Wrong day, wrong time?

I found out today I was given the wrong information and TODAY, June 21st is the Summer Solstice. Oh well!

I'm trying to write lyrics to my friend Josh's guitar playing. Wish me good luck! When I get them done I will post them :)

Have a good Solstice and I hope everyone wished there dads a happy fathers day!

Sea Otters, Sea Breezes and the Summer Solstice

Tonight, the night of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and I found myself alone on the Airplane dock in the small boat harbor from midnight till 1:20am. The ocean, which in my opinion is normally calm, provided me this evening with slow, gentle rolling waves that came and swayed the dock. Two sea otters decided I was an oddly amusing toy and would poke there heads out at me every once and awhile and breath out air fast through these nose. I found if I imitated this sound they would lift there little heads a little higher out of the water to peer at me, then duck under the dock and within seconds I would hear air whoosing out of there noses right below me. I must have checked out ok to them because eventually the more I "talked" to them the braver they got and they even began using there small curious feet to pull themselves up so that there little eyes could peek at me over the edge of the dock. After awhile of getting used to each other they even got so bold as to waddle there little bodies up the ramp that lead directly from the ocean to the dock. They left me after twenty minutes of playing for I'm sure a much more amusing toy.

I spent the next hour standing or sitting near the edge of the dock. The waves gently swayed, the sun never truly set and I sat there over looking the town of Haines with the towering snow caped mountains in the background. As odd as it may sound, I couldn't shake the feeling that this was New Years Eve. I don't know why, maybe it's because it was the summer solstice and that means the end of our long summer days and a slow turning back of time so that soon our days will consist of only 4 to 5 hours of sunlight. Or maybe it was because out there on that quite dock with a gentle sea breeze blowing, the dock swaying and sea otters playing I was able to truly think about my life right now, where it is heading and what I plan to do with it. It was peacful time of reflecting and I left there with a sense of knowing myself better.

Standing on that dock, my hair blowing in the breeze, my lungs breathing in the sea air and my eyes beholding the town I now call home I found myself saying "This, this moment, this place, these people, these times are the reasons I live and love Alaska. The reason I can not live happily any place else. This is as good as it gets and I am beyond blessed to be here right now."

Where oh where has my journal gone, oh where oh where could it be?

So I went to write in my personal journal tonight, you know deep meaningful things like why the sun rises and sets or maybe about why the sky is blue..ok just kidding, but seriously. I had just gotten done cleaning my room, which looks amazing BTW, and decided I would sit down and write a nice long entry when, alas, it has gone missing. See, my mom was wrong. She used to tell me when I was little "Clean your room or you will never find anything!" the real problem is....in a clean room I can't find anything but I can tell you the exact location of my journal when my room was dirty; on the floor, in front of my dresser under my work pants. Now though my room is dust free, as dog hair free as it will ever be and now missing a journal. The real lesson of the story today is....don't listen to your mom kids. ;)

So there is a big King Salmon feed tomorrow and I am obligated to go to it now because my boss is helping host it. It actually sounds like a a lot of fun and I'm kinda excited. In the evening the P. Bar is hosting the band Swing Set and I'm hoping to go swing dancing again! Whoot! I'm trying to be good a save my money so my goal is to not eat out and not buy any alcohol for the next month. The not eating out will be the easy part....lol!

I thought I would also share some pics of the little kittens I have been bottle feeding. They are just about the cutest things you will ever see in your entire life!

This first one is a picture of Smokey and Mark.... Look how little he is!


This one is a picture of Puma <3

Alright, this is probably the most boring blog entry I have ever made because this is the kind of rambling I write in my journal, not my blog. I blame my mother for this ;)

j/k....love you mom

Life is like a scrabble board

I've learned in the past few weeks that like a Scrabble board life can be challenging, full of fun and a little bit dirty depending on who you are playing.