tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53700703520882145312011-12-30T14:01:29.052-08:00Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.comBlogger3571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-72007200836246738462011-12-30T14:01:00.001-08:002011-12-30T14:01:29.238-08:00Afternoon,<br>its been awhile since I could get online,  but I just got loaned an apple Ifone, which I need to get programmed, and then I will<br>be able to resume blogging etc.  so I should be back up within a week or two....<br> <br>we have started the dry season here,  about time!  living in a rain forest is nice, but one tires of constant daily rains...<br><br>also I should soon be  able to send fotos etc. to post on this blog sites archives, and make it more interesting....<br> <br>well, sounds like things arent getting any better in the US etc.  and  world war three coming over the horizon at us...<br><br>I have been working on some bushcraft projects,  did a small knife using only hand tools,  with a sheath,  both together cost less than $10......<br> <br>anyway, just wanted to leave a note here about soon being  back up online on a daily basis...  hope to be writing blog again soon..  take care folks!<br><br>G!<br> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7200720083624673846?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-21529776992301497392011-11-21T09:29:00.001-08:002011-11-21T09:29:11.521-08:00<div>morning,</div> <div> </div> <div>in town, and have access online..</div> <div> </div> <div>Have been searching alot of things, from bushcraft skills, to archeology sites...</div> <div> </div> <div>on the bushcraft skills, I see alot of mistakes,  and after having lived  some 20 plus years in the brush, the last 16 full time and no day job,</div> <div>I was able to spot some things..</div> <div> </div> <div>first on my mind, is people carrying things in manners they can be lost,  I see alot of that,  in a survival situation, expedient access to most items,</div> <div>is not more important than trying not to lose them...  hachets slipped into the outsides of packs, that arent lashed securely are as good as lost after any time</div> <div>traveling through brush...  nor would I leave a lanyard hanging out to pull an item out of a pocket with, unless that lanyard was tied to the pack etc...</div> <div> </div> <div>I also see alot of price gouging, $400 rucksacks, and $300 small knives... my suggestion is make it yourself....</div> <div>use the money saved for further upgrades in tools etc..</div> <div> </div> <div>another thing I notice, is no one seems to be thinking about what if the survival situation is open ended?  having bushcraft tools is really just a start...</div> <div> </div> <div>I wouldnt want to live without a full sized axe,  or full sized cooking gear, or a brace and bitt, and alot of other things, tools for agriculture etc.....</div> <div> </div> <div>brushcraft is good to know, it is good to have a collection of fundamental and smaller tools,  but there comes a time one might like to do more than live under a lean-to shelter, and look for bugs...</div> <div> </div> <div>And that next step is something I have been thinking about for years...  and is part of what got me thinking in neoindigenous terms..</div> <div> </div> <div>so what do you do as a post collapse refugee? hang out in the lean-to, or start using ambient resources to improve your life one step at a time?</div> <div> </div> <div>I notice the archeologists have missed some logic, they have our ansestors mixing daub for plastering housing in pits doing heavy labor...</div> <div> </div> <div>meanwhile a few feet away in the animal yard, the cattle have been doing the same mix of clay,manure, straw, hair, etc., all year long...</div> <div> </div> <div>what would you do? spend days mixing up special daub in large quantities, or just go mine the barnyard?</div> <div> </div> <div>see how scientists are?</div> <div> </div> <div>I have also been researching hillforts, and have learned alot... like that they were a predominant lifestyle for much of humanity for thousands of years, and that the ditches were up to 30 feet deep and straight sided, what we see today is muchly filled in...</div> <div> </div> <div>what that means, is the defenses of the inhabitants were much better than we might imagine.. allowing for a life not requiring taxation to support a force of doughnut eaters in patrol cars...  basically our early ansestors could have done rotating watches,  and everyone could have slept safer than in an urban city in the technocult...</div> <div> </div> <div>I suspect from what I have seen, that stone and iron age humans had a better life than modern man has in real terms, community instead of vanity...</div> <div> </div> <div>I also watched some homeless community videos...  and heard people discussing the same things I have realized getting out of the techno cult... truth is universal...</div> <div> </div> <div>now on towards my point;  when do camp improvements using ambient resources change into community or faamily farmsteads, and how do you get there?</div> <div> </div> <div>well this is why I was searching the hillforts and archetecture of prehistoric times, to see if what I have thought about was correct...  that one would begin building with stone and clay mortar, poles and split rails, and some sort of thatch or split shingles... and one would build food storage granarys etc..</div> <div> </div> <div>my point being, that if you are just thinking to bushcraft, and stopping there,  you are losing the opportunity to have a longer range plan.. and if your tools dont include pickhoes, wheelbarrows, axes, etc. you may have to rediscover how your stone age relatives did things minus the cheap and available now tools...</div> <div> </div> <div>I see the past as a mine of skills and knowlege for the future and what is coming....</div> <div> </div> <div>and in fact, given the time and opportunity I will head that direction,  just as I have been doing without really knowing it...</div> <div> </div> <div>if I have some luck in economics, good chance I will turn it into decent housing etc.  but limit myself to neoindigenous,  ie build with stone etc., and also work towards simple fortification at every opportunity...</div> <div> </div> <div>I also ran into a foto searching images; german hill forts, of one that had been used as a missile launching test site, and had been heavily bombed by the allies..</div> <div>to little effect... while a fancy castle would have been rubbled...</div> <div> </div> <div>so its the earthworks fortifications that could be just a starting point for one&#39;s landscaping,  could help protect you and yours even from serious destruction, not to mention raiders who are at the present time arrogant reality denyers....</div> <div> </div> <div>so I make a suggestion; that you think about what I am saying, do some searching yourself, and at least get a concept of what it should look like, so you know how to get there...</div> <div> </div> <div>personally, if I can, I will use modern machinery to do major amounts of excavation... and in the interim,  any dirt work I do will head the direction I now can envision very clearly....</div> <div> </div> <div>its a fun hobby being a  prepper type,  and gives me an opportunity to be creative... not to mention live outside of the modern credit slavery paradigm...</div> <div> </div> <div>and if I am wrong about the future, at least I have had fun, and if I am right, at least I will be well prepared and maybe even able to thrive and help others...</div> <div> </div> <div>I also searched stone age agriculture videos and watched a few... and learned some things...</div> <div> </div> <div>Anyway, what I seem to have personally, is a now rare level of experience living in the brush, and that most of the popular experts are either holding down day jobs, or are rich kid types doing things they get to go back to the upscale life from afterwards...</div> <div> </div> <div>both of those groups have taught me things, but I think I could teach them alot also...</div> <div> </div> <div>personally I would never consider a permanent day job,  or a ranch style house, or make myself a slave of my own materialistic desires....</div> <div> </div> <div>nor join up with a woman who thought I should go there for her...</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, my point is, that people need to combine the bushcraft, stone age landscaping and construction, agriculture, and homelessness into a unified concept, and not hang out in one form of Babylon or another until too late...</div> <div> </div> <div>G! </div> <div> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2152977699230149739?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-13347767074662959122011-11-16T08:30:00.001-08:002011-11-16T08:30:27.045-08:00<div>morning,</div> <div> </div> <div>staying in town at the moment, for a few days, playing stand in father..</div> <div> </div> <div>for a bunch of girls who havnt had a good example of male influence..</div> <div>making progress, but its slow and difficult..  but I do know how to get results...</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, have been learning the ropes some on line,  watching you tube videos in my areas of interests, and learning what the norm is on planet..</div> <div> </div> <div>I see that there are alot of people getting into minimalistic camping, called &quot;bushcraft&quot;,  and its got a community going, thats international in scope and non racial etc.</div> <div>People are learning skills.. making their own gear, and doing it with one of the desired criteria being low cost...</div> <div> </div> <div>and then going out into the woods and mountains to learn and practice there...</div> <div> </div> <div>after which they report on line to others...  this is really important and good..  even city people are involved, and working on gear and projects in their appartments,  and then finding their local wild</div> <div>areas for the putting in practice part...   sure alot better than watching TV 24 hours a day, and thinking life is being rich enough to dance all the time...</div> <div> </div> <div>truth is, primitive cultures have more and better liesure time...</div> <div> </div> <div>I have been showing the girls and their mother things online, and getting them to grasp that its fun to camp out, work in the garden, and make things that are pretty and useful with their own hands...</div> <div> </div> <div>My girlfriend got really excited watching some of the bushcraft videos, gardening stuff etc...</div> <div> </div> <div>freedom is in the hills and deserts and wild places...</div> <div> </div> <div>and she instantly realized that I was way ahead of the curve, and she wants to start doing videos for you tube of the stuff I do, and the skills and  concepts I have to teach...</div> <div> </div> <div>So I am using the internet as a resource to aid in reprogramming a small tribe of females,  and getting them out into the brush, in a culture where women never camp...</div> <div> </div> <div>Part of why it works well, is they see its fun and not something abnormal.. that the rest of the world does it...</div> <div> </div> <div>these last few days, have been teaching them how to do yeast breads in the casa..  and that they can have ten times more bread for the same money, as buying it in the corner store.. and also that is twice the nutrition of rice...</div> <div> </div> <div>got one daughter making a batch of bread alone today, they went thru five pounds yesterday...  she&#39;s jazzed, because she got to take bread to school last night, that she made herself..</div> <div> </div> <div>it created a bit of a stir..</div> <div> </div> <div>as home bread making is a lost art in this culture of tortillas...   people buy all their breads, and think you have to go to school or something to be able to bake....</div> <div> </div> <div>So it was quite the shock for all the teachers and students to try home made yeast breads...  also the boughten breads here tend to be dry and tasteless, and mostly air..  </div> <div> </div> <div>so fresh yeast bread got their attention...</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, shes doing fine on her bread alone today...  likely be baking this afternoon, and have hot bread for mom when she comes home from work...</div> <div> </div> <div>and the girls do love the bread...  its not an everyday thing, in a house with 5 females living off one third world income....</div> <div>also I have an objective,  that when I take them into the brush, that they already have a repretoir of skills...  my guess is theyll burn some bread learning to cook over wood fires...</div> <div> </div> <div>I also will start doing some projects in front of them, making outdoor gear etc. here in town...  they will like that.. seeing me turn available resources into pretty things with serious utility value..</div> <div> </div> <div>I am also thinking of projects that I can do videos of, I see some things that are missing in the bushcraft video world....</div> <div> </div> <div>and I really want to do my best to assist the city people types to learn and do...</div> <div> </div> <div>this is important in whats coming...   and when the shit hits, they will set off with their packs, whistling a tune, happy they dont have to be slaves anymore...</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, the best info is searched at the word bushcraft...  and there one can learn that you dont need or want snob camping gear..</div> <div> </div> <div>so anyway, Im feeling good, see some hope for more people...</div> <div> </div> <div>its like I told an indigenous friend in front of a bunch of latins, that when the shit hit,  from then on, we were all going to be indigenous....</div> <div>it got some shocked looks from the Ticos, as they think indigenous people are second class humans and treat them accordingly....</div> <div> </div> <div>so, it will make my job alot easier to rewild some girls...  the videos are breaking down their culturally induced resistances...</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, if you want to survive, and or are tired of playing your unpleasant part in the white slavery reality..  work on your gear and skills,  and go try them out... start small, a couple days in the brush, play with your hobby,  and get really good, so when the collapse comes, you can help others....</div> <div> </div> <div>have a good day, and look forward to becoming a better human..</div> <div> </div> <div>G!</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-1334776707466295912?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-81012084913039679182011-10-25T10:51:00.001-07:002011-10-25T10:51:18.157-07:00<div>morning, </div> <div> </div> <div>in town, will be heading back into the brush tomorrow..</div> <div>looking forward to the tranquility and being able to do my things..</div> <div> </div> <div>also packing some survival loot from the technocult..  a few items...</div> <div>will be nice to have the plastic buckets..   thinking to start buying plastic tool boxes next trip to Panama,</div> <div>want to get things as organized as possible, so I can have more breathing room in my shelter..</div> <div> </div> <div>one thing at a time relentlessly working towards my preparedness goals..</div> <div> </div> <div>and will start working on stuff to build a fire piston,  and be able to light fires on days too cloudy for a lens, or even at night..</div> <div>will be fun to play around with, and learn the skills, and work on some new habits, keeping dry tinder etc.. will take me a big step farther from reliance on the technocult,  with something that will fit into my refugee kit...</div> <div> </div> <div>thinking I have a long 3/8&#39;s stainless bolt in my stash, to use for the piston, will have to wait a couple of weeks until next town trip, to look for some copper tubing to fit, and an O ring..  then  will make a wooden shaft to fit the tube into..  also thinking to do a brass wire bail as a keeper for the plunger, and will do some kind of lanyard attachment point for the whole device..  I like to tie my survival stuff as much as possible to the bags etc..  so it doesnt get lost in a tumble.. or fall out of a pocket..</div> <div> </div> <div>when I can find the stuff, will likely make several smaller units,  and scatter them around in things like my bow quiver, maybe do a downsized version to go on key chain... so that the chances of having one at any given time are increased..</div> <div> </div> <div>I have a stainless can for tinder..  will likely put the charred cloth into a plastic bag inside of it, due to the ambient humidity of the rain forest..</div> <div>in the smaller kits use a plastic bottle perhaps.. here one has to be very careful keeping things dry, even the bakelite handles of kitchen knives will grow fungus...  </div> <div> </div> <div>as do the rubber handles on tools etc..</div> <div> </div> <div>also hoping to afford more nylon cord next month, to do some more heavy duty net bags, and to work on my wooden back back frame..  for lacing, and doing a net bag, so I can just stuff things into it..</div> <div> </div> <div>tired of busted zippers on packs.. they look good but last a year at most of regular use..</div> <div>Im afraid alot of survivalist types are going  be hauling their stuff in their bedraggled sleeping bags in short order...</div> <div> </div> <div>fast downhill trip on yuppie gear..</div> <div> </div> <div>well, I need to go take a bath, and put more bread in the oven, likely a couple weeks until next blog posting....</div> <div> </div> <div>have a good day who ever you are..</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-8101208491303967918?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-56147583037650672692011-10-18T15:43:00.001-07:002011-10-18T15:43:28.310-07:00<div>Afternoon,</div> <div>in town,  just did a border cross a few days ago...</div> <div> </div> <div>still having probs with the infection,  but using hexoclorophene for mouth wash.... and has stopped most of it...  </div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, have been teaching a small tribe of girls how to bake yeast breads and today cinnamon rolls..  people who had never had a real cinnamon roll in their lives.....</div> <div> </div> <div>Have been doing alot of searching on line for small scale agriculture machinery,  we are about to boot the farm considerably in the next couple years, with first priority being food security for ourselves,  and survival food stashes,  and after that use the excesses as a business...</div> <div> </div> <div>the business model is a two sided thing...  with an eye to whats coming...</div> <div> </div> <div>why not?  better than holding down a job and being afraid to leave it.....</div> <div> </div> <div>and the cinnamon rolls are part of the plan....  soon to be selling in a market thats never tried them...  might do OK eh?</div> <div> </div> <div>also bought a few items in Panama,  found 22 inch rula style machetes, not available in costa rica...</div> <div> </div> <div>nice size for gardening...</div> <div> </div> <div>I was reading awhile back online and ran into a thread on swords versus machetes as weapons...  guys, survival heads,  arguing over which is better..</div> <div> </div> <div>Well,  let me say this about that:   swords quit evolving much maybe a hundred years ago..  made obsolete by the revolver etc...   </div> <div> </div> <div>Or did they?   if you search rula machetes, or try <a href="http://imacasa.com">imacasa.com</a>  you can see images of a rather strange machete virtually unknown in the US market...</div> <div>it has a narrow blade,  and comes in lengths up to 28 inches....   if you study the images, and you have any background in swords,  you will realize its basically a backsword...  differences being a wider blade...  the blade is also thinner...   basically this IS the continued evolution of the sword..  improvements in spring steel manufacture allowed the use of much  thinner stock,  i.e. a much faster lighter sword...  and the width of blade does nothing to hurt its effectiveness..</div> <div> </div> <div>the sword operates on the physics principle of the inclined plane or wedge...  the thinner the wedge,  the sharper it can be...</div> <div> </div> <div>so a sword thats say a 16th of an inch thick,  can cut much more effectively than one an eighth thick...   it can also travel thru the air much faster, and is lighter and takes less muscle to wield...  basically a guy with a rula could cut a man with a heavier sword to shreds...   with little chance of being blocked as with heavier slower blades...  due to blade being able to move faster than the human eye can follow...</div> <div> </div> <div>I wouldnt even consider a historic sword in comparison...</div> <div> </div> <div>and here in central america, you can buy the rulas for $5 or less any where theres a hardware store....</div> <div> </div> <div>the steel is hard enough that it will just barely file...</div> <div> </div> <div>and its flexible enough you can bend it as far as you dare....  its serious spring steel, not some immitation &quot;stuff&quot; from india, that wont hold an edge like it will hold a bend....</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Ive used alot of machete steel..  its good stuff...  very seldom break them.. even cutting serious tropical hardwoods...   and the locals use them on larger trees, I have seen latins cut down trees over two feet thru, with machetes, with the blade &quot;ribboning&quot; between strokes due to its flexiblility...</div> <div> </div> <div>try that with your immitation historic sword....</div> <div> </div> <div>basically what it amounts to, is the rula is the height to date for a slashing sword.  and after you use them down a bit they tend to get very pointy...</div> <div> </div> <div>they are also ubiquitous...   dont elicit much notice...   and if you want to practice,  just find a brush patch in need of clean up....   </div> <div> </div> <div>reason I mention this, is I realized something about the bible and swords...  lets assume I am correct on my overview, book of Enoch etc...</div> <div>basically the aliens running the test,  are of some kind of militaristic culture,  i.e. Jehova of Arimies.....</div> <div> </div> <div>OK,  Jesus said if you dont have a sword to sell your robe and get one...  strange statement for the prince of peace..</div> <div> </div> <div>but recently heard a passage that might explain some...   in the bible,  old testament I think, and it was that  the last of the reptoids were going to be finished off with the sword..</div> <div> </div> <div>connect this to the cutting of necks in the book of enoch....   ie it answers the question I have had about it being done with expedient pocket knives, or swords, axes, etc....   and considering the descriptions of depth of blood from the event being up to a horses bridle,  it would take alot of swords, and I wondered if the aliens were going to supply swords or box cutters or something, as the way its written in Enoch, they are going to order the suvivors they like to cut the necks of those who fail the final tests, ie did you do anything for those at the very bottom of the pile of greedy self centered humanity..   JC himself explains this one, and that the losers will be led off to be cut off into eternal darkness...  connect with Enoch..</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway on towards my point;  that JC is sked to be appointed ViceRoy of this planet,  comander in chief big time,  rule with an Iron rod, and all that..</div> <div> </div> <div>so all the Christains who read the sword passage and think it justifys an AK-47 or an AR clone,  may in fact be considered to be disobeying a direct order...</div> <div> </div> <div>nothing a military mind hates more,  than troops who think they know better than their leaders....</div> <div> </div> <div>if I am told to get a sword,  a sword I will get, and the very best one I can...  doesnt need  to be spendy or fancy looking,   needs to be a good sword, not a fake,  and in my book,  a rula would make a much better issue battle sword than anything in the catalogs of the self professed experts of a dead art...</div> <div> </div> <div>old chinese saying,  that those who speak, do not know, and those who know do not speak...</div> <div> </div> <div>the real experts with blades  in modern times are guys who work in the brush and jungles with blades every day, all day long, clearing acres, planting food etc., with nothing but a machete...   and they have the muscles and skills to prove it...  if you ever come to central america,  observe the men, you can tell a campesino from a town dweller in a quick glance..   the  country guys are gnarly...  and the tool they use most is the common machete, and most prefered for serious work are the longer rulas...  and many of them can clear an acre or more in a day....   you try that....</div> <div> </div> <div>in battle,  its not a 30 second thing, goes on until only guys from one side or the other are left standiing...  and its not a place for a purist thrusting weapon...</div> <div> </div> <div>Id much rather be on the side of gnarly campesinos than city types with ornate relics...   </div> <div> </div> <div>now to point...  if this is all a big test,  following orders might carry some points with it...  and following that order might be what shifted the balance enough to put a sinner on the side of the cutters, rather than the cuttees...  and a humble blade that was of better practical use would be more respected than a historic dinosaur blade, who&#39;s design and materials enhancement stopped a hundred years ago, or that was impractical in a real battle....</div> <div> </div> <div>and yes, I could design a better sword than a rula, but the rula would be my starting point....</div> <div> </div> <div>and its a sword that anyone can afford...</div> <div> </div> <div>I bought three this week for $3.50 each...  and got the shorter 22 inch and a 24 inch rula, because I was buying them  for use by small women....</div> <div> </div> <div>For myself, I like the  26 and 28 inch rulas..</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, my point is; that  it might be advisable to have one on hand for everyone in your clan...</div> <div> </div> <div>they are a prime survival tool.. here where its warm all the time, it aint an axe...   if I had to get down to one possession, it would be a rula...  I can grow food, gut fish, or defend myself and my family, and do it very very effectively with that one single device....</div> <div> </div> <div>and do it for next to nothing, and carry the thing full time in my hands if need be...  and here in central america, they are the weapon of choice killing snakes..</div> <div> </div> <div>most of which are extremely toxic.. they also leap, yes, large snakes eight feet or so long at times, that can leap more than their body length...</div> <div> </div> <div>hope you are really really good with your shovel....</div> <div> </div> <div>so...   they might be considered the appropriate tool to rid the planet of two legged snakes..</div> <div> </div> <div>and for a final point, there is a guy in Ciudad Neily who begs on the street..   he sits on the sidewalk with his plastic cup..  he has a leg thats had exposed flesh for most of my years here, you can see the meat any day of the week you happen by....   he got bit by a local snake..  once years ago.. and went from a working man to being handicapped for life in half a second....</div> <div> </div> <div>I went past him a couple days ago, on the way to buy art supplies for a young girl, on the way back,  the change went into his cup, and I heard him say thankyou as I kept walking...   there but for the grace of God sit I......  I live in the brush,  toxic snakes are a part of my life..  and there is no shortage here...</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway, do search rula machetes,  and if you are really serious about edged weapons or following orders exactly,  get one...</div> <div> </div> <div>G!</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-5614758303765067269?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-25778829998163251412011-09-08T12:28:00.001-07:002011-09-08T12:28:34.788-07:00<div>afternoon,  </div> <div>have  computer  access for  the  first time in awhile, my  fone went bad, so limited now on ablility to blog..</div> <div> </div> <div>have been listening  to  short  wave, things  getting  worse,  I dont expect things to get any better until after </div> <div>alien arrival, as per book of  Enoch..  down hill trip folks,  gold isnt going to  save your butts, nor is money an any form..</div> <div>I&#39;ve realized for a long time the  connections in bible between money and &quot;luck&quot; in  whats coming, basically it boils down</div> <div>to the more into or  connected to money, the  less are your chances of survival, and also it  will likely be a criteria when its time to decide</div> <div>who gets their necks cut and who gets to  do the  cutting..</div> <div> </div> <div>heard the  other night on short wave, an expose&#39;  on money related stuff in the  bible, and it  was  very obvious that there is a </div> <div>definite connection..  basically if you are into the  money system, you are guilty of its damages..  everything I heard backed this  up, and more...</div> <div> </div> <div>so my  advice to  those capable of real thinking, is  to start vectoring away from the  use of  money until you get to absolute zero..</div> <div> </div> <div>Getting  out of Babylon includes the  money  system,  and  I believe this is in  fact the  nexus, or  focal point,  that your  chances of keeping  your </div> <div>neck intact are in direct proportion to  your  involvement with  the  money  system..  and  that money, or  gold  hoarded will be looked upon as  unused potential to  help others, or to prepare for whats coming..   </div> <div> </div> <div>just as I have suspected...</div> <div> </div> <div>I am  currently in dire straits over un cared for dental problems, had two teeth pulled, do to extreme infection,  seems to be a very antibiotic resistant bacteria,  have had a dozen </div> <div>bottles of  IV antibiotics administered, and the infection keeps coming back..  if  it  was  post  collapse,  I&#39;d be dead as of last week..  and  not  sure I  will survive this even now..</div> <div> </div> <div>so  please take care of any dental problems you have now, before the  collapse hits, and also I  suggest that you stockpile antibiotics anyway possible, for  yourself and  family and  others..</div> <div> </div> <div>and  do it  in quantity and  in  quality..   much  better  a  pile of antibiotics, than a stack of gold or silver coins, that will be  worthless when there is nothing  to  buy...