Reviewing photos of our Alaska trip I had to share these -- sorry if I already have -- but they remind us of our gold prospecting. The statue is in honor of the men who came up to Alaska in 1898 for the Klondike gold rush. They got off the boat at Skagway and then had to go up through the Chilcoot pass - a horrible trip that many didn't finish. The '"gold boulder" is a replica of the boulder of gold found in the area. We didn't get to do any gold prospecting in the Klondike. We didn't go up the Klondike highway and what we heard was you needed to go on someone's claim to look for gold.
The wind blew so hard here this weekend that everything has a new coating of dust. Jim had to clean the pool and hot tub. They weren't covered during the dust storm so they were a disaster. They were full of all kinds of flower and plant parts as well as a ton of dirt. He spent almost the whole morning trying to get them a little bit clean. We still prefer blowing dust once in awhile to blowing snow!
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