Sonday and domestic duties
so not much too add to things. Laundry already out of the way, little things needed here at the homestead.
Mower pulled a fast one on me yesterday. Was using it to mulch up all the leaves that poplar had dropped in my yard, when suddenly ‘just quit’. Went to restart and noted the carb had came loose and had a bolt hanging out in the air away from the block. Yeah, they don’t run when all they suck in is air. That fuel thing is kind of important to the suck, squish, bang, blow busyness model. A fourstroke engine doesn’t make a very good compressor (valve timing is all wrong for that.)
Some links provided by commenter Honestly233,,, go check ’em out
Keep in mind your inner peace. ALWAYS. The less inner peace we have, the worse the world becomes. The two are tied together, I am convinced of it. This weekend has been, not just me busting my hump on things around the stead, but bustin’ me noggin’ trying to figure out why my shit is falling apart. It’s that inner peace thing. The more uptight I get about the Bills, the worse my income gets. And I can track it!!! Bad feels about the bills, the next week is ALWAYS a weak week. The harder I think of ‘work-arounds’ the less likely they are to pay off. I need to relax, and
GET OFF THE NETS FOR A BIT.
Today is 30 straight days of posting for me. I hope y’all are getting something from my missives. I do, even if its just a chance to air my thoughts, see them in print and straighten my butt out. (correction 31 straight days,,,,)
Like dad said to me this morning, discussing his latest grocery store trip. 4 Kiwi fruit, $1.99EACH, and he was saying how the things grow on vines, and the people that collect them up might only make a nickle per,,, I said, “between them, the buyers, the shipping, the wholesalers, the end distributors, yeah,,, everyone makes a nickle a peice, and we pay mad money for not much of anything. And its only gonna get worse Da. Things in the world are taking turns and NO ONE knows when the bottom drops out.“
Its that shit right there that is disturbing my inner wonderful happy self,,, (wha? you thought I was grump 24/7/365? Shame, Shame,,, I’m actually a nice guy! when I wanna be ) I try, but getting away from it is nigh impossible most days. Unless I turn the phone off, stay at home and bury my head in the sand,,,, That ain’t gonna happen anytime soon. and when it DOES happen, It’s likely that EVERYONE is gonna be in the same boat, and without choice: no nets, no infrastructure, no power, no fuels,,,
Maybe, in some small way, a collapse would be good for the sanity of this hooman race,,, and we are ‘race’,,, we race here, there, everywhere, but unlike ants, we have no coordination. and it shows.
ANywuzzabangerbubz,,,, I has a lawnmower that demands my attention, a redoak laying in the woods that needs pulled up where I can get at better, and a list that never seems to get smaller,,, (Hi B! I feel ya brudda!)
Its back to the mines tomorrow (FIngers crossed) and more trying to figure out how to make end A meet End B, and not tie a knot in End C to do it… I got this,, it just might not be all that comfortable
Y’all take care, Loves ya!!!
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Side effects,,,,
Between the Carnivore diet (Lots of extra energy, clearer thinking) and BLOO-Twuck, and maybe more thinkin’ time on my hands with longer nights,,, I find my mind RACING along “CREATE” modes.
Just the last week, the desire to build another Kayak has been on my ‘resting’ mind, as well as another ‘hobby’ from even further back: BOWS.
FYI, I spend about an hour a night on the Erg, and I spend another 30 minutes or so bending bows, throwing arrows (IF the light is good, some evenings this gets left out for lighting reasons.) There are other things I do to keep my physique tuned (and they are ALL getting easier as the fat rolls off the middle and other areas,,,) but those two have the added bonus of getting creations going.
I want to build a new Greenland style boat, but not a skin on frame. I DO want to use the skin on frame as my ‘plug’, but I want a composite boat. Thinking the old design that I used on Serena as my plug to build from. Being a plug, I can cut some corners (no need of 20+ ribs) and use cheaper materials for the frame.
But the BOW,,,, That one, that is getting wilder and wilder in my head. 54″ horse bow, Hungarian Style, Composite limbs. And to break from tradition, a center cut body and molded grip. Use Beech for the Siyahs as I like the extremely fine grain of it (and its stronger than Oak in some ways, without the weight of Oak.) Thinking 45-50# draw weight at 28″ (my usual draw length) Not super-bow weights, but legal to use for hunting in all but one of the 50 states ( I Believe Alaska requires at least 50+ and depending on WHAT you are hunting, I can understand why. Wouldn’t want to piss off a Grizz by poking it with a sharp stick and NOT drive that sharp stick DEEP inside.)( I seem to remember Fred Bear took a Kodiak with one of his recurves weighted at 70# and swore he wouldn’t try again with anything less.)
