The cabin has no indoor plumbing or running water. We haul aquatainers full of water from the little well about once a week. As a household, we use about 10 gallons of water per day, which shakes out to 5 gallons per person. This includes cooking, drinking, and showering. I think that's pretty danged awesome. 12/01/2025

Some are carpenters' wives, and I am one. 11/30/2025

A year ago today I started making these prints. It continues as it began–with love. 11/27/2025

It will probably be two years before we get the house built and are able to move into it. With the addition of a new room onto the cabin, suddenly we've gone from a tiny cabin to a small house, and that makes the cabin (and me!) verrrrrry happy. 11/26/2025

Unequivocally yes. 11/26/2025

Mike is like a man on fire getting the tongue and groove up in our little cabin addition. It's amazing how fast that room is beginning to come together. 11/23/2025

There's still a month left to go before winter solstice and the days are feeling extremely short. Daylight is precious this time of year. 11/22/2025

Dear Sun, Please show yourself more often. The less of you we see, the more we have to rely on the dead dinosaurs that power our generator. 11/20/2025

Who's had too much coffee this morning? Yup. The faint beginnings of dawn don't hit until somewhere around 8:30 am, so I have a whole heck of a lot of tweaking in the dark yet to do. 11/18/2025

I still haven't lost last winter's weight gain. Whatever. Carbs and sleep are just the ticket when the nights become longer than long. 11/17/2025

It's true. Mike is the bestest of the bestest eggs. 11/12/2025

As a kid, I saw many, many, many Cal Worthington commercials both on RATNET in Alaska and on KOLO in Reno. I can still sing the jingle. Ask me some time. 11/11/2025

Snow brings evidence of the critters. I haven't seen any muskrat prints yet. They must still be getting their act together beneath the ice. 11/08/2025

I keep hoping that one of the muskrats will pop up to say hello, but I know I shouldn't hold my breath and that I'm going to have to wait until spring to see them again. 11/06/2025

What can I say? Eat more raspberries for breakfast. <3 11/06/2025

One of the very first prints I made during my second stint at the Black Rock Press also stated 'add joy, don't steal it'. It is a sentiment worth repeating over and over and over again. 11/05/2025

As long as the love keeps flowing in, it doesn't matter quite as much that so much cash is flowing out for building materials (and the accompanying shipping and tariff costs). 11/05/2025

I'm pretty sure I could be happy with Mike anywhere, but I'm really glad to be able to do it in Alaska. 11/04/2025

Things I spend money on: building materials, food, and wood type. Building materials and food are necessities. Wood type is my splurge. 11/02/2025

I need to work on my beet storage skills. The lovely beets I bought a few weeks ago? Moldy and squishy. I was looking forward to a nice batch of roasted beets with dinner, too. 10/31/2025

I like to give love to the people in my life. <3 10/30/2025

The first snows are great until they melt into slush. 10/30/2025

Right now, morning temps are hovering around 25F/-4C. That's chilly but not too bad for morning trips to the outhouse. Colder mornings are coming. 10/27/2025

It's been four years since my dad died. Sigh. I miss him. 10/26/2025

In fact, I love all of you. <3 10/22/2025

This is a truth I'm thankful for. 10/15/2025

Home these days. 10/15/2025

Mike is busy building an addition to the cabin and it is L-O-U-D. I'm grateful, though. We can use a little more living space. 10/15/2025

Someone in this house makes me happy when skies are gray. (Love is the best.) 10/11/2025

The swans! They came back! I thought they were gone for the season, but the five cygnets and two adults flew back in this afternoon. They were gone by the time I finished this print. I was so thrilled to see them, and I hope they have a good winter. 10/10/2025

You know how sometimes excitement over something can obscure the actual something? That's what's happening with me and fall. I am so dang thrilled things have not yet turned completely to winter. 10/10/2025

'Tis the season. From now until at least March, every morning coffee will be drunk next to the warmth and coziness of the wood stove. 10/9/2025

I haven't seen the family of two swans and five cygnets that lives in our pond complex in about two weeks. However, when I was getting ready to finish this print, a group of three swans flew overhead, so maybe I'll see the family one more time yet. 10/07/2025

