August

I cannot believe how quickly this summer is flying by. D has completed his bar exam and my summer job has ended so slowly but surely our lives seem to be falling back into a pre-law school rhythm. Now we are beginning to prepare for our 1st Anniversary trip! We will be hiking the Chilkoot trail and spending a couple of evenings in Juneau, Alaska at the Capital Inn B&B. It is very hard to believe that in six short days we will have been married for a year! It has been a very stressful year in many ways and both of us are really looking forward to having a relaxing week of backpacking and some time to check out Juneau. My sister was born there but we moved away when I was about 4 and D has never visited so it should be fun to go explore.

For snacks on the hike we've picked about a gallon of wild alaskan blueberries which we have dried in our food dehydrator. We will mix those in with nuts and sprinkle them on top of oatmeal in the morning. We are also going to dehydrate some smoked salmon to snack on or to mix into Lundberg Farms Organic Risotto. I've also harvested a bunch of Kale that I plan to make kale chips with!

I plan to do a good cleaning in the cabin today and take Kluane for a run this evening and in the in-between-times continue reading Melissa Coleman's book This Life is In Your Hands. I am really enjoying it so far. I have loved reading several of Eliot Coleman's books on farming and it has been really interesting to learn about what first drew him towards the lifestyle in his youth. I definitely recommend giving it a read. 

Happy August!
Kyla