One Track Mind

We have been spending most of this week on the four wheeler. The weather has suddenly taken a rainy turn, but Nick has insisted that we are running out of time to catch lemmings before the first frost. He has been madly riding around, setting traps, and mumbling incoherently about not letting Dr. Nason down. I have been trying to encourage him that he is a star regardless of the number of lemmings he catches. I can tell by the glazed look in his eyes that I am not getting through. We don't call him Captain Lemming for nothing.

Below are some of the pics we took on our many rides around the village. You can see Stebbins in the background of the picture below.
A lot of the these pictures end up looking the same, but it is so pretty, we can't resist posting just a few more....

We went blueberry picking again today. The tundra is turning beautiful shades of red and yellow. It is hard to believe that the blueberries are still everywhere on the tundra. We thought that they would be finished weeks ago. We are planning on making blueberry jam this week. The cranberries are also getting close to being ripe enough to pick. As you can see from the picture below, Nick was more busy eating the blueberries than picking them. Let the tongue stand alone as the evidence.


Actually, to be fair, he picked more than I did. It was pretty rainy, so our hands were numb, and we picked as many leaves as blueberries in the process. Afterward, we took a ride out to one of the cliffs. There was a dead walrus (the size of a small couch) that had washed up on shore. Very sad :(

On that note.......