Happy Thanksgiving!

This will be part of today's Thanksgiving feast - maktak, from a bowhead that came to Edward Nukapigak's EMN crew in September when I was in the boat with them. They completed all the cutting before I arrived, so I missed that, but I am here for the feasting and the Eskimo dance that will follow tonight.

I doubt I will post much. Between all the misfires of my Squarespace 5 bloghost acerbated by my weak internet connection that often cuts out on me altogether mid-post, it can be quite a struggle to put up a post. I'll put something up, though. 

Thanksgiving away from Margie, the kids and grand kids yet somehow still at home in warm place with cold temperatures

Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, I will join the community of Nuiqsut for a whale feast. This evening, Bernice Kaigelak invited me over for an early Thanksgiving feast in the turkey way. She worried she had overcooked the turkey. She didn't. It was succulent and juicy, just the way a Thanksgiving turkey should be. She said it must be hard, being away from my family on Thanksgiving day. Indeed, it is, but Nuiqsut is where I need to be right now. And, in its own way, I have a feeling here like being home. I plan to have a Thanksgiving feast with my family Saturday. Three Thanksgiving feasts in four days - that is something to be thankful for.

Thanksgiving and Lisa's birthday and all the racket this day brought has now come to an end

Thanksgiving Day, 2012, has just come to it's end. So has Lisa's 27th

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