</div> <div> </div> <div>Some economists are predicting the collapse in three to six months, others giving about  three years, until in deflationary depression...   if you are money dependant, best you get your  trip together now for living without it, even if that  requires going neonomadic...  time is  going to  be the most critical factor, that and realizing the  truth about whats </div> <div>coming in time to do something about it in your own lives...   The Bankers are smugly assured that their plan for world government will work if they get everyone enough</div> <div>afraid..  i  dont  think it  will work out that good for them. or  for  those who suck up their lies...</div> <div> </div> <div>world war three will be the eventual result..  which they think  they can easily survive,  and they arent aware of the eventual alien arrival, or that anything could go wrong</div> <div>with  their  schemes...  unfortunately for  them too many people  now  understand the connections, and whats coming...</div> <div> </div> <div>Time is  running  out, and if  youre thinking anything but getting out, or preparedness, youre a bigger fool than I am....</div> <div> </div> <div>time to  do some  serious rethinking of  yourself..   time to exit Babylon on the  run...   time to prepare to help others.. anything else is suicide of one form</div> <div>or another..   </div> <div> </div> <div>I&#39;m  doing  what I can,  even today giving a stealth sermon to neighbors at the  bus stop on the  way to town..  </div> <div>trying to get them to plant more food and  not to believe in the  money system...  have one local guy starting to think really good...  and others  starting to actually listen..</div> <div>not an  easy accomplishment in a land where nothing bad has ever happened...</div> <div> </div> <div>I also hear Chuck Norris has come out in public, trying to get people to wake up..  good man..  now do your part.</div> <div> </div> <div>prepare for  the absolute worst case scenario..  and maybe you  can squeeze by, maybe.. no guarantees of  anything from now on...</div> <div>and  remember; the ultimate criteria for not having your neck cut, will be did you help others, especially those most in need, and  not  just  family and  friends...</div> <div> </div> <div>anyway,  likely will be at  the dentist&#39;s tomorrow,  and find out how things are going in real terms, and what to do next about the  resistant infection...going to be another tight month at  best, for the thin wallet..   but, if I can beat the infection, and continue to struggle towards preparedness, i will be very thankful..</div> <div> </div> <div>When you live very low for a long time, what you learn, is  how little you actually really need to keep breathing..   best to run a  tight ship,  and be prepared for the  storms coming over the horizon...  and I hope that this blog has helped some,  I write as always from the point of view that if what I&#39;ve posted here helps even one person, its was more</div> <div>than worth all the time spent trying to teach what I&#39;ve figured out by being slightly ahead of the curve..  </div> <div> </div> <div>so,  my  personal struggle continues,  every month I try to do things to prepare..  I have no desire for wealth, or  fame, just want to make a better world however possible, </div> <div>and have realized that everything we take for normal is incredibly twisted..</div> <div> </div> <div>all connected to the love of money, and our innate egocentric natures...  </div> <div> </div> <div>anyway,  other emails to write..</div> <div> </div> <div>good luck!</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2577882999816325141?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-27947616126651623522011-08-10T07:47:00.001-07:002011-08-10T07:47:02.018-07:00I also taught myself flint knapping, favorite tool is a railroad spike<br>&amp; a hunk of tire rubber.. I&#39;ve worked Obsidian, and produced points<br>that collectors flat refused to believe I did myself in 15 minutes...<br>I generally make points out of glass... Coke bottle bottoms &amp; TV tube<br>glass are my favorites... No shortage of those resources anywhere on<br>the planet... I make steel tips too... like to use lace into a slot<br>method, with monofiliment fishing line, and then coat with epoxy<br>resin... aint comin&#39; apart... and used up machete steel is just<br>right for broadheads... easy enough to cut out with a thin abrasive<br>wheel.. And I could do it in my fire pit with red steel and a hot set<br>type chisel, then retemper.. I know the art well... blacksmithing is<br>a personal hobby... Starting with flat stock means all I have to do is<br>cut out, temper &amp; sharpen.. Yup! A country boy can survive...<br>especially if he&#39;s not too caught up in the wizzmo-gizmo culture...<p>how did I learn all my skills? decided I was more interested in<br>hobbys than watching TV... TV watchers are going to have bad stats in<br>whats coming...<p>anyway, my worker commented the other day that I had food growing<br>everywhere... yup! My original vision was to create a garden of<br>Eden... its been a fun hobby, dont own any freeze dried food... no<br>gold other than a couple pieces of jewlery..<p>not much caught up in money... it could disappear tomorrow &amp; I&#39;d<br>adapt almost instantly... have gone for years on end barefoot in the<br>jungle.. my favorite way to eat fish is raw.. Sushi, Cevechi, etc..<p>Also made another Neoindigenous discovery;<p>cooking wood; always a problem in the wet season in the tropics when<br>your shelter repretoir doesnt include a wood shed... what I figured<br>out, was the easy way to do it, was to peel a tree, and let it die<br>standing.. pretty soon limbs start falling... nice dry wood...<br>eventually I cut the trunk down and burn it too, and then plant a food<br>tree where the original tree was... and so slowly evolve my<br>surrounding area into food security... dont need a wood shed, if<br>youre not too good to burn sticks, or chop up larger limbs &amp; trunk...<br>wouldnt work in wet northern climates like the Pacific north west, but<br>here the evaporation rate is high enough that standing dead wood is<br>generally dry enough to burn... I have several trees peeled ahead..<br>More to peel, and what land I have that isnt in fruit, is in forest<br>now, it was all pasture filled with scrub brush when I bought it...<br>the locals thought I was crazy for letting the brush grow.. They were<br>all shifting to gas or electric stoves at the time... wasnt long<br>though until wood cooking &quot;Fugons&quot; started appearing behind houses..<br>They discovered gas &amp; electricity to be expensive... so its kind of<br>funny to see nice stoves in kitchens, and the mom behind the house,<br>poking sticks into the traditional fugon, under a small sheet metal<br>roof... People in towns cant do that, no fuel source..<p>trapped like rats by their desire to be closer to money sources...<p>I have an unlimited supply of cooking fuel.... unlimited supply of<br>water, and more land than my descendants will need for generations...<p>I&#39;m just as agile as I was in my 20&#39;s, just as healthy..<p>I worry about whats coming, not for myself, I&#39;m better prepared than<br>most of humanity...<p> for the last couple years I&#39;ve been collecting the ocasional pocket<br>knife.. Not easy on a micro budget, but have managed to get some nice<br>pocket knives of several different types... why?<br>Because I suspect a pocket knife is the brush rat&#39;s most used tool,<br>and having several different types means I have knives for specific<br>uses... I&#39;ve high graded whats come past... also because pocket<br>knives make sense for the refugee... minimalistic, no need of sheath<br>etc... I lanyardize every thing, learned as a kid that I never lost<br>a lanyarded knife...<p>I lanyardize sheath knives too..<p>I also drill the handles of garden tools &amp; axes etc. so that they can<br>be tied thru a hole to pack saddle etc... hard to lose something tied<br>thru a hole... an axe etc. Might catch on a limb and slip out and be<br>lost if not tied thru a hole...<p>well, the woman thats been after me seems to be serious... she&#39;s<br>losing 30 pounds at the moment... nice lady, a nurse at a local<br>hospital, had five daughters, single mom, three adopted.. On a third<br>world income.. One daughter just left home this week, another two will<br>follow in the next couple of years.. last two will be awhile... But I<br>like kids...<p>the woman was raised on a farm, but got caught up in the money trap...<br> went thru several shades of hades in her life... has realized in<br>town isnt a good life... and knows having a guy is a good idea these<br>days... wants to grow food again... Live with some space... likes<br>animals.. and with her being &quot;chaser&quot; &amp; me being &quot;chasee&quot; I got to<br>set my price... no bullshit, no games, with the requirement of<br>constant struggle on her part to be a good wife in MY opinion, not<br>hers... she&#39;s 16 years younger than I am... ten years older than my<br>number one son... so I suspect my years of living alone to be drawing<br>towards an end... I&#39;ve been living alone for most of 18 years....<p>She&#39;s had a thing for me for years.. Offended me once years ago... I<br>like her for who she is.. She&#39;s at the same point...<p>anyway, I need to go take my last rinse of the day in the spring, and<br>butcher that pineapple... Yumm!<p>where did I go wrong?<p>its a humble life, but a good one....<br>Why does everyone like the Tarzan dream?<br>Because its sanity. it is do-able, it is better than being a rainbow<br>niggeroo... funny how what goes around, comes around... most of the<br>slaves are white people now.. black people at least werent<br>volunteers.... they werent that stupid back then, they knew they had<br>it good... my only crit of black people, is theyre too white on the<br>inside now... Like their old slang term: &quot;Oreo&quot; i.e. Black on the<br>outside, white on the inside... like an Oreo cookie... well, how<br>bout &quot;Oreos on steroids&quot;? you black folk really need to get back to<br>the land, go back to agriculture, rewild yourselves some... Get away<br>from the cities, the drugs, the dependence on whitey&#39;s technocult...<br> alot of you are some incredibly decent folks, time to do what it<br>takes and regraft onto your old &quot;real&quot; roots... Not some TV movie, to<br>pump you up, while youre still effectively slaves by other means...<p> If you want to be my neighbor, &#39;hope you like gardening &amp; fishing...<br>And that the kids like horses etc... we&#39;d do fine... The playing<br>field has been leveled quite a bit lately... the uppitys have come<br>down some...<p>humble people are an asset anywhere...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2794761612665162352?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-37823411357715856122011-08-09T12:20:00.001-07:002011-08-09T12:20:56.750-07:00I also taught myself flint knapping, favorite tool is a railroad spike<br>&amp; a hunk of tire rubber.. I&#39;ve worked Obsidian, and produced points<br>that collectors flat refused to believe I did myself in 15 minutes...<br>I generally make points out of glass... Coke bottle bottoms &amp; TV tube<br>glass are my favorites... No shortage of those resources anywhere on<br>the planet... I make steel tips too... like to use lace into a slot<br>method, with monofiliment fishing line, and then coat with epoxy<br>resin... aint comin&#39; apart... and used up machete steel is just<br>right for broadheads... easy enough to cut out with a thin abrasive<br>wheel.. And I could do it in my fire pit with red steel and a hot set<br>type chisel, then retemper.. I know the art well... blacksmithing is<br>a personal hobby... Starting with flat stock means all I have to do is<br>cut out, temper &amp; sharpen.. Yup! A country boy can survive...<br>especially if he&#39;s not too caught up in the wizzmo-gizmo culture...<p>how did I learn all my skills? decided I was more interested in<br>hobbys than watching TV... TV watchers are going to have bad stats in<br>whats coming...<p>anyway, my worker commented the other day that I had food growing<br>everywhere... yup! My original vision was to create a garden of<br>Eden... its been a fun hobby, dont own any freeze dried food... no<br>gold other than a couple pieces of jewlery..<p>not much caught up in money... it could disappear tomorrow &amp; I&#39;d<br>adapt almost instantly... have gone for years on end barefoot in the<br>jungle.. my favorite way to eat fish is raw.. Sushi, Cevechi, etc..<p>Also made another Neoindigenous discovery;<p>cooking wood; always a problem in the wet season in the tropics when<br>your shelter repretoir doesnt include a wood shed... what I figured<br>out, was the easy way to do it, was to peel a tree, and let it die<br>standing.. pretty soon limbs start falling... nice dry wood...<br>eventually I cut the trunk down and burn it too, and then plant a food<br>tree where the original tree was... and so slowly evolve my<br>surrounding area into food security... dont need a wood shed, if<br>youre not too good to burn sticks, or chop up larger limbs &amp; trunk...<br>wouldnt work in wet northern climates like the Pacific north west, but<br>here the evaporation rate is high enough that standing dead wood is<br>generally dry enough to burn... I have several trees peeled ahead..<br>More to peel, and what land I have that isnt in fruit, is in forest<br>now, it was all pasture filled with scrub brush when I bought it...<br>the locals thought I was crazy for letting the brush grow.. They were<br>all shifting to gas or electric stoves at the time... wasnt long<br>though until wood cooking &quot;Fugons&quot; started appearing behind houses..<br>They discovered gas &amp; electricity to be expensive... so its kind of<br>funny to see nice stoves in kitchens, and the mom behind the house,<br>poking sticks into the traditional fugon, under a small sheet metal<br>roof... People in towns cant do that, no fuel source..<p>trapped like rats by their desire to be closer to money sources...<p>I have an unlimited supply of cooking fuel.... unlimited supply of<br>water, and more land than my descendants will need for generations...<p>I&#39;m just as agile as I was in my 20&#39;s, just as healthy..<p>I worry about whats coming, not for myself, I&#39;m better prepared than<br>most of humanity...<p> for the last couple years I&#39;ve been collecting the ocasional pocket<br>knife.. Not easy on a micro budget, but have managed to get some nice<br>pocket knives of several different types... why?<br>Because I suspect a pocket knife is the brush rat&#39;s most used tool,<br>and having several different types means I have knives for specific<br>uses... I&#39;ve high graded whats come past... also because pocket<br>knives make sense for the refugee... minimalistic, no need of sheath<br>etc... I lanyardize every thing, learned as a kid that I never lost<br>a lanyarded knife...<p>I lanyardize sheath knives too..<p>I also drill the handles of garden tools &amp; axes etc. so that they can<br>be tied thru a hole to pack saddle etc... hard to lose something tied<br>thru a hole... an axe etc. Might catch on a limb and slip out and be<br>lost if not tied thru a hole...<p>well, the woman thats been after me seems to be serious... she&#39;s<br>losing 30 pounds at the moment... nice lady, a nurse at a local<br>hospital, had five daughters, single mom, three adopted.. On a third<br>world income.. One daughter just left home this week, another two will<br>follow in the next couple of years.. last two will be awhile... But I<br>like kids...<p>the woman was raised on a farm, but got caught up in the money trap...<br> went thru several shades of hades in her life... has realized in<br>town isnt a good life... and knows having a guy is a good idea these<br>days... wants to grow food again... Live with some space... likes<br>animals.. and with her being &quot;chaser&quot; &amp; me being &quot;chasee&quot; I got to<br>set my price... no bullshit, no games, with the requirement of<br>constant struggle on her part to be a good wife in MY opinion, not<br>hers... she&#39;s 16 years younger than I am... ten years older than my<br>number one son... so I suspect my years of living alone to be drawing<br>towards an end... I&#39;ve been living alone for most of 18 years....<p>She&#39;s had a thing for me for years.. Offended me once years ago... I<br>like her for who she is.. She&#39;s at the same point...<p>anyway, I need to go take my last rinse of the day in the spring, and<br>butcher that pineapple... Yumm!<p>where did I go wrong?<p>its a humble life, but a good one....<br>Why does everyone like the Tarzan dream?<br>Because its sanity. it is do-able, it is better than being a rainbow<br>niggeroo... funny how what goes around, comes around... most of the<br>slaves are white people now.. black people at least werent<br>volunteers.... they werent that stupid back then, they knew they had<br>it good... my only crit of black people, is theyre too white on the<br>inside now... Like their old slang term: &quot;Oreo&quot; i.e. Black on the<br>outside, white on the inside... like an Oreo cookie... well, how<br>bout &quot;Oreos on steroids&quot;? you black folk really need to get back to<br>the land, go back to agriculture, rewild yourselves some... Get away<br>from the cities, the drugs, the dependence on whitey&#39;s technocult...<br> alot of you are some incredibly decent folks, time to do what it<br>takes and regraft onto your old &quot;real&quot; roots... Not some TV movie, to<br>pump you up, while youre still effectively slaves by other means...<p> If you want to be my neighbor, &#39;hope you like gardening &amp; fishing...<br>And that the kids like horses etc... we&#39;d do fine... The playing<br>field has been leveled quite a bit lately... the uppitys have come<br>down some...<p>humble people are an asset anywhere...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3782341135771585612?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-36433729793492037592011-08-09T12:18:00.001-07:002011-08-09T12:18:38.599-07:00morning..<br>Just did a second stint on guitar rita..<br>Its a beautiful day, I did some putter work, more to follow..<p>have a pineapple that I need to eat today, but currently full of left<br>over flat bread from yesterday, so the Pinya waits...<p>learned a couple neoindigenous tips for you in the last few days...<p>one, realized that my new little garden trowels would be nice for<br>working cement laying stone... the mason&#39;s trowel has flat<br>construction due to working with regular flat and square shapes...<br>bricks, or block... that flat tool is fine for what its designed for,<br>but stone is a different medium.. and I think a garden trowel would<br>be alot more ergonomic for laying stone...<p>another thing I figured out, was a way to make coffee more<br>efficiently... thought about the classic great depression Hobo<br>technique of boiling the coffee grounds in the water... and began to<br>suspect that maybe the perculator, espresso maker, and drip style<br>coffee makers were something likely pushed by the coffee industry &amp;<br>general electric... so, now having a stove top for my fire pit, I<br>decided to dig out my stainless on the burner style perculator, and do<br>an experiment... kitchen science, my specialty...<p>I havent used the perculator due to wood handle &amp; open fire.. and<br>I&#39;ve always hated cleaning perculator basket, lid, and stand pipe...<p>so I gutted it, filled it halfway with spring water, and threw in<br>three eating style teaspoons of coffee, &amp; placed it on my stove top...<p>and boiled it awhile, and poured thru a fine screen filter/strainer I<br>got for tea... then the crucial taste test... no difference....<br>in other words, a few billion people have been duped into buying some<br>junk that if you study the physics, is designed to give Yuppies, &amp;<br>Proto Yuppies something that uses about twice as much coffee, and<br>requires a special purchass of a dedicated item.... hmmm? are we<br>stupid sheep or what... yeah, lets just believe everything we&#39;re told<br>by the experts on TV...<p>anyway, I&#39;ve been doing it a couple days, and using about half the coffee...<p>coffee is affordable in Costa rica, but with food prices escalating,<br>and the money value going down shit river into greedy pockets, I<br>think its a perfect time to dispell the urban myth about not boiling<br>the coffee in the water...<p>suggest you try it for yourself, and think about how much you spend<br>annually on the drug habit...<p>so basically you can make coffee in any pot, other than the<br>politically correct versions &amp; come out way ahead on money... might<br>not seem as classy as the piece of shit plastic coffee dripper thats<br>taking up counter space, and costs money to buy etc... but<br>considering the Corporate Fascism now trashing everybody, I think<br>figuring out how to reduce cash flow to corporations is a good idea...<p>so, all you survivalist wannabees, take note... also a nice technique<br>for camping or backpackers....<p>it follows on the heels of a similar discovery with Tobacco...<p>I like to use tobacco for ceremonial/religious purposes, &amp; as a<br>calming drug for mental grounding... but not into the cigarette<br>mentality..<p>so I built a nice long native american style pipe.. and quickly<br>realized the bowl was way too big... might be just the thing to<br>Pow-Wow with a bunch of buddies, but it used alot of Tobacco...<p>so then I made a much smaller pipe, with a bowl that might hold half<br>a thimble... only to discover it was also too big... so then I made<br>pipe number three, with the bowl being a 1/4 inch brass compression<br>fitting with the threads bored out ... its the size of a hash pipe..<br>And about right...<p>what I realized, is big pipes &amp; cigarettes are again designed ways to<br>waste product...<p>if you study the anthropology of modern smoking culture, you notice<br>people light up a cigarette or pipe, and then they either smoke it, or<br>it burns up...<p>this creates an artificially induced excess habit, and as the body<br>builds up resistance, more cigarettes follow...<p>I find the ritual of filling &amp; smoking a tiny pipe to be as nice as<br>the ritual of making tea... and with the bowl holding maybe a gram of<br>product, I never smoke too much at any one time, body resistance stays<br>down, as does likelyhood of ill effects...<p>also keeps from feeding a corporate monster...<p>so, all you smokers take note... get a hash pipe, reduce the amount<br>you smoke by 90%... Still enjoy your drug... keep the doctor farther<br>away from your kid&#39;s inheritance etc....<p>all you have to do is alter the habit.. in other words those<br>cigarettes were designed to get you to smoke too much...<p>what got me started on this logic was thinking about how small teacups<br>were... designed in another era... When people had to work, and didnt<br>have machines to make decadence the in thing...<p>so I downsized my coffee cup... still enjoy the drug, enjoy the<br>ritual, but use less coffee...<p>I also use a similar technique for drinking Rum...<br>I like to sip rum out of a shot glass... I buy a 375 ml bottle, about<br>$2 here for my favorite taste, which is Ron Abuelo from Panama....not<br>too sweet, not too watery.. and via the sipping from a shot glass,<br>this Sailor goes on a two day binge, for a dollar a day... I also<br>like Rum in coffee, and in green coconuts.. Which is the smoothest &amp;<br>best mixed drink on the planet...<p>I do something similar with cooking fires.. Make the smallest fire<br>possible for the job.. Less wood to hack &amp; pack... And its why I<br>searched for the downsized two burner iron stove top, and not a bigger<br>unit.. my stove top would go into a canoe without being noticed...<p>minimalism is incredibly powerful...<p>and money is incredibly toxic stuff.. Think about it... I suspect<br>that our whole reality has been skewed by money &amp; greed... universal<br>slant, no innocents...<p>I find living on a micro budget of $100 a month to be fine.. I<br>generally spend about $30 on food, and the rest upgrades my<br>neoindigenous lifestyle one piece at a time... what makes it work<br>well, is heading for a lifestyle that has less need for money...<br>which is one reason I moved to the tropics, and into the brush on a<br>mountain, with the big wild jungle for my back yard.. was tired of<br>cleaning the toilet, &amp; defrosting a stinky refrigerator on my &quot;free&quot;<br>time... Free from working a job to maintain the pieces of shit<br>materialistic life style... I have no plumping to fix, no electric<br>bill, doing fine on a single panel &amp; battery, w/a 375 watt inverter...<p>my &quot;House&quot; has a ten by ten foot floor.. 100 square feet... not much<br>to impress the tax man if he ever gets lost enough to find me...<p>I dont need a gun either.. been into bows since I was 10 years old..<br>I suspect I could kill anything on the planet with my bow... Fred<br>Bear, and numerous others have proven the point...<p>and I make my own arrows from scratch using native materials...<br>homeland security types are going to have a hard time shutting off my<br>ammo supply, or preventing me from building bows.. and if they get as<br>nasty, so can I... Plenty of really toxic snakes &amp; frogs here... you<br>wouldnt want to harass me excessively...<p>I know snakes here with no antidote.. all I gotta do is hit you...<br>and I&#39;ve had alot of practice in my life, and shoot fine with bow<br>sight or instinctual... and I once had the pleasure of pissing off<br>some good old boys with spendy compound bows... I went to the local<br>indoor winter shooting club, with a recurve... had a bicycle spoke<br>taped to it, and bent around for a site.. all the red necks<br>snickered, considered me a fool... Mind you, I was into archery<br>before most rednecks even thought about it... I shot some groups as<br>good as theirs... things got real quiet.. I saw angry looks on red<br>faces.... matched necks... The next month I bought and installed a<br>sight... the bike spoke was a tempory expedient... not a stunt...<br>Sure learned something about human nature though... aint the price of<br>your toys boys, its how good are you with what you have.... never<br>owned a compound, never shot one... I figure I&#39;m not too much of a<br>pussy to pull and hold a real bow... I tend to be fairly stubborn, an<br>asset when it comes to full draw, and getting on target...<p>continued;<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3643372979349203759?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-49445927933671131352011-08-08T08:53:00.001-07:002011-08-08T08:53:20.735-07:00Someone murdered a 52-year-old U.S. woman on the grounds of her<br>family&#39;s luxury tourist rental on the Osa peninsula.<p>Friends identified her as Lisa Artz, who was the resident manager of<br>Casa Tres Palmas in upper Matapalo, just south of Puerto Jim&#233;nez on<br>the east shore of the Osa peninsula.<p>The Judicial Investigating Organization said that she was found in a<br>small cabina bound hands and feet with a blanket over her face. Agents<br>presumed she was smothered. Acquaintances said the woman lived in the<br>small cabina, the first structure her family build on the land,<br>because the adjacent 6,000-square-foot structure was rented frequently<br>to vacationers.<p>Casa Tres Palmas is known as the most luxurious property in the area<br>with a commanding views of the point where the waters of the Gulfo<br>Dulce meet those of the Pacific. Ms. Artz&#39; father is George Artz, a<br>successful restaurant owner. The family runs Coconuts on the Beach in<br>Cocoa Beach, Florida. The sprawling main house features a Tiki-style<br>villa with a palm thatched roof. The property rents from $300 to $400<br>a night and sleeps up to 12, said the Casa Tres Palmas Web site.<p>Judicial police said they were awaiting the results of an autopsy to<br>determine exactly how the woman died. The autopsy also should provide<br>an estimate on when death occurred. Ms. Artz was a frequent visitor,<br>and friends said she arrived in the community last December to serve<br>as manager for the property. The property is 20 kilometers or about 14<br>miles south of Puerto Jim&#233;nez.<p>An acquaintance said the woman was scheduled to leave Costa Rica for<br>the United States Wednesday.<p>There has been a wave of criminal activity in the area, including<br>robberies and home invasions. There also is the unsolved February<br>murder of Kimberly Blackwell, 53, a Canadian, in San<p>Matapalo<br>A.M. Costa Rica graphic<br>Arrow shows location of murder scene<p>Miguel de Ca&#241;aza near Puerto Jim&#233;nez. Ms.<br>Blackwell was known in the area as the operator of Samaritan Xocolata,<br>which produced high-end chocolate items from Costa Rican cocao.<p>There also is the case of two Austrian citizens who were residents of<br>Puerto Jim&#233;nez. They vanished around Christmas 2009. That case still<br>is open.<p>Across the gulf in Golfito, the death of an expat there still is an<br>open case. He was Kelly Robert Nutting, 38, who was dumped in the<br>gulf with his hands tied behind him and with a piece of concrete<br>attached to his body. He appears to have been strangled. The U.S. Navy<br>veteran managed his family&#39;s hotel. The murder was in March 2010.<p>Although there have been sensational rumors, a close examination of<br>all the cases point to individual and personal motives, according to<br>residents of the area and some police investigators. Except for the<br>Artz case, judicial agents seem to know the likely suspects and the<br>individual motives that led to the killing but do not have enough<br>evidence to make an arrest under Costa Rica&#39;s complex penal code. The<br>reasons appear to be different, involve different suspects and have<br>motives that range from revenge to greed to jealousy.<br>- Show quoted text -<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-4944592793367113135?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-31196930909138251742011-07-31T14:15:00.001-07:002011-07-31T14:15:22.871-07:00Morning,<br>first sips of coffee, struggling with my fone, obviously trying to<br>slowly die the way computers often do..<p>listened to some short wave last night.. people struggling with<br>society, obviously trying to die, the way societies often do...<p>things often happen in reoccuring patterns, across broadly different<br>areas of reality..<p>repetitive patterns, waves, and here we are on the beach of time,<br>watching them come in...<p>I listened to some farmer types, discussing floods caused by Army<br>Corps of Humdingers..<p>how arrogant the beaurostracracy is etc...<p>farmers trying to understand people who would be scandalized by dirt<br>on their hands, or mud on their shoes..<p>its a downhill trip.. Glad I got to an edge of the empire to live my<br>silly life...