Kalib's parents snatch him away from the lawn mower so he can learn how to go to Kindergarten

The boys' mom and dad showed up tonight to pick up Kalib and take him back to Anchorage with them. They are leaving Lynxston with us, because he is still too much for his mom to handle. She is much improved since I last saw her, but still she is very sore and on medication and Lynx is a rowdy guy. Kalib did not want to go. He wanted to stay here. He loves it here - I think in part because of our big, wild, yard which tonight he got to mow a bit of, but maybe he likes his grandma and grandpa, too. He had to go home, though, because tomorrow he starts a "Kindergarten Readiness" program.

He will learn how not to take a nap (I don't think that will be much of a challenge for Kalib. If he took any naps during this longer-than average stay with us, I was not aware of them), how to use a back pack and how to ride a school bus.

That ought to be pretty damned exciting.

They bought pizza for us all and I took a little break to help eat it. They just left. I need to get back to work. I don't want to, but if I work until midnight I can get in two more hours and 20 minutes - if I go until 1:00, three more hours and 20 minutes.

I feel lazy, though. I don't want to do anything, but visit Margie, Lynxton and Jim. But I've got to get this done, so back to work I go. Well, maybe I'll be lazy for a few minutes, anyway, go back into the house and say "hi" to Margie and Lynx. Jimmy can stay here to watch things. Or, he can follow me into the house, if he chooses.

Uiñiq is 99 percent done - but that last one percent...

Uiñiq Magazine is 99% done. That last one percent can be a real struggle for me to complete as it seems like no matter what I do, there is always one more task I need to do and then one more after that, and one more after that… it can feel impossible. Thank goodness for Jim, my good black cat! He has taken up his workstation between my keyboard and the images I must adjust and convert to CMYK on my computer screen. Jim is doing all he can to smooth out the process for me.

I have taken great pains to keep the images in Uiñiq out of the public eye until the magazine actually comes out. The secton of face behind Jim is only a tiny, tiny, cut-out from a much larger image. I don't think it gives anything vital away. In fact, it might increase interest by making Uiñiq readers more curious to see what the full picture is going to look like when they finally see the magazine.

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.

Shadow me on last night's bike ride

Self-portrait from my bike ride last night. I saved it for this morning so I could leave the bubble shot on top for longer. It is Wednesday, the day I supposedly have set aside to do my blog in the old-fashioned way – with multiple images from my "real camera," not Instagram. But I don't know. Today and for the rest of the week I will be preparing my Uiñiq photos in CMYK. Come tonight, I will not want to breakaway to make a blog. But I can probably still quickly shoot at least a couple of iPhone pictures during the day, Instagram them and post them both to Instagram and my blog in this way, without losing much time.

I fear I am hooked on Instagram.

On the day when a new heat record was set, Kalib caught his grandma in a bubble

As I sat sweltering and sweating – literally – in front of my computer, which only added to the Intense heat of late afternoon, a new heat record for Anchorage was anounced on KSKA. Now, keep in mind that during hot spells it is typically as much as 10° hotter out here in this part of the valley than in Anchorage. The record was not for the highest temperature for the date, but for the longest stretch of consecutive days with the temperature above 70. Fourteen days! Right after the announcement, I completed one of the major tasks I had to do today. I could hear Margie, Kalib and Lynxton playing in the backyard, so I went out to see what was going on. I found Kalib blowing bubbles again. I don't think I will post another picture today, I want to leave this one at the top of the stack for a while.