flooding

some pics of after the flood.
see the brown truck? it moved down the yard about 200 feet,amazinly the empty beer can never moved. see me in the canoe, I was trying to rescue someones lost 15 pack, only to discover it was a case of emptys. The ice by the trailer and truck the river had to come up over 6 feet to put the ice up there. the river had 3 huge ice jams in a short distance and the water kept backing up getting higher and higher, and then the side channel busted loose, causing the ice to rush through the rock creek area, where quest houses and camp trailers were pushe and moved around. One woman actually woke up from a huge chunck of ice coming in her living room!
the camper was a tourist camping and tried to get out, then the rescuers swaped the boat.
in the end everyone is ok, homes need repairs and vehicals need oil changes, but everyone was safe and ok at the end.

canoe in canoe out, OMG were flooded out

woke up @ 7am to 2 loose dogs, one is a runner (who found a moose bone so was easy to catch) and the other does not come when called, but this morning he came happily.
what set the panic was having to canoe accross the drive way to hopefully capture them before they ran off.
Today it is apperant we will have to clean some bush to tie up the pups and mom.
The reason dogs were loose, CHEAP quick links oh when will I learn? To my defense it was all they had at the hardware store, so I bought them. I do not understand WHY they cant supply people here, and else where with quality goods, not cheap crap for us to buy and be pissed about, I hate teh cost of the stuff up here, but will gladly pay more for quality, now only if we could get it...
Last night I was suppose to go clean my caribou hide and soak it, but stayed home, good thing I did, today I was suppose to do it, looks like I am booked up for today to though...
pics to come later

SOS

SOS, SAVE OUR SIBERIANS. We are flooding out here, had to move all the dogs and move everything to higher ground. Many of our friends are in a seriouse state of flooding and can only be gotten to by boat tonight. In the past 4 hours the water has come up at least a foot an hour. The river is full of ice and the water is flowing over the ice, and on top is more ice from where the river has broken up river and now is damming the river up really bad. We hope it goes good, if the ice breaks too fast it will flash flood, and if it holds people up river flood too.
We are ok though, we brought in a few days of water, and wood. We tied a canoe to the stairs in case we need it. We are in a 2 story building and the bottom is not in use, so we should be good.
Roads are washing out and hopefully we can get out with the truck.
So hopefully we dont get a flash flood here, tomorow we go t even higher ground and start clearing bush for the dogs in case it is needed. Hopefully we will be ok. I will try adn get some pics tomorow, depending on what happens. I will try to do an update, again depends on what we need to do and if friends need us.
goodnight....
our friends are in our thoughts and we hope no one looses too much, and everyone is safe and ok

grouse video 2

i went in a cleared some branches out of the way and got alot closer this time, he is very trusting. :)

grouse

rooster grouse

Although not clear, you can watch him do his dance. Turn sound off though as it is full of staic.

spring love, every one wants some

The past 4 nights we have heard from our bed room window the thumping of a rooster grouse. I have been outside all day waiting to hear him, hoping for some pics on the camera. Waiting and waiting . Well today he thumped his heart out this afternoon. It took me about an hour to close in on him and although I was increadable close (about 30 feet) my camera was not up to the distance. I will try and get the video on but having problems right now. OH GAWD i need a new camera, deffently on the list for this year. In the pics of a mess of bush you can see why it took a while to zone in on him, since he wouls be quite for some time once I got in close. I promise you he is in the pics.
It is HOT HOT HOT here, SO stinkin hot, we have hardly any snow and the river and creeks are overflowing with water.
On a great up side FISHING, YAY! The spring run of grayling are moving and the rivers is full of ice still, and water is running over the ice, making all the rivers still clear, so guess whats happening this weekend....FISHING!!