It's white out there in the woods...

I can't believe I wrote this line. Every now and again I do something that really pleases me,


"No one told me of the quite winter. The silence that lays upon the land like a language no longer spoken.
rich and full of meanings to deep to grasp and beyond our utterances."

it's far more just hard work than dangerous.
We are only 50 feet at the nearest point from a hwy. that's scrupulously maintained and kept clear..
Just 40 miles past us is Crystal mountain ski resort, the end of the Rd. The road doesn't go though.

So Like our selves Crystal depends upon that rd. being open in the worst (best ) weather for skiing,
To run their very multi million dollar business.
I sleep late so never see them, but am told that at 6am there's a line of continuous cars heading up the mountain.

So fresh pure and white white white.
But then we start to dig out and from beneath the turned and tossed snow moldy leaves, dirt and small assorted objects start to blimpish.

Soon the snow lays spotted like an aging face. no longer smoothly covering all. but clumping clinging and unsightly. When the snow gets dirty we turn our backs upon it and simply wish it gone,":O}

We are fickle here in the mountains, we soon tire of what pleased us when it was young.

Really it's the little things that turn us against the snow. Frozen water pipes, frozen black water tanks, frozen grey water tanks. Our trailers can go no more than a week without emptying.

About 2/3rds of us have direct sewer connections. The rest of us use sewage tote boxes on wheels to move our shit from trailer to sewer.a few of us have to tote water as well.

We are not on the cutting edge of full time trailer life. Very few of us want to be.
Snow is a welcome guest for the first week it's all fun and games.

But life goes on and people need to work , not slave keeping trailers whole (One roof caved a bit and their is much discussion of what if anything we can do to prop it up until snow clears and repairs can be effected.

About half of us shelter in our trailers beneath tarps. The weight of snow opens seams that warmed by internal heat allows melted snow to pour in.. So we scrap the roof of snow and tarp it.

How good a fix is it?

We have one trailer we call the dog house and is used for unwanted husbands to shelter in from wife abuse.
It was tarp topped 5 years ago and still remains dry.

with snow on the ground we look a bit Gypsy/American and tarps are a big part of that. Some feel tarps an eye sore, but as they are soon snow covered, and very much needed it's not discussed a lot.

We don't have anyone with a ham radio. I personally feel one needs a ham radio to feel really isolated...but I suppose phones work a bit better.":O}

Hell no, I mean the sea around Finland and the Baltics.

I know Oulu but never been that far up north. It's a long way from Helsinki. I've seen people heading up there putting the cars on the train because it just takes so long to drive up there, probably 2 or 3 days of driving.

Spent a lot of time in Estonia as well. Estonian is the only other major Finnic language. Sounds much the same as Finnish, but a lot of words have a completely different meaning. Very confusing if you're trying to understand friends who are speaking Finnish and Estonian.

You can see what I mean by the sea freezing in someone's photo here:
https://scontent.fgci1-1.fna.fbcdn....=302a9d7ea4e8abba997e8297d4c1d60a&oe=5CF22408

That was the neighborhood where I lived for a year, but that marina is quite new.

What an amazing photo. Thanks for affording us such a sight!

Ya got me/us, all our tarps are blue. LOL

Hey big guy I just noticed your twitch access button in your signature.
A few questions:
Your name is spelled Danrokk on you twitch page, is that intentional?
What is twitch and how are you using it?
Can you use it to take over the world, or at lest the good parts?

Can we help you in any way at all. You gave/give so much to us, What can we do for you?

Yep really easy. All you have to do is go broke then get lucky.
But there are a few here who actually planned their move here.
What a total lack of spontaneity! LOL

We try not to ridicule them for exercising foresight but it's hard being as we are so damn spontaneous. But the economy is such once your here you can save rather than plunge deeper in debt.

We pat each other on the back and thank god (in one form or another) every time we meet.the people here without exception have had a hard life. Lot's of drinking, lots of hard drugs but it's only gotten out of hand twice and one of them is gone and the other one is a bit ashamed and now completely forgiven.

To many here share his prob with alcohol. Most seem to be dealing with it quite well. Staying away as long as they can, but backsliding for a day on two on occasion. The isolation here (40 mile to your next drink)

Lack of spare cash and widely available cheep high grade pot I think helps them stay away from drink quite a bit. The junkies seem to have an easier time than the Alkies.
To be a good junkie you have to maintain friendly relations with a series of dealers and doctors and junkie friends

(at times impossible to tell them apart.)

We have no dealers, no doctors. 40 miles to Emenclaw, But Emenclaw does not a drug paradise make.
For those trying to save their souls from drugs Clear water can be redemptive.

Before I arrived the place was a speed freak flop.
But the mighty Row (short for Ramona)
Went to the owner, got the imperial seal and exercised her new powers to really clean the place up and cleaned them all out. Now one looking upon us would only think "Hey a family picnic!"

But to be clear no one stumbles around here drunk on anything. Just that some on us do drink to much.
But we are poor so access to booze is limited.

I have very slowly made my presence felt here. and now am working with two people trying to understand their lives now that the booze is gone. There are others but as I have let it be known that nothing I have offer is of any use to a drunk. I cannot work with some one whose conscience is not their own all of the time.

So they hover in torment trying to find their way to their "no" .

I maintain friendly relations with them, But as I'm now a symbol of anti-drunkeness
They mistakenly fear me a bit and are timid in my presence.

I have met with two ex drunks who are a pleasure to work with.
The funny thing is that the I-Ching is the only thing I'm qualified to teach anyone.

I have only said once that I won't teach it to those who lack sobriety. But the hard word got around.

None of them are interested in the I-Ching. Yet knowing I won't teach it has incentivized there efforts to cut back. LOL

I'd say the average age is probably real close to 60. So, many delusions have been put aside.
It is so much easier to help people who have shed their more self destructive delusions!

The Sun is out and shinning brightly, still very cold out, around 26F
But sunshine is more on a cold day.
Just as
Wisdom makes more sense to a broken man.":O}

I believe it is the new testament that speaks of and to the "Broken and contrite heart."
There are beautiful Flemish paintings that show the faithful all looking up ward with tear-filled eyes and beatific smiles.

Their eyes convey the fallen, their lives of sin, their wretchedness.
but their pain filled smiles convey their redemption undeserved, yet still given by grace.
You can look it up!! LOL

What about a language no longer spoken...Did you see any of that laying about? LOL