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...I'm actually trying to remember...-lol- ...I've been trying to find a couple of the short video clips I took of them, to upload... -I don't exactly have the most organized filing system on the computer with my pictures -lol-(just ask Leo-I think he gave up trying to help me, when he and Mary were up here...and, it's worse, now...)-I've only had this digital camera for a year...and never really learned certain computer stuff... -I'm sifting through: trapping from last year, bear scouting, the sheep hunt on the Gerstle(haven't yet even got the full story w/ pics and video posted on that-)- the Wyoming hunt, Gunnison, the new kittens the girls got, homeschool projects, days on the range,gun shows, girl scouts....- -Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!- I need help . I don't know how to make a separate folders for pictures- -and then I'm afraid of ERASING pictures from the camera after putting them on the computer-so, everytime I unload, it's a huge batch of the new...plus, all the pictures I have already put on "my pictures"on the computer to begin with- -so...-lol- if I count how many times I have emptied my camera since I took pics of these sheep...-who knows??...-there might be 27 or so, by now... ..or, maybe even 45....-lol- -Actually..-I believe you are right..-I seem to remember there being 9....(Whiskeyswamp was the one to guess correctly first?) -mostly ewes and lambs...and a sub-legal ram, I think- -I didn't hang around there-had kids tired, fussy, facing a long drive back home...and other people were showing up- I don't like to make them nervous(the sheep-) -here's another picture...pretty lighting over Cook Inlet- from Turnigan arm.... -...and thankyou, Charlie!-I'm glad you enjoy the pics I post- I'll try to post more pictures, then.... -ps...-this is a closed area for sheep hunting, out of season; and a sub-legal ram, among ewes and lambs.... -that wool just jumped from $180,000.... to probably about $350,000 worth of hunting fines... :D:D:D:D- just had to add that- -hey, I just remembered...I have a bunch of great Alaska RR pics to post- you worked up here on the railroad, didn't you...?

...this will be interesting to see if this option alieviates some of Anchorage's bear problems...or, how they are handled... http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/759832.html Assembly approves hiring city bear cop Anchorage Daily News Published: April 14th, 2009 10:02 PM Last Modified: April 15th, 2009 07:18 AM The Anchorage Assembly passed a resolution late Tuesday night to hire a seasonal bear officer to handle problem animals that threaten public safety. Story tools Comments (32) Recommend (0) E-mail a friend Print The resolution, proposed by Assemblyman Bill Starr, will allow the city to contract a wildlife safety specialist to track bears and "take appropriate action" against those that cause problems. The Assembly voted 8-2 in favor of the resolution following amendments that stripped it of language requesting the Board of Game authorize increased hunting in select areas such as the Hillside and Eagle River. Also removed was phrasing that specifically authorized the specialist to relocate and destroy problem bears. The resolution had been kicked around for months, prompted by a high number of bear attacks and encounters in Anchorage last summer. Starr said the Department of Fish and Game is mainly focused on managing wildlife, and that the city needs to focus on protecting its citizens. "I don't get a sense that in the management of wildlife, the citizens' safety will come first," Starr said. Wildlife photo gallery Extensive collection of images of Alaska animals roaming the wilderness and, in many cases, our own backyard. Map: Tracking Anchorage grizzlies From 2005 to 2007, 11 grizzly bears in Anchorage were captured and fitted with radio collars that transmitted their locations. Follow their travels through our town. More Wildlife stories Coverage of Alaska wildlife; its impact on our community and the environment's impact on its survival. Also see: Moose in Alaska | Submit sightings Polar Bears and the environment Bear Attacks archive | Submit sightings More Bears in Alaska stories » Assembly approves hiring city bear cop Rogue black bear already stirring up urban trouble Black bear trees man near Campbell Airstrip City bears awaken early Board expands Chugach Park bear hunt

:rolleyes:...vary phony, Tawdy........lol-

...two dae is tax dae... ...homonyms oar knot mye forte...

prayers for a safe trip for you, Andy... -and a great hunt...-and Happy (early) Birthday! -looking forward to hearing all about it when you get back...

