The view from the outhouse
Wednesday May 12
Good morning from Silty Slough. 41 degrees at 6:30. 17 hours 31 minutes daylight for today. It has been raining just a little so it is still damp out. I had plans to dig the ramp down into the crawl space today. I’ll have to wait for things to dry out a bit.
With the gas shortages on the east coast Mayor Cooper is being proactive and has started a rationing program. The price on the liberals pump is now $8 a gallon and it will be open from noon until 5 minutes after noon. Qualified customers at the conservative pump will pay $2.20 a gallon and is unlimited for chainsaws, 4 wheelers, transportation to employment, and log splitters. I guess the Biden supporters wouldn’t have a need for fuel for any of these things anyway since they are staying home collecting unemployment. They are a big part of the problem, don’t have to go to work so they have nothing to do except drive around and waste the gas that the working people need.
Here are the entries in the ships log to keep you up to date with our life off the end of the road.
Friday May 7
Today we sorted and moved things around to make more room under the covered area where we park. I also moved 4 twenty foot pieces of 6” pipe over closer to where we are going to cut them in half for pilings.
I was just thinking President by cheating Biden got 80 million votes. Now we all know a lot of those voters were dead and a lot more don’t even exist but that still leaves a bunch of other people. I haven’t heard one person say that they voted for Biden or anyone say how much better off they are today. I wouldn’t be surprised if Joe as confused as he is even voted for the bad orange man. The Biden government has jumped the tracks if it ever was on the tracks. High prices for everything, gas shortages when 4 months ago we were energy self sufficient, the border out of control, crime going out of sight, and on and on. I can’t think of anything good that has happened since the election. Joe and Kamala are the laughing stock of the world.
Back to the story…We signed up for Starlink and can’t wait to get high speed internet and backup communication for or single cell tower link to the outside world. I have been watching the map of all the satellites at satellitemap.space to see when the birds start flying over Alaska. So far all I can see is one group in a polar orbit. I was watching it the other night. The first satellite in string 18 passed over Hawaii and 12 minutes later it was passing me in Alaska. That’s about a 5 hour flight in a 737.
Saturday May 8
It is dry enough today to get more snow out of the crawl space and I was able to get most of it. I’ll let the sun finish it. Kari decided today is the day we should move the 4 or 5 raspberry bushes that are right under where the new deck is going to be. I was able to slip slide around and pick each one up in the backhoe bucket and haul it to the other side of the cabin where we had already moved the strawberry plants last fall. That wasn’t too bad and didn’t make too much of a muddy mess.
Kari decided to make pecan cinnamon rolls after supper. When they came out of the oven I had to take a picture. It was then I noticed the clock on the stove it was 11:44 pm. Enough fun for the day time for a nap. I did manage to stay awake past midnight to be the first to wish her a Happy Mother’s Day.
Sunday May 9
Happy Mother’s Day everyone. I had the coffee ready when Kari woke up. The pecan cinnamon rolls look delicious. Kari wants hers warmed, I’m not waiting 15 seconds for the microwave. Awsome, better than the Holiday Inn Express cinnamon rolls on the “free” breakfast and as good as Cinnabon. I don’t think we did anything else exciting on our adventure today.
Monday May 10
It rained overnight, Kari said she could hear it on the metal roof. Must have not rained on my side of the bed because I didn’t hear it.
When I was outside this morning it hit me. This thought shooting into my head. One that would split a normal persons skull wide open. A Fauci moment. My solar electric system produces little or no electricity on rainy days. Now why is this? I just figured out that Mother Nature robbs the electric from solar energy systems in order to have enough electricity for lightning on rainy days. If it is raining in the wrong place the lightning strikes the high line towers and travels on the electric grid to power the windmills. Everyone knows they make electricity into wind. This is why it is usually windy when or just before it rains. The windmills are controlled by the government and blow the rainstorms around to the farmers that voted for President by cheating Biden in the last election. I’m very happy to be able to explain this to you liberal morons.
Tuesday May 11
It was misting rain again this morning so I stayed in and installed TurboTax on my computer. I’m glad they extended the filing deadline. This will give me time to file for an extension. There hasn’t been much sunshine to dry things up so I will wait to dig. When it is muddy you just make a mess and take a chance on tearing up your equipment.
About 5 o’clock there was a bit of sun so we decided to take the boys for a run. I wanted Kari to drive and take the side by side but she wanted to take the 4 wheelers. Remember this. Mine was parked behind hers under our deck slash carport or in our case slash snow machine/ 4 wheeler port. I hopped on mine with Teddy riding shotgun. Kari was following and Cooper with his natural herding instincts was directing the parade on foot. Up the hill by the root cellar, following the trail along the back of our property, then down the hill past Al’s, and on down to the ramp to the slough. The water from the snow melt and the rain has washed ruts in the top of the ramp. Further down it is gravel. I might as well try it and see just how soft it is. One length of the machine and I’m sinking in the mud. I’m headed slightly downhill and when I tried to back out I was stuck. This is not good, I just have my slippers on. I hopped off to a dry spot and hooked the winch from Kari’s machine to mine. Her machine was just sliding in the mud when she tightened up on the winch. Unhook, I’ll try to go on down the ramp and turn around on the gravel. I went forward a bit then progress stopped. It was then I noticed I was only in two wheel drive. Normally the machines just stay in 4 wheel. Note to self: always check. I went right on down and turned around. Now it is time to head back up through the muddy mess. I really don’t want to get stuck in the middle of the mud. I just put these clean clothes on this morning. So after a few tries pulling forward and backing up I have quite a pot of brown gooey soup stirred up but I’m still making forward progress. Finally I was able to jump the frozen lip of dirt and get out. Home boys enough adventure for today. Back at the cabin I looked and I’m still mud free. My 4 wheeler not so much but now we have a well and a power washer. If we had taken the side by side like I wanted to this wouldn’t have happened because Kari would not have attempted the ramp. I think this can be chalked up as her fault in the record book.
Soup beans with caribou sausage, cornbread, and a slice of onion is the delight for tonight.
It is time for a nap.
Stay safe and healthy my friends.
Thank you Lord for watching over us.
I’ll be in touch.
Blue skies!!!
The View from the Outhouse 