<p>really doesnt matter where my campsite is, as long as its got water,<br>soil, sun &amp; security.. a man can live almost anywhere theres nature<br>to elbow into &amp; reshape a bit...<p>the Empire&#39;s woes are saddening, &amp; frightening.. alot of decent<br>people in confusion.. Not understanding that society has become<br>controlled by utter thieves again..<p>me, just camping, &amp; trying to get prepared for the storm ahead..<br>spent some time yesterday working on my new pickhoe head, getting it<br>taken care of &amp; towards ready for use...<p>happy as a clam doing so, knowing its a key piece in the puzzle of<br>subsistence &amp; survival..<p>one of the top five tools on my list for the cabin in the woods<br>routine... It took me a couple years to find and afford the right<br>one, wanted the same model as the one I neutered into a grub hoe, so I<br>could use the Cortesa custom handle I made for myself in either hoe..<p>and that hoe ended up being a discontinued model in stores.. But<br>finally ran into one, and afforded, and packed it home with about 50<br>lbs or so of other stuff, taking 7.5 hours on average, &amp; 3 bus changes<br>to go 100 km... Which tells you something about the tico concept of<br>mass transit in rural zones...<p>but I dont have to go any such where very often, and kinda working<br>against the clock in my own mind, getting ready for what reality<br>translates infinite human stupidity into in practical terms...<p>Collecting what I can of usefull items, on my meager budget, doing<br>fine, keeping to my neoindigenous imaginary limits...<p>Basically am using my materialistic desire, to better prepare myself..<br> I see people around me spending thousands every month, mostly on<br>vanities, and I feel pretty good, if my vanities are a few extra hand<br>tools..<p>I liberated plenty of neoindigenous goodies from retailers, looting my<br>way mentally thru stocks in a small border community.. pack ratting<br>off what I could..<p>I sacrifice to be able to do it, others sacrifice for me. I hope to<br>if nothing else, have some root-rock-dirt security for my group, in<br>case they need it.. Already managed to badger them into heading good<br>directions towards such fundamentals..<p>soon, a couple years maybe, begin pulling our little clan of friends &amp;<br>family together geographically into a co-operative unit.. A little<br>commune of sorts, where loosly knit people help each other adapt to a<br>reality in flux, as an Empire of vanity &amp; ego goes thru its death<br>throes...<p>the drawing in.. Reforming what was lost a couple generations ago..<br>doing what I can to insure food in pots, cooking fuel under them,<br>coffee in cups of people who cooperate &amp; assist each other with the<br>necessities of life..<p> so, I boyscout along... doing simple things.. communicating what I<br>learn &amp; think..<p>Adulthood, is when you realize, that the Sailor&#39;s term, of; &quot;getting<br>your shit together.&quot; is an ongoing &amp; endless struggle, and not a<br>destination already arrived at ever..<p>the problem with the farmers, &amp; government, is that the status quo has<br>an &quot;unrealistic Overview&quot; of reality... all they can see is<br>themselves at the top of a pyramid of Nirvana, with their dinner<br>parties &amp; billions, managing a world that exists solely for themselves<br>etc...<p>And they see the farmers as being little different, than horses hooked<br>to their carts...<p>Well, farmers tend to have some horse sense..<p>and status quo types wouldnt know a raddish from a turnip, if it was<br>still in the ground..<p>and an unrealistic overview, invariably leads to the erosion of the<br>base of the pyramid, until the horses have had enough, and kick the<br>status quo&#39;s teeth out...<p>education is not intelligence, &amp; academics isnt good sense..<p>Theory doesnt grow Turnips..<p>all I can say, is best one quit believing in the system, and start<br>operating on a more fundamental level of organization.. and you&#39;d<br>best be able to get by without the system, and be prepared to kick its<br>teeth in if necessary, because those running it, &amp; those following<br>them, havent a clue about reality... they manage a cobbled up<br>technoculture, with human stupidity as a major ingredient in the mix..<br> and they whip the horses, careening the cart over the cobbles, with<br>the bearings screaming &amp; smoking from lack of grease...<p>quit calling your bleeping congressman.. he&#39;s not going to do shit..<br>He&#39;s the complaint department... theres an economic fire wall between<br>him &amp; reality..<p>only way to change the system is dont use it.. the horses keep trying<br>to go back into the burning barn..<p>much better if they spent their time contemplating the meaning &amp;<br>responsibilities of freedom..<p>because when things finally collapse, they&#39;re going to get to deal<br>with it, in a without the system reality, ready or not...<p>might be good to focus on how to keep the kids fed no matter what..<br>and how to keep doing it.. forever... And not just rely on some<br>freeze dried glop, that the rats can gnaw &amp; chew right thru the part<br>where it says 25 year shelf life...<p>when the system goes down, best you already have your subsistence trip<br>already up...<p>and not be expecting the system to shortly fix itself, so you can go<br>push your little shopping cart down the asiles of Consumer-topia...<p>its going to be a big crash folks.. those in charge think squeezing<br>the Turnips for blood is a good idea..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3119693090913825174?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-85403628070578482712011-07-25T07:29:00.001-07:002011-07-25T07:29:19.978-07:00Evening, going on midnight...<p>its a warm tropical night, didnt rain today to cool things off..<p>I was sleeping, but awake now.. Some text messages from a woman who<br>thinks she has to have me...<p>so I did some cafe, will be up for awhile, keeping her company via<br>texts, at the hospital, she&#39;s doing the night shift..<p>went to Panama awhile back, bought some stuff, a cast iron stove top<br>for my fire, another pick hoe for my garden, and a set of garden<br>trowels and matching scratch rake device, all in stainless..<p>also got a nice pocket knife with a hook blade, high quality, which<br>I suspect was designed for a paratroopers shroud knife... Its a one<br>hand opener, side lock, and has a clip... Blade is very good<br>stainless.. Took me a couple days to rebevel &amp; remove factory edge,<br>used grades of wet or dry sand paper over a cylinder to sharpen its<br>inside curve..<p>also made a lanyard for it out of a nylon boot lace.. Which make nice<br>lanyard material due to flexibility.<p>I sharpened the stainless trowels with a file.. That took awhile<br>too... But theyre now hanging like wind chimes in my garden tools<br>selection of my little shelter...<p>havent listened to much short wave lately, taking a break from my<br>anthropological studies of human insanity via the eitheral planes..<br>I.e. Got tired of listening to all the horrible shit theyre doing to<br>you normal people.. in the name of unnessisary improvements &amp;<br>corporate fascist profit margins..<p>aint a margin anymore, they have most of the page, and its the day<br>niggeroos who&#39;ve been marginalized economically &amp; politically..<p>I feel sorry for you poor bleepers... Trapped by your insecurity &amp;<br>vanity in a terminal system...<p>I hear them on short wave howling for jobs..<p>gee, I never much liked jobs... seemed like they were never worth the<br>money, due to management types, with hardons for self justification,<br>coming up with constant absurd shit to pile onto the self niggeroo<br>units...<p>I dont think more jobs is the sollution.. I think more people getting<br>out of the system is...<p>thats all I do now, is vector off from the technocult... I wouldnt<br>want a job.. would eat up my free time, and I&#39;ve gotten used to that<br>being 24/7....<p>once you figure out you can stay alive on $50 a month, a job seems out<br>of the question... These days, I get to spend $100 a month, &amp; am<br>constantly improving my very comfy life in real terms.. being<br>neoindigenous in nature pays...<p>I also got a couple more plastic buckets in panama, and started buying<br>second hand clothing too, starting my post crash clothing stash...<p> been working mentally lately on a design for a fire making machine...<p>getting tired of disposable lighters that goto shit, and matches in<br>the tropics will drive you nuts due to the humidity.. a lens is fine<br>on sunny days, but they aint all sunny...<p>so thinking to upscale the bowdrill friction system into something<br>that really works good.. make it have a wooden frame, and be foot<br>powered, stair stepper maybe? Where I can create fire in maybe a<br>minute on cloudy days with no technocult resourses.. kind of a<br>Gilligan&#39;s island device..<p>I want to keep it small, and make it in my usual laced together<br>fashion, so it comes apart for neonomadic transport if needed...<p>might seem silly now, but take away the technocult, and it would get<br>regular use...<p>I bought the paratroopers knife to use in the garden.. Fine for harvesting...<p> anyway.. Got my trip going good, improve my life regularly, do<br>ocasional camp improvements, and stay happy dog most of the time.. I<br>couldnt starve to death unless I was blind, I have constant food<br>falling on the ground... If I can crawl &amp; see, I can eat now...<p>so.. Here I am, got a toad on my floor popping bugs as I write.. The<br>lizards think I&#39;m a great guy, and life is pretty good as a wild man..<p>meanwhile youre all gnawing your fingernails off, at what the faggot<br>on Pennsylvania avenue and his friendly gay whores for neighbors are<br>doing to you..<p>get out of Babylon.. Period..<p>have been practicing the electric guitar daily, steadily learning..<br>Into strumming rythims now..<p>got myself a couple pretty thumb picks in tropical colors.. Next year<br>hope to start learning finger picking also... much more pleasant &amp;<br>rewarding to play an instrument, than to listen to canned shit.. if<br>the recording industry had to rely on me to support them, they&#39;d<br>starve to death..<p>I like things that are real.. Not into a TV dreamland opiated state<br>mentality.. Not a jock head.. Dont spend time surfing the internet in<br>materialistic lust..<br>My hobbies have become my life, and my life is my hobby... What could<br>be better than living simple in nature, and doing things myself?<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-8540362807057848271?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-4109563370227800372011-07-12T14:09:00.001-07:002011-07-12T14:09:22.359-07:00or when they were sticking their long nose into things that really<br>were none of their business...<p> I find being alone in the brush much more secure than any urban<br>reality.. and the only law here, is me..<p>works fine...<p>anyway, not much on law, more into minding my own business, and<br>trying to be decent.. dont get caught up much in puffed up imaginary<br>constructs with big sharp teeth, or care to watch versions created by<br>hollywood for cunsumption by white trash serfs...<p>its mostly a faery tale.. seen police brutality with my own eyes,<br>been abused by court systems, got no help when it should have been<br>forth coming, sorry, current reality legal system gets low marks in<br>my book.. nothing personal, its just really screwed up, &amp; not<br>getting any better..<p>anyway, its a couple hours from dawn, feeling ok, want to practice<br>the guitar, but theres a few mosquitos to make that miserable... I<br>find learning guitar to be very rewarding personally.. its a slow<br>process, for me, but I&#39;m enjoying it...<p>today I have more bananas going ripe, so will try to eat them one way<br>or another.. have always liked bananas, its alot of fun growing<br>enough to send my worker home with sacks of them...<br>This week, he hauled off 65 pounds of fruit, various things, didnt<br>have room for a request from his wife for breadnuts.. we&#39;ve got no<br>shortage of those.. so my little niece got to be happy snooping<br>daddy&#39;s sack &amp; pack.. only to find all kinds of stuff she likes...<br>she can have all the ripe bananas she wants this week.. her mom cuts<br>up fruit etc. And puts it low in the refer so she can help herself,<br>or share with her cousin.. they seem to be happy little girls raiding<br>the refer..<p>I&#39;m looking foreward to more stuff putting on more types of fruit &amp;<br>food... got enough planted, to keep alot of moms &amp; kids happy..<br>seemed more important to me, than being a money grubber, and wearing<br>suits or driving flashy cars... excess vanity is an obvious mental<br>illness...<p>would rather live simple and do good things.. make a better world<br>however slight..<p> later, hiked down to village, bought some flour &amp; coffee.. Need to<br>reboot the fire, get water hot..<br>Start my usual daily routine...<p> one with time to think, realizes things.. compares problems with own<br>actions.. Finds similar impurities..<p>a better world starts inside...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-410956337022780037?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-22038028872565145752011-07-12T14:08:00.001-07:002011-07-12T14:08:42.138-07:00Afternoon,<br>overcast, 82F for temp reading, things wet after a gentle tropical<br>shower.. I slept like a baby during the shower, belly full of banana<br>bread, cooked over my fire in the morning..<p>have been lately thinking about organizers... my plastic tackle boxes<br>are degrading. going to have to start replacing them..<p>likely will use a system based around 5 gallon buckets for as much as<br>possible.. perhaps get collecting small plastic peanut butter jars,<br>or other bottles to go inside of buckets..<p>also considering trying to buy these strange lunch carrying devices<br>from India, stackers out of stainless, with a strap and handle<br>system.. thinking to get several of the devices, when I can, &amp; use<br>for organizing things like fishing tackle, leather working hardware,<br>etc...<p>another device I want to get more of, is the stainless yuppie water<br>bottles.. love them for condiments, could see using them for other<br>stuff, cooking oil, detergent, coffee &amp; tea etc. As the gasketed caps<br>prevent the usual problems living in the brush..<p>also need to get some tool boxes going.. Likely buy plastic type<br>w/tray etc. as I&#39;ve minimized my mechanics tools w/the aid of two<br>legged rats..<p>going to have to start padlocking things, and building fortified housing..<p>what I want, is to focus on organisation &amp; mobility.. I&#39;d like to<br>eventually get my reality down to a point I could pack up &amp; load<br>everything I own in a single day alone, move the next day, &amp; on the<br>other end, unpack in a single day, and have everything in its place<br>just like before..<p>may sound bazaar to some, but I find such self imposed parameters to<br>be a really helpful aid in controlling my life, &amp; preventing the<br>materialistic version of urban sprawl in my life..<p>most americans have more stuff in their garage than I own.. I&#39;d like<br>to get my transportation for moving my stuff secured also.. be able<br>to move everything in one trip..<p>including my shelter..<p>have been thinking of ways to build shelves that are sized, and<br>designed so they fold up and create packsaddle type panniers in<br>pairs.. so four shelving sections create two boxes, designed to hang<br>on pack saddle if need be.. could go into a pony cart also... Just<br>want things where I have permanent organisation &amp; mobility..<p>its like the old sailor&#39;s trunks in the 1800&#39;s and before, basically<br>wooden boxes, that they lived out of, and sat on to eat, converse,<br>etc.. they generally had rope handles thru a small block of wood on<br>each side.. the blocks of wood allowed them to be carried easily<br>slung on packsaddles, so if a sailor was changing ships, or going<br>ashore semi-permanently, his trunk could be transported by whatever<br>means was available..<p>its a far cry from modern airport luggage..<p>I suspect if you reincarnated a mariner, they&#39;d likely have strange<br>opinions about baggage.. most of them lived their whole lives with<br>less materialism than the average american thinks they need for an<br>over weekend trip..<p> I suspect they wouldnt be at all comfortable with the extreme mindset<br>of materialistic vanity so common today..<p> I&#39;ve been playing learning &quot;knife only&quot; cooking and eating<br>techniques.. its an interesting study..<br>one does develope new dexterity...<p>not a bad thing to be comfortable with.. Definitely a skill.. if I<br>find myself down to not much, will seem homey..<p>another thing I&#39;ve been thinking about, is people&#39;s addictions to<br>normalcy... I think &quot;pleasing the wife&quot; is going to get alot of<br>people DEAD.....<p>I just had a conversation on the subject with a woman friend.. hey<br>babe, comfort aint security.. Two completely different issues..<p>in fact, I suspect a dichotomy at work.. security is generally a<br>function of preparedness &amp; mobility.. I doubt a queen sized bed, or a<br>sofa lend themselves much to security, &amp; nothing to mobility...<p>she ended up coming around on the subject...<p>better than many I know, Sofa Queen lifestyle, paid for via an<br>&quot;ocasional use only&quot; vagina...<p>I like &quot;happy camper&quot; women, literally.. Much more pleasant than the<br>&quot;crappy hamper&quot; attitude types...<p> &#39;dont much believe in human relationships these days.. have the<br>psychology figured out on both ends, added to a wait &amp; see what really<br>happens attitude...<p>when the shit hits, if I have a female partner, it will be because she<br>got there &amp; stayed there on her own steam, and was able to live with<br>the mindset correct for the era...<p> so far, none such woman... but who knows.. I&#39;m not worried.. in<br>one&#39;s 50&#39;s a guy realizes that sex is an entertainment, not a<br>necessity..<p>means its like TV, you can shut it off, walk away, and find something<br>better to do..<p>kind of negates the &quot;vagina &amp; head games&quot; so popular in modern<br>relationships with females.. living alone is such a relief in<br>comparison..<p>I sleep good every night.. never a bed with a negative emotional<br>charge.. my humorous side has me thinking to look for some teddy bear<br>or stuffed cloth animal to decorate my cot with... should get some<br>grins from unsuspecting friends... kids will understand though..<br>sometimes imaginary friends are higher quality than what passes for<br>real ones these days..<p>would be nice if I still had my teddy bear from childhood.. But it<br>went the way of everything I loved, got thrown out, behind my back,<br>by self righteous parents with absolute zero respect for anything<br>except their own egotistic thinking habbits.. a childhood from hell<br>in many ways..<p>I personally couldnt imagine being so manipulative.. like thieving<br>from your childs heart to feed your own arrogant vanity..<p>people are such turds when in self centered mode..<p>my worker commented the other day, that he thinks about my childhood<br>stories, and has a hard time believing them.. I told him; you havent<br>heard 1% of it...<p>I tried to do better for my kids.. got cut off by a vanity head &amp;<br>legal help... vanity head later grew up... so the kids got to learn<br>in the process, and things ended fairly well..<p>the fun part about a blog, is you can say anything you like about<br>anything or anyone.. Or even yourself... unlike government, I attempt<br>to be truthful...<p>its a form of expression to me.. Exercising my rights to free speech<br>regularly is the best way to keep them, and avoid having to use my<br>second ammendment rights to reinstate all the rest of them after I<br>get tired of letting the chiselers think I believe in their toilet<br>paper legalist land fill mindset... I tend to be a fundamentalist...<br>All the accretions are meaningless to me.. I see law &amp; order as a<br>fundamental of two issues, not causing damage, and keeping my word..<p>I also just see it as a decision juncture, bad cops &amp; legalists are<br>like silly Faeries, I have to decide if I want to humor them politely,<br> or run them off scattering in fear.. theyre often so obviously<br>fruity &amp; mentally fermented on their own power trips..<p>everybody dies... I fear an improper life, more than I fear a good<br>death... wouldnt want anyone to be able to think that I did any more<br>than absolute minimum for the Beast ... its one of the reasons I live<br>in the brush.. It prevents fatal confrontations with neo Nazis in<br>official jackboots...<p>and allows me to live in ways that dont feed the collective monster,<br>anything but bad tasting medicine...<p>laws are nothing.. All boils down to what one will put up with.. I<br>can play &quot;lets pretend&quot; too, but I know government to be nothing more<br>than the current Mafia in assention... just big Rats in suits &amp; ties,<br>with a line of shit, and a habit of abusing people to get their way...<p>their official purposes seem almost vestigial these days... if you<br>want to know what a department really isnt about, read its name...<p>morning, waking up, sipping coffee, got a small fire going.. content<br>being who I am..<p>a final word on laws, theyre for people who need them.. I&#39;ve<br>occasionally needed a law or two.. Both ends of the dichotomy.. but<br>mostly I experienced law being non apparent when I was doing misdeeds,<br>and disfunctional when I was attempting to prevent or discontinue the<br>misdeeds of others... the only time I&#39;ve ever seen law arrive on the<br>scene, was either random revenue enhancement,<p>continued..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2203802887256514575?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-91634367150269802382011-07-05T10:15:00.001-07:002011-07-05T10:15:11.639-07:00Yeah,<br>folks, youre actually going to have to do something...<br>Quit relying on liars, quit believing their shit, quit using their<br>products, quit giving them your money, and quit giving them your kids<br>to twist &amp; pervert... And use for cannon fodder in their wars to kill<br>off poor people sitting on top of resources...<p> Brother Joe has it right.. Get low, get self sufficient, get humble...<p>quit showing up in churches that do nothing but stuff your head with<br>misinterpretations or worse..<p>get rid of your TV... make your own music, grow your own food..<br>Barter, keep your word, have nothing to do with liars, clean up your<br>own act....<p>help each other, and quit expecting government to do everything for<br>you... Before this is all over, youre going to likely have to defend<br>your rights &amp; property to the death.. Might want to get prepared to do<br>that... Those SWAT teams will soon lose their excess balls if every<br>house they kick the door in on, sends a good portion of their number<br>into hell...<p>its all about ego trips, and government that was once considered a<br>necesary evil, now being considered an unnecesary evil...<p>we have the technology, we can grow food and make things small scale,<br>cottage industries etc..<p>quit eating poisoned food, get a small tractor or tiller, get on your<br>knees in the dirt....<p>get out of the offices... how can you expect change from just<br>bitching and sniveling to the status quo? Bet they love that..<p>gotta actually do it.. use the available tech to free yourselves from<br>the corrupt and absolute crooked system on all levels..<p>its all available, from small scale Agricultural equipment... To semi<br>auto arms &amp; ammo... we dont need to be governed, we need to govern<br>ourselves.. We dont need banks, we need to live within our own<br>means...<br>We dont need the bleeping police.. Call 911? Waste of time, hot lead<br>will take care of thieves large &amp; small... Rather permanently too!<p>grow some hair on your chest... Have some balls, theyre not there for<br>the government to fondle affectionantly...<p>quit flying, I love flying &amp; travel, but not if it means caving in to<br>tyranny.. I&#39;ll walk, and travel light enough I can get out and run,<br>or I&#39;ll travel in the brush... they wont like that... if people<br>quit using their roads, their gas, their jobs, their system...<p>join up, group up, cooperate, get off your egotrip, and get real with<br>other like minded people... Become free men &amp; women in your own minds<br>&amp; actions, no matter what it takes... They herd you by your petty<br>fears... they have no monoply on anything... but they sure have you<br>convinced they do.. grow some teeth.. Rewild yourselves.. protect<br>your kids from the worse than worthless bastards..<br>Faggots in business suits... running your lives for their own<br>benefit... Got you convinced you need all their shit... Grow some corn<br>that aint GMO, enough you can live for years, and feed everyone around<br>you too.. start producing your own needs; food, shelter, clothing,<br>tools, arms... vote with your money.. Its harder to black box...<p>dont believe in the system, period.. Make every act &amp; every decision<br>as if the system might collapse tomorrow, or the next day.. Money<br>invested in the system, or in gold etc. Is wasted preparedness, wasted<br>freedom, you wont need any of it if youre prepared... Get into<br>tangibles, stockpile stuff like the great depression survivors did...<br>save everything, use stuff up, make do, have some pride in your<br>ability to get by on less... quit being fat hogs for their<br>slaughter...<p>quit giving them your lives.. Take your freedom... You dont have to<br>kill anyone unless they insist on it.. Sell your robe, get a sword..<br>Live in a tent if thats what it takes..<p> get mobile, get militant.. Quit expecting the system to get fixed..<br>Only way to fix it, is fix your bleeping selves... get a real life..<p> get a horse, get a cart, get a tent, get a wood stove, get a hoe &amp; an<br>axe.. you can buy everything you need to survive &amp; prosper on a<br>couple three house payments to the Vampires...<p>the most important survival skill, is knowing how to work.. You get<br>there by growing some calluses on your hands actually doing<br>something.. anyone who talks about sports is a brain dead moron..<br>play baseball with your kids.. Thats all the sports you need to talk<br>about.. Take up sports like fishing, archery, shooting, hunting,<br>paintball, anything that adds to your survivability &amp; independence..<p>fire crackers on 4th of july aint going to do it for you...<p>did Jefferson mention fire crackers?<p>did Washington scare the Redcoats with sparklers? Only when used to<br>touch off cannons...<p>read the foxfire books available in any library..<p>become a real American, not just an American in name only... get a<br>little indian blood... Get ready to fight some running battles like<br>Chief Joseph..<p>get your spiritual house in order... Die right... Die free, leave your<br>kids a legacy of freedom.... Give them a better example than American<br>Idol types kissing the system&#39;s butt in hopes of fame and fortune...<p>quit supporting politics... figure out how to pay the absolute least<br>taxes possible.. being unemployed is an opportunity, it means not<br>being anyone&#39;s slave..<p>it means you have time to plant some spuds &amp; fruit trees...<p>utterly divorce yourselves from the status quo...<p>look at the world differently... wean yourselves from the big Mommy<br>teat... get your own milk cow..<p>anyway, I need to do some dishes, and cook some food..<p>good luck!<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-9163436715026980238?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-34721371205882551892011-07-05T10:14:00.001-07:002011-07-05T10:14:41.811-07:00Here I am, a couple thousand miles south of the family reunion...<p>I remember the last generation having a blacksheep too... Who didnt<br>show up at the reunions...<p>Well, I&#39;m beyond Homeland Security &amp; TSA&#39;s reach, cant get their<br>hands in my pants without a long walk, and plenty of border<br>crossings...<p> I hear about it on short wave, as close as I get...<p>Heard some Ad the other day mentioning Americans enjoying their<br>freedoms, and wondered if they were talking about sex starved TSA<br>types? Or their lonely housewives victims...<p>US.., is the only country on earth where the government thinks it<br>needs to fondle your gonads... why is that? Well because its the only<br>country on the planet where the people are stupid enough, &amp; cowardly<br>enough to put up with it...<p>proof is in the pudding guys... are they, or are they not, rummaging<br>your sexual hardware &amp; software?<p>how absurd... it needs to be made into a fairy tale, like some<br>Gullible&#39;s Travels adventure, where the hero goes to a land where the<br>government thinks its justifying its own existance, by starting to<br>do, what hookers have been doing for thousands of years...<p>makes one wonder if the Rumors about the Wicked Witch of the East,<br>and her friend O&#39;Pumkin being more than a bit fruity are true?<p>who else would be twisted enough to think handling your privates was a<br>legitimate government service?<p>suprised they arent measuring them.. give a male and female<br>streeeetch test, and see how long John is, or what Jill can take for<br>bore size...<p>maybe stick it on your ID card chip, so everyone can compare numbers?<br> Wanger to Hueco ratio?<p>anyway, seems kind of silly to think everyone is taking revolution day<br>off... Must have forgotten what it was all about... you aint free...<br>Not even in your dreams...<p>theyve got you by the balls you silly morons..<p>I heard this guy on short wave last night.. &quot;Brother Joe&quot; out of New<br>York, Kirkwood... Does a radio show.. He&#39;s a Jesus freak, sounds like<br>a truck driver from NYC, I&#39;ve been doing a bit of a study of short<br>wave preachers for several years, (you can tell I get bored) but in<br>my experience, he&#39;s been the most real, and of value..<p>lives in a trailer in the mountains, add on rooms, works toward self<br>sufficiency, being frugal etc.. No electricity or plumbing for 19<br>years..... Tries to warn people to get out of cities &amp; towns...<p>a far cry from the TV evangelist type, siphoning money for their rich<br>lifestyle working God&#39;s flocks...<p>the Politicians of religion...<p>so, I appreciate Joe, sincere, may not know about book of Enoch, or<br>that JC is likely to show up in a rather large ship, but Joe has a<br>good handle on the rest of it... type of guy I&#39;d want nearby if going<br>up the ramp... practical, and God fearing.. not too much vanity or<br>ego left... if I were the skygods, wouldnt be interested in<br>egotistical vanity head types... but somebody like joe would make a<br>good hand.. Street wise.. made it out of the city on his own steam,<br>and doing what he knows he should....