Anyone watching "Alaska: The Last Frontier"?

[trof]

I'm watching 2013 reruns on the Discovery channel.
Really fascinating.
A family of ranchers/farmers in the Alaska outback.
I think they are descended from Danes who escaped the Nazis and settled in Alaska.
Very resourceful and just ...fun folks.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. they are rich people.millionaires

[Suich]

2. I never miss it!

Did you know Atz Kilcher's daughter is the singer Jewel?

Google has a lot of info on them. Atz Lee and Jane have 2 or 3 kids but keep them off the show.

I love watching the interaction between the couples.

Fun show!

[Munificence]

3. My wife and I

watch all the episodes.

We are "half-assed" homesteaders. We live pretty much in the middle of nowhere, closest gas station is around 8 miles. Have a beautiful place.

I guess you can say I am a hippie wanna be.

I pretty much checked out from society 5 years ago. If it wasn't for going to Home Depot for stuff I need I'd probably never leave our place back in the woods. I do get to see my 2 closest neighbors from time to time, they drive by on the gravel road at the edge of my property....outside of that I see no one (my kids have a 1:40 minute bus ride to school).

Here is a pic coming into our place, was taken last month. You come down our drive about 1/2 mile, turn a sharp curve through thick woods (can't see house) and here is the 1st thing you see when you come out of the curve.

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Wife and our 3 kids spend a lot of time here (front porch). I'm hear nearly every morning (when warm enough) drinking my coffee and greeting the the day. In the eve the 5 of us def hang on the front porch until bed time.

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With country views like this you gotta get up early to catch the frost on the field with fog and all the colors.

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We have a cute little guest house for our friends and relatives to use when they visit:

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If we are not on the front porch, then we do all of our cooking out and hanging out on the back deck of the guest house.

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Other side of our house:

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We really live in a special place. We have a stream that comes from a cavern about 1/2 mile away, it crosses our property then disappears into a hole in the ground. Water is crystal clear and the kids love playing in it...although sometimes it gets pretty mean after a good rain:

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[archiemo]

4. You have a beautiful place indeed!

[Munificence]

8. Thanks!

We love it here, we try and keep the animals, chickens, etc away from the house and junking the place up. I believe things are about the "environment" one (3 kids) is raised in and the beauty that surrounds us. I am not a religious person but believe that anything that could be classified as "godly" is already here and we are surrounded by it...all we have to do is pay attention, take the time to notice, enjoy, and understand it.

Oh, it looks so nice (house) as I spent nearly 300 hours rebuilding our decks and stripping and staining the house this past summer. It's all western red cedar with the rough side out, it had turned gray so I decided to go ahead and protect it with a good stain...actually looks new now.

It's one of the only places where one looks at the countryside and comes to the conclusion that "This house belongs here" as it blends right in.

Here is what it looked like before I done the work this summer: (Lots of work, had a nice tan and lost 25 lbs from all the work, I now weigh the same as I did in 8th grade!):

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and here I am power washing the siding. I stirred up some wasps at the highest gable that day and was stung 3 times before making it off the ladder. I don't declare "war" on that many bugs or critters, but I went ballistic in my effort to go after the wasps after that day - Guess I took out 400 hundred of them around the house over the next few days.


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[Tom_Foolery]

6. Those pictures take my breath away...

[Munificence]

9. I may delete this photo

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in a day as it has my family in it, but figured you may like this one.

My wife had to leave for a few hours, so I wrestled the kids out of bed, grabbed the chainsaw and cleared out this spot, kids drug off all the brush. Anyway, my wife loves our creek (as mentioned it comes out of a cavern and is drinkable water right from the creek) and loves to take walks up and down it. There are maybe 5-6 nice 3-6ft water falls with pools below each. She wanted to "special place" where she could take a walk, have a place to relax and enjoy the nature around the creek. Well the kids and I cleaned out this spot and I ran and purchased a picnic table and surprised her with her "gift".

In the pic the family is looking at one of our cats up in the tree crossing the creek. They follow us when we take a walk and always use a tree to go over the creek vs braving forging the creek.

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[Tom_Foolery]

11. That's as close to perfect as I've ever seen...

You have a beautiful family.

[Munificence]

13. Thank you again.

[Little Star]

12. Love all your pictures, looks like you live in a...

wonderful place.

[pipi_k]

5. Yeah, we watch a lot of those Alaska shows

That one, "Alaskan Bush People", "Buying Alaska", "Alaska State Troopers", "Life Below Zero"...


The one you mentioned...my favorite episode was the Christmas one where everyone randomly got the name of someone else to give a gift to.

They all gave handmade items to each other, and it was so sweet.

Made me cry, and I said to Mr Pipi that is what Christmas is all about.

Gifts from the heart. Laughter. Love.

[Worried senior]

7. I like the last frontier one too

but when they get into the hunting parts of the show I turn it off.

[Little Star]

10. One of my favorite shows!