Diane K. Boyd
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610 appearances
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Okay. No electricity, no water. So for years I've lived without, and I haul water from the spring, and in the winter I melt the snow because we get a lot of snow. But three summers ago now, I was there alone, and I fell down the stairs, all the wooden stairs, and I broke the top of my foot. Whew.
And I said, you know, this isn't going to be very fun for a while because I got to close up the cabin and I have a propane fridge and stove and I got to undo the propane and empty the fridge. And I got a lot shorter because I'm not going to be back. I got a broken foot. So I'm hobbling around. And I said, OK. Now I'm going to get Starlink.
That was my motivator because if I had a phone, I could have called somebody for help, but I didn't and I couldn't. So after that, then I got on the Starlink. They were still in the beta development, I think. And anyway, I got on. So I have Starlink available to me at my cabin. But only when I choose to turn it on. It's not like if you were to email me or call me up there, you wouldn't get me.
And when I choose to turn it on, I get the messages. So it's kind of the best of both worlds. But I don't live there full time anymore. I live in town.
The new one that's got the router with it. It's incredible.
For better or worse?
I drilled a well. You did? I didn't hit water.
I did two, and I didn't hit water twice. But I'm on a creek. I sit on a bluff above a creek, and the water's about 90 to 100 feet straight below me. Oh. And I drilled my wells 140 feet. But it's a really interesting limestone shale in the water. I don't know how it works. I even had a guy witch it for me because I'm a scientist, but what the hell, it might work, right? So they witched the spot.
I didn't hit water.
Yeah. Divining rods? Is that what it is? Divining rods, yeah.
Like I said, I'm a scientist, but if it might help, why not? But I didn't hit water.
Two sticks, sometimes metal, but usually wood, like a willow or something.
I have to tell you. I don't know. And I'm kind of a skeptic on that stuff. But I had somebody do it and we didn't hit water. So it's okay.
It looks like he's got... Those are probably metal, like coat hangers or something. Whoops. Right there.
I don't know.
They crossed. And then, of course, but then they're going to go sink and do really well. It might be two feet. It might be 200 feet. I don't know.
You know, there may be people in the world who have some kind of a gift. Their electrical lights are different. I don't know how it works. I have been told that I can be a woman of science and superstition.
Yeah, but I'm not. Usually science wins.
I can think of twice only in my life, before I built my little cabin, I lived up this very, even more remote outpost called Moose City, loosely Moose City, because it was not a city at all. It was an old homestead with a lot of empty cabins. Twice up there, I got this feeling that there was something dangerous outside. Twice. And something just said to me, don't go outside.
And I'm not afraid of anything. I mean, I spent my life dealing with wolves and grizzly bears and angry humans. But I listen to those feelings because I don't know any different. Why not? Why not listen to it? Like, I think we have some primordial part of our brains. I don't know if you ever had that happen. Do you want to have been out walking or hunting?
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