So it's almost September and the summer is drawing to a close...at least it is here in Alaska! Lee started school last week and will write something this weekend on the blog....I'm hoping that now that we are back into a routine, the posts will be more frequent on the blog. It's hard to keep up over the summer...at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it....ha ha ha.
Our visit with Karen and Monty was great!!!! We did lots of fun things and took some pictures as you can see. We went hiking in Eagle River, whale watching/boat tour in Seward, trekked around town, and Lee and his grandparents even made it out to the Matanuska glacier. It's always great to have family come visit so that we can share some of the amazing places Alaska has to offer, with them. We had one or two rainy days, but for the most part the weather was picture perfect...no pun intended.
My new job is going extremely well to say the least. It is exactly what I have been looking for! Great hours, Great people, interesting work, and it allows me to be home in the afternoons with Lee. I really couldn't ask for more. It's also really helped alleviate some of the fibromyalgia stress of a full'time....all day job. I can't complain about having all my weekends off either.
Bret spoke to Nabors drilling this morning and they are hoping to get him out on an off-shore rig by next Friday....yippee! He is really missing working on the rigs. This rig is in Cook inlet not on the North Slope which will be a ton warmer for him. Right now it looks like he'll be moved to a rig that works year round in November/December...but as we've found, nothing is set in stone when working on the slope. The construction market has slowed considerably so he is working for a local print shop; screen printing for now. Flash back to the days in Kansas! He is hoping that he will be able to screen print on his two weeks home, since it doesn't look like the construction job is going to work out. We'll keep you posted though.
We're still hoping to get to Canada this December/January, but that's a ways off at this point. It's hard to do any concrete longterm planning until we know where exactly Bret will be in December and what his schedule will be. But for now that's the plan.
The weather here is still beautiful...high's in the mid to high 60's during the day. It's starting to cool off at night though, I actually wore a jacket to work this morning...ick. The sun is getting later and later every morning too...it's coming up around 6:30 now and getting dark around 9:30, which for most folks is alot of light, but for us Alaskans it's getting shorter and shorter by the day.
Everything is still lush and green though. We went to the big state fair on Saturday, and got to see all of the gigantic veggies that won in the agricultural contests....there was a head of lettuce there that weighed more than Lee!!!! yikes.
I hope everyone is well, and stay in touch!
love as always
bret, jan, and lee
