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We are under a winter weather advisory today with some blowing snow possible--not seing it yet as I see bright blue skies outside my window, but it is cold and not expected to get above freezing for the first time this winter. And there are some snow clouds in the distance. Beginning tonight we will be under a winter storm warning with significant snow possible. I'll believe it when I see it.
We had a winter advisory here .....
STAY INSIDE! IT'S TOO FREAKIN' COLD!!
Is that an advisory, or a winter warning?
We are under a winter weather advisory today with some blowing snow possible--not seing it yet as I see bright blue skies outside my window, but it is cold and not expected to get above freezing for the first time this winter. And there are some snow clouds in the distance. Beginning tonight we will be under a winter storm warning with significant snow possible. I'll believe it when I see it.
We had a winter advisory here .....
STAY INSIDE! IT'S TOO FREAKIN' COLD!!
Is that an advisory, or a winter warning?
I think it's time to post one of my favorites from Foxfyre's poetry collection:
AN ODE TO A WINTER DAYSHIT IT'S COLD!!
by Gertrude Farnsworth Anderson
The End
We are under a winter weather advisory today with some blowing snow possible--not seing it yet as I see bright blue skies outside my window, but it is cold and not expected to get above freezing for the first time this winter. And there are some snow clouds in the distance. Beginning tonight we will be under a winter storm warning with significant snow possible. I'll believe it when I see it.
We had a winter advisory here .....
STAY INSIDE! IT'S TOO FREAKIN' COLD!!
Is that an advisory, or a winter warning?
I think it's time to post one of my favorites from Foxfyre's poetry collection:
AN ODE TO A WINTER DAYSHIT IT'S COLD!!
by Gertrude Farnsworth Anderson
The End
I get it!
I have never seen that show. I'm not a big TV watcher, either. I have run across folks who thought that remote was what they wanted, until they got there. A friend leased his cabin to a guy from LA one summer. Guy didn't even make it through to Fall. My place is off-grid. No running water and no indoor plumbing, yet, although I plan for it, eventually. It costs close to $10,000 to put in a well, and I'm on the road system (although it's one lane and gravel). I currently have a solar panel system and have wired the place for 12 vDC. It works well, as long as you don't want a microwave. I'll eventually put in a wind generator, too. It all takes money and the place is strictly out-of-pocket. I did have the local power company give me an estimate to run in power...yah, don't think so. They wanted close to $90,000 to run wire...all for the privilege of paying them a monthly fee for power. For that kind of money, I could put in a wind-solar hybrid system that could power a small village.Thanks GW, I'm already feeling pretty darned fit, appreciate the well-wishes.Wow, Alan, that was epic. Good that the treatment seems to be working. Better that the family came together to support and help out. Hopefully, your recuperation continues apace and the New Year finds you fit as a fiddle and raring to go. Good luck.
I don't watch TV, but while staying with my daughter she had a program on the TV called (I think) Buying Alaska. We watched 3 episodes. It made me think of you.
The gist of the show was that it was about people that had gotten tired of the rat-race in the lower 48 and had visited Alaska or moved to Alaska and were looking to buy houses in the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska. As if Alaska wasn't already remote, these people are looking for remote Alaska.
Many of the homes the real estate agents are showing them don't have running water or indoor plumbing, they are on or near a lake and that's where you get your water. Electricity is provided by generator or solar panels. No cell phone coverage or even hard-wired phone for some, only radio for contact. Truly off the grid. Not even a road to get to some of the houses, ATV trail only, not even wide enough for a 4WD truck. I'd be hard pressed to even consider spending a summer in place like that and I like getting out and camping for a few days or a week, there is no way I'd spend an Alaskan winter living like that. OK, there is no way I'd spend a winter in Alaska period, but in remote nowheresville Alaska without running water, electricity and internet, capital F*** NO. Those people are insane, I don't care how good the fishing is.
I have never seen that show. I'm not a big TV watcher, either. I have run across folks who thought that remote was what they wanted, until they got there. A friend leased his cabin to a guy from LA one summer. Guy didn't even make it through to Fall. My place is off-grid. No running water and no indoor plumbing, yet, although I plan for it, eventually. It costs close to $10,000 to put in a well, and I'm on the road system (although it's one lane and gravel). I currently have a solar panel system and have wired the place for 12 vDC. It works well, as long as you don't want a microwave. I'll eventually put in a wind generator, too. It all takes money and the place is strictly out-of-pocket. I did have the local power company give me an estimate to run in power...yah, don't think so. They wanted close to $90,000 to run wire...all for the privilege of paying them a monthly fee for power. For that kind of money, I could put in a wind-solar hybrid system that could power a small village.Thanks GW, I'm already feeling pretty darned fit, appreciate the well-wishes.Wow, Alan, that was epic. Good that the treatment seems to be working. Better that the family came together to support and help out. Hopefully, your recuperation continues apace and the New Year finds you fit as a fiddle and raring to go. Good luck.
