BUSH DIARY JULY 1999:
Saturday the 4th, getting ready to fly out this evening.
Well that was a fun little trip. First thing we did was go buy a new fridge at Shcroader and Son's. Had to load it in through the sun room door. Carolyn said the property manager was always replacing the fridge. Oh yeah? Bet they weren't new.
I found ten old Hot Wheels under the old fridge. I have scrubbed them up to Anthony to play with.
We went to the Sawdust theater here in Coquille. It is an old fashion melodrama entitled "Mail Order Bride or Lured to a Villains' Lair". Lots of singing, dancing, audience participation and free popcorn.
Had to depart all too soon. I was getting Bailey ready to move to Barrow. Got her vaccinated. She did not mind car travel, but plane travel? Ugh! The normally 51 minute flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks was accomplished in 41 minutes. The captain hurried God Bless him.
Met Gwen at the airpotr and she began bonding with Bailey immediately. Gwen has two cats at home, Luke and Davy. She reported the next day that they were giving her baths and sunning in the window.
While in Coquille I was prompted to write a song. I emailed a copy to Phil.
(2019 I reread the song and only included third verse here and this is admittedly pretty creaking composition wise)
Dad Wore Steel Toes Work Boots. R. Alden
THIRD VERSE:
When Dad was young and wicked he pulled a prank or two
One involved a neighbors's bull and a barn roof with a view
It seems the farmer was surprised to see his favorite bull
resting up among the starts without politics or pull
The farmer had todo his best to get old Buford down
The lads who pulled this off laid low and did not go to town.
REFRAIN:
Dad wore steel toed work boots and Mom wrote all the checks
Dad taught us how play Pinochle even double deck
Mom liked to play Scrabble and beat us black and blue
There were always skillets full of "Thousand Mile Stew".
Back to work July 12, very busy, only Monica and me were there pulling charts, answering the phones and questions.
7-16: Lovely day of rain, sounds great and smells wonderful. Except for the puddles.
One of the big wigs from ANMC came up for planning for the new hospital. He was here when this hospital was first built. There was no Vet back then and he remembered performing spaying and neutering in room six in outpatient. Um good practice doc
.
Telephone system update: It will have voice mail woo hoo! And be Y2K compliant. The speaker phones are actually quite decent.
Very calorie packed day. Lots of people with birthday and leaving Barrow, cakes, ice cream, and potluck with my favorite Pansit!!
Blue Cross rep speech. Same old. We still cannot use local pharmacy. Must make arrangements to have scrip written and mail it to the lower where ever. Once established can order online.
7-21: House dream.
Woke up to NPR recounting the funeral for JFK Jr, wife and sister-in-law. So much potential gone.
7-25: Two walrus pups were captured this week. They were apparently orphaned and had imprinted on the tugboat ferrying sand from the dredge to the beach. So Fish and Game captured them and took them to the Vet Clinic. They were fed walrus chow and perked up enough for a healthy transfer to Point Defiance Zoo in Washington State. Of course the local news guy was there interviewing everyone. In the background you could hear the walrus pups barking back and forth with some dogs.
That's enough about animal life for June.
G'night folks.
Saturday the 4th, getting ready to fly out this evening.
Well that was a fun little trip. First thing we did was go buy a new fridge at Shcroader and Son's. Had to load it in through the sun room door. Carolyn said the property manager was always replacing the fridge. Oh yeah? Bet they weren't new.
I found ten old Hot Wheels under the old fridge. I have scrubbed them up to Anthony to play with.
We went to the Sawdust theater here in Coquille. It is an old fashion melodrama entitled "Mail Order Bride or Lured to a Villains' Lair". Lots of singing, dancing, audience participation and free popcorn.
Had to depart all too soon. I was getting Bailey ready to move to Barrow. Got her vaccinated. She did not mind car travel, but plane travel? Ugh! The normally 51 minute flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks was accomplished in 41 minutes. The captain hurried God Bless him.
Met Gwen at the airpotr and she began bonding with Bailey immediately. Gwen has two cats at home, Luke and Davy. She reported the next day that they were giving her baths and sunning in the window.
While in Coquille I was prompted to write a song. I emailed a copy to Phil.
(2019 I reread the song and only included third verse here and this is admittedly pretty creaking composition wise)
Dad Wore Steel Toes Work Boots. R. Alden
THIRD VERSE:
When Dad was young and wicked he pulled a prank or two
One involved a neighbors's bull and a barn roof with a view
It seems the farmer was surprised to see his favorite bull
resting up among the starts without politics or pull
The farmer had todo his best to get old Buford down
The lads who pulled this off laid low and did not go to town.
REFRAIN:
Dad wore steel toed work boots and Mom wrote all the checks
Dad taught us how play Pinochle even double deck
Mom liked to play Scrabble and beat us black and blue
There were always skillets full of "Thousand Mile Stew".
Back to work July 12, very busy, only Monica and me were there pulling charts, answering the phones and questions.
7-16: Lovely day of rain, sounds great and smells wonderful. Except for the puddles.
One of the big wigs from ANMC came up for planning for the new hospital. He was here when this hospital was first built. There was no Vet back then and he remembered performing spaying and neutering in room six in outpatient. Um good practice doc
.
Telephone system update: It will have voice mail woo hoo! And be Y2K compliant. The speaker phones are actually quite decent.
Very calorie packed day. Lots of people with birthday and leaving Barrow, cakes, ice cream, and potluck with my favorite Pansit!!
Blue Cross rep speech. Same old. We still cannot use local pharmacy. Must make arrangements to have scrip written and mail it to the lower where ever. Once established can order online.
7-21: House dream.
Woke up to NPR recounting the funeral for JFK Jr, wife and sister-in-law. So much potential gone.
7-25: Two walrus pups were captured this week. They were apparently orphaned and had imprinted on the tugboat ferrying sand from the dredge to the beach. So Fish and Game captured them and took them to the Vet Clinic. They were fed walrus chow and perked up enough for a healthy transfer to Point Defiance Zoo in Washington State. Of course the local news guy was there interviewing everyone. In the background you could hear the walrus pups barking back and forth with some dogs.
That's enough about animal life for June.
G'night folks.
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