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Big Miracle Movie | Official Site for the Big Miracle Film | In Theaters February 3, 2012

tundrachicks — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:51:18 +0000

Big Miracle Movie | Official Site for the Big Miracle Film | In Theaters February 3, 2012.

proud.

tundrachicks — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:20:22 +0000

I am so proud of my husband-to-be. He is in a movie. A big movie, Big Miracle. Here is the link to the website, you can find him under Cast and Crew, his name is John Chase and he plays “Roy” the Inupiaq whaling capt.

http://www.everybodyloveswhales.com/cast_filmmakers.php

I hope you go and see the movie, it will be a good movie.

I am proud.

hmmmm……

tundrachicks — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:40:12 +0000

I was looking at my stat’s on my blog and the number one search engine resulting in people finding my blog is:

nudist.

yeah. nudist! that’s crazy! I mentioned ONE comment on nudist and that is the NUMBER ONE reason people are looking at my blog. Maybe someone can write a blog about nudists so that I don’t have to worry about people being disappointed when they get to my blog and it has nothing to do with being a nudist.

The only reason my dad used to tease me and say “send all your friends over (for Halloween) I’m dressing up as a nudist this year!” was because he had polio when he was a boy and it affected his leg, his ability to jump and walk, and sometimes to walk at all. This is why he did not like Halloween, we have a big house and it was hard for him to get up and walk to the door every time a kid knocked on the door for candy. That’s it, no nudity going on in my house, just a joke my dad used to say to get us to tell our friends not to come over cause his leg was bum and he couldn’t spend the entire night walking back and forth to hand out candy…. sorry for disappointing all you fans of nudity or nudists.

Keeping warm, at -45!

tundrachicks — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:59:47 +0000

It’s cooooooold here in Kotzebue. It’s been below 20 F for at least 2 weeks. My chickens are happy and warm though.

Here they are scratching the floor for corn.

My little white Banty fluffing up to warm up. She still lays an egg a day even though it’s so cold.

My oh so frozen window. I carved a big smiley face in it afterward, so all the kids passing by would see the red light shining through.

Stay warm, like my chickens!!

little ornaments, big ornaments

tundrachicks — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:43:00 +0000

My most loveliest, handsomest, awesomest fiancé got me a new iPhone for Christmas! So now you will enjoy the post I wanted to write a couple weeks ago about my blown quail and seagull egg ornaments.

I’m on my phone now and I apologize for not knowing the WordPress app well. I think this added all the photo’s I just took.

You’ll have to just match my description to the photo while reading it.

One photo is of my seagull egg ornament. I blew out this egg myself a couple of years ago and it was sitting on top my knife magnet waiting to be used. (I think it’s the bottom picture)

Another photo is of the tiny quail egg ornament. I got these eggs from eBay. I think I paid 75 cents an egg plus shipping and handling. They are so cute!

I also made earrings out of the quail eggs. One set for me and two for my two sisters. I made two extra sets and gave them to the first two friends who showed up at my door. It was fun posting on Facebook, the first two people to come to my door will get a set of quail egg earrings.

Watching and waiting…

tundrachicks — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:53:03 +0000

Here I am, like a little kid, watching and waiting…….

A Family Portriat

tundrachicks — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:24:54 +0000

Here is a picture of my little family that a professional took a couple of years ago. Enjoy!

techinical difficutly.

tundrachicks — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:25:14 +0000

ugh. my beloved iPhone died. I’m sad. This also means I’m forced to use my real camera that John bought me to take pictures with. I have an Olympus Tuff. It can take pictures under water and do all kinds of fancy things. Today I tried to take a nice close up picture of my seagull egg that I made into a Christmas ornament but I can’t get the darn thing to focus on the egg. I want it to be close up, like the egg taking up the whole frame but it wont focus. I even tried to put it on macro but it still wont focus. hm…. anyway, I’m making some ornaments for my tree. Usually I pick one theme a year but I got too busy this year so its a combination of years past with the addition of 14 button quail eggs and one sea gull egg. Next year I’m doing a whole egg tree for sure.

Pictures to come, if I can figure the darn thing out!!!

birds of a warmer feather

tundrachicks — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:22:29 +0000

Every year we try to make two trips to Hawaii. Last year I took the kids by myself on one trip and then John joined us on another trip. When I had the kids myself we walked to the surf breakers and fed little birds out of our hands. They look like little finches, I don’t know what type of birds they are though. It was fun though. Clara got too impatient and started to feed the fish below us and Coltrane stood his ground and got one bird to get food from him.

Clara in front and Coltrane in the back trying to stand very still so the little birds will fly over.

You have to hold your little piece of muffin like this, or the birds wont come. If you put the muffin the palm of your hand they won’t even fly by. They are smart little birds!

Success!! The little birds almost hover by your hand to get some muffin. They are the cutest little birds!

And even Coltrane had success! He screamed “IT ATE IT!” afterward. He was so happy to get a little bird to eat out of his had. Clara and I had to stand there for an extra 15 minutes because he wasn’t about to give up and we were both out of muffins. It was fun and I look forward to doing it again in January when we visit Hawaii again!

15 second of Fame!

tundrachicks — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:54:53 +0000

I once made the FRONT PAGE of Anchorage Daily News. Yep, FRONT PAGE! No, I didn’t kill anyone, or get busted for anything crazy. I just raise chickens and write about it. Yep, that’s it. I raise chickens and I write about it….

http://community.adn.com/alaska/node/147056

Here’s the electronic version of the article. Our friend Kyle Hopkins wrote it for ADN. I had NO IDEA my picture you see on that article was going to be put on the front page of the newspaper. My grandma called me in the wee hours of the morning and said “Saima, you are on the front page of today’s newspaper!” I felt a sense of accomplishment and then I got nervous. I wasn’t ready for that picture, I didn’t pretty myself up… I had been shopping for chicken food and stuff all day so I wasn’t front page material that’s for sure! I remember though that this is my life. I am a simple girl. I like simple things and you will see that when you see the picture. enjoy.