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Maggie’s What's Your View II

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Until she preps for and does a winter in the AK bush.
Maybe she is one of a small group who can do that well. It aint easy.
I was well aware of the AK requirements and nixed the idea based on our ages and the costs for everything. Even trying to be self sufficient in a more forgiving location is a young persons game and you need children to help. We have no illusions and just live out here to be away from people and the urban rat race.

That being said, she is a tough woman and would have killed herself trying in AK. Orphaned before Korean War and as a young child survived a walking escape from North Korean advance that resulted in the deaths of everyone at the orphanage except for her and 3 of the nuns. She than lived a rough life prior to marrying me. She loved to work though and often had several jobs at a time. Her last job before we moved to AZ was as a 65yo cook in a 5 person institutional kitchen putting out 3 meals a day for 1200 people in a field setting (trailers and tents).


To stay on topic, the view from our front porch in better weather.

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Boys got little helmets today. They both have slightly asymmetrical heads due to being very growth restricted in the womb. Helmets are for purely cosmetic reasons. They seem fine with them but it was a little heartbreaking seeing them both for the first time.
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Boys got little helmets today. They both have slightly asymmetrical heads due to being very growth restricted in the womb. Helmets are for purely cosmetic reasons. They seem fine with them but it was a little heartbreaking seeing them both for the first time. View attachment 7519954View attachment 7519955
Why are the helmets mirrored? Is that where their heads pressed together?
 
Boys got little helmets today. They both have slightly asymmetrical heads due to being very growth restricted in the womb. Helmets are for purely cosmetic reasons. They seem fine with them but it was a little heartbreaking seeing them both for the first time. View attachment 7519954View attachment 7519955
Yeah, it's where they were pressed together. My wife has an odd shaped uterus, which we didn't find out until the emergency c-section. Her odds of carrying twins that survived was less than one in 500 million.

Wow!!
Doctors dont always know much about odds.
they told my mom she would never live 36 years ago.
I just texted with her a little bit ago....

helmets look good.
hopefully they dont need em later like their dad... 😉🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

glad the boys are doing well. The helmets are cute. But I wont lie, as long as they arent hurt or sick, I will probably think that. Those two are adorable.
 
Wow!!
Doctors dont always know much about odds.
they told my mom she would never live 36 years ago.
I just texted with her a little bit ago....

helmets look good.
hopefully they dont need em later like their dad... 😉🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

glad the boys are doing well. The helmets are cute. But I wont lie, as long as they arent hurt or sick, I will probably think that. Those two are adorable.
She has a bicornuate uterus. Twins are extremely rare. It's the reason they were so early. Her uterus couldn't expand to accommodate them without separating from the uterine wall and causing a major bleed. It's also why the doc early on discussed potentially aborting Gus. They didn't think he'd make it and we might lose both.
 
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She has a bicornuate uterus. Twins are extremely rare. It's the reason they were so early. Her uterus couldn't expand to accommodate them without separating from the uterine wall and causing a major bleed. It's also why the doc early on discussed potentially aborting Gus. They didn't think he'd make it and we might lose both.

Glad you didn't listen to them!!
 
December 1984, trapline winding down for the year.
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Had sold several prior to photo to buy gas for the trapping rig, caught a few more after with snow sets. Snares at that time were not yet legal (don't get caught). When the snow got to deep, it simply didn't pay to to keep checking sets, time to pull stakes.

Trapping was all the rage back then, those few of us who had been doing for some time had a lot of beginners to trip over. Still caught fox. Moved off the farm in 87, never set another long line again. All those years and only caught one yote. Nowadays, that's about all there is, very few reds.

Good times.