I didn't have a blog yesterday as I was under the weather. I started getting a sore throat Tuesday and finally developed into a full blown cold yesterday. Jim took the motor home into have the headlights repaired yesterday. They had to overnight the Master Controller in to the shop. So far, everything is working ok. An expensive repair. Today we went to the Farmer's market again then drove up to a small area north of Fairbanks called Fox. We stopped by America's Most Northern Brewery called Silver Gulch Brewing & Bottling Co. They also have a restaurant there. They usually give tours of the brewery only on Wednesday and Friday, but Levi, the head brewer, was there and gave us a tour. Very informative. They need four ingredients to make beer - barley, water, hops ... read more

I couldn't get on the internet last night, so will try this morning. We went to Michael's house (Carroll and Barbara's son) yesterday. Carroll and Barbara are staying there while we are in this area. Barbara was in the process of canning salmon and rhubarb. She canned 19 pints of salmon and 18 pints of rhubarb. I am attaching a picture of Jim, Charlie, and Jerry trying to find gold. Carroll built this device made out of wood, plastic tubs, water pump and a piece of plastic drainage tubing cut in half. Carroll and Michael went to a creek bed and dug up several 5-gallon buckets of sand and gravel and brought them home. On the top of the device is a wood trough that has water pipes with water running. The sand and gravel is ... read more

It was another beautiful day in Alaska. I believe they broke the record for the low here this morning - 38 degrees. We drove to Chena Hot Springs which is about one hour northeast of Fairbanks. The first thing we enjoyed was the Ice Museum. This was built about 7 years ago. It is kept at 22 degrees inside and made out of blocks of ice inside. It has lots of ice sculptures, 4 ice bedrooms (which can be rented for $500 a night) igloo, an ice outhouse and lit by ice chandeliers. Next we enjoyed the natural mineral hot spring rock lake. It felt so good. They said the temperature ranges between 100 and 110 degrees. We then had lunch and then toured the hydroponic greenhouse. This was very interesting. Using water, nutrients and light ... read more

I am going to write this blog again. I had it all typed and lost the internet. I tried last night, but no internet then. Thursday night Scott, Carroll and Barbara's son, brought us huge cinnamon rolls that he had made. He is also the one that cooked our roasts for July 4th. Very good cook. Yesterday morning we got the rock chips filled in our windshield. A guy came to the park to do it. We had 3 rock chips and Charlie had one in his rv and one in his truck. Hopefully, we won't get anymore. We had another beautiful day yesterday. I went shopping with the ladies for quilt material and then we had lunch at a Japanese restaurant where they cook the food in front of you. Very entertaining and good food. ... read more

Yesterday was a catch of up day. We had light rain. Then it cleared up. I think it does that a lot up here. Did some laundry, cleaning and grocery shopping. Barbara and Carroll's two sons Michael and Scott live here in North Pole. We are having a cook-out here at Michael's house. I came here to use his internet as the internet at the rv park is so slow. Hopefully, I wiil be able to send the pictures of the construction equipment that I tried to send yesterday. Scott cooked boston butt roasts on the grill. Smell so good. Happy 4th of July everyone. It is about 60 degrees now.... read more