I'm still around

Hi everyone, I know it's been awhile and everyone is curious about what's going on. Well here goes, anyone who lives a bush life are known for one of many things and that is, being unpredictable and I am one of them. As many who live off the road system knows, when you go to town to shop or whatever, you either stay in hotels or with friends. My friends on the road system are far and few between. The friends I do have welcome me to stay but, I prefer to not. I like being by myself and am more comfortable than being under someone elses roof. So, that being said, I bought a piece of property up Talkeetna way and really don't want to be specific to it's whereabouts. I am presently building a small cabin there and this way, I have my own place to stay when I go to town. It's a 1/2 acre lot and I am building a 12x16 cabin on it. There is a small boat launch for the Big Su and a 2300ft.airstrip right around the corner. It is very private. I will be heading back to the Homestead in a week and a half. Here are a few pictures.
                          Front of property

                      Clearing the property

                        Driveway



                Clearing finished

               Driveway graveled in

               My temporary home



          Walkway to cabin site

                     Cabin site






Well, that's as far as I have gotten so far. Just me and my chainsaw and I can't tell you how many times I had to sharpen the chain or get a new one. I am collecting a lot of firewood. Now, because of my thriftyness and patience, I have gotten most of my materials free [gotta love craigslist],LOL. Even though this property is on the "road system" it is very private. Am I doing the right thing? I don't know but, hey, I can always sell it for good money. I paid $3500 for the property and I will have about $1500 in expenses in it. It took me quite awhile to find a place to get on my computer. I will say one thing for sure, can't wait to get off the road system.
  I just want to reassure everyone that I am not abandoning "THE BUSH LIFE". I will try to keep everyone in formed a little more often. Take care.

UPDATE

Hi everyone, I am still in Anchorage. Arrived May 31. I kind of ran around eating some good stuff, Burger King, China King Buffett and Fred Meyers fried chicken, MMMMMmmmm,GOOOOOOD. Had to stick around and get some things done on my truck and visit the VA who kept me coming back for my yearly physical, seems everything works and I am in pretty good shape for an older guy. I have a few more things to do and then, will be heading out. Now I know why I prefer living out in the BUSH. This place will drive ya nuts or to drink, LOL. Stay tuned. Have a great summer.

This is it

Today I leave for Anchorage, I hope. My plane is due around noon but, the weather is calling for rain and that means, if Lake Clark Pass is affected, I'm not going anywhere. That would be my luck. I am excited to get to Anchorage to start on my new found adventure. This is the first time I really looked forward to working,LOL. Anyway, I will try to keep everyone up to date on whatever is going on from the time I hit Anchorage to completing the new cabin.  Check back

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My time is near

   I have 4 days left before I head to Anchorage. I have been pretty busy packing and forgetting things to pack. Moving is really easy, it's remembering what to pack. Packing is a real pain. I remember it wasn't all that long ago, I could pack everything in a backpack and go, over the the past 10 years I have been accumulating things and once I get going on the new cabin, I hope to eliminate many of the things I have.  There seems to be a lot of pressure on me right now.  I think once I get to Anchorage and get all my stuff into  storage, the pressure will ease up.  The only good thing about packing is, it kept me inside and from being eatin up by the skeets and attacked by the millions of sand fleas. The weather is overcast and the high winds stopped a few days ago.  The way the clouds are forming today, it looks like it may rain.

   When I get to Anchorage, I will be spending some time there getting stuff that I will need like food, more tools, laundry, yep, I saved enough up to take me awhile.  I want to take a trip on the Denali Highway as I usually do every summer and fall.  Whenever I travel to the Highway, I find solace there. I have found myself staying off the computer more and more each day and it feels good.  Getting back to a more simpler life is very inviting.  Anyway, I am cleaning a nice big Lake Trout I got and my friend from the village is coming out since his wife is in Anchorage. Ok I'm out. Later

  

11 more days left til it's time to go North and build the Homestead. I am getting very excited. I have been kind of keeping a low profile these past few days. I woke this morning to a sort of gloomy day.



As you can see no sun to speak of. As the day grew older, the wind picked up.





Because of the lake having rollers, I can't get water from it so, I had to go up the beach to the creek for water.

Although it wasn't a complete gloomy day, I had a visitor this morning.





It really is nice to have these guys for neighbors, yes, even the squirrels. As the day grew on, I went looking for something like a flower and here is the only thing I found budding.


As I was on my way back inside I noticed a lot of movement. Went to investigate and I found a bunch of swallows going after the skeets.



So, I pretty much spent the day packing stuff and took some boxes to my friend in the village, he is flying his plane to Anchorage tomorrow and will put the stuff in my truck camper. I don't really mind the wind much, it keeps the skeets down. Tomorrow is another day and I will see what I can get into tomorrow.

Another day and Another blank

  Since my last post not much has changed. The weather is gloomy overcast. The ice did go out. We had some very high winds which helped to push it out. I kind of been stuck inside. Today, I did go out and walked around to see if anything is worth photographing. There are no flowers, only brown grass, bare trees and the same birds that have been around. Although, I did see my first robin the other day. I have 15 more days before heading to Anchorage. Then prepare everything to get up to my land and get busy building.

  Here is a little human interest story. There is a woman in the village who has 1 daughter at home. A while back she went to Anchorage and was at the Northway Mall. While walking around, there was a business there renting store space and selling misc. items. Anyway, she went in and was looking around and she saw some computers and thought it would be nice to have one. Mind you she knows absolutely nothing about them. They had a computer they showed her and she liked it and decided to buy it. When she got back to the village the computer wouldn't work. I and some friends checked it out and found it had no operating system on it. I informed her of this and she said it worked when they showed her. They took her to the cleaners. They had loaded the operating system and then unloaded it after she paid $199.00 for a brand of computer I have never heard of. She tried contacting them and they gave her the run around. Of course they were no longer in that store. I felt bad for her so, I had an ACER computer that is 3 years old and loaded with everything. Today I cleaned everything of mine off and took it in and gave it to her. I also threw in my my old Canon 3.2 meg camera along with a case for the computer. She was very happy and it made me feel good doing something for someone. She handed me $50 and I told her to keep it. I guess that really made my day, hers to I suspect.

  The moral of this story is, when you feel kind of down in the dumps, do something special for someone and it will brighten your day.