Devil's Creek Trail

Here are some photos from another hike part-way up Devil's Creek trail. Holly and Christoffer brought their new cameras.






This is a small waterfall. It was a nice place for a snack.

























This is how you test an underwater camera.

Mountain Plants

Road Fishing

This is even easier fishing than dip netting. The truck had a broken axle or something similar and that dragged the whole truck in the ditch. I came upon it after working night shift shortly after the accident happened. They were able to quickly salvage almost all the fish.

Resurrection Trail

This is Juneau Falls which is about 3.5 miles up the trail. The third photo shows Holly and Christoffer just to the right of the top of the falls.














Here we are at the bridge near the top of this part of the trail. It took us 1.5 hours to get here. Digital cameras are really high dollar stop watches.









Sitting and standing carefully at the edge.






An Anchorage bicycle club had a race going on when we hiked. They ride 38 miles from Hope to the Kenai River trailhead. Then ride back up to the Devil's Pass cabin, then down the Devil's Creek trail, then back up the trail to the cabin again, then back down to Hope. That is over 100 miles in one day. There were about 25 mountain bikers. You can click on the title to read about the Soggy Bottom 100 and also click on a map.

Easy fishing

Mouth of the Kenai River lined with 5' dip nets.
The seagulls enjoy dipnetting as much as Alaskans.
Most folks can get enough red salmon to last a year in a couple of days.

Forest Fire!!!

We saw all of this smoke shortly after leaving Chicken!!!















Last year fires burned millions of acres in Alaska while in the lower 48 we heard news of thousands of acres burning. Alaska didn't really make the national news.
There have not been many fires this year.







If you look closely you can actually see flames.

Chicken, Alaska

Taking a bread on the 'Top of the World Highway.














Looking for Chicken.














The first big town of Chicken as you drive into Alaska on the 'top of the world highway'.

Couch photo and more

This continues the couch series.








Cars have chairs but they are less comfortable than a couch.








Here is the internet cafe. Everyone has a computer and Lois Ann is cooking a great meal for us!







A window photo of everyone.

Dog photos

Fresh Flowers

Rose











Iris








Pansies








Pansie salad

Flora's on the couches

Lois calls the dog 'Flora'. I like the name 'Co Co'. From these pictures i think she should be called 'Coucha'.







Any suggestions on an easy way to keep the dog off of the furniture?








Christoffer came down and did some wiring at the cabin. I think Labs are bred to lay on couches.

Painting

Lois Ann is taping the windows in the entry for painting.








Co Co and i are fixing the floor.








I am watching an important World Cup Soccer game and supervising Lois at the same time.







She did an OK job! We only have one entrance to the house so it took 4 days to do 2 coats of floor paint.

Post-Charismatic

Found a great website about the history of the charismatic movement and about much of the churches' history for the last century. There are 40 webpages. The first 20 give the history and the second 20 show a good 'praxis' (practice). If you click on the above title you will go to it. I have seen a lot of what he describes.

"Broadly speaking, there are four major areas that come up repeatedly as reasons for post-charismatics pulling away from their Pentecostal, Charismatic, or Third Wave roots. The four areas are:

1. Abuses and elitism in prophetic ministry, coupled with a "carrot and stick" approach to holiness that many find legalistic, manipulative, and repressive

2. The excesses of Word Faith teachings (health and wealth, prosperity doctrine) which clash with the emerging generations' concern for a biblical approach to justice and ministry with the poor

3. Authoritarianism and hierarchical leadership structures that exist more to control people than to equip the saints for works of service

4. An approach to spiritual formation (discipleship) that depends on crisis events -- whether at "the altar" in a church service, or in a large conference setting -- but either neglects or deliberately belittles other means of spiritual growth

Post-Charismatic -- this phrase should not to be confused with being NON-charismatic, and certainly not as being ANTI-charismatic. The process of separating what is truly of the Holy Spirit and what is needless -- and often harmful -- baggage is the whole idea behind developing a post-charismatic understanding of how a supernatural God works supernaturally amongst and through the mystical gathering called the Body. In other words, post-charismatic, but not post-Spirit."

There are also many great photos, some by Wendy McAlpine, the authors wife.

Good Stock Book and Blog

Rule #1 by Phil Town is one of the better books i've read about picking and buying stocks. He uses fundamental analysis and teaches you how to find ROIC, Equity, Sales, EPS, and Free Cash on the internet. These should all be growing 10% or more per year. He talks about figuring out the 'sticker price' and paying only 1/2 that price when you buy a stock. Chapter 13 shows a summary of all these steps. There is also a very good chapter on studying charts using MACD, Stochastics, and Moving Averages for buy and sell signals. Maybe it is possible to retire with less money if you could get a 15% return per year. His blog has lots of links, and his
webpage has some good web broadcasts.

PS If anyone has some good #1 stocks to check out let me know.

Planting potatoes

Our new puppy is not very helpful in the garden. She broke my string line in two before i was able to use it to get the potatoes straight.















She loves to sit in this chair to watch what is going on in the yard, or to sleep.