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[The Rubber Room Hotel]

Greetings from the Rubber Room Hotel!

 I am located in Manley Hot Springs, Alaska.  (165 miles from fresh milk)

I live outside of town off the grid, with battery banks, inverters, generators, solar panels and thank the good Lord Satellite dishes.

We (husband and I) live a semi- subsistence lifestyle, being hunters and gatherers and gardeners and all that.  We have sled dogs and pet dogs and cockatiels and rescued homing pigeons.

 I love politics! (This is when the attendants get out the white coat with the long sleeves and buckles)

I believe in community service and serve on the local school board and community association. (Attendants get concerned that I will start banging head against padded wall)

About the same time George Bush got coroneted president the attendants started using words like thorizine when referring to my daily meds.

I have been off the thorizine now since Nov 4, 2008 although when mention of Sarah Palin comes up the attendants bring zanax.

I have been reading the forum and mudflats for a while and decided it was time to dive in.

[sweetlucy47]

   Rubber room

Glad to have you with us here I live just above you in the Show Me State...

[Aeroentropy]

Is there a spare padded cell there for me??

Welcome!  Welcome!

Hope you're keeping your batteries warm...

[Alex]

  RRH!

I've always wanted to meet someone who's really off the grid... and I think you qualify!

I'm curious to know about your set-up out there and how well you're able to provide for the electricity, heat, internet, etc.

Looking forward to reading your posts, also.  Too.  (Oops... hope that didn't trigger more thorazine!)

[pj]

  HHR

er...are you one of them community organizer types? ya know, like the one that whupped those rebublican non-community organizers? 

Glad you stopped in...hope you can stick around for awhile! 

[pj]

HHR

er...are you one of them community organizer types? ya know, like the one that whupped those rebublican non-community organizers? 

Glad you stopped in...hope you can stick around for awhile! 

My sincere apology for getting your name wrong...RRH was what I meant to type.
My daily dose of thorazine must have just been kicking in...ya know, the whole finger twitch thing...got it bad 

[The Rubber Room Hotel]

Thanks for the welcome folks.
I am a rookie at this so please excuse errors. This stuff does take some time to figure out.

pj, yup, that be me, one ove them volinteers that causes so much trouble.

Aeroentropy, plenty of room up here,  but the padded rooms are reserved way in advanced. There are plenty of other accomodations available all depending on your personal choice of mental care.

Alex, Well living off the grid takes a cretain kind of crazy. When we first built our home we had hoped to be able to connect to the local power grid, but that was not to be. (long story but might be a good thread) But when building our home (cabin) we did wire it for electricity. We have gone through many different types of generators over the years and have learned a few valuable lessons (expensive) over the years. But mostly it is just one improvement at a time and listening to old timers and learning.
I will say that things I could live without when I was younger, is different than what I am willing to live without any more.
( My wish list includes a indoor toilet)

[Deuce2 AL Renegade]

Hi RRH:     How on earth did you happen to choose that handle????????? It is quite interesting however...
Welcome to the KINGDOM and I hope you enjoy your stay..I know where you are comin' from with
the indoor toilet.....I was a freshman in high school before we got one of them thar things.......WV in
1965 believe it or not....

[TiredMom]

   RRH!   

You sound like you will fit right in. Look forward to reading your posts.

[Alex]

RRH,

Did you include any passive solar features when you built your cabin?  I was reading recently about someone who built a passive solar house in Colorado (at 7 or 8,000 feet) and his heating & cooling bills are less than $100 per year!

[CO Almost Native]

You fit right in, RRH

We have a similar type of accommodation here in Colorado: Fort Logan (old army base) Mental Hospital.  When I was teaching, our department used to fight for time-out in the padded room (must escape the children, at least temporarily )

Looking forward to hearing more from you...

[CO Almost Native]

RRH,

Did you include any passive solar features when you built your cabin?  I was reading recently about someone who built a passive solar house in Colorado (at 7 or 8,000 feet) and his heating & cooling bills are less than $100 per year!

Yes, there are several houses like that; one I've been in up at Genessee, outside Denver on the way to the mountains.  Friends of ours are building a zero energy house- I'm jealous, and banker husband shudders when I mention it

[The Rubber Room Hotel]

Alex, we did a few things and my house has lots of big windows. But when building a house in the Arctic, solar only works 6 months of the year. When it is light out alll the time your electric needs change some. And when it is dark most of the day in the winter solar isn't much use.

As to my name well.
When I was a kid people said things like "are you crazy?" or "what are you nuts?"..

After I moved to Alaska and settled in the middle of no where it was "you do what outside at -50 below you must be crazy"?

Then this guy from Homer Alaksa Tom (we will leave the lights on for you) Bodett wrote a book called the "End of the Road"
it is very funny and describes life at the end of the road in a small community in Alaska filled with various characters and well... crazy people.

I was working at a local hotel bar at the time (only bar for 165 miles) and figured I should write my own about some of my waco neighbors, bar patrons, hotel regulars and road, fishing and mining crews and our more colorful tourists.
The Rubber Room Hotel was born........
All names were changed to protect everyones offspring.

[Alex]

D'oh!  I guess I neglected to consider what would happen when the extremes of sunshine/night get so extreme...

[califpat]

   RRH:
Believe me you are in good company. You certainly live an interesting life. I look forward to reading your posts. I am hollering at you from Southern California. 

[Sirenoftitan]

  RRH

Looking forward to hearing more from you.

[northofdenali]

Hello, fellow Interior maniac!  (There are days I wonder why I live here........then there's the Yukon Quest and the Midnight Sun.....)

You're fortunate to have a padded room.  My poor spouse has to surround me with sleeping cats (6 at last count) and large, fluffy quilted pillows.......... oh.  Wait.  I think that's one and the same....

PM me when you're next coming into town - we'll have coffee at McCafferty's!
 

[Jamie]

  to you The Rubber Room Hotel! Great to have another great outdoorsman woman!. We love those pioneer types! Can't wait to hear some of what comes out of the Rubber Room after spending so much time cogitating politics, life and Sarah Palin.

[the problem child]

Welcome RRH!  Great to have more writers here!

[Forty Watt]

We have gone through many different types of generators over the years and have learned a few valuable lessons (expensive) over the years. But mostly it is just one improvement at a time and listening to old timers and learning.

   I'm sure a lot of us would like to hear more.  We have a Living Green thread.  I imagine you have plenty to share on that topic.   http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,2274.0.html

I will say that things I could live without when I was younger, is different than what I am willing to live without any more.
( My wish list includes a indoor toilet)

An outside toilet might be a little too green for me.