Those things that were frozen at the beginning of the day remained frozen at the end

Today was the first day in quite some time that all those things that were frozen when I got up remained frozen at the end of the day. It used to be that this would typically happen earlier. Who knows what will happen next? This is the swampy fringe of the pond that my children named Little Lake when they were small.

Text added at 8:17 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues.

Duct tape on the cleats makes this a safer boat

After stuffing styrofoam into the ends in the cleats at the stern of Silook's boat, Isaiah seals the space over and around them with duct tape. He does this to ensure that the rope attaching the harpoon to the float does not get caught by the cleat in the event a bowhead is harpooned from this boat. There is no wireless at the house so I need to take a short walk each time I post. In the event time prevents me from taking this walk before we leave tomorrow, this could be my last post for a week or two or three... I don't think so, but just in case I don't show up here tomorrow, that's why. #boat #boating #harpoon #inupiatwhaling #nuiqsut #alaska

Little problems to be solved

Eric Leavitt checks out a problem in his fuel gauge in preparation for the 92 mile boat ride to Cross Island and all the boating that will follow.

A prophet called "Fireweed"

Around here, they say you know summer is over when the top blossom of the Fireweed blooms. As you can see, it still has a little way to go to get to that top blossom. So maybe this incredibly sunny, warm and even hot summer will linger a little longer yet. As for me, this summer has so far been the summer that really was, yet never happened. I will explain another time, when I am sitting at my computer typing into my blog, rather than walking down the road dictating into my iPhone.