What is up my friends? Once again, I apologize for not posting in a while. I'm kinda lazy, not gonna lie. BUT some fun stuff has happened that I think y'all would like to hear about. First, I have two funny wildlife stories to tell. Now, when people think of Alaskan wildlife, they think of moose and bison and elk and bears and a variety of other big game. What people don't usually think about are birds. Driving around in Alaska, I see a lot of people with dogs in their vehicles. This is a normal (and very cute) occurrence. Lots of dogs means lots of happiness for me. So I'm driving around one day and I see a dog kennel in the bed of someone's truck. I figure that this person usually transports their dog in the kennel or that, if the dog is in there, then it must be sleeping. So here I am thinking about all the cute dogs that could be in the kennel when a head pops up. BUT it wasn't a dog. IT WAS A TURKEY!!! So here I am laughing at a red light because a turkey just pops its head up in this dog kennel WHEN TWO MORE HEADS POP UP!!! There are now three turkeys in a dog kennel in the back of this dudes truck. I am rolling. I thought it was pretty hilarious. So my second funny encounter with Alaskan wildlife happened last week. My uncle and I had dropped some food off for his fiancée at work and we were driving back home. Sitting at the stop light, I look next to me and see a gentlemen in a truck. With the windows down. With a bird on the dashboard. I thought the bird was fake. But then it started moving its head. I tell my uncle and he thinks that it's fake. Then he sees it moving. He informs me that this is no ordinary bird. This is the Alaska state bird. A ptarmigan. That is a decent size bird similar in size to that of a chicken. What?!?!?!?!?! This man has a real live ptarmigan sitting on his dashboard while he drives through town! My uncle said he had never seen anything like that before during his entire time spent living in Alaska. It was crazy. Those were my funny wildlife encounters. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Yesterday was the summer solstice, and everyone is celebrating this weekend. The Midnight Sun Run is tonight, which is a 5K from the University to Pioneer Park. It starts later tonight around 10 or something. There is also a baseball game going on that starts around midnight. There's also a festival that goes on, but I'm not sure when that one is. Lots of fun festivities for the weekend. With it being summer time, the farmer's market is now open. Lots of yummy food and cool vendors. My brother flew up here yesterday, which is super exciting, so I took him to the farmer's market with me. I haven't seen my brother in six months, so it was really nice being able to see him once he got off the plane. We have lots of fun stuff planned. In July, everyone is driving down to Homer so we can go halibut fishing. I went to Seward two years ago to go fishing and had a lot of fun, so I hope that Homer will be just as fun. We are also (hopefully) going to go kayaking at some point. That's something that I have really wanted to do since the snow cleared and I think that it would be a great thing to do. Within the last week, I have been trained on day baking at my job. I was doing the early morning baking, which consists of muffins, cinnamon rolls, and cookies. Now I am doing the day baking, which consists of bread, rolls, hamburger buns, hoagies, cakes, and pies. I enjoy the day baking a lot more. I picked it up fairly quickly and hope to keep that position. That is most of what has happened within the last few weeks. Hopefully I will post more frequently, but then again, I am kinda lazy. I will post again in a bit!
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