I woke up this AM early, since my wife saw it fit to "burrito" all of the covers away from me at some time in the night. I heard Dad having a coughing attack in the next room, and I was pretty thirsty, so I got up. That was about 6:30 AM. I couldn't get back to sleep, so I blogged out yesterday's activities and then watched the sun rise from Bonnie's front room while e-mailing the Mom. Marci and Dad got up in the 8 o'clock hour, and we all lazed about a while before getting ready to go to meet Ken at Bishop Beach to check out his beach house. After a quick stop at Captain's Coffee (where Ken managed to find us..he's good at this!), we headed down the beach in both of Ken's Toyota 4WDs to the beach cabins. I had been there in 2002, and when we arrived I noticed how much the place had changed. He has added two lower cabins, one a bedroom, and one a sauna, and one bigger place above the "middle" cabin (the only one that was there when I was here before). In addition, he had built a small sleeping quarters to the west of the main cabin areas, which looked pretty cozy.
We had some sandwiches and soda at Ken's cabin, and then took some pictures of a little mink, apparently a local resident. We learned from Ken that we were perhaps some of the only California natives to ever see a mink in the wild. They are cute looking critters, but I imagine they have quite a temper if they need to.
After driving back down the beach into town, we stopped by Dad's cabin to show Ken the "damages." He made a lot of suggestions on what to tear down and what to try to salvage. We proceeded to rip out a bunch of paneling, several junky looking shelves, and prepped the bathroom for removing basically everything. We tried to start a fire with the used paneling, but it didn't spark up.
Following our 3 hour cabin cleaning efforts, Ken and Linda invited us to dinner again. We ate pasta and faux veggies (Quorn), which was surprisingly good. Afterwards, we had a quick slide show of pictures from Dad's camera for the day, and had some excellent champagne that Ken got for his 50th birthday. We finished our day by checking out Ken's used book collection on Nome and on Alaskan history. Ken gave me a copy of Rex Beach's "The Spoilers," and signed it.
I drove us home and we dropped a bunch of borrowed tools for tomorrow's activities at Dad's cabin along the way. After cleaning out Aunt Bonnie's kitchen, I have made it as far as the computer. Starting to melt down, however. We have a big day tomorrow.
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