The girls wanted to have a table at this year's Tripod Days bazaar. They ran the whole show with very little of our help. They used money from their own savings. $30 a piece net profit so far but they mentioned that they want to see if Marylin at Coghill's might want to buy there overstock. So the final total is not in yet.... Homeschool Capitalist, Dave Ramsey would be proud!

I was recently interviewed by Matt Miller of KTOO in Juneau. He wanted to know how the shutdown of the Loran system would affect Alaskan aviation. Listen to the interview

We just received word that The Master's Mission is going to start taking 5% of our total support as an administrative fee. We are waiting for the official letter to know all the details, we will update you when we know more.

After many hours Rob Bennett and I (mainly Rob) got the city of Nenana's track rig running. It had two stuck valves, needed a rebuild on the carburetor and a lot of electrical work. So now I can use it instead of our pick-up to pull my drag and maintain the ski strip at the airport. This really helps keep a smooth runway and saves a lot of wear and tear on our airplane.

What a year 2009 was. I (Adam) just read through all of the updates from last year and was reminded of how good God is. The website was down for a few weeks so we haven't been able to get an update out to a lot of you about my check up in Seattle. The Doctors were very pleased by my recovery; Doc says I am as healthy and as strong as a horse. So I asked him, Clydesdale or the "Old Gray Mare"? He just laughed and didn't answer. So I told one of his residents; I'm worried, what does that mean? The resident didn't get the joke and fell all over himself trying to reassure me that I was going to be OK. They are a little puzzled by my swallowing issues but that is being managed by medication for now. Apparently I am allergic to something and my esophagus won't allow food to pass very easily.

My Mom, Dad and Sister were able to be here for Christmas this year. It had been nine years since we have been able to do that, it was a lot of fun to have them here. Lyndy and the girls took a week off from doing school for Christmas break and are back to the routine again.

As a result of the website being down from Dec 15th through Jan 5th we did not get any e-mail from the "@thewhitepagesonline.com" addresses you may have used. If you sent us any e-mail using those addresses please resend it. Our gmail addresses were not effected by the website being down.

The Master's Mission has released the Spring 2008 MISSIONEWS which features us and the work in Alaska. Follow this link to download a .PDF copy of the newsletter.