Termination dust has already appeared and the snow level is slowly creeping lower and lower on the surrounding mountains. Before we know it, the ground will be white. 10/05/2025

Winter comes early to this part of the world. While it isn't quite here yet, I can feel that it's on its way. 10/03/2025

Three plus three equals chicken. Why would anyone disagree? 10/01/2025

My Hyder chapter may have closed, but that doesn't mean Hyderites aren't forever in my orbit. In fact, when Hyderites are around Kenny Lake, they will often congregate at Mile 17.5. 09/30/2025

While in Hyder, Alaska, at the beginning of the month, we took the Dean's Groceries sign down so it could be brought up to Kenny Lake. The sign hitting the ground lifted an enormous weight, and I felt like the Hyder chapter of my life had finally closed. 09/29/2025

For my birthday, we drove (and drove and drove) down to Prince Rupert, BC, to stay at the Cassiar Cannery as a special treat for me. <3 09/26/2025

I hope to always live in such a way that love wins (especially when it's also building a home for us). 08/25/2025

My husband is a builder down into his bones and he's giving it his all to create a space we can live life in. 08/25/2025

I got to talking with a woman at the grocery store, and she told me the laundromat in Chitina doesn't lock up for the night. I'm always asleep at midnight, but the info is worth keeping tucked away. 08/21/2025

The concrete footers have been poured! Yay! Suddenly, the idea of a house is tangible. I can't wait until we can start actually building the dang thing next spring. 08/19/2025

With the changing of summer into fall comes the rain. I'm not ready for wet and chilly yet. There's way too much I have to do. 08/11/2025

Nobody ever talks about it, but it's true. 08/09/2025

Don't try to be anyone else. You are special. 08/09/2025

The grass in the wetlands is starting to turn from summer green to fall yellow. A change of seasons is coming. 08/07/2025

I could dance all night. The joy of having a flat surface to move around on without being ankle deep in mud? Oh. My. 07/26/2025

Do you know a Marissa? If you don't, you should because she's super rad. 07/21/2025

I swapped out honey buckets today. Living without indoor plumbing isn't so bad. 07/19/2025

Dear baby muskrat, we are so excited you are here! Welcome to our humble little compound. We love you already. 07/14/2025

I'm getting excited for an upcoming bingo night with the girls. Who will be the winner-winners of us all? 07/10/2025

Two little baby grebes showed themselves on the pond today. I am so excited to watch these little lovelies grow. They are welcome here always. 07/02/2025

Just in case you were in the outhouse and wondering, please don't drop toilet paper down the hole. Put it in the Lowe's bucket. 07/02/2025

In Kenny Lake on Thursday nights, cards are a thing. My favorite game these days is Swoop because it's easy and up to eleven people (or so) can play. 07/01/2025

There are so many birds that visit the pond in front of the cabin: wigeons, grebes, shovelers, and goldeneyes are but a few. 06/13/2025

Wigeons are wonderful. Also important, wigeon rhymes with pigeon. 06/13/2025

Spring does bring hope. I'm also hoping spring brings summer because I am r-e-a-d-y. 06/11/2025

Today is the day. Of course I made a print. :) 06/09/2025

Just printing out a little love. Yay! Love! 06/08/2025

The garden is in! I mostly have tomatoes and peppers, but there are also eggplant, lettuce, cilantro, and potatoes. 06/08/2025

This is a companion piece to yesterday's print. 06/08/2025

My first anniversary is in a few days. <3 The back of this one says in neon pink, 'my heart is always with your heart'. Love rules. 06/07/2025

Is there any better ship than friendship? 06/06/2025

Sometimes people leave. The back of this one says in gold, With love from Kenny Lake. 05/31/2025

Just a short, sweet message for my husband. 05/25/2025

Search & destroy. Kill 'em all. Open season. Do not pass go. My verbal dislike of mosquitoes could title several '80s metal albums. 05/22/2025

