Arctic Adventures

The (expletive) auger quit working Opening an old hole Brett's trusty ice scoop Lori (above) and Mark (below) had quite the set up.  They are also from the UP. Alision using one of Brett's handmade geppus. "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" Who needs chairs? As the guys fiddled with the auger, the girls took a break for some goodies. The girls- Lori, Kayla, Alision

We caught a lynx yesterday on our trap line. I was pretty pumped. Trapping totals: 12 fox, 1 lynx, and 1 weasel. Face Feet Grip and Grin Body Shot Tail

Kids say the funniest things: I teach PE for the whole elementary, and I had the 1st and 2nd graders on Tuesday. I was doing the butterfly stretch with them and one girl piped up, "Um... Ms Kayla I think you should be careful. You're going to rip your pants!" Kids in the same class always ask, "You still making baby?" "Yep." "Can I touch it?" hahaha at least they are starting to ask, I guess! The sixth graders often ask, "Why can't you make your baby here instead of Michigan?" A girl in my class was causing trouble all day. I took her aside and had a serious talk with her, as she walked back to her desk, she muttered, "Jeesh you're mean since you got pregnant!" On another note- We're definitely able to do a bit more exploring with our new snow machine. I took advantage of the beautiful, sunny evening and joined Brett to check his traps yesterday. Brett's new toy. P.S. Gas=$9/gallon Tall trees-looks

New, Teacher Housing Big Snowbank in Front of School This past weekend there were regional basketball games in Kotzebue. The 1A and 2A girls and boys games were there. In all there were 21 teams. They all stayed at the high school and middle school. Both of the Noatak teams had a chance to advance to the state tournament. Unfortunately for the girls only the first place team advanced to regionals. The Noatak girls made it to the championship game. They ended up losing to perennial powerhouse Pt. Hope. On the boys side both the first and second place teams advanced to state. The boys also made it too the championship game where the faced the 2-time state champion Pt. Hope Harpooners. They lost that game on Friday night and then on Saturday night they had to play the winner of the losers bracket to see who the second place team would be that advanced to the state tournament. The boys played Buckland a team that they must have played at least 6 times this year and beat them handily every