I'm sorry about not being as dedicated to posting. Here is a quick update.
The holiday season has been good, with the exception of too much great eats and treats. I think I put all the weight I lost working in AK back on, and perhaps a bit more. Paulette and I gave each other a new point-n-shoot camera as a main Christmas gift. I think the .pdf manual for the camera is something like 150 pages. I doubt I'll ever use all the bells and whistles but it's a lot more advanced than our old dying model. I'm looking forward to not missing some of the action pix of Alaska that our old camera wasn't fast enough to capture. A lot of my energies have been spent looking for build materials for the cabin. I scrounged the used ads and stores and have most everything I think I will ever be able to find used. The savings are huge and will more than pay for transportation getting it up there. I added up the weight of everything we want or need to bring north next spring and it comes to 3,300 pounds! Last summer we toted about 4000 lbs of materials up in the toy hauler. We were very heavy and I hope to be a little lighter this year.
Crazy but we were colder here in Calif last night than they were in Gustavus. This from a weather web site:
Latest Reported Weather Conditions Observed at Gustavus, AK
Updated 10:56 AM AST SAT JAN 1 2011
Overcast
39°F
Happy New Year to you all! Mel & Paulette
A bit of wanderlust combined with a garage full of cool things. Beginning in April 2010 follow our cabin build history and other adventures in remote Gustavus, Alaska
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"Most of us live a cautious life on the principle of safety first; but to live the Christian life there is necessary a certain reckless willingness to adventure. If faith can see every step of the way, it is not really faith."
Wm. Barclay
“Few frontiers would have been settled without that special breed of women who have always followed the footsteps of their wandering husbands.” Wayne Short, from “The Cheechakoes”
"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing."
Helen Keller
"...not all those who wander are lost"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Samuel Clemens
"Truth is the cry of many but the game of few." --George Berkeley
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
Albert Camus
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gian Carlo Menotti
Langston Hughes
About Me
- Mel (AKA Dad, Papa Mel, Grampa)
- Not retired, just tired. Married 44 years. Viet Nam Vet (1st Cavalry Division). Enjoying life!
2 comments:
I've greatly enjoyed reading the updates on your building adventure in Alaska. I'm planning on building the same basic cottage in NH.
Do you have a rough sketch of the floor plan?
Thanks - and may the peace and blessing of the Lord be yours in this new year.
Joe Sindorf
jsindorf AT gmail DOT com
missed your posts... you must be busy. only a few more months and you'll be back in the wild.
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