Happy Halloween! In my mind this was the best Halloween in Alaska yet! The carnival was great at the school. Amelia won the cake walk, Bingo and the costume contest for the "cutest costume"...my jellyfish won the "most original". Then we trick-or-treated with 5 other kids and got lots of candy...Reid caught on really fast and and after the candy was deposited into his pumkin he would say, "now we go to another house!".....and when we finally got home he said..."we eat it now?" When the kids were finally into their candy -coma...I went out to the Longhorn for a fun night of live music and lots of dancing!!! Cantwell Style!!!!!

After a really busy flying season and no chance to go hunting....we FINALLy got to harvest a caribou! The day was beautiful and the kids had fun...we saw lots of animals on the trip....coyote, fox, otter, lots of caribou, bald eagle.....the sleds were the ticket to get the bou back to the truck. We have spent the past few days cutting up meat and getting ready to make jerky!

These are two separate recent adventures...We harvested a couple of ducks off the lake out front for my Birthday dinner in September......they were quite tasty indeed! The second photo is of another hunt/hike that we weren't as successful on...we were looking for grouse or snowshoe hares.....we found no grouse and the hares we saw were too cute to shoot so we just let Amelia put the sneak on them and see how close she could get! Reid is happily loaded into the backpack..AGAIN getting another ride because he is too slow for our liking...and looking spooky in his spider hat!

This was an afternoon walk on the Jack River behind the house......Reid is yet again getting another free ride from Lance on the stick.....In the background are the Reindeer hills right across the street from our place