Saturday, time to head out to the Farmers Market. On our way we notice that the landing craft has been
moved away. We will take a walk over to the harbor to see if we can
find it in a dry dock.
The Farmers Market was small but fun.
We met Jen who has a friend Wendy who is the manager of Diego's in
Grass Valley. We will say hi the next time we are there. We bought
eggs, greens, green onions, radishes, rhubarb, jam and salsa. We
bought the radishes and rhubarb from Jen.
Next stop after Safeway was the Pratt Museum. We are to meet Milli here for a talk about the gray whale
project. Homer and the book store owner have become famous for their
self taught expertise in assembling animal skeletons. Lots of marine
animals live around here and many do wash up on the shores dead.
They harvest and treat the bones and assemble wonderful skeletons.
Hanging in the entry is a fairly rare Bering Sea whale with two very
large teeth. They have done other whales, but this would be their
first gray whale. The plan is to work in volunteer teams starting
July 1 and finishing the end of August. The display will be
finished in February.
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| Model of how the display will hang |
Milli had a surprise for us. She found
her copies of the tapes done by Albert. These are about his
adventures in the Aleutians during WW II. We will have a cd made and
send a copy to Milli.
We lunched at the Cosmic Kitchen. Great
food here. Lots of Mexican choices along with local delicacies.
Back to the Pratt to spend the rest of
the day all the way until closing time of 6PM. This is a very dense
museum. Intense interactive displays with everything extremely well
labeled. The Pratt has a lot of dedicated volunteers.
Outside is a compact nature trail.
Many of the flowers are blooming already. Plants just go double-time
up in Alaska once the snow melts.
Across from the museum is the Harrington Cabin. Many people used this cabin before it came to live
here. We will have to come back as it is cooling down.
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| Maybe a traveler needing a place to stay |
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| All the comforts of home |
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| The first Troy-built rototiller |
On our way back to the campground we
stop to take pictures of the ship graveyard on the spit. Someone
lives in the large boat.
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| Someone lives here? |
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| Friends of the old Josephine at Burwash Landing |
Class K housing. There might be some
building codes somewhere in Alaska, but I don't know where. I know
Milli said there were no codes for her house. Old Bob, our driver to
McCarthy, had a problem about the no code building. It means you
cannot get insurance. So I guess you give up some security with the
freedom to build your house any way you want. Also you give up the
ability to get a bank loan. Old Bob was having trouble selling his
house on Silver Lake. Win some, lose some.
1 comment:
Milli commented in an email "A couple things about your pictures and comments. The pictures of the "boat yard" along the Homer Spit, with the lived in boat. That is private property, and has been collected by the person who lives in the boat. Homerites consider it a huge eyesore and wish it would disappear!
About building codes. There are very strict codes in the city of Homer, but, not in the borough. They have some for the septic systems but don't have anyone to check on it. The saving grace, is that bank loans require state inspected septic systems, as well as inspections of the home construction. But ofcourse, we, and many others built out of pocket, therefore, no inspections, no codes.
When and if this house sells, it will probably have to have some inspections to qualify for a bank loan. (and I have no doubt will all pass. My ex was very good at the work he did.)"
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