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Wales has grown in population today by one, thanks to the awesome and well-trained health clinic workers, Molly delivered a fine and healthy baby boy here today, nearly a month early, because all flights had been canceled out of here due to our weather (expectant mothers usually fly to Nome and wait for delivery three to four weeks before the expected birth). Our cooks, Met and Chris, helped out since Molly is Met's daughter and Chris's niece. Thank heaven for babies AND awesome health care workers!
I know we should all live in cities of 50,000 people or greater, so spare the lectures on what's wrong with the many small places in Alaska. But feel free to add other anecdotes that might convey a bit of the "living" that is rather normal in the day to day. I won't bring up the fact that gas is still $6/gallon....... oops!
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
Have to fly my gas out in a helicopter. 57 miles east of Denali at 2000 ft elevation. Running low on coffee creamer if anybody is in the neighborhood...
I grew up 30 miles from the nearest town. I still miss it. There are too many people most places. Enjoy the serenity of your seclusion. I now live 3 miles from that same closest town; population 4500+
Have to fly my gas out in a helicopter. 57 miles east of Denali at 2000 ft elevation. Running low on coffee creamer if anybody is in the neighborhood...
Amazon is your friend...........or not
Originally Posted by Ozarker
I grew up 30 miles from the nearest town. I still miss it. There are too many people most places. Enjoy the serenity of your seclusion. I now live 3 miles from that same closest town; population 4500+
I have presently been an apartment dweller....into a second year of it in Fairbanks. I sure miss Alaska most of the time, or at least the Alaska I've known for better than half my life. Fairbanks sure is a different world. It just reminds me all the more that the 'good stuff', wherever it is, should never be taken for granted.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
Amazon prime member in good standing, drone delivery is a fantastic idea. We had a moose bedded down on my landing zone upon arrival. Wonder how the drone would deal with that situation?
Taken from the Facebook page of a friend and former co-worker:
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Wales has grown in population today by one, thanks to the awesome and well-trained health clinic workers, Molly delivered a fine and healthy baby boy here today, nearly a month early, because all flights had been canceled out of here due to our weather (expectant mothers usually fly to Nome and wait for delivery three to four weeks before the expected birth). Our cooks, Met and Chris, helped out since Molly is Met's daughter and Chris's niece. Thank heaven for babies AND awesome health care workers!
I know we should all live in cities of 50,000 people or greater, so spare the lectures on what's wrong with the many small places in Alaska. But feel free to add other anecdotes that might convey a bit of the "living" that is rather normal in the day to day. I won't bring up the fact that gas is still $6/gallon....... oops!
Fahq that. I have no desire to live in an urban area. I've spent the majority of my career in the bush villages. I'm about 5 years out from pulling the pin and I'm retiring to a community much smaller in population that the one I'm in now. The only difference is I'll have a paved road to make things convenient.
My post primary career life will probably be a rotating gig in...................you guessed it. Rural villages.
Taken from the Facebook page of a friend and former co-worker:
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Wales has grown in population today by one, thanks to the awesome and well-trained health clinic workers, Molly delivered a fine and healthy baby boy here today, nearly a month early, because all flights had been canceled out of here due to our weather (expectant mothers usually fly to Nome and wait for delivery three to four weeks before the expected birth). Our cooks, Met and Chris, helped out since Molly is Met's daughter and Chris's niece. Thank heaven for babies AND awesome health care workers!
And they don't talk to the hospital in Nome via radio anymore. (I arrived in '82 which was the first year there was general phone service on many rural villages.) And the village generators ran on something other than 60 Hz during those hours in the day when it wasn't failing to operate. People have rejoiced recently for the monthly water/sewer billers being reduced from $250/month.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
Taken from the Facebook page of a friend and former co-worker:
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Wales has grown in population today by one, thanks to the awesome and well-trained health clinic workers, Molly delivered a fine and healthy baby boy here today, nearly a month early, because all flights had been canceled out of here due to our weather (expectant mothers usually fly to Nome and wait for delivery three to four weeks before the expected birth). Our cooks, Met and Chris, helped out since Molly is Met's daughter and Chris's niece. Thank heaven for babies AND awesome health care workers!
I know we should all live in cities of 50,000 people or greater, so spare the lectures on what's wrong with the many small places in Alaska. But feel free to add other anecdotes that might convey a bit of the "living" that is rather normal in the day to day. I won't bring up the fact that gas is still $6/gallon....... oops!
Amazing when gas is in the 1.20 range in areas here... the collapse of an economy is shortly behind at this rate though...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
Cool pics.. Beware of Agenda 21, they have plans for us..
I'm not familiar with it, please enlighten me.
FWIW, I grew up in a town of about 200 people and no stop lights. I'm now 45 and the town still has no stop lights. The largest town in my county only has two. It's not nearly as rural as some places in AK, but as previously stated, no cities/large towns for me. My thought has always been, if I can see you; you're close enough. If I can hear you; you're too close.
24HCF in its entirety, is solely responsible for why my children do not have college funds, my mortgage isn't paid-off and why I will never retire early enough to enjoy the remainder of my life.
Have to fly my gas out in a helicopter. 57 miles east of Denali at 2000 ft elevation. Running low on coffee creamer if anybody is in the neighborhood...
My gas station:
Is this really your home or hunting camp? Looks like an awesome place to live. Beautiful country out there!
"When guns are outlawed,only the outlaws will have guns".
Beer is too heavy. Bourbon is the drink here. And I have line of sight to an ATT cell tower 8 miles away. Strong LTE connection. Solar to recharge everything. No truck or ATV access. It's either plane, helicopter or snowmachine. Still waiting on the creek to freeze over, maybe in another week or two I can make the 24 mile run to town.
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