Saturday Is a Special Day in Eagle Harbor

Saturday is a special day in Eagle Harbor. Why is it special? From October to May,
Saturday is the day--the ONLY day-- we can toss our trash at the Eagle Harbor Solid Waste Facility (EHSWF). The Facility, fondly referred to as the Transfer Sation or even more fondly, The Dump, is open from 10 a.m. to noon on Satudays. Not only can we toss our trash, but we can stop and visit with other neighbors who also happen to be tossing their trash.

Many of us remember the dump that used to be on this site. Before the days of cable TV and Internet, the dump not only provided a place to get rid of our trash, but it provided our entertainment as well. The Dump was a regular hangout for locals, tourists and hungry critters.  Sometimes it was
standing room only!!

Then to become more environmentally correct, Eagle Harbor closed the dump, added a huge container, and sent the bears back into the woods. Today we have two containers that are emptied periodically by Waste Management.

Whenever the Facility is open, it is manned by MB, who makes certain we follow the rules: only township residents may dump and only household garbage may be tossed into the containers. Also located at the EHSWF are the satellite dishes that bring cable TV and high (?) speed Internet to our little village.

There is also a camera located at the EHSWF. A Camera?? Yes, a camera, so I can tune our TV to channel 61 and watch what is going on at THE DUMP.  Pretty neat.

Back in the Keweenaw

We are now back in Our Corner of the World. This is what it looked like on the Keweenaw Peninsula this last Thursday morning.

Sunset Search for Cattle

We have been at Fort Hood, Texas, for about a year. In the evening we like to go for a drive around the post. It is over 340 square miles, so there is a lot to see. Our grandsons often accompany us, and they love to see the cattle that roam free.

Kentucky Ice Storm

We left Alaska at the end of December and spent the months of January and February in Kentucky. We experienced our first Kentucky ice storm. Although the ice may have been beautiful, the damage was incredible. Trees and power lines were down everywhere. People were without electricity, heat and water for many days (some over a week). I'll take an Upper Peninsula blizzard any day!!


This is our daughter's home at Fort Knox.

Scenes of Shishmaref

Sunrise around 11:30 a.m.
Caribou skins drying.

The "road" by the cemetery.

Simple grasses plus winter's magic equal exquisite beauty.

Artic sidewalk after a visit from Jack Frost.

A shopper walks home pulling her purchases from the Shishmaref Native Store.

Freight sled with winter's gilding.

Greta on the shore of the Chukchi Sea (-18 degrees).

Some of the dogs of Shishmaref. There are at least six teams of huskies in the village.
Shishmareh was the home of legendary Iditarod musher, Henry "Cannonball" Nayokpuk.











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