I'm so disgusted I can hardly believe it. The sale of the house fell through again. We are just beside ourselves with how upset we are. Why does it have to be so difficult for folks to come up with a loan???
Jake started his job and that is great news. He called last night, however, and asked me how I thought I should he should deal with a person he has in his training class who is a muslim and sits in the class making statements of Islam and is extremely disruptive and distracting to Jake. I told Jake that he should probably talk to the teacher because there are probably others in the class who are bothered by him. Jake wanted me to tell him what I knew about the Koran so he could talk to the guy, but I didn't think that was maybe the best approach because Jake also noted that he thinks the guy is one exposure short of a full roll of film. I pray Jake gets this settled so he can concentrate on getting through this class. I almost couldn't sleep last night thinking about it and it was the first thing on my mind this morning.
Lauren is doing fine I think. She's attending her classes and trying to keep up, but with all her distractions or distraction, it's hard for her.
Clay is doing well. He is feeling good and back at work and seems fully recovered from his trip. He brought me a couple of nice gifts, a pair of mammoth ivory earrings and a night shirt. He is very thoughtful.
Well, hopefully our new realtor can sell this house for us pretty quick. Tracy, at work, told me that it will sell by the 10th of October. Okay, we'll see if that happens. I've had people make predictions before and they have not worked out.
The weather here is still pretty nice. Somewhat cooler, but still for September it's been fabulous. Peace out.

Well, I have no photo for today. I guess that means I'm going to have to get my camera out and get busy! My honey gets back tonight from the moose hunt! They did manage to get one nice moose and were going to try for another yesterday. Hopefully that worked out to have happened. It will be nice having him home again.
Jake still has not gotten a job. He's very busy filling out online applications, though. Today he has an interview with ACS and I am praying he gets that job!
Lauren is trying to drop her German class. She said she just can't keep up and I believe that, but I don't think she had a clue going into it that it was going to require a lot more than she was ever willing to put into it. She is going to try to get some of her money back, but I think it's probably too late. What a waste.
The weather is just starting to turn a bit colder. Yesterday was a balmy 68 I think. Today the high is supposed to be 50.
We may have sold our NV house too, which I don't want to get my hopes up, but that would be so awesome! We'll probably know for sure by Friday. Hopefully I post good news by Saturday!!

I'm still learning my way around this whole blogging thing. I did realize that I could provide a link to some other photos that I have posted at a webshots site if there was anyone interested in seeing these as well. Alaska Photos
Still no moose for Clay, but the rain is subsiding and a moose was spotted yesterday so hopefully today will be the day! He said his hunters were really great guys and he so wanted to make sure they got a moose.
Still no job for Jake, but he may hear something tomorrow. I guess he's not hungry at this point. I know when I got hungry, back in the day, I went to work at a restaurant. I always knew I had one good meal for the day. Cody's mom is heading down on the 27th and will be taking the kitten.
The photo is from Lauren's graduation. I love throwing in random photos. I totally need a new photo of me without the red hair. lol!
Yesterday I worked on Chester's brag book for over 4 hours. I am almost finished! It is turning out great and then I can work on some other projects I have wanted to do.
Is September really more than half over???

Well, the house is officially finshed and I'm glad for that! They redid the carpet downstairs and it looks better, but definitely it is ruined. Most of the stains in Jake's room are still there, but look more like grey blobs now.



Jake has not gotten a job yet, but might know something on Monday. Clay called and is doing fine on his hunt. Apparently moose are around, but the hunter missed his first shot at one. They have until Tuesday to get it done.
The card above is one that I made last weekend. The set of ghouls is pretty cute I think. I like the way it turned out.
We finally have the NV house back on the market and already have someone making an offer. I sure hope this one pans out. We are just sick of having to deal with all of this.
Today is Thursday. Never one of my favorite days, but it's almost Friday and that is a good thing! I am looking forward to going to bed early.

This morning at 5am I took Clay to the airport. He's heading down to the peninsula to guide for the moose hunt for 2 weeks. It was the first time in about 3 months that I'd seen the moon. What a beautiful moon! And lo and behold, a small aurora borealis also shimmering in the sky. Up here it can be worth it to get up early! I was reminded of our first October up here. (2002) One night we had a tremendous show of the northern lights and it was the next day that we were hit with a record setting earthquake. Amazing! It's really lovely outside with all the colors changing, yet still so much green. I wish the season lasted longer, but the reality is that by the time Clay returns it will be winter.
We still have people cleaning our home. It finally looks like they are getting somewhere. All our ceilings were repainted, the couch and chair cleaned and I think today they'll be doing the carpets.
Mom made it safely home from Montana. She'll be making plans to return next month.
What to do for the next 2 weeks?? Hmmm, I'm sure I could find lots of trouble to get into, but I better keep things cool. No one would know what to think if I ever got into real trouble! No matter what, I'm always busy. I'm sure it will take a few days to finally get my house back in order. Hopefully we get our curtains back soon. I'm starting to feel weird about that.

Labor Day...hmmm...great day to have off work. It is absolutely gorgeous outside. I'm sitting here waiting for Lauren to finish getting ready so we can go out and enjoy this weather while we still have it.
Jake called. Still no job. He's getting quite a bit bummed, but I can't help him and that's hard for me. I'm sure when he gets a job things will start to pan out.
I made the card at left yesterday for an apple swap. I have a few projects in motion, but really just want to cruise around today, maybe hit a couple of stores just to browse as money is really tight right now.
We are considering planning a trip down to NV again in November. Not sure if I really want to go. I hate the thought of leaving Chester. We are definitely going to Mexico or Hawaii in February and that I will leave him for! But Nevada...not sure if it's worth it. Ha!
Mom travels back home on Wednesday. Hope she has a safe trip.
Our house is looking pretty good. I guess the carpet cleaners come tomorrow and will do the living room, downstairs and Jake's room.
I think she's ready so I'm off.

Today is the first day of September, which means it could snow any day now. It's basically one of the first days of winter here in Fairbanks. We've been fortunate though, since we moved here it hasn't snowed until toward the last week of September. The weather has been really nice for about the last week or so.
Lauren really likes her classes, which is good. She and Clay are going to PBR tonight! This something that they've been talking about doing since she was a little girl. Who would think that the tour would ever come to a place like Fairbanks, AK?? I'll be doing the grocery shopping. It was just too expensive for us all to go.
Three day weekend!! What's not to like about that? Hopefully I'll be spending it stamping, mostly.
The photo is from our fishing trip in July down in Valdez. My biggest one was the fish directly front and middle. It had a line caught in it's mouth from one of the halibut boats. Pretty cool...stole one from the big guys!!