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Who needs a man once an Alaska girl has mastered the chain saw?
Alaska Dispatch News ^ | August 16, 2014 | Laureli Kinneen

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.

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To: BipolarBob

Sorry, there weren’t any pics.


41 posted on 08/17/2014 5:05:06 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

“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?


42 posted on 08/17/2014 5:05:09 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
could mean she is a practical woman with things other than spending 3 hours in the bathroom to do. Or not.

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...

43 posted on 08/17/2014 5:05:20 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: prisoner6

I used to love splitting firewood—when it was frozen.


44 posted on 08/17/2014 5:12:44 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: BipolarBob
How about:

It's intuitively obvious even to the most casual observer"?

45 posted on 08/17/2014 5:18:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
The author obviously intended this to be a light-hearted, humorous article but it's funny to see all the insecure males out there freak out over the prospect of a woman mastering the chain saw. Like they won't be needed around anymore because their woman has figured out the choke and oh-so-complex chore of replacing a spark plug on a power tool.

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."

46 posted on 08/17/2014 5:21:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Little Bill

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.


47 posted on 08/17/2014 5:21:14 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
My dear, "Put another log on the fire"...
48 posted on 08/17/2014 5:21:24 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

Spiders!!!!!


49 posted on 08/17/2014 5:23:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: Paladin2
How about:It's intuitively obvious even to the most casual observer"?

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.

50 posted on 08/17/2014 5:30:39 PM PDT by BipolarBob (You can't fix stupid but you can vote them out.)
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To: SamAdams76

So are you still beating your wife?


51 posted on 08/17/2014 5:32:49 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
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.

52 posted on 08/17/2014 5:36:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: eastforker

Thumbs up!


53 posted on 08/17/2014 5:39:10 PM PDT by expat1000 ("If you're explaining, you're losing." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tax-chick
I'm with you. I thought it was a positive write up.
I like someone who will at least try something they fear.
54 posted on 08/17/2014 5:39:25 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

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!


55 posted on 08/17/2014 5:47:51 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: eastforker

Wanted:
Good woman who can cook and clean fish and has a boat and motor.

PS: Please send pic of boat and motor.
—==00==—
PPS: And salmon permits/quotas.


56 posted on 08/17/2014 5:52:05 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: Edward Teach

Yeah but can she skin a deer with a golf ball?
-=00=-
Using an air compressor is easier and doesn’t stretch the hide so much......


57 posted on 08/17/2014 5:54:50 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

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.


58 posted on 08/17/2014 5:57:22 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
My GGRAnNY was about 5 feet walked to Utah in 1853, her father died on the Platte, her mother died earlier. She was given along with her sister to some distant cousins.

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.

59 posted on 08/17/2014 6:13:23 PM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: TangoLimaSierra; Tax-chick; MaxMax
TLS: "I like someone who will at least try something they fear."

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.

60 posted on 08/17/2014 6:21:41 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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