Cross Continental Friends!!!

[SlowBill]

The neighbors seem fine, old women with food were arriving en masse when I wandered over to check. Cute firemen were there in numbers, too, which is reassuring. The house is fine, it was their barn.
I am refilling our fire water tank right now. It holds 3000 gallons, something like 120000 litres, and is very reassuring
in the summer. It is already in the 90's/30's+ and only April. We are in a drought so this means fires all summer, which have already started.
Here are some photos I took today.

Karen

just the cactus explain clearly what's your climate situation, it seems there are no big damages

if my house or the bush in the backward bring on fire, we could roast like turkeys, and just the canadair could shut it off, if there was a place where refill

hope you enjoyed the sight of these guys at work, and luckily there are no troubles

if the risk weren't so high, I could light a fire, just to seeing the women with food arrive!

 

[SlowBill]

buonanotte signore,

another day is come, Pecorino and his colleagues start to wake up the sun

these O-Shamo boys looks like wolves!

 

[qwackers]

I love the feeling of having what we need.  Even if the road closes we have eggs and milk.  Even if the plane doesn't fly and the boats cannot come into port...Valdez is one of those places ...having a back up is always good.

Just googled Valdez as it sounded cool. Your in Alaska wow! Would love to go there! Bet you have nasty winters? What are your summers like? It looks beautiful. I can see why it's especially important to be able to fend for yourself.
Just cooking a Sunday roast, yum yum. Is this just an English thing I wonder or do you guys have roast dinner on a Sunday too?

 

[qwackers]

I love the feeling of having what we need.  Even if the road closes we have eggs and milk.  Even if the plane doesn't fly and the boats cannot come into port...Valdez is one of those places ...having a back up is always good.

So annoying I just wrote out a whole post and somehow deleted it. Oops.2nd attempt...

I just checked out Valdez as I hadnt heard if it. It looks beautiful. Didn't realise you were in Alaska. Id love to go there one day. Can't believe it's classed as a city and it only has around 4,000 people! I can appreciate being up there in Alaska why it's so important to be able to fend for yourself if you can.
Karen, glad to hear your neighbours are ok, hooray for hot fire fighters!
Tarheelbirdy that chicken pic was funny!
Well this is where I went today...

. I love places like this, I find them so relaxing. Walking around the rooms imagining you are in a different time. Beautiful gardens too. This place is 'montacute' house built during the 1500's. Was shocked to find out in 1927 it sold for £5,000 as no one wanted big houses anymore.

 

[qwackers]

So that's about $8,000 or 6,000 euros.

 

[Megan Amber]

That is quite the pretty place! I always have admired English gardens. We do Sunday roasts here to just not every Sunday in my family. Sometimes we (meaning I) get to lazy to cook something big.

 

[Megan Amber]

As far as the price of the house goes that is awful surprising! I would have bought it in a heartbeat. Then again we need to remember that how much more the money value was back in previous times.

 

[Megan Amber]

I could use a super thermal box, who 99% don't use

the other big problem are the days the box rest on the airport for the customs controls

anyway, if you've got to send anything from and to CEE, write clearly on the papers GIFT, it avoids a lot of troubles

for the blondes there are no troubles, I can send you one hundred a week until you've not got your first chicks, they can be our first try, just to take the measures

Thank You for the offer but I don't think I am prepared to buy overseas chickens quite yet. Will keep that interesting offer in mind though.

 

[qwackers]

Oh oops it did post well abit of it! What kind of thing do you have for your roast dinner? Yeh that's true inflation etc. I know in the 60's my grandparents purchased a 3 bed house for £500 (you can't even get a rubbish half broken car for that now). But Yeh that was a lot of money back then and that was only the 60's.

 

[Megan Amber]

When we do a roast it is usually a London Broil I think, then we usually make potatoes of some sort ( baked or mashed) green beans and maybe rolls.What do you do?