What went on this week...

We had a great week especially since all the snow is starting to melt!  Here in central Alaska we can have snow from October through April...and sometimes even into May.  It is great to see the sun again and to start to get a glimpse of bare ground.

We recently started a new read aloud, The Eagle of the Ninth...we will see how it goes...the first chapter was hard to get through simply because the book is set in Roman times and has a plethora of long Latin names!

On Friday, we are going over to a friend's house to make beeswax candles.  She raises bees so we have seen the whole process before (hiving, the building of the cells, producing honey, extracting it, etc.).  Now we get to work with the wax they produce.

Titan (our 11 month old mini schnauzer) got a chance to meet his baby uncle! Here is the story for how this came to be. Titan spent the night at Uncle Aurik's house on Wednesday.  We were told he was a "perfect, little angel" to his tiny relative! He did, however, have to teach Aurik "his place" a few times when Aurik became to excited in his playing.  This is interesting considering that Titan has only had exposure to older dogs...this was his first opportunity to be the "teacher" and "leader" to a pup younger than him.