Waiting for the Meat

Well, Mya, Heathcliff, Scruffy and Charlotte are here at home alone waiting for the meat wagons to get here. Brian called by satellite phone on Friday afternoon and said he needed Justin and Alicia to drive to Tok to meet them Saturday afternoon - they had too much meat to fit in the Durango ( I told him to take his pickup and not my Durango, I was right - although, he pickup is 15 years old and probably too old for the trip). Anyway, Alicia had to teach a class at the scrapbook store until 11:00 Friday night, then they got up early and drove to Tok. When they got there, they found out, there was too much wind to fly, so the guys were still out at camp.

Sunday morning, Brian called Alicia from the satellite phone again, and said the cloud cover was too low and for them to just empty out the Durango and drive back home. They left me a message that they were coming home empty, so I called them back and told them to go back to Tok and wait for Brian to come out. Justin's work is slower this time of year, so he can take a day off and they had been wanting to explore that country up there, so they turned around and went back to Tok. I called the airplane people and she said that they had called them and said the wind had shreded their tent and they were cold and wet and wanted OUT OF THERE -ASAP. So they were first on the list to get picked up as soon as the clouds got separated from the fog. They just needed it to warm up a couple degrees and they thought they could get them out, hopefully this afternoon. It's 3:00 and I haven't heard from them yet, so don't know how it is going.

It is beautiful here, a little fall like, but clear blue skies and just enough breeze to be comfortable. But there are 2 typhoons headed here tomorrow - one after the other, so if they don't get the guys out in the next few hours, they could get stuck in there for a while. Good thing they have plenty of meat to eat - I suppose they can rig some kind of shelter to keep them dry if they have to.

anyway, they got 2 big bull moose, a big grizzly bear and a wolf. (we don't eat the bear or the wolf). The other guys with him are from New Mexico, so I don't know how much of the meat they will take with them - sometimes they like to take a lot, and sometimes, they just come up for the fun of hunting. Brian has been wanting to kill a Toklat Grizzly bear for a long time, so I'm glad he finally got one. He says he isn't going back to this spot to hunt next year, so this might have been his last chance to get one there..... we'll see. He's been going there successfully for a long time. It is hard to give up a great hunting spot like that. But he wants to fly in a little farther north and learn a new country.

So, we got meat for the year - it just isn't home yet. Charlotte