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Well I just watched the Homer Homesteaders last night. The family homesteading... Something like three generations?
That was really a bad show or at least the 34 mins. I watched that was left.
They were bringing cattle in and made a big thing about crossing a tidal creek at low tide, when the cows crossed it, it was about to the bottom of the cows belly and gravel, not the normal inlets tidal silt.
But what really pissed me off is the one kid using a tractor to drag trees in for firewood, he is pulling the load from a winch cable up high and bouncing the front end of the tractor on the ground, which will break the front axle at some point. To lazy to limb the tree and tries to drag it over all the younger trees ripping them up!
Homer is part of Alaska's banana belt! Right on the ocean and they get a lot of rain/snow, but they don't get a lot of cold! Yeah, mostly in the twenties to zero at best, but they made a big deal about how bad the winters are there. Geeze, here in the interior we are having a heat wave this morning, we are at -11! Not the -40 we've had for the last few weeks, most of November was -40 as well!
Anyway, I bet the family is a bunch of nices folk, but I'd have to drag the idiot off the tractor and beat him with a stick for abusing the perfectly good tractor like that.
I'm sure it's all done for ratings, but their doing it wrong!
Anyway, just my two cents worth! Don't know how they are going to continues the suspense?!?!
Yes I watched the homesteaders as well, I do not think it is a very good show. But the best part is the father's eye brow on his left eye. I mean that just kept me laughing. Overall the cousin seemed pretty lazy, didnt want to gather enough resources for the winter, but just not that interesting of a show. I am ready for some flying wild alaska and gold rush tonight!
If those Gold Rush guys were working for my company, most would have to be fired for unsafe work habits.
Heck, compared to the Homer Homesteaders show, the Gold Rush guys are on steroids! The homestead show is like watching paint dry... on a cold damp day! They need to have interaction with other people outside the homestead, Homer has a lot to offer, Bradley Lake Hydro, Halibut Cove, Seldovia, Anchor Point all cold be incorporated into the storyline and make it more interesting! Even the Coast Guard ship there has stuff going on!
But watching a guy tear up a good tractor is just stupid because he's too lazy to trim off branches or choke up on the tree right behind the tractor... The series won't last long at all.
If you want to know Alaska as it used to be, read "Arctic Village" and "Cheechako On Wings". Actually, Flying Wild Alaska is about as accurate as you can get, and still have an entertaining program. For some of the posters, here, who are afraid of flying, most flights by far are merely routine, and the scary ones are not so common as they seem to be on the show.
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