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  1. Since we can stream I've gone modern with the porn. Everything is a google search away...
  2. What's even worse is there are a couple of Sooners in the area. The first time I saw someone wearing a Sooner tshirt I looked at my wife and told her that I just couldn't catch a break. I represent Texas. I wear Longhorn hoodies and tshirts everywhere. During the tourist season there is always a group of dipshit Sooner fans or aggy that have to say something or give me the horns down. My typical response to the horns down is to throw an upside down bird their way. I'm sure they go back home and tell everyone how they fucked with a sip in Alaska. Whatever. I know a dozen places where their bodies would never be found.
  3. Had my first teledoc appointment about a month ago because of Covid. We usually go to Fairbanks for doctor visits. If you can combine a doc visit with a supply or fuel run you feel majorly accomplished.
  4. I wonder where that is? That is super upscale compared to how I live. The shop would be bad ass though.
  5. The cabin stays pretty toasty at 60 to 75 degrees or so. We have a Blaze King Princess model stove. It works great as long as the wood is properly cured. It doesn't burn green wood for shit. A fully loaded stove will burn for about 10 hours, so we rarely have to load it at night. Only when it gets to 50 below or colder. Looks like this:
  6. Yep. 2 of them actually.
  7. We cut all of our own firewood. We are slowly clearing the trouble trees from around the cabin and cutting a fire break. Forest fire is my biggest fear, but we don't want to clear cut so we only take 5 or 6 of those trees every Spring and then assess the view/situation. Beyond that we make a right turn out of our driveway and cut wood with impunity. We literally live at the end of the road. Exactly 1 mile from my front door is a ridge that when you drop on the other side of you are on your own. No cell service, no roads, nothing but trails and wilderness. You are likely to see anything out there...bears, wolves, moose, caribou. It's an amazing place that we hike, wheel, and snow machine often. We have a 35 ton log splitter but I try to split everything I can by hand with an 8 pound maul. It's my gym membership. My wife mainly uses the splitter. She is horrible at splitting wood by hand. It takes the two of us all spring and summer to bring in 10 cords. We split it once, stack and cover it. It then sits for 2 years to cure. We try to have it all brought in and stacked before September 1 (the first day of the general rifle season for moose). At that time we have 3 stacks of 10 cords each. The one that is used for the upcoming winter, cured 2 years. A stack that has cured 1 year and will be used next winter. And the green stack that will cure and be used in 2 winters.
  8. We splurge every once in a while. Fairbanks is not known for its food. There are a few good Thai places there. The Thai House or Lemon Grass are probably the best. Pho House is a pretty fucking good Vietnamese place. The Turtle Club has a decent prime rib and it's a place to get king crab legs (my wife's favorite thing on the planet). Bobby's Downtown is good Greek food and pizza. There's a Mexican joint that everyone around here loves, Gallo's, but it's extremely average for us Texans. If we want Mexican I can make better at home. And Irashai is a surprisingly good sushi place.
  9. We get our drinking water from a trusted source, so no need to boil it. We melt snow for humidity and dish washing water. We've never run out of drinking water and had to melt snow for that. If we did we'd boil it and filter it before we drank it.
  10. Trial and error. Most of it is common sense. My hunting buddy, who has lived up here for close to 30 years has taken us under his wing gives us advice from time to time. He is a wealth of information.
  11. I guess we'll find out...eventually.
  12. Magnum
  13. Jolie
  14. When we moved here we brought my wife's 2 cats and our chocolate lab with us. They have moved to the great beyond. We have a lab mutt named Magnum with us now. Like George Carlin said, "Life is a series of dogs." I couldn't imagine living without a dog, especially out here. They are my alarm system and my protection. Magnum is a rescue dog from Texas that my wife brought back with her after I put Jolie down (still the hardest trigger I've ever pulled). He chased a black bear off the first week he was here. This place is a dog's paradise. He's fucking awesome. When we go for hikes he is on point, always within sight. If he does lose sight of us he backtracks until he sees us again. He takes his job very seriously.
