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I live a 10-hour round trip from the nearest grocery store. Here's what buying groceries is like for me.
Insider ^ | Jul 11, 2022 | Hilary Messer-Barrow

Posted on 01/10/2023 9:03:19 AM PST by grundle

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To: TexasGator

Sounds line a crosswind got it.

My sis and I were partners in the Tee-Pee with a grain handling/storage sales and installer. Our farm was about 20 miles from his home, and the county strip almost halfway between us. He didn’t use it much, but when he did, it was to be CLEAN, and in the airport hangar. That was fine until he wanted to trade up, and sis wanted out after moving 130 miles away. He bought us out.

That was the end of the free unannounced neighborhood airshows I put on. Chasing an imaginary foe through the trees (like the down low dogfight in the Blue Max) was a blast, but I never did it when my parents were home. They found out though and put a stop to it, so I had to resort to hit and run tactics: buzz through a wooded pasture miles from home once, then look for another location. Fun while it lasted. Smashed a lot of bugs.


101 posted on 01/10/2023 1:27:05 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: PIF

“I know now butt out.”

Civility, anyone?


102 posted on 01/10/2023 1:30:42 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Zuriel

It has been about 30 years or so since my dad bought a used plane. After the purchase he found out the battery was a farm tractor battery not rated for aircraft.


103 posted on 01/10/2023 1:36:32 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X

Lol!!

If the plane was green and yellow it should have been ok though.

But ya don’t need a battery anyway, just hand prop it.... and stay clear of any moving lights in the night sky. Lol


104 posted on 01/10/2023 1:43:46 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel

Buyer be ware...


105 posted on 01/10/2023 3:06:42 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: TexasGator

yellow horse Territory, Canada.


106 posted on 01/10/2023 3:20:46 PM PST by mware
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To: mware

Yellow Knife Territory, sorry


107 posted on 01/10/2023 3:21:52 PM PST by mware
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To: mware

Yellow Knife, capital of Northwest Territory.


108 posted on 01/10/2023 3:25:32 PM PST by mware
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To: George from New England

“I use noscript. So many cross links at that webpage. Dangerous.”

Yep, I do too. And when you allow the top “domain” listing a whole bunch more new ones pop up.

I can’t believe folks are willing to accept those hidden scripts. Even worse a lot of those 3rd party scripts are just fronts for 4th, 5th, and 6th party scripts.

NoScript is the right stuff...


109 posted on 01/10/2023 5:32:52 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: SamAdams76

Something that makes up for an inadequate sleeping bag is adding a blanket or blankets inside of the bag which makes a HUGE difference.


110 posted on 01/10/2023 5:55:06 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: PIF

Are you Canadian?

[google] “You must have a valid Possession & Acquisition Licence (PAL) to purchase ammunition in Canada.”

The RCMP as I understand is very capable and they perform wilderness patrolling. I would not sidestep the requirement.


111 posted on 01/10/2023 6:04:42 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: grundle

I noticed they have eggs in Whitehorse.
Maybe I need to place an order.....


112 posted on 01/10/2023 9:52:42 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: FarCenter

My truck was tossed for eight hours by Canadian Customs at Beaver Creek. They pulled everything out of our camper shell, rifled through everything...even ruffled through all the pages of all our books and undid our toothpaste!

They threw everything on the muddy ground, in the middle of a driving rainstorm.

It was the most unpleasant crossing experience I’ve ever had.

I asked him why they were being so destructive, he kept saying we were bringing drugs into Canada.

We had transferred from the USFS at the Kenai Lake Work Center, Seward Ranger District, where we built and maintained trails in the Chuchach, to Yellowstone NP. We looked like scruffy, grungy rednecks, but neither one of us had ever touched drugs in our life.

Finally, at the end of eight hours he told us that we can leave. I looked at all our stuff thrown all around our truck and camper shell, all over the muddy ground, while they had waved through dozens of other vehicles, and asked him “NOW do you believe us?!”

He said “NO, I’m positive that if I called down and got some dogs up here, that we would find where you hide them, in an axle, or tires, or whoever.”

I said “DO IT!! I challenge you, DO IT!” as I was so angry and upset with him.

He said “No, I’m tired, my shift is over, now get out of here.”

This was during the D2 land seizures by Jimmy Carter way back in the ‘70’s, so a long, long time ago, but I’ll never forget being treated so rudely.

I moved after Yellowstone to North Idaho where I worked construction/BLM in the summers and security in the winters for Schweitzer and Watson Security, and traveled to Canada countless times after that, and they were always polite!

To this day I miss Alaska, Montana and North Idaho!


113 posted on 01/10/2023 9:58:01 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Sir_Ed

bttt


114 posted on 01/10/2023 10:00:41 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: grundle; Nifster; Pelham

Id like this for a while

Good girl I like her even if she pimps her reusable market bags

(Hey I did it again what’s wrong with me tonight)


115 posted on 01/10/2023 10:02:19 PM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of liars)
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To: TexasGator; PIF; Macoozie
I know now butt out.

Civility, anyone?

Here, on a thread about darn grocery shopping in the Yukon, a minority of ill-mannered FReepers still can't manage to abide by simple rules of civility.

Side remark: I think that, as the Putinistas continue to lose ground and their propaganda becomes increasingly absurd, shrill, and desperate in response, we will see them also try to disrupt completely unrelated threads (not even tangentially concerning Ukraine), in an attempt to sow divisiveness and generally disrupt communication.

It would help if we would stand by each other and come to each other's aid if we see someone else being subjected to untoward abuse.

Regards,

116 posted on 01/10/2023 10:12:09 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: grundle

In ‘71 Whitehorse was like a wonderful oasis when we drove the Alcan Hwy. moving to Alaska. Seven miles of paved highway among hundreds of miles of gravel road! Heaven!


117 posted on 01/11/2023 12:34:32 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Sir_Ed

When we crossed over around Sweetgrass, Montana, in ‘71, they destroyed everything in our pathetic little Hornet. We were 21 so they must’ve figured “drugs”. We had just finished seminary and wouldn’t have known a drug if it bit us in the ass.


118 posted on 01/11/2023 12:44:41 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: grundle

Screw Canada.


119 posted on 01/11/2023 12:55:15 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: AlanSC

Yes, Robinette does some nice camping videos.


120 posted on 01/11/2023 6:29:08 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,777,271 | Truth Social | 87,821,414 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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