<p>he was doing these voice things, of people in denial, who couldnt wrap<br>their mind around getting out of ground zero city.. it was pretty<br>good.. could imagine similar noises coming out of some readers of<br>this blog...<p>Joe has the right idea, get out of Babylon &amp; get low... same thing<br>I&#39;ve been saying for years..<p>I wish Joe &amp; company well.. nice to hear some human decency on the<br>short wave...<p>anyway, I&#39;ve been steadily working on electric guitar.. everyday seem<br>to learn some little thing that adds to my ability...<p>its been rainy here.. Hard to get into the garden, did get some Sagu<br>planted today...<p>so, nice to have the guitar to keep me feeling like I&#39;m making progress..<p>its a bit different at a base level lifestyle.. I&#39;m not on the go<br>constantly.. Would be food inefficient if nothing else.. the first<br>world life, is like being a power pig... plenty of Oink &amp; Boink, but<br>it really doesnt make you any more alive, to eat perhaps 3x what I do<br>per day...<p>I like being relaxed... minimalism is very powerful.. The more<br>minimalistic you are, the more secure &amp; happier you seem to be...<p>I might make $50 worth of progress a month.. sure seems better than<br>being under water &amp; upside down on a house payment..<p>dont own a car.. its walk or ride the bus.. dont miss the insurance<br>payments.. Nor the job to pay for it all..<p>living minimalistically and working towards humility &amp; preparedness<br>are satisfying..<p>I was thinking the other day, I wouldnt want what passes for a normal<br>life... dont need a big house to wander around in, I have outside...<br> Gris likes to play outside, more than in the house.. my shelter is<br>like my room, where I keep my toys &amp; sleep at night.. gotta get me a<br>teddy bear, and life will get all better....<p>I think I have one working on me now... Female type bear, warm &amp;<br>fuzzy... Getting insistant...<p>seems to have figured out that my straight foreward manner of speech,<br>has a higher truth ratio than the local ambient male babble...<p>we&#39;ll see, havent been able to run her off with the truth.. we&#39;ll see<br>where it goes.. I&#39;m not too worried, lived alone so long I&#39;ve almost<br>forgotten how miserable being married was...<p>almost... But not quite..<p> these days, I ponder human egocentric nature.. have realized theres<br>two levels; the social person level, and the hidden monster level..<br>And that Mr. Monster likes to hide in the blindspot of the mind...<p>Its why your shrink cant fix you.. He&#39;s got a monster too, just better<br>at hiding it, and worse at succumbing to its greed....<p>only way to fix your monster, is to realize what it is, by observing<br>your own thoughts, and tossing out the absurd, or lower motive<br>stuff...<p>the monster is really bad, always suggesting bazaar things... I&#39;ve<br>gotten to the point I recognize him quickly, &amp; laugh him back into his<br>dark corner... feel sorry for the folks who&#39;ve let their psychic<br>monster run away with them...<p>all that time as a kid, being afraid of unknown monsters, and having<br>nightmares, and never figured out the monster wasnt under the bed, or<br>scratching at the window.. That he was inside my head with me!<p>so these days, I&#39;m on the lookout for other people&#39;s monsters... If<br>mine is as bad as he seems, what is everybody else&#39;s like!? Mine I<br>can control or ignore.. other people&#39;s monster is more insidious...<p>another point that I&#39;ve been thinking about, is how glad I am not to<br>be in the US... living alone in the jungle on a mountain in central<br>america is a dream in comparison...<p>I hear the people on short wave wringing their hands, &amp; ringing their<br>congress whore to the techno fascist gods...<p>things get worse &amp; worse, and still no sign of any guts... calling<br>congessman, bitching, non violent protests, etc. Add up to absolute<br>zero effect...<p>just put your complaint on the 3X5 card, side it into slot marked on<br>provided complaints box.. the Janitor will empty the box once a week,<br>and use the cards to light the fires in the morning down in the boiler<br>room, while you airheads are still on your way to work....<p>hey folks, until you actually get off your fat asses &amp; actually do<br>something, things are actually going to keep getting worse..<p>youre a bunch of gripers who cant wipe their own asses...<p>all boils down to two choices;<p>1. Violent revolution.<br>2. Changing yourself.<p>violent revolution is bloody, ugly, &amp; usually results in a new status<br>quo pretty much as bad or worse than the old one... are they any<br>freer in Egypt now? is Killing Kadafi going to make life instantly<br>better for Lybians? hog wash...<p>gotta change yourself.... quit niggering for the system, and stuffing<br>their toxic Mac Food into your gullet... gotta give up on the vanity,<br>gotta quit letting bankers suck your neck... gotta quit believing in<br>corrupt whores in DC, and their little big man Pimp/Prince fruit<br>cake, with the big voice, reading off a TV screen while he&#39;s on one..<p>Brother Joe has it right... gotta disconnect, gotta quit feeding the<br>big lie, gotta quit listening to your own monster... because the big<br>monster on the screen, is a shadow play of all the little monsters in<br>your boney lumpy hairy noggins...<p>get real, or die; nukes...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3472137120588255189?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-5434199645151695802011-06-19T06:44:00.001-07:002011-06-19T06:44:14.547-07:00morning,<br>home alone today.. pretty morning, sipping cafe, practiced guitar etc.<p>and pondering why people so lack a sense of us...<p>I think it defies ego.. so is a rare commodity..<br>Who can be one with anyone else? Who is into sharing these days? Who<br>cares about anyone but themselves?<p>I think we&#39;re really lost.. no real familys anymore, no real shared<br>adventures.. No horizons going to together..<p>just individual egos against the world.. With people only joining up<br>because of what they can get for themselves by being part of this or<br>that pack of Hyeenas...<p>I observe the monkeys.. theres alot of human traits in them.. They<br>have the social habits of the three stooges... humans are very much<br>like that, pushing each other in the face, trying to get the most<br>banana for themselves... When theres no shortage of bananas...<p>makes one appreciate days past, when people got together &amp; shared<br>things.. Now sharing is an inconvienant expedient between seperate ego<br>trips... who looks forward to sharing a meal with family in these<br>times? they all want to stuff their faces, and run off to do their<br>own thing, with little apreciation of being together...<p>people more into social events as a parade of their vanities.. dogs<br>are better company, and I feel like a dog lost in a world of cats...<p>anyway, I hope you have a quality group experience going... And are<br>able to feel it..<p>the closest I get to it, is visiting my little niece.. playing with<br>her, the laughter &amp; teasing, the sharing conversations.. she&#39;s still<br>really there.. Will look you in the eyes, delighted to tell you a<br>story, or listen to you...<p>I think being adult sucks... too self serious...<br>No sense of play.. no appreciation for the amazing miracles of<br>life... no sense of adventure, no feeling of happiness just being<br>together..<p>I still have the capacity.. Happy watching bugs...<p>I wonder what it will be like when the technocult goes down... like<br>some shipwrecked suvivors on a beach, really looking at each other for<br>the first time... realizing theres an us componant to the future..<br>Talking to find out who knows what?<p>where are we? Where do we go from here? What do we do first?<p>who are the natural leaders?<p>what is each of our parts from now on? who is going to join up in sub<br>groups with who? who needs to be avoided? Who is best not to listen<br>to?<p>a real assessment...<p>minus the social hierarchy.. Minus the falseness...<p>life seems to be a disaster we are unaware of...<p>I think we&#39;ve been enticed into groups too big, artificial<br>constructs... no sense of the self in balance with those around us,<br>no sense of place.. We have no value other than to groups too big to<br>appreciate who we are, or what we add to the collective pot....<p>too many complications... too much going on... No focus on<br>fundamentals... No real need for each other... No love.. just me, me,<br>me....<p>we group up to acquire money, then split up to spend it on ourselves...<p>what will we do when there isnt any money? Nothing to buy? when we<br>find ourselves stranded on an island not visited by humans in<br>generations..<p>when theres just us, and a reality that is, like it or not....<p>does anyone have a knife? Any other tools? Is there a way to build fire?<p>what will it be like when the isolation of ego is broken?<p>I&#39;d likely not be real happy to find myself on the desert island with<br>most people...<p>all they know is from TV... knowing stats from a sports team, or who<br>won a Grammy isnt really knowing anything of value pertaining to<br>living..<p>mental masturbators... no sense of even the fundamentals of life..<br>if they could make a computer fill in the blanks, &amp; push a shopping<br>cart, theyre well adapted survivors in their own minds...<p>nothing without their beloved system...<p>pudgy morons, who&#39;ll look alot better thinner before their boughten<br>clothes wear out and they really have no pretenses left...<p>me?, I&#39;d do fine even alone... I know how to peel &amp; open a coconut<br>with minimal effort...<br>I generally carry a few tools.. I know how to make things from<br>available resources..<p>&quot;Oh, I think I&#39;ll go for a walk..&quot;<p>why? give them some time to think past stupid questions... give them<br>some time to realize what it really means.... let them think about<br>what they dont have any more..<p>in minutes I&#39;d have a staff cut... in an hour I&#39;d be fed... in a<br>day I&#39;d have a shelter...<p>&amp; I probably be looking for someplace nice to hang out, looking for<br>signs of water..<p>start making other tools for survival purposes, and likely content doing it...<p>if I&#39;d had any warning, I&#39;d be really well equipped..<br>I am a survivalist by nature... Its what I like best...<br>Nothing pleases me more than lack of bullshit...<p>I&#39;d probably wander off from the group, and set up my camp.. Let them<br>have their soap opera...<p>While they debated the chances of rescue, I&#39;d be enjoying the process<br>of bettering my situation, likely unconcerned with getting back to the<br>outside world.. I&#39;d be curious about the fish on the reef... what<br>kind of plants on the island... How does the sky look? Will there be<br>rain soon?<p>to me the thoughts would be familiar &amp; comfy.. No stress other than<br>getting a roof before it rained.. Simple task.. Gather up some sticks<br>and palm fronds, arrange properly, like a baboon building a nest...<br>And I&#39;d know where I was, just by looking at the stars, knowing the<br>water temperature, seeing what kind of plants...<p>all arcane knowlege to the average city dweller.. Hardly a clue...<br>wouldnt know a fish trap from a deadfall...<p>Women more likely to have makeup &amp; a credit card, than a pocket knife<br>or a lens...<p>might be fun.. observe their trips... would the socialists try to<br>convince me that my possessions were group property? would the<br>capitalists try to cheat me out of my things? would there be<br>politicians making speeches about the betterment of all?<p>I probably wouldnt notice, would be off doing the fundamentals.. Not<br>hearing their crap... I&#39;d be on my way to fish roasting over a small<br>fire on sticks, sipping coconut water, gathering resources to upgrade<br>my materialism.. thinking about small projects...<p>I&#39;m the guy, who carried a bag full of survival tools for years<br>everywhere I went.. crazy I know, but it was fun watching people&#39;s<br>reactions to a man with a heavy leather shoulder bag that bulged with<br>things that boggled airport security types in the old days before<br>they&#39;d been hyped into insanity.. often carried rifle cases in<br>airports.. never thought of a terrorist act, not even once...<p>and every time I&#39;ve been to sea, had a rather serious collection of<br>the basics with me... wouldnt consider going up a gang plank without<br>such stuff in my sea bag...<p>Do you suppose the women would be eyeing the men in a new light?<br>would the preditors be wondering if it was a good time to dump their<br>rich husband? cut her losses? Can always get half or better, if she<br>makes it back to a judge...<p>How long before the yuppie jock type would be thinking to take my<br>tools by force? would he expect an unpleasant suprise? Would he come<br>puffed up with physical authoritarianism? threaten me first to see if<br>I was going to be easy?<p>would they attempt a democracy, and a pseudo polite meeting? &quot;we&#39;ve<br>all decided..&quot;<p>would there be anyone worth teaming up with? Or just a bunch of<br>useless social parasites, pretencious, &amp; self important?<p>you dont suppose there would be any manipulator types do you?<p>looking for the meerest leverage..<p>well, this is kind of what we&#39;re all facing...<p>the Hyeenas have followed the Jackals into a trap..<p>but they way outnumber the jackals... looks like carnage ahead if<br>they all dont wake up suddenly... And realize that none of their<br>assumptions are going to apply...<p>Its a big island... Safety in numbers is a myth...<p>safety in solitude is more real... To be apart from the group thinks..<br>To not be caught up in who&#39;s who etc....<p>I suspect I&#39;d try to help others.. But I doubt I&#39;d like most of them<br>until they started getting real....<p>anyway, thats where we are collectively... A few are preparing, but<br>even fewer likely have a grasp on how bad things are going to get if<br>they keep supporting the system...<p>fatal ego..<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-543419964515169580?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-73740713549490202172011-06-16T11:08:00.001-07:002011-06-16T11:08:41.572-07:00morning,<br> home alone, contemplating world situation, and how obvious it is<br>that world war three is coming over the horizon at us...<p>one thought I had this morning, was how easy it would be to use the<br>high tech survielance stuff in US, to create an automated elimination<br>system for patriot gun owner types etc...<p>I think theres a digital trail that leads to your door, and with GPS<br>connected to your ID, house number, car, etc. would be very easy to<br>work up an automated elimination system using drone aircraft flown by<br>a computer, that flew around, launching missiles into houses, much to<br>the suprise of the good old boys sitting on their pack rat&#39;s stash<br>therin..<p>&quot;oh? You didnt turn your guns in? well that gets you to be first kid<br>on your block with a hellfire missile launched at you...&quot;<p>like I&#39;ve said before, best you not be on your hoard when the shit<br>hits... best your hoard be elsewhere, and you in the same general<br>vecinity...<p>they know your house, they can track your fone and car... And even<br>have programs to predict your future movements..<p>only option, is to think of a place to go you&#39;ve never been before,<br>and have your bug out kit get you there.. and have your stash divided<br>up and hidden in several different locations.. so you can go hide<br>out, then later pick which stash to use first etc..<p>personally I suspect whats coming will require absolute mobility, and<br>none of that on existing roads...<p>really I think its better to keep materialism minimized, and mobility<br>maximized... I even have questions about the wisdom of relying on<br>firearms.. I think hiding out until its down to primitive weapons, is<br>a better option...<p>there will be no shortage of killing, what there will be a shortage<br>of is surviving..<p>guns are for killing, primitive stuff is for survival..<p>much wiser to hide in a thicket up on a mountain, than be in a fire<br>fight on your stash heap...<p>I think Robin Hood would have a better chance of surviving whats<br>coming, than Rambo will...<p>you notice robin hood didnt live in town, and fill his house with ammo &amp; gold...<p>The Sheriff might have been capable of coming up with a plan to snag<br>him if he had...<p>I think the demise of a good many good old boys, will be from<br>collecting toys, more than using noggins...<p>first, I try not to live in town.. I also dont own much.. most<br>people have several times more in their garage, than I own...<p>I&#39;m suspecting that most people trying to hang onto too much will be<br>their downfall.. Then theres location.. Living in town, is laughable<br>from a survival standpoint..<p>like building a fallout shelter on ground zero..<br>Its not going to be quite good enough there...<p>personally, I&#39;m happy I dont live in a target country.. anybody who<br>nukes Costa Rica missed their target.. and all involved laughed at<br>forever if there is anything left to reboot from...<p>theres nothing here.. Its like a movie scene copy of a california<br>county.. but theres really not much behind the plywood.. no<br>industry, no agriculture, whole economy based mostly on tourism..<p>&quot;come see the mudhole on top of the volcano etc.&quot;<p>all the parks look good on maps.. but the place is so small, that it<br>doesnt add up to anything...<br>you can sail a boat from one end of the country to the other in a day,<br>if theres a day with any wind...<br>there are lakes bigger than this country...<p>anyway, I think the US is going to get nuked, as in a first strike..<p>its like a bully on steroids, and all the little guys have guns...<p>Chinese correctly claiming US in default..<br>Fighting multiple wars, using a fluff based economy, is going to be a<br>short movie.. basically all the US has is a military.. Financed by<br>stealing lunch money from smaller kids...<p>anyway, all way above me, I just get to observe the insanity from a distance..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7374071354949020217?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-82890300691594722182011-06-14T07:37:00.001-07:002011-06-14T07:37:11.270-07:00Morning,<br>just got a small cup of coffee made...<br>Recovery day, did town trip yesterday, went for the copper bottomed<br>India pot.. Got them..<p>paid $4.60 each, for 5 pots, stainless, &quot;belly&quot; pots, which is a shape<br>I like.. They nest fairly decent, have metal handles etc. So I can<br>use over the open fire... now I&#39;ll give my old pots to my nieces<br>mother, kind of mix &amp; match belly pots also, she can use them, &amp; give<br>to my niece in due time..<br>They&#39;ll match what she already has pretty good.. So I think getting<br>shed of them in that manner is the thing to do..<p>visited with my little niece on the way home, she was happy to see me,<br>I played with her, we were both laughing, she&#39;s a live wire.. going<br>to be a pretty woman some day, has kind of sandy brown hair, darker<br>eyebrows &amp; lashes, and oriental eyes from her Indian genetics.. very<br>pretty, lots of fun, extremely outgoing &amp; social..<p>her mother showed me her motor mounted on the sewing machine I bought<br>her.. I helped get motor too.. when they tried new motor, didnt<br>work, but an uncle who does electro-mechanical type work took it<br>home, found the bad connection, and fixed it.. but now she has a<br>threading problem, but will get it figured out &amp; soon sewing...<p>I bought a few forks, but my niece wanted one, so I gave.. so made it<br>home with an odd number...<p>trying to fill in on my kitchen stuff, and upgrade as I can, knowing<br>that collapse of economy &amp; WW3 are very likely, and if that happens,<br>the days of cheap &amp; available materialism will be over forever...<br>Which is why I buy more than I need..<p> I try to keep it all as portable as possible, live between the<br>fences of the neoindigenous paradigm.. keep it basic stuff.. &amp; not<br>get tempted to get things that arent appropriate to whats coming....<p>had a pretty good day observing people, saw one older Tica woman being<br>nice to a retarded guy on the bus, have seen everybody else ignor him<br>for years... I studied her face carefully, want to be able to<br>recognize her if I see her again, maybe get to help her in some way,<br>some day.. nice lady, better person than most..<p>also saw another highschool girl with a really happy character, her<br>mother was a total prune, did nothing but complain.. Told the girl<br>when she got off the bus;<p>&quot;mantener la actitude felis, es bonita.&quot;<p>she nodded &amp; smiled...<p>had problems with the bank machines again, watched the guy fill the<br>machine, then local people in line try to use, and leave empty handed,<br>I tried, got a sorry note instead of money.. So I went &amp; tried another<br>of the 5 machines in Paso Canoas, whole system was down for some<br>computer error.. So, I couldnt buy food, and came home on pocket<br>change.. Which is normal.. Here you never count on the bank machines<br>working.. always keep enough for bus fare home..<p>had a guy from my village ask if he could plant beans on my land this<br>year in October, dont know him other than by sight, never heard<br>anything bad about him etc. So I said sure... I expect several<br>families to come, will charge 10% of crop, and if I get more than I<br>need, will give the excess to single mothers &amp; widows that I know...<p>wont be much, but with beans at over a dollar a pound, every little<br>bit helps, and the single moms I know all have 5 kids each, and all<br>make a dollar or two an hour in their jobs, so I think they&#39;d<br>appreciate even a month&#39;s supply.. Kids in school etc. Everything<br>expensive now thanks to the Builderbuggerers type greedhead<br>manipulators..<p>glad I&#39;m not one of them.. When Alien arrival happens, theyll be in<br>line for the neck cutting as per book of Enoch...<p>Going to be a bad day for billionairs... And anybody else too<br>egocentric to have helped others, and I thank the Lord that I&#39;m not<br>like them... I&#39;m no saint, not even close, but I do try to help<br>people.. which I&#39;ve always done, but now even more so, after<br>realizing that the Bible etc. Is about guys with starships, and<br>primitive humans, (thats us), and that the plan includes a stiff<br>genetic editing after the coming Apocalypse... its all there, &amp;<br>reading the book of Enoch in that light has made sense of human<br>history &amp; whats going on now make perfect sense to me...<p>from what I read, theyre going to edit half of the survivors.. and<br>the deciding factor will be did or did you not help those at the<br>bottom... So I suggest you consider not buying gold etc., and instead,<br>get things to help others with, food, clothing, shelter.. Land..<p> I have food falling on the ground all the time now.. Had a single<br>mother ask me yesterday what I had.. I think a year from now, will<br>have such coming to glean under my trees.. will be a nice feeling<br>when that starts to happen... helping others is worth more than money<br>to me.. and they may have houses and better incomes than I do, but I<br>dont mind living humble &amp; helping people with more problems, in fact<br>its an honor...<p>I may not survive to arrival, but I&#39;m going to play the game as best I<br>can anyway..<p>its not about me or money, its about trying to make a better world for<br>everyone, especially the kids, and the disadvantaged...<p>I bought cake mix this month, going to go down to my niece&#39;s house,<br>and share my 55th birthday with her, she didnt get a cake for her<br>birthday due to finances, but I got her &amp; her mother the sewing<br>machine, &amp; she&#39;ll be happy to have some cake with me for sure...<p>most of the readers of my words probably cant imagine not being able<br>to have a party for their kid&#39;s birthday.. youll imagine it soon...<br>When it happens to you... so if youre stocking up on food, dont<br>forget some cake mixes eh?<p>and if you have land, plant food trees etc. So you can have food to<br>share with friends and others who&#39;ll need it... Quit relying on a<br>totally corrupt &amp; twisted system, begin to form your clans of friends<br>&amp; familys, &amp; most of all work on your ego trips and internal<br>monster...<p>better by far to live under a tarp, &amp; grow food, than chase money..<br>we can all become better people than we are... and I suggest the<br>Christian &amp; other religous types knock off all the cutsey prayer<br>meetings &amp; churchy bullshit, knock off the jargon, repent means to<br>rethink yourself, nothing more..<p>use the time you now spend in church listening to clueless hypocrits<br>to actually do something positive, give your excesses to street people<br>and homeless, quit reading people magazines &amp; watching american idol,<br>get off your butts, &amp; onto the streets of life, and do whatever you<br>can to help those with less..<p>be all you CAN be.. Work to make a better world from the inside out &amp;<br>from the bottom up...<p>life is too short to be a vanity head.. Quit aspiring to fortune, &amp;<br>begin aspiring to your own humanity..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-8289030069159472218?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-75777288163494874932011-06-12T09:38:00.001-07:002011-06-12T09:39:00.018-07:00Morning,<br>just got bannock over the sacred flames..<p>practiced guitar at dawn, spent the morning contemplating another trip<br>to town this week..<p>saw some items that I didnt pick up, &amp; best go back for..<p>all stuff I&#39;d want going into the future...<p>also saw some items that arent such necessitys, but that I will try to<br>get if possible.. musical instruments.. one for myself, and saw a<br>small kids sized violin, that I should snag to use to teach kids in<br>the family... would be a fun thing to do, start the little guys<br>onto music way young, by at every visit teaching them something on<br>the &quot;liddle fiddle&quot;, and letting them think about the experiences<br>between visits... something to do with them that would heighten self<br>esteem...<p>would be fairly easy to teach the basics, then strum along with the<br>guitar when they had a simple song going etc...<p>something real to experience... and I think thats the key to change<br>with kids, combat the plastic garbage reality with real experiences &amp;<br>valuable learning.. That if one knows something fundamental, teach it<br>to kids... They certainly must get tired of academic crap &amp; hard<br>chairs.. Mental constipation from the bottom up...<p>its like at the bus station the other day, talked to a little girl &amp;<br>her mother, and my focus was on telling stories interesting to the<br>girl, including about living in the mountains &amp; having 20 plus<br>monkeys come into my kitchen... And the other animals...<p>that little girl will think about those stories &amp; me... And she&#39;ll<br>know me next time we encounter... It cost me nothing to do, to share<br>some experiences with a girl of maybe 7 years old..<p>so I think collecting instruments even for kids could be a good idea..<br>Give them a real experience, teach them something every time you see<br>them, something real, or a new way of thinking..<p>we shall see...<p>the other instrument I saw was an electric violin.. Which I find<br>intrigueing... having both acoustic violin, &amp; electric guitar....<p>what I&#39;ve realized, is I should live my life as an example to others,<br>especially kids..<p> that if I constantly better my neoindigenous lifestyle, the kids at<br>least will be impressed due to it&#39;s contrast with normalcy.. and the<br>better &amp; more complete &amp; artistic I can get my own little alternative<br>reality, the better it will seem, to some, in comparison to the<br>current normalcy paradigm..<p>over the next few years should be able to pull together neoindigenous<br>shelters, nicer garden, and work more with the animals.. Add that to<br>the fruit plantings, and the forest on the farm etc. And it would seem<br>to kids like I lived a magic life, in another world...<p>I plan on pulling it together down to the clothing, and things like my<br>hobbies...<p>where its all a harmonious whole.. Like the Indian grandfather still<br>living the old way.. But in my case, doing a designer neoindigenous<br>life style myself.. A new twist on the vignette... Not live the old<br>way, live the new way, ahead of the post technocult reality coming..<p>live life as I think it should be lived, not as it is lived..<p>anyway, not picking up instruments next trip, going mostly for some<br>kitchen items.. stuff to upgrade my pots, and allow me to put aside<br>what I&#39;m using now, to be given away to some younger person when they<br>go out on their own..<p>I think the industrial society as we know it is on its way out, one<br>way or another.. I dont agree with that as a public policy, nor do I<br>want any government&#39;s nose up my butt.<p>basically people are figuring out that politics, politicians,<br>industrialists, bankers etc.. are best described as Satanic, and<br>that we&#39;re more than sick enough of the manipulation &amp; control<br>trips...<p>get out of my fucking life, &amp; stay out! or else!<p>a bunch of self righteous busybodies on ego trips, screwing things up<br>as bad as possible, &amp; calling it improvement...<p>working for my good? Hardly, do I look like a stupid cow or something?<p>&quot;to Arms! warriors, to Arms!&quot;<p>get your neoindigenous trip in proper order, and head for the forests<br>&amp; mountains one step at a time...<p>and never stop trying....<p>I think the neoindigenous movement is going to explode soon... its<br>like dynamite, with cap &amp; fuse on both ends... from remaining<br>indigenous, and from those headed back that direction.. The goal of<br>course is the balance point.. &quot;sanity&#39;s fulcrum&quot;...<p>and we&#39;ll be able to tell who makes it there, by whether they survive or not..<p>and I dont think its about Pow-Wows &amp; Rituals, and big meetings..<br>Thats all real nice, but I think its less about warm winds from damp<br>mouths, &amp; more about actually doing it on individual levels.. talk<br>wont get you there.. Good planning, &amp; Relentless action will..<p>substance or fluff, you choose, &amp; bet your life on it.. and the lives<br>of those who might have followed you out in time..