  15. Number 1 Diesel is also called heating oil or kerosene. It's what most people heat their homes with here. It doesn't gel. The newer low sulfur diesel engines won't run on it. They sell low sulfur diesel with anti gel additives at the pump. If you have an older diesel you can run number 1 or the low sulfur stuff. They sell Number 2 diesel in the summertime, but you have to be careful to have all of that out of your tank or add additives (like Diesel 911) to your tank before it gets too cold and it gels up on you.
  16. The generators and snow machine don't really use that much gas. It's more about how much snow plowing I have to do with the plow rig. It's a 1985 F250 with a 460 engine. It drinks the gas, but it will push or pull damn near anything. I don't think I've ever used more than 1 drum of gas in a month. Usually around half a drum, or 25 to 30 gallons.
  17. Our closest year round neighbor is about 800 yards through the woods, or about a mile by road. He's an absolute prick, so we avoid him. We have summer neighbors that skip the winter. They usually show up in late April early May. We are the only ones using the road that is prone to drifting. It's about 3.5 miles long. Only a quarter mile of it drifts over, but that's enough to shut us down. We've thought about battery systems, but we've decided to just keep on doing what has been working for us for 12 years. We have our system down. It works for us.
  18. What surprises most people is that critters are few and far between here relatively speaking. All the WADs (that's what locals call the tourists) complain about not seeing many animals on the bus tours into Denali Park. I guess they think the place is going to be crawling with animals everywhere. Everything has a season. You don't want to get caught doing anything illegal when it comes to hunting or trapping because the penalties are so severe. If you are caught, not only do you lose your hunting/trapping license for 5 years they fine the shit out of you. They also confiscate everything you used to kill that illegal animal. I mean everything. Your wheeler or snow machine, the trailer and vehicle you used to get your off road equipment to the drop off spot, all your firearms with you, all your gear, everything. And depending on how badly you fucked up, they go for jail time in egregious situations. The only thing I kill with impunity are squirrels around the cabin. I don't go in the woods looking for them, but If they are in the AO they have to die. They rip the insulation out of anything they can find. We call them the Varmint Cong. My dog usually trees them and lets me know. Then I go out and pop it with a .22 and he has a new tasty chew toy for a while.
  19. I'm 50 and my wife is 44.
  20. I'm hoping I never come close to finding that out.
  21. The cabin stays in the 60 to 70 degree range no matter the temp outside as long as we keep the wood stove going. One of the things that used to trip me out when we first started living this way is that we have a fire going in the stove from September to the end of April. We let it burn down almost to nothing to remove ash once a week or so, but there are always enough coals to get the next load of wood fired up.
  22. I've been keeping up with this particular group of assholes since the Horn Fans days. The Austin 3:16 board was my jam. Durkee and his shit detector used to work for a friend of mine. They would frequent a bar where I worked. Then came Shaggy, and now Surly. I've mainly been a lurker. Hardly posted at all. This is by far the most I've ever posted.
  23. The problem we have is getting rid of the water from inside the cabin. We have the most primitive set up. We've just decided to live with it and not spend money on upgrades. Our kitchen sink drains into two 5 gallon buckets that I take outside and dump at our gray water dump site.
  24. Where I work has shower and laundry facilities available to me, so I shower and do our laundry at work. There are lots of businesses who have those types of perks for their employees because while most people have indoor plumbing, everyone has their water/septic systems freeze up from time to time. It's just how it is with as cold as it gets. My wife usually bathes at the cabin out of a wash basin. She's got her system down. She can wash her hair and bathe in less than 3 gallons of water. She probably only gets a shower once a month or so. None from the inside, that's my private space. But I'll take some more of the outside and post them when I do.
  25. If you are referring to aggy, the receptionist where I work has a son that went to eaTme for some reason. I try not to delve into the mindset of anyone who chooses to attend that shithole. She has embraced all things aggy. Not long ago I was wearing a Texas hoodie at work and she actually hissed at me as I walked by her desk. I stopped and told her to google 76-37-5. She was not amused. I told her they would always be little brother and she should just accept it and to stop it with their weird traditions around me. I've been talking shit to aggy my entire life and she would have nothing new to offer.
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