Karluk River Adventure

We recently got to play tourist on our own island and travel to the Karluk River, where we stayed at the Portage Cabin. We unplugged, we relaxed, we tested out our bug suits (yes, they worked great), we slept (a lot), we read (a lot). The flight to and from was amazing. We canoed up river and spotted a Trumpeter swan pair and a baby. We walked the boardwalk that goes towards the head of Larsen Bay. We made wordle a multiperson game, using pen and paper. We hung out with a dragonfly named Duwayne for twenty-four hours. We didn’t google any of our questions. It was an adventure locked into our memories.

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August 3rd - suddenly obsessed with bike riding

August 4th - saturday picnic at the beach

August 5th - unsuccessfully attempting to ride in the back end

August 6th - hide-&-seek

August 7th - sunset at nanny & papa's

August 8th - wheelbarrow rides

August 9th- soaking up the last of our slow, summer mornings

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July 27th - yard work

July 28th - if I could choose one word to sum up this summer, it would most definitely be mud

July 29th - practicing their Greatest Showman routines

July 30th - salmonberry haul

July 31st - spinning till their bellies ached

August 1st - playing in the chutes

August 2nd - jungle gym

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July 20th - I spent the day with a Great-Aunt and a cousin, both women int her mid-80s, listening to old family stories, looking through photos and family keepsakes from the past 100+ years, and thoroughly entertained by their commentary about social media. "Do you have that Facebook?" one asked the other "No, I don't need to see what people are doing all day, I don't care what they're eating. I just like my email!" "I don't have it either, I've had enough troubles in my lifetime, I don't need to see any one else's!"

July 21st - spent the day with the loveliest brides, photographing their loveliest day

July 22nd - finished the quick Portland-area trip with a visit to the headstones of two sets of Great-Grandparents, where some of my Grandparents' ashes are also spread

July 23rd - happy to be home again, in the comfort of my chaos

July 24th - late night reading, finally charged the kindles courtesy of endless rain

July 25th - my assistants during a product shoot

July 26th - shadow puppets, way passed bedtime

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July 13th - the joy of locking car doors

July 14th - Aunti's mud hill

July 15th - caught between the sun and shadows

July 16th - so many mud baths

July 17th - nerf gun battle

July 18th - checking the status of the loose tooth

July 19th - in a hotel room, without children, with light that cannot be ignored 

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July 6th - a week of stars and stripes

July 7th - happy 60th Papa!

July 8th - closing the door on an epic week

July 9th - high-five goodbyes

July 10th - late night drive out-the-road that led to unexpected owlet viewing 

July 11th - late night drive home, that led to the expected cattle viewing 

July 12th - dancing in the headlights

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