The gun guy rabbit hole is an embarrassing time suck and subculture.

Get good at one rifle, learn to shoot a pistol, carry every day, get a plate, build a belt, train, and always always treat it just like another tool and never a hobby to collect against and shoot the shit endlessly.

You can lose at life very quickly by becoming a gun guy and surrounding yourself with gun guys. Same goes for preppers and doomsdayers.

Life is scary and there are better strategies for coping with that reality.

Trust God.

IMO just keep a few reliable guns in the house and car, and use VR video games to train your shooting skills. No need to waste ammo IRL these days. And you can get way more muscle memory using actual situations in VR versus targets

I was pretty happy to find out that the spaghetti squash that I thought I had perhaps harvested too early on account of powdery mildew that stopped the plants in their tracks in early September, ended up being more than sufficiently ripe, and baked up really nice. It came out with a fork in nice long strands, and the seasonings and spices I used worked out great. Olive oil, Garlic Plus, salt, pepper, paprika and a little brown sugar. 40 minutes at 400F.

Such an easy plant to grow, and yields a good amount of edible mass. Plus lots of seeds to use or toast up.

Two down, 14 still in storage. It’s hard to believe that with a vertical trellis, 16 squash only used 4ft square of bed space. The closer of the two trellises pictured were Long English Cucumbers.

#gardenstr

I hope that someone at APP eventually comes to the conclusion that any new Republic of Alberta needs to embrace a hard money standard or at least stay out of the way so we can grow the parallel system without capital gains taxes for spending.

Unfortunately my only in person conversation with APP’s CEO months ago about Bitcoin was met with talk of the usual normie FUD and “bananas taped to the wall.”

It’s amazing actually how many 60 somethings still have never read The Creature from Jekyll Island or ever even heard of Mises or even Ron Paul.

Yeah I’m pretty black pilled right now.

Yeah I used to walk down the sidewalk in my home town with my .22 rifle on the way to the creek valley I’d plink cans at or hunt small game. If someone did that today there’d be a SWAT team on the way from the city.

All that is required to tip the balance of power is 10 percent. We have that.

I remember a time when you could stand on the steps of any small town Alberta high school and look into the parking lot and see 5 or 6 shot guns proudly displayed on gun racks in the back of most pick ups.

It was a more prosperous and friendly world.

The police told us to take our shot guns down and if we ever had a problem that we just phone them and they would deal with it. They can't even remember that promise, but I do.

So since they can't keep their bargain as most times in "Canadian" history I wonder what is an appropriate response?

Is this what’s in Kellogg honey pops?

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It's the illegal aliens that are deficating in public. They have invaded Canada in troves

That's what changed, and they are the "people" mostly responsible for this.

Merry Christmas 🎄 🫂 💜

I haven’t figured out a way to solve the problem that allowed this to arise….complete lack of engagement in the political system among most of the working class, and lack of taking our leaders to task and making them answer hard questions every day and showing up at their constituency offices daily. It’s pretty hard to be civic minded and keep leaders accountable when you’re working a “50 is the new 40” job and using what little free time you have to push your life and your kids forward. That’s why freedom in a society always ends up cyclical. No one makes standing up a priority till the pain reaches a certain threshold, then everyone explodes in revolt. Maybe I’m making excuses, but I honestly didn’t know that the government was my enemy until I was well into parenthood. My parents never said shit about taxation, the monetary system, or the dangers of socialism when I was growing up. It’s like the slide has been so gradual and the collective awareness of the dire problems has proliferated so slowly that we are living in inevitable times.

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One of the most humanity affirming things I’ve ever done. I’ve never experienced so much fellowship and what it feels like when good people get behind a truth and justice. To walk around and freely insert yourself into conversations with any group, and instantly find yourself surrounded by brothers and sisters of the same mind. It really was electric. A buddy and I plastered his black crew cab with bright orange signage and two tall masts with Canadian flags, and we did a 5 dayer. One night on the worst roads and freezing rain imaginable doing 30km/h on the Deerfoot to get down, three nights freezing our asses off in the truck, then a nicer cruise home. At least 10 locals back home who wanted to go but couldn’t gave us enough cash before we left that it covered all of our food and fuel for the trip. I was so fired up after that experience I grabbed another buddy 3-4 weeks later and we drove to Ottawa. It took us 48 hours in even worse driving conditions over a three day period to get there, and we arrived right on the grounds of parliament just as the UN goons and the RCMP started cracking heads. We ended up spending most of the time at a trucker camp west of Ottawa in Arnprior. So many good people. That whole trip, including a super sketchy hotel and shower stop in downtown Saskatoon, all of our fuel and food, and a couple hole in the wall motel nights in Arnprior were all crowdfunded by people that reached out to us back home. One lady from the hospital gave us $800 because she couldn’t go herself. Others, a couple hundred or more. It was really touching and we were so humbled.

