Weekend at Home

A slow weekend at home. Landon built a T-Rex out of leggos which was pretty impressive. He looks like he's grown a foot in the last month or two. Grayson is a handful. We think he might be allergic to milk, so we've started him on soy milk to see if it makes a difference. The boat in the picture is from the township of Knik, down the road. It was Joe Reddington's boat (famous for establishing the Iditarod Sled Dog race). The tide in the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet varies as much as +/- 30 ft, so the boats are built with flat bottoms so they can ride out low tide sitting on the mud flats and not harm the keel. Joe and his family brought his fishing boat, "Nomad", into the bay one day in the 1960's and it has sat there on the mudflats every since. In the great earthquake of 1964, the flats rose in places and subsided in others as much as 15 ft - so it makes sense that when he brought the boat in there was more water to keep it afloat, and after the earthquake it became impossible to move it and it has sat there in the mud flats every since. Although others have said he brought it in as late as 1967, but it's hard to imagine that there was enough water to float it in after the earthquake since the little bay definately doesn't have the water to float it out now. I like the boat's name because we have basically been nomads for the last 18 years, making 9 state-to-state moves during that time, average a little less than 2 years at each location. Reddington was born in Oklahoma, served during WWII in the Army and then homesteaded in Alaska in the late 1940's. My guess is, we've probably already moved more times more than he did!