Yeah, Casey, my friend Dori who lives in that house is not too happy with the mess the geese leave. I posted that pic on her Facebook page and said "Dori, you have company?" She got on FB and told her DD to hurry and get home from Hawaii because there's a big mess to clean up. Her DD wrote "No way! That's gross!" :-) This morning the school field was filled with hundreds of starlings I've never seen there before but not a single goose. But this afternoon, the geese are back and the starlings are gone.

The pumpkin vine grew up through the hedge and popped out the top. Now I have a pumpkin on top of the hedge, look carefully. It's almost the size of a basketball. Hope it doesn't fall; it would be like Humpty Dumpty.

This morning my wife brought her young horse to the kennels so the horse could meet the hounds. The huntsman and several other members brought the hounds a mile or so down the road to a pond for a swim, and then back to the kennels. It was also the first time out for some of the younger hounds. My wife's young horse.

All around Anchorage, the lamp posts were covered with these flower baskets, in the colors of the Alaskan state flag.