Girl Stuff...

Okay, so this is a random photo. But it's so endearing... don't you think? These furry friends are in one of Tess's friend's family rooms. Stephen would love to have such specimens in our family room. He and a buddy are planning to set up a bait stand this year to use in hunting bear. Of course, even if he does get a bear, it's got to cost a bundle to have a full mount done like this one!

In case you hadn't heard, many parts of Alaska are overrun with bears. So they allow baiting in certain areas to cull down the numbers. Of course, there are those folks who claim the bears were here first and should be allowed to maul as many tourists as they like with no "wildlife management" efforts on our part. I think if we weren't here providing fresh tourist meat and fish scraps to the bear population, they'd probably control their own numbers via natural methods like starvation, etc.

Sometimes Alicia May dozes off in her spiffy new car booster seat with dual cup holders. After all, it's not easy being so cute and spunky all the time. It takes effort and considerable beauty sleep.