Post by colemank on Apr 1, 2005 20:48:50 GMT -5
Hi everyone, just wanted to introduce myself and say wow, am I glad that I found this forum.
My name is Kim and currently I live in Las Vegas, NV. Very soon (hopefully) I will be moving to Alaska with my husband and my 2 kids. My husband has always dreamed of living in Alaska, while I was always hesitant. I always heard stories about the 10.00 gallon of milk and the 5.00 loaf of bread and thought how can I possibly live there and still afford to live. Well, after much researching and my best friend moving to anchorage 1 1/2 years ago I finally got over my fear and decided ok, that is the place I want to be...
I will not be living in the bush like many of you do or will. But I hope to make myself a nice homestead and begin to learn to live alot more self sufficient. I grew up in rural Michigan and always dreamed of homesteading and living off the land. My friends and family laughed when I told them that one day I would love to live without electricity and try to live with more natural power sources. After years of people laughing I just stopped talking about it and just secretly dreamed of it. I moved away from Michigan 12 1/2 years ago when I met my husband and we were married. My husband always talked about his desire to move to alaska and for the longest time I kept quiet about my homesteading dreams. He introduced me to computers and the internet and for years I have surfed the web and read about homesteading and other people's joy in it. I finally began talking to him about it a couple of years ago and was very pleasantly surprised when he didn't laugh at me. He supported my desire! Once we decided to make the move to Alaska we seriously discussed homesteading. We have decided that for as great as my dream of it is, I am still very unknowledgeable about many aspects of it. So we have decided to compromise in the beginning. We will be living outside of a small town and will have power and everything that would go along with city living but will start homesteading on a small scale and try to learn as much about it as we can and still be comfortable. That is where you all come in. I am so excited to be able to have people to discuss this with who really are living it themselves and who can provide me with so much information. I can hardly wait to begin!
Hopefully my move will be within the next few months. I am putting my current house on the market here and we are flying up to anchorage at the end of april to go house hunting in the mat su valley. Hopefully we will be able to find something that will fit our needs quickly.
Thanks for listening to my rambling introduction. I look forward to chatting with you all. Kim
My name is Kim and currently I live in Las Vegas, NV. Very soon (hopefully) I will be moving to Alaska with my husband and my 2 kids. My husband has always dreamed of living in Alaska, while I was always hesitant. I always heard stories about the 10.00 gallon of milk and the 5.00 loaf of bread and thought how can I possibly live there and still afford to live. Well, after much researching and my best friend moving to anchorage 1 1/2 years ago I finally got over my fear and decided ok, that is the place I want to be...
I will not be living in the bush like many of you do or will. But I hope to make myself a nice homestead and begin to learn to live alot more self sufficient. I grew up in rural Michigan and always dreamed of homesteading and living off the land. My friends and family laughed when I told them that one day I would love to live without electricity and try to live with more natural power sources. After years of people laughing I just stopped talking about it and just secretly dreamed of it. I moved away from Michigan 12 1/2 years ago when I met my husband and we were married. My husband always talked about his desire to move to alaska and for the longest time I kept quiet about my homesteading dreams. He introduced me to computers and the internet and for years I have surfed the web and read about homesteading and other people's joy in it. I finally began talking to him about it a couple of years ago and was very pleasantly surprised when he didn't laugh at me. He supported my desire! Once we decided to make the move to Alaska we seriously discussed homesteading. We have decided that for as great as my dream of it is, I am still very unknowledgeable about many aspects of it. So we have decided to compromise in the beginning. We will be living outside of a small town and will have power and everything that would go along with city living but will start homesteading on a small scale and try to learn as much about it as we can and still be comfortable. That is where you all come in. I am so excited to be able to have people to discuss this with who really are living it themselves and who can provide me with so much information. I can hardly wait to begin!
Hopefully my move will be within the next few months. I am putting my current house on the market here and we are flying up to anchorage at the end of april to go house hunting in the mat su valley. Hopefully we will be able to find something that will fit our needs quickly.
Thanks for listening to my rambling introduction. I look forward to chatting with you all. Kim