SPRING IS HERE!!!

Every year when the snow starts to melt we have lake front property... okay it's a pond, but I'M CALLING IT A LAKE! KNUDSEN LAKE to be exact.  Well this year was the biggest it's ever been.

On May 18, 2012 we had a record high of 63 degrees and my son and his friends were indoors playing video games- that's just CRAZY!  So I got them out the door and told them to shovel out the canoe buried beneath 5 feet of snow and take it out on the lake.  They had a lot of fun doing it too.

Here they are enjoying themselves.

 Oh and there's the infamous Ian Foster from Discovery Channel's Bering Sea Gold show in the background with his dredge Sluicey to the right.

 My crazy kids.

 Neighborhood kids came out from all over waiting for their turn to get a ride.

 I had my turn too ;-)

Discovery Channel's Bering Sea Gold

The show aired Friday January 27, 2012 at 9pm in Nome, Alaska.  I thought it was AWESOME!  Though I wish Ian Foster from Sluicey had more air time... but it was only the first episode.  We waited a long time for this to air.  I invited some friends over and had a little mini premiere party.  This is what I made...

 

Yeah, I'm a little fan crazy.  I had chocolate gold nuggets that I passed out as party favors.  The water bottles were easy to make and I liked them so much that I made even more...

left to right: Scott Foster; Andrew Merrill; Cody Moen, Steve Pomrenke, Shawn Pomrenke (not pictured) and Robbie Wade (not pictured) from the Christine Rose; Emily Reidel and Ezekiel Tenoff (not pictured) from The Clark; Ian Foster and Scott Foster from Sluicey; Steve Reidel, Vernon Adkinson, and Scott Meisterheim (not pictured) from the Wild Ranger, Ian Foster, Ezekiel Tenoff, and Emily Reidel.

Hey how that State Trooper guy from the National Geographic show get in there?

Actually he's a friend of ours and was a little jealous that this show was getting a lot of attention... so I threw him in there to make him feel loved.

Sargent Andrew Merrill









And then Ian Foster made a guest appearance at my premiere party...

 

Okay okay, so it was Ian Foster's head stuck on top of Taylor Lautner's cardboard body.  Most of the crews in the show weren't even in Nome during the premiere *sniffles.

I thought the first episode was great and cant wait to see more.

So you're probably wondering which water bottle did I choose.   I chose Emily Reidel of course! 

Yay Emily!

I found some great pictures of the cast at the website http://www.poptower.com/bering-sea-gold-cast.htm

Scott Foster


















Ian Foster

Ezekiel Tenoff

Shawn Pomrenke

Scott Meisterheim

Crabbing Through The Ice

My video on how we get crab in the middle of winter. Alaska Red King Crab.