Monkey butt

Meandered from the garden to the longhouse with a couple of the community's smaller members, all of us thrilled by each different flower or bug that we encountered.

Then we saw a bug eating another bug on top of a flower (!)


Then, suddenly, perhaps overwhelmed by all of the excitement,
they unleashed a barrage of profanity and verbal abusive...

Tofu clinic

Soak em beans

Get yer box

From the bottom of my tofu box's dark hold

Sew the tofu bag

Blend em beans

Squeeze out the good stuff (soymilk), and add nigari, a biproduct of salt, to curdle it

The "curds" are your tofu. Strain...

And press...

And voilà!

Cut and enjoy!

Oh boy oh boy!

Updates

Barnwise...

Tin up on the roof. The barn is dry!

And the deck of the sleeping porch is up

Gardenwise...

Puzzling over the Jurassic rototiller

Bill to the rescue

...onnnn second thought let's just use the pitch fork

Mousse in repose
(until yesterday I thought his name was "Moose."
Turns out he's more French than Alaskan.)

Bit o' th' weedin'

Lightwise...

Stickin around later and later

Kenai Mountains Botanical Catalogue

The Chocolate Lilly, I am told, smells of poop. I did not detect the odor, but that could be due to a substandard sense of smell.

Forget-me-not, Alaska's state flower

This exotic specimen is known as the "dandelion."

Hope Point Trail

Town of Hope below

Little guy got a long way to climb

Blustery view

Anchorage across the water

River Lodge

Wanna yomp?

Chase and I did a bit of work for a neighbor who runs a river lodge. Long walkways over the muck of the river bank must be rebuilt each year for boat access during low tide. The river can have a tidal range of 20 feet, so that's a pretty good stretch of muck to cover. The charming promenade above is our handiwork.