Lurking for 4 years... can you tell I'm an introvert?

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from South Africa! Happy BYC-ing!
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Welcome from Kansas. I would love to hear more of your Yukon homesteading experiences. It sounds like you live in a fabulously beautiful wilderness.
 
Wow!
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What a kind reception! Thanks so much, everyone.
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It is very beautiful up here, that's for sure. BUT it is very cold; winter and winter-like weather has been 7-8 months-long this year. That it is still sunny at midnight is a small consolation some days, and others, it scrambles my sense of time so badly that we end up having dinner at 10pm. And I lose track of days the same way as when it is dark for 22 hours. I much prefer the constant light though, and once it warms up (hopefully sometime this week), it is super nice to lose track of time while working outside.

I didn't grow up in the Yukon, so for me it's pretty harsh, and I live for the summers. Two of my children were born in the far north though, and they have much better cold tolerance than the rest of us. It's crucial to our sanity that we have deliberate occupations. The long, cold winter demands it. We spent one winter without electricity or phone (and no water, but that's been the same for years), and it was one of our best experiences. Part of our rebuild now includes removing electricity from one end of the cabin. The other end has the kitchen and studio, so they'll have power, but we're working on being even more selective than that. On the other hand, the hydro company may make the decision for us when we move the cabin to its permanent spot this summer, to remove it altogether. I guess we'll see.
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We eat lots of coconut to console ourselves.
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Wow! If I ever feel like I have too much going on in my life, I'm gonna reread your post. Guess I'm livin' the quiet life!

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, and remember, you'll need power to access BYC on the Internet!
 
Arcnadius, when we had no power hook-up, we used a battery to run our computers for an hour here and there, and sometimes we'd "save up" for a dvd. Mostly we read and played games, wandered around in the wilderness, and relaxed in the human pace of keeping warm and keeping fed. We didn't have internet during that time, though. My partner used to print out my emails and bring them home from his job, for me.

This time, because we do want to keep telephone and have access to internet and electricity, we're toying with the idea of having a power room that has all of our hook-ups available, which would free us from having the wires wrapping around us all the time. We have some emf-sensitive people in our family, and it creates a lot of sleep problems, which causes a lot of other problems.

I know we're doing a lot at once, and this is how it's been for the past 8 years, really, but I have a lot of ground to make up and five children who need a better life than the one I had as a child, so I am motivated to the gills to make our life great. The process is really wonderful, too, and with children who have energy from 7:30am until 10:30pm, we have to be doing stuff or they start (accidentally) breaking things, lol.

I think, though, that I am going to retire in a big way. I often feel like like I'm trying to fit two lives into one, and when I look at my itinerary, it seems to confirm that I am.
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I have a close friend who says that she feels tired just thinking about what we're doing over here.
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I am not a high-energy person either, so everything is slow and steady, with breaks here and there (the chubby nursling on my back insists
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), but it ends up done, which is the point, and I don't burn out, which is even better.

I usually feel like I'm not accomplishing enough, but that's only because my list of projects is so long...

My redbros are almost three weeks old now, so I must add to my list the necessity of building a coop and putting in 800' of fence. Holy MOLY! I have to get out there!
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