<p>anyway, sun peeking thru the clouds, a small fire heating a wee bit<br>of coffee water, the gypsy kings low in the background, Sunday, so not<br>much noise from way down on the highway...<p>They must have had a dance in the village last night.. Sounded pretty<br>horrid musically.. wasnt the gypsy kings, thats for sure.. sounded<br>like head banger garbage truck noises... some Latin music is soooo<br>good, and the rest so horrid... just like in the US I guess, what<br>creativity gets past the breakwaters of greed.. And the rest of the<br>contrived &quot;Talent&quot;, that if it was paper, would be on a roll in a<br>public rest room...<p>one area I hear on short wave that puts out the best music, is Eastern<br>Europe.. if I had real internet access, I&#39;d be searching radio<br>stations or what ever to sample &amp; collect the best of what comes out<br>of there, obviously having a rennaissance similar to the 70&#39;s..<br>perhaps due to post Soviet dynamics?<p>I heard there were no Russians at the Builderbuggerer&#39;s meeting this<br>year.. do they smell bad to Elite noses? Or do they know better?<p>well interesting times we live in.. status quo attempting an<br>&quot;Anti-Tao&quot; style take over.. also heard a quote from one of the star<br>wars movies.. straight out of the Tao...<p>basically their New world Order hasnt a chance in hell of working..<br>and you&#39;d best be prepared for the worst, working for the best, and on<br>your way out of Babylon, in case there&#39;s still time to get beyond the<br>city limits sign..<p>I dont think most people really grasp what large nukes will do to even<br>mega cities.. One goodsized nuke would rubble NYC out to that city<br>limits sign, and flatten it so hard, you&#39;d see the impression of road<br>shoulder rock thru the aluminum.. And char the post, fling it a<br>hundred meters away, then have the returning suction wave throw it<br>partway back..<p>its not just a bright flash and youre in heaven folks.. its a bright<br>flash, youre in hell for a few rather personal seconds, then the<br>blast wave hits, carrying broken glass and debris, then the return<br>suction wave carries even more projectiles back towards the center...<p>basically if youre within sight of a city, whats left of you before<br>you slowly expire, will look like a cross between a freeway road kill,<br>and a napalm victim...<p>aint going to be heaven.. Its going to be a stinking, burnt, guts<br>busted bag of fragmented bone splinters, &amp; raw lacerated meat still<br>trying to breath &amp; think..<p>what do you suppose those last thoughts will be?<p>perhaps a dawning realization of the real reality?<p>that you had nearly endless chances to get out, &amp; instead you played<br>unicorn games &amp; dances...<p>&quot;Hey Lord, we got your green alligators, and long necked geese, humpty<br>backed camels and chimpanzees...&quot;<p>but there arent going to be any bliss ninny unicorns...<p>genetically edited for lack of practical good sense..<p>thats why theyre called bliss ninnies...<p>the first prerequisite for survival, is using your brain ahead of time...<p>and taking real actions.. best not be the cockroach on the anvil when<br>the hammer drops..<p>anyway, sipping my coffee now, black, and appreciating the gallon jar<br>of tadpoles on the table.. Used to bring them in as a kid.. Decided to<br>try it again to see if it would bring back the feeling of<br>wonderment... yup! Its still fun to watch the little squigglers doing<br>their happy water ballet routines..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7577728816349487493?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-45579636513669889042011-06-10T11:02:00.001-07:002011-06-10T11:02:49.975-07:00Morning,<br>looks like a nice one..<br>Spent yesterday doing a town run, came home bus beat, but packing<br>food, and some baubles...<br>got a small steel wok, 12 inch, and a small whisk for stirring my<br>dry bannock mix, and a decent can opener for the kitchen.. also got a<br>pretty good expresso machine, stove top type to replace one lost 16<br>years ago..<p>looks like dry peas went up in price a third in one hit.. &amp; white<br>flour up 25 cents on a 5 lb bag..<p>so best I use some bananas in my bread today..<p>was a bad day for girl watching on busses, all the fat &amp; uglies were<br>out in numbers... the ticas seem to be gaining weight in spite of<br>higher food prices..<p>unbelievable really what people do to themselves in a consumer<br>culture... consume...<p>also got a pair of rubber boots, and some anti foot rot cream..<p>stopped to see my little neice, but she was off visiting her dad in<br>the hospital, he has leptospirosis.. yup! loose pigs and dogs above<br>village water supplies, and the rats are on a high cycle.. tried to<br>get legal system in Cortez to do something about the loose pigs etc..<br>For 12 years...<p>but it was a wink-wink nod-nod gringo problem...<p>last year my worker&#39;s mother almost died of same disease.. she let<br>pigs run loose sometimes too..<p>saw they have electric violins coming into some of the upscale stores<br>now, thinking to put one on lay-away in a couple months, I have a nice<br>enough acoustic violin, have played since JR high school, and now<br>doing well on the electric guitar, so interested in possible special<br>effects added to violin... was also looking at bigger guitar amps,<br>will need one a year from now.. trying to get stocked up on<br>instruments etc.. Figure the days of materialism will soon be over..<p>and I&#39;m not much into canned music, its a placebo for the real thing..<br> music has become a spectator sport.. and personally I feel that<br>creativity is belly up in the music industry...<p>I find playing instruments to be a most relaxing hobby, &amp; likely a<br>better idea than taking happy pills... the problem with modern<br>culture is its unreality.. people stressed by all the top down<br>bullshit... its one of the reasons I opted out of the US, was tired<br>of unnecessary bullshit in a public works job, I noticed that there<br>was new crap added weekly... And I&#39;m not so much of a chicken that I&#39;d<br>stay &amp; take it....<p>had an ant eater wander thru my kitchen the other morning, I talked to<br>him, and he went on his way, a pretty animal...<p>the leptospirosis is due to contaminated water supplies, alot of tico<br>water systems consist of a pipe in a creek... Which is fine, unless<br>theres something to contaminate ground water... basically without<br>strong antibiotics for a week or more you&#39;d be dead meat.. which is<br>why I use from a covered spring...<p>suggest you survivalist wannabees do some research on open source<br>water supplies.. runoff into wells etc. Has a long history of killing<br>people, which is why the hand dug wells on farms 100 years ago had<br>quaint roofs, raised sides, and ground sloped away from them, &amp; tight<br>fitting covers when not in use... the hand dug well is still a viable<br>option, wouldnt fear using one myself if properly built... but who<br>knows anything these days? wont learn how to build a proper well or<br>spring in school...<p>nowdays people think you need a drilled well costing thousands of<br>dollars, and a filter costing hundreds... and if you think food is an<br>issue, wait until things get a bit drier..<p>personally if I was starting from scratch on flat ground, my first<br>investment would be a decent well &amp; a windmill for pumping &amp; a raised<br>tank... because without water, aint nothing going to live there.. No<br>house, no garden, no happy people...<p>here, on the farm, I have several good springs coming out of the<br>limestone mountain.. I use from one of them and have all the water I<br>need..<p>the mountain is my filter... and I dont have pigs...<p>I do have people&#39;s hounds... Another endemic tico related problem..<br>so I could be dead, thanks to local attitudes... but so far OK...<p>its like I told my worker; that he should consider himself lucky..<br>Could have been my little niece, she&#39;s not near as tough as her<br>dad....<p>and he got his butt kicked bad by some tiny microbes...<p>folks, it pays to focus on fundamentals, instead of fluff...<p>anyway, the sun is coming over the mountain, looks to be a nice day...<p>and I just lit a fire for some tea... also checked out the garden<br>this morning, I can get back into it now with the boots.. Was rainy<br>for awhile, and the foot fungus was getting serious enough I waited<br>for the boots and medicine... best be prepared to keep your feet<br>dry..<p>its all about the basics, building your reality from the bottom up,<br>and from the inside out...<p>the system has been milking you your whole lives.. Every day, every<br>way, sold the big lie, hook, line, &amp; sinker....<p> like the census, asking all kinds of unnecesary questions here<br>now... whats it all about? information to use against you.. You<br>dont suppose theyll be charging families carbon tax on what they<br>collect?<p>its all to be used against you.. Every bit...<p>if you think the system is your friend, then black is white...<p>me? Going retro as fast as I can.. back to what really works, &amp; that<br>isnt dependent on some assholes on high, making decisions for my own<br>good...<p>and I&#39;m trying to get ahead of the curve on it... not calling my<br>professional liar misrepresentitive, expecting him to do it for me...<p>I hear theyre SWAT teaming companies that sell cherry extract &amp;<br>elderyberry, and acidofolus..<p>for claiming health benifits...<p>welcome to Satan&#39;s world....<p>funny, my elderberry just keeps on growing...<br>as do my cranberry trees... Dont hear me complaining about good stuff<br>disappearing off health food store shelves... why? Not lying to<br>myself, thinking I can live in a city &amp; buy health...<p>its like trying to live in a septic tank, by buying perfume...<p>dont buy it, grow it... dont bitch, leave it..<p>dont see me watching nature programs on TV either..<p>how absurd....<p>do bunny rabbits watch bunny rabbit porno?<p>anyway peaceful morning here... birds singing, a locust zithering,<br>and the sounds of an airplane crop dusting bananas up the valley,<br>quicker cancer for kids, thanks to profits for chemical company<br>stocks...<br>
I&#39;ll give you the first clue; if it has money involved, its toxic...<p>its like american history... why did the indians fight thousands of<br>battles? well, because to them building cities and raping the earth,<br>was sheer insanity.. the Insane side won...<p>insanity, is anything that goes against the laws of nature... &amp;<br>sooner or later, insanity begins to run into natural limits, and also<br>natural reactions....<p>now, many people visit shrinks in an attempt to find sanity... Mr.<br>Shrink is supposedly &quot;well Adapted&quot;... to what? the big lie, i.e.<br>Insanity...<p>so youre paying $100 an hour to have someone more insane than you are,<br>tell you how to live...<p>you dont find the sea, climbing mountains...<p>if you want to be sane, it isnt about adapting to insanity... its<br>about getting out of insanity, by using your brain first, &amp; feet<br>second... and time is getting short.. soon only option left, will be<br>to run...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-4557963651366988904?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-29386155823669083772011-06-04T08:24:00.001-07:002011-06-04T08:24:50.930-07:00after midnight...<p>am awake due to a cup of coffee..<br>and was listening to short wave.. Alex Jones...<p>heard a couple good interviews...<br>Good to hear people starting to fight back against the FEDS, my<br>thoughts were; fight them every step of the way BEFORE violence<br>becomes the only/last option...its a responsibility really, if people<br>do nothing until violence is the only option, they then share<br>responsibility for the violence..<p>resistence is best done in progressive stages.. prepare for the worst<br>of course; buy firearms &amp; plenty of ammo, and stash at least half, and<br>perhaps 3/4&#39;s not in your home...<p>but until the issue is forced, do everything possible to cure the<br>problems short of violence first...<p>Sounds like Texas legislators are going to try to pass the anti TSA<br>sexual assault bill... In spite of Federal threat of a Texas No Fly<br>zone...<p>other states working on the same... personally I wouldnt bother, I&#39;d<br>just arrest TSA supervisors who give the orders to assault people,<br>with authority comes responsibility.. if they give the orders to<br>commit such illegal searches and gross violation of privacy, and<br>sexual assault, then they, and the people above them, all the way to<br>the top, should be jailed &amp; tried in all 50 states... and if they did<br>give the orders, they should be sentenced to terms on par with sexual<br>offenders &amp; violators of constitutional rights. Period...<p>no terrorist organization could ever do as much damage to America as<br>the Federal government has done, consistantly, year after year, my<br>whole life..<p>I also heard the phrase &quot;intelectually bankrupt&quot; used to describe the<br>status quo.. I&#39;ve used that phrase in this blog to describe the same<br>status quo before, and was pleased to hear a lucid &amp; admirable young<br>man who stood up to TSA use the same phrase... in our opinions of the<br>status quo we are brothers, even though we might differ elsewhere...<p>and thats what its about folks, finding what we agree on, and fighting<br>together to fix such problems, each in our own way..<p>it also sounds like indictments of the fraud bankers are starting to<br>happen... they need to be put away for life... All of them<br>responsible... the amount of damage done to the number of people is<br>mentally staggering... a slap on the hands is not enough...<p>another thing I noticed tonight, was that several people interviewed<br>sounded like real people.. not professional talking heads.. I think<br>people should learn to be better listeners &amp; support people who sound<br>like common man, &amp; never ever never support anyone enguaging in double<br>speak, or who makes excuses, or who doesnt answer direct questions by<br>going off on unrelated tangents.. Listen to how pro politicians<br>speak... Learn to pick up on their games, and then corner them at<br>every opportunity, &amp; expose them for being the sleazy liars they<br>are...<p>Vampires dont like searchlights...<p>nor the wooden stake of focused logic &amp; truth...<p>nail them at every opportunity... no quarter.. Theyre toxic snakes at<br>best... vote for normal people, not good old boys, or slick<br>talkers...<p>basically the reactions are beginning... People standing up for whats<br>right, and refusing to accept whats wrong... its a trickle now, but<br>it signifys the turning of the tide... get with it.. form the new<br>paradigm in your own mind first...<p>thats the real battle ground...<p>personally if the FEDS want to declare where I live to be a no fly<br>zone, it wouldnt bother me a bit.. i&#39;d just find something else to do,<br>probably giving FEDS hell in nature, and consider it a fun hobby as<br>well as a duty..<p>and for the people who put up with the cat in the microwave routines,<br>and the drooling power hungry TSA dirty glove gropers;<p>&quot;SHAME ON YOU, FOR GOING ALONG WITH SOMETHING THATS PATENTLY WRONG!&quot;<p>whats wrong with you? Why are you such gutless idiots? Have you no<br>pride? Have you no limits? Have you no sense of whats right &amp; wrong?<p>another point I want to make, is that I&#39;m proud to be a conspiracy<br>theorist! repeat; proud! please call me that more often... better<br>a fun hobby like checking out possibilities and searching for truth,<br>than being a stupid sheep... Baaa! Baaaa! Thats all I&#39;m good for!<br>Wool over my eyes &amp; being a Mutton hunk..<p>also I would like to state; that there is little more disgusting than<br>media people playing spin doctors... lying and deception, &amp;<br>misinformation, is not a respectable profession... The Barbie &amp; Ken<br>doll news presenters are dog vomit.. stepping in cat shit barefooted<br>is a better passtime, than watching the plastic dummies... just<br>imagine them having lines from the sides of their mouths, down to<br>their chins.. lap dummies for corporate vantrioquists...<p>Oral bimbos &amp; oral gigilos...<p>if they werent doing that, they&#39;d be offering cheap sex in public restrooms...<p>if an interviewer&#39;s questions dont have any &quot;bite&quot; its not a real interview...<p>yeah, let me ask the talking heads the questions on national TV...<br>would be good business for their shrinks after I got done with the<br>worse than worthless bastards... Imagine the questions Obama could be<br>asked point blank... &quot;do you enjoy being a habitual liar?&quot; &quot;have you<br>considered getting your skin bleached, so you dont make people of<br>color look bad?&quot; &quot;have you ever admitted to yourself what you really<br>are?&quot; &quot;dont you think you should pray to God to help you with your ego<br>monster?&quot;<p>anybody with a conscience who did what these types do for a living,<br>would contemplate suicide...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2938615582366908377?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-16569060239029718152011-06-02T07:54:00.001-07:002011-06-02T07:54:25.279-07:00afternoon,<p>light rain just stopped..<p>I&#39;m home alone, sipping tea, made on a little oil stove I built from a<br>stainless chowder mug &amp; tuna can.. Runs on veggie oil.... Nice for<br>rainy days in my open air shelter...<p>worked on a bit of organisation this morning.. Washing kitchen items,<br>storing...<p>and did a couple practice guitar stints that went fairly good...<p>Listened to short wave last night, caught Albert Addisk, a personal<br>favorite, recently given national fame by being bad mouthed by 60<br>minutes for telling the truth; i.e. Second ammendment is for<br>overthrowing corrupt governments...<p>bad news little fat crooked dronies...<p>these guns are for you, if you insist on your little petty tyrant&#39;s games...<p>yup! Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc. Had something the modern<br>Pillsbury doughboys in offices dont; &quot;foresight&quot;...<p>and they figured you slimeball Scribes &amp; Pharasees would eventually<br>creep upwards out of the muck of your own making, and become Gods in<br>your own minds...<p>so they rigged the game to where when you started rigging it, the<br>public would always be a step ahead of you buying &amp; trying hand &amp;<br>shoulder fired artillery..<p>and the more you restrict it, the more market demand, &amp; the less<br>people will respect the assinine laws... which means if you keep<br>pushing, you end up on a saw horse, hooked to a lamp post by your<br>neck..<p>where its likely some widow or Orphan will give the sawhorse a kick,<br>for what you did to Dad in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Iran etc...<p>anyway Addisk pointed out things I&#39;ve said here before, that<br>complication leads to failure, and to anyone with half a brain, sure<br>looks like a total collapse in the pipeline...<p>he used an analogy of Chinese peasants with oxcarts getting tired of<br>billionairs in fancy cars, and would eventually overthrow them...<p>I suspect all the ox cart type have to do is quit chasing money, and<br>go after the food, clothing, &amp; shelter, in a more direct manner, and<br>the billionairs will find themselves in need of oxcarts...<p>&#39;Dont know about you, but I&#39;ve observed that the bottom of any pyramid<br>is what holds up the top... Not vice versa...<p>also heard other programs, with the usual &quot;call your congressman&quot;<br>paradigm... Boy are people stupid...<p>&quot;Katrina Heads&quot;...<p>if you think your congressman cares about your butt bacon, I think<br>youll be disappointed in due time.. same status quo going along with<br>Patriot act to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lybia, and everywhere else for<br>that matter, some 600 insurrections going on now on planet...<p>&quot;peace &amp; Safety huh?&quot;<p>better a parachute than politics..<p>Politics is like a faggot soap opera... you fill in the similarities<br>in the analogy...<p>I&#39;m not too worried... Hangin&#39; out in a banana republic... have been<br>for years &amp; years... only an American on paper at this point..<p>why did I leave? foresight... Figured by the time the gutless found<br>guts, and the status quo got its just desserts, I could have food<br>security booted &amp; help my clan eat ocasionally, when the gutless &amp;<br>brainless were arguing over who&#39;s fault it was....<p>It&#39;s been quite the learning experience... Figured out I didnt need a<br>house, car, nor job...<p>I remember Monday, the dread day after Sunday...<p>today I ate home grown beans, home grown breadfruit, &amp; homegrown<br>bananas... Only the tea &amp; seasonings were boughten..<p>the electricy for guitar, fone, lightbulb &amp; radio, all came from a<br>single solar panel...<p>most of my cooking fuel is sticks...<p>I really dont need the system... best buy a few more guitar<br>strings... Theyre on the shopping list...<p>Most of my list is preparedness items...<br>Every month I whittle down my list... An item or two better prepared...<p>this time will be shopping for a standard pair of vise grips.. Mine grew legs...<p>will be nice to have again.. Prime survival &amp; subsistence tool..<p>its that simple... Vise grips, guitar strings.. buy a bit of food to<br>keep the monotony at bay... look for a kitchen item, get a couple<br>stasher machetes.. try to find an item or two of project ingredients,<br>so I can finish something up &amp; have it to use....<p>not alot of vanity in the budget.. Dont miss it really.. I feel fine<br>as long as I have my bases covered &amp; can make some minor progress<br>towards preparedness.. however slight..<p>theres a new Mall open now in Canoas.. i&#39;m going to explore it this<br>trip... It seems upscale.. So hoping for maybe a few items on the long<br>term list, not available in other stores..<p>Want to find a midget pressure cooker.. Say 3 or 4 liter in<br>stainless... Also looking for a stainless Wok, Chinese shape, on the<br>smaller end size wise...<br>And I&#39;m also looking for a small stock pot of decent quality, of a<br>gallon or so.. this stuff is for my refugee kitchen..<br>I have similar stuff, but not perfect.. always looking for an<br>upgrade, better size, or higher quality.. my user pressure cooker is<br>also up for buying a replacement, open fire cooking is hard on<br>bakelite, and creek cleaning tends to result in rock dents... So<br>thinking to keep eyes open for another just like it, so I have spare<br>parts.. Would continue using the old one.. just have a nice new one<br>in stash dept. for when I can afford a stove someday..<p>bottom line on subsistence is budgetary humility..<br>What you have, what you need, and if theres any left, what you want,<br>or think you should get... one tends to trim off alot of things you<br>used to think you needed... Especially in the food department...<p>for instance, noodles or maccaroni costs 3x of flour here.. Same exact<br>food, in different form... so one has a hard time justifying the<br>expense.. I know how to make noodles, but generally dont bother..,<br>easier to make biscuits, dumplings, or flat breads.. when you live<br>alone, you tend to give up pretenses.. Nobody to please but yourself,<br>and the gullet is happy with wheat in a simple form... I&#39;ve even lived<br>on cracked corn &amp; corn flour as hot/cooked cereals before long term..<br>Like the Canadian Voyager once said, hunger is the best of all<br>sauces..<p>when you get low enough, even a simple diet is plenty good...<p>so I dont buy crackers, nuthin&#39;, just basic ingredients, like flour,<br>corn flour, salt, rice, peas, lentils, condiments, tea, etc... the<br>closer something is to 50 cents a pound, the more likely I buy it..<br>closer to a dollar a pound, less likely it goes into the basket..<p>I realize the speculators are driving up food prices now, so I figure<br>its my duty to give them as little as possible... people are<br>literally starving to death while others make a fat profit doing<br>nothing of value added, just speculative money games.. this is flat<br>evil... no matter how its justified.. So on boughten food, I live<br>really low..perhaps an effort in futility, but I&#39;d rather keep the<br>cash flow to the greedy bastards with a minimal amount from me for<br>principle&#39;s sake... This peasant doesnt get much cake...<p>that being said, going to hipocrit out this month, and buy a cake mix<br>for my birthday, to share with my little niece &amp; her mom, because she<br>didnt get a cake on her birthday, and I want her mom to learn to bake<br>cakes....<p>also havent had a birthday cake in maybe 17 years? might be my last<br>chance.. And I look forward to sharing cake with my favorite three<br>year old.. she dont get much cake either..<p>hopefully she&#39;ll do better in the future, we just got her mom an<br>electric motor for the Singer sewing machine I bought them, so soon<br>mom making money contract sewing, and expect my niece will get<br>birthday cake, and her mother go back to school on the money made..<p>anyway, texting as I write this with a woman friend, she just<br>downloaded the book of Enoch.. going to coach her thru.. have had<br>two other women interested in me, give excuses rather than read it..<br>Quit taking them seriously when I see that pattern.. dont need a<br>women who thinks she knows best, or who thinks excuses fly like honest<br>Eagles...<p>whats coming is too critical for attitudes..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-1656906023902971815?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-54908597034505171552011-05-29T12:25:00.001-07:002011-05-29T12:25:51.937-07:00morning,<br>sipping hot tea.. Did some filing on a couple knives, making them<br>nicer, more finished..<p>I&#39;m waiting for the sun to dry things a bit.. Maybe go putter in the garden?<p>have some hot pepper seeds to plant...<p>debating a town run, almost time for payday again, &amp; if I wait a week,<br>can do all in same trip... which would be nice, as I&#39;d be able to get<br>more items on my list..<p> later, thinking about all you cattle getting your gonads twiddled<br>because Odingdong &amp; friends want to play with your wiggly parts on a<br>pervert &amp; power trip...<p>yup! You sure are politically correct...<p>kind seems to me, that normalcy has gone a little off the track...<br>take a look in the mirror you gutless cattle... terrorism is a<br>convienant excuse... The only terrorists, work for governments...<br>generally the same one who milks you between every other friday &amp; the<br>bank.. and every body is a bunch of uncle Toms... just go along with<br>it...<p>the faggots are running things, so of course they want to make you<br>present your privates for a dirty glove digital inspection...<p>the monkeys came this morning... I cut up bananas for them.. I<br>notice nobody rubs their organs except them... that tells me the<br>average citizen on a normalcy trip gets less respect than a 5 pound<br>monkey... : )<p>the animals have more integrity than the urban cattle....<p>thats funny.. so much for vanity &amp; image... just line right up, your<br>turn next, for a little subservient violation...&#39;spose theyll stop<br>there? Or will they have TSA gang banging you between flights &amp; busses<br>next..<p>&quot;when is enough enough?&quot;<p>when the cattle realize theyre being made absolute total fools of....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-5490859703450517155?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-4927875192079628232011-05-29T12:24:00.003-07:002011-05-29T12:24:39.742-07:00Evening..<br>Listened to short wave for awhile, finally had to shut it off... I<br>can only take listening to accounts of so much human stupidity, before<br>it runs out my ears..<p>Aint nuthin&#39; going to get fixed.. fixed game, is as fixed as going to get..<p>and the fixed game, is dying of fixed game disease..<p>I wouldnt bet pocket change against the Apocalypse..<p>Washington DC is the national Pimps social club, and the citizens of<br>the US are the whores..<p>they get all the money, guess what you get girls &amp; girlie men? Yeah,<br>south end used hard...<p>its a dependency issue... raised in captivity is the best analogy...<br>you were born whores, its all you know... so you think its normal..<p>you couldnt live by your wits, even if you could find them...<p>I wonder how many people are really capable of self sufficiency?<br>theres some... A few.. some country boys and their women... People<br>that can still butcher a chicken... organic humans, not chemically<br>fed rainbow niggeroos..<p>and the survivor types aint all white...<p>its like the bigot christians one hears on short wave. Claiming a<br>patent on white people being the real God&#39;s chosen...<p>thats not what I read.. I read its the human decency types..<p>also seems to be a survivor element, or JC wouldnt have been<br>suggesting you run for the hills in Mathew 24....<p>all I hear on short wave, is people expecting politics to fix things...<p>Hey! dont know if anybody else has noticed, but politics seems to be<br>one of the major factors in whats been continually screwing things<br>up...<p>quaint notion, politics... I cant seem to think of any reason for its<br>existence, other than creating a social pecking order...<p>and Camouflaging those who have the real power...<p>I wouldnt waste 15 minutes on politics..<p>and its all I&#39;ve heard for years, everybody calling their<br>congressman... sounds like a Turkey yard to me... plenty of noise,<br>little sapiency...<p>all power comes from the muzzle of a gun...<p> no gun, no power...<p>and if you think your vote means much, I suggest you start on a diet<br>to enhance your brain&#39;s health..<p>the only things that mean much from now on, will be your systemic<br>dependency factor, and your physical location..<p>got the government sticking their finger up your butts literally, and<br>you go along with it for the sake of maintaining your part in the big<br>lie, called normalcy..<p>bleeping cattle.. scaird of your own perks &amp; payments...whining for<br>jobs &amp; money, when you should be working diligently towards self<br>sufficiency, and self defense...<p>all hell is going to break loose...<p>morning, slept pretty good, now begining my day ..<br>Perfectly blue sky, not a political cloud in sight..<br>Funny about living out in nature, there are no constant human<br>problems... what I hear on short wave is far away, distant echos of<br>Babylon..<p>Sure, there are problems here, &amp; anywhere else there are humans.. Its<br>like Burroughs wrote in Tarzan at the earth&#39;s core, that anywhere<br>there are humans, there is strife and descention...