated, “Did you see the bear?” She said, “No I didn’t hear anything. What happened?” <br />
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I said “I’ll be in the house and explain it then.” </i><br />
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As Jack finished up his account, I realized I’d missed seeing a grizzly bear enjoying a nice scratch no more than six feet from where I stood at the door seconds after its departure. Since the bear was heading south by the time Jack came out of the Summer House, we tried to figure what would have roused it from its relaxing dirt bath between the wood shelter and the bear fence. It could have been the sound of Jack throwing the bolt of the 300. Another possibility was the sound of my voice as I descended the stairs into the addition asking Jack if he had potholders.<br />
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Jack thought this bear looked very much like the grizzly that visited us on the slough in front of the Summer House 6 September 2009 -- only a little bigger. We’ve had other indications that our yard has been used as a spa over the past couple of years by one or another bear or bears.<br />
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A tree alongside the four-wheeler trail into the yard bears evidence of its use as a scratching post -- both for the bear-back and the bear claws.<br />
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There’s a considerable hole dug out behind the cache where we used to store a leaking barrel of lamp oil. Jack’s surmise is that it’s the beginning excavation for a bear swimming pool. <br />
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A few yards in front of the cache there’s a 6-8 foot diameter bare spot on the ground that Jack thought when we found it in the spring of 2011 was either a moose piss hole or a rolling, scratching and dirt-bathing spot. It was similar to the one left by our most recent spa guest on 30 May 2012 which is shown below between the wood pile on the left and the opening of the solar-powered bear fence on the right. That fence is about six feet from the house. Jack's position when he first encountered the "wriggling jiggling" furry thing smoothing out the trail in front of the house was at the far corner of the wood pile.<br />
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A couple of days after the bear's visit, we went down the trail along which it had departed and onto the gravel bar where Jack found and photographed its tracks. The object in the photographed tracks is a 45-70 rifle shell.<br />
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Karen learned from her cousin, Brian Wuollet, that his mom, Aunt Dee, planned to visit grandchildren in Tucson and Surprise, AZ Christmas week. We enjoyed meeting the Surprise descendants and going out to lunch at a French restaurant with Aunt Dee on 28 December. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"> New Year's Day brought our resident Costa's hummingbird almost close enough to reach out and touch. It also brought Karen's cousin Patty and husband Dave along with Aunt Lovie to dinner at our condo. Karen's latest after-dinner discovery -- Choco Vine with raspberry -- was served with coffee and ice cream for dessert. YUM!</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4KvQXFtExF4/TS1CHLMZqhI/AAAAAAAAIfw/eagD-Ocj0Hg/s1600/P1010088.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4KvQXFtExF4/TS1CHLMZqhI/AAAAAAAAIfw/eagD-Ocj0Hg/s320/P1010088.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="color: black;"> One of our favorite places to visit was a community park in Surprise that has a dog park, a playground with swings and a lake with ducks and geese you can feed. As in Ari's Albuquerque neighborhood, we can go to a "swing park" or one without swings, "the slide park." </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yLqpCG_U3H0/TTNpOGCZzoI/AAAAAAAAJDA/0w1TA_rBgJ8/s1600/P1010357.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yLqpCG_U3H0/TTNpOGCZzoI/AAAAAAAAJDA/0w1TA_rBgJ8/s320/P1010357.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kbvcbX8K484/TTNumDXc4tI/AAAAAAAAJGc/BeP3-ad4lSM/s1600/P1010371.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kbvcbX8K484/TTNumDXc4tI/AAAAAAAAJGc/BeP3-ad4lSM/s200/P1010371.jpg" width="195" /></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> A</span><span style="font-size: small;"> day after Jack's departure, Karen drove to Carefree to join Wuollet cousins Jim, Mim and Dan and their spouses Darlene, Bob, and Marilee for lunch. After lunch Jim brought out his computer and we looked at some of the photos Jim has collected of our parents and grandparents. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2lhoHs14KZU/TYNdP4GzfMI/AAAAAAAALMQ/RrS_DwLEfM4/s1600/P1010832.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2lhoHs14KZU/TYNdP4GzfMI/AAAAAAAALMQ/RrS_DwLEfM4/s320/P1010832.JPG" width="246" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"> A big event in March was Ari's Spring Break. Actually, it was Spring Break for her mom at UNM where she is an assistant professor in the economics department. Maybe the students had a break, but professors had work to do. So, Robin and Meg drove over on 11 March so Ari could keep Grandma company camping out in a condo with no kitchen. We cooked either in the microwave in the hallway or on the burner of the grill on the patio. 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Then Grandma and Ari spent a fun-filled week of activities like going to the swing park, visiting the Phoenix Zoo's children's zoo, spending a morning with Grandma's college friend, Deanne at Corta Bella's swimming pool and getting to ride in Deanne's golf car.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PLQtPL_5Lrk/TaMpH5OYAzI/AAAAAAAALUo/CgsjQ4H49aE/s1600/P1010926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PLQtPL_5Lrk/TaMpH5OYAzI/AAAAAAAALUo/CgsjQ4H49aE/s200/P1010926.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5a6TC3qZImg/TaI07WX25aI/AAAAAAAALJI/OZ_nZ9I6zlE/s1600/P1010946.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5a6TC3qZImg/TaI07WX25aI/AAAAAAAALJI/OZ_nZ9I6zlE/s200/P1010946.