This May Be Boring I Know

1. I didn't get around to the Friday shoot out this week. I have been busy and this last weeks slipped me by.

2. I feel like I'm in a blogging slump and not sure what to blog about. I kind of feel boring these days.

3. We had company from Arizona for a few days. A dear friend of the family is traveling Alaska and made it to Soldotna, we had a big family BBQ Friday night. That was a blast and it was great to see her after 9 years of being apart. I do have pictures to share when I have more time to organize them and blog about it.

4. I have been working a lot and it seems to swallow me up, and take my time away, usually tired and have other chores to do on my days off.

5. Oh yeah and we just got a dog, my hubby broke down and let my son get a half Sheppard and husky female year and a half old dog, named Rikki. She is pretty darn cute and has great manners. So next on my list of things to do is get her fixed, which I will call today for an appt. No puppy's here!!

6. My Daughter Lora called last night and says she wants to take me on a mini road trip next week to Homer, to do a little shopping and out to a nice dinner. Just a girls day/night out. I'm looking forward to that since I haven't really been anywhere all summer.

Well that about sums it up for now. Have a happy week!

Fire and Smoke

I awoke this morning to the smell of something burning, looked outside and man the sun is a ball of red and I mean it looks like a flaming red ball in the sky. It smells so awful here it makes me sick to my stomach! We have 70 fires burning in the state of Alaska right now, the winds are bringing the smoke our direction. It looks like we are fogged in with smoke. Not that there is much wind down low but it must be coming our way up high. Here is a new paper article on the fires and what is happening. http://www.adn.com/news/environment/fire/story/858338.html
Please pray for all these firefighters in doing their job as safe as they can and that they get some of these fires out as quick as they can.
I tried to take some pictures of the red ball in the sky and for some reason my camera does not want to pick up the intensity of it.

22 of 52

I'm participating in a year long challenge, created by Carin. The goal is to be in one picture a week, for 52 weeks. Since us moms are always behind the camera, this gives us a chance to get out in front and be in the pictures with our family. Fun challenge, right? You can join too! Just jump in right now and let me know you're playing along! Carin has added a Mr. Linky on Thursdays...so that we can check out each others pictures.

Well my only son left at home is not around much this summer so it is hard for me to get pictures of me with him. Ya know the teen thing! Hopefully next week will be better.