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| About Your Hosts Jim and Pam Holen both moved to Alaska as kids and met in high school. After college, they settled first in Anchorage and later in Wasilla. They built their home on Cottonwood Lake 20 years ago with the help of their two young sons. Quinnie, 8 weeks old
-Pam Holen
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Dragonfly Gardens B&B ~ 1501 N. Shoreline Drive ~ Wasilla Alaska 99654 |
Jim is a retired high school guidance counselor who plays basketball, runs, and cross-country skis with the dogs. He is a clinician at the local Juvenile Assessment Center. Pam is a part-time program coordinator for the 
The sound of nature waking up on summer mornings beckons me to enjoy a peaceful start to our day on the dock. On warm days, I sit and listen to the loons and grebes call across the lake while the eagles and ravens ride the breeze above me. Blue and I were enjoying the performance one morning when I observed her swat at a passing dragonfly, knocking it into the lake. As I sat there debating whether to wade into the water to save it or to let the fish have breakfast, another dragonfly swooped down and caught the drowning friend in its grasp. They flew a distance together before they separated and then came back across the dock and into the woods. I was astounded to watch an insect save the life of another fellow insect. It was the day we decided to name our fledging dream of a bed and breakfast establishment – Dragonfly Gardens – as a remembrance of our beautiful little friends.