Sometimes the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the road

Pete

Pete

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I recently wrote a short article for my blog on WordPress about my "retiring" (aka moving) to Texas from Alaska. It contained 10 photographs of my old home and lifestyle as compared to my 'independent living' apartment in Texas. Below is the first paragraph from that article and a link to the full posting with the pictures if you want to read/see more.

….a while back my daughter up in Alaska and I were talking and she said to me that metaphorically the grass isn’t necessarily always greener on the other side of the road. Basically she was saying that as much as I think things are better some place other than where I presently am, they really aren’t. This came about when I lamented I should have never left Alaska because of all the insanity of riots and destruction and of course the coronavirus here in Texas and the ‘lower 48’ in general.

see the rest at...
https://kl1hbalaska.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/sometimes-the-grass-isnt-always-greener/

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Great stuff Pete...just spent the last 15 minutes reading stuff on your blog

How long have you been back in Texas ?
 

hollydolly said:
Great stuff Pete...just spent the last 15 minutes reading stuff on your blog

How long have you been back in Texas ?
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Not so much 'back in Texas'
because the only other time I was here in the past
is when I returned from the far East and was stationed at Ft Hood.

Thanks for taking a look at my blog
and I hope you found something worthy of your time.
 
Gary O' said:
Oh, and what you said in yer blog

'That’s not even thinking about carrying the generator in and out of the cabin every night to ensure it would start and I would have electricity'

And here I thought I was the only one that did that.....
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** I have to mention that after the first couple years lugging my EU3000i weighing over 100 lbs I bought an EU2000i at 46 pounds and that seems to correspond to the time I finished building the homes on the homestead.

It seems that one tends to weaken a bit when one isn't hauling around hundreds of 2"x6"x12'
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Pete said:
I have to mention that after the first couple years lugging my EU3000i weighing over 100 lbs I bought an EU2000i at 46 pounds and that seems to correspond to the time I finished building the homes on the homestead.

It seems that one tends to weaken a bit when one isn't hauling around hundreds of 2"x6"x12'
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Oh, man...we are twins!

Well, sir...you know gennys
Honda is THEE genny
The best
The very best
Yeah, the 2000 is light enough to lug in and out
And runs the lights, and everything in the two cabins
I discovered the 3000 wouldn't run my big saws, so got a 8750 watt cheapy at Harbor Freight

2x6x12s
Whoa, you know it
That's what all my roofs are made of
I don't wanna know how many

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Me at 74 just looking at the roof in your photograph is causing back pain ;-)

I do not know if you watched this or not but this short video has the three of us building one tar-paper shack,
my cabin (yeah I'm the guy sitting down and pealing the wood),
and the first of two 2,400sq ft homes. at about 3:27 of the video you get a good look at our 2x6x12's

...when watching this keep in mind none of us had ever built a cabin before
 

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