Time is Getting Short

Where does the time go. It seems as we get older, time is like a dragster that starts off slow and then just keeps accelerating toward the end. Here it is the 1st of September and it's almost time for us to head for the "Outside". There are still so many things we want to do and so little time left to do them. There are dozens of projects that still need to be done here at the Chalets. We wanted to take a Fjord cruise, a flightseeing trip, do more fishing and go gold panning, and numerous other things we haven't gotten done yet. We wish we'd made the trip to Alaska many years earlier when we were much younger and could really enjoy the things there are here to see and do. If you ever get a chance to do it, make the trip!! Who knows how much longer you'll be able to avail yourself of the opportunities here before "progress" takes them away. The weather has been pretty rainy the last few weeks and it's starting to cool off. We've had a couple days down in the low 40's in the morning and some of the leaves are starting to turn their Fall colors. As the pictures show, the flower gardens are dying off and preparing for winter. Judy can't seem to keep enough feed in the feeders for the birds. They must be storing for the cold weather they know is coming. Sometimes I think is was cheaper to feed Dharma than these birds. They can go through $30.00 worth of seed a week. At least a bag of dog food lasted two or three weeks.
The last two days have been sunny so we're trying to get things here ready for Winter. The rentals at the Chalets have slowed down for a few weeks so Judy is washing all the things she hasn't been able to do this Summer. She's doing her "Spring" cleaning now. I've been trying to do some improvements on the WiFi here so they have better coverage all over the property but since I know just enough IP stuff to get in trouble, it's been kind of a struggle and a learning experience but I think now it's done.
Tomorrow we plan to go to Anchorage and have a new set of tires put on the truck at Sam's Club. It still has the original tires and the tread is getting pretty worn. It's a lot of money to buy 6 tires, but after our experience with the breakdown in the middle of nowhere on the way up, we want to reduce the possibilities of problems on the way home. You just don't know what wilderness really is until you make that drive up the "Alcan" and have no communications for 1500 - 2000 miles. There were days on the drive up here in May that we didn't even see another vehicle for many hours on end and some times never all day long. You might just as well turn off you cell phone for all the good it is.