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She’ll probably say no. But what if she says yes? Gotta shoot that shot

Magnum agrees

We're having one of the mildest starts to winter I can remember. Already into November and we haven't been below zero yet. Temps have been in the single digits to lower 40's. Only about 6 total inches of snow. I'm sure the hammer will drop soon.

I very rarely carry a gun on my person when I’m not out in the woods, but with all the nut bags around here I’ll be packing for a few weeks no matter who wins.

She was 25

Mark was unique to put it mildly. Crazy substance abuse problems. He stayed out there alone to keep away from the temptation is what my theory always was. It wasn't out of the ordinary for him to go black for a year at a time. Dude was always nice to me and my wife the few times we ran into him on the trails. Quick to introduce himself and shake your hand. To quote Vincent Vega, "It would of been worth them doing it just so I could of caught them doing it."

My wife and I were married in Fiji. On our wedding certificate she is listed as a "spinster." I still give her shit about that after 20 years.

Yeah, that’s what pissed me off so much about that incident. The plow truck was parked up on the highway at a gravel pit when we had to evacuate due to a fire. There were some meth head squatters in the area at the time and I’m positive they’re the ones who tried to steal the truck. If it was back at my place, it wouldn’t have been touched. The squatters stayed up around the highway and stole mail out of mailboxes and such. They didn’t venture back into the woods. They knew better than to do that.

Actually, in a way it does. It breaks down like this…Woodsies, as they are called, are their own tribe. There are fringe woodsies like me and my wife. I have a steady job, but we live woodsie. We are in the same “neighborhood,” which stretches 20 to 25 miles off the highway. I know of them and they know of us. Most of them piece it together as they go. PFDs are mailed out in October, so they are flush with cash right now. They truly live old school…you can smell a true woodsie Anyway, they sorta keep track of each other. When the woodsie grapevine finally figured out no one had heard from Mark, that’s when the wellness check was called in His cabin was raided once the body was cleared. Things weren’t necessarily “stolen,” people have dibs on things around here. We have dibs on some of our buddy Bobby’s stuff, and vice versa. People know it What’s awesome about the neighborhood is that there is zero theft. We don’t lock our cabin or our garage. We leave keys in the vehicles and equipment. I don’t even think about it anymore

Ted Kaczynski would fit it just fine around here. Let me tell you about my neighbor Ken. I have no idea what his last name is. We've lived in our cabin about 14 years. I've seen Ken twice. Only ever spoken to him once, and it was a very weird conversation. My wife saw him for the first time last winter. It was like seeing Bigfoot for her. Ken is nuttier than squirrel shit, but he keeps to himself and doesn't cause me any problems. So Ken is alright by me. I have no idea how he lives alone back there, but he does. We had another neighbor named Mark who was also a hermit. No one had seen or heard a word from him in a couple of years, so a wellness check was called into the Troopers. They found his badly decomposed body on the floor of his cabin. They figured he had been dead for over a year. I expect to hear a similar story about Ken one of these days.

Come and Take It

We are dog sitting. Rune is a Norwegian elk hound. We are ruining him. Bacon grease on his food, allowing him on the bed and furniture. He’s not going to want to leave.

The highway was a sheet of ice this morning. Winter rain sucks.

Ballot Measure 2 this year is a referendum on getting rid of ranked choice voting. It's hilarious because the Republicans introduced the original ranked choice system to get rid of Lisa Murkowski, a reasonable Republican who won't bend the knee to Mushroom Dick. She lost the primary to a hardcore Trumpkin, but won the election due to ranked choice. Ranked choice also got Mary Peltola, a Democrat, elected to the House of Representatives. Now, of course, they want to get rid of it.

Just cast my vote in Denali Borough Alaska. I'll be one of only 150 to 200 or so reasonable souls who didn't for for fascism.