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I Catch The Plane Tomorrow ...

2,899.05 car miles later, I sit in a motel waiting to enplane tomorrow for the island. Alaskan scenery is beautiful, and being able to virtually read at 11 pm with no light under the «midnight sun» is an amazing experience. We encountered stone sheep, black bear, moose and wood bison, one loon and one magpie [the lack of magpies was once a demarcation for me of having left the Mountain West behind when travelling to East Texas for college].

A new home, a new [is]land and a new life await ...

Pickup is now in the driveway ...

Even though the barge was facing delays due to weather, the pickup has made it to the island and is now in the driveway!

Barge Is In Dutch ...

Great news! The barge is holing up in Dutch Harbor at the moment, trying to stay out of the storm's way (incoming). They will probably be a little bit delayed - around the 13th or 14th. At least the pickup is still attached!

The Move Has Begun ...

Today our pickup with a cabful of pots and pans and sewing machines and tools and a bed loaded with a Baker's Choice stove and five-gallon buckets of foodstuffs was loaded on a barge headed for the island. It should arrive by April 10th.

This post links to Homestead Blog Hop 74

Stocking a New Pantry

When it takes $1.00 a pound, plus fragility insurance, to ship hundreds of filled glass preserving jars, I will be purchasing a lot of dehydrated foods to ship in their place.

Gardening in a Marine Climate

Although my seaside cottage lies in the same hardiness zone [8a] as Brussels, Belgium, the subpolar oceanic climate will surely prove a challenge.