....Oh, Chris...-just go ahead and have another!...-Children are what makes the world go round... -yes, your kids sounded like they arrived in healthy, robust weights...-I think I may have had you beat by "a nose", though...-mine ranged from 8 - 10 lbs(Ruthie, the last, and biggest) (just messing with you, Hoosierbuck-) ...welcome to the world, Nickelle.... -Grandpa, your little granddaughter is very sweet and beautiful...! -Congratulations on a wonderful new gift to the world- -great picture!

...this woke me up this morning for sure, Lewis... -how funny! :D:)

...that's awsome!! ...Congratulations on one heck of a hunt, superb calling, and a truly unique bird! -great pictures, and story, Dakota....

...no worries about the bows, Dakota- take the time to get back settled in from your trip and all...I can wait on the bows....(anxious to shoot them, though!)-looking forward to hearing about your hunt....like a whole bunch of people here are!

...Awesome, Tim! -is that this October??

...this is so awesome, Randy...! -and was excited to hear about your trip to England, and how you did for the world record.... -Congratulations!!

...great job on the squirrel, he did! -I am glad you got him back, especially before June... -that's going to look great in the new house- -nice touch with the nut, too....

...he is gorgeous, Shaun! -he did a great job....-I don't blame you for getting impatient with the guy, though...-TWO YEARS?! -well worth the wait, though-

...this was on the way back from Anchorage a couple of months ago...how many can you spot?

...hey, sounds really neat! -if it were hunt held a year from now, I'd submit an entry to try a chance....

...that would be awesome, Steve... -that looks great! -thankyou...

...yeah, Jim....-thanks-...ummmm- -verrrrry funny.....

...birthday wishes from Alaska... -have a great day!

-thanks, Joe! -I posted a bunch just now in the lounge, on a thread... -here's one.... -Fred and Michelle were such and energetic, down -to -earth couple!

with Fred Eichler as guest speaker...started a thread in the prostaffer room on this, last week...-thought I would post those, plus a few more,here in the lounge... -We all enjoyed Fred and Michelle so much- what an energetic night for all! -such a friendly, down-to-earth couple... -the banquet was Feb 7th...-I'm slow... -my oldest, Montana was not feeling well that day, stayed home with friends- -and my second oldest was coming down with something... -this picture with the Eichlers was after a long day at the seminar portion, before even the banquet that night! ...a beautiful trad display... ....Fred had so many great pictures and awesome stories! ....Fred and Michelle helped give new bows to all the kids up on stage- ...some nice taxi mounts on display-

...hey thankyou; William, and Whiskeyswamp.... -sending a pm, Whiskey... ...and JJL.....very funny-ha ha-

...- maybe us gals could roll him a few times with a four wheeler....-maybe that might do the trick??

