Fortos Fantasy Football: Week 1
What a wild week 1 of the NFL season and Forto’s Fantasy Football. After a tenacious lockout this summer we were all holding our breath hoping that a season would take place. We drafted our teams over Skype with half the league in Colorado and the other in Alaska. Tyler (Juneau) and I (Jinx) were […]
Stairway to Heaven?
Umm not quite. Maybe a stairway to a sanctuary. Or better yet stairway to the front door. This weekend, my son, Tyler and I finished the front steps on Fortos’ Fort. It was a project that I have wanted to do since the day I moved in over a year ago. Like all projects, this […]
Fortos’ Fort: Roof Removal on Kennel Building
In Alaska you can never have too much covered space! In a climate where it can get to be -20 to -40 degrees in the winter with snow drifts the size of small mountains, having a place to store your stuff is prime real estate. On the kennel building/barn there are several sections of the […]
Trails to end of the Earth
Our cabin, Fortos’ Fort, backs up to a magnificent series of trails that is any mushers, snow machiners, hunters, et. al’s dream. I think you could jump on these trails and they would take you to the end of the earth quite literally. I am standing in the middle of this vast expanse that is […]
The Rise of the Killer Squirrel
It all started innocently enough, I bought a little bird feeder this spring and began feeding the birds as the last of the snow began to melt up here in the Great White North. Some days there would be a couple dozen birds flying to and fro scooping up the cornucopia of seeds. About three […]