Re: Excerpt: The Log Cabin: An Adventure - Chapt. 4

"Old Yooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:06:34 -0800, "why?" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >
> >"Gary S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:30:40 +0000, Peter Clinch
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey, cut the guy some slack.
> >>
> >> I'm sure his local cooper's shop was busy, and unable to provide a
> >> wooden barrel, as used by homesteaders of an earlier time. The poly
> >> drum is a modern equivalent.
> >>
> >> Homesteaders did have some technology of the time backing them up,
> >> especially being able to buy tools and supplies. If Len's project
> >> involved making all of those things from scratch, it would have taken
> >> far longer than 18 months.
> >>
> >> Happy trails,
> >> Gary (net.yogi.bear)
> >
> >
> >And his van was broken into while he was "homesteadibg:
>
> Wilderness. Ask him to define wilderness. Wilderness in the Lower
> Peninsula? Wilderness in the Upper Peninsula? Ask him.
>
> An Old Yooper
> >

His mailing address is Paradise, MI.  Apparently he lives near the shore of
Lake Superior in the UP.

Does it really matter?

signed,

Not a Yooper or Looper.