On Coming Home To Alaska

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After spending almost a full year away, it’s good to finally be home. But, coming home to off grid Alaska means no time to relax! Since we’ve been gone so long we needed to bring quite a few supplies from town, just in case. And since we knew some things had broken before Kyle closed up, we needed some new things too. A new 4 wheeler and sled were top of the list. Can’t fit four on our Kodiak 450!

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10 Reasons We Picked The Husky To Guard Our Homestead

If you follow us over on Facebook, you’ll see that our new guard husky Kolache has been quite the hit! He’s an adorable little scamp, I can see why people are loving him  😉

But that brings up something I’ve received quite a few questions about. Why huskies? They are well known for being high maintenance, trouble maker dogs. Not exactly what you want on the average homestead. The thing is that everything that would make them a bad fit elsewhere is exactly what makes them perfect for us!

Here are 10 reasons we picked the husky to guard our homestead:

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Homestead Goals For 2019

In keeping with the trend since I started this blog, I wanted to lay out our goals for the homestead over the next year. Even though we spent most of this year away from Alaska, we are excited to return to what we think of as our “real” lives. So here are our homestead goals for 2019!

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Homestead Goals 2018-2019

We had a total of 8 goals we wanted to accomplish in 2018. I will move a few of these over to 2019’s goals as well, like purchasing a fishing permit so we don’t have to go to town for work. Others will be expanded on or completely removed for this coming year. Our goals for 2018 were: Continue reading “Homestead Goals For 2019”

An Experience With Floppy Kid Syndrome In Goats

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The blog has been a little slow lately because… I’m still in Texas! I have been waiting to hear back about a remote job (final rounds this week!) that I can do from back home in Alaska. Kyle is holding down the fort at home, our daughter is having tons of fun playing with her cousin, and we’re both enjoying our extended vacation in Texas’s 80 degree winter days! Which brings me to this post, because I’ve learned quite a lot about bottle baby goats in the last few days, and that’s something that translates no matter where I’m at!

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