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A New Adventure - BLOGGING!
Wow, we finally started a blog! I had several requests to start a blog last year, but with home-school, moving to the bush, reaching out to others, and adjusting to life here, I honestly felt...
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Alcan Highway Trip - Getting Ready
Some of you may already know this, but my parents, the girls, and I drove from Montana to Fairbanks, Alaska in August. Ross was commercial fishing so he wasn't with us. We so wish he would have been...
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A Few Weeks in the Life of the Tullochs
Well this has been a crazy couple of weeks, but it shouldn't surprise me as most weeks are crazy in "The Bush", especially when it is moose season and everyone is trying to get their years supply of...
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Cranberry Picking
In September we did some cranberry picking. There are both high bush and low bush cranberries here. The high bush are quite nice for making Cranberry Wassail. They have pits in them so they must be...
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Life is a Carousel!
I know, I know. I haven't posted on here forever! I started this blog thinking it would be a good way to keep people informed of what we are up to and to have a journal type thing to look back on of...
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Life is a Carousel Part 2
Last night was winter solstice, so that means beginning today we start gaining just a little light each day. Yes! I am so excited for more light to be headed our way! Yesterday was the shortest day of...
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The Mighty Hunter!
Ross has been in trapping mode. He eats, sleeps, and breaths trapping (that is when he isn't teaching)! No that isn't true but he does think about it a lot. It is something he has dreamed about getting...
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Filling Our Freezer!
We have really been enjoying the moose meat. Even though this is late I thought I would post some pictures of what happens after the moose is shot. We spent several evenings after Ross got off work...
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A Visit From Grandparents
Since I didn't make hardly any posts for the months of October and November, I am going to use this last little bit of time I have before school gets started again and the busyness of life comes back....
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Jamboree
Every year during the first weekend in October the Jamboree takes place in Galena. Many gather together in order to celebrate sobriety. It is good clean fun with lots of music, dancing, food, and...
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Saying Goodbye to Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Benni (for now anyways)
When it was time for Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Benni to leave in October, Uncle Reid flew over with a pilot friend to pick them up from Unalakleet. We have been so blessed to have this friend who is...
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Halloween
This is horrible...it is January and I am posting about Halloween! I would like to get these posts in here so I can print this blog into a book, so I have to keep plugging away to catch up. Sorry I am...
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Aubrey's First Beaver and Our First Snow
Shortly after moose season was over this year, Ross took Aubrey beaver hunting. This was of course before the river froze up. Ross, a friend, and Aubrey took a boat down the Yukon to check out some...
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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a little different for us here. Most people, unless they grew up here or have family that have moved in here, do not spend it with their extended family. Instead we spend it surrounded...
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Changes
Our life has been full of quite a few changes since Christmas. We have "adopted" a new son/brother and Grandpa into our family! Our adopted son/brother came to live with us the middle of January...
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Iditarod 2013
Today marked the beginning of the official start to the 2013 Iditarod! Last year the Iditarod came through Galena and I was homeschooling the girls so for about 3 weeks before the Iditarod we did a...
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A Visit to Lance Mackey's Kennel
Well I have been trying all year to get caught up on my posts, but have not been able to. I had planned on showing the pictures I am about to show when I posted about our Alcan Highway trip this...
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A Special Date With a Special Daughter
A few weeks ago, Aubrey earned a reward for completing all her chores on her chore chart without complaining and without me asking her to. She was able to choose from a few bigger rewards and she...
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The Snowgo and Iditarod Adventure
On March 9th, we (Ross, Wendy, and Aubrey, (Mackenzie and Marina stayed with friends)) woke up to an overcast day, but it was fairly warm for Galena standards. We prepared ourselves for the adventure...
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A Sno-go and Iditarod Adventure Part 2 - The Trip Home
On March 11th, Uncle Reid, Aunt Angela, Uncle Cam, Martin, Finn, Ross, Aubrey, and I left Unalakleet and headed towards Galena. It was a crisp morning. This morning started out a little colder than...
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