Why a Horse bow? There is something about the way they look,,, Sexy and deadly at the same time. Think Cupids Bow and you have a good idea of the shape they take when strung.
When they aren’t strung, they have this crazy forward lean that defies normal tillering concepts like those used in Long bows or American Recurves. BUT more than that, I like their “Snap”. Because the way the Siyahs shorten the actual string length on release, they have a snap that compares to that of a Compound bow. really REALLY fast arrows, Faster than with a Recurve and makes the speed from a longbow seem like a slow truck. Fast arrows shoot flatter. Fast arrows can beat the “jump” that can frustrate a hunter. (Deer will jump if they hear a bow ‘snap’, and sometimes, that jump is enough to cause a full MISS.)
But Dio, why not just buy a compound and get all the bells and whistles of ‘sights’ and fast arrows, and adjustable draw weights? BECAUSE, those things can break, and leave you walking out of the woods pissed off. Sights can get thrown out of adjustment in a slip-sliding traverse of a gulley, AND, I have always been something of a traditionalist when it comes to bows. Carrying an 8# bow??? May as well be carrying a rifle, and if I am going that route, a rifle would be prefered,,, (also, I don’t stand hunt, I stalk: an 8# bow with all the other gear I carry,,, UGH!)(most compounds use metal for the main body, that metal can numb your hands with a quickness. Wood bodied (even composite made) are ‘warm’ and won’t freeze your digits off.)
But a bow, a traditional style bow (even if using modern composites and techniques) will work, everytime, leaving the ‘well that didn’t go as expected’ to my form and and release. And there is a certain satisfaction to be had when you make that 70yd shot, straight to the ribcage, with nothing but a “stick and string”. (I make my own strings too. There are a couple of posts from way back when, when I was making bows from PVC pipe and fishing string. I really like the braided strings for the serve and the monofiliment for the wrappings. Makes for one TOUGH string, AND, as survival tool, I always make two strings for a bow: one reason being, strings can get broken, but also, I have about 15-20 yards of high test fishing line in one string, if things get really desperate.)
Will I make either? Or both? Time will tell. Right now, my finances are all tied up in paying the bills, and getting BLOO-Twuck running. Then, paying off all the debt getting BLOO-Twuck running. Once that is out of the way, will see. BUT THE MIND NEVER STOPS,,,,
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Mindless ramble podcast
No intro/outro music, just me jabberin’way,,,, Enjoy,,, Mirrored on my sub stack
Backstage at the Workshop
I must admit, there is a certain amount of ‘discomfort’ for me, when it comes to this podcast thingie,,, I have never been one for the limelight: thats why I chose the support field of Audio Production over ‘bein’ on stage’.
T’was a muhnday,
and like a muhnday, it managed to get right around me a’fore I could wrangle that beastie down. Didn’t get much of anything accomplished.
Apologies to y’all for not posting something,,, then again, I did put up quite a bit of content over the weekend, so t’ain’t like ya didn’t have anything to chew on,,,
(more…)Freeday!
its that time of year again, things are slowin’ up in the J.O.B.
So yesterday, Son of Bossman came by my site where I was with a crew putting up decorative fencing and let us know that ‘don’t worry about coming in tomorrow. Text dad and let him know when you cut loose so he can cut your checks for you.”
sigh,,, Was rather lookin’ forward to a full week, or nearly full week.
(more…)Listening
“By listening, one will learn truths: by ‘hearing’ one will only learn half truths.”
Corollary: By speaking, one only reinforces ones half truths. (you must listen as well)
Doing MUCH MUCH listening of late
don’t like what I am hearing.
Not mine to like you might say; ‘is what it is,,,’ (Gah!!! How I hate that saying!)
Camping weekend ahead,,, short one as I am not leaving until the J.O.B. is wrapped up tomorrow, whenever that may be.
AAAAaaaannnnndddddd
in serious consideration of leaving the phone in the Buffalo on the charger: don’t/won’t need it and DO NOT want the weekend spoiled by things. I very much need the distraction of friends
and WATER TIME.
Already had one good weekend shot to hell with a single phone call,,,, Don’t wanna let it become a trend. If’n some one needs me, they can wait until I ‘log back in’ to the matrix,,, Short of the world blowin’ up (which I think even disconnected, would know about) nothing will happen that can’t wait until such time as I am back in grid.
Y’all take care, keep on livin’, give a good laugh at the decline and keep pissin’em off by refusing to give up.
Dio's Workshop 