i am learning

After living in the bush for 2 years I have learned and experienced a lot.  One thing I have always hated though is coming home from a long day of fishing and having to clean and put away fish.  I perfer to take the 30 trout or the 85 tomcod and through them in the freezer and get to them at a later date.

A few days ago a guy from the village asked to borrow Diannas sled to go caribou hunting.  He was successful and when he returned the sled he gave us a rib cage of caribou.  After a long day of school I did not want to cut it up and deal with it so I quickly through it in the freezer before Dianna would notice.  If she saw it out she would want to cut it up and put it away that night.

I learned after putting a muskox leg bone in the freezer Dianna also doesn’t like dead animals in the freezer that aren’t wrapped or bagged.  Since I didn’t have a bag large enough for the caribou I decided it would be ok on some cardboard.

This was perfect, it was put away until a later date, and it wasn’t getting her freezer all bloody…until she reached into the freezer to get something for dinner.  To her suprise there was a rib cage of caribou, that wasn’t quite frozen yet.  She didn’t seem overly pleased that I was thinking of her as I put it on top of cardboard.

bathroom remodeling

Here is what Dianna’s shower looked like.  It had a plastic bag duct taped over the holes.  The walls were rotting, and there were some pretty crazy stains in the bathtub.  She got this great idea of buying a new tub and shower walls and then when Phil comes to visit she would go to Anchorage for the week and we could remodel her bathroom.  I don’t think she realized that when Phil and I would get stuck we would start tearing out walls.  It wasn’t long before we had several walls torn out and the old bathtub was still sitting in the bathroom.

Here is the bathroom with no shower walls, and then with no walls.  I wasn’t able to get it quite finished by the time she came home and I am not sure if she was happy she wasn’t here to deal with the mess or if she was just happy her bathroom had walls again.  The bathroom project was suppose to be a suprise for her mom when she came to visit but due to Mt. Redoubt her mom’s trip was postponed until a later date.  But the bathroom is finished now, so when company comes they have a nice looking tub and shower to use.

Here it is the finished project.