Give It Five Minutes

 happy fourth of july. so i spent my day:
working in the morning tyill 12:30 then headed downtown to the moose dropping festival. it's basically they haul a bag of moose turds up a rope then release to see how close a turd comes to the bullseye and u win money. yea...so i went.

then wandered on to the company picnic where i hot some free grub (nothing great but hte goodies) great just what i need. more sweets esp wjen i start eating them at 6am. oh believe me i do. i had choc cake scraps and strawberry sorbet by 6:30am.

but my evening was the best. it makes me feel like "so this is why i'm in alaska".... 
so i'm walking into town when i see this beatup blue truck roll by with the coolest wood carvings i've seen on it. so i ditch my friends and go after the truck. i followed it till it parked then went right over to the man and introduced myself. his name : Carvin' Marvin.

well i sat with Marv on the bed of his truck for over and hour and a half just gabbing away about our lives while he carved an indian and a cabin out of a treee branch. i gotta say i enjoyed every min of it. it was so cool to sit and talk with someone about their life. you learn a lot. but most of all u learn how to live a little more.

turns our marv is a great grandfather and has moved all over making a living by selling his artwork and carvings. and u would have no idea just by looking at him. 

long story short (its' late i gotta sleep)...left marv after my peice was done and got caught in a rain storm...it's alaska..give it five mintues. it'll change. so i ducked into the local bar..cause where else is there to hide from the rain?.  got talking to a local named lori.

turns out she is 65 and one hell of a woman. i sat with her for and hour and just listened to all her stories she had to tell. how she was camping and came face to face with a griz and a few other close to death stories.

...man i'm tired. u know i thought about this blog and what i was going to say the entire 50 min. walk home from town. but once u sit down after walking so far and sippin on a few...i just want to sleep.

moral of the story. today i saw myself here...like living here in the future...we shall see. only time will tell. i'm in no rush. and another word of advice i got today. start working on ur bucket list NOW. don't wait till i'm 60 to start living.

i want to be able to say i went out and lived a little