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fI5Cte3joWY/TaI1LdZEXwI/AAAAAAAALJY/b0COEayuKIE/s1600/P1010949.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fI5Cte3joWY/TaI1LdZEXwI/AAAAAAAALJY/b0COEayuKIE/s200/P1010949.jpg" width="150" /></a> On Ari's last day with Grandma, we went to say good-bye to Aunt Lovie who was sad to see her go. 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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">. . . 3 to 4 feet of snow had slid off the roof to block the door. The water cans left partly filled beside the door were frozen solidly in the melt/freeze ice below the snow. The river, however, had broken up and flowed freely across the gravel bar and into the slough in front of the property.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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On Monday, the 26th, Ari, Robin and Grandma went for a walk in the neighborhood. Then we met Gordon and Sara, passing through Fairbanks enroute home to Juneau from Stampede, for lunch at the Thai house. Robin went from there to collaborate with a colleague at UAF while Grandpa and Grandma got to spend the rest of the day with Ari.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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On Tuesday, the 27th, Ari and Grandma went to the story time at Noel Wien Library to hear stories about crocodiles and do a crocodile-related craft. Robin has said he'd like to see Ari participate in one of those marshmallow tests to see how well "deferred gratification" is developed in 4-year-olds. Well, Grandma is here to say Ari would pass with flying colors. To make the crocodile, the kids glued tiny marshmallows to the cardboard crocodile gums by first licking the marshmallow. Ari did this with about 50 marshmallows and never ate a one. She was proud to take her creation back to show Grandpa.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"One marshmallow, two marshmallows . . ."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hmm. I might just sit here with Grandpa."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Would you like a book?"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Maybe this frog will play."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Even better! Frog has cookies inside."</td></tr>
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Grandma thought there was another story time at the library on Thursday, but when we got there, we learned it had been on Wednesday. Our neighbor Sue is one of the children's librarians. She gave us the lecture she gives to school kids explaining the Bill Berry mural. Ari probably wasn't too impressed when I told her that Grandpa had known Bill Berry and even posed for the students of one of his drawing classes. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"> She agreed that ice cream at Hot Licks would be suitable compensation for missing story time. Then we went home to another session of candy making with Grandpa. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Much of early November was spent getting the condo ready for Thanksgiving. Robin, Meg and Ari planned to join us and Aunt Lovie for Thanksgiving dinner which we agreed to have on Wednesday, the 23rd, so as to have Thursday to relax and eat leftovers before Robin and Meg departed early on Friday the 25th.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"> When Grandma and Ari went to Arrowhead Mall last March, Ari saw kids running into the fountains. She wanted to do that this trip, so we took her in her bathing suit. Once there she was reluctant, so Jack and she ran around the outside of the fountains. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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Don and Carolyn are friends from Fairbanks. Don was one of Robin's encouraging high school teachers They met Ari at 18 months when she visited Alaska with Robin and Meg. It's fun to share experiences with other grandparents who have twin grandsons about the same age as Ari.<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dear Friends and Family,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Here it is Christmas Eve Day and I'm about half way through the 2011 year in review on this blog. Maybe I'll finish it and pass on the link for those who may wish to follow the Keebler/Beaver* Adventures in greater detail. In the meantime Jack and I surely want to wish you and yours our best this holiday season and to reciprocate all the greetings we have received via email and snail mail of late.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
I'm not sure how long we'll be able to keep up this living from November through March in mostly sunny Arizona, April in Fairbanks, May on the Tozi, June through mid-August back in Fairbanks, mid-August through mid-September on the Tozi and another six weeks in Fairbanks before flying south once again. I'm behind on almost everything but cooking, cleaning and packing! Nonetheless, we are grateful for the health and the means to be living this nomadic life for the present.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> In June we celebrated 45 years of bliss -- 15 of it wedded. In October we completed our 40th year as Alaskans. Our lives have been blessed with the company of friends and family on adventures so numerous I can't seem to finish that yearly update. But the highlights were the times with granddaughter Ari who turned 3 in April both in Arizona and Alaska. Her daddy's professional travel as a theoretical physicist working at Los Alamos National Labs and her mommy's work as a first year assistant professor in economics at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque have provided us with several full weeks of grandparenting pleasure. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Each of us had a chance to care for her in Albuquerque where we've walked her to school, met some of her friends and enjoyed re-living many of the experiences we had raising her daddy. We can surely wait until she decides her peers are more interesting than her grandparents!