Lucky Thirteen

Yesterday we celebrated the thirteenth anniversary of moving to the homestead.

We’re smack dab in the middle of Reserve Week, when we try to avoid social obligations beyond Michelle’s birthday, our homestead anniversary, and our wedding anniversary, in a couple of days (see August 14, 1982).

We’re also smack dab in the middle of a drought! While that causes a lot of serious problems, it also means that we held our celebration in sunny, warm weather.

And, we’re also mid-tourist season, and since Michelle and Aly work in the industry, we had to celebrate in a flexible way.

The Zeiger Family Homestead 2019

The homestead from the water, 13 years since we moved in (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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Ghosts of Lynn Canal

If you read this blog often, you know how much I like watching the world go by the shore of our homestead. Lynn Canal is, particularly in summer, a fairly constant parade of water craft, north and south, back and forth through our view.

Of all of these vessels, perhaps my favorites are the Ghosts of Lynn Canal, the vintage wooden halibut schooners that ply our waters in the summer and early autumn months.

Halibut Schooner BERYLE E.

The halibut schooner Beryle E, loaded with fish (in blue totes), heading for Haines (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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