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Cool, I hope it sparked some new ideas.

Yeah, that movie had some fantastic visuals.  I’d recommend it.

What’s it like in the mountains?
The climate is very dry year round.  The major cities are pretty similar to any other I suppose, but if you’re crazy enough to live up in the mountains, it’s an experience.

Here’s a pic I took just this morning of our turkey friends that come to visit.

I think since moving to the rural mountains from the suburbs I’ve grown a lot in terms of self-reliance. Life throws you all these new curveballs and you just have to figure out how to roll with it – from wells freezing up to having a water heater go out in the dead of winter and no way to get a new one up to the house. “Hmm. Okay. So it looks like we’re going to do *that* now.”

Most years when the snow gets really bad, we have to park our van at the bottom of the hill. We use a dog-sled to pull the groceries up to the house. Picture this long row of kids in parkas and a sled… like we’re on some polar expedition or something. LOL