Saturday, March 22, 2025

Outdoor Boys!

 Luke is back in  Nome again, and we see more of John-Adrian every time. He's on a lot in this one.

A family note is that only my wife and I and our friends in our generation call him John-Adrian.  His brothers call him JA and everyone else just calls him John.  He was Adrian Ionut in Romania, where people are addressed much more often by their middle name. We already had a Jonathan, so we pressured J-A to not just be "John" (as he was already using once he heard he was being adopted), but to hyphenate it.  It ended up making no difference.  So I have two sons named John/Jon. 

Apparently Luke broke JA's augur sometime in this video.  I haven't gotten there yet. I'm still watching the parts where my son is doing heavy labor with his bad back, and I am wincing every time he bends over and lifts.  Some parts of parenting never go away.  I guess he thinks it's worth it.  He turns 40 in a few weeks.  

The rest of the Nichols family shows up at around the 31 minute mark and they go over to the Wyman's for King Crab and other Filipino food by Jocie.  FB is the smallest of her accounts, but it seems to pay well. The middle granddaughter makes an appearance as well. The Nichols are Latter-Day Saints and go to church Sunday.  I hadn't known there was a Mormon church in Nome.  It might be a home church.  Nome has less than 4K people.

Near the end they go looking for Musk Ox. Rough, dangerous creatures.  Jocie gave my wife a winter headband made out of musk ox underfur for Christmas, supposedly the warmest in the world, and Tracy has loved it.

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