January 2012
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1,500
this is my 1,500th post to eskimo power. wow, that’s alot of posts.
i started this blog with the intention of showing pictures and telling stories of my hunts. i have alot of pictures and alot of stories. i guess i should post more stories on here. i hope you enjoy this blog.
thank you for visiting eskimo power.
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do you have a question? →
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its really cold out there today
KOTZEBUE, ALASKA—its really cold out there today. its -32F, but with windchill its -60F.
the wind is blowing 15mph from the east south east.
this is cold. really cold. bundle up out there.
happy new year friends and family and to my followers!
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a facebook message from my sister....
sharon: you should take off the picture of me caroline marg and dad. I look funny.
me: you look good. you don't look goof. don't worry sister. love you!
December 2011
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jonny bones mf'in jones →
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may 11th wedding
saima and i are getting married on may 11th in anchorage.
i’m going to have 8 groomsmen. coltrane is going to be my ‘ring boy.’
this is saima’s day.
saima and i are getting married on may 11th in anchorage.
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please support, take action, and reblog "An Act... →
“Alaska needs a new coastal management program
Please join us in supporting the citizen’s coastal management program initiative and give Alaskans a meaningful voice in protecting Alaska’s interests and values in the development of our coastal lands and waters.
When Alaska lost its coastal management program in the 2011 legislative session, we lost an important tool to...
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“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
– Orison Swett Marden
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suicide prevention efforts in southwest Alaska
Diana Campbell 907-474-5221
The Center for Alaska Native Health Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has received $1.4 million to support rural Southwestern Alaska Yup’ik communities in their suicide and substance abuse prevention efforts.
The award will supplement a CANHR research program exploring how Alaska Native people are using ancestral knowledge and cultural traditions to...
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i support "Yupik Creations" on facebook.... →
mike wassilie is a young Yup’ik artist. he does great work. please show your support for mike and like his page. quyana! (thank you)
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what kind of rifles do i like?
over the years, i’ve refined my taste for rifles. i prefer bolt-action rifles. out of a total of ten rifles, i have eight with a bolt action (80% of my arsenal). there are many makers of bolt-action rifles and many different options. here’s what i look for in a bolt-action rifle.
RUGER MODEL 77
the ruger model 77 is my favorite bolt rifle. its sleek, has good balance, its sexy,...
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"Alaska's Size in Perspective"
“Alaska has lots of land. To put things in perspective, the accompanying graph compares Alaska’s area with areas of the U.S. remote states.
Alaska is more than twice the size of the largest of the lower 48 states, and the amount of Alaska underlain by permafrost is equal to the size of three Californias. Ten states are smaller than the area covered by glaciers in Alaska. If glaciers...
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“Love never dies by natural causes, it dies because we don’t replenish its...”
– Paulo Coelho
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have you seen this new rifle? →
this new rifle has caught my attention. it has potential. i have to get my hands on one and check it out. yes sir.
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dear ski-doo and polaris industries....
i love sno-gos. i believe they’re one of man’s greatest inventions when it comes to snow and the back country. sno-gos equal freedom.
if i can ever afford a brand new bad ass machine, i’d like to get a ski-doo renegade and a polaris rmk 600. i believe these machines are powerful and can get me from point a to point b….snow or water, it does not matter. these sleds can...
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5 years in kotzebue!
today marks my 5th year in kotzebue! i left my life in southwest alaska (togiak) as a responsible thinking classroom teacher and moved up here to northwest alaska (kotzebue) to start as a planner/grantwriter.
let’s see….in the 5 years i’ve been here in kotzebue, i’ve started this kick-ass blog, i’ve gone from 4 guns to 11 guns AND 2 pistols, bought a second snogo,...
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tweetle dee tweetle dum. tweet, tweet.... →
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
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dork language
you are a dork if you say, OR TYPE, “come on, now….” or “ahh yeah!”
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Ken Saro-Wiwa stood up for his people and his... →
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"Oil spills and violence plague Shell operations...
Ask almost any environmental activist about Shell and he’ll point to Nigeria, in West Africa.
Environmentalists say decades of oil production have left the Niger Delta one of the most polluted regions in the world. Shell is Nigeria’s biggest operator, with more than 50 years of oil production there, and it’s a main target of activists’ wrath.
The political and social...
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“People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But, people...”
– Maya Angelou
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yes
yes, i have my faults, but doggoneit, i’m beautiful.
and i’m not talking about what’s on the outside.
good day to you.
yes.
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a facebook post about our troops coming home....
Last night while we were waiting for Kim & her parents to come in from Juneau, the waiting area around started to fill up all the seats filled up, standing around, lots of people Phil & I thought students coming home for Christmas, there were some students but then we saw them, 7 or 8 of them, service men & women of the armed forces, probably coming home from Iraq. Happy faces...
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learning
i’ve heard Yup’ik elders say that you never stop learning. this is very true. i appreciate the wisdom.
you never stop learning.
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need a job in the movies here in alaska? →
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clara asks coltrane if she should go to the last...
clara: do you want me to go to school tomorrow?
coltrane: no
clara: why not?
silence, then it went on to playing like the conversation never happened. december 15, 2011 in our little tiny home in kotzebue.
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Clever girl!: here we go again, or, how Hollywood... →
velocicrafter:
so I went to the movies last week & during the previews, I saw the trailer for Big Miracle. It’s a story about some whales that get landlocked in Alaska (their path back out to the ocean gets frozen before they leave?) & some humans rescue them.
After the trailer, I turned to my friend (a…
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strengths and opportunities for improvement
i love eskimo power. i think its great. i think its the coolest blog out there. of course i’d think that though!
from time to time, i’d like some feedback on how to improve eskimo power. i believe in feedback and what it does for excellence—some strive for it, many don’t. thanks!
what are some strengths? what are some opportunities for improvement?
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