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Carrie and Torsten joined a big group of friends for “the best Easter Egg Hunt in town”* at Jessica and Mike’s. Kita and Suka got to go and be free amongst lots of kid and millions of eggs. Torsten enjoyed the hunt, the eggs, and the marshmallow roasting. I didn’t hear if anyone tried roasting peeps…
It was one of the earliest Easters possible and this is one of the latest “here’s our Easter pictures” blogs out there on the internet…. –Matt
Check out the writeup in the Capital City Weekly! Good press for Talus Tiles, and Carrie’s big push on painting and firing over the past few weeks is paying off. She’ll be at the JAG for the “First Friday Gallery Walk” tomorrow (3/7) and she’ll have a table at the Auke Bay Coop Preschool Fundraiser Spring Bazaar at Smith Hall (at chapel By the Lake Church next to UAS) on Saturday (3/8). Here’s the great photo from the Cap City article:
Carrie went in with Abby and Chip on a booth at Juneau’s Public Market.
Carrie was really on top of it this year, especially with her own Talus-Tiles kiln in the garage. There was of course still a small last minute “get it all together” panic:
The public market was lots of fun for Carrie, and Torsten and Matt got to hang out together for a good intense father/son weekend. Here are several photos of Carrie’s part of the booth, and they show off one of her new trials this year–the big noodle bowls which came out amazing!
We drove from Fairbanks (thanks for lending the car and gear, Anne & Don!) to Chuvena. By amazing total-lack-of-coordinating, both the Robinson clan and the Talus-Heavner clan were running exactly the same amount late, and we pulled into the parking area within one minute of each other! After an instant friendship (memory?) in the parking lot:
We had a great hike into the cabin (Harlow and Matt working as camels, seen below).
Then we got to the cabin and all enjoyed saunas, canoeing, catching up, lounging around, etc..
The whole gang got in for a dock picture (that’d be, from left-to-right, Dave, Alice (rear-end), Harlow, Carrie, Eli, Riley, Blair, Shawna, Aspen, Rowan, Gina, Tooth, Carrie, Torsten, and Matt).
The kids all had a blast (enjoy the Sauna here):
And they especially enjoyed jumping over to the round dock–it not only made the mom’s scared, but even the dad’s were a bit worried–that’s how much fun it was! 🙂
As always, check out the whole gallery.
Matt went up to Fairbanks for a two day NSF grant writing workshop, then Carrie and Torsten came up afterwards to enjoy some of the lovely August Fairbanks sun. It was perfect!!! Thanks to Don and Anne for everything–a place to stay, a car to drive, great hospitality, hosting a good potluck dinner to reconnect with friends, and gear loans! We owe you–come down to Juneau soon! Here’s Carrie enjoying the sun:
A few images from the potluck dinner:
It was especially great to meet Emilie (read her family blog at http://truffer.blogspot.com/ ). Here are a few of our photos of the 4 day old:
A quick photo-nod to all the fun that Torsten and Sonja had in Anne and Don’s awesome new yard and house:
and a link to the whole gallery will wrap up this blog entry.
Carrie has been keeping up with the tile production and expanding her repertoire amidst all the house moving/selling/buying craziness. Matt has to get the correct pigtail for the kiln at the new house, but Carrie will be ready to fire up the kiln again soon! Fall market is already in her sights. Here’s a little preview of some of the new tiles. (Usually we scan her tiles to get better images, but the scanner is still packed up–so a photo with a little bit of the flash is what we’ve got for you today.)
Carrie is busy at the Juneau Artist Gallery and with keeping the kiln hot. She has been branching out a bit in terms of subject–adding Float Planes and local Plants along with the “old standards”. A few of the new ones are shown below, and you can check out the latest gallery. We are also exploring selling the tiles through http://talustiles.etsy.com/ check it out!
After the great bike ride fun (see previous blog entry), we enjoyed the post-race dinner, and then searched out a quiet camping spot. We went out to the Chilkoot Lake State Recreation Site and found a really great spot. After sleeping in a bit, we woke up, had coffee and hot chocolate, then started packing up. Carrie finished this up while Torsten and Matt went down to the lake to fish and do some father/son bonding on Father’s Day. Carrie came down and joined us after a bit.
We have some great fishing movies, but I still have to compress those for posting. In the meantime, enjoy this still shot (and I’ll post a bunch of movies as a separate blog entry).
We went into Haines and had some “famous” fish and chips for lunch at the Bamboo Room, played at the playground, and went to join in with all the other unique, individualists who drive subarus and bikes, just like us and everyone else. 🙂
As always, check out the whole gallery (includes the bike race and fishing).
We had an awesome adventure last weekend centered around the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Race. It started out with a beautiful blue sky, flat water, fast ferry ride from Juneau to Haines. Carrie, Torsten, and Matt were on the ferry with Adelie, Chip, Missy, Mark, and Julie. Chip “Dr. Blokus” brought along his favorite game..
After grabbing dinner and some new fishing gear for Torsten, we went on up to Haines Junction (Canada) and camped with a lot of bikers. Here’s the start of the race on Satuday.
Carrie, Chip, and Matt rode as Team US Postal Service, with Missy acting as our team captain. Julie and Mark rode the whole race (150 miles–the race was 148.1, but they rode bikes from the campground to the start of the race). Chip rode legs 1-4 (69.4 miles) of the race, and was a bit wet and cold. Once he got up into the mountains, the skies cleared up and things warmed up, just in time for Matt to hop on to ride legs 5 and 6 (36.3 miles). Carrie got this great shot of Matt heading down the road after the station between legs 5 and 6.
Here’s Chip after Leg 4, escorted by Missy, Adelie, and Torsten:
After thoroughly enjoying Leg 6 (check out the altitude profile of Leg 6!), Matt handed off to Carrie (here she is riding off down the scenic road), who did Leg 7 and went on to do about a third of Leg 8 (the line at Customs to get back into the U.S. was a killer!!). Carrie rode a little over 30 miles.
Chip cleared customs and jumped right back in to join Mark and Julie at about midway through leg 7. So the US Postal Service team “cheated” (by covering parts of legs 7 and 8 twice) to get the red lantern (last to finish). But we had a blast and that was our only goal. Here’s the whole team (along with the “finishers”–Adelie and Torsten).
As usual, the whole gallery is available.
Matt here. I broke the photo gallery. I did an upgrade to version 2.2.something, so that I could add videos directly to the gallery, now it doesn’t work. I hope to get it fixed tonight! I’ve also heard from a few people that I should fix comments–I was getting approximately 10 “Spam” comments per day and got sick of it, so I added the “spam filter” (do an easy math problem) and that wasn’t quite working right. So I’ll put getting comments working correctly up on the list of things to do. While I’m hacking away on these things, I’ll let you enjoy at least one new picture of the family.. We went up the tram with Chip, Missy, and Adelie last Sat–lots of snow still up there! Hopefully the gallery will be fixed and more pictures will follow!
