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1 1/2 hours from civilization and your cellphone works? Shit, I am 10 minutes from the mall with no cellphone coverage [our house is in a low spot near a creek and no line of sight to a tower]

I admit, my old flip phone had a powerful enough receiver/transmitter that it worked here. "Smart" phones do lots of other functions but are worse phones

Do you keep in contact with any of your fellow pilots etc from WWII?

nice

One thing I remember from one of the Alaska homestead shows is the practice of girdling trees and leaving them standing for a couple of years to dry before harvesting for firewood.

Each fall they would girdle some and harvest some to keep a supply ready

this happened in the Pacific NW too but many very successful farmers/orchardists today owe their wealth to stealing productive land from the Japanese who were interred

I have found that steel wool wil be pulled out and caulking will be chewed out but if you combine them you can prevent re entry