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> There've been some downturns this past year, but they've largely resolved themselves. We spent our spring month on the Tozi unable to travel the river or enjoy pike fishing (At least Jack enjoys the fishing; Karen limits her enjoyment to eating Jack's famous fried pike!) because our brand new 250 lb. boat motor refused to start. It took the first half of our fall trip for Jack to figure out the problem and get the boat in the water. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Jack's energy level in the fall was improved due to the outcome of another downturn, which was his being diagnosed with the need for a stent in one artery. That procedure in late August put off and shortened our time on the Tozi, but it was still a wonderful three and a half week respite from the demands and cares of civilization. We had no visitors and saw no wildlife larger than a squirrel or a pike. It was wonderful to share our Tozi home with just each other.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The big downturn story of the year occured 6 April when Robin took a 17 ft. fall from a climbing wall in an Albuquerque gym. We are eternally grateful for his good sense in not falling on his head! Instead he landed on his right foot resulting in a compound fracture above the ankle. That put him out of commission for the summer and kept him and Ari from making a planned three week trip to Alaska in May-June. We're glad to report that he's back on his feet and probably looking forward to a job-change that will relieve him of the 200 mile-a-day commute to Los Alamos for work. We were also happy that he and Ari were able to visit us in Alaska for six days at the end of September.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> We next saw them in Ari-zona for Thanksgiving after which Meg flew home to finish out the semester and Robin flew off on a three week professional gig in Singapore, Zurich and Montreal. We had Ari for nearly two weeks before driving her back home to Albuquerque. We stayed there with her and Meg until Sunday 11 December when the four of us attended <i>The Nutcracker</i> and Ari announced her desire to learn ballet. She's been doing gymnastics for the past year and a little bit of dance at school, so she'll have some preparation. She also got comfortable in the water and started dog-paddling in our Sun City rec center pools during her stay with us. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Robin, Meg and Ari have spent a well-deserved vacation together up through Christmas at a Florida beach. We anticipate dinner and a movie with friends Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner at Aunt Lovie's.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> We look forward to more adventures with friends and family in 2012. And I look forward to finishing the 2011 Year in Review for this blog. When I do, you'll get a link so, if you shared adventures with us during 2011 you can check to see if photos of you made the cut! We have guest rooms in Alaska and Arizona and do enjoy company. For those who may not have our contact info:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b> April - October</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">144 Sunrise Drive</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Fairbanks, AK 99712<br />
907-457-3579</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b> November - March</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">13814 N. Newcastle Dr.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Sun City, AZ 85351</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">623-977-9822</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Email Addresses</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">karen@tozikaket.com</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">jack@tozikaket.com</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> Jack's Southeast Asia tour precluded his receiving from Robin the "offer that couldn't be refused" that went to Karen in mid-March. After extensive job searches by Robin and Meg, they accepted positions in New Mexico -- Robin at Los Alamos National Labs where he'd done his physics Ph.D research and Meg at University of New Mexico on the economics faculty. They planned a house-hunting trip to Albuquerque in April. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Could Karen join them to help with Ari for that week? Indeed she could, but she needed to return to Alaska as scheduled for equinox, hair appointment and March book group meeting. Robin got a mileage ticket for her to return to AZ, drive to Albuquerque for a week in April and then return to AZ to fly home.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The young Worleys drove Karen to the airport in Fairbanks for her return to AZ at the end of March. Meanwhile Jack languished in the heat of Thailand and Cambodia.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-large;">April<span style="font-size: large;"> brought Karen's and Butter's much anticipated drive on Ea</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">ster Sunday to Albuquerque where they delivered goodies left at Grandma's house in Sun City since Ari would be flying with her parents to New Mexico. For the next week Grandma, Butter and Ari visited parks near their rented house in historic Albuquerque while Robin and Meg house-hunted. They found a house and we visited a nearby Montessori School where Ari would subsequently be enrolled.</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TP2CPY75mCI/AAAAAAAAHmo/ITXWbTepeP4/s1600/Happy+Jack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TP2CPY75mCI/AAAAAAAAHmo/ITXWbTepeP4/s200/Happy+Jack.jpg" width="200" /></a> <span style="font-size: large;">Karen drove back to Arizona to catch a flight home to Fairbanks in time to pick Jack up from the airport after he spent a couple of days with the Worleys in California en route home from Bangkok via Seoul. He got to see Jay's pride and joy, "QE II." Photos at left were shared by Jay in upper photo. That's Pam, Jay's "Silver Fox" in lower photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in Fairbanks, we tried to "hit the ground running" so we could get out to the Tozi for 3-4 weeks before the mosquitoes got too thick. We had things to do and people to see before our 10 May departure for the Tozi. Among those things was walking and greeting the sandhill cranes back at Creamer's Field, Fairbanks' wildlife refuge that hosts the returning birds and waterfowl while they await "Break-up" further north on the rivers, lakes and tundra where they breed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">May</span> - Break-up had occurred on the Tozi by the time we arrived 10 May, but we were able to observe greening with photos from the outhouse as shown in photos to the right and below right. Photos below were taken from the bank in front of the Summer House. