MAR 7, 14 .. THE 2014 IDITAROD IS HERE ..

IF you would like to see four (4) lengthy posts detailing the start of The Iditarod 2014 here in Anchorage Alaska complete with one hundred and ten (110) photographs please google .. baba kaps doxology .. and that will take you to my other web site.  

Or simply 'click onto' .. http://babakaps.net/ ..

Below are two of my favorite photos of this years race.

   
These two photos are of musher Karen Ramstead of Perryvale, Alberta, Canada and Karen's IditaRider LaRita Skipper a nurse from Arkansas. 

 I hope you all visit baba kaps doxology!

Smiles .. Cap



MAR 1, 14 .. THE IDITAROD IS COMING TO ALASKA ..

Today .. in a few hours .. THE IDITAROD TRAIL SLED DOG RACE is coming to Alaska.

Two photos of the ceremonial statue in downtown Anchorage at the starting point of the IDITAROD TRAIL SLED DOG RACE.

At this corner in downtown Anchorage the race will officially begin. 

IF you will quickly 'LEFT-double-click' on the two below photos .. with God's Will and Blogger willing .. they will enlarge. Go ahead .. be daring .. oh-my-oh-my .. sigh .. whatcha gonna do with me Blogger!

Thank you all for your patience with me and my lack-of-posts here recently on Bobba Caps Doxology.

Smiles .. Cap

FEB 10, 14 .. THE STANLEY CUP OF ICE HOCKEY ..

 

This past weekend .. I attended two Ice Hockey games here in Anchorage at the Sullivan Arena.  At each game the Stanley Cup Trophy was on display.  Friday I had forgotten to wear my Alaska Aces Team Jersey.  So Saturday I went back and .. I waited again in-the-line for about thirty minutes to get a photo of myself and my team jersey with the Stanley Cup.

 

 

Smiles .. Cap



JAN 27, 14 .. ALASKAN WILDLIFE AT HOME ..

Living here in Alaska can be a HOOT! 

Anchorage is THE major city here in the State of Alaska.  The estimated population for the entire State of Alaska is 736,000 people.  The population of Anchorage is 300,000 people so it represents roughly forty one (41%) of the total population of the entire state.  

The next two largest cities in the State of Alaska are Fairbanks and Juneau.  These two Alaskan cities are almost tied in a dead-heat each with a population of approximately 32,000 people.  So the second and the third place (population-wise) cities are each about ten (10%) of the size of Anchorage and the second and third largest cities each individually represent only four (4%) of the state's total population.

After the above 'top-three' cities .. come the cities of Sitka (9,000), Ketchikan (8,000), Wasilla (8,000),  Kenai (7,000),  Kodiak (6,000),  Bethel (6,000) and so on.

Do YOU-GET-THE-IDEA? .. Anchorage is overwhelmingly the largest city in the State of Alaska.

Yet Anchorage is a pretty SMALL city based upon the rest of  the United States as well as upon a World-Wide Scale!

To prove my theory that .. to some extent .. even 'Los Anchorage' (a term those in Alaska who don't live in Anchorage use to disparage Anchorage making it akin to 'Los Angeles' that mighty behemoth in Southern California!) is a small or a 'hick' town consider the following.

Patti and I are just enjoying the day and what-to-our-wondering eyes should appear?!  On our back porch so-to-speak!  A 'yearling' MOOSE shows-up ..

You'd think that here in Anchorage .. the mighty city of 300,000 people that it is .. we were living-in-the-woods!

Quickly 'double-click' on each of the following two photographs to enlarge them for better viewing!

Most of you reading along here with me have squirrels and other smallish animals.  Here we have Moose who will grow in size from this small 'yearling' to about 1,200 pounds for a large male.

With a wink-and-a-smile .. Cap

My 'battle' with Google Blogspot continues.  I want all of my photos to be the extra-large size of the topmost photo above.  Heretofore all of my photos used to be this extra-large size.  For reasons I do not know nor understand .. Google Blogspot is refusing-to-allow-me to make all of my photos extra-large in size!  I prefer that you do NOT have to quickly 'double-click' on the smaller photos to enlarge them for better viewing.

THIS IS WHY I AM NOW USING MY OTHER WEB-SITE .. baba kaps doxology .. more and more because my brilliant web-master for my other web-site has enabled me to post continuously large photographs.

TAKE THAT GOOGLE BLOGSPOT ..

RAVE-ON CAPTAIN!

GIGGLE .. CHORTLE .. SMILES ..

JAN 18, 14 .. MORE .. ICE HOCKEY IN ANCHORAGE ALASKA ..

I continue to put my primary focus on my other web site ..

baba kaps doxology ..

IF you would like to see several lengthy posts over there .. I invite you use the link to the right to do so ..

An Ice Hockey game in Anchorage Alaska ..

Smiles .. Cap in Alaska ..

JAN 11, 14 .. ICE HOCKEY IN ANCHORAGE ALASKA ..

IF you are interested in viewing a five (5) part series of posts detailing a game of ice hockey here in Anchorage Alaska .. I invite you to wander-on-over to my other web site ..

baba kaps doxology ..

You can simply 'click onto' the link to my other web site to the right here as a quick way to go there.

See Y'All over there .. Smiles .. Cap

JAN 1, 14 .. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

           HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

Of all the photos that I posted during the year 2013 .. the above photo was the favorite of many who follow my web site!

Here is a nice writing that Patti and I want to share with you all to start the New Year 2014 .. I have altered it slightly to make it read as being from the two of us ..

     We wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey.  We wish you peace in the world in which you live and in the smallest corner of your heart where truth is kept. More we cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.   By Robert A. Ward

The above photo shows the level of the setting sun here in Anchorage Alaska at 3:23PM today .. Wednesday January 1st, 2014.  Our days are short and our nights long.

          HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ..

Cap and Patti with Love and Best Wishes ..