EverCurious
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- Jul 24, 2014
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We were lucky that the fire missed us. Where I am, it's the bridge over the Willow that's most often the issue. I just made it out this year before the closed the new bridge. Yeah, the Muni can be a problem for dog teams. Amazing how many people move up here for the "wilderness" and end up trying to make it into the pit they move from. I've had my own issues with the Muni over kennel licenses because I work with feral cat colonies. I had a house in Eagle River until I retired. The last few years ER has mutated into "Little Anchoragua". What a shame. What do you think of the new bridge?Outside Anchoragua, or Seattle North? I've a place there, one in Birchwood, and my main home North, around Willow. It's always good to have some place to go should the fecal matter strike the rotary oscillator. I'm off grid in Willow.Where are you in Alaska?Heh I don't need to get purified water, I have snow and a well (electric pump atm, but easily converted to hand pump.) Nice crisp clean Alaska water, even the rain's good if we have to.
I've gone without power (no running water and no septic) for 11 days and barely even noticed other than the boredom - hard to read by candle btw. It was -18 below outside, but our house is so well insulated that the wood stove kept the pipes from freezing. Snow/rain water makes the gravity fed toilets flush. 8 minutes on the wood stove made all the water we needed. We made mac-n-cheese with hot dogs the third day, had a little fire in the outside pit and roasted marshmallows too. It was boring, but we actually ate better than usual lol
I'm in south central but outside of the big city. Have cabins north and south I could retreat to if shit hit the fan too bad heh
"Seattle North" buhhahahaha
I'm in Eagle River, have Big Lake, Nancy Lake, and Kenai River cabin's. I have some fam. out in Willow myself. You get hit by the fire? We ended up helping Buser take in a bunch of sled dogs, and my family had to move their whole team (only 20) to Anchorage and ruckus with the pound over kennel licenses; silly muni...
My fam didn't lose their house either luckily. I had to get a kennel license cause I had 3 pups, had to put the eldest to sleep over Memorial Day weekend. She had cancer and they couldn't/didn't get it all out before it spread. I suppose I can't complain too much she was 17 so we had a good life together; I miss her cold little husky nose waking me up every morning :/
The new N bound bridge is wonderful, I wish the idiots would figure out how to stop breaking on it, such an easy hill now. I'm just hoping that wanna-be gang crap from south side/Fairview have going on doesn't ever get out here - if it does I'll prob. move out of the country, not worth my time to deal with that bullshit. I've been getting flack from my Facebook buddies all day cause of that Subway chick; what a fucking embarrassment to the state...