Arnica unalaschcensis for the medicine chest ...

I was so happy to find Arnica here on Adak--I will be making infused oil for making salves and massage oil for sore muscles and contusions.
Arnica unalaschcensis flowers and sepals
Arnica unalaschcensis after sepals have beenremoved prior to drying.

Several ounces of dried Arnica.

Being an elder ...

One of the benefits of being an elder in a village community is receiving bounty from younger fishermen and hunters. Today I was blessed with some gorgeous red salmon. I have never seen such deep red nor had so much--the young fisherman had even scaled them for me. My freezer thanks you!

Gone But Not Forgotten

To the Navy man's lady who planted bulbs under the window at 216B Umak before 1994--I found them, replanted them and they are coming up in the sunshine now 3-13-17. I just wanted you to know ...

January on Adak

For all of you suffering the cold and snow in the lower 48 --- here's what it looked like yesterday ... on Adak Alaska.

Goodbye, Sweet Love ...

My DH, Homer Kizer, died yesterday. He asked me to lay hands on him and pray and then he was gone. We shared almost 22 years, full of bliss and interesting times--and he loved me--I could not have asked for more. When we first married, he wanted to bring me to Alaska--it took 22 years to get here, and Adak is not Dutch Harbor [where he said he first truly felt as if he were home], but he will be laid to rest in Alaska, and that is what he would have wanted.

This is a picture of him carving at Metro Beach, Lac Ste. Claire, Michigan--he loved being a hewer of wood. You can see some of his past work here.

Goodbye, Sweet Love.

Sea and sky on Adak ...

My island from Summer’s beginning into Fall. Roll over the pictures to see where the view is and at what time of year–beautiful Adak.

October 16, 2016

One of our first visitors ...

One of our fist visitors and evidently a rare sight--two lovely cranes in the street, yard, and they even ventured into the open garage.