June 22

At the top of the list once again was gardening. I went straight to the greenhouses after breakfast and planted more greens for salads and rutabagas. Then I transplanted some celery sprouts and a big clump of chives. The chives are a good plant to grow but peas don’t like them so I put them in their own pot outside. 

Ginger came up a little later and then we both went to work pulling lamb’s quarter from one of the greenhouses. Lamb’s quarter is an indigenous weed in Alaska that’s good to eat but if it seeds in the greenhouses it’ll take over. This took up to lunch time. 

After a short break Jordan, Bentley, and I pulled the leaves from all the lamb’s quarter that was harvested from the greenhouse. Bentley and Jordan didn’t get up and go to the house until 2:00 PM, so this was their first task of the day. 

After the lamb’s quarter was finished, Ginger and I took a boat ride to another homestead owned by a woman named Kathy. We planned on weeding her garden for her, but it was so overgrown we decided we would give her some pots of things instead. It wasn’t a wasted trip however because we found a few treasures on the beach and I got some cool pictures. 
 

Kathy's house.

Upon our arrival back, we found Bentley and Jordan raking up the clippings from Jordan’s earlier weed-whacking. I went to start the banya and Ginger cleaned off the mooring anchor line before starting dinner. We had a delicious dinner of sweet potato wedges, black cod, and salad. Of course, we ended the day with a fantastic banya and then headed to bed.