I go to Anchorage to pick Margie up and find Kalib ill; he eats the fish food; Tyler and his saw; Bear Meech and Diamond

Margie had spent her four days babysitting Jobe while Lavina went back to work and it was time for me to pick her up. So, in the afternoon, I climbed into the Escape and headed for Anchorage. Along the way, I passed this guy on his big Harley Davidson.

By the time I reached the house, Lavina had already returned home from work. Kalib had not gone to day care this day, because he was feeling a bit ill.

I found Lavina giving him comfort.

Margie held the sleeping Jobe, strapped into his cradle, on her lap. Lisa came by and sat down next to them. Jacob had yet to return from work.

Lavina and Kalib.

Jacob returned at about 6:00 PM. His ailing son lifted his finger and the two touched.

This caused Kalib to feel a bit better, so he got up and stood beside his father as they watched a bit of the evening news. The big story was about how the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is much worse than BP originally reported and appears to be on its way to becoming a true environmental disaster.

Shell Oil plans to drill five exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea this summer, where bowheads, belugas, gray whales, polar bears, walrus, seals, migratory birds, fish and plankton thrive.

President Obama, maybe you should give this a little more thought.

Next, Kalib dove onto his Auntie Lisa to wrestle with her. This was a good sign that he was feeling better.

Then he headed toward his bedroom to feed the fish that I gave him.

His dad handed him the cannister of food. Kalib knows that he is not supposed to eat the fish food himself, but he pulls out a stick, smiles mischievously at his dad, then shoves it into his mouth and eats before anyone can stop him.

Jobe woke up before it was time for him to wake up. He started to cry. Lavina picked him up and began to rock him back to sleep.

Soon, Jobe would return to sleep. He remained in his cradle throughout the duration of my visit.

Then Margie and I headed over to pay a short visit to Melanie and Rex before we headed home. Directly across the street from Melanie's house, her neighbor Tyler had downed a tree and was now cutting it up.

Bear Meech observed as we headed up the stairs to Melanie's front door.

Inside, Diamond chilled warmly. Poof came trilling to my lap right after I sat down. I spent more time with Poof than with anybody else, but, somehow, I don't know how, I failed to take a picture of him.

Oh well. He was the star last time.

I had a lot of work that I still wanted to do before bedtime, so soon we headed home, where I got lazy, and put most of that work off.

I guess that I had better get it done today.

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Comments

[twain12]

hope Kalib feel better soon and i love the picture of Diamond , actually i love all, the cats :)
The oil spill just maces me sick, i really wish we would look more seriously at alternatives.
When i visit my family in Germany i'm struck at the small cars, the solar panels on countless homes, their commitment to recycling etc. Maybe it is the large amount of people living in relatively small countries that makes it more of a necessity.

[Ruth Z Deming]

Lavina is one beautiful woman! I love visiting your neighborhood. As a census enumerator I visited my first neighborhood today in Willow Grove PA (my town but far away from my house). One woman yelled at me when I rang her bell, so I wrote in the column "REF" for refused and then in the Comments column wrote "Uncooperative woman w/barking dog.' I carry my Census bag and wear my nametag dangling round my neck which gets tangled up in my beard, oops, I mean, my eyeglass chain. The paperwork for the census enumerator is horrific beyond belief!

[Cyndy]

Furless Jim is off to Kodiak to accompany his AK Guard friend (recently back from 2nd tour in Iraq.) Friend's special bear permit, Jim is pretty much his kemosabe, trusty scout.