If things get any crazier up here. Or, why I’m starting to think about Alaska.

Well it’s been an interesting week up here on the mountain, my little slice of heaven.

More snow has fallen, leaving me with close to two feet up here. I’ve been keeping trails packed as has Allen.

There is a bit of a mystery going on up here and I have no explanation for it.

Two nights ago, somebody plowed the road from the bottom to somewhere past my road. I am a mile and a half from the bottom and the road runs another almost two miles beyond me.

So someone took all night to plow almost four miles of road, and with a bobcat on tracks no less.

So far there’s no evidence of use by anyone but myself and Allen. There are no fresh tracks past my road.

Now I believe there are two families living above me, though I have seen no sign of one of the families, the other has a 5th wheel trailer and two pickups on their lot, and Allen has heard a genorator running from time to time.

There is also someone living below me near the spring a little more than halfway down.

None of these folks have proper equipment to get up and down this mountain this time of year. So this whole plowing thing has us baffled. In some places the road was plowed just wide enough for me to get my UTV through, no way a truck could get through that.

Other than that, things have fallen into the normal winter pattern up here, shovel off the shed roofs, haul in snow to melt in the rain barrel to use for showers and dishes, and bring in the days firewood. Maintain the machines and pack trails, vist Allen, or he comes by here.

I’ve been doing a bit of wiring on my 12 volt system, hoping to have it finished so I won’t have to run the genorator quite as often as I do now. Only firing it up to charge the batteries when there’s not enough sun or wind to do the job. I’m also working on the bathroom. I want it finished by spring. Then I can start on another room.

Got word yesterday that the guy we refer to as Teepee guy will be coming back up later this month once again.

Yes, he really does live in a Teepee when he’s here. I have no idea what goes on in some people’s heads.

So that will be three of four families that have no clue about survival in a hostile environment. Yes, my winter will be interesting if nothing else.

Well that’s all the news for the week. Bye for now.