AK Christmas

Setting out cookies and carrots on Christmas Eve.

The stocking loot.

Surveying the pile of presents while contemplating the joys of Christmas. 

The Big Gift from Santa: new cross-country skis!  

Alaska T-Day Visit

SnOMGeddon

Mums' first snow

Path to Rigmobiles, 10 am, EST

"Path" to Rigmobiles, 1:15 pm EST

Harper's first snowfrog

Halloween

Pre-Halloween Preview

Haiti's Big Three...

Not sure who the guy close to my camera was, but the other folks that I saw in Haiti include the husband of Secretary Clinton and the President and Prime Minister.

go marching band!

Kind of hard to root for the Illini this year (what is with all of our teams?!) but we've got a great marching band.



And it is kind of cool when these guys fly all the way from Texas.

Three!

new rigblog

Malcolm is now mapping his 2010 bike ride from Yellowstone to Yukon. I've added it to the blogroll.

grand canyon? old faithful?

You know those black and white photos of people standing around natural formations in the early 20th century? Arms crossed. Well, this should be black and white.


2000 pieces. Two years. Maybe three?

Tim sends out thanks to contributors John, Syverine, Mary. (And Malcolm?)

Dad, the piece right here is one of yours:


Noone looked at the box until it was done. And over the years the pieces faded in the sun. So who knew there was a dog in the corner, or a shield on the wall, or all sorts of shapes in the dark background?! They show up in the picture of the puzzle, above, but you can't see them when you look right at it. (Sort of mystery cougar thing going on.)

Kenilworth Gardens

Mrs. Staffin, Mrs. Gnatt... Mr. Rigby?

I am past the point of no return and am in the system as a "teacher." Hard to see in this picture, but my new ID could also serve if I was ever hired as an Afghan warlord.

Where it's at...

...that pot of gold. 6:11 p.m. Orwell, Vermont.

TGIF

And thanks to the skill set he acquired during the surge on Allegheny Ave., Vaughan can take on on liquid challenges wherever they arise. Here is a demonstration video.  

RigBuild now has video

Thanks to Vaughan, Rigbuild now has a video compilation of some of the first stages of the project. You will laugh, you will cry, you will decide to be happy in the waterproof home you have...

July in Alaska

We've had amazing weather this summer - on the 4th we went for a 5 mile hike with some friends - Harper proved to be an amazing little hiker and trucked along for about 3.5 miles!  

Harper's silly little frog hat.

A beautiful portrait Jeff took this morning. 

AK Road Trippin'

We originally planned our trip to go to a wedding of a friend in Fairbanks.  Here is Harper celebrating after being quiet for 10 minutes during the wedding ceremony.   We did have the secret weapon (a watermelon lollipop) locked and loaded in Jeff's shirt pocket if it was needed!

Fast Friends. No surprise that Harper adores Tim Robb.  

Our property on Tenderfoot Bluff is a short drive from a state park on Quartz Lake.  We rented a boat for the day and Harper got to steer the ship.  Despite Jeff's best efforts, the fish were safe for the day.

The AK Rigbys.  Our 8-day trip covered over 1,060 miles - 350 of which were done during one day from Fairbanks to Anchorage (7 hours).  Harper was great but we are thankful for portable DVD players.  

Harper and Jeff riding down the hill on the Risdon Rig.  Tim uses this to run dogs in the summer - Harper loved going down the hill and getting pushed around on "the rig"

 

Feeding the ducks.  What you don't see in the picture is the flock of seagulls hovering above Harper ready to swoop down.

 

Harper's first cabin bath.  

First Smore!  Oh, Heaven.  She talked about it the rest of the trip.

Meet the Pop-Toad!

Here's the latest AK Rigby acquistion - a fully outfitted pop-up camper that Harper has named the "Pop-Toad."  Our first shakedown cruise was to Seward over the weekend.  The picture below was taken at Lowell Point, a beautiful "dog beach" that we visited several times during our trip.

Our next road trip will be June 20-28th.  We plan on going to Valdez, Tangle Lakes (on the Denali Highway), Tenderfoot, and Fairbanks.  Now that we've gotten The Toad dialed in we should have quite an adventure. 

Change we can believe in

Well it is pretty blurry, but here I am with my very first DC quarter:

Blue Frogger!

When girls dress themselves.  

Any froggy tea parties lately?

more photos needed, otherwise it's devil dogs in cat baskets from here on out. 

Yet more Rigblogging

As some or all of you may know, Julie gave me a website (www.diplodoc.us), which has now been repurposed to become a blog about becoming a teacher. There are no pictures yet, but that may change. It is for those who require mindnumbing detail.
Here's another wedding picture:

1032 pictures are roughly 1.03 million words

We have received the digital versions of all of the official photographs of the most recent Rigby wedding. There are 1,032. There are pictures from before the ceremony (please note that the groom is drinking water):


There are pictures from during the ceremony:


And there are pictures from after the ceremony:


There are lots of pictures.