This is a cat who we were taking care of for several weeks in the spring of 2006 as it was recovering from a traumatic past. For the story of Sylvia's past see this Juneau Empire article.

(Sorry for the less than perfect photo, we do have others, however this was one of the cuter ones.)


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I praise God for where I live.

Below is what I experience and see from the house where I live.

It's never a dull moment on Gastineau Channel with fishing boats, tugs and barges, recreational boats, kayaks and scullers going about their activities. Fish jumping (and whales occasionally - though usually not jumping :-D), flocks of seabirds, whitecaps ( Read more... )

I'm thankful and trying to be thankful for all the difficulties and troubles in my life along with seeing the things that I cherish falling apart. For those things are helping to mold me (many times in ways that I don't even yet realize) into what God wants me to be and molding the world into the shape He wants it to be to ultimately achieve His ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for the increasing viewership of my westjuneau.com website and KINY Radio (http://www.kinyradio.com) now linking to both my weather page and my tide table page from their weather page and my tide table page from other pages of theirs.

I'm thankful for webcam images like these which show much of the Juneau area from Auke Mountain: http://www.rainforesttelecom.com/webcams/auke/Read more... )

I'm thankful the snow has stopped and the forecast is for partly cloudy and mostly cloudy skies through next Sunday - we'll see though. We've had the third snowiest November on record so far - 40.6" since November 13 and 52.1" since the snow began on November 6. All the rigarmarole related to the snow and my weather station was causing my health to ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for Bag Balm for chapped and cracked hands.

I'm thankful for the hope God brings me when a bird I haven't seen for a year or more or in some cases several years visits our backyard again. It gives me hope for the future that since God brings good things to us, even if sometimes we don't recognize the good things and act upon them or the time isn't right yet, He gives us a second, and a third ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for seeing a little Junco trying to take a bath in a very shallow pool of water on top of the ice in the bird bath. The temperature was 29.3 degrees F at the time.

I'm thankful for seeing a squirrel going in and out of a little snow cave in a spruce tree by our deck.

I'm thankful for the friendship God has given me of those on LiveJournal that have been friends with me since close to the beginning and I thank those friends for your inspiration, thought-provoking posts, God's scripture and insights, the pictures you've shared, the encouragement given, and the brightness you've brought into my life that otherwise ( Read more... )