Crazy Busy and Day Trip
It is one of those times when everything seems to happen at once. We have a vacancy coming up in our building but the tenants can't tell us exactly when they will be out since they are buying a house. They are also getting married tomorrow so we are trying not to bug them too much. We have to get in there and do paint and carpet etc. to get it re-rented so we really need to know when that will be and I have to get it advertised. I know I will get phone calls asking when people can come look at it and when it will be available. I will just have to say July 5 or 7 and hope for the best.
At the other building we manage, sadly, one of the tenants passed away. The wife passed away and the husband will likely move out but once again we do not know when yet. I suspect it will be soon.
We just finally got one unit there rented!!! That felt like a momentous occasion after 6 months. Now there is the other unit still needing work and my husband is getting contractor bids to get it all done quickly. There may be another unit coming up too if the other tenant moves out. In the meantime the never-ending plumbing problems keep on going and the estimates for fixing them keep going up as the scale of the problem is identified.
My website traffic was way up a few weeks ago and I was getting 100 organic searchers per day. Then it dropped down. The Google update a few weeks ago seems to have boosted my rankings a bit however so that is good.
I just don't have time to write much for my site. I wish I did but as always summer in Alaska is hectic, gorgeous and short. We can't afford to mess around with these vacancies and lose rent. In the meantime I am busy at work and my husband is even busier at his job. His co-worker will be out for surgery and then possibly starting a new job so he will be alone to do two people's jobs again. We wanted to get away more this summer but we will have to try to just cram in some day trips. We did one last weekend and had a good time though it was raining. This is a gorgeous, fast moving, cold creek up in a mountain pass a few hours away. You can see there is still snow on the mountains. Just 10 miles away is the coast where we took a rainy walk.
Jessica
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Every time I see a picture of Alaska, I get more excited for my trip up there. Such a beautiful place. No matter what goes wrong, you are very blessed to live amongst such beauty. I hope you get everything rented. :-)
Well you will be here soon! The problem here is that we have very, very few roads. If you are anywhere near a the central populated area (around Anchorage) there are a lot of people on those few roads so you have to go quite a ways to get 'away'. There is only one highway out of Anchorage going north and one going south. To the west is ocean and to the east are mountains. This little spot is a gem a few hours south! To really get away you need to have a boat or airplane or be in good enough health to hike up a mountain.
Good Morning Jessica,
That creek looks lovely, probably good for stone hunting. As I got a rock tumbler for my birthday we now do stone hunting trips, great fun.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
That is fun! Where ii grew up had amazing rocks since we were at the northernmost end of the great mountain chain that runs north and south through Canada and the US and contains the Rocky Mountains. Right where we were located there are placer gold mines with lots of copper nuggets and the largest copper mine in North America was there in the early 1900's. There are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary formations all nearby. We found fossils, geodes, gold, copper and so much more.
Good Morning Jessica,
Those are exciting places you tell me about. At the moment I have to do with beaches and river deltas ending in lakes etc. We bought swim flippers, glasses, and snorkel and ordered a 30 meter waterproof handheld small metal detector online.
My Mother used to find unusual stones and I did too. Here at home, I have quite a few bags full of stones collected over time.
On a trip to the south of Portugal, I found a fossil of a sea dollar, a real beauty.
Have a good weekend, Taetske
I've always wanted to visit up there. Tried to get sent up there while in the Army but they didn't need my MOS up there at the time. I think I would have stayed there if I ever got to live in Alaska for any length of time. Would love to come up and do some fossil hunting but I understand that's illegal. :0) Sounds lovely where you are. Best wishes. You can fax me a salmon anytime ya like. LOL
I would love to fax you some of Alaska if I could. Where I grew up we had great fossils! It depends if you are interested in plants or animals. Yes, the animal/fish fossils can be restricted. There are some gorgeous ferns and other plant fossils however.
There are plenty of gorgeous rocks, gems, gold, copper etc. that you can find as well.
Florida isn't quite so picky. You do need to get a $5.00 permit to pick them up on a public/state-owned property but the money goes to a worthy cause. Our entire state is literally built from fossils.
There's just something fantastic about being to reach down and pick up a fossil that you know is at the very least a couple of million years old or more.
My daughter and I are planning a trip to the west coast of FL this winter to expand our search for a large Megalodon shark tooth. Winter is best here cuz the gators and snakes aren't quite as active.
We have another variety of fossil that moves south to retire here too. :-)
A Mega shark tooth would be at the top of my husband's wish list. He is kind of obsessed with them. He loves "Shark Week" too.
We have dinosaurs here, ferns, mammoths...lots of cool things as well as lots of fish, birds etc. as fossils.
Yeah, the megs are amazing. Hope to have one by this time next year. No dinosaurs in FL though. They were extinct about 30 million years before FL rose above sea level. Lots of sea critters though!
All those -ologies are interesting to me. Archeology, Paleology, geology.
My undergrad degree is in anthropology and I did a few archaeology and geology courses. It is fascinating!
You two certainly are hard workers! I hope all goes smoothly with the move-outs, move-ins, and remodels. Hang in there, girl!
Thanks Fran. It seems a bit crazy. I debated about putting it in this post but may do a separate post...there have been a ton of shootings lately too. Several happened just last week while we were at the building and could hear the sirens. Literally, two in one week (3 people shot) happened within a few days both when we were there and heard the sirens). A third happened not long after I passed through the area and a forth happened at a trail closer to where we live. It is a gorgeous waterfall that I have not been to in years but now with a recent murder it doesn't sound so appealing. A man was found shot in the street just two blocks from the 6-plex. A 12 year old shot two people and the 18 year old died in another. A 16 year old shot and killed a 19 year old and dumped her into the creek under the waterfall and I don't know the details of the other one...This is not my Alaska.
What caused all that, I wonder? No, that's not my Alaska either. I hope things settle down in your part of the world.
I don't know but for a few years we were breaking homicide records every year. In 2017 there were 35. This year finally seemed better until now. There have been 16 around Anchorage so far in 2019. I don't know what caused these ones but in the big picture it is mostly drugs and gangs here. We have gangs from Mexico, Russian mob (though they don't do the stupid drug killings here), the Crips and Bloods, Samoan gangs, African gangs...you name it we have it here now. It is very sad. Basically they decided to get soft on crime a few years ago (SB91) and things got worse too. To open up the prisons they stopped locking some up that would have been before. Car theft rings popped up and it was out of control. My co-worker had her vehicle stolen out of the parking garage here at the state office building in the middle of the day! Luckily the guy's face was clearly caught on camera!
SB 91 is getting reversed finally.
Good Lord, that is terrible! Thank goodness I live in such a small town that a gang would be pretty out of place here. Hope it stays that way.
Now they have arrested 5 young people (all teenagers I think) over the killing of the woman they dumped in the stream by the waterfall. So sad. Apparently they all planned it. I have no idea what the motive was.
If you don't hang around with bad people you are probably ok though. Most of these crimes are between people who know each other. Of course the theft, robbery etc. often is not.
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Hi Jessica, You really sound to be pair of busy bees, the picture is great but the force and colour of the water does not seem to entice me to go for a swim. Pleased to hear Google is helping in some way. Paul
It is a popular rafting location but people get in trouble there too. Thanks. Yes we are busy!