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"Resourceful" - yeah I like that.
My wife doesn't let me go to the dump alone anymore. Much. I found a brand new, stiff (un-previously opened?) latest edition Speer reloading book at a transfer site this spring, Sportsman’s Warehouse price still on it. Always wonder if there was some kind of major misfunction with a relationship when you see stuff like that. 🧐
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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"Resourceful" - yeah I like that.
My wife doesn't let me go to the dump alone anymore. Much. I found a brand new, stiff (un-previously opened?) latest edition Speer reloading book at a transfer site this spring, Sportsman’s Warehouse price still on it. Always wonder if there was some kind of major misfunction with a relationship when you see stuff like that. 🧐 Maybe it was a gift to an illiterate reloader?
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Whoa!.......Copper River dipnetting shut down.......that run of reds and kings
is a big part of "subsistence" in interior Alaska. Just imagine if they all head to the Kenai  Bender ain't seen nothing yet.
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"Resourceful" - yeah I like that.
My wife doesn't let me go to the dump alone anymore. Much. I found a brand new, stiff (un-previously opened?) latest edition Speer reloading book at a transfer site this spring, Sportsman’s Warehouse price still on it. Always wonder if there was some kind of major misfunction with a relationship when you see stuff like that. 🧐 Not sure what a transfer station is, but the big boys throw out brand new stuff all the time to make room. If you got lucky in the old days all kinds of free brand new walmart fishing/hunting gear that would not sell and the season had changed was in the dumpster... later they started bulk selling the lots of it, suspect it was managers beer money.. then the dumpsters were enclosed and you never could even try....
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....
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"Resourceful" - yeah I like that.
My wife doesn't let me go to the dump alone anymore. Much. I found a brand new, stiff (un-previously opened?) latest edition Speer reloading book at a transfer site this spring, Sportsman’s Warehouse price still on it. Always wonder if there was some kind of major misfunction with a relationship when you see stuff like that. 🧐 Maybe it was a gift to an illiterate reloader? 😳
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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Not sure what a transfer station is,....
They’re a fairly common phenom in populated parts of Alaska where there are dozens of dumpster bins for people to dump their trash in. It’s a way for people who don’t have access to trash pickup to get rid of yard and household waste in the boroughs. They sometimes have a place to drop off reusable as well,... like exercise machines, old washing machines, clothes, tires.....reloading manuals. 😛
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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Ah. A dump. Gotcha. In fairbanks or you are back out in Gods country again I'm assuming? And if so congrats and enjoy
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....
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For those that don't want to drive all the way to the dump, you can dump your stuff at a transfer station and it will be hauled to the dump for you (transferred). For Anchorage there is a transfer station in the middle of town, and the dump is in Eagle River.
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Fairbanks has transfer stations; they’re quite clean and organized as compared to the open dumps in the rural parts. (Some rural dumps actually set aside useful stuff too however. That’s generally just a spot where you can look for vehicles and associated parts. But some dump maintainers delight in destroying as much stuff as possible too. ☹️) yeah I’m ‘out there’ : home for a couple months. (Gosh, I had forgotten how much more challenging life can be out here, or is it just the years adding up? 🤨
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Dang, learn more every day.
Enjoy it out there! Hard or not, I'd have to say you all know its worth it until you just can't.
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....
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A dumpster is about all I get for my taxes to the boro.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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A dumpster is about all I get for my taxes to the boro. that can't be right??? surely some of your neighbors have a good job thanks to your taxes?
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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A dumpster is about all I get for my taxes to the boro. That’s kind of lame if they don’t throw a nice ridge for you to shovel/ plow at the end of your driveway after every snowfall. ☹️
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I’ve paid for tickets to the L48 a couple times when my folks were still around, as well as tickets to ANC from copper live scrounged from the rural dumps. Good luck with that in a place like FBX. Some of the scrounges are real regulars and it isn’t uncommon to see one of them holding a single short length of copper wire or tubing as the continue browsing/shopping through the line of dumpsters. (The regulars often have a scrounged bicycle with a scrounged kid-carrier or other ‘trailer’ affixed somehow to the rear; some real characters, some of them, but I appreciate such industry much more than seeing some of the regulars that hold cardboard on the street corner. )
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A dumpster is about all I get for my taxes to the boro. That’s kind of lame if they don’t throw a nice ridge for you to shovel/ plow at the end of your driveway after every snowfall. ☹️ DOT plows my road.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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most of the so called subsistence is a joke. its a bunch of activists trying to make believe they really " live off the land" please. the post office is the true subsistence source with those checks showing up every month
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"Subsistence" is like sex: commercial, personal use, and sport........ 
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most of the so called subsistence is a joke. its a bunch of activists trying to make believe they really " live off the land" please. the post office is the true subsistence source with those checks showing up every month I would heartily take issue with such an assumption........dang, there’s that old ‘ass’ showing up again. While I don’t know anyone who doesnt use various “western” commodities such as sugar, shortening, coffee, tea, crackers and such things, there are still plenty of folks who rely heavily on subsistence resources for the bulk of their protein and a large part of their plant intake. And though there are some who sold or traded their dignity for a pittance generations ago.......and they bug the piss out of me, they do nothing more than merely exist. (Yeah. I do wish pop and other junk could not be acquired via public assistance.) But anyone who actually has a life ‘out here’, whether employed or not, is going to have a real tough go of it without subsistence resources. Assistance checks just don’t pay that well.
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"Subsistence" is like sex: commercial, personal use, and sport........ I think you have a new sig line!
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most of the so called subsistence is a joke. its a bunch of activists trying to make believe they really " live off the land" please. the post office is the true subsistence source with those checks showing up every month I would heartily take issue with such an assumption........dang, there’s that old ‘ass’ showing up again. While I don’t know anyone who doesnt use various “western” commodities such as sugar, shortening, coffee, tea, crackers and such things, there are still plenty of folks who rely heavily on subsistence resources for the bulk of their protein and a large part of their plant intake. And though there are some who sold or traded their dignity for a pittance generations ago.......and they bug the piss out of me, they do nothing more than merely exist. (Yeah. I do wish pop and other junk could not be acquired via public assistance.) But anyone who actually has a life ‘out here’, whether employed or not, is going to have a real tough go of it without subsistence resources. Assistance checks just don’t pay that well. I've learned to appreciate that the primary elements that bind a culture from it's past to the present with hope towards the future are it's language, it's art and it's food. I'd also say that the gathering of the ingredients is more important than the recipes. There are a whole host of social issues in the villages, no one will deny that. The solution is not easy or palatable, but subsistence/traditional hunting and fishing is IMHO the most important part of healing and moving forward. Abuse of the resources is related to the social problems which to a large degree fall at the feet of the well intentioned government and social justice folks.
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