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I finally solved my digital camera dilemma. My only wish is for a sunny day to capture the true essence of the mountains here in the Matanuska-Susitna valley. I'd drive the next ten miles for one heck of a dreamy picture over this solid black ice but it is not worth it without the sun's help!

Here is a picture of Wasilla, Alaska, taken from my front porch -- 237 Kalli Circle, 99654.

May you and your wife dream of a place like this picture for a romantic getaway. Stand-by, for if the weather co-operates tomorrow, a mere ten mile drive will show you what heaven is truly like!

http://img3.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frontporch001ne8.jpg

And trust me, Tyler....In due time you will, for lack of better words, drool like a, er, um raging geyser! (I am a huge fan of Corpus Christi and Freeport -- for the abundance of water....One trip here and you'll soil your pants....Native rainbows that average 3-8 lbs, salmon that run so thick you'd have to kick 'em out of the way so that when Jesus returns he has a place to walk on the water!).....Stay tuned!

Remember these words, Tyler: "soil yourself" and "trust me"....You have never seen beauty yet! Gimme a few days and you'll see it....

Texmaps · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject:

No offense crab, but it looks a little chilly to me.

ccbobber · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:28 am Post subject: chilly

amen and a second on that one. a lot of us moved here to get away from that white stuff and the cold.
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Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

Good luck, have fun hunting and fishing!
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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Looks pretty though I don't think I would need the adult diapers Smile

I used to live in Washington State and that is some gorgeous scenery too! I just couldn't stand the rain the darkness for so much of the year.

rodandroll · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:00 am Post subject:

Looks cold and desolate to me. I think I prefer the Texas Hill Country.

crab_n_fisher · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:27 am Post subject:

Tyler and others,

I felt the very same over the years.....I've posted on this site that I'm ou tta here when the cold truly hits.....However, I've gone from -2 to 33 degrees in less than a week here. Plus I live less than ten miles from the Knik arm of Cook Inlet (salt water)....I believe Oz would call that shark territory! And I'd call that "crabs-l-haven't-culled" territory!

In contrast, for serious shark fishermen, you have no need to live in this state, but if you can persuade me into allowing yourselves free room and board for a two-week-period, a simple plane trip up north, you'll catch salmon shark to 800 lbs (a tad larger than blacktip and sharpnose.) I'm slowly learning that my cousin knows half the guides up here, only because he "fishes" for information -- so Jared is a great asset to have!

crab_n_fisher · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:47 am Post subject:

ironmanstan · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:45 am Post subject:

HAVE A GREAT TIME TIME IN ALASKA, SEE YA.

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crab_n_fisher · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:05 am Post subject:

thanks for the reply, Ironmanstan...Reminds me of the motto, "this will separate the men from the boys."

Any die-hard fisherman would step-up to the plate and take a swing at a new adventure in life, if given a chance when the stars align(ed). I've done so, having had the opportunity presented.

I had one heckler who recently deleted his post out of cowardice and his foolish retort. I guess Teddy Roosevelt was "crazy" too for for hunting in "too hot" Africa for truly "big game" that make whitetails look puny?...wow, what an argument!

Ya know, if I can afford it in the near future I'd love to visit "dreary, sun never rises England" to catch a 200 or more lb catfish....

ironmanstan · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:10 am Post subject:

Been around the world twice serving my country. Where were you buddy?
How does that saying go again? I didn't hear it the first time. I think the guy who came up with that saying/motto had a crow-bar in his hand. Oh, by the way I don't argue....wit works just fine. Wink

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crab_n_fisher · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:39 am Post subject:

Dude,

I am relating to fishing, and here you are bringing up the military. I had the opportunity to join the military but I absconded this choice to not join. By nature I am an iconoclast and anti-authority....Read, not a lemming-like automaton. The USA is not Israel and military service is not mandatory...Patriotism is one thing, but fighting for imagined "freedoms" overseas, while back home your government is trying to take away firearms, free speech and is or was imposing Stalinist home security laws......

ironmanstan · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:47 am Post subject:

Fishing in Alaska does not seperate anyone from anyone. Unless you can post pics of you working on a crab boat in 70mph winds. Those guys are the men. Very Happy

post em up.
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Big Ed · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:02 am Post subject:

Hey Crab,
Looks like beautiful country. I'm sure you'll love it. As for me, Texmaps picture looks a little closer to my idea of paradise. Also, I'll reserve my comment on all of the political horse hockey. Been enough of hard feelings on this forum lately.
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crab_n_fisher · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:38 am Post subject:

Thank you, Ironmanstan.

I've been sick as a dog the past few days and have as yet been able to go out ice fishing. I do not know if it is because of the relatively less-chlorinated drinking water, or its supposed "purity" my body is not accustomed to, or the moose hot dogs/jerky or salmon I have been eating. All I can say, is that I need to visit the bathroom every 1.5-2.0 hours, to help alleviate this sickness. (My cousin made a huge batch of
oatmeal cookies a couple weeks ago and is dry-storing 'em too. However,
when I became sick I stopped eating 'em, thinking the fiber was giving
me the version of "beer runs." No, I know it can't be that?...doubt it...)

Even though the temperature may be 14 or so degrees during the day, and the low 9 degrees at night, I'm getting kinda sick of the snow (Tyler....I know what ya mean, being a Texan as well as an ex-patriate.)

One must also know the *kayak* originated in Alaska, if one were to believe in the questionable entries online from sites like Wikipedia. Sometimes I wonder if Oz were, in a prior life, due to all his "karma" speaking, was an Eskimo/Inuit? hmmmm... Me thinks he had some weird-cosmic aura of a past he isn't admitting to? Idea

After my natural father's death I pretty much lost it, coupled with my recent lay-off. Murphy's law states that if something is bad to happen to ya, it soon will (or something like that)...And it did, one calamity after another. So I decided to take a gamble on life, change occupations and experience life, to help assuage the nuttiness running in my head. I've always wanted to travel and fish America, from Lake Havasu in Arizona, to the Bo River in the Pacific Northwest. (I didn't get a chance to fish the Missip or Ohio rivers, but one day I plan on it!)

By the way, Ironmanstan and Tyler/Moderators, thank you for removing a couple posts in regards to the military. I am very pro-military, as I come from a long line of veterans. I just find it ironic that when our good men and women fight overseas that a certain segment of our politicians are fighting FOR our enemies way of life or government instead of AGAINST it..

Here is a pic outside the hospital here, on a rare sunny day:

http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0018.jpg

(Look at the ice crystal/thingmajigs blowing in that seemingly nice weather...Wrong...It was about 11 degrees this morning and I wore thin pants, t-shirt and a light jacket; and these Alaskan crystal-darts pierced my chest and face at around 25-30 mph....I braved this onslaught, walked 30 or so paces, and took several pics and this is one of the two that came out without a "jiggily-wiggily" out of focus format
as I gyrated like the southern "lower 48-er" that alaskans love to laugh at! Oh, well! Laughing

)

For those who want a summer aerial shot of Wasilla, check out this awesome video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0KVcCJ7Xk&feature=related

At around the 4:45 mark, I live within two miles of Finger Lake -a "secret trophy lake," according to some older fellers I met recently. That is where I'm ice-fishing soon when I get well.

PS,

I'm typing on a 21" computer monitor...Is my typing causing others to
scroll left and right on a smaller computer screen? Let me know and I
can adjust...
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thanks...crab!