If it is "HOT" where you are today........my cabin winter photo.

[Sourdough]

Not today.......winter several years ago.

 

[jazzy]

looks beautiful!

 

[Sourdough]

Now "today" it is a solid wall of dark green vegetation. So "thick" you can't see five inches forward.

 

[Newbri]

It is beautiful. Is it possible to do a snow angel in that or would you just sink right in?

 

[Sourdough]

It is beautiful. Is it possible to do a snow angel in that or would you just sink right in?

You could do snow angels. But the property is so close the Heaven, the other Real Angels might giggle watching you.

 

[Newbri]

You could do snow angels. But the property is so close the Heaven, the other Real Angels might giggle watching you.

Well, that's really cute. If I ever get the chance to do a snow angel, I'll do it for that reason alone. I love it.

 

[SLADE]

Counting the snow rings on the roof it looks to be 4 storms.

 

[Cabin Fever]

So, what are the purposes of the three (four?) buildings? I assume the largest one in the photo is your home.

 

[Sourdough]

So, what are the purposes of the three (four?) buildings? I assume the largest one in the photo is your home.

There is "NO" home on this property, in the way most people perceive a home. There are what I would describe as "shacks", and I have lived in one or the other "shack" over the last 23 years, but they are "Not" habitable, they are shacks. Just small plywood boxes on 16 acres of paradise, with waterfalls and pure water creek. It is not habitable, it is one tiny step above a tent or being homeless. It is time in my life to move off this mountain, before I am completely blind.

 

[Neb]

There is "NO" home on this property, in the way most people perceive a home. There are what I would describe as "shacks", and I have lived in one or the other "shack" over the last 23 years, but they are "Not" habitable, they are shacks. Just small plywood boxes on 16 acres of paradise, with waterfalls and pure water creek. It is not habitable, it is one tiny step above a tent or being homeless. It is time in my life to move off this mountain, before I am completely blind.

My dear departed father told me about asking an old time miner what it was like living in the mining homes (that I live in now) when there was only a fireplace in each room and no insulation in the walls. He said the old miner said "It was heaven! Before that we lived in tents."

Ben

 

[Cabin Fever]

There is "NO" home on this property, in the way most people perceive a home. There are what I would describe as "shacks", and I have lived in one or the other "shack" over the last 23 years, but they are "Not" habitable, they are shacks. Just small plywood boxes on 16 acres of paradise, with waterfalls and pure water creek. It is not habitable, it is one tiny step above a tent or being homeless. It is time in my life to move off this mountain, before I am completely blind.

Gotcha. Even though we now have our home on our 40 acres of paradise, we also have our original off-grid, one-room cabin next door. The cabin is fully insulated, has a wood burning stove, an outhouse, and a deep well hand pump for water. It also has Aladdin lamps and a PetroMax lantern for light. It is inhabitable, year-around if need be.

 

[Alaskajohn]

Nice picture Sourdough. I love winter in Alaska and your picture reminds me exactly why. The solitude and quietness of the frozen north. One thing that most won’t understand until you experience it is what absolute silence “sounds” like.

How do you get water? Do you have a well where you can get water year round? That is something that hopefully I’ve solved with my projects this summer so I can have year round running water. We shall see. I haven’t gotten rid of all my buckets though.

 

[LadyLocust]

Nice picture Sourdough. I love winter in Alaska and your picture reminds me exactly why. The solitude and quietness of the frozen north. One thing that most won’t understand until you experience it is what absolute silence “sounds” like.

How do you get water? Do you have a well where you can get water year round? That is something that hopefully I’ve solved with my projects this summer so I can have year round running water. We shall see. I haven’t gotten rid of all my buckets though.

So true! When we’d get a good dumping of snow up the mountain, even my kids noticed how quiet everything was. It’s peaceful.

 

[Bluetick21]

Beautiful place @Sourdough ! Now we’ve saw winter what does summer look like?

 

[Sourdough]

How do you get water? Do you have a well where you can get water year round?

I now have two water wells. each 67 feet deep.

 

[Alaskajohn]

I now have two water wells. each 67 feet deep.

Jealous, as I only have one at almost the combined depth of your two!

 

[Sourdough]

I put in two water wells..........because of earthquakes. At 22 below zero the fun is quickly gone from replacing a well pump (likely to be done in the dark) or the impossible project of digging up and replacing a broken water line. Also why I used 1" K-type copper waterline.

 

[SoJer]

Looks like Rochester, NY in the 70s.. (or, sure - Buffalo, anytime.. 'Course, excepting those Majestic Peaks in the background of yer 'Living Postcard'.. Sure ain't Nothin like That in either of those God-forsaken hell-holes..

..Have seen some pretty wonderful and amazing places in my Life, but.. AK is definitely on the 'Bucket List'..

At least I also know the Incredible 'sound sponge' that heavy snowfall in a Forest is.. There's Little more 'soul-settling' than standing motionless in a thick forest of Ash or Birch when it's dumping those huge 'cotton ball flakes' -I know You know what I mean.. Your Breathing is even louder.. It's truly an unmatched experience..

I'll let ya know the minute I 'hit the Lotto'..
jd

 

[dunewalker]

Winter view, from just over the dune wall near my place.

 

[Aklogcabin]

A couple of winter scenes around the cabin. I enjoy the winter and embrace it. And enjoy working around the place when it's 15 below.
Getting firewood in the winter is kinda like a double edged sword. I've been out at 2 am minus 10 with the northern lights out in full glory. Wasn't even work. I still remember a few of those nights and the art in the sky. And a magical feeling in the woods.
And for our northern friends. When it's cold n still . The moon is close n full. With the snow on the ground there is so much light you could read a newspaper in the light of dark. That is pretty cool also

 

[havasu]

Very awesome! Do you live alone, or have a partner? Not getting personal, but just thinking I myself would get awfully lonesome if I had nobody to share that beauty with.

 

[Bacpacker]

I love being out in the dark with snow and a full moon. It is magical

 

[Alaskajohn]

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A couple of winter scenes around the cabin. I enjoy the winter and embrace it. And enjoy working around the place when it's 15 below.
Getting firewood in the winter is kinda like a double edged sword. I've been out at 2 am minus 10 with the northern lights out in full glory. Wasn't even work. I still remember a few of those nights and the art in the sky. And a magical feeling in the woods.
And for our northern friends. When it's cold n still . The moon is close n full. With the snow on the ground there is so much light you could read a newspaper in the light of dark. That is pretty cool also

I love those cold, clear and windless nights. I can see several glaciers from my place, with one being quite large. When the moon is out, the glaciers, on these types of nights appears to glow in the dark just a little bit.