<p>all those ego monsters... Its insanity.. nash&#39;s Equilibrium to<br>describe a bunch of Hyeenas fighting over a rotten carcass of<br>imaginary wealth, while destroying the real wealth in the process..<p>root of all evil is the love of money etc... folks, money is an<br>imaginary construct, has no actual value, and even gold is just a good<br>metal for electrical contacts &amp; pretty jewelery.. people paying a<br>thousand dollar for a gold coin... Same money would go a long ways on<br>the road out of Babylon, back towards Eden...<p>I sit here writing, on a piece of land I bought for half a dozen such<br>coins.. when I bought it, it was trashed, scrub brush &amp; erosion from<br>a couple past owners slavering greed, running cattle on the side of a<br>mountain, &amp; chopping &amp; burning it before the rains came every year...<p>well, now its woods again, and fruit trees cover a small part of it..<br>Food falling on the ground I cant use.. While people go hungry around<br>the globe...<p>the problem is the focus on money..<p>a single gold coin would buy everything you really need to live...<br>and there are people filling safes with the things... while children<br>go hungry, and mothers killing babys they cant feed...<p>politics is not the sollution...<br>Money is not the sollution...<p>sanity is the solution..<p>that every man focus on reality, on fundamentals, &amp; on human decency..<br> it aint about you, its about all of us... Especially the kids..<p>maybe its time we got back to the basics of life....<p><p><p><p><p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-492787519207962823?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-33600837159579223832011-05-29T12:24:00.001-07:002011-05-29T12:24:07.673-07:00late afternoon,<br>raining medium light, thunder boomers in the far distance, kinda<br>darkish and drippy, some wind in the trees, and some of the wildlife<br>making the Jungle Ohm noise....<p>I had a good day, ate ripening bananas, have a wheel barrow load...<br>also just made some breads, while dodging squalls...<p>the fun part, was using my $2 modified butcher knife for everything<br>possible... spoon, spatula, cutting bread w/false sharpened back edge<br>at tip...<p>felt good to my vestigial childhood sense of play..<p>why be serious? nobody is watching me up here alone on a mountain in<br>central america... I can be silly &amp; chuckle at myself for it...<p>its like years ago when I decided to learn to use chop sticks.. Was I<br>being a trendy yuppie? hardly, my thoughts were that it was a good<br>survival skill to know.. and that if I learned the art, I could be<br>stranded in a survival situation, cut a couple sticks, and eat in a<br>manner familiar &amp; homey to me... Moral is the most important factor<br>in survival...<p>So, today playing Castaway Mariner, and flipping and spooning my<br>grain cakes over the fire, with cheap $2 knife.. worked great..<br>definitely can improve my knife cooking skills with more practice..<p>And it was fun modifying the knife.. how many of you can be happy<br>about a $2 expenditure?<p>After youve had your vanity on a diet as long as I have, one realizes<br>that its possible to please one&#39;s self, with slightly less than a<br>Rolls Royce....<p>its a working knife..decent stainless, trashed my file trying to<br>remove the factory edge.. I bought the knife because I expected<br>better metal than average in a cheap knife.. and guessed right...<p>so I&#39;ll play with it awhile, make up some kind of a minimalistic<br>expedient sheath for in the pack, and add it to my camping kitchen<br>stuff when I&#39;m tired of playing with it...<p>where it will always be worth what I paid for it...<p>anyway, have tea over the fire, just poured some, snug under my tarp<br>roof, my day winding down one breath at a time...<p>Had a pretty good guitar practice, mostly working on a couple new down<br>the neck chord sequences...<p>I learn something everytime I play..<p>I find learning the electric guitar in my mid fifties to be an<br>interesting experience... too old to be a suckling rocker, so I&#39;m<br>doing it for my own pleasure... my life is an experience in<br>sensory deprivation compared to &quot;normal&quot; in some ways, no TV, dont<br>listen to canned music much, sometimes go for weeks and not see<br>anyone.. which sure beats the hell out of having to show up at a<br>job...<p>but also I have the sounds &amp; sights of nature...<p>and the electric guitar is muchly techno, but I havent played with the<br>amplifier effects much yet, still just trying to muddle my way thru<br>the fundamentals... learning how to use the special effects comes<br>after I gain actual proficiency.. wouldnt consider approaching it any<br>other direction... It isnt about making noise, its about producing<br>something effective &amp; well crafted.. To be able to do that, requires<br>skill thats still a ways over the horizon from me...<p> Guitar is a big place, it takes time to learn your way around there...<p>I had an interesting experience today, have been texting with a woman<br>friend, single moming five daughters, 3 adopted.. well, she was<br>having teenage daughter problems today... fairly bad ones... and<br>texted me, and asked what to do..<p>so I told her, how to straighten out her kid in an effective non<br>violent manner.. and went further.. How to improve their<br>relationship..<p>a couple hours later, I get a two word text;<p>&quot;gracias Gris&quot;<p>cant be easy single moming 5 kids. Working the mid shift at the<br>hospital, &amp; studying to be a nurse all at the same time..<p>but I think I was sucessful in getting her refocused as to why one is<br>in the parenting business... love of children....<p>and undoubtably tweaked the daughter with an unconventional warfare<br>style of parenting technique..<p>the mother daughter bickering catfight was put to an instant stop,<br>and daughter given a piece of information that will change her entire<br>outlook on life, and mom straightened out some too...<p>I&#39;m a bit of a black belt parent.. learned it all the hard way, with<br>a &quot;how not to parent&quot; example childhood.. Like violent hicks on<br>steroids...<p> but one isnt limited by a childhood.. affected yes, limited, no...<p>anyway, it got dark... still raining steadily.. I sip my warm tea,<br>planning on listening to short wave later... hear how the universal<br>dispute is going..<p> until then, listen to the ting frogs, like wind chimes, the tropical<br>bugs zithering &amp; chirping, and all my house lizards have put<br>themselves away for the night.. Taking a cool snooze, until the<br>morning light and warmth... To begin another day of the big bug hunt..<br> must be a pretty good life... the other day a four foot green, thin<br>tree snake with a blue tounge came into my shelter hunting lizards, I<br>talked to the snake, it was aware of me, did several circuits of the<br>place, up &amp; down, came within inches of me several times.. and<br>never found a lizard.. They all vanished like magic.. MR. Snake left,<br>and 15 minutes later there were happy lizards everywhere again..<br>I&#39;ve got one of the leaping lizards taking bugs from my fingers, and<br>she guards my legs when I sit on the cot, and nails any bug that lands<br>on me below the knees.. totally tame...<p>I let the animals live in peace.. and they sense it...<p>anyway, its a good life... hard to beat rewilding yourself as a<br>career option.. the pay isnt much, but then you dont really need it<br>either....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3360083715957922383?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-11244544949172166782011-05-25T07:40:00.001-07:002011-05-25T07:40:52.131-07:00Another example is clothing; remember the classic cartoon castaway<br>on a desert island, with his clothing in shreds &amp; tatters?<p>There&#39;s a reason that vignette has made it down to us...<p>because if your clothing is limited in quantity, and youre living<br>survival or subsistence, after about a year, thats what it starts<br>looking like...<p>what that means to the long term survivalist, is you&#39;d best do some<br>thinking.. a bug out pack often assumes limited duration experience..<br> and the results of WORLD WAR THREE are going to be rather open<br>ended....<p>WW3 is evolving now... the insane status quo types are working<br>towards it daily...<p>I&#39;ve been learning survival &amp; subsistence skills by doing it... Ahead<br>of the curve... When its easiest to overcome encountered problems...<p>I think the average survivalist wannabee is going to suffer alot of<br>reality... my advice, is when in doubt, head retro... be at least<br>mentally astute in making your own gear... also stock up on things,<br>and have stashes... doesnt hurt to have excess clothing properly<br>stored some where... Or excess other tools &amp; gear....<p>its one of my own justifications for excess gear, &amp; something to do<br>with my projects after experimental developement.... it can be turned<br>into remote stash items, or just put aside for gifts for some less<br>fortunate friend who survives, but has to run from his baggage to do<br>that....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-1124454494917216678?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-73358912615967783302011-05-25T07:39:00.001-07:002011-05-25T07:39:13.334-07:00Morning..<p>awaiting dawn, in an hour..<br>was listening to short wave, progam called the power hour, and<br>heard part of an interview with some kind of private investigators<br>that Joyce Riley is using funds from her program listeners, to<br>investigate happenings to see how real whats being reported is... I<br>think thats an incredibly good idea.. For people to use collective<br>group resources to watch dog &amp; hound the status quo looking for<br>discrepancies between words &amp; reality.. As we know theyre habitual<br>liars.. best way to foil them, is to be finding out their lies, and<br>reporting on it in real time and negate their effects &amp; wake public up<br>all the faster...<p>anyway, what I booted up this morning to discuss, is a realization in<br>fundamentalism on subject of survivalism..<p>last couple days, have been working on one of my endless knife<br>projects, a $2 skinner style butcher knife that I bought suspecting<br>better quality stainless than reflected by price, at the factory over<br>runs &amp; seconds stores here on the panama border..<p>Was working on the knife, sharpening it for the first time, I also<br>shortened the plastic handle, and drilled a hole in handle, for<br>lanyard, or hanging etc. And also sharpened a false back edge near the<br>tip, for use as a cooking knife for minimalistic camping purposes,<br>where one is using the knife for spoon &amp; spatula as well as knife..<p>its an idea gotten from the Asley Knots book, that sailors in the<br>1800&#39;s used their knives to eat with instead of forks &amp; spoons etc...<p>They ate off special high sided plates made of wood, called &quot;kids&quot;,<br>that were coopered... kind of like the bottom of a wooden cask, so it<br>became a cross between plate &amp; bowl, with high sides preventing slop<br>overs &amp; spills in a seaway...<p>I suspect this eating with one&#39;s knife, out of wooden ware, goes way<br>back.. I remember as a kid, a book I &amp; my sister had, that came from a<br>generation or two earlier in the family about life in early america,<br>and how settlers made wooden trenchers to use in kitchen, out of split<br>and hollowed out sections of small logs etc...<p>this tech has made it into the modern era, as bread kneading troughs,<br>and the wooden &quot;Palangana&quot; here in central america..<br>Which is often used for cleaning home grown<br> seeds &amp; grains, where you pick out the un-yummy items before washing<br>&amp; cooking...<p>anyway, my point is; that in absolute minimalistic survival<br>situations, eating with one&#39;s knife could make alot of sense.. what<br>I have learned playing with the concept, is that a thinner flexible<br>blade works better as a spatula... And that the wider tip of a butcher<br>knife style also helps...<br> but that one wants a shorter rather than longer blade..<p>I&#39;ve experimented around this theme quite a bit..<br>one example, is I created a small trencher for a chopping bowl that I<br>use to dice hot peppers &amp; garlic etc. in cooking, I also made a<br>matching knife with just a blade wrapped with cord for a handle...<p>the knife in part was an experiment in eating knives, for absolute<br>minimalism, which is why it has no normal handle.. what I learned,<br>was a short over all blade, in this case 8 inches, wrapped handle and<br>all, made an exelent eating knife, though I tend to use it daily with<br>the chopping trencher, for my home grown condiments..<p>the knife would even fit in with a military mess kit, being flat, &amp;<br>the right length..<p>its main detraction is that the wrapped handle isnt as good for<br>cutting hard items, due to not spreading the pressure out on the<br>fingers..<p>so I think that making a custom version with perhaps slab handle<br>scales is my next experiment in ultra minimalistic survival knives..<br>what I&#39;m thinking about doing, is making handle slabs, and using epoxy<br>&amp; cord wrap to hold them on rather tha rivits.. the blade was made<br>from a Solingen type steel kitchen knife from Brazil, and the Krupp<br>stainless from Germany is very hard, and I&#39;d rather experiment with<br>the wrapped slabs than go to the effort to drill it.. Which I could<br>do, using modified carbide masonary bitts.. An old trick I use for<br>drilling very hard steel.. By resharpening the masonary bitt for<br>cutting metal...<p>I&#39;m also considering making another similar blade from scratch, by<br>cutting the handle off a butcher knife, and doing the cord &amp; slabs<br>routine on it, to create another version taking advantage of the wider<br>tip, and thinner steel.. all continuing experiments in minimalistic<br>survival knives..<p>I am also considering making a set, where a second similar knife has<br>matching wrapped slabs handle, but is a narrow bladed &quot;pointy&quot; knife<br>to use as a paring knife cooking, or as a steak knife eating.. as<br>I&#39;ve learned, that my most used knife has this shape.. not good for<br>expedient spoon &amp; spatula, but exceedingly good at peeling &amp;<br>processing chores..<p> so what I think I&#39;ll end up with, is a set of knives.. of similar<br>style construction, and size, but one a more rounded nosed<br>skinner/spatula/spoon shape, and the other a more pointed narrow<br>blade.. which makes alot of sense for minimalistic survival knives...<br>A best of both worlds situation.. And perhaps in time make a twin dual<br>sheath for the set?<p>on a related subject, I&#39;ve been considering minimalistic cookware, and<br>have realized that for doing flat breads in the brush, absolute<br>minimal is a pizza pan.. I picked up several 12 inchers at the junk<br>shops that are thicker stainless than most items available here.. And<br>I&#39;ve added a couple of them to my refugee kitchen set... fine for<br>toasting tortillas, making bannock or biscuits, frying bacon or steak<br>etc... And good for sun or fire drying food things...<p>and what I realized recently, is that the flat pizza pan shape, with<br>no raised sides, is perfect with the use of a knife for the spatula..<br>Its always those pesky sides that bring you grief, when thinking youre<br>going to pry that stuck bannock out in one piece.. Eliminate the un<br>needed sides, and unsticking things becomes much easier..<p>I&#39;ve also learned about cooking wrapped in leaves, for grease free<br>non-stick effect, &amp; also have learned how to use dry flour as a<br>non-stick element, sprinkled on the pan, then add the dough..<p>both really good skills, considering what oil &amp; lard do to the inside<br>of a backpack, and to one&#39;s health..<p>not to mention, potential unavailability in survival situations.. I&#39;ve<br>learned doing subsistence related things most of my life, that unless<br>you have domestic animals, your chances of having a high fat diet are<br>fairly slim...<p> so.. My concept of minimalistic survival cooking items includes a<br>couple of specially made small eating &amp; cooking knives, and a flat<br>pizza style pan for bannock etc.. my other most choice gear would be<br>a stainless Wok, a stock pot, &amp; a teapot...<p>add a cup &amp; eating bowl, and youre getting close to the ultimate<br>minimalistic kitchen for long term subsistence, in my opinion...<p>anyway, the current knife project, is related, but using a factory<br>handle..to create a not quite so minimalistic cooking and eating<br>knife.. I tend to experiment with all levels of subsistence gear..<p>And see a lightweight full sized kitchen knife as having a place in my<br>portage duffle...<p>Personally I dont think there is any &quot;perfect&quot; camping or subsistence<br>gear on the market.. Everything has been influenced by greed or lack<br>of adequate thinking on design...<br>So we end up with poor quality at high prices, or poorly designed gear<br>for the real conditions and purposes.. an example is yuppie<br>backpacker gear<br> and cookware.. If one had to survive long term on the stuff, one<br>would learn some uncomfortable facts....<p>fisrt, the nylon packcloth would be coming apart in about a year of<br>constant use.. its needs to be several times heavier... and the<br>thin cookware, after a year of being washed at the creek, &amp; cooking<br>over variable open fires etc., would begin to resemble a car muffler<br>after a week on an urban freeway...<p>I&#39;m afraid people&#39;s perceptions of survival gear are much in error...<br>One needs to think long term for whats coming.. the Apocalyse might<br>happen at any time, and arrival be 25 years later for all we know...<br>so if you hit the brush with Yuppie standards in mind &amp; gear, you&#39;ll<br>be a rough looking refugee.<p>continued<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7335891261596778330?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-74555216952917119282011-05-23T09:29:00.001-07:002011-05-23T09:29:56.004-07:00Afternoon..<p>overcast, cool, a couple hours until sundown..<br>Was thinking today about my thoughts about refugee kits etc.. and<br>realized that the perfect situation, is becomming your refugee kit as<br>a way of life, and not have it as something just for grabbing on All<br>Hell day...<p>if youre living the technocult, and thinking to have a grab bag,<br>there&#39;s sure to be problems.. Personally if I were rich, &amp; everything<br>imaginable accessable, I&#39;d still to expect mistakes in gear<br>carried...<p>the trail of life is littered with things let go of...<br>Some rightfully, some grave errors...<p>its like the glaring defect most military gear has... It relies on an<br>intact system in its design... same logic as people buying gold etc.<br>Now...<p>I dont assume an intact system... i dont assume the problems are just<br>going to be for a little while..<p>I assume the worst..<p>the perfect refugee kit, has no day job...<p>morning, monday... listened to short wave last night.. A program on<br>the history of Fluoride...<p>was realized in the late 1800&#39;s to be the number one industrial<br>contaminant on the planet... with mass death &amp; other effects, just<br>from smoke stack releases...<p>so &quot;They&quot; did a spendy PR campaign, and had their goverment whores on<br>the Patomic buy it at your expense, and feed it to you like rat<br>poison...<p>and did same all over the planet...<p>basically we have doctors &amp; dentists &amp; government officials, busily<br>killing children &amp; adults, based on their assumptions of knowing more<br>than everybody else....<p>wouldnt want to be in their dress shoes on Arrival day..<p> my only question, is do the Aliens provide swords for the mass<br>beheading, or is &quot;Cut necks&quot; done with ambient pocket knives? in any<br>case, dont think I&#39;d even want to be accidentally misconstrued as a<br>supporter of the system, or partaker thereof...<p>would be a good day to be caught fishing &amp; passing out the catch to<br>people in need....<p>the statement about watching the Eastern Sky for their return makes sense....<p>a starship with anti gravity coming in-system and deaccelerating,<br>would be aimed directly at the sun... And if Yahwey of Armies is a<br>good general, he&#39;ll be fond of suprises... like coming into the<br>system from the exact opposite side of the sun... the first thing<br>we&#39;re going to know, is something rather large coming around the sun<br>at us.. And the instant we pick it up, will be obvious by its shape &amp;<br>reflectivity, that it is not a natural object...<br>
I&#39;m not much of a &quot;Planet X&quot; buff.. But I have realized that a ship<br>the size of a small planet, coming in towards the opposite side of<br>the sun, using anti-gravity to deaccelerate, would cause some unusual<br>effects on this side of the sun...<p>and the closer the ship got, the more pronounced the effects would be...<p>of course the arrogant experts would explain away the phenomina as<br>natural occurances...<p>and denigrate anyone so nervy &amp; uppity, as to offer up a possibility<br>not approved by the Society for the retention of economic<br>enhancements for Supreme Hoop Jumpers....<p>yeah, hope the fish are bitin&#39; on arrival day...<p>would be a good day to be Swamp Man Joe, and passing out fish to<br>widows with children...<p>anyway, its a drippy morning here... Had planned on working in my<br>garden, but couldnt resist starting food on a good fire left over<br>from making tea, one thing led to another, &amp; now I&#39;m fed, but nothing<br>accomplished in my Nano-Eden project...<p>but tomorrow is another day... No day job, to eat up my time off.. I<br>traded humility for Pride, &amp; got time instead of vanity...<p><p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7455521695291711928?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-70491952523006690752011-05-22T06:57:00.001-07:002011-05-22T06:57:31.724-07:00Afternoon,<br> sitting beside the fire, cooking breadfruit &amp; beans in the little<br>pressure cooker...<p>not all the breadfruit would fit, so I will fry some after the main<br>pot is done...<p>living fairly wild lately; digging in garden, eating home grown food,<br>making my own music...<p>I like it! but I want to do it better...<p>Which I suspect is the proper attitude, and not being a &quot;Twisted<br>Victim&quot; (Read: T.V.).... From being brain advertised into buying<br>things I really dont need...<p>modern humans have been sidetracked from camp improvements, food<br>storage, crafts, teaching the kids, and just about everything else...<br>All they do is slave and pay interest...<p>rewilding is alot more fun...<p>have been texting with a woman friend, I think she wants to &quot;Jane&quot;<br>Tarzan some..<p>I asked her why? one of the words she used was &quot;simple&quot;... she likes<br>my simplicity... pretty good compliment for a long term student of<br>Taoist thought..<p>simple might also mean; not a habitual liar?<p>I feel sorry for the latin women... chances of getting an honest one<br>for them in their own culture, are about the same as pulling a trophy<br>bass out of a kiddie pool....<p>I&#39;m not as honest as I&#39;d like to be...<br>but alot of them make me look good..<p>what I notice about her communications, is she&#39;s figured out that life<br>in the technocult aint happydog... stressed out, working full time,<br>trying to better herself, thru education, and being a single mom at<br>the same time.. and some of the kids adopted before she had a<br>husband.. you have to respect that... Didnt just happen...<p>she spent some time in the brush as a kid.. Has figured out it was the<br>golden era of her life..<p>Likes growing plants.. no room to do so living in town..<p>we almost had a thing going years ago.. but she stood me up, and I<br>never looked back...<p>she was more interested in somebody else..<br>I figured it out...<p>she eventually ran into problems w/other guy.. And realized she&#39;d<br>made a bad choice...<p>been there myself...<p>personally I find it amazing she&#39;d be interested in me...<br>i&#39;m about as far from Latino Normal as you can get...<p>dont spend my budget on Cars, clothing &amp; perfume... i.e. Chasing women...<p>I do alot of shopping, but dont buy.. Beau hunting for Dear...<p>like the challenge, which is substancial when youre a brush rat...<p>I thought I was safe....<p>she came looking for me... Got my number from her cousin..<p>I suspect she started to figure out that a guy focused on subsistence<br>food production wasnt too crazy...<p>she has a decent job for here... Has her house... Must have decided<br>she was lacking something in her life..<p>we&#39;ll see what happens..<p>well, guitar practice is getting interesting.. into learning good<br>sounding sequences in chord rounds... dont seem interested much in<br>anybody&#39;s melody... More in to creating my own music from scratch...<br>have been into melody instruments most of my life.. Now finding chords<br>intrigueing...<p>what I sense, is theres right sounding sequences, and off sounding<br>sequences.. Its like trying to learn the code of a combination lock by<br>trying numbers... only it opens a decent percentage of the time...<p>basically what people have been doing is using the sequences as back<br>up to lyrics &amp; melody, giving depth to the music... to me, each<br>chord has a mood.. An emotional color... and different ordering<br>creates different emotional effects..<p>and I think once I learn them intuitively, I&#39;ll be able to navigate<br>the guitar in the emotional dimension..<p>singers do it somewhat.. But its not spontainious, or intuitive..<p>what I&#39;m after,is the ability to riff nonstop, and chain things<br>together, and have it sound good..<p>repretoir..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7049195252300669075?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-20393128620234872442011-05-20T11:42:00.001-07:002011-05-20T11:42:09.471-07:00Evening,<br>full moon... interesting day, went to town, bank card didnt work<br>again... Just prooves how unreliable such things can be..<br>Listened to short wave tonight, reports on continuing melt down at<br>Fukashima.. pure coverup at this point by multiple governments..<p>if you keep listening to the disinfo bimbos, youre going to get what<br>you deserve...<p>i.e. Dead....<p>basically the reality is this;<p>all governments do, is lie, steal, &amp; kill....<br>Any thing else, is accidental...<p>if you want to know what the truth is, simple rule of thumb; its<br>exactly opposite of anything you hear on mainstream...<p>sad, but true... only a matter of time until the shooting starts..<br>Not what I want to see at all....<p>so.. All boils down to your personal choices.. side with the status<br>quo, and eventually lose, &amp;/or face a chopping block after alien<br>arrival.. Sounds bazaar, but thats the truth... stars dont fight from<br>orbits, as per Judges 5:20, but ships sure could...<p>puts Bible in whole new light... I&#39;ve been researching this for<br>several years now.. Whole bible makes sense once you realize its<br>extraterrestrial.. would love to be wrong, but chances of that slim<br>to none...<p>best wake up fast folks.. Theyre planning a civil war, have been for<br>years, thats what patriot act etc. Is all about; suppression by status<br>quo, same folks that caused all the problems YOU are having now...<br>side with them, get more of the same...<p>basically the status quo is totally criminally insane.. period.<p>absolute insanity hiding under the guise of normalcy...<p>cowards will live a bit longer before their turn in line at<br>Aushwitz... die like a rat if you want... Your choice... We all die<br>sooner or later... better to go down defending your family &amp;<br>friends..<p>no guts, no glory...<p>which by the way is how Christ&#39;s resurrection is described in<br>Spanish.. Just learned that today, the ressurection is; &quot;dia de<br>gloria&quot;<p>repeat; no guts, no glory.... This time its you...<p>I&#39;d love to know whats expected of us... not into violence.. But if<br>forced, have no logical choice other than to try to do what I can to<br>stop it...<p> best be prepared for the worst mentally... Just assume you arent<br>going to live thru it... Its a well known fact in war, that those who<br>assume thus are those most likely to survive.. read Sun Tsu&#39;s &quot;Art of<br>war&quot; its there..<p>bible says same..<p>a message to the alien watchers; I&#39;m not sure what you want... But I&#39;d<br>rather die fighting to stop the insanity than let it get worse by<br>doing nothing...<p>today I was looking at the people on busses &amp; in town, realizing that<br>none of us are anywhere near perfect... but we dont deserve whats<br>happening now..<p>I got a great hug this morning from my little 3 year old niece, would<br>like to see her grow up into a beautiful woman &amp; have children of her<br>own... But given the choice, I&#39;d rather make a stand, &amp; not be there<br>to see it, than not have it happen...<p>its that simple..<p>bravery is when you overcome your fear, and do the right thing anyway...<p>heard an interesting story today;<p>out of the rio Terraba area of Costa Rica; Recently a guy was<br>fishing on the bank of the river, close to the water, and an Alligator<br>came up, and grabbed him &amp; pulled him in by the arm... his dog jumped<br>in, and attacked the alligator, the gator released the man and took<br>the dog, and the man got an ambulence ride to the hospital..<p>I hope I have the guts of a dog...<p>do you have anyone you care about more than your own ego trip? Or are<br>you less than a common mongrel dog?<p>is your packrat&#39;s nest of materialism &amp; perks worth more to you than<br>the children?<p> if so, I feel sorry for you...<p>Lord, help me do the right thing when the time comes... I&#39;m not even<br>sure what it is or will be.. but thats all I ask... just let me do<br>the right thing in the moment of truth... Resurrection or no...<p>I&#39;d rather be dead forever, than be a gutless coward... and I really<br>dont care if I live up to anybody&#39;s expectations, including sky gods..<br> as long as I get to stop short the insanity, before it gets to that<br>little girl, or any child for that matter...<p>amen!<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2039312862023487244?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-36294132342971327712011-05-16T05:44:00.001-07:002011-05-16T05:44:03.275-07:00Morning,<br> playing subsistence, spent the morning getting cooking fuel &amp;<br>breadnuts cleaned and going...<p>decided to keep it simple, will cook breadfruit &amp; beans tomorrow...