The pond is a crazy busy place some days. 05/21/2025

Alaska mosquitoes are legendary for their relentless blood-drawing capabilities. They are the one drawback to summer. 05/15/2025

The frog mating season provides the most beautiful symphony of chaos. It's too bad it's so short. 05/12/2025

Our bathhouse is operational and I no longer have to use a 5-gallon bucket to bathe. Hallelujah! 05/12/2025

Kim. I've known her for over 40 years. She lives in Kenny Lake, too. Hyder BFFs forever. 05/07/2025

It's light when I go to bed, and it's light when I wake up. It will probably be like this through August. The specter of the endless winter night, however, is a not-too-far-off memory/happening. 05/07/2025

I am thankful to have gotten this far in life, I just wish that this part of the journey weren't so chaotic. 05/07/2025

Bacon may not be everyone's jam, but it reigns supreme at our cabin on Sundays. The back side of this reads, Thank you dear pigs, in bright red. 05/01/2025

I am so fortunate to have little critters running around, especially muskrats. 04/29/2025

We've nicknamed all muskrats 'marty'. Watching the marties in the pond brings me into such a wonderful state of childlike joy. 04/28/2025

Birthday love. Everybody should get it. The back side says, We Love You Mom. <3 04/26/2025

It took less than 24 hours from when we parked the 2005 Chevy Classic down at Tazlina Trading Post with for sale signs in the window until it sold. 04/26/2025

Just sayin'.... if I love your dog, I will have love for you too. 04/23/2025

The yellow dog is Buddy, and he is a verrrrrry good dog. 04/23/2025

Too much of my husband's coffee in the mornings and I tweak, hard. These are the things Mike says to me every morning. <3 03/31/2025

Sometimes it's good to send a little bit of love out into the universe. 03/31/2025

Heavens to Murgatroyd! Would spring please come my way? I'm starting to feel like I'm just Snagglepussing along and I'm not usually like that. 03/20/2025

Some of my favorite things about Sunday mornings are printed in white in the background. What are those things? My little, loving, Sunday secrets. 03/19/2025

A day during which I do not dance is very much a day wasted. Plus, the way those McKellier Woodtype Tellenbach flower ornaments no. 2 printed with white ink came through the silver? Gorgeous. Definitely not a wasted day. 03/15/2025

I hope I'm as sexy at 81 as my father-in-law is. <3 03/14/2025

Winter lasts a looooooong time in Kenny Lake. I am ready for the snow to go away and for sunny spring days to arrive and give me the vitamin D I really need right now. 03/11/2025

Love can be multi-layered and a bit helter-skelter. Yay to each and every person who is able to find it and hold onto it. 03/11/2025

Sometimes people go away for a bit, then they come back. <3 03/06/2025

After my dad moved down to Seattle, he always made sure to stock up when the local QFC would get salmon in from the Copper River for about a week every summer. Nowadays, all of the salmon I eat comes from the Copper River too. 03/03/2025

Yeah, I've been at "that age" awhile now. Whatever. At least I'm never cold at night, something that's very helpful when it's way far below zero outside. 02/28/2025

I'm sure there are places other than the IGA in Glennallen, Alaska, that carry pickle jelly beans, but that's where I saw them tucked in with the Easter candy. 02/25/2025

For me, the giving and receiving of hugs is key to experiencing and sharing joyfulness, even if those hugs have to be metaphorical. 02/22/2025

Choices matter. Period. 02/22/2025

Sometimes joy can be hard to hold onto, but daily joyfulness is something I strive to experience. 02/20/2025

Every once in a while, I need a boost. 02/19/2025

Sometimes, when the chaos comes for me, I delve into it instead of shutting the door on it. 02/19/2025

The last of the valentines. For now at least. 02/13/2025

Nighttime temps are still hovering around -20F/-29C. I am so very ready for the promise of spring. 02/13/2025

I haven't found my Anchorage groove yet. Every time I come home, my overpowering thought about the place is that it's super meh. I hope my mind changes about this one day. 02/09/2025

Ahhh.... my honey bucket. Whatever you may think of using a 5-gallon bucket in that way, it sure beats going outside to the outhouse when it's dark and -40. 02/09/2025