It is energy like I saw in Coutts and Ottawa that makes me think we may have a shot at Alberta separation. I’m cautiously optimistic however, based on the demographic in our two largest cities. And the dirty pool tactics that the media and the government will no doubt be coordinating against us. Just in case it needs to be said (and it doesn’t in present company), CBC, Global, CTV and any radio station owned by Standard Radio are not your friends. They were our biggest enemies during the protests. Same goes for the algo-driven social media platforms.

Haha! My friends !!! I spent so much time there a couple years back! The energy there was electric !

One of the most humanity affirming things I’ve ever done. I’ve never experienced so much fellowship and what it feels like when good people get behind a truth and justice. To walk around and freely insert yourself into conversations with any group, and instantly find yourself surrounded by brothers and sisters of the same mind. It really was electric. A buddy and I plastered his black crew cab with bright orange signage and two tall masts with Canadian flags, and we did a 5 dayer. One night on the worst roads and freezing rain imaginable doing 30km/h on the Deerfoot to get down, three nights freezing our asses off in the truck, then a nicer cruise home. At least 10 locals back home who wanted to go but couldn’t gave us enough cash before we left that it covered all of our food and fuel for the trip. I was so fired up after that experience I grabbed another buddy 3-4 weeks later and we drove to Ottawa. It took us 48 hours in even worse driving conditions over a three day period to get there, and we arrived right on the grounds of parliament just as the UN goons and the RCMP started cracking heads. We ended up spending most of the time at a trucker camp west of Ottawa in Arnprior. So many good people. That whole trip, including a super sketchy hotel and shower stop in downtown Saskatoon, all of our fuel and food, and a couple hole in the wall motel nights in Arnprior were all crowdfunded by people that reached out to us back home. One lady from the hospital gave us $800 because she couldn’t go herself. Others, a couple hundred or more. It was really touching and we were so humbled.

It is energy like I saw in Coutts and Ottawa that makes me think we may have a shot at Alberta separation. I’m cautiously optimistic however, based on the demographic in our two largest cities. And the dirty pool tactics that the media and the government will no doubt be coordinating against us. Just in case it needs to be said (and it doesn’t in present company), CBC, Global, CTV and any radio station owned by Standard Radio are not your friends. They were our biggest enemies during the protests. Same goes for the algo-driven social media platforms.

Ever been to Coutts? I went there for a little get together near the border once lol ;)

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A buddy just took this whitetail in my hometown.

#huntstr

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It's also great tinder for starting a fire.

If it’s safe for inside apartments why are the sprayer guys wearing full suits and mask

I didn't know about this, until now. How am I not surprised? Oh Canada!

Ok now I am going to bed

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What a deal 🤯

This turned out well.

Water, salt, sugar, sriracha, soy sauce, pepper, garlic, and thyme. 2 days brining, 3 hours with alder.

Quick story about taking my young boys camping for the first time..

Little backstory: the only show on TV that we watch in our house is 'Alone', where 10 contestants get dropped in the bush with 10 items to see who can last the longest. My 2 young sons both especially like the show and have been wanting to go backcountry camping for the first time so they can pack their 10 items and give it a go.

Also about a year ago I found a kids book called "Adventures in Big Thicket" that they've been reading before bed for months. It combines southeast Texas folklore with the wisdom of Solomon, and tells tales of a variety of woodland and marsh animal characters.

So for the younger one's birthday we made the 4+ hour trek to the Big Thicket in eastern Texas to camp and look for some of their favorite creatures from the book.

The timing wasn't great since it's summer and the humidity was almost 100%, all of the creeks and rivers were in flood state bc of so much rain, but we had a great time!

We searched for gators, my older son ran over a snake on his bike (and spotted a bunch of others), we made an all night fire with soggy wood and cooked barbacoa tacos

We found carnivorous plants (4 of the 5 species of north America are there)

Aftet a few nights we ended up coming home with about 100 mosquito and chigger bites, and finally found a gator the last day (the boys named it Old Gus like from the book). They were so stoked!

I'll say they took the good and the bad parts in stride, and we plan to go back in fall hunting season and bring bows & arrows. Any camping from here on will feel like glamping to them lol

Upon return we had a birthday party for the younger one with all his friends. The boys kissed the floor of the house when they walked in, and had a whole new appreciation for air conditioning and bug/reptile free spaces :)

#camping #bigthicket #dadstr #alone #storytime