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">June and July </span>found us catching up on our Fairbanks social life and enjoying a continuation of the wonderfully and unseasonably warm summer weather we'd experienced on the Tozi all throughout May -- temps in the 70s and 80s! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We celebrated our 14th/44th funniversary 13 June with the traditional spaghetti dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We enjoyed getting re-acquainted with Pam and Jay's 6-month old grandson shown here with his mom, Erin Juliet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had to stop at McGrath and Farmer's Loop intersection one evening to watch a pair of moose feeding on the lush summer greenery alongside the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We celebrated Father's Day with brunch at Pikes, a more rare treat now that we've both retired and are trying to live more within our means.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Jay and Pam returned from their winter and spring in California and we celebrated their anniversary. </span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Karen went blueberry picking at a really good spot with friend, Barb. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Karen's Bridge group met on Tuesdays whenever possible. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last two weeks of July Karen attended the Creative Writing class at Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival while Jack prepared for his very own "offer he couldn't refuse" -- three weeks helping Robin and Meg move into their new house in Albuquerque and helping Meg with Ari while she recovered from surgery performed three weeks before the move from Waterloo, Ontario to New Mexico. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We finally got our friends and house-sitters from two years ago, Deanna and Trevor, over for dinner in late July. The nice thing about having house sitters is that when you invite them over for dinner, they can fix dessert without having to ask you where anything is. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Before Jack took off for Albuquerque, we had a surprise visit from his best man, Billy, and family who brought fresh caught salmon, crab and scallops up with them from Kenai. Jack prepared an awesome seafood dinner. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also had a chance to go to dinner at the Thai House with friends, Gordon and Sarah, friends from our earliest days in Fairbanks who've lived in Juneau for many years. They came to Fairbanks for Sarah's high school reunion.<br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">. . . a few days before Jack returned, Karen had lunch with friends from her working days, Joyce and Elaine, and shared her famous (infamous?) chocolate-dipped strawberries with Deanna who stayed with Butter and house-sat while Karen was in Minnesota.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"> Meanwhile, Jack seems to have spent the entire time he was in Albuquerque with his camera glued to his face as he followed our awesome Ari around in her new environs. Believe me, these are only a few select photos. (It didn't hurt that Ari's daddy's hobby is photography and Ari is so used to being photographed!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another specialty of Jack's </span><span style="font-size: large;">is his jalapeno cheese dip invented by him when Safeway quit carrying the Kenai dip we'd become so fond of. It's quite a project involving roasting of the peppers and then an operation that requires gloves and mask. As long as he's willing to do it, Karen and our friends are more than willing to enjoy the dip! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent much of October preparing to depart for Arizona. Among those preparations, we enjoyed getting to know our house sitters, Steven and Janet. They are moving to Alaska from Colorado to be near their granddaughter and building a house, which operation can't be resumed until spring.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Karen took Seth to the airport on Saturday and returned to Sky Harbor on Sunday to pick up Aunt Lovie accompanied by her daughter-in-law, Colleen. We joined them for dinner at Aunt Lovie's one evening before Colleen left for a conference in Phoenix and home to Minnesota. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'd received another "offer we couldn't refuse" from Robin and Meg. So, a week after we arrived, we drove over to Albuquerque to fetch Ari for a week with us in "ARI-zona" while Robin went to Japan and Meg spent long hours working on her research in between nightly video chats with Ari at our condo in Sun City. Ari proved to be a great traveler and adapted easily to life at Grandma and Grandpa's in "her-zona."</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TQgwmEaxePI/AAAAAAAAH8o/DVeURLhNKUo/s1600/HPIM9043.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TQgwmEaxePI/AAAAAAAAH8o/DVeURLhNKUo/s320/HPIM9043.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thanksgiving morning we woke up to snow. While Robin, Meg and Jack tended to the dinner, Ari found Grandma reading on her bed and proposed, "Let's read together." She got her book and Grandma hollered for Grandpa and Robin to bring their cameras.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Before dinner we visited a nearby park with a dog park where Butter could run and a playground where Ari and Grandma could play.