Posted on 08/17/2014 4:02:20 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman
NOME -- I used to joke and tell my friends that other than for obvious reasons, I only need a man to operate my chain saw. Because really, I’m an Alaska girl, and can bleed the line when I run out of fuel at the house. I thaw my pipes when they freeze. I can change a flat tire, butcher a caribou and catch, filet, smoke and can a silver salmon. Oh, and shoot a few ptarmigan with a .22 for dinner. You know. Normal stuff.
But here’s the thing. I’ve relied on a man for seven years to supply the wood for the stove. And it’s embarrassing.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Sorry, there weren’t any pics.
“I am an older American man and what I see called men pale in comparison to the men I grew up around. “
perhaps because your generation didn’t teach em?
this is why i like having long hair... it is so much easier... whenever i have had short hair, i would have to "do it..." not so with long hair...
I used to love splitting firewood—when it was frozen.
It's intuitively obvious even to the most casual observer"?
I bet these same men are hopeless in a kitchen and operate under the delusion that their inability to fry up an omelette or bake a loaf of bread makes them more "manly."
Where I come from women helped in tobacco work, some could handle a tractor better than me and I have helped my grandmother kill, hang, bleed, and butcher a hog. She was 75 at the time. She could work rings around me, raised 13 kids plus two others that weren’t hers, ran a restaurant, and raised a large garden and what she didn’t give to the less fortunate, she canned.
Grandma was five feet tall, grandpa six feet four, she caught him in a gambling hall, bent her umbrella over his head and dragged him out by his ear. He wasn’t going to blow payday with kids at home. Once she let him know who was boss they got along just fine. A strong woman in tough times, the Great Depression.
Spiders!!!!!
How about the casual observer note (1)The title says "WHO NEEDS A MAN once an Alaska girl has mastered the chain saw?" (2)" I’ve relied on a man for seven years ". Note the past tense relied. (3)The footnote bio says "Laureli Kinneen lives in Nome, where she's raising her two children, Joe and Sidney." No mention of a Mr. Kinneen.
So are you still beating your wife?
Well it depends on what is being played. I almost always beat her in chess and Scrabble, but she usually beats me at card games and Yahtzee.
Thumbs up!
I get the same feeling of achievement when I’m able to do something with the computer, instead of asking my teenagers to do it!
Wanted:
Good woman who can cook and clean fish and has a boat and motor.
PS: Please send pic of boat and motor.
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PPS: And salmon permits/quotas.
Yeah but can she skin a deer with a golf ball?
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Using an air compressor is easier and doesn’t stretch the hide so much......
Ask all the thugs on the street how they got along without fathers in their lives. What a bitch. I hope you wake up at age 75 totally alone.
She married my GGrandfather in 1870 she supported him in his business ventures and had 11 kids that lived.
After raising her kids she became a Midwife and delivered over 200 kids, they don't make them like that anymore.
That's reasonable, and agreeable.
TC: "Why, because she wrote a chirpy article about learning a new skill?"
I congratulate her for taking the time and effort to learn to use a chain saw, and for learning how to maintain it properly. But my opinion is that the tenor of the article follows the headline. It's basically that women are as good as men and she has written an article which proves it.
Men don't write articles claiming to be just as good as women. It's beneath their dignity.
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