Posts tagged outdoors
"Get to da choppa!"

Some of the best cinematic quotes of my generation have come from the former Governor of California—the Austrian Oak himself—Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Come with me if you want to live." "I'll be back." "It's not a tumor!" Even in his 1977 documentary, Pumping Iron, he commanded a line with a certain panache that asserted himself as the chiseled actor that every little kid wanted to see on the big screen. "Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer." But it is the movie Predator where Arnold furiously yelled, "Get to da choppa!" that I recalled when the helicopter from Tanalian Aviation touched down to greet me at the Knik River Lodge.

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Baby bump and a muddy pup

Just another lazy Saturday...or so I thought. The grass needed to be mowed, the hedges trimmed, some weeds needed a good whacking, and our Jumangi-like backyard required some much needed attention. But things have a way of changing when weather cooperates, and when I only have a few precious months left with Mel being pregnant.

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