Grandbaby #6

Jaimie had a babygirl on Wed., Aug. 25, 2010 at 11:51 am. She weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. and was 18.5 inches long. She has lots of brown hair, which was a surprise to all of us since they have had blonde and red in the past. The delivery went well and mom and baby are both healthy and doing fine. They will most likely come home on Thursday.

Welcome to the world Krupp baby #4!

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Explosion Explanation

One of the farmers in Rupert and his sons love to blow things up. So they invited us to go watch them blow up a water heater. That didn't go as well as they had hoped, so they showed us this video of the time they blew up a diesel tank. We thought the boys would like to see it so we had them download it onto our blog. That is why there was no explanation for awhile. Cherie, you think Jaxon's bad....these guys have it way worse. Probably shouldn't have posted this to give Jaxon anymore ideas. :-)

Explosion

Friday in AK

Dallon went for preliminary medical evaluations Friday morning. He is scheduled for more tests next week to check his hearing, shoulder, knee and do some brain scans for his TBI from when he was hit with the IED. Despite all that, he's really doing pretty good.

After that, we were all hungry. So we went to Papa Murphy's and got a Chicago Style Stuffed Crust pizza and some old fashioned Root Beer (of course, Dad had to have his Mountain Dew). Then we went back to the barracks and cooked it in the new oven in the conference room. We ate and watched a movie in Dallon's room on his new tv (he got a screamin' deal at Walmart-42" hdtv for $428). Dallon LOVED the pizza and ate until he was stuffed (3 huge pieces). Then he got very tired. We left him at about 4 pm to take a nap and told him to call when he woke up. It is now 10:30 pm and we haven't heard from him. His days and nights are mixed up. He's been waking up at 2 am. So I'm sure he will be awake all night again. It may take awhile to get back on a normal schedule.

Day Trip to Seward

Tuesday we decided to take a day trip while we waited for Dallon to fly in. Mom near the bay in Seward. The day we arrived the sun went down at 4:30 but it did not get dark until 6:00. One week later the sun goes down at 5:00 and it is light until 6:45. At this latitude the day is lengthened by 8 minutes per day. One week is 40 minutes. This is a strange place.

Avalanche came down from the hillside and took out the guardrail. Anything on the road ended up in the bay. Most snowmobilers that ride the shoots buy a parachute to save them in case of an avalanche. Ha! Money wasted.
In the bay the fresh water freezes and the salt water does not. Since it is quite well mixed the fresh water freezes in and around the brine. The result is very loosly frozen, strange shaped icebergs. The icebergs get stranded when the tide goes out. This is a strange place.

We met Virgil Johnson, owner of IRBI Knives. IRBI stands for I'd Rather Be Independent. He is a knife maker living in Moose Knee, on the way to Seward. We got a nice tour of his shop and visited with him for several minutes. He has a lot of cool "man" stuff. He is holding a small walrus skull with ivory tusks.
The object with my hand on it is walrus ivory. It is petrified. It was originally used as a dog sled runner. It is difficult to see in this photo. One might ask, "why would they make a sled runner out of expensive walrus ivory?" The answer is because they couldn't eat it.