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One of my favorite guitarist, Dickey Betts, legendary Allman Brothers Band, passed away. He and Duane Allman heavily influenced the way I play guitar. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dickey-betts-allman-brothers-band-dead-727523/

The below is an enhanced version of One Man’s Alaska chronicling the life of Dick Proenneke whose story I credit with inspiring me as a child when I learned about him as a Boy Scout in the early 1970s. The enhanced version has a few extra features which add to the video. I will never forget...

Interesting story that isn’t too uncommon in Iditarod history of a musher/dog/moose encounter on the trail. Dallas Seavey had to shot and gut a moose, and race leader,Jesse Holmes, had to punch a moose in the nose on the trail. Two articles on the same event...

I have posted in other threads about the value and need for those of us who live where it gets cold and stays dark to have headlamps. This past fall, a friend of mine suggested the below wool beanie with a built in headlamp and I purchased with some skepticism and used it this past winter...

It’s that time of the year where Dillards puts their Pendleton clothing on sale at about half price putting their 100% wool shirts and sweaters at the $80 range. No better wool shirts on the market at this price. They will be gone in a day or two. Not all listed here is wool, so check the...

A man from Kenai Alaska died Friday from Alaskapox. Alaskapox was discovered in the state in 2015 and is related to other orthopox viruses like smallpox, cowpox, and monkeypox. Up until this illness, Alaskapox infections were all isolated to the Fairbanks area. While no one really has a clue...

Two C-17 pilots having fun.

Three years in a row the winters where I’m at have set records for cold and snow. November this year, another snowfall record broken. As I prepare myself to head outside today to get in front of another snowstorm that is predicting up to 24 more inches I am contemplating needed to up my game...

For those in below area of green, if the sky is clear step outside and look up. You might see the northern lights. KP7 forecasted. https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast

Apparently the one we've all been using was over a decade old. The USDA has just released an updated version. The map is pretty nicely done and easy to use. https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ According to this, I am 3a where I thought i was 3b. Lots of variation around my place going from...

Has anyone been successful in running coyotes off their property using non-lethal means? I want to try this before killing them. Thinking of going after them with a BB gun to see if they get the hint. This works well with bears. Also thought of shotgun rubber bullets, but I don’t want to...

After a week of rain that kept the temperature above normal, the skies cleared after midnight and the temperature hit 31 degrees at 4:30 this morning. I was up at the time watching the first aurora borealis show this season. I wish I would have kept records each year for the first frost. It...

Interesting article with some tidbits I didn’t know about “Miyake events.” Per the article, there is evidence of much larger burst of energy from the sun hitting earth known as Miyake events. Such an event might make things a bit dicey here on Mother Earth...

Voyager 2 was launched some 46 years ago and is still working after all these years. The good news: While communications was lost with the craft for awhile, contact was recently reestablished. This caused great joy among the staff at NASA. The bad news: The woke mob sent faulty commands to...

The wife has been away for a few weeks in her native county visiting family and I decided I needed get some more books. My favorite bookstore is about 650 miles round trip from me in Homer, Alaska. Last week I made the trip and picked up a copy of The Handcrafted Life of Dick Proenneke written...

Okay, here is the scenario. Let’s say someone has to travel to a city behind enemy lines where crowds are a problem. You will be staying in a hotel room and the goal is to never leave the hotel room for a meal. Microwave meals and no freezer. Food priority is to be low calorie low fat within...

You know the deal. The doctor writes you a script for something. He sends the script to your favorite pharmacist, and the pharmacy fills it. You pay your copay and the insurance company pays the rest. If it is a chronic medicine that you might need for the rest of your life, it doesn't...

Can’t sleep? Run a few simulations on this asteroid impact simulator. It won’t help you go back to sleep for sure, but what else to you have on your list of things to do at 3:40 in the morning? https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

Posting off topic, since this is about stupidity. Probably drunk college kids and I hope they survived: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/drunk-decision-are-not-the-best-decisions/ In full disclosure, I was a college kid attending the University of Hawaii in the early 1980s. Hurricane...

Fall is my favorite time of the year and we are in perhaps the last good week of fall as we transition to winter. The first snow hit the ground on my property Thursday but it quickly melted. Soon it will stick. The coyotes must know the season is changing as they have been howling each...