I just finished reading a great book about a local shipwreck: The Clara Nevada: Gold, Greed, Murder and Alaska’s Inside Passage (paid link) (check your local independent bookstore). I was honored to have Steven read and comment on my post on The Clara Nevada from February. He agreed to a book swap: a copy of his book for my Shy Ghosts Dancing: Dark Tales from Southeast Alaska.
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The porcupine population is on the rise, they say, and we’re getting ready. For years, pretty much every summer since the one time we saw a porcupine on the property, back in 2008, we’ve been lax, We’ve let the fence go to concentrate on raising the garden. Now, Michelle is stringing extra fencing along the gaps in the bottom of the fence and checking to make sure the tops are floppy. I’m carving pegs from yellow cedar to drive into the ground, pinning the fence down. Continue reading
