Saltwater and sea air

So we took Cathy and Allen, and also our local friends Mavis and Jim, out in the Inlet for a halibut fishing trip. It was a nice enough morning, bright but hazy, when we all formed up at the docks to load gear and lunch aboard.

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Steve’s cousin Cathy and her husband, Allen, came to visit us from Colorado. Although Allen spent some time around Fairbanks when he was younger, this was their first real visit to the state. We took the boat over to pick them up in Homer on a dank grey morning.

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We’re upgrading the program that runs this site. All the work will happen behind the scenes, but the breakage won’t.

I’d suggest running away. Come back later. I’ll let you know when it’s safe.

Update: Okay, looks like it’s all working again.

Actually, it went fairly well, with a minimum of swearing and only one thing that had to be reset repeatedly while researching the fact that its readme file hadn’t had critical updates added (I’m looking at you, FeedList).

So, as you were. If you notice ongoing problems, either leave a comment here or email me and I’ll take a sharp stick to it.

I have finally finished fighting with the program I use to compile my photo albums (which is broken in the latest version of Firefox) and posted the full album of this year’s festival over at the festival website.

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This weekend was the music festival, and it was probably the Best One Ever. I’ll be posting the archive photos on the festival website later in the week, but there were a number of the photos that I shot that aren’t necessarily festival documentary that nonetheless capture a lot of the feel of the festival for me.

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Last week we both had meetings to attend at the Prince William Sound Regional Citizen’s Advisory Council office in Anchorage, so we took the car over on the ferry and up to town for our semi-annual grocery shoppping.

Driving north was driving into an advancing season. Down here, the North Pacific cools the summer climate, so our spring was all still budding leaves and early flowers: green, but only just so.

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Two of Steve’s cousins have just sent him a lovely notebook full of photos of the family, family tree information, and information about the family ranch, his visits to which he has detailed several times in the past few years but the last visit’s photos of which remain *cough* unposted.

In with the photos of his immediate family is this one of him with his older brother, Jim. I love it. It is so totally the same expressions they still wear, masters of the dorky grin.

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Knitting last night was a byochair at the new arts coop headquarters, otherwise known as Fred Elvsaas’s old net loft. A group of 11 crafters/knitters/artists have formed a coop, have rented the main floor for a shop and headquarters, and are renovating it for shop and workshop space. It’s very much in the renovating stage right now.

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