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We stayed to give Robin and Meg a chance to take in dinner and a movie out and drove back on Saturday to Sun City where there were cookies to bake, gifts to buy, wrap and mail, and a condo to settle back into. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We plan a quiet holiday with Aunt Lovie, friends and neighbors in Sun City. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The kids will spend the holidays in Connecticut with Meg's sister and family while we rest up in preparation for our next visit from Ari. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In January Ari's daddy will fly to Arizona with her en route to business trips in Singapore and Sydney and pick her up on his way back home. Meg will be getting started teaching at UNM after a semester of research. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Tozikarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14288938912699147447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941775798407970391.post-54373315603555379032010-10-03T12:18:00.000-07:002010-10-04T11:34:13.927-07:00Rice Wars<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TBLN6YV8JWI/AAAAAAAAF8A/EQdesIf7lgY/s1600/P1010451.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The following piece was inspired by my cache-cleaning activities on the Tozi and written there in September, 2010. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">I read it at the Fairbanks Arts Association Literary Program 10/2/2010 event featuring members of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival creative writing class.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Writing in the Summer House on the Banks of the Tozi</td></tr>
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I am picking rice. No, I am not doing whatever is done in a rice paddy in Southeast Asia or from a canoe in Northern Minnesota. Is that called gleaning, maybe harvesting? I am sitting twelve feet above the ground in the doorway of our cache with a view of the Tozitna river. I’m picking, plucking maybe, slightly sticky grains of uncooked brown rice from within the folds of a roll of blue and green plaid wool fabric. It’s a scrap from a project I can’t recall. Maybe it's one my mother sent me back in the days when we lived here full time on the Tozi and I would sew clothes on my treadle sewing machine for my infant and toddler son as he grew up here.<br />
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</tbody></table> The roll of wool, neatly pinned, is one I’m trying, for reasons unclear to me except to avoid unnecessary waste, to salvage. It is one of many less salvageable items -- hats, mittens, scarves, socks, long johns, shirts, pants, sweaters, parkas, fabric, yarn, Robin’s school papers, etc. -- stored years ago in our cache for lack of any of the more convenient means of getting rid of things a family can no longer use.<br />
Here, at our place on the Tozitna River in bush Alaska, there is no trash pick-up nor thrift store. Nor are there even less well off neighbors who might need a T-shirt I’ve outgrown or felt boot liners no longer needed by people who go south with the birds in winter. <br />
We fly in and out by charter aircraft from Fairbanks for a month in the spring and another in the fall. Weight is critical. We must have needed these items when we hauled them in at a dollar a pound, but we surely can’t afford to haul them out now. We were reluctant to burn them. You never know when your home in the woods may burn down or a visitor may forget to bring long johns.<br />
But for the past several days, after years of poor cache security, I have been making my way with whisk broom and dust pan in gloved hands through piles of detritus left by squirrels and voles, and even a marten one winter, nesting among our poorly protected belongings now shredded and stuck together with stuff the origin of which one would rather not think too much about. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKjUDm0jgNI/AAAAAAAAGfQ/AAT5jOk5ImU/s1600/P1030464.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKjUDm0jgNI/AAAAAAAAGfQ/AAT5jOk5ImU/s200/P1030464.JPG" width="200" /></a></div> There were years when paper boxes and plastic bags of food were not stored in metal cans or hard plastic totes. Once we no longer lived here year round, we were slow to learn, but eventually did realize it is not enough to store foodstuffs 12 feet off the ground in a cache you are not visiting daily. One can only imagine for so long the daily life of a squirrel set loose to mingle macaroni, dried mushrooms, beans, yarn and tampons with spruce cone-scales and seed-wings, shredded fabric, paper, and plastic and rice . . . <br />
Oh yes, I was talking about rice. I am picking or plucking grains of rice from this roll of wool and am reminded of Robin’s “rice game.” At two and three he loved to experiment with the properties of water, pouring it from one container to another and sometimes outside of the container. Water, when you pump it by hand from a well or haul it from the river, is too precious a commodity for a parent to tolerate such experiments for long.<br />
We read in a book of activities for pre-schoolers about “the rice game.” I enthusiastically dyed quantities of rice with food coloring -- pink rice, green rice, lemon yellow and blue rice. Robin helped me place each color in its own plastic container. I provided him with a variety of measuring spoons and cups along with other containers of different sizes. He was equally enthusiastic. We found him a large metal tray to catch stray grains of rice that, unlike water, could be easily recovered and re-used.<br />
Even in those early days of our life here, we were starting to go South for a couple of months in the winter -- Mexico, Belize and the Pacific Coast of the US. We were more careful securing food in the house than in the cache. Entry to the house was less accessible to larger rodents like squirrels, but not to voles. We expected voles in the house. Food was left in metal containers, cans or cabinets. <br />
