Hello again.
It is August.
Our rainy season begins. Summer is over. Harvest begins.
This is what I harvested today:
Raspberries are ripening so we are picking a bowlful of those pretty much every day now. We are gonna get a lot of them this year.
Kristian is a security guard there, so he showed us the truck he drives.
They also had other big monstrous trucks there for us to see.
It was kinda foggy out, but these are haul roads that lead to the pit where they dig for gold. They didn't let us see the pit. Hauling rocks on these roads is what Kristian used to do before he became a security guard. We stood out there for about 10 or 15 minutes. I was glad to get back on the bus cuz it was "freezing" outside. The weather was rainy and windy.
They have a big giant "drum" in there that turns like a ferris wheel. They were explaining that this is how they get the rocks smaller and smaller and smaller.
On Sunday we went to church, and in the afternoon we had good weather, so we went for a walk to the boat launching pad at the Chena River.
Then we saw this really old building. A remnant of a strip of buildings that used to be there on the riverfront. There's a sign on the building, but I don't remember what it said. They are trying to preserve it, but I don't know what they plan to do with it.
So that was pretty much our weekend in Fairbanks.
It looks "okay", but (of course) I ended with a mistake. The right side and the left side got mixed up. This is why the teeth don't look right. This is the problem with FPP. It is way too easy to get things wrong. After suffering through getting Section A together, I pretty much felt like "I HATE FPP"! I even got so frustrated enough to give up and I actually threw the pattern in the garbage. But after awhile I fished it back out with a new determination to make myself learn how to do it. So I kept working on it, watched more YouTube videos, and cherry picked my favorite ways of doing it. After awhile I came up with my own method, and by the time I got through Section D, I felt like I was getting the hang of it. My feeling of "hate" was gradually transforming into "not liking". I was still making mistakes, but fewer of them, only to finish with a bang and make this mistake at the very end and sew the wrong sections together. How typical of me to make mistakes along the whole way, and then end with one final last mistake that I'm not in the mood to rip out. Maybe I should name him "Jack the Ripper" cuz he's seen a lot of my ripper. Oh well, live and keep on learning. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to try making another one. If I keep practicing, maybe I can go from "not liking" to a neutral "meh". But at this point, I don't see myself liking it and doing it on a regular basis. But never say never, right? Anyhoo, now that I'm sorta getting the hang of it, I think I want to try again, and hopefully the next one won't need any dental work.