Newbie from Wyoming

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Welcome from Eastern Missouri. I have always admitted I was born 100 years to late, but you have me beat. Good to have you with us.

Thank you. Good to be here.

 

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Welcome @200years2late from Australia and sounds like you have a great set up where you are .

Thank you. I will see your country some day I hope.

 

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Greetings from your next-door neighbor to the west; the state everyone's heard of but no one can find on the map. I'm sure you'll like it here; the folks are great!

Thank you. You are in a beautiful and varied state.

 

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Welcome from WI! Wow sounds like quite the adventure!

Thank you and Go Pack Go!!! I'm a Wisconsin native.

 

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Pull up a chair stump by the fire, we'd love to hear what you have to say. I think you will like it here; we're good people and our home has many rooms to play in! There's even hell in the hallway to keep things more interesting on occasion, lol.

Welcome to here, 200years2late! As you can see in the banner below, I am 200 years too late also. I think more than a few of us here have this in common!

This banner on my Twitter page illustrates my belated birth, lol. Our kind just don't fit real well into this day and age...and we like it that way just fine!

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Thank you very much. Hell in the hallway does sound interesting!

 

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Welcome from Alaska! From your intro, you’d fit in well with us nuts up north!

I love your user name! That is one of my favorite lines from a great song!

Thank you. Everybody always tells me that I belong in Alaska and sometimes I still consider it, but I like it here a lot.

 

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Welcome from Alaska. Collected rain water most of my life. Four residences on the property and we collect rain water for all of them. Currently using a good 18,000 gallons of storage but could increase it 50% with cisterns already on site. Be glad to answer any questions.

Thank you. I will definitely have some questions.

 

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Welcome from Hoosier land, elevation 475 ft.

Thank you!

 

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Howdy - a fine state y'er livin in there pardner

Thank you!

 

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

 

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Welcome from Missouri.

Thank you!

 

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We rarely get people admitting they are high... I thought our cabin was more than high enough at 5000 feet but yours is on a completely different scale.
Welcome from the SE corner of Washington state.

Thank you. Sometimes I think that it would be nice to be able to breathe.

 

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Welcome from Oregon.

Thanks!

 

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Hey, welcome. You'll be given a nickname pretty quick.
They tolerate me here sorta so I'm sure you'll fit in.
It's hard to tell what you mean about political critters, just kidding.
Congratulations on retiring.

Thanks!

 

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Hello and welcome from S.W. Oregon. Wife, son and I lived at 8,000+ feet, west of Denver, it was a life of ease compared to your situation, it took a year to get used to the altitude, it helped a lot that I did a lot of hiking at over 12,000 feet, even slept on the ground at 13,000 feet during elk hunting, glad I've only done that one time, woke up to having the sleeping bag covered with frost as well as the rifle, everyone ought to try that once. My half sister and her husband live in Upton, Wyoming, nice but also cold. Our elevation here is just over 1,400 and we seldom get snow and that's fine with us, if we want to be in snow, we can drive to it, otherwise we've had enough of it.

Thanks for the welcome!
Yeah, I was a young man when I made this plan but so far so good.

 

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Welcome from Mississippi! I spent several summers in Cheyenne. My favorite town in the US!

Thank you very much!

 

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Thanks!

 

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Love your screen name. I've thought that for a long time now about myself.
Welcome from Tennessee. Can't wait to hear more of your experiences.

Thank you! Tennessee is a nice state.

 

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Welcome @200years2late

Thank you!

 

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What an awesome intro. Welcome to our forum.

Thank you. Thank you!

 

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Welcome from Alaska. Collected rain water most of my life. Four residences on the property and we collect rain water for all of them. Currently using a good 18,000 gallons of storage but could increase it 50% with cisterns already on site. Be glad to answer any questions.

Hello. I guess my first question would be : do you drink any of the water that you collect? If so, do you treat it first and how?
I've been collecting rain water off of my metal roofs during the summer and use it for mostly outdoor stuff. There's a mountain spring a few miles away that I can drive my truck to from early June through November. I drink that water and use it for all other purposes. This winter I've been melting snow. I've been using it for everything but drinking. It looks like hell sometimes. I don't have much air pollution here but I would think that you have less. I'm just wondering what all I have to consider before I drink snow water. I worked horse pack-trips and hunting camps for quite a few years when I was younger and drank pretty much whatever I came across. I'm thinking that snow melt must be even cleaner because you don't have to worry about giardia. What do you think? I don't get on the computer every day so if I appear to be MIA I'll be back whenever I have electricity to spare. Thanks.