Morning,
Sipping tea, fire going, awaiting dawn..
Went over a couple days ago to visit family in Buruca Indian reserve. It's one of my favorite places. Collected a few rocks, was looking for chert, but no signs of such in the sands of Rio Changuena, but I did find a couple cool specimens, one iron pirite crystals in a vein, another perhaps molibnium crystals in a gray stone.
And I got a couple hunks of really hard and fine grained basalt. Tried the basalt when I got home for sparking, and it does spark, but don't think I'd want to have to light a fire with the stuff unless I had gas or something.
Also got some tree seeds, Teak, Guanacaste, something else that animals can eat the seeds of, and a tree that covers the ground in Kapok like fluff.
I used the kapok stuff to demonstrate a misch metal stick to the Indians, they were blown away, got really excited.. Also showed them my mini fire piston but didn't take lube, so couldn't do a good demonstration...
The motor was evidently on the fritz for the fiberglass panga, so I got to cross the river in a large dugout paddled by an Indian to get across the Terraba, I was happy.. Prefer the more primitive experiences...
Was fun to show the Indians bushcraft stuff, and my bushcraft knife, one wanted me to make and sell him one, I refused, but told him I'd teach him if he wanted.. That was too much for him, Decadent Indian! Gone white, wants to use money instead of making something he wanted..
So, I will get the tree seeds into a nursery bed soon, and hopefully get one of the fluff trees going, it lit really good from spark. Would be nice to have going on the farm, for when the shit hits the fan, just gather and bag the stuff, and be able to light fire with flint and steel all year..
Would also make good stuffing for beds or pillows etc. pretty cushy stuff, not a lot of mechanical strength, but a bush crafter could make nice bedding with it..
Perhaps it would felt, and you could do a blanket?
I made a mini digging bar recently out of a small crowbar, hacksawed off the hooked end, and forged out a flat wide end, and ground a point on the other, got the idea from a Ray Mears video, on you tube, was a downsized version of one some aboriginal used for digging for roots and water.
Finding it to be a very handy little tool.
Have other stuff to dig roots, and still have water in the spring,
But I like the tool and it's sized to go into my refugee gear tool kit...
When I was at the Panama border a week plus ago, saw a new type of kids shovel, a flat scooping blade, thinking about getting one to use to clean my fire pit ashes out with.. Looked like a handy mate to the other round nose I got awhile back..
Was funny bringing the round nose home, everybody asked me why I bought it, told them a camping shovel..
I've been surprised at how much I use it. Way handy for whatever small hole.
Suspect it will get used more than any shovel I have. Minimalistic things are like that, small things get used more than big ones..
What I am learning overall, is that if one heads for a minimalistic neoindigenous lifestyle there are a lot of dividends, wouldn't want a real house now, definitely will be happier in a yurt/tipi cross, less bullshit, regular houses require a lot of labor to maintain..
So I find not having a refrigerator or bathroom to clean to be a liberating thing..
Basically people buy stuff because they think they need what's normal, and over look the simpler cheaper options...
And the banks, building departments, and construction companies make a lot of money, people enslaved for a lifetime of payments just because they can't think outside the box...
I wouldn't even consider it now. I know better.. Although it took being poor to break me out of the mental paradigm...
Better a poor man in a tropical paradise, than a rich man in a cold climate city..
And that's something the bush crafter types need to figure out. That they have options that would allow their skills to be turned into a lifestyle that liberated them permanently from the rat race...
And would also improve their chances of survival by thousands of times in WW3....
I wouldn't want to have to try to stay warm and fed in a cold climate after the collapse.. Would be really hard.. Don't think you'd live to be very old just due to the stresses...
But here, I can buy stuff that gives me everything I need, and do it on a micro budget..
The trick is in realizing what you don't need.. And figuring out the incredible power of minimalism...
If you don't like the technocult and being a trapped rat. Buying a hunk of land someplace sunny and warm and setting it up to live simple is the preferred option...
Doesn't take much land, 5 acres will grow all the food you need, and land in the brush is still cheap. Third world county outback is very affordable to anyone with a job in the first world.. What's key, is in not having too much... 5 acres, a shack, well, and solar panel, and call it home, plant food trees on about half, garden and grow staples on the other half. Forever free.. And all for the price of a new econo car... Everything...
I'm collecting parts to put my mountain bike back together, then going to get a little 49cc motor on it.. Will be fine transportation in the tropics, and no need of all the bureaucratic crap... Would Lilly cost me more to get a drivers license, pay registration, insurance, etc. than the motor will cost, and you don't move a foot for the money, and it just feeds the beast government...
I live in a runt country, the size of a large county in Oregon. I can go anywhere in the country on a motorized bike in a day...
Camp, do what ever, and motor home...
What would I need a car for?
The truth is this; you're most likely trapped in the first world by some woman...
There are women here, fairly reasonable.. Ten dollars gets you laid anywhere in the third world..
So it doesn't make much sense to be a slave in the rat race for some slimy hole with a total bitch around it..
They're way over priced.. All they want is a lifetime slave to fulfill their every vanity and to treat like shit while saying they love you...
Wake up fool...
Get rid of her, live cheap for a year or two, and collect some tools and bug out before the shit hits instead of after...
A guy doesn't need much, can live fine gardening year round...
Let the bitch support her own vanity.
She thinks all she needs to survive is a victim.. Let that not be you...
If you get into subsistence, and have a shack and a garden going, some third world woman will decide that's better than going hungry or living with her parents...
And is probably better looking than an over fed white woman anyway...
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