<p>its the week before payday syndrom, only this time worse, last week<br>the bank machine was INOP, so I had a wasted day, &amp; had about 5 hours<br>on busses, wasted the transport fee etc, climbed the mountain, and<br>didnt get to buy any food.. but no big worry, just made food from<br>farm stuff, doing fine, and decided today just to cook &amp; munch<br>breadnuts, which I got enough for the day, from the house tree, &amp;<br>after cleaning and getting them cooking, another falls, with the usual<br>big plopping noise...<p>I put tea on at same time, have more limes than I need, and lined up<br>some cooking fuel for tomorrow...<p>I like to add citrus to tea, quit buying sugar, so just tea &amp; lemon or lime...<p>I just drained the boiled breadnuts, scooped off a few to eat now,<br>rest into stainless wok, to dry and toast as day progresses..<p>anyway, so its like being a castaway, sitting here comfy in my<br>shorts, peeling small finger food with the point of my knife, happy as<br>a clam...<p>Amazing how much better life gets for a guy, with no &quot;Sex Mommy&quot;<br>manipulating the dogshit out of him...<p>got an email from a buddy, he spent his day off helping another friend<br>leave his wife in the rear view mirror permanently..<p>story I got, was it was nice guy fed up with constant shit.. He pulled<br>his tent stakes, left her beside the trail for the next fool who<br>happens along...<p>As the Tao points out; revolution happens when life isnt worth<br>living.. Meaning the average guy with a wife is hanging out on the<br>border line..<p>and as of yesterday, another Refrigerator queen on the market...<p>bad time to be a queen minus Entourage... could affect the<br>refrigerator futures...<p>their GOD! the system, seems to be having some digestive problems...<br>Its eating up everything, and only producing problems for those<br>feeding it...<p>Sad day for women ahead.. Their protected species classification becomes moot..<p>hope I&#39;m far enough away from humanity to not have to hear it....<br>Likely would give me nightmares...<p>anyway, now stuffed on breadnuts, sipping tea with lime juice.. life<br>is OK, even without paying taxes, or trying to keep some vanity head<br>happy...<p>basically I&#39;ve gotten my economic umbilical to the beast down to $100<br>a month, and two thirds goes into preparedness stuff.. meaning when<br>the system finally goes out, I&#39;ll have everything, and plenty of food<br>coming in from the stuff I&#39;ve spent years getting planted..<p>Costa Rica has passed FEMA like nose in your farm&#39;s business, then<br>steal your food laws... I think theyre dreaming, not enough food<br>grown in the country, even if they confiscated it all, and not enough<br> mechanization in the whole country to do anything either, if imports<br>stop...<p>basically theyve been in the tourism for food business, and stealing<br>everything possible from the tourists...<p>going to be alot of hungry rats in San Jose, fighting over the last of<br>the rice &amp; beans...<p>and its a long walk to anywhere with any food, when the Mall Dream stops..<p>funny aside; I&#39;m on this date site, that wont function from here<br>with my fone... Its a rip off site, so I ignore it, but fun part is I<br>get hit on almost everyday by one or two new women.. its mostly in<br>country white women &amp; Ticas.. so what you say?<p>well, same site might have produced one or two hits a year a couple<br>years back...<p>its really getting to be a buyer&#39;s market..<p>I dont care anymore.. used to living alone, and running my own<br>life... The work load has gone way down, seemed to be a direct link to<br>female expectations..<p>now days I just get to be a happy brush rat..<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3629413234297132771?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-68498937531336234772011-05-09T09:57:00.003-07:002011-05-09T09:57:45.053-07:00from their fellow killers....<p>I also suggest that you silly city &amp; plywood cabin survivalist types<br>not have your main gun ammo and food stashes in your castle...<br>Personally I&#39;d suggest about 90% of it be stashed in plastic pipe<br>sections with threads and gaskets, burried in post holes in seperate<br>locations, near stationary but innocent looking metal objects... so<br>if they have time to do aireal sweeps with density meters and<br>magnometers, your stash looks like a windmill or what ever...<p>sitting on the shit in your home is cheap insurance youll either be a<br>martyr or a coward...<p>as some are starting to realize, theyre rolling out a &quot;soft&quot; martial<br>law now.. Proper response is to augment your mobility &amp; readiness<br>now, but far ahead of their curve... when they knock on your door,<br>its too late to decide decentralization was a good idea...<p>mobility is everything.. Personally I would not live inside of a<br>beltline highway or even in a small town.. nor would I rely on the<br>internet for my communications..<p>I happened to pick up Arni Coro last night on short wave, he was<br>talking about HF/digital communications running off car batteries in<br>disasters etc. And how digital was better than voice for energy<br>consumption, and getting thru interference etc... I suggest that the<br>serious survivalist types build themselves QRP transcievers, and buy<br>themselves a spare booksized laptop, &amp; solar panel, &amp; 12 volt gelcell,<br>with cash, not plastic card, and get all the gear into hiding in<br>remote locations...<p>I think the way to rig a HF web, is to have a send and recieve<br>interval program where your computer syncs in like military crypto<br>gear...<p>I&#39;d also be into knowing about shielded transmitting antennas.. One<br>design I&#39;ve personally built, is a stainless loop inside a grounded<br>aluminum pipe with a narrow slot in line with the loop axis.. I built<br>mine as a directional homing device for use as backup marine<br>navigation equipment, and for post shit/fan day use, I&#39;d add an<br>aluminum cap to the shielding tube...<p>I&#39;d also build my QRP rig 100% waterproof...<p>another idea I&#39;d like to publicize here and now, is the possibility of<br>building small transcievers for location &amp; ID purposes that use a<br>piezo electric crystal for transmitting energy, like out of disposable<br>cigarette lighters, and use a passive crystal set type reciever<br>circuit... like the clickers used in the D-day movie.. Something you<br>can click a friendly code on at short to mid distances with your<br>buddies... a loop directional antenna, and ground rod affair might be<br>in my design, for use as directional locator &amp; to allow the passive<br>zero power reciever...<p>another suggestion for the survivalist types, might be the planting of<br>medicinal and food plants in remote or unlikely locations... not too<br>late to play Johnny Apple seed... nut trees, apples, cherries, etc.<br>Planted along creeks, wild rice in swampy areas, etc. Will not only<br>create hard to detect food supplies, but also becon in deer &amp; other<br>wild animals for food harvesting.. You should also own archery<br>equipment.. The silent deadly shaft has been an effective advantage<br>for thousands of years...<p>also anyone buying gold or silver is likely to be prooven more than a<br>bit of a fool... a gold coin isnt going to get you much food when<br>there isnt any to buy.. Better the money got spent on excess<br>preparedness stuff in remote &amp; seperate stashes..<p>and even if you dont need it, you can pass it out to post denial head<br>friends in need, after anarchy begins... remember the last criteria<br>posed by JC, when the aliens round everybody up... did you have<br>compassion for those with less or nothing? If not you get &quot;cut off&quot;, &amp;<br>if you connect with book of Enoch, that means &quot;necks cut&quot;.. Would be a<br>shame to survive everything, and then be genetically edited for being<br>self centered eh?<p>that is the cause of the human condition.. &amp; I doubt it will be much<br>of an arguing point with Yahwey&#39;s Judging system, that you had gold<br>instead of paper, plastic, or digital money...<p>I&#39;d much rather be found guilty of handing out food, clothing, seeds,<br>ammo &amp; medicines to fellow survivors outside the FEMA wire.. and of<br>trying to liberate those caught inside....<p>Also a piece of advice... when the shit hits, be wary of running down<br>town to off your favorite lawyers etc.. most likely to be serious<br>ambushes waiting...<p>the enemy has had a long time to plan, &amp; alot of your tax money to<br>use, while you were sleeping on the couch with a ball game on, or<br>their talking heads &amp; disinfo bimbos singing you an electronic<br>lullabye....<p>the image of the beast is that device you bought on your TV stand, or<br>nowdays screwed to your wall... I gave up watching TV at age 17,<br>going on 38 years ago.. But I will admit watching El Zorro in spanish<br>on a 12 volt set for a season.... It was very nice to see &amp; hear in<br>the correct language for the culture portrayed, and also shows where<br>my head is at concerning status quo versus common folk types....<p>another point I&#39;ve long thought on, is that we dont know exactly when<br>the alien arrival will be, the semantics used by Jahshua leads me to<br>think there might be a serious wait between hell day &amp; Arrival, and<br>that those most likely to hang on are the same as have faith in the<br>arrival...<p>also there is advice given for remaining hidden on the day of the<br>lord, in the rocks &amp; dust.. i.e. high &amp; dry...<p>I&#39;d be thinking about residual radioactivity and nuclear winter<br>effects, and have at least read a copy of the $50 and up underground<br>house book...<p>Which brings me to dirt tools...<p>I&#39;ve done alot of grunt powered digging in my life.. Mostly basements,<br>Ag terraces, paths, &amp; gardening, and I suggest you own a collection<br>of high quality implements for such purposes... best place to hide<br>when the Lasers &amp; 200 lb rock barrages from space happen, is in a<br>small hole, without any metal items in or near it...<p>In my opinion, the number one digging tool, is the pick hoe... Here in<br>CR, there are some low quality tools on the market, in pickhoes, its<br>temper &amp; handle material that count most... the best temper we&#39;ve<br>found so far is from the Mexican company &quot;Truper&quot; an orange colored<br>head, and the worst is out of Brazil from Tramontina, a red head...<br>we make our own handles from Cortesa, a rot proof wood here, thats<br>many times better than hickory...<p>also we do alot of sharpening... If you dont know how to sharpen all<br>kinds of things, youre not a real survivalist yet....<p>another thing I&#39;ve learned recently is about stainless water<br>bottles... I made 3 out of stainless thermos liners from defunct<br>Chinese thermoses &amp; epoxied in plastic pipe fittings.. They have<br>silicone baby bottle nipples with an oversized hole via a straight<br>leather punch... I also bought several of the Yuppie versions out of<br>Bejing, and prefer the home rolled versions for water, but discovered<br>the yuppie bottles are the perfect thing for condiments etc. Here in<br>the tropics, where things will mold quickly during the tropical rainy<br>season...<p>The locals dont know about the yuppie &quot;me&quot; religious types, so have<br>underpriced the stainless bottles.. About the same as fancy looking<br>plastic versions, so I will be picking up more if they keep showing<br>up.. And using them for dry goods in want of gaskets &amp; durable<br>mobility...<p> anyway... hope you all are well, and spreading the word... It aint<br>about Churchy social clubs, its about human decency &amp; preparedness,<br>and not being stupid enough to believe the lies on mainstream... the<br>Ben Laudin disbelief factor is an encouraging sign...<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-6849893753133623477?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-7009725320295346232011-05-09T09:57:00.001-07:002011-05-09T09:57:13.034-07:00Morning,<br>waiting for tea over the sacred flames...<br>Thinking this morning about medical kits, &amp; Doggy Travois concepts...<p>realized how I can use the bolts welded head to head for wheel axles &amp;<br>use to hold frame together at cross pieces; will use longer bolts on<br>inside, drill into ends of cross pieces and then a larger hole thru<br>crosspiece at 90 degrees for the nuts... its a system I&#39;ve used<br>before, but hadnt thought of for travois concepts... it solves a<br>problem I&#39;ve been gnawing on for horse travois also, but would have to<br>have crosspiece set high and maybe a cut out under side, to not impeed<br>dragging minus wheels in the event of a tire or bearing problem..<p>on horse travois thinking to use a piece of steel strap on each skid,<br>at wear point dragging, on doggy travois might go cutting board type<br>plastic at same location..<p>What I&#39;m after is fail safe redundancy..<p>the Doggy travois is starting to make more sense to me than I thought<br>it would.. Any survivalist wannabee worth his salt has a big dog..<br>Even people in cities have big dogs, when they cant own a horse<br>etc... and I see the unit being able to double as a human powered<br>hand cart... also dog harnesses are commonly available now that could<br>be adapted by sewing on padding...<p>my padding of choice would be the closed cell blue foam like used on<br>ground pads &amp; under carpets... Covered with nylon pack cloth, like a<br>padded backpack strap...<p>the biggest problems in my experience living subsistence with dogs,<br>is adequate supplies of high protien foods.. dogs dont like beans...<br>during the Klondike gold rush, sled dogs were often fed fish &amp;<br>cornmeal mush... but thanks to the Army Corps of Humdingers, and the<br>commercial fishing industry, and now the Japanese nuclear power<br>industry, the Salmon by the millions are no more... my sollution long<br>term will likely be raising Talapia, and pressure cooking for a couple<br>minutes to soften bones... then vacuum drying.. This all requires a<br>stationary reality.. For mobility in refugee situation, I&#39;d likely<br>make a butterfly net, and use for grasshoppers etc. &amp; assist the dog<br>that way... my now missing dog partner was constantly hunting<br>grasshoppers with relish, she also was fond of hunting rats &amp; mice as<br>are all German shepherds..<p>another issue with dogs is minerals &amp; vitamins.. I strongly suggest if<br>you have a survival dog, that you stock up on those &amp; anti-parasite<br>drugs...<br>ditto for horse minerals &amp; drugs..<p>Also vitamin C for hip displasia in larger dog breeds...<p>Dog carts are also a viable option.. the Saint Bernard wasnt likely<br>invented to take Rum to bums in snow drifts.... and one concept I&#39;ve<br>thought about long term, is the wheeled dog sled.... my son &amp; I are<br>discussing getting into somewhat of a dog breeding &amp; training<br>business/hobby as a sideline.. we&#39;d use german shepherds, thinking<br>to have the hobby pay for upkeep on the pack, &amp; at same time provide<br>some serious security for us... latins only respect two things;<br>weapons, and people ready to use them, and German shepherds etc. With<br>teeth bared coming at them.. I&#39;m sure other types of people lacking<br>correct levels of respect would have the same reactions...<p>one problem here in CR, is people are fond of poisoning dogs they dont<br>like... happens very regularly... the bleeping assholes will poison<br>a neighbor&#39;s dog for no other reason than it keeps them from stealing<br>his Platinos... even the Police are rumored to poison dogs in the<br>past... No humane society w/doggy auchwitz here, more direct<br>methods...<p>so I suggest that one train their dog to not take food from anyone but<br>trusted friends &amp; family members or with permission thereof...<p>we&#39;re going to look for a registered female here, and also a male &amp;<br>female in the states from different lines...<p>so we start with dogs from a wide genetic pool...<br>Also will be looking at larger end, conformation type show dogs tend<br>to be on the smaller end of the breed size wise, due to a status quo<br>bureauocracy...<p>rule of thumb with humans, is if they can get an entrenched status quo<br>going, potential goes out the window... Turd Midas effect...<p>Also have been thinking about rumor that FEMA camps are for people the<br>status quo thinks are &quot;worth saving&quot; ie their slave class in brave<br>new world scenario... if youre inside a fence, your a prisoner... No<br>matter what they come up with for fancy job titles.. I also wonder<br>what they plan to do with people not good enough for them? a catch &amp;<br>release program, with a vaccination? so they wander off to die<br>someplace the Elite dont have to smell their handywork?<p>there may be cowardly brainless types who think being on the inside is<br>a good idea, but I think anyone who is street or brush wise wouldnt be<br>caught dead in their dragnet... consider what will happen as food<br>stocks get low, and the slave farm agriculture projects fail due to<br>climatic problems &amp; chemical caused sensitivity to adaptive microbes<br>etc... one&#39;s evaluation as a good rainbow nigger might be potentially<br>fatal... And any of you who have worked for public agencies or<br>corporations know what a farce evaluations can be.. Mostly a<br>buttlicking quotient..<p>also I suspect females will be vetted according to sexual<br>desireability by the elite... camp girls have been a common reality<br>in every similar situation in human history... so if you women dont<br>want being appreciated by people you might not like, I&#39;d be wary as a<br>deer...<p>There will be those who think thats just fine... I suggest they read<br>about what happened to similarly minded females in Soviet Gulags...<br>yes they ate better, got easier work, but they also died like flys<br>from sexually transmitted diseases...<br>And what happens babe, when you start looking over the hill? do you<br>suppose theyll shuffle you into a cush office job? Or just gas you<br>like a Jewish dog? according to the Bible, these &quot;people&quot; lack<br>&quot;mercy&quot;.. As one of their job description criteria...<p>so I suggest you women &amp; girls do some running in your exercise<br>program, have camouflage in your designer wardrobes, and practice<br>playing hide &amp; seek during paintball games... otherwise you could<br>find yourself being issued some KY-jelly inside the wire, and facing a<br>long line of suitors, some of whom will think being not nice is<br>fun....<p>and the females who think that sounds good, might want to practice<br>some of the finer arts on the porno training films, so you are adept<br>at surviving<br>the daily episodes with people on sexually laced power trips...<p>they arent going to care... Theyll see you as an expendible commodity...<p>The two places not to be when they come looking, is in your home, or<br>at your job... and I suggest you research what happened in sports<br>stadiums during the Spanish civil war.. theres a reason they ran<br>people into the stadium during Katrina... Its so you&#39;d think that was<br>standard proceedure in the future.. in whats coming, the stadiums<br>will likely be asseted with a backhoe.<p>that way, the jock heads can rest in peace where their favorite<br>gladiators can walk on their faces.<p>also, think about this; that alien arrival is promised in the bible &amp;<br>book of Enoch. we are dealing with some kind of Galactic warrior<br>society.. Jehova of Armies ring any bells? so should one be<br>cowardly, a colaborator, or be living inside elite wire for the laser<br>&amp; stone softening up phase, or the ground assault happens? also<br>there is a ressurection promised for Martyrs &amp; heros. and if they<br>could do it with JC, &amp; Moses, they can do it with others... So better<br>you die protecting your family &amp; kids, than go docile into the night<br>on your way to the city midden...<p>the patterns are always the same.. We&#39;ve just been fooled into<br>thinking genocides are local issues.... well, eyes wide folks, all<br>those national governments &amp; multinational corporations, are where the<br>serpents migrate to when left to their own devices.<p>Is killing Kadafi&#39;s grandkids any different than Paul Pott? its all<br>about lying, stealing &amp; killing folks.. Thats what these types do<br>best... greed and ego.. No mercy. And you &amp; family in their sights...<p>for what little you own, or just for them to add to their body count<br>to gain respect,<p>contined<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-700972532029534623?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-87569333724339297342011-05-07T09:49:00.001-07:002011-05-07T09:49:19.110-07:00Morning, relaxed day,<br>home alone, seem to be in recovery mode from too much being awake last<br>night at various times..<p>listened to short wave, a few different topics, most memorable<br>was, that MS is caused by vitamin D deficiency...<p>seems they never get the overview; that to be healthy you have to have<br>a natural life, with plenty of sunshine &amp; fresh food...<p>amazing how they always have pills to sell instead, and a job to pay for them...<p>and never ever never connect the dots, that they are the problem,<br>pushing the artificial life....<p>also heard some commentary about the unfolding Ben Laudin fiasco...<p>Obama &amp; crooks down to whining we dont believe them... well, he used<br>to be believed, and then did a &quot;hero to zero&quot; manouver in record time,<br>thru a combination of lies, reversals, graft, and starting new wars &amp;<br>continuing old ones etc...<p>his term has been a littany of Turd Midas effects, and we&#39;re supposed<br>to still believe in their little dog &amp; pony show, run by Goblins,<br>Gremlins, Trolls, Ogres, &amp; worse... All in three piece suits, the<br>talking heads....<p>I think theyre beneath national contempt..<p>I also think they fit the &quot;Liars, Thieves, &amp; Killers&quot; decsription in<br>the Bible, come to &quot;Kill, Steal, &amp; Destroy&quot;....<p>What are the effects of their games? how many dead? How much<br>destruction? how many lies?<br> how much money stolen? How many resources taken over? and who pays<br>for it all? Who financed it? Mr. &amp; Mrs. Normal do....<p>theyre the Serpents JC talked about...<p>and I dont vote for them, I dont pay taxes to them, and I dont buy<br>into their system or the crap that comes out of their mouths...<p>and I work constantly to free others from their slavery... Thats what<br>this blog is about, putting out concepts &amp; thoughts around the focal<br>point of getting out of the system, &amp; surviving its aftermath..<p>anyway, what a bunch of disgusting human types... best you quit<br>gathering around a TV, and start gathering around a cooking fire...<p> otherwise the bastards are going to get you nuked...<p>and your job title, perks, &amp; vanities, will get you &amp; your kids,<br>DEAD, DEAD, DEAD......<p>this aint no joke folks, these assholes are steering the ship towards<br>Armageddon, and you sit on your wide asses watching TV, and motor<br>along the freeways comparing vanity mobiles...<p>And when you aint doing that, you work for them and pay taxes to them...<p>theres only going to be a few survivors...<p>those with enough brains &amp; guts to get out of Babylon, and quit<br>kissing the whore....<p>anyway, its a fairy tale on your TV, welcome to Goblin Channel<br>whatever.. With the disinfo babes, the Barbie &amp; Ken doll routines, and<br>the worst propaganda in human history...<p>at least the eastern Europeans were smart enough to know it was lies<br>direct from the KGB....<p>most of the US &amp; Western Europe wouldnt know the truth if it was a<br>Dinosaur shitting on them...<p>all I can say, is repeat what JC said in Mathew 24; when you see the<br>abomination that causes desolation, best you run for the hills...<p>I&#39;m already there.. He who gets there fisrtest, does bestus...<p>the last arrivals wont have their jacket according to JC....<p> let alone any survival gear, tools etc... will be known as &quot;Bug Eaters&quot;....<p>me? I work at it constantly.... doing my shopping list for the<br>month.. After minimal amounts of boughten food, the rest is some kind<br>of preparedness stuff..<p>and I have little economics to work with, most of the time do it all<br>on $100 a month.. you try that... Eat and prepare for WW3 on that<br>little..<p>and I&#39;ve managed to get much more than I need for myself.. which will<br>help others..<p>and I&#39;m not done yet... I&#39;ll be struggling until I see the flash in the sky...<p>folks, I&#39;m listening to the demise from a distance.. I&#39;m not sitting<br>watching the TV on Ground Zeroville USA....<p>and I&#39;ve been learning real time for 15 years in a benign climate...<br>Like Florida when I was a kid... I wouldnt want to have to try<br>this someplace cold, only one harvest season per year, and dependent<br>on fossil fuels... I&#39;m thankful for the distance between me &amp; the<br>nearest nuke plant...<p>I&#39;ve done alot of things in my life.. Have scars to prove it.. things<br>most people would never think to try, &amp; never get to do... but if I<br>had to start over from scratch, it would be so much easier for the<br>things I&#39;ve learned... most of which I&#39;ve blogged about here, so you<br>get them for free... no scars...<p>it isnt how much you have, its how together your trip is.. the<br>overall harmony &amp; practicality...<p>true affluence, is having your life in order to where you dont need<br>anything, or want it for that matter..<p>and you can do that at various levels, from humility to vanity..<br>preparedness is reality related...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-8756933372433929734?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-42638579009547481042011-05-06T07:45:00.001-07:002011-05-06T07:45:07.039-07:00morning,<br>in from garden, munching flat bread, had a good guitar practice at<br>dawn, learned a new strumming variable on a chord round, learn a bit<br>every day..<p>Was thinking about you poor fools out there in the &quot;real&quot; world this morning..<p>realized something that might help;<p>that a wise man would never consider a permanent job...<p>why? because then you dont have time to do what you want to do, and<br>then one also tends to bite off more than they can chew economically..<p>an example might be housing.. a good thinker might decide he doesnt<br>need a proverbial ranch stye vanity castle to protect his head from<br>rain &amp; butt from cold... and he could work a part time or short<br>duration job to get materials &amp; toolage, and come up with something a<br>bit more downscale, and bank the free time not spent making 40 years<br>of payments to the Fat Vampire down at the savings &amp; loan...<p>this would free up alot of time to attack one&#39;s other necessities,<br>like food growing... and I&#39;d think the same way on land, or anything<br>else.. get less, rent for a growing season, keep one&#39;s freedom....<p>the most valuable commodity in the modern world is not gold, its freedom...<p> try and buy some.. yeah, go down to walmart and ask a walking duffer<br>where the freedom isle is... He&#39;ll probably take you to the plastic<br>flowers for use on graves etc...<p>actually can buy lots of freedom there, but your money tempts some<br>poor Chinese guy to quit growing food, &amp; enslave himself...<p>a job is indentured servitude, no more no less... bible says if you<br>work for someone else youre a slave....<p> only logical person to work for, is yourself... and the more you<br>keep the nose headed that direction, more likely of having a better<br>future..<p>do the math... credit is a trap, humility is the escape technique,<br>vanity is the bait...<p>much better to live in a snuggly yurt, than the castle on the hill..<br>The yurt goes to greener pastures, the Castle gets raized &amp; burnt,<br>sooner or later..<p>this morning did some drawing, working on my wheeled pony travois<br>idea.. getting there.. trying to keep it simple, load low to ground,<br>and skids coming into play &amp; tires out of the way automatically when<br>its time to need the skids...<p>why? Well because that allows me to carry a load into places that<br>would bog or roll over a regular cart...<p>also its all I can afford for now... four wheelbarrow wheels and some<br>lumber &amp; nylon strap etc... if I were trapped in a job in a city, I&#39;d<br>be collecting my nenomadic stuff, and building, &amp; last thing get a<br>pony, and be gone with the warm breezes of spring time... looking for<br>a place to garden... Plenty of land, plenty of people will let you<br>camp &amp; garden for a share... wander south after the harvest for an<br>easier winter, keep your baggage light, and the food containers as<br>full as possible.. spend your days with pony &amp; dog, and your nights<br>in warm blankets or making popcorn while listening to the portable<br>short wave.. Guarantee you youll be glad youre not in some of the<br>places you hear about..<p> Was informed that a couple people who cant help themselves but care<br>about me, are going to buy me a new puppy for my birthday.. I still<br>hear my dog with every rustle.. she was an exelent person..<p>anyway, so thinking to start collecting puppy hardware.. get prepared<br>at same time looking for pup unit.. going to get another german<br>shepherd, my favorite breed of wolfy dog for living in the brush...<br>they suit my purposes... And keep the latins more respectful of my<br>rights...<p>my worker commented yesterday, that Chia never spent a day of her life<br>tied up... Glad he noticed.. The rest of you should take a lesson, and<br>do unto yourselves as I have done for my dogs... If it aint a good<br>life for a dog, aint the place to be for a human...<p>My son is talking about us working up a small herd of Germany&#39;s<br>ansestral pooches... an idea we both had seperately... I like<br>working with animals.. my dogs have generally had 20 word or more<br>vocabularies... horses too..<p>I like to think about pre-Roman Germanic life, and how they must have<br>used their dogs for hunting wild pigs &amp; bear, and protecting the clan<br>in battles with raiders.. So there is definitely a place in my<br>neoindigenous vision for them...<p>I&#39;ve learned, that the past is a gold mine of things that will work in<br>the future.. Civilisations cycle.. Up, &amp; plop onto the dirt again...<br>Best one not get too far from the earth while theyre doing that...<p> have a town trip coming up, going to get a V-belt for the grain mill,<br> and some full sized vise grips to use doing crafts projects... And<br>maybe some wheels for a project...<p>one thing I realized yesterday, was that the travois was used by<br>Indians with dogs before horses arrived... so wondering about a<br>downsized version to let the dog carry some things.. Would have to be<br>really light etc, but if properly done, better than the doggie pack<br>load wise...