I don't watch TV, but while staying with my daughter she had a program on the TV called (I think) Buying Alaska. We watched 3 episodes. It made me think of you.
The gist of the show was that it was about people that had gotten tired of the rat-race in the lower 48 and had visited Alaska or moved to Alaska and were looking to buy houses in the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska. As if Alaska wasn't already remote, these people are looking for remote Alaska.
Many of the homes the real estate agents are showing them don't have running water or indoor plumbing, they are on or near a lake and that's where you get your water. Electricity is provided by generator or solar panels. No cell phone coverage or even hard-wired phone for some, only radio for contact. Truly off the grid. Not even a road to get to some of the houses, ATV trail only, not even wide enough for a 4WD truck. I'd be hard pressed to even consider spending a summer in place like that and I like getting out and camping for a few days or a week, there is no way I'd spend an Alaskan winter living like that. OK, there is no way I'd spend a winter in Alaska period, but in remote nowheresville Alaska without running water, electricity and internet, capital F*** NO. Those people are insane, I don't care how good the fishing is.
It is a source of amusement for many of us, the people who move up here for the "wilderness" (if you want to consider Anchorage wild) and then they bitch about the moose munching their ornamental landscaping, or when the local bears eat their dog food...and their dogs.
Alaska, at least the real Alaska, is not for the faint-hearted or the lazy. Try cutting and splitting enough wood to heat a small home for the winter.
I have never seen that show. I'm not a big TV watcher, either. I have run across folks who thought that remote was what they wanted, until they got there. A friend leased his cabin to a guy from LA one summer. Guy didn't even make it through to Fall. My place is off-grid. No running water and no indoor plumbing, yet, although I plan for it, eventually. It costs close to $10,000 to put in a well, and I'm on the road system (although it's one lane and gravel). I currently have a solar panel system and have wired the place for 12 vDC. It works well, as long as you don't want a microwave. I'll eventually put in a wind generator, too. It all takes money and the place is strictly out-of-pocket. I did have the local power company give me an estimate to run in power...yah, don't think so. They wanted close to $90,000 to run wire...all for the privilege of paying them a monthly fee for power. For that kind of money, I could put in a wind-solar hybrid system that could power a small village.Thanks GW, I'm already feeling pretty darned fit, appreciate the well-wishes.Wow, Alan, that was epic. Good that the treatment seems to be working. Better that the family came together to support and help out. Hopefully, your recuperation continues apace and the New Year finds you fit as a fiddle and raring to go. Good luck.
I don't watch TV, but while staying with my daughter she had a program on the TV called (I think) Buying Alaska. We watched 3 episodes. It made me think of you.
The gist of the show was that it was about people that had gotten tired of the rat-race in the lower 48 and had visited Alaska or moved to Alaska and were looking to buy houses in the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska. As if Alaska wasn't already remote, these people are looking for remote Alaska.
Many of the homes the real estate agents are showing them don't have running water or indoor plumbing, they are on or near a lake and that's where you get your water. Electricity is provided by generator or solar panels. No cell phone coverage or even hard-wired phone for some, only radio for contact. Truly off the grid. Not even a road to get to some of the houses, ATV trail only, not even wide enough for a 4WD truck. I'd be hard pressed to even consider spending a summer in place like that and I like getting out and camping for a few days or a week, there is no way I'd spend an Alaskan winter living like that. OK, there is no way I'd spend a winter in Alaska period, but in remote nowheresville Alaska without running water, electricity and internet, capital F*** NO. Those people are insane, I don't care how good the fishing is.
It is a source of amusement for many of us, the people who move up here for the "wilderness" (if you want to consider Anchorage wild) and then they bitch about the moose munching their ornamental landscaping, or when the local bears eat their dog food...and their dogs.
Alaska, at least the real Alaska, is not for the faint-hearted or the lazy. Try cutting and splitting enough wood to heat a small home for the winter.
