[JRandomFreeper]

That makes -10F and calm seem rather balmy.

I did hurry on washing the hair though. I do like indoor plumbing, now that I'm back in civilization.

I've got recipes for yak, if you need them, including a nice yak cheese, if you decide to milk them.

Ever consider moving south?

/johnny

[familyop]

"I've got recipes for yak, if you need them, including a nice yak cheese, if you decide to milk them."

Thank you. But we're tentatively planning to get started in 2014 now because of the drought, and yaks take quite a while to mature.

"Ever consider moving south?"

We've considered moving east/southeast, to a lower elevation, but this is our kind of challenge. It appears that most people don't mind learning to work more with other people in complicated ways. That's okay. We like to learn about and work more with material things than most others do--earth, rocks, electrical/electronic things, solar, thermal, mechanical equipment, building materials, gardening in an extreme environment, etc. Somewhat like figuring out how to survive on Mars, I guess (and maybe eventually even to get comfortable).

[familyop]

BTW, we didn’t move here over a decade ago to survive any big disaster in civilization. Didn’t even think of such things. Although, come to think of it, nature here is an ongoing disaster that we moved to. And there’s nearly no real economy here. We did it, because we like the peace, quiet and technical challenges.