Disaster Averted!

Haha. The best laid plans of mice and men. So Lira had to cut down a clump of Birch that was too close to the power line and leaning too much into it. If you look at the center of those birch you will see dead wood exposed - and once you have that going on then the end is inevitable, all the more soon with a "leaner".



But it turned out to be far trickier than we had anticipated. The whole thing was attached to one trunk at ground level.



And she made the face cut beautifully, with one of the tops of the clump secured by a come-along to make sure they fell the right way. The wind was blowing exactly the wrong way, so we were trying to be careful.



But the trunk split as she was making the back-cut, which made the heaviest portion of the tree lean towards the wires. With an ominous Crack! And the wind blowing...



But we got a second come-along hooked up to that one to stabilize it. Then the chain saw chain broke. An old one was found by the Alaska Filipina! So she got one of the clump cut and felled, then she hooked both come-alongs to the biggest one, and horsed it where she wanted it.



Donny looks very concerned.

But hey! In the end that set of trees went exactly where we wanted, despite the wind working against us, the trunk splitting, and a chain breaking. Despite Murphy's Law all the way, we won the day.

Home Made Cinnabon Rolls..

I Love to Bake and Cook for my HONEY KO :)

A Girl and her Snowmachine

This is what the Alaska Filipina does every day with the boys.

I forgot to post this secret recipe for home-made bread of hers. I saw her with rosemary and garlic though, so that's part of it. She also had a salad with ranch dressing and some kind of seasoned ground beef. That had some curry powder I think, and not sure what else.

But with this wife the food just shows up. She knows when you are hungry because she is paying attention. Other wives do that too - when they sense you are hungry they announce that they are going to cook, and command that you not eat anything in the meantime.



So thanks honey for that constant variety. I know how much you like variety too!




Today we feature beans in lime juice and something else. Rice and pork chop in soy sauce. You can't lose with this.

3/11/2012

What could be more better than being sorround by our love one's?. My boys are growing so fast. Donny is 27months old and his little brother Gable is 14months old. They both like playing,watching there favorite nick jr show,and watching there abc,numbers and so,so in youtube. Their favorite is the (twinkle-twinkle little star). We are very proud of our little boys,and having a great,simple and wonderful life together. I LOVE YOU MY HONEY KO (Bob Logan). Everyday my love for you is getting deeper. I dont want you to do anything to it though,Since we all know your good at digging....LUV U MUCH my 3KINGS.

March Firewood Report!

Our stock of wood in the front of the cabin is gone. It's March 11, and we got home from vacation on December 12. So that store of wood got us through 90 days of deep winter, which was exactly what we hoped for!

We have another cord of birch and a little spruce in the second woodshed, so we're good for the winter, no problem. We noticed that the birch deepest into the pile was the least dry, as you would expect. But it was pretty noticeable.

The kids watched mommy from the window today on the snowmachine. It's a lot more fun if you are alone!

Filipina Skidoo Tundra Mathematics

She's getting pretty good now. This is her fourth winter. There are some things that take a lot of practice. She's about a hundred pounds less than me, so these machines are really big compared to her, and throwing what little weight she has around doesn't do a lot.

So she has to be really aggressive with getting out on the boards. The side rails. You'll have that machine at about a 45 degree angle with one ski buried, nosing under in the deep snow. But if you can balance on the outside rail, you can dig out of it. She can do that with confidence now.

This was best walked away from as opposed to gunning it and entering low earth orbit.

Relatives of Man