That's how Alaskans are. My place is on almost 200 acres, over the river and through the woods. I hope someday to build a B&B I'll call "Grandmother's House" for just that reason.I have never seen that show. I'm not a big TV watcher, either. I have run across folks who thought that remote was what they wanted, until they got there. A friend leased his cabin to a guy from LA one summer. Guy didn't even make it through to Fall. My place is off-grid. No running water and no indoor plumbing, yet, although I plan for it, eventually. It costs close to $10,000 to put in a well, and I'm on the road system (although it's one lane and gravel). I currently have a solar panel system and have wired the place for 12 vDC. It works well, as long as you don't want a microwave. I'll eventually put in a wind generator, too. It all takes money and the place is strictly out-of-pocket. I did have the local power company give me an estimate to run in power...yah, don't think so. They wanted close to $90,000 to run wire...all for the privilege of paying them a monthly fee for power. For that kind of money, I could put in a wind-solar hybrid system that could power a small village.Thanks GW, I'm already feeling pretty darned fit, appreciate the well-wishes.Wow, Alan, that was epic. Good that the treatment seems to be working. Better that the family came together to support and help out. Hopefully, your recuperation continues apace and the New Year finds you fit as a fiddle and raring to go. Good luck.
I don't watch TV, but while staying with my daughter she had a program on the TV called (I think) Buying Alaska. We watched 3 episodes. It made me think of you.
The gist of the show was that it was about people that had gotten tired of the rat-race in the lower 48 and had visited Alaska or moved to Alaska and were looking to buy houses in the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska. As if Alaska wasn't already remote, these people are looking for remote Alaska.
Many of the homes the real estate agents are showing them don't have running water or indoor plumbing, they are on or near a lake and that's where you get your water. Electricity is provided by generator or solar panels. No cell phone coverage or even hard-wired phone for some, only radio for contact. Truly off the grid. Not even a road to get to some of the houses, ATV trail only, not even wide enough for a 4WD truck. I'd be hard pressed to even consider spending a summer in place like that and I like getting out and camping for a few days or a week, there is no way I'd spend an Alaskan winter living like that. OK, there is no way I'd spend a winter in Alaska period, but in remote nowheresville Alaska without running water, electricity and internet, capital F*** NO. Those people are insane, I don't care how good the fishing is.
It is a source of amusement for many of us, the people who move up here for the "wilderness" (if you want to consider Anchorage wild) and then they bitch about the moose munching their ornamental landscaping, or when the local bears eat their dog food...and their dogs.
Alaska, at least the real Alaska, is not for the faint-hearted or the lazy. Try cutting and splitting enough wood to heat a small home for the winter.
True story - I was stationed at Elmendorf in the early 70s .... went moose hunting near Palmer. Followed Buffalo Mine Road almost to the end, turned off into a creekbed ... 4wheeled up about 3 miles, and then pulled up on the bank to set up camp. it was late afternoon, so we just set up camp and called it a night (after copious beer disposal). Got up the next morning - walked out of camp - over a hill we had backed up to .... and there was a house.
Guy had lived there 6 years - his mom lived in Anchorage - he came out twice a year. One room cabin, with the biggest dog you ever saw, and a million books. Very nice guy - we had dinner with him that evening, and he made it a point to stop by the camp every evening (for copious beer disposal). Took two moose out of there ... was a good week.
Nice! Some warm, summertime pics for the frozen North.Went to the Botanical Gardens after work today and took some more photos. Here's a couple:
That's how Alaskans are. My place is on almost 200 acres, over the river and through the woods. I hope someday to build a B&B I'll call "Grandmother's House" for just that reason.I have never seen that show. I'm not a big TV watcher, either. I have run across folks who thought that remote was what they wanted, until they got there. A friend leased his cabin to a guy from LA one summer. Guy didn't even make it through to Fall. My place is off-grid. No running water and no indoor plumbing, yet, although I plan for it, eventually. It costs close to $10,000 to put in a well, and I'm on the road system (although it's one lane and gravel). I currently have a solar panel system and have wired the place for 12 vDC. It works well, as long as you don't want a microwave. I'll eventually put in a wind generator, too. It all takes money and the place is strictly out-of-pocket. I did have the local power company give me an estimate to run in power...yah, don't think so. They wanted close to $90,000 to run wire...all for the privilege of paying them a monthly fee for power. For that kind of money, I could put in a wind-solar hybrid system that could power a small village.Thanks GW, I'm already feeling pretty darned fit, appreciate the well-wishes.Wow, Alan, that was epic. Good that the treatment seems to be working. Better that the family came together to support and help out. Hopefully, your recuperation continues apace and the New Year finds you fit as a fiddle and raring to go. Good luck.
I don't watch TV, but while staying with my daughter she had a program on the TV called (I think) Buying Alaska. We watched 3 episodes. It made me think of you.
The gist of the show was that it was about people that had gotten tired of the rat-race in the lower 48 and had visited Alaska or moved to Alaska and were looking to buy houses in the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska. As if Alaska wasn't already remote, these people are looking for remote Alaska.