...a neat story....a hard hat's three year journey- After 3 years at sea, hard hat about to come home It blew off Inlet worker's head, was found by California woman By JAMES HALPIN [email protected] Published: April 14th, 2009 12:13 AM Last Modified: April 14th, 2009 12:14 AM On a cold day more than three years ago, Jacoby Angleton was working as a roustabout on a dock at the Tesoro plant in Nikiski when a gust of wind lifted his favorite hard hat off his head and tossed into the icy Inlet waters below e Sparrow Baranyai found Jacoby Angleton's hard hat near where she works in Pescadero, Calif., after it had been lost at sea for more than three years. The hat blew off Angleton's head at the Tesoro dock in Nikiski -He watched it drift away, upside down, in the dark water, lost at sea. That was late 2005 or early 2006. Then, long after he'd forgotten all about his lucky hat, the now 23-year-old oil-services worker based on the North Slope got a recent e-mail on his MySpace account from a California woman whose curiosity was piqued when she found the hat, still bearing his name, while she was walking on a beach near San Francisco. "There's something about the mystery of finding stuff and you always wonder where it came from," said Sparrow Baranyai, a 47-year-old employee at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel in Pescadero, Calif., roughly 55 miles south of San Francisco. "It just was such an unusual thing to find that I had to dig further." Baranyai Googled Angleton's name, found him through his MySpace Page and shot him an e-mail. After Angleton told her how and exactly where he lost the hat, she went to check it out on a map, she said. "I just tracked it down and went, 'That's amazing, just amazing,' " she said. ADVERTISEMENT Turns out, it may have traveled even farther than she suspected. Most flotsam in the North Pacific gets caught up in the Pacific Subarctic Gyre -- a 7,200-nautical-mile, swirling ocean current stretching from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to Southeast Alaska, said Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle-based oceanographer who studies currents. Debris floating on the high seas travels, on average, about 8 to 10 miles per day, and it takes an average of about three years for most debris to circumnavigate the gyre, he said. "The average for many, many hundreds of objects is three years ... to go all the way around, and another half year to get down to California, so it fits," Ebbesmeyer said. The gyre has famously kicked about all manner of flotsam. Back in 1990, a vessel lost 80,000 pairs of Nikes in high seas between Korea and the West Coast, many of which later washed up on the West Coast. Then in 1992, a violent storm tossed thousands of rubber ducks, turtles and frogs off a cargo ship between China and Seattle. Some of them wound up in Alaska. Others are still circulating the high seas, Ebbesmeyer said. Some debris, however, gets kicked out of the rotation when summer winds push south along the West Coast. That flotsam moves down the coast until joining with the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, which circulates from California to the Philippines. The hard hat was apparently in the right position along the gyre when winds hit it, he said. "The winds would start blowing from the north in July or August," Ebbesmeyer said. "The winds kicked it out of the Subarctic Gyre and it went down and started to go around the Subtropical Gyre, but somehow it got kicked into California." Then, on March 30, Baranyai was walking the beach cleaning up plastic when she wandered into a cove only accessible at low tide in which she sometimes finds interesting shells and sea glass. It was a little before noon when she found the hat, up on the beach and away from the surf, in "amazing condition," she said. Angleton's name was still intact and the stickers he had affixed to it were slightly torn but still legible, she said. When Angleton got Baranyai's e-mail, he at first didn't reply, thinking it might have been a hat he had lost on the Slope. Then Baranyai e-mailed him again and he got leery, wondering if it was a scam. He recalled that his lucky hard hat was white, had a label of his name on front and had North Road Racing, Kenai refinery and union stickers affixed. He asked Baranyai to describe it, and she did "to the T," he said. "It's been a long time, so I was like, OK, it's got to be that hat because there's no other hard hat I dropped in the water," Angleton said. "I was really bummed out about it for a while because it was my favorite hard hat, but I thought it was gone forever." Baranyai said she plans to send the hat home.

....wow...-sometimes I close my eyes and just reminise about that beautiful drone of the lawn mower....hmmmmmmm... (our snow blower currently has a stripped screw on the clutch do-hickie......-time to get out there with the kids and shovel out!) -we don't bother shoveling the roof ever, though...-commercial -grade trusses... -we usually have snow in the drive until the first week of June....

-.... if you want to feel a little better ...-here's a picture of what's going on in our neck of the woods this morning- ...through our garage("family-homeschool-eating-meat processing-reloading-sun room")window - -btw...-yes, that is a truck outside the window- one that blew an engine 4 years ago... ...current snow load(a few pics yesterday morning) ...-and, the driveway- 2 more trucks in the background, snow-covered...-one needs a new tranny, the other one needs a new engine also....-I wish Shaun could come for a visit and give us a hand with these these vehicles!-lol- -I need to get the cabs shoveled off again, so they don't cave in- -I get anxious for summer, too....-salmon and halibut fishing!!