If there's anything to have faith in, I'd say love is worthy of that faith. <3 02/05/2025

Another use of the 'I love you' photopolymer. What can I say? I'm a sucker for those three words. 02/04/2025

I guess my overwhelmedness from yesterday hasn't entirely left me, and I needed to print it out a little further. 02/03/2025

I'm not gonna lie: Today felt absolutely overwhelming. Printing it out helped. 02/02/2025

I've been waiting to use on my home press a photopolymer plate I made with the words 'I love you' ever since I first used it on a Wheeler print I did back at the Black Rock Press. 01/30/2025

The end of January is almost the season for valentines. Plus, I've just received a new-to-me set of 30-line type that I needed to play with. (30-line = 5" high) 01/29/2025

We don't have running water. We live out of 7-gallon water containers and have to haul water from Kenny Lake's 'little well'. The key for the little well costs $125 per year, and the key for the high-volume big well starts at $300-something and goes up from there. 01/28/2025

After I made the previous banana print, I realized I've used similar color schemes a couple of times, so I went 1980's Florida for a redo. <3 01/25/2025

Bananas at the grocery store in Kenny Lake? $2 per pound. In Glennallen, they run $1.69. 01/25/2025

Spruce hens, aka road chickens, are here year round and are fairly good eating. The back of this print has text that reads, FREE RANGE, deliciously tasty, NUTRITIOUS. Road chickens are, indeed, all three. 01/23/2025

Go ahead and kick the dragons holding you back to the curb. 01/22/2025

Whenever things get to be a bit much and I need to give myself a little smile, this is the question I ask. 01/20/2025

Kenny Lake, Alaska.... the place from which I say, Hey! 01/17/2025

On this day, I was expecting an honest-to-goodness sunrise, but clouds moved in at the last moment. At least the clouds were thin enough to allow me to cast shadows around the living room. 01/16/2025

The new normal is here. Paths are icy and ice is slick. I've been practicing my duck walk. 01/14/2025

The ice thing just keeps getting worse. Light, fluffy snow on a slick surface makes for treacherous walking. 01/09/2025

On days like today, I just want to stay in and not have to do things like get wood, check the mail, hit the outhouse, grab stuff out of the freezer, etc. 01/08/2025

Freezing rain is gross. Thank goodness for yaktrax, otherwise, the trek to the outhouse would be impossible. 01/07/2025

Perhaps my favorite print of the group so far, I do, indeed, poop in an unheated outhouse at -40F/-40C. On January 3, I think it was the other side of -50F, but it was too cold to stop and measure. 01/06/2025

Will 2025 be a good year? I sure hope so. 01/02/2025

Every year needs to be greeted with a friendly hello. 01/02/2025

Woah, 2024 passed quickly. 12/31/2024

Living in an unlevel space was more physically stressful than I had realized. 12/29/2024

This particular night, there was a lot of chaos in my head. I quieted it. 12/29/2024

Doing laundry at the Kenny Lake Mercantile? Just know this going in. 12/27/2024

Wintertime in Alaska is wonderful. I could hermit myself away all season. 12/26/2024

If there's one thing the holiday season (any season, really) should bring, it's comfort and joy. 12/24/2024

This far north, days are short and nights are super long. I can't wait for more daylight. 12/21/2024

Three scant hours of direct sun isn't enough. I need to be well past winter solstice. 12/20/2024

The IGA in Glennallen has a screaming deal on this combo. 12/19/2024

I don't want to fill the outhouse hole with toilet paper, so burn it is. 12/12/2024

Home now means Alaska, but I do miss the sage and the pine. 12/11/2024

Doing laundry at the Kenny Lake Mercantile is a necessary evil. 12/10/2024

We all should be so lucky <3 12/09/2024

Luckily, the cabin is super efficient to heat. 12/07/2024

Snow slides off of roofs here, too. 12/06/2024

My mom ordered a box of baklava for me from Turkey. It was the most delicious treat ever. 12/05/2024

daily prints

with love