oops!!! forgot to post for the 3rd day of ONAC!!!

the knotty shop

the cabin that Ken and Lori stay in at Dawn Brown's - no running water - the bathroom is in the garage!!

Laura getting her award

ONAC dinner - very good!!!!!

the fur trappers auction again Sunday = I could not believe the number of horns!!!  $40 for 2 little tiny white tail deer horns!!!

Laura at the start

guess who got to sit here..................................
 

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!

 We have not   done anything particularly Irish today - I guess my sweatshirt is kind of a mint green.......

Slept very well at the extended stay home in Fairbanks - I thing spending 5+ hours a day for 3 days out in the cold creates "good sleep" scenario!!!  Got up kind of late, drove to Salcha to leave Ken and Lori with a big suitcase to carry back to Michigan with them so we would not have to drag it through  the airport in Chicago to get to our connecting flight to Muskegon on Wednesday!!  Stopped at a quirky gift shop mostly to see all of the burls on the building to compare them to the ones we are going to put up on our new porch extension -   ours look good but I think smaller............

Drove back to Fairbanks and had lunch at our favorite restaurant  - Brewster's and had our favorite meal - halibut!!!  This time we were smart and instead of ordering 2 dinners we ordered the double halibut meal and shared!!!

Drove around to 2 places in town to see if anyone could provide emergency care to my fur ruff.......dead on arrival..............  no help, said that I should try gluing suede to the back to hold it together - we will try!!!

the wildlife at the knotty store

on the ceiling you see moose antlers entwined - Randy surmises that they were fighting, got hooked, and then died

same here

the view behind at the gift store - only bought ice cream

you can't tell but this was one big bison!!!

went by Eielson Air Force base and saw some serious looking planes

can anybody tell me what these are????????????

second day of the ONAC

Amazingly the stations of the cross at St. Raphael in fairbanks are done in      beading!!!

second day times

fur auction in the parking lot in front of of the musher's hall today

 

first day of the ONAC!!

new ruff on the coat

Laura Bontrager finishing

 

more pictures from Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday!!!!

marble fox - at a native craft market at the native Alaskan convention

She is from Ruby one of the Iditarod checkpoints and her husband is from Mia, MI!!!

at the cultural center - us and Lori and Kenny Chezik and Pam Krueger from Michigan up to see Kenny run dogs

at the cultural center - why is the latin word for frizz "horribulus"??????

This is how my morning goes - getting ready to cook breakfast  in the microwave and toaster over!

man those are big tusks!!!

thesis the leader board for the race they are running this weekend -notice Ken Chezik at 4th - none of us can remember what year that was because it would be really cool if it wrecked one of the years Randy ran it - and his name would be farther down the board...............

a look into what might have been in a cabin in AK 100 years ago

same cabin - I guess it was circa early but had some things in it only 30 years old

a diorama showing dog sled

you can't tell but that was one bigggggg wolf!!

movie comes later

 the plane that an Episcopal Bishop flew all over Alaska to see to the physical and spiritual needs of the villages