The Apfelbeck family on the Internet

Sunday 7 September 2008
OK, I'm going to try and be much better about keeping the photos updated this year. I think I have some nice little code here, basic and simple, constructed with the kind of computing structure when HTML roamed the Earth, so I think I can keep up. Wish me luck!

Joe shows off the five spruce grouse that he and I got early Saturday morning. The birds gather along the road in the fall to eat small rocks for their crops; we gather the birds for our dinner table. We ate three of them later that night. It was very good.

Fall foliage along the Yukon River and looking out over Galena mountain. This fall has been dry and mild, with lots of days in the 60s and nights around freezing.

Joe knocks it out of the park during the local Little League tournament in July at the Galena ball fields.

The garden grew well, despite the much cooler than normal summer - sometimes just called the summer without a summer. (The low temp this summer was 33.1 degrees F at the end of July; 1 degree C for those of you in the rest of the world.) Despite this, we've gotten some nice flowers and good cool season veggies. The pinks are gloxinia out of cheap, cheap corms from Burgess Seeds; the marigolds are a mix of Thompson and Morgan seed; the lettuce is an reddish iceburg. We did all right at the Galena Ag Fair. Maybe next year I'll grow one of those monster cabbages.