Walt Longmire Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Last weekend my son and I hauled in all the supplies for a new steel roof on his cabin along with treated wood for a new deck. I ordered the steel for mine today. $1700. Should be able to pick it up tomorrow, and then head north after he gets off work and drag my loads in. Hopefully there is still enough snow left. Otherwise I'll have to wait several more weeks and tow it in on a trailer behind my 6 wheeler. Looking forward to these projects. Cabin improvements. Wilderness, Beer drinking, and bear hunting in no particular order. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 you may have won the "who spent the Wuhan Shutdown the best" Challenge... hope the trail and Hunting is good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Walt Longmire said: Cabin improvements. Wilderness, Beer drinking, and bear hunting in no particular order. In Texas, we'd just take the hammers and beer and the rifles all up on the roof. Multi-tasking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Walt Longmire said: Looking forward to these projects. Cabin improvements. Wilderness, Beer drinking, and bear hunting in no particular order. Look. I know we've not met. But have i told you there's a chance i might be your long lost illigitimate son? Let me know what it takes to come home. Hell, i'll help with all three of those things. Edited April 21, 2020 by Historian 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 47 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said: In Texas, we'd just take the hammers and beer and the rifles all up on the roof. Multi-tasking. Years ago I was roofing a house along the Kenai River. It got too windy to work so we sat on the roof with our .22's picking off the seagulls that were drifting by with the wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Historian said: Look. I know we've not met. But have i told you there's a chance i might be your long lost illigitimate son? Let me know what it takes to come home. Hell, i'll help with all three of those things. Can you cook? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, Zonny said: Can you cook? I love to cook. Mostly French and Italian. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 18 minutes ago, Historian said: I love to cook. Mostly French and Italian. I don't want you cooking an Italian at the cabin. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Walt Longmire said: I don't want you cooking an Italian at the cabin. No worries. You tell me what you want. I cook it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 22 minutes ago, Historian said: No worries. You tell me what you want. I cook it. Walt busts through the front door with a bear right on his heels. As he dives out the back window, Walt yells out, "You start cooking this one, I'll go lure in another." 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said: Walt busts through the front door with a bear right on his heels. As he dives out the back window, Walt yells out, "You start cooking this one, I'll go lure in another." No worries pop! I have cast iron. We need a Dutch oven to tender that beast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 5 hours ago, Historian said: Look. I know we've not met. But have i told you there's a chance i might be your long lost illigitimate son? Let me know what it takes to come home. Hell, i'll help with all three of those things. I once asked a salty old Alaskan if I could come visit. He asked me where I was coming from. I assumed he was working up directions in his mind. "Nope. You can't get here from there." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 3 hours ago, tadbart said: I once asked a salty old Alaskan if I could come visit. He asked me where I was coming from. I assumed he was working up directions in his mind. "Nope. You can't get here from there." I put my daughter's village into my gps, just to see. It told me to pick a different location. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Huaco Kid said: I put my daughter's village into my gps, just to see. It told me to pick a different location. It's a way of life not familiar to most of the world. I'm sure Walt could cite multiple examples of people who "thought" that's what they wanted, until the isolation and cold made them reconsider. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Picked up my steel this afternoon. Went out at 6:30 pm and was able to get it all hauled in and stacked on the deck. Also hauled in a few other items while we were at it. Now to pick a date to start the work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 If you ding a high, you have to buy the beer. I've seen almost-fistfights over everyone blaming each other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Who wants to come up and help? We'll call the time at the cabin part of your 14 day quarantine after traveling. You can borrow one of my bear guns as long as you are experienced at installing steel roofing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I’ll be there in July. Too bad you’ll be done by then. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 23 minutes ago, Zonny said: I’ll be there in July. Too bad you’ll be done by then. ? Perhaps I'll procrastinate. The roofing I bought is a charcoal gray. The once bright blue cabin will be a dark barn red color. All the trim will be the same charcoal gray. I am stealing the color scheme from the new NFD fire station 2. Also working on interior paint. Lots going on out there. Jason is putting brown metal on his cabin and building an 8x20 treated wood deck on the pipeline side. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Walt Longmire said: Perhaps I'll procrastinate. The roofing I bought is a charcoal gray. The once bright blue cabin will be a dark barn red color. All the trim will be the same charcoal gray. I am stealing the color scheme from the new NFD fire station 2. Also working on interior paint. Lots going on out there. Jason is putting brown metal on his cabin and building an 8x20 treated wood deck on the pipeline side. Very nice. That’s going to look great! I used to pass a house with the color scheme on the daily work commute. Loved it! How close can you get in the truck now? How about the place on the bluff? Edited April 22, 2020 by Zonny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) 43 minutes ago, Zonny said: Very nice. That’s going to look great! I used to pass a house with the color scheme on the daily work commute. Loved it! How close can you get in the truck now? How about the place on the bluff? The new gravel goes about 1 mile past my cabin. The road is on the Inlet edge of the pipeline corridor. We have been accessing the cabins by going around on the Borough r.o.w. on Cloudberry Loop and down Chickwwed Ct. No gravel on that. To haul the new materials in we took a shortcut through the woods from the gravel with the snow machines pulling aluminum toboggan sleds. The packed down trail in the snow is disappearing fast. It was turning to water under us yesterday. Eventually the gravel will extend 3 miles past my place to just across Otter Creek where they will construct a large turn around and parking area. The place on the bluff has access down Jacob's Ladder almost to the cabin, and is gravel now, but I have to cross private property. The legal access is down Golden Rod Loop to Jasmine Ct and is somewhat cleared but not constructed. Hopefully I will get ambitious and make some progress on that cool place. I thought I had the blue cabin sold even though I wasn't trying. I got an offer and drug my feet on it. At the last minute when all they had to do was sign the final documents, they backed out. I wasn't that keen on selling it anyway, but it sure would have caused me to focus on the bluff property. Edited April 22, 2020 by Walt Longmire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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