Nature Week

This past week I have seen more nature than I have ever seen in my life!

On the first of May, our river broke. Here is what it looked like from my apartment:

This is what it was like at the beach:

Here is what some of the ice build up looked like last night on the river:



I went hiking with some kids and Puffin and we managed to find the last bit of snow.


This is the stream we hiked down to:

Here is Puffin happily enjoying the snow.
A Bald Eagle followed us on our hike:

It has been very hectic here with the end of school coming up on Friday. We had graduation last Friday and 13 students walked. That is a VERY big class. Here they are celebrating after the ceremony:

We also had prom that same night. Prom here is really just a big community dance that some of the graduates and their dates dress up for. It was really fun. There is a band and they play only old country music. I "two-stepped" with a few elders.

The other day a friend of mine got a bunch of ducks. He brought about 10 of them up to the teacher housing for us. So, I actually plucked a duck - like took the feathers all off of it!! It was pretty weird and gross. I was totally grossed out by the whole experience. It peed on me and kept making noises as air was escaping from it's belly. My friends were all teasing me that the duck was mad at me and asking me to stop plucking it...I didn't think they were very funny. I said if I had nightmares I was going to come and stay with them! I didn't actually cook my duck. I just gave it to one of the other teachers who was going to roast it or whatever.


This is a friend of mine that I steam with at night. Here son-in-law caught a porcupine! They called me over to try some, but Puffin and I were out hiking so we missed out.

Last night I was out on the river and I saw a otter and a bunch of MOOSE!! I can't believe I really saw moose - they were huge!! We even saw a little baby one. It was really cool!

The other day, when I was walking with Puffin down at the beach, I saw a beaver that someone had shot out on the river and he was taking it home for diner. I had no idea they were so fat and their tails are scaly like a snake! In person, they look nothing like they do on the cartoons.