Many of the homes the real estate agents are showing them don't have running water or indoor plumbing, they are on or near a lake and that's where you get your water. Electricity is provided by generator or solar panels. No cell phone coverage or even hard-wired phone for some, only radio for contact. Truly off the grid. Not even a road to get to some of the houses, ATV trail only, not even wide enough for a 4WD truck. I'd be hard pressed to even consider spending a summer in place like that and I like getting out and camping for a few days or a week, there is no way I'd spend an Alaskan winter living like that. OK, there is no way I'd spend a winter in Alaska period, but in remote nowheresville Alaska without running water, electricity and internet, capital F*** NO. Those people are insane, I don't care how good the fishing is.
It is a source of amusement for many of us, the people who move up here for the "wilderness" (if you want to consider Anchorage wild) and then they bitch about the moose munching their ornamental landscaping, or when the local bears eat their dog food...and their dogs.
Alaska, at least the real Alaska, is not for the faint-hearted or the lazy. Try cutting and splitting enough wood to heat a small home for the winter.
True story - I was stationed at Elmendorf in the early 70s .... went moose hunting near Palmer. Followed Buffalo Mine Road almost to the end, turned off into a creekbed ... 4wheeled up about 3 miles, and then pulled up on the bank to set up camp. it was late afternoon, so we just set up camp and called it a night (after copious beer disposal). Got up the next morning - walked out of camp - over a hill we had backed up to .... and there was a house.
Guy had lived there 6 years - his mom lived in Anchorage - he came out twice a year. One room cabin, with the biggest dog you ever saw, and a million books. Very nice guy - we had dinner with him that evening, and he made it a point to stop by the camp every evening (for copious beer disposal). Took two moose out of there ... was a good week.
I've also hunted up Buffalo Mine Road. I used to have a bear bait station near Castle Mountain.
I used to have a friend (haven't seen her in years) who lived in Alaska for a while when her husband, who was in the military, was stationed there. She said that the scenery is amazing and that words can't describe it, like Sherry says. She told me that you have to be really tough to live there though, and that a lot of people can suffer from depression in the winter months when it's dark.
I have never seen that show. I'm not a big TV watcher, either. I have run across folks who thought that remote was what they wanted, until they got there. A friend leased his cabin to a guy from LA one summer. Guy didn't even make it through to Fall. My place is off-grid. No running water and no indoor plumbing, yet, although I plan for it, eventually. It costs close to $10,000 to put in a well, and I'm on the road system (although it's one lane and gravel). I currently have a solar panel system and have wired the place for 12 vDC. It works well, as long as you don't want a microwave. I'll eventually put in a wind generator, too. It all takes money and the place is strictly out-of-pocket. I did have the local power company give me an estimate to run in power...yah, don't think so. They wanted close to $90,000 to run wire...all for the privilege of paying them a monthly fee for power. For that kind of money, I could put in a wind-solar hybrid system that could power a small village.Thanks GW, I'm already feeling pretty darned fit, appreciate the well-wishes.Wow, Alan, that was epic. Good that the treatment seems to be working. Better that the family came together to support and help out. Hopefully, your recuperation continues apace and the New Year finds you fit as a fiddle and raring to go. Good luck.
I don't watch TV, but while staying with my daughter she had a program on the TV called (I think) Buying Alaska. We watched 3 episodes. It made me think of you.
The gist of the show was that it was about people that had gotten tired of the rat-race in the lower 48 and had visited Alaska or moved to Alaska and were looking to buy houses in the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska. As if Alaska wasn't already remote, these people are looking for remote Alaska.
Many of the homes the real estate agents are showing them don't have running water or indoor plumbing, they are on or near a lake and that's where you get your water. Electricity is provided by generator or solar panels. No cell phone coverage or even hard-wired phone for some, only radio for contact. Truly off the grid. Not even a road to get to some of the houses, ATV trail only, not even wide enough for a 4WD truck. I'd be hard pressed to even consider spending a summer in place like that and I like getting out and camping for a few days or a week, there is no way I'd spend an Alaskan winter living like that. OK, there is no way I'd spend a winter in Alaska period, but in remote nowheresville Alaska without running water, electricity and internet, capital F*** NO. Those people are insane, I don't care how good the fishing is.
It is a source of amusement for many of us, the people who move up here for the "wilderness" (if you want to consider Anchorage wild) and then they bitch about the moose munching their ornamental landscaping, or when the local bears eat their dog food...and their dogs.
Alaska, at least the real Alaska, is not for the faint-hearted or the lazy. Try cutting and splitting enough wood to heat a small home for the winter.
My favorite vacation was an Alaskan cruise...I enjoyed it even more than my week in Kauai. The scenery was breathtaking...pictures can't do it justice.
