We've been traveling around the country, it seems, for the past couple of weeks. And we leave mid-day today, back to Seattle, and while I come home Monday night after Avastin; Faith heads on to Anchorage for work. We started with a trek to Salt Lake City, to attend the Mule Deer Foundation and present information on Sitka black-tailed deer in southeast Alaska in a beautiful booth (created by Faith, I might add). That was February 10th through 14th. Two of our friends and associates came along to help with the booth and explain SE Alaska's needs for deer habitat restoration. The booth and all our efforts were tremendously successful, from all we saw and heard. Here's a picture...
Faith then flew home on Monday the 15th, while I flew south to Houston, TX on the 14th. Yes, it was time to go help farmers and ranchers west of Houston reduce the number of feral pigs on their properties. My good friends and hunting partners Gary, Chuck and John flew in from Colorado the same day, picked me up at the airport, and headed west. It was great fun in beautiful weather, and at the end of five days happy farmers were dealing with about a hundred fewer destructive porcines, while I was happily shipping over 100 lbs of organic, free-ranging, very tasty pork north to Alaska. A pic from my first ever hunting effort with a slug-loaded 12-gauge shotgun...
Now we're both home, and headed to Seattle today and Virginia Mason Medical Center tomorrow, for my 15th Avastin infusion. Only eleven to go after tomorrow! Being more than halfway done is a very very good feeling.
So we're headed out of the house shortly -- here's hoping you're having a great week too...
Dennis and Faith
1 comment:
mmmmm..... pork. Let me know if you you need freezer space for all "the other white meat"! We're making good headway on our moose, leaving lots of room. That sure sounds like a good hunt. I'm looking forward to having that kind of time off, too... someday. And a good week to you and
Faith as well.
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