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</tbody></table> For years after the winter we failed to view “the rice game,” stored in Robin’s play area, from the perspective of a rodent, we’d find stashes of pink rice in a slipper, green rice under a sofa cushion, blue rice in the center of a roll of toilet paper. The importance of taking a vole’s point of view was made most clear to me that spring when I had to clear pink, blue, green and yellow grains of rice from the oiled parts of my treadle sewing machine before I could sew.<br />
This fall I tackle the cache with dustpan and broom. I pluck rice grains from salvageable fabric and yarn. Then we will make one further attempt to thwart the entry of creatures into the cache by screening the spaces between the floor boards. But I am seeing that these are just battles in which we struggle and strategize to hold back the forces of Entropy, however meek they may appear. “The meek shall inherit the earth.” We will not win the war. <br />
Tozikarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14288938912699147447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5941775798407970391.post-22059633157800665762010-10-01T10:45:00.000-07:002010-10-04T11:36:47.655-07:00August-September 2010 Tozi Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKDP9Rnzp0I/AAAAAAAAGYM/qZOZV6jBgtw/s1600/P1010829.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKDP9Rnzp0I/AAAAAAAAGYM/qZOZV6jBgtw/s320/P1010829.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"> Our Tozi time this fall began with two beautiful days and my birthday to boot! “View from the Outhouse” No. 1, taken <b>26 August</b>, shows that autumn on the Tozitna River was late this year. Flying northwest out of Fairbanks, we expected to see lots more yellow foliage. The view from the throne here is still mostly green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKOMio8umoI/AAAAAAAAGcE/7em8pwyYNHU/s1600/P1010884.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br />
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It came out on the 11 August flight that picked them up after several days of breaking up the BLM fish-counting project camp that has operated each summer from 2001 just up river from our Tozi home.<br />
The motor weighs 250 lbs and we are extremely grateful to the three of them for hauling it over, putting it on the boat and covering it and its accompanying parts package with a tarp.<br />
We didn’t check out the motor until late in the afternoon <b>1 September</b>. Jack had been nursing some back pain for over a week. Taking it easy for four days after settling in had helped. In the photo at right Jack considers what he’s gotten himself into with this new motor. <br />
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I had been up around 6 A. M. that day and, on going out to the bank overlooking our slough and the forks where the Little Tozi marries Daglislahkna Creek, found a picturesque mist clinging to the bluffs beyond the mouth of Dag (left). The downriver view (below right) was equally awesome.<br />
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The “View from the Outhouse” No. 2 (below) taken on <b>5 September</b> is a bit more autumnal, but we’d still had only one overnight temperature below freezing -- like 31 degrees F.<br />
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We spent several days between <b>1 and 5 September</b> getting the boat motor hooked up and positioned on the boat with the help of about 150 lbs of rocks on the bow of the boat added to my weight on the tongue of the trailer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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We took our Labor Day holiday a day late on the 7th when we awoke to rain. Jack’s back was improving. But I’d injured mine in a fall down the half-stairwell from the main part of the house into the workshop-addition the evening of the 4th. I was rushing to turn off our solar powered electricity so we could tune in Trapline Chatter on the battery-operated radio for messages.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKOrb6WYGYI/AAAAAAAAGeo/xIxndUhy4vc/s1600/P1010855.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKOrb6WYGYI/AAAAAAAAGeo/xIxndUhy4vc/s400/P1010855.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> Grateful I didn’t fracture a hip, I took a break from bending and lifting. My photographic highlight of the day occurred when I spotted a dancing dervish leaf suspended on a spider web from my seat in the outhouse. A still photo is at right. I made a movie of it backed up with Leon Fleisher’s piano version of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” that I'll try to post on Facebook when I learn how to do that. A day of rest and recovery had its meditative merits. <br />
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For Jack’s fried pike fillet recipe -- yes, he removes the pesky Y-bone -- we prefer fish weighing 4 -5 pounds so inside and outside of the pieces are done evenly. Still, this was our first pike feast in nearly a year, thanks to our new motor, and we won’t complain! YUM!<br />
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<b>9 September</b> - In “View from the Outhouse” No. 3, it is getting to look a lot like Autumn. We had the most sunshine we’d had since our two beautiful first days here, and we took good advantage of it. Each of us got a few little chores done inside and outside the house. I took a lovely nap. Then we spent a warm sunny evening in the Summer House playing gin rummy and watching the Tozi flow by. We had some help with that from a fledgling eagle trying out its wings.<br />
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A couple of mornings later, thinking we’d have rice cakes again, I picked up the bowl, removed the lid and let out one of those “Eeek! A MOUSE” screams we ladies are supposed to perfect in childhood! Personally, I think voles are way cuter than mice and have even had them as pets when Robin was young, but these days I prefer them outside. So, this was one of those “out of context” screams.<br />
