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[bobbi-j]

Same here on the weather and the rest. Almost took up an offer in my younger days to runaway and homestead in Alaska. Still the "what ifs" sometimes cross my mind but like you (and our shared health issues) if I had I would probably not be alive today. Still, getting a little further away from "civilization" would be nice.

After our first trip up there, DH said if he’d gone up 40 years ago, he’d still be there. (I’m glad he didn’t - we’ve only been married for 36 years.) Even now, if I even hinted at it, I think he’d be packing up and moving. We could be Al’s neighbors!

Yeah... My cellphone coverage here isn't very good...I use my phone mostly on wifi here...I can make calls with WiFi so realistically I don't really need a land line.... But I like having one so I can give that number to businesses.... And other such entities.
With called ID I only answer if I know who's on the other end.... I'd rather keep my cellphone number as clean and private as I can.

Our cell reception is sketchy, too. I tell people we need to lean over the back deck, holding onto a wire coat hangar, wearing our tinfoil hats to get any reception.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

After our first trip up there, DH said if he’d gone up 40 years ago, he’d still be there. (I’m glad he didn’t - we’ve only been married for 36 years.) Even now, if I even hinted at it, I think he’d be packing up and moving. We could be Al’s neighbors!


Our cell reception is sketchy, too. I tell people we need to lean over the back deck, holding onto a wire coat hangar, wearing our tinfoil hats to get any reception.

I tell people to give me a call when they pass the highschool (8 miles away) because they'll have reception for just long enough to tell me that they've passed the highschool (Evidently, there's one place in the yard that, if you stand just right, there's reception...) GPS is pretty good, as long as you start navigation when you have data, but Google will say that you've arrived after you've gone 'round the curve after the house, so it works better for first timers if i know they're coming so I can go out/send one of the girls out. I tied a big bunch of balloons to the mailbox for Gracie's birthday party, and still had someone zoom past

 

[bobbi-j]

I tell people to give me a call when they pass the highschool (8 miles away) because they'll have reception for just long enough to tell me that they've passed the highschool (Evidently, there's one place in the yard that, if you stand just right, there's reception...) GPS is pretty good, as long as you start navigation when you have data, but Google will say that you've arrived after you've gone 'round the curve after the house, so it works better for first timers if i know they're coming so I can go out/send one of the girls out. I tied a big bunch of balloons to the mailbox for Gracie's birthday party, and still had someone zoom past

GPS will send people looking for our place to a slough about 5 miles north of us.

 

[kwhites634]

GPS will send people looking for our place to a slough about 5 miles north of us.

I discovered years ago that it helps, a LOT, if you have a good idea of where you are & don't have to depend too highly on GPS. On a trip to #1 son's place in Racine, WI several years ago I rolled up to a "T" intersection with a sign showing Racine to the right, yet the guy in the gps wanted me to take a left. I'd made the trip before, & knew the sign was right. Lord knows where I'd have ended up had I listened to the gps.

 

[Shadrach]

Good Morning, Pond!
What a beautiful day! The sun is shining, and the roads were surprisingly good coming in to school today.

I finally got a good look at Ruger’s paw. He managed to take a v-shaped chunk out of the pad. It looks to be fairly deep. He’s hurting today, poor guy. I did have some prescription pain relief left over from the last time he hurt himself, so I gave him one this morning.

You know what I'm going to write don't you.................
Stockholm Hoof Tar!
The dogs here gouge there pads now and then. They get cleaned and disinfected then packed with SHT and told not to do it again.

 

[Shadrach]

I discovered years ago that it helps, a LOT, if you have a good idea of where you are & don't have to depend too highly on GPS. On a trip to #1 son's place in Racine, WI several year ago I rolled up to a "T" intersection with a sign showing Racine to the right, yet the guy in the gps wanted me to take a left. I'd made the trip before, & knew the sign was right. Lord knows where I'd have ended up had I listened to the gps.

I haz maps!

 

[Shadrach]

Jenny the Muscovy duck is sitting.
She comes out of her shed like a torpedo; tail all spread, wings puffed out, head down low and heads straight for poor old Soloman and chases him around the field for a few minutes.
If I'm there and the food isn't I'm next on the peck list. She marched straight up to my leg today and wallop, full on boot strike.
However, once she's got back on her eggs I can clean out around her and she just mutters at me and pips when I accidental touch her. In the mornings when I check her and ask how she's getting on she pips and hisses at me then turns her neck and shoves her beak under her wing. Talk about a reluctant mother.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

I discovered years ago that it helps, a LOT, if you have a good idea of where you are & don't have to depend too highly on GPS. On a trip to #1 son's place in Racine, WI several years ago I rolled up to a "T" intersection with a sign showing Racine to the right, yet the guy in the gps wanted me to take a left. I'd made the trip before, & knew the sign was right. Lord knows where I'd have ended up had I listened to the gps.

I haz maps!

Our general vicinity is very easy to find using flat nav, since we are right on the highway--the main annoyance is which is our house. If it's light out and you're driving something with a decent turning ratio, then there's a spot not too far off that you can turn around. If not, you have to go up to North Springs to turn around. That's assuming that you were originally coming from Gainesboro. If you're coming the other way (or overshoot the house again) then you get to go the 3 miles to the Whitleyville post office (or a few hundred yards farther to the church parking lot) and do it over again. Not that I have any experience with that, or with missing the turn over the Cumberland because someone had their highbeams on behind me and ending up in another county before I could find anywhere in the dark to turn around This also obviously wouldn't make me paranoid that I've missed the house whenever I'm really tired after a shift, because I've never been completely convinced I've gone too far and then come up to the spot that tells me I've 3 more miles to go

 

[Shadrach]

I do use the Internet to check the exact location and if possible get a satellite view.
I've got a great road atlas of Catalonia here and it's been invaluable when I've got lost.

 

[dan26552]

Nice combination!

Oh wow....

Probably. ..



Good morning Pond. .