Snow on the Mts

Yesterday Lou and I woke up to a cold house and a delightful change to our view, snow on top of Sadie's peak. Mid-September and the mornings are getting more chilly, the winds are more fierce, we have nights again, and now snow across the bay.
Other exciting changes, Lou and I now have a nephew! Baby Hank arrived Sept 16th. He is a healthy boy at 7lbs 6 oz, blue eyes and for now red curly hair.
The property continues to keep us busy. I have picked a gallon of cherries off our cherry tree and several gallons of raspberries, and black currants. We are waiting for the first frost to harvest the apples. Lou and George are making a wine barrel mail box for the winery, it is very spiffy. We also completed modifications on Louie's commuter path to the winery. It feels good to be get some projects finished. Best part is we haven't had to buy any materials, everything we need is already on the lot. That's right, old wine barrels just sitting under shed #2 waiting to be made into a mailbox. And we keep finding more, Lou wanted a glass lamp to put agates in......found one.
Last month we went to the Kenai Peninsula Borough fair. The pig races were a real hoot. Apparently oreo cookies are very inspirational to piglets. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. Don't miss the pig races if you ever have a chance to watch them.
George, Louie, and I helped out on a salt-march monitoring project for Kachemak Bay. We spent a day hiking across China-poot's large salt marsh identifying the different plants within meter plots. Here George and Lou make their way across one of the side channels on the way to our groups plots. Identifying salt-marsh plants in the plot at a low low tide. Lou trying to find a plot location using the GPS without losing his boot in the mud.Another aspect of the project looks at fish biodiversity in the salt-marsh. The day before the plant plots I went across and did a few seines in side channels and set up this trap to catch fishes on the outgoing tide. It doesn't seem to matter what I am doing, where I am, or what the weather is, if I get to "work" with fishes I am a happy gal.