Anyway, Jack had seen a vole in the kitchen a few nights ago and decided to set a trap. We happened to have rice cakes that morning and had some batter left over. Remembering the incident of last May, I poured the batter into a container with a cover and refrigerated it. Then I thought, “I’ll put a little water in this bowl, scrape the batter still clinging to the inside of the bowl down into the water, put on the lid with the missing spout cover and catch that vole. As I placed the bowl on the floor a few inches from Jack’s conventional peanut butter-baited mouse trap, I challenged him to a vole patrol duel.<br />
This Thursday morning, Jack’s trap remained empty and my bowl looked like the one in the photo except the “batter” was more watery. I hope I can convince Tupperware to start making those bowls again so we can split the profits on “The Vole Bowl.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKMzNkOKYTI/AAAAAAAAGaE/JKrmSc5bgoE/s1600/HPIM8492.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9guofgm8khU/TKMzNkOKYTI/AAAAAAAAGaE/JKrmSc5bgoE/s320/HPIM8492.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><b>11 September </b>- Nine years ago today, Jack was on the Tozi hosting two hunters from “Outside,” friends of our friend and occasional pilot, Charlie McMahon. It was a stunning day with nary a cloud in the sky. They’d seen a small plane flying north turn abruptly overhead and head back south in the direction of the village of Tanana early in the day and then noticed no more planes for the rest of the day. <br />
That evening Jack was puzzled by a reference made in my Trapline Chatter message that I may have returned to Fairbanks from Bethel on the “last flight” into FAI International the night before. But they caught the news the next day and learned “September 11” had happened and that their expected flight with Charlie on the 13th might not happen -- not until planes were allowed back in the air.<br />
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We spent the next couple of hours wending our way up the meandering creek. We made it well past Moose Slaughter Slough before encountering another narrow, shallow riffle and turning back. <br />
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As the bow swung down river, Jack fired up the motor and we were off down the Tozi to explore a bit more before returning home to enjoy the remains of our lunch with a beer in the Summer House at sunset followed by a campfire, coffee and s’mores.<br />
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<b> 13 September</b> - The tipping point of Autumn must be when the number of leaves carpeting the path and trails exceeds the number still clinging to the branches of aspen and birch. We’re almost there in this “View from the Outhouse” #4 taken by Jack.<br />
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14 - 15 September </b> - What prescience! I decided to use up some fruit that was getting soft by baking in our stove-top oven a ring of banana-pear-apple-nut bread. As I took it out of the oven around 2:30 p. m. on Tuesday the 14th I told Jack, “I hear a motor -- either a plane or a boat.” He went out to check. <br />
Our downriver neighbors who bought the Fliris home site had pulled up on the tip of the gravel bar where our slough drains into the Tozi in their hovercraft. When Dale and Cynthia Erickson walked into our yard a few minutes later with their 1 1/2 year old yellow lab, Tucker, I met them with my nut-bread ring on a plate and asked, “Coffee, tea or Crystal Lite?”<br />
We had a pleasant afternoon sweltering in the sun as we visited on the bank of the slough outside the Summer House for the next several hours. Mid-way through the visit, I brought out left-over cold fried pike and homemade tartar sauce (<i>Joy of Cooking</i>) along with ceviche and crackers. It was a fun, spontaneous break from the work we’d planned; a break for them too as they’d come up Saturday the 11th from Tanana where they’d left their oldest daughter minding the store and Dale’s brother-in-law in charge of their fuel operation, to take advantage of the unusually temperate weather to get some work done on their cabin and property.<br />
I guess we were so busy enjoying company that we forgot to photograph that event. That’s too bad because Cynthia, always vivacious and animated as she tells stories of growing up in the village, was especially pretty in the sun. But we’d have another chance on Wednesday, the 15th, as Jack arranged to go pike fishing with them and bring them back here for lessons in removing the Y-bone from a Northern Pike and in his special recipe for preparing it. <br />
Jack didn’t get any photos of Cynthia catching the exact size of pike desired to add to a smaller one Dale caught. But I caught them on camera when Butter and I met them at the boat on their return. <br />
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Butter, normally a people dog, enjoyed having a canine companion with whom to explore and romp on the gravel bars. By the time we got around to cooking and eating, however, Tucker and Butter felt left out and let those of us inside with the food know about it!<br />
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It's not just about the fishing and the filleting. There's a method to Jack's pike "madness" when it comes to the breading and the frying as well. Cynthia and Dale were an eager participants/observers in all the stages from catching the fish to the filleting to the breading and to the eating!<br />
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<b>18 September </b> - Jack’s birthday. Turning 70 last year was a novel idea, but one more year may have been anti-climactic. The weather joined in the celebration, however, with the 7th straight day of unseasonal warmth and lots of clear blue sky and sun. Jack hung out in the afternoon sun, while I, after baking a loaf of bread, took a walk with Butter up river through the woods and back down on the gravel bar. We saw lots of tracks from the past week -- grizzly and black bear, wolf and mink -- upstream, but none downstream from our place. Guess they were avoiding us. It’s a good thing we were not hunting this trip as we saw little sign of and no actual moose. We went 29 days sighting no earth-bound animal life, unless you count squirrels which occasionally traverse the forest floor for a minute or two at a time. <br />
