The view from the outhouse
Thursday January 28
Good morning from the asylum. It was 11 degrees above zero this morning when I got up the first time. We have about 3 inches of fresh snow. Later today I will get the groomer hooked up and see what I can do for the trail from Roger’s to the Skwentna post office. I don’t have much hope for the arrival of the mail plane today since it is still snowing.
Our neighbors that flew over the slough Tuesday sent pictures of the strip. I have them attached to this post. Please don’t look at them unless you have the proper security clearance. Yesterday was supposed to be a big day. I went downstairs to the combination shop/ shower/ commissary/ den and put the belt on Thor’s snow machine. It started after a couple pulls. It sure pulls hard for a little engine. I’m glad all our other machines have electric start. I put my jacket and mittens on ready to ride it right out of the shop. Gave it the throttle, garage door open, the dogs and cats run for cover, nothing but smoke. Maybe I got a little extra oil in the 50:1 mixture. It didn’t move. Opened the cowl back up, the clutch has seized on the shaft. Removed the belt and sprayed the clutch with Krown Oil magic fix-all spray. I pulled the start rope a couple times, doesn’t start. One more pull, it kicks and the old start rope breaks. I pulled the starting assembly off the engine and laid it on the bench. Enough mechanics for now. The way things are going if I take it apart, the retract spring would wrap around my head, break my glasses, and crush my hearing aids. The glass is half empty at this point.
Kari made chicken gnocchi soup. She like most other good cooks uses the recipe as a start then tweaks it up quite a bit. Way better than Olive Garden. The loaf of home baked bread was wonderful. She topped it off with a home baked mixed berry pie and ice cream. If Colonel Sanders could cook this good he’d be a General by now. Took a while to spell Colonel, I couldn’t even come close enough for spell check to fix it, but I have Google. At one point I was just going to do the Col. thing.
After dinner I decided to work on my sense, no not that sense, the one that came in the mail.
It was easy to install in the breaker panel and in no time it made a beep and the lights flashed signaling everything was correctly wired. I tried to communicate with it via my cell phone but it turns out I need a wireless access point for the WiFi. I’ll run right down to the Skwentna Best Buy and pick one up. Not. Another project in the holding pattern. I think I will assemble the stainless steel laundry tub that we picked up on the last Costco trip. It is well made and went right together, legs, faucet, basket strainer. The supply lines have a smaller fitting than the old one. I’ll have to get different supply valves at the Skwentna Lowe’s that they haven’t built yet. Another project enters the hold. Now I have projects stacked up in the hold like going to LaGuardia on Friday night with a severe thunderstorm over the field. Expect further clearance time is days not minutes, time to punch out and proceed to my alternate. Upstairs for a Tiger Woods, Woods being plural in this case. Teddy joined me with a bowl of water, he doesn’t like me to drink alone, and we discuss a new venture. With all the supplies in Kari’s stash and all the fuel we have been hauling we are going to open the Silty Slough gas station and convenience store. Teddy thinks we will need two gas pumps. One for the liberal Trump haters and “President by cheating Biden” supporters. I like how that now comes up all in one phrase in my spell check. This one will be priced at $8.47 a gallon. If you show up with a MAGA hat or T-shirt, or have a Trump flag or sticker on your snow machine you can use the other pump at $2.39 a gallon. I know this is below cost, but Teddy says since “President by cheating Biden” supporters think cheating is just fine, it is ok to cheat them and pass the savings on to our fellow Trump cult. To add insult to injury we will donate $1 a gallon for each gallon sold at the liberal pump to the 2024 Trump election campaign. We will also send $1 to St. Judes for each gallon sold. Watch for the grand opening.
Can you imagine if “President by cheating Biden” would spend 2 billion dollars on cancer or Alzheimer’s research? That would help everyone in the World. Instead it gets sent to some third World politicians where it doesn’t do one ounce of good for the suffering people. He may even be able to find a cure for himself and keep the Ho out of the Oval Office. Teddy and I have had enough, we need to go outside for a potty break.
Thursday
It is time to get up and get with it, barrels of fuel to unload, trails to groom. It is supposed to reach 19 today, that’s 30 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. I should get up and get the coffee started, wonder what the cook has in mind for breakfast?
I hope all of you have a wonderful day. Please share the view with your friends. Our new gas station will need the business.
Thank you Lord for waking me up for another day.
I’ll be in touch.
Blue skies!!!
The View from the Outhouse 