11/23/05, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Happy Valley, Alaska
Posts: 1,138
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Thank you ellebeaux and grandmotherbear. Having a new son is a great blessing. All five of our other children are also happy. It's still 0 and snowing, but should drop to -25 after it clears over the next day or so.
Ellebeaux, no we don't have running water. A large pot on the wood stove provides ample hot water. I have been cheating a bit over the last couple of weeks using our truck to haul water instead of the dog team.
Having a newborn in our rustic home really just falls into place. We do everything everyone else does it just takes more effort. We've been backwoods homesteading and raising kids for close to twenty years so we like to think of ourselves as old hands at it.
As for the comforts of home.....the house is warm and cozy , moose stew is simmering on the top of the woodstove, our home grown thanksgiving chickens are thawing out in the kitchen and it's absolutely beautiful outside. I don't know how much more comfortable I can get.
I give my wife thanks and most of the credit. She is the beautiful and tough, 100 pound, baby on hip, homeschooling, wood splitting, gourmet cooking backwoods girl and best friend of mine. I may bring home the money, firewood and meat, but it's her efforts that pull it all together.
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