On the avian front, our eagles kept watch over us from the air. Ravens and gray jays were out in force scrounging for any edibles we might leave lying around the campfire on the bank, the fish-cleaning stand or the gravel bar out front where Jack tosses pike skins, heads and innards for them. We heard our “Oscar,” the lone offspring of our resident owls, screaming in the night for dinner to be brought. One evening we even got to watch him/her doing that and trying out his/her ungainly wings. The occasional ruffed or spruce grouse flushed in front of one of us as we walked the trail to the outhouse or drove the four-wheeler through the woods. Our juncos fled along with the red-breasted mergansers we'd enjoyed seeing splashing at the mouth of Dag Creek and floating down the Tozi. The last of the sandhill cranes flew south cackling overhead the second week of September, too late for the Crane Festival at Creamer’s Field in Fairbanks. They too must have been enjoying the reprieve of Global Warming that made this fall’s Tozi trip unbelievably fine for us. We saw a kingfisher dining on the fry in our slough on the 14th.<br />
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<b>19-20 Septembe</b>r - Jack decided he needed to go fishing one more time to catch a pike he might keep alive for 4 days and then take home so we could have fried pike in town. While he motored on down to his favorite slough, I filled all our empty water jugs about 3/4 full anticipating most of them would freeze over winter and be here when we come back in May. Butter and I hiked back to the house where I found myself exhausted and needing to rest up for the rest of our plan for the day, which was to get the boat up onto the trailer and tow it to high ground where we hope the high water and ice of break-up won’t reach it. Thank goodness, Jack called me on the hand-held radio a few minutes after I’d stretched out on the couch with my feet up and told me we’d put the boat off until Monday. <br />
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We had taken advantage of the clear satellite connection on the river bank by the boat to call Seth, Kim and Robin on Sunday, the 19th. One must admit it’s a great location for a phone booth. On the 20th when Jack had spent the better part of the afternoon getting the boat ready to haul, he called me on the hand-held Cobra two-way radio and asked me to bring the SAT phone down with me when I went to help with the final stages of taking the boat out of the water so he could call grandson, Brian.<br />
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Stage 2 involved removing the rope extension and hooking up the trailer to the 4-wheeler. However, once Jack got the rig backed up to the trailer, we discovered the weight of the rocks required on the back of the 4-wheeler to get traction, precluded any meeting of the ball with it’s mate on the trailer hitch. <br />
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Jack’s solution was to chain the two together, creating a rather loose connection that required me to run alongside the bow of the boat and make sure the trailer hitch didn’t swing and jam into the tires when Jack turned or stopped the 4-wheeler. That would be Stage 3, but with me running with the trailer and Jack driving the rig, we didn’t have anyone to photograph it. <br />
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It was a huge relief to get the boat and motor taken care of! Of course, a celebration was in order. Jack grilled himself a double burger and a hot dog for me. A man with all those bruises and band-aides on his fingers deserves as big a burger as he can get his mouth around. My hot dog wasn’t worth a photo, especially with its rather flat home-made bun.<br />
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Only those who’ve visited and made a trip up the cache ladder in the past decade will full appreciate these photos taken from the cache door.<br />
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We'd worked hard for three days preparing for leaving our bush home to the whims of winter. We had the windows shuttered, the propane turned off, the bear fence activated and were at the airstrip before our charter aircraft arrived.<br />
Our departure and the drive on the 4-wheeler to the airstrip deviated a bit from the usual in that Jack pulled his 4.5 lb pike out of the slough as I filled a cooler perched on the front of the 4-wheeler with water to keep it alive if not comfy on the trip to Fairbanks. Somehow we neglected to take any photos of that or of the excitement of one of the ramp attendants in Fairbanks over the opportunity to see a live Northern Pike up close and personal. The ramp was crawling with unshaven hunters in camouflage while moose quarters on carts and racks of antlers littered the area -- and this kid ran for a roll of duct tape to replace the tape we had sealing the cooler (so our fish wouldn’t slosh water in the plane) after he opened it to see and hold up our fish. What a missed photo op!<br />
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<b> 24 September</b> - The next evening we got our camera back in gear for the sharing of our fish with Seth, our house sitter. Seth contributed moose tenderloin for pepper steak so we could have a “surf ‘n turf” welcome home dinner for us and a fitting farewell to Seth who’d be off to explore the Grand Canyon and Antarctica.<br />
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Our meal was a fitting end to a month of spectacular weather and productive joint efforts in the struggle against entropy on the Tozi. Now it’s back into the Fall Social Season of Fairbanks and preparations for a flight to Arizona 2 November.<br />
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For the curious, "Keebler/Beaver" is from our handles "Keebler Kookie" and "Big Beaver" that date back to our first use of short-distance radio devices when Karen's Parents, "One Elf" (Mom's name was Elfie) and "Two Elves" (Dad was taller) visited us on the Tozi in 1975 and stayed in one of our camps, North Peaks.<br />
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