This weekend of camping was full of berry wilderness tundra excitement at Brushkana Creek!

Tundra is the crazy almost treeless land that only defrosts to 2 feet down and then it's back to frozenness the rest of the year. Berries grow rampid there! We picked for about 5 hours in the Saturday afternoon sunshine as our dogs quietly sat near onlooking in joy to have been taken on the trip at all :)

We picked about 15 quart size ziplock bags worth of the almost too ripe blueberries. Off to the freezer and it's blueberry pancakes and muffins all winter for us! Mom and Dad you'll get those special treats while you're here!

Check out my evil berry picking game face!

Side story: While driving there was a skinny mini-moose walking on the left of the highway. As we drove nearer, it started sprinting forward challenging us to a race! It was hilariously awkward and gangly freaking out trying to beat us/get away from us as fast as he could. Eventually he cut our friends off behind us and headed into the woods. Those of you who have seen a giraffe run, it's the same weirdness.

Our campsite was right on a creek and we just slept in the truck. After such a beautiful drive north about 3 hours and the berry picking in the sunshine that day, we would have camped for weeks! Unfortunately it rained all night and the next day was pure clouds....yet oddly getting back to Willow Sunday it was pure sunshine. Must have been the altitude in that Denali National Park region, and it's everso coined "own weather system". We'll definitely go back there every summer from now on!

Also, we'll pick cranberries around our land after the first frost and make even more muffins and whatnots with them!

Anyways, today we set up the back posts to our shed, measured and leveled them, and I sealed them with the brush on wood sealant. Tomorrow we finish the other posts like so. And maybe get the shed all done next weekend....rafters and roof need some more lumber though.

Good, good weekend prelude to a good school start this week. ONE MORE DAY OF SUMMER LEFT FOR US!