So, just a couple more days and Goose Break will be over and it's back to school. I have to admit that for the most part I was incredibly lazy throughout the entire two weeks. We went for a few walks, but for the most part I owe the passing of time to my new friends Netflix and Kindle (thanks for the kindle Mom!). It has been like a ghost town up until about yesterday; people are starting to return from their various hunting destinations. You look up and there's yet another helicopter bringing people back from wherever.
One of the teachers that lives near us is very interested in Native culture and had made her own simple yet very interesting version of a dream catcher that she had hanging up in her house, so I thought I'd give it a try what with all the free time I've got at the moment. All of the sticks, rocks and feathers (the feathers are goose feathers, which I found in a spot where it looks like a few geese were plucked) are gathered from around the lake.
Of course these are not really what dream catchers are supposed to look like, I was just playing around, so they're more just loosely related to and somewhat looking like dream catchers. I would really like to do some with the students; They're pretty simple to make and the materials are cheap! It's just too bad the kids can't go out and gather the materials on their own. Not that they would want to do that anyhow...
It's been relatively warm these last couple of weeks, but there's still ice out there. In fact, just this past Tuesday we were walking around by the lake and people were still snowmobiling out there. Dangerous stuff! We went for a long walk along the coast one day and saw a few little flocks of geese flying overhead, but they were headed straight for a goose blind in the distance, so now a few of them are probably in someone's freezer.
