Hi

  Thanks for sending the number.  They had a question about a prescription we were trying to renew.

   Sounds like you've been super busy!  Glad you finally got to go celebrate Ryan's birthday!  It's always fun, even if it's late!   Glad you're not trying to sing, too!  It takes time, even if it's enjoyable.  My voice has sure gotten crappy, I guess because of allergies or just getting old. 

   I'm still working on Lemmie's truck, still waiting for the rest of the J-channel.  It takes 2 1/2 weeks to get anything.  You order it, they send it to Seattle who takes three days to process it, they put it on a barge and it takes another week to get it here.  If she'd let me do it in brown, they carry it.  But green, not.  I thought maybe Home Depot in Juneau might carry green like they do in IF, but nope, just brown.  I've got most of the other stuff done, insulation in, inside done, doors and knobs on.  Extended the mirrors, fixed the passenger door so it will open from the outside.  Re-hung and rewired the taillights so they both work now.  Cut the big welded brackets off the back so I can make steps for it.  Still need to figure out what I'm going to do there.  I put steps on the cab so she can get in now.  Should be able to finish it up in a couple of days when the channel gets here.  I'm going to change the oil on it this afternoon and pump up the tires.  She still is trying to find some stock rims for it, it has fancy aluminum ones on it that are too big and it binds when you turn very sharp.  Wish I had the set from out in the back yard here, but sure aren't going to ship them up for her!  I'll be dang glad when it's done, but she keeps finding more stuff she wants me to do for it.  She wanted a back-up camera on it, but the one she got doesn't work.  It's for a car and has a transmitter that's supposed to mount in the trunk.  When I hooked it up it just gave a crummy picture on the monitor that you could hardly see.  Guess it doesn't work good trying to transmit the length of the truck through the steel box.  Oh, well.  Now she wants me to mount some of her used kitchen cabinets in it so she can pack stuff in it to go camping!  It was origionally supposed to be just a box so bears couldn't get into the garbage.  She's got about $1000 into it, but says it's still cheaper than buying a camper for it.  Hey, she's 75!  How much is she going to use it?

    We took her and Betty for a fall drive up Kelsaw road where we went gold panning with Alex while you were here. We stopped on that bridge to look at the water, and the Coho were running, so we got our fishing poles out to try our luck.  I caught a couple of smaller ones, only about 7-10 lbs, and mom caught a lunker that weighed 25.  She was pretty excited!  We threw back a couple of little dolly vardens, kept a brookie that weighted about a pound for Lemmie.  We also caught a dog salmon and ate it for dinner, but the meat is kind of mushy, so won't keep any more of those.  We haven't eaten the big one yet, cut it into steaks to freeze.  I think we'll try for some more of those, they're dang fun to catch!  Also caught a sockeye, but haven't tried it yet either.  Wish you could come up now!  If we'd tried to net them we could have caught 50.  They don't take the lures very good, it took us about two hours to catch the ones we got.  Betty caught one coho, but it was kind of mottled  as it had already spawned.  She said she would can it and it would be fine.  Lemmy and Betty loved being out, they don't go out much by themselves.  They're kind of wary about driving into the bush by themselves, afraid if they have car trouble they won't be able to get out.  They were like a couple of school girls, went wading in the water, and laughed and giggled a lot.  It was fun.  Guess that's why we're here.  The leaves are all changing, a lot are falling off.  The Devil's Club is all yellow with red berries, the Alders are golden, the fireweed is red, it's really nice.  I don't think it's as bright as it was last year, but it's still really nice.

    Well, I guess I'd better go get busy.  Sure love to hear from you and hear how you're doing.  Hope you have a great weekend!  Go do something fun!

   Love, Dad