Quilters in Delta Junction may be a bit different
DELTA AG PROJECTS, ALASKA... During the past week or so, much of my time has been working a blog. Not this Alaskan Quilt in Oregon blog, rather its a blog about living in Delta Junction, Alaska.
There is a rather nice lady who quilts and does a bunch of other things in rural Alaska. BuffaloGal is her email handle and buffaloing is among her day-to-day activities.
She has been keeping a Web journal on her ranch web site since last June. Recently she was convinced to add blogging to her journaling. My job was to help BuffaloGal move her Web entries to her blog.
In this process, I was doing a bit of copy editor work creating headlines and making journal entries more readable online. So after moving over 50 entries to the blog plus a bunch of neat photos, I had learned much about raising bison and elk on an Alaskan Game Ranch.
Ruby, thats BuffaloGals original handle, helps her husband, Scott, her sons, Russell and Buckley, her brother-in-law, Eric, and more than a few friends and relatives to run their 2,000-acre farm/ranch in the Tanana Valley of interior Alaska. They used to raise Black Angus cattle on the home place and buffalo on the Frog Farm. Now the entire operation involves buffalo (bison) and elk.
The Game Ranching in Alaska blog is a very interesting read. Ruby and Scott are lifelong Alaskans. While watching the Gulf Coast hurricane disasters, Ruby blogged on her experiences in the Good Friday, 1964 earthquake disaster in Alaska.
To get a feel for living in rural Alaska where it falls to 65 below zero in winter and gets up over 90 in summer, read a few (or all) of BuffaloGals blog entries.
But wait a minute this blog is about quilters and this entry started with Quilters in Delta so one might ask, How does all this about Ruby have to do with quilters? Good question.
The following is Rubys blog posted Sunday, December 11, 2005 and titled Quilter's guild alluring spa fantasies.
Scott, Buck and kids went out to butcher a bison. It's still +15F so we need to get as many done while the weather holds. We were a little worried that the snow would crust and the young herd at the home place might have trouble getting to the hay ground. So far so good. Scott had a hunt yesterday and also took an animal for meat.
Buck and the kids cut 2 spruce down for their Christmas trees. Buck had a bison in the back of his truck plus 2 trees which he lost along the way. His dad went back with the truck to "save the trees."
I attended the Forget-Me-Knot Quilter's Guild Christmas Party at the neighbor's yesterday. What wonderful food. It was my first Christmas Party with the group.
We talked about the humor of starting an "alluring" spa out here. Decided that we could use fresh bison cow chips for the mud bath, also utilize the dry buffalo chips to heat the sauna and have that benefit too, have the elk horn tablets available for? , the Northern Lights for the mood and moose nuggets (droppings) as a skin treatment. Okay, we really all do need to get to a spa.
The guild is 42 strong and is filled with tremendously industrious women. They do quilts for fire victims along with their own that they usually give for gifts. The ladies are originally from South Carolina, Massachusets, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Montana, Michigan, etc. plus Alaska. Quite a mixture of fun people.
That is just a taste of the fun reading on BuffaloGals blog read on!
There is a rather nice lady who quilts and does a bunch of other things in rural Alaska. BuffaloGal is her email handle and buffaloing is among her day-to-day activities.
She has been keeping a Web journal on her ranch web site since last June. Recently she was convinced to add blogging to her journaling. My job was to help BuffaloGal move her Web entries to her blog.
In this process, I was doing a bit of copy editor work creating headlines and making journal entries more readable online. So after moving over 50 entries to the blog plus a bunch of neat photos, I had learned much about raising bison and elk on an Alaskan Game Ranch.
Ruby, thats BuffaloGals original handle, helps her husband, Scott, her sons, Russell and Buckley, her brother-in-law, Eric, and more than a few friends and relatives to run their 2,000-acre farm/ranch in the Tanana Valley of interior Alaska. They used to raise Black Angus cattle on the home place and buffalo on the Frog Farm. Now the entire operation involves buffalo (bison) and elk.
The Game Ranching in Alaska blog is a very interesting read. Ruby and Scott are lifelong Alaskans. While watching the Gulf Coast hurricane disasters, Ruby blogged on her experiences in the Good Friday, 1964 earthquake disaster in Alaska.
To get a feel for living in rural Alaska where it falls to 65 below zero in winter and gets up over 90 in summer, read a few (or all) of BuffaloGals blog entries.
But wait a minute this blog is about quilters and this entry started with Quilters in Delta so one might ask, How does all this about Ruby have to do with quilters? Good question.
The following is Rubys blog posted Sunday, December 11, 2005 and titled Quilter's guild alluring spa fantasies.
Scott, Buck and kids went out to butcher a bison. It's still +15F so we need to get as many done while the weather holds. We were a little worried that the snow would crust and the young herd at the home place might have trouble getting to the hay ground. So far so good. Scott had a hunt yesterday and also took an animal for meat.
Buck and the kids cut 2 spruce down for their Christmas trees. Buck had a bison in the back of his truck plus 2 trees which he lost along the way. His dad went back with the truck to "save the trees."
I attended the Forget-Me-Knot Quilter's Guild Christmas Party at the neighbor's yesterday. What wonderful food. It was my first Christmas Party with the group.
We talked about the humor of starting an "alluring" spa out here. Decided that we could use fresh bison cow chips for the mud bath, also utilize the dry buffalo chips to heat the sauna and have that benefit too, have the elk horn tablets available for? , the Northern Lights for the mood and moose nuggets (droppings) as a skin treatment. Okay, we really all do need to get to a spa.
The guild is 42 strong and is filled with tremendously industrious women. They do quilts for fire victims along with their own that they usually give for gifts. The ladies are originally from South Carolina, Massachusets, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Montana, Michigan, etc. plus Alaska. Quite a mixture of fun people.
That is just a taste of the fun reading on BuffaloGals blog read on!
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