Posted on 12/26/2010 5:29:16 PM PST by onyx
Come along on another Alaskan adventure as we profile amazingly hard workers in the timber industry. Loggers are hearty and hardy, and the ones I know are true conservationists. I can’t wait for you to meet these lumberjacks!
During this Christmas season, do you ever wonder where you get many of your Christmas trees, firewood, packing boxes… shoot, just look around at everything timber touches and ask yourself who begins the production of these wood products? You’ll meet them on an exciting trip to an Afognak Island logging camp where our daughter learns even more about our family’s #1 lesson: tough work ethic and character will fulfill and sustain you.
Learn how the logging families live in such a remote part of God’s country and how they cherish the land that provides their livelihood. You’ll see how their reforestation efforts allow the forest regrowth rate to repeat a life cycle of new forest nearly every 20 years. These loggers actually care more about the sustainability of their forests than most anyone because they love their livelihood, they know America relies on our domestic timber industry for good jobs and economic security, they are inspired in the great outdoors, and many of them want their kids to get to grow up to be loggers. Basically, the good folks you’ll meet want to be allowed to do what they love to do and what anyone who lives among lumber and wood products rely on them to do for us.
In addition, come see Willow’s eyes open to a new rugged and rustic lifestyle. Her driving skills improve (?) before she undertakes a family’s rite of passage with an upcoming driver’s license test. Any parent can relate.
With only a couple more episodes to share, I promise you a fun and informative episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” this Sunday night at 9pm ET/8c on TLC. Follow me there!
You can watch a preview of the episode
~ Sarah Palin
You will be please to see that one is ZOT.
Those trees grow FAST! In the lower 48, the Marxist-enviromentalmidgets prohibit logging, clearing of brush where species of some sort reside, so that wildfires take most of the trees, and of course the lives of the endangered and all the species. Idiots.
Thank you.
Nothing wrong with that post at all. I got an autographed copy of ‘America by Heart’ for Christmas from my wife.
The best part of this Christmas was all of the children and grandchildren were all together with us at our house and that doesn’t happen very often.
Merry Christmas!
Being a genuine, rugged outdoors(wo)man by itself is not enough; one also must be a Patriotic, God-fearing American.
Fortunately, Sarah has both characteristics in spades.
And Obaama has neither one.
Cheers!
As my wife pointed out tonight, Obaama wouldn't DARE do even half the stuff Palin did tonight; he'd be too afraid of breaking a nail.
Cheers!
I would say more squeeking and eeking, but I am too empathetic, if I had a daugter she'd have me wrapped around her little finger. My 16 yr old would be so much more than rolling eyes, he'd been ready to do community service before being on a national TV reality show with me. Kudos to Willow, thanks for helping your mom out.
>> was I too harsh or unseemly, perhaps?
Not at all.
Some beotch in the media recently intimated that Bristol’s “career life” was destroyed by the birth of her child.
These #ers live to criticize, marginalize, second-guess, or ridicule the parent/child relationship of their political adversaries. They’re scum.
I guess if you grow up where forests have always been a part of your life like Maine way on the other side of the country, where logging trucks are part of the landscape, where Canada and the US share a logging industry ruled by our governmental bureaucracy, where paper mills once employed thousands of workers and are minimal now..where logs once floated down the rivers like the Kennebec, and mill towns had a stink to them.
Where the Beans of Egypt, Maine were and still are struggling real people, perhaps now part of the 2nd Militia-gun-toting, working class folks.
The saplings that just reseed, whether deciduous or conifers were just a noticeable part of being outdoors and even emphasized in early scouting years. I have "wide" cut white pines in board form that can date back to revolutionary war [White Pine War] time. The trees had room to grow, why are some rings closer and others further apart--so much many of us just take for granted.
Tell me about it.
Finally got to see her cut down a tree, all she has to do now is cut down about 500 to 600 more and she'll be right up there with the old Cajun on the enviro-whacko watch list.
Another good show, but it still didn't beat the one with whiny what's her name a few weeks ago. The contrast of personalities was just unbeatable.
ROFL@ “too afraid of breaking a nail!”
I bet he watches the series...in secret.
Oh, I am sure they could make it anywhere if forced to do so...but I don’t wish that Ugliness on the Palin family as a whole.
>> Palin may be a logger for a day and operate a timber moving John Deere, sled the glaciers, gut a fish and shoot down an elk; does not a President make.
But yet we have an acorn in the Office.
Yeah, Cajun!! You really liked the one with Kate...lol. I like the episodes best when I learn a lot and I learned logging tonight! I have missed the replay of tonight’s show - and TIVO didn’t record, so I have it set for Wednesday. The one with Kate replays here in 90 minutes. I am NOT staying up to watch it.
Yes..that was classic, the sad thing was the kids really were having fun..notice when their whining mother paraded her brood back to “the bus”, that Piper seemed a little disillusioned with what had been one of her favorite shows??? and quickly went back to having fun with her family?
I am happy to agree with you. She was squeeking and eeking! The Palins are a wonderful family, from the grandparents to the children and the cousins and all of them on the outer parts. I enjoyed seeing the great-grandmothers to the children and the fish cleaning (gutting) and filleting.
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