Lots of Change....

It's been too many years since I thought about my abandoned blog, and for this, I am sorry. But I have been doing many things and have gone on many adventures since. This will be whirlwind, but I'd like to get you all up to speed.

• Left Oregon in April 2009 for a job at the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, in Wildlife.

• Started back at school FULL TIME (with dedication in tow) the Fall of 2009.

• Ditched the lame ex boyfriend - I don't remember when but it wasn't soon enough.
• Went hunting for caribou in the Brooks, duck hunting in Minto Flats (flown in by friends!) and went black fish trapping too!
• I continued to work for ADFG in Wildlife through school, when I was awarded a grant to research the morphology of northern hemisphere bear claws...more on this later.
  
• then I met this guy on 5/8/2010, immediately proclaiming him as my future husband, whether he likes it or not:

• in May of 2011 we bought this house:
• Since these large leaps in my life, I've been scrambling to decorate, do homework, help my brother get hitched (yay!) and a multitude of other feats.
  

I have grown exhausted and weary, and yet my brain still says that I have far too much to say, and since Facebook isn't really the most appropriate platform for this type of discussion, I will {hopefully} continue the flow of creativity, take-the-world-by-storm ideas, and creations. I will also write innumerable run-on sentences like the one above because they are easier to write and because I obviously didn't learn anything in my English classes!

Holy F*ing Sturgeon

Two small sturgeon and the biggest live trout I've ever seen. He was such a monster I almost mistook him for a salmon, except the sign read 'Rainbow Trout'.

Longer than one of my whole arms and I've got some pretty gangly arms...

The window is five feet across. Fishing regulations state that no fisherman can take a sturgeon in excess of eleven feet as female sturgeon don't produce eggs until reaching this average length. This thing rivals many species of shark - in length any ways - being bottoms feeders, they aren't much for gigantic teeth or predatory habits. This picture was taken through my sunglasses - seems like I was the only one out there that could this beast through the water (which was about ten - fifteen feet deep.) Thanks polarization!

I never knew that ducks were so gregarious with people....

...Until I realized that they come to the sound of the fish food dispenser dishing out an afternoon snack. I was a stupid tourist, again. But entertaining as hell to hand feed ducks! I bet the fish were pissed, the food never got that far.

Pretty neat, its the biggest weirdest most archaic fish I've ever seen!

A Day at the Oregon Zoo

I can't remember who these curious little guys are...but they were in a woodstove.


These poor monkeys acted like they were all incarcerated. And the chain link didn't help either. Obviously one of the smartest of the zoo animals.

Freakin huge beaver - must have been 30 lbs.

This little black bear has a relative - the relative is much MUCH bigger than this one. If it wasn't for his roman nose I'd mistake him for a grizz.

G'Day Cougar - he was ruffling his bedding.

Pretty ducky - harlequin?

The zoo keepers give marine animals the rags from car washes - they make great nests apparently. I've never seen a sea otter on land.

This is ironic. A turtle with a tracking device.

Notice HUGE fish in the background..

Red Hemlock - Nice to see the world has some big trees still.