Stunning that Juneau has such cheap electric rates!

Oh, Romeo, Romeo: where for art thou Romeo???

That is because they get to take advantage of nearly 100% hydro power generation.
No cheaper power than old hydro.

And don't tell the people in Juneau how cheap their power is... it is "proposed to go up" to like 11 cents kWh, and a lot of those people will have to move somewhere that they can "afford" the electricity....

Everyone is for all 100% green energy, until their rates go up.... then it is a whole new ball game..

"What?? Green energy costs more?? that isn't fair..."

Some fur from this year.

AELP is going to get 15 cents per KWH, thanks to the regulators. Affordable, yes, but not cheap for hydro anymore.

[Please excuse my language... I'm an idiot] regulators...

Jeff, do you pleat those mink tails or lop em off?

Yukonjeff, nice looking furs there, nice white belly on that one! Couple questions for you: do you send to nafa or fha put up that way; and were your top lot cats put up like that with the feet off?

Hup..yes thats my attempt at pleating tails...

and thanks ST..yes I do send them to Nafa and FH put up like that,and yes the top lot ones were also feetless

Yukonjeff, do you pretty much skin your lynx like marten, no paws? Those are really nice looking fur! Is that 9 lynx there?


About the electric cars in alaska, I think that benefits not us consumers but the electric company and the battery dealers for the cars. Just my thoughts on that. Wouldn't the batteries just totally go ka-put?


Nick

Its finally Christmas! Made the run yesterday for our mail and the river was in the worst shape I have ever seen it. Large jagged edges of ice sticking up all over with big clods of mud and dirt. Smelled like frest dirt the entire trip. Never got over 10mph the entire trip. Should of used a four wheeler. Happiness is the first mail since the end of Sept.

Looks like some good tusk hunting country in the bluffs behind you Bob.

Merry Christmas! Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you got the Halloween card I sent!

Wow, Bob, that is a long, dry spell. I hope there wasn't any bad news in that mail sack!

LOL TA: Halloween card.........

When we used to get back from the trap line, after being gone for 6 months, there used to be boxes of it. I liked the mail. Ken dreaded plowing through it all. So I'd go through it first, divide it and throw out all the ads and unnecessary stuff - the spam.

Do you take it all back home and use it for fire starter? ;o)

Thanks Nick..yes I do lop off the paws,like marten....and there is 13 not 9

Merry Christmass Bob

OB:
We use the same sorting method. First pass all obvious junk goes in the burn pile. Second pass you get the more subtle junk then you can get down to the actual mail. Amazing what you accumalate over time. No bad news this time and no bills. The bride and I were up to 3am this morning like two kids under the Christmas tree. Saved a couple Christmas packages from friends a will decide when Christmas is after we get all the broke crap repaired.
Got to find a cross country route for the next trip as I won't do that river like that again. My sled is pretty well trashed. When the river freezes smooth its like a interstate highway but this was the roughest I've ever seen it.

Bob with all the rain you get down there it should smooth the river out

For a "trashed" sled, it sure is look'n good Bob :-)

Maybe you meant the pull "sled" if so, me bad

Decoy:
Here is a couple different views of the pull sled. That ABC plastic has lasted a lot of years and I thought it was indestructable. The river was really rough and I was never over 10 mph.


OM:
I thought the rain would smooth it out also but it was really bad. Have never seen it like that. I think it was the big tides and the high winds during the cold spell that did it.

Bob the tides have made some spots ugly here the big ones were all over 20 feet this week. You really beat that sled up good

Some more fur...this bunch we bought.