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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Hanging in Homer

Made it to Homer without having to spend the night in Anchorage. Shellie and Mom are leaving for Las Vegas tonight; better them than me.

Bill and I are waiting for Jake to get back from dipping with Grandpa Gordon.  Hopefully we will then be occupied filleting, bagging and freezing Reds. 

Went over to a neighbors yesterday where they were in the middle of a five day process of firing pottery in their walk in kiln. 

First they load it with items to be fired.
These are photos of the four rows of pottery. 

Then they build a fire just outside the entrance.  After a day of dehydrating they move the fire inside and brick up the entrance with a door hanging from cables over a hole left for adding wood.
It is a two man job swinging the door aside while the stoker throws the wood in. They were putting in an armful about every four minutes. 
They showed me the stack of wood they would use to finish and the whole job must take several cords. 

They gradually bring the inside temperature up to 1200+ Celsius and hold that for about three days.  
They were in day three of that stage when we stopped in and sleep was becoming something they dreamed about. 

Going for halibut tomorrow then up to Soldotna. 

Weather still perfect 

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