<p>I like playing with such projects, have found the neoindigenous mind<br>set to be a rich field to cultivate... had been thinking about<br>crossing a pack frame with a hand cart, but now wondering if maybe<br>better to build a dog travois, could use as human powered cart also...<br> might be able to have it be a pack frame too?<p>basically a device to allow one to carry more with less strain &amp; pain..<p>its a hobby.. Designing &amp; building such stuff, also fills in my<br>lifestyle with nifty items...<p>my suggestion to the wannabee freeperson, is to first get a vision of<br>what you want, an overall view.. how you really want to live in your<br>heart..<p>then go from there from the bottom up and center outwards... get your<br>close to body stuuf first, make as much as possible yourself, and work<br>up &amp; outwards from there..<p>Its also a good idea to figure out what you dont need first.. then<br>what you really do need...<p>always choose minimalism over too much, and simple over complicated..<p>think about the necessities of life at a simple level first... tools<br>to grow food &amp; do craft items for use, weapons so youre not dependent<br>on 911 if assholes show up, good stout clothing that will take a<br>working life..<p>warm blankets for cold nights, and durable cooking gear that will last<br>over a fire, and take a beating on rocks at the creek...<p>let go of ALL assumptions... always think you have more to learn..<p>let go of the canned ya-ya heads music, get a nice instrument for<br>fireside hours alone...<p>learn to appreciate natural sounds...<p>if you live in the city &amp; are afraid of bears, you have your head<br>wired backwards... i&#39;ve lived in the hills most of my life, have yet<br>to see a live bear or mountain lion in the wild.. cities are<br>thousands of times more dangerous than mountains..<p>anyway, waiting for my tea over the sacred flames, thinking about my<br>mint plants, doing fine in the garden, will propagate when the rains<br>come, want to do a nice area of each herb..<p>my grandma started me on mint tea as a kid, always makes me feel homey...<p>also, remember, no guts, no glory, really do it yourself, or just read<br>the story...<p>Theres really only one goal in life, to get your own trip going properly..<p> I have found, that thinking about projects before I can afford to do<br>them helps alot.. Often wind up thinking for years on this or that,<br>but when I finally can start collecting pieces, and cutting materials,<br>I have a really well designed item when I&#39;m done...<p>It pays to think... and sketching endlessly results in nice items...<p>anyway, got some more corn &amp; beans planted this morning, looks like it<br>will be gracious enough to rain on my seeds later today.<p>I&#39;m a strange man in a strange land, but I wouldnt have it any other way..<p>Ran into an indian guy on the bus the other day, he&#39;d once been up to<br>the house with another Guaymi friend, brought his daughter, about 15,<br>she was perhaps the prettiest girl I&#39;ve seen in my life.. well I<br>complimented her to her father the other day on the bus... said in<br>front of latins that she was prettiest girl I&#39;d seen in the country...<br> its been maybe ten years since that day, and last week I get a call<br>from my Guaymi friend, says the guy thinks I need a woman, &amp; he just<br>happens to have an excess of the critters in his family.. time to<br>visit...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-4263857900954748104?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-51723425057267096662011-05-05T12:51:00.001-07:002011-05-05T12:51:23.788-07:00morning,<br>in from garden, munching flat bread, had a good guitar practice at<br>dawn, learned a new strumming variable on a chord round, learn a bit<br>every day..<p>Was thinking about you poor fools out there in the &quot;real&quot; world this morning..<p>realized something that might help;<p>that a wise man would never consider a permanent job...<p>why? because then you dont have time to do what you want to do, and<br>then one also tends to bite off more than they can chew economically..<p>an example might be housing.. a good thinker might decide he doesnt<br>need a proverbial ranch stye vanity castle to protect his head from<br>rain &amp; butt from cold... and he could work a part time or short<br>duration job to get materials &amp; toolage, and come up with something a<br>bit more downscale, and bank the free time not spent making 40 years<br>of payments to the Fat Vampire down at the savings &amp; loan...<p>this would free up alot of time to attack one&#39;s other necessities,<br>like food growing... and I&#39;d think the same way on land, or anything<br>else.. get less, rent for a growing season, keep one&#39;s freedom....<p>the most valuable commodity in the modern world is not gold, its freedom...<p> try and buy some.. yeah, go down to walmart and ask a walking duffer<br>where the freedom isle is... He&#39;ll probably take you to the plastic<br>flowers for use on graves etc...<p>actually can buy lots of freedom there, but your money tempts some<br>poor Chinese guy to quit growing food, &amp; enslave himself...<p>a job is indentured servitude, no more no less... bible says if you<br>work for someone else youre a slave....<p> only logical person to work for, is yourself... and the more you<br>keep the nose headed that direction, more likely of having a better<br>future..<p>do the math... credit is a trap, humility is the escape technique,<br>vanity is the bait...<p>much better to live in a snuggly yurt, than the castle on the hill..<br>The yurt goes to greener pastures, the Castle gets raized &amp; burnt,<br>sooner or later..<p>this morning did some drawing, working on my wheeled pony travois<br>idea.. getting there.. trying to keep it simple, load low to ground,<br>and skids coming into play &amp; tires out of the way automatically when<br>its time to need the skids...<p>why? Well because that allows me to carry a load into places that<br>would bog or roll over a regular cart...<p>also its all I can afford for now... four wheelbarrow wheels and some<br>lumber &amp; nylon strap etc... if I were trapped in a job in a city, I&#39;d<br>be collecting my nenomadic stuff, and building, &amp; last thing get a<br>pony, and be gone with the warm breezes of spring time... looking for<br>a place to garden... Plenty of land, plenty of people will let you<br>camp &amp; garden for a share... wander south after the harvest for an<br>easier winter, keep your baggage light, and the food containers as<br>full as possible.. spend your days with pony &amp; dog, and your nights<br>in warm blankets or making popcorn while listening to the portable<br>short wave.. Guarantee you youll be glad youre not in some of the<br>places you hear about..<p> Was informed that a couple people who cant help themselves but care<br>about me, are going to buy me a new puppy for my birthday.. I still<br>hear my dog with every rustle.. she was an exelent person..<p>anyway, so thinking to start collecting puppy hardware.. get prepared<br>at same time looking for pup unit.. going to get another german<br>shepherd, my favorite breed of wolfy dog for living in the brush...<br>they suit my purposes... And keep the latins more respectful of my<br>rights...<p>my worker commented yesterday, that Chia never spent a day of her life<br>tied up... Glad he noticed.. The rest of you should take a lesson, and<br>do unto yourselves as I have done for my dogs... If it aint a good<br>life for a dog, aint the place to be for a human...<p>My son is talking about us working up a small herd of Germany&#39;s<br>ansestral pooches... an idea we both had seperately... I like<br>working with animals.. my dogs have generally had 20 word or more<br>vocabularies... horses too..<p>I like to think about pre-Roman Germanic life, and how they must have<br>used their dogs for hunting wild pigs &amp; bear, and protecting the clan<br>in battles with raiders.. So there is definitely a place in my<br>neoindigenous vision for them...<p>I&#39;ve learned, that the past is a gold mine of things that will work in<br>the future.. Civilisations cycle.. Up, &amp; plop onto the dirt again...<br>Best one not get too far from the earth while theyre doing that...<p> have a town trip coming up, going to get a V-belt for the grain mill,<br> and some full sized vise grips to use doing crafts projects... And<br>maybe some wheels for a project...<p>one thing I realized yesterday, was that the travois was used by<br>Indians with dogs before horses arrived... so wondering about a<br>downsized version to let the dog carry some things.. Would have to be<br>really light etc, but if properly done, better than the doggie pack<br>load wise...<p>I like playing with such projects, have found the neoindigenous mind<br>set to be a rich field to cultivate... had been thinking about<br>crossing a pack frame with a hand cart, but now wondering if maybe<br>better to build a dog travois, could use as human powered cart also...<br> might be able to have it be a pack frame too?<p>basically a device to allow one to carry more with less strain &amp; pain..<p>its a hobby.. Designing &amp; building such stuff, also fills in my<br>lifestyle with nifty items...<p>my suggestion to the wannabee freeperson, is to first get a vision of<br>what you want, an overall view.. how you really want to live in your<br>heart..<p>then go from there from the bottom up and center outwards... get your<br>close to body stuuf first, make as much as possible yourself, and work<br>up &amp; outwards from there..<p>Its also a good idea to figure out what you dont need first.. then<br>what you really do need...<p>always choose minimalism over too much, and simple over complicated..<p>think about the necessities of life at a simple level first... tools<br>to grow food &amp; do craft items for use, weapons so youre not dependent<br>on 911 if assholes show up, good stout clothing that will take a<br>working life..<p>warm blankets for cold nights, and durable cooking gear that will last<br>over a fire, and take a beating on rocks at the creek...<p>let go of ALL assumptions... always think you have more to learn..<p>let go of the canned ya-ya heads music, get a nice instrument for<br>fireside hours alone...<p>learn to appreciate natural sounds...<p>if you live in the city &amp; are afraid of bears, you have your head<br>wired backwards... i&#39;ve lived in the hills most of my life, have yet<br>to see a live bear or mountain lion in the wild.. cities are<br>thousands of times more dangerous than mountains..<p>anyway, waiting for my tea over the sacred flames, thinking about my<br>mint plants, doing fine in the garden, will propagate when the rains<br>come, want to do a nice area of each herb..<p>my grandma started me on mint tea as a kid, always makes me feel homey...<p>also, remember, no guts, no glory, really do it yourself, or just read<br>the story...<p>Theres really only one goal in life, to get your own trip going properly..<p> I have found, that thinking about projects before I can afford to do<br>them helps alot.. Often wind up thinking for years on this or that,<br>but when I finally can start collecting pieces, and cutting materials,<br>I have a really well designed item when I&#39;m done...<p>It pays to think... and sketching endlessly results in nice items...<p>anyway, got some more corn &amp; beans planted this morning, looks like it<br>will be gracious enough to rain on my seeds later today.<p>I&#39;m a strange man in a strange land, but I wouldnt have it any other way..<p>Ran into an indian guy on the bus the other day, he&#39;d once been up to<br>the house with another Guaymi friend, brought his daughter, about 15,<br>she was perhaps the prettiest girl I&#39;ve seen in my life.. well I<br>complimented her to her father the other day on the bus... said in<br>front of latins that she was prettiest girl I&#39;d seen in the country...<br> its been maybe ten years since that day, and last week I get a call<br>from my Guaymi friend, says the guy thinks I need a woman, &amp; he just<br>happens to have an excess of the critters in his family.. time to<br>visit...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-5172342505726709666?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-38068830873793880082011-05-04T04:51:00.001-07:002011-05-04T04:51:23.331-07:00Going on 4 in the morning,<br>just woke, built a fire, and put tea on...<p>fell asleep listening to short wave...<br>And woke having this bazaar dream,<br>only to realize it was the radio theater program just going off, as I woke...<p>Fell asleep listening to &quot;Ben Laudin fever&quot; over the ether... not too<br>much concerned, not stupid enough to believe a word the government<br>has said in years... Last time I was sucked in, was the presidential<br>election, when I thought there might be some hope if Obama got<br>elected, which I wrote about in this blog... it was a short<br>honeymoon...<p>anyway, After the strange dream which turned out to be the strange<br>radio theater, it dawned on me, that their was a connection....<p>the nightmare the world is watching unfold is a strange radio &amp; TV<br>drama program... The worst nightmare imaginable; how the world<br>ended....<p>the nightmare is real, but the program is fictional..<p>and I remembered a kid I knew in about fourth grade, son of one of my<br>father&#39;s co-workers..<p>Strange kid... He was a habitual liar... I mean this kid didnt do<br>anything but tell lies 24/7.. and I was having a hard time even<br>playing with him.. I usually tell it like I see it, flat out, and<br>most of my childhood&#39;s most imprinted memories were of getting<br>violently abused for telling the truth... By a father who would be in<br>prison, if he&#39;d been doing what he did back then, in the modern era...<br> to 4 kids from two different wives, three of whom survived it... all<br>three survivors took heavy damage..<p>anyway, back to the habitual liar... never saw anyone else in my life<br>like him... and after a couple days of putting up with constant<br>obvious lies, I tried something...<p>I just invented a big bullshit story as big as one of his... Just one<br>big lie... And the kid listened, and quit lying to me.. It was<br>instant.. And he never lied to me again...<p>and tonight waking up, after the bazaar induced nightmare, I<br>remembered that kid, and realized how he was, was just like the<br>government &amp; mainstream media..<p>all I&#39;ve ever heard was lies...<p>now I do some amateur psychology work.. With people... and I have a<br>young woman friend now a licensed psychologist, who got interested in<br>the field as a kid, when I taught her things about human psychology...<p>and tonight I thought about the habitual liar kid years ago, and<br>imagined a psychologist interviewing the kid, trying to figure out his<br>obvious problem..<p>and realized thats what listening to the status quo is like... Like<br>trying to figure out what their mental problem is...<p>mass psychology is just like individual psychology,<br>same neurosis etc.. the collective is an individual, and has a<br>personality disorder... in our case, he&#39;s a habitual liar..<p> none of us with our headlights turned on believes a word Mr. status<br>Quo says... its gotten obvious what his problem is..<p>but in this case, I dont think telling him a big lie back is going to<br>get him to stop...<p>but I do think we can cure him... just by mentioning none of us<br>believes a bleeping word he says....<p>only thing I havent figured out, is how we do that collectively? I<br>suspect by turning off the program, and when anybody mentions any of<br>the shit passed off as news, just say; I dont pay any attention to the<br>news, its just a habitual liar&#39;s forum...<p>state your disbelief publically.. It may help others caught up in the<br>big lie... do it at every opportunity.. The more you do it, the more<br>others will have to start thinking.. The way to stop the bazaar<br>program is click it off, and anytime anything on TV is mentioned,<br>just say you dont pay attention to it, the habitual liar&#39;s forum, or<br>youre own analogy for it.. The more analogies the better...<p>the normacy paradigm is based on what is unsaid &amp; what is said..<p>&quot;Say what is unsaid.. Dont just repeat what is said....&quot;<p>its garbage.. dog puke is more real &amp; smells better..<p> at last count Ben Laudin has been dead 9 times if you gather up all<br>the stories off mainstream over the years...<p>I&#39;m just waiting to hear story ten, eleven, twelve etc.<p>Ben Laudin is dead? I feel sorry for his family...<p>but he&#39;s being immortalized... a new form of creative literature..<br>mainstream doing Ben Laudin is dead stories... maybe we should start<br>telling big lies back? Just everybody invent up their own Ben Laudin<br>is dead story? maybe Obunghole, &amp; the Wicked Witch of the East would<br>get the idea, that we dont believe their shit, if we replaced lawyer<br>jokes with how theyre going to kill Ben Laudin next time they need a<br>ratings boot for political purposes...<p>let me be first;<p>I think next time, theyll kill Ben Laudin, by nuking the entire<br>bleeping planet..<p>there, thats a big enough lie..<p>these people are obviously terminally insane...<p>be not one of them...<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3806883087379388008?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-90155849216038811652011-05-03T07:08:00.001-07:002011-05-03T07:08:19.093-07:00Chia&#39;s poem;<p>Lord, if I make it back to Eden,<br>I&#39;ll know it when I see the gate,<br>there&#39;ll be a bunch of happy dogs with tails waggin&#39;,<br>waitin&#39; like they always wait.<p>gris bosque<br>2nd of May 2011<br>south pacific<br>Costa Rica<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-9015584921603881165?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-28852773479217796402011-05-02T10:13:00.001-07:002011-05-02T10:13:53.860-07:00Morning,<br> sun just coming over the mountain..<br>Have been busy lately, my dog is sick, not doing well, and looks<br>maybe to die...<p>so spent yesterday doing an emergency run to the border to get stuff<br>for her... had the usual problems at vetrinary supply, and figured<br>out the tico mindset may have contributed to my dog&#39;s worsening<br>condition, that they hadnt sold me the multi spectrum anti parasite<br>stuff that I asked for twice in a row, they sold me what they sell the<br>most of.. Which is whatever they feel like pushing..<p>so instead of dog being de parasited for everything as I assumed, she<br>was deparasited for a single class, and yesterday it took 15 minutes<br>insisting before I got what I needed to make sure the problem wasnt<br>parasites...<p>I go thru this all the time here, Ticos have a real problem, they<br>think they know everything, and that you dont know shit, and its a<br>country with no libraries, one TV station, that eats rice &amp; beans 3X a<br>day from teat to body bag...<p>if you want to become enlightened, no need for an Ashram in India, or<br>a Monastery in Tibet... just go live with south of the border latins<br>for as many years as you want to be continually enlightened as to the<br>bad effects of letting egocentric thinking rule your mind...<p>some folks down here are humble &amp; decent, but theres really bad<br>numbers on the opposites....<p>anyway, so also being contemplative about my own hand in the dog&#39;s<br>fate... not a nice place to go mentally... But one faces truth when<br>effect catches causer.... and so I&#39;m here watching my dog suffer,<br>and wishing I had done better for her..<p> well, theres only one thing we never ever have to worry about, and<br>thats being perfect...<p>But life is a process of learning about one&#39;s imprefections too late<br>to do anything...<p>but better late than never...<p> I notice, &amp; how I notice, that all the biting bugs are much worse<br>than normal this year.. Like theyre all coming up on their cycle at<br>the same time..<p>the chances of half a dozen different parasite type insects all having<br>their population high point at the same time are very slim... Unless<br>theres a causitive...<p>I suspect its climate change, and is also the stuff mentioned in Bible<br>about pests etc.. that we&#39;ve screwed up the balance, and in this<br>universe that means you get smacked really hard by the reaction..<br>Generally in the animal world, of which I&#39;m a member in good standing,<br> when they breed themselves silly, and pig all the food, pretty soon<br>their corpses are littering the landscape...<p>in our case the most piggish are thinking to kill off their thinner<br>competitors, and restart the cycle..<p>but if I understand things correctly, in humans, its the fattest who<br>live shortest..<p>so my guess is their plan will back fire on them as is generally the<br>case in a universe kept in balance by the Murphy Effect...<p>its cause and effect folks, no matter what the variables of the<br>moment happen to be...<p>anyway, I&#39;m here keeping the dog company, &amp; hoping all the stuff I hit<br>her with turns the tide...<p>but its down to prayer &amp; tears.... and after being in Tico Town<br>yesterday, as I was huffing up the mountain, not sure if I&#39;d find my<br>dog dead or alive, I realized that a shit eating dog is better than a<br>prideful hippocrit.. including my own version thereof...<p>the knowlege of good &amp; evil, is reality 101, mostly learned first &amp;<br>best by figuring out the hard way, what evil is, and where it takes<br>you...<p> which is where we are now, nosing into compost shredder..<p>anyway, had a good guitar practice at dawn, learning chord rounds and<br>exploring chord progressions.. Every day I learn something.. So I know<br>that if I stay relentless, I will get to decent eventually... and<br>thats my goal, to just keep learning.. Guitar is like life, infinite<br>potential limited by your own attitudes...<p>so, I write this between runs to the spring, chopping wood, washing<br>dishes, and getting my food trip together...<p> drinking tea with lemon, made over an open fire, trying to keep my<br>dog calmed as she suffers.. we&#39;ve spent alot of years together,<br>having an ultimate good life for a boy and his dog.. Together nearly<br>every day, all kinds of hikes and adventures, plenty of hugs and<br>happy dogs, and we went thru some really hard stuff...<p>and I wasnt caught up in the rat race, and we didnt live in a filthy<br>city, and I&#39;m happy to say my dogs have had better lives in better<br>places than most humans..<br>Rich people on this planet live lives I wouldnt subject my dog to...<p>vanity aint sanity...<p>a natural life is a good life, an unnatural life aint a life at all,<br>its hell on wheels &amp; ego...<p>anyway, got the beans cleaned &amp; on, was a bad year, rain in the<br>harvest season... so lots of moldy beans.. But one sits in the<br>morning sunshine, picking out the culls... Not as simple as buying<br>bagged products, but we&#39;ll still be growing beans here when city<br>people are hungry or nuked..<p> anyway, waiting for my dog to die, and the only thing I would change<br>if I had it to do over, is myself... be a better friend than I was...<br>It aint the human side of the dog human thing that has the moral high<br>ground...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2885277347921779640?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-45426061723149128222011-04-25T08:39:00.001-07:002011-04-25T08:39:14.754-07:00afternoon,<br>just chopped wood, &amp; got a fire going.. Cooking food for later... Put<br>some tea on, mostly have been eating bananas today...<p>its a hot day, slight breeze...<p>thinking about pony carts this afternoon..<p>have three different models I&#39;ve been working on designs of long term...<p>the first is a wheeled travois, using sawn lumber and 4 wheelbarrow<br>wheels aft, to create a neoindigenous travois..<br>thinking have &quot;poles&quot; taper, and have a nylon strap harness rather<br>that cross over horse&#39;s back...<p>thinking to keep skids functional, by having 5/8&#39;s bolts welded head<br>to head for axles, a long bolt for wheel axle, and shorter to go thru<br>frame lumber...<p>then I&#39;d need some short angle iron brackets to cross members from<br>skids, to prevent flexing due to axles, and not need anything between<br>the skids... on this device, I&#39;d build a wooden bed, perhaps slats to<br>reduce weight, then do triangulated and laced racks above that, sloped<br>outward, then do nylon chord net sides inside of the rack sides, to<br>produce a very lightweight expeditionary wheeled travois made mostly<br>of wood...<p>this is the least expensive but highest quality, &amp; simplest design I<br>can think of for hauling refugee gear...<p><br>My second design, is a Tumbril style cart, modernized... Using metal<br>frame, of either aluminum or steel tube, box or round, all depending<br>on tools &amp; finances... if steel I&#39;d go thin wall, and gas weld, if<br>aluminum thicker and TIG weld....<p>my bearings of choice, would be the front hub &amp; brakes off of a small<br>4WD mini pickup truck... Welded to stub axels of pipe, and then an A<br>arm support structure to frame...<p>I&#39;d do sides on this cart, triangulated and tilted outward, but have<br>an aluminum, or epoxy empregnated box liner, so that with removable<br>poles, you&#39;d get a boat of sorts for fording rivers etc...<p>On this cart, I&#39;d add bows, of aluminum or fiberglass rod, and have a<br>rubberized tarp top, that extended out fore &amp; aft, and if bed was say<br>4 ft X 6 ft, it would be big enough to sleep in...<p><br>the third design is a tandem 4 wheeled cart, again using 4WD mini<br>hubs, set close, to allow a fairly heavy hauler, but not need to go to<br>wagon style geometry or steering etc...<br>This one is a micro Gypsy wagon concept, with a narrow floor, doors<br>each end, and cantilevered out on each side over the tires, to create<br>a bench or bunk inside, on either side... this one would get a tube<br>frame, and maybe aluminum sheet cover?<p>Creating a nice living device that could be insulated with closed cell<br>blue foam rubber...<p>my concept in all cases is to build the lightest strongest, most<br>durable cartage possible for one small horse... on larger gypsy<br>model, I&#39;d keep the box size down to a 6X8 ft maximum...<p>I was in the back of a mini pickup a week ago, that had added flat<br>bed, stake racks, and brazed conduit frame for tarp cover.. It was six<br>feet by seven or eight feet, and would have been a nice minimal<br>living space for one or two people...<p>if it had had his and hers benches, and a small wood stove, and been<br>horse powered instead of fossil fuels, it would have been my idea of<br>an appropriate refugee mobile home for whats coming...<p>I hear rumor of $7 a gallon fuel in US by late next year... At 25 mpg,<br> youre looking at 28 cents a mile... i.e. $280 to go a thousand<br>miles.. Or $28 to go a hundred... still a good deal, but if the<br>economy crashes or worse, your motorized escape device becomes a<br>volunteer for a hippy style trailer park... likely communities spring<br>up along highways, where people ran out of fuel, and coasted to a low<br>spot to be closer to water....<p> personally I&#39;d rather my final destination for living, not be<br>controlled by fuel &amp; money availability...<p>I&#39;d much rather travel at 2 miles an hour as long as I wanted, than to<br>travel at 60 miles an hour, and make it halfway to someplace safe...<p>One of the most important things I&#39;ve learned living minimalistic, is<br>how suprisingly little one really needs.... havent had a kitchen<br>sink, or a toilet in years.. No stove, refer, or TV.. No bed, no<br>living room furniture, no garage full of stuff, no air conditioner, no<br>car, etc. Ect...<p>most of it I dont miss...<p>so I have a question for you; why do you think you need it?<p>have you ever thought about the fact that people lived just fine for<br>thousands of years without it?<p>I see people being enslaved by their vanities... Good slave material,<br>if thats all it takes..<p>As any ex slave knows, the only logical thing to do when you discover<br>yourself in a slave culture, is to leave... history is repleat with<br>stories of people who chose the brush over the whip...<p> I&#39;m sure millions of people will be vying for job titles at the FEMA<br>run yuppie Aushwitz camps... gas Chamber operator gets to be last guy<br>inside...<p>and the guards will get it too, when the Elite decide writing history<br>time doesnt need any conflicting versions....<p> will the last guy pull the door closed behind himself?<p>personally, I&#39;d rather be threading a fly line thru the ferrules about<br>then, up some creek, on the far side of the river from a road, with<br>my camp camouflaged, and my horse pretending to be an Elk... Maybe I<br>should make him some antlers?<p> so... Your choice, a fat ticket on the Titanic, or be heading for<br>the brush every step possible?<p>Time is getting short.. the Economic crash is rumbling closer &amp;<br>closer... the only thing holding up the US economy now, is the FED<br>buying Bonds, like two snakes swallowing each other...<p>the status quo is blowing air up your economic aft end, and you keep<br>pulling the wagon like magic...<p> the Economist Galbraith pointed out that you only need two things to<br>create a money system, a printing press, and the belief of the<br>people...<p>well that was then, this is now... now you use a computer for the<br>money, and a TV to program the groupthink into the retarded noggins...<p>hey folks, will you surf your own stupidity all the way to the rocks?<br>
I hear some people figuring it out.. but most think their house will<br>be safe... no doubt FEMA-Nazis will drag many an excess slave out from<br>under their beds, screaming for Mommy all the way to the bullet...<p>if youre planning on sticking to a house, youll have a choice to<br>make.. Give up and die a shameful coward&#39;s death, or fight your last<br>stand over your pack rat&#39;s pile of materialism...<p>I think I&#39;d rather be fishing..<p>morning,<br>munching breakfast, just in from garden digging... Did a nice section<br>of main path, with a bed of the better soil &amp; organic material on<br>downside...<p>it was a good stint, plenty of rocks, got several wheelbarrow loads<br>piled from maybe a 24 ft dig...<p>beginning to suspect stone housing &amp; shelter construction was a<br>spinoff of subsistence agriculture....<p>anyway, got a bit done, more area to plant..<br>closer to self sufficiency...<p>what amazes me these days, is how so many people will do anything, to<br>not have to rely on themselves...<p>theyll take jobs that trash their health, work for people who degrade<br>them, trash other people with &quot;its my job&quot; as their excuse....<p>theyre little babys.. Sucking on the Big Mamma Teat.... wouldnt know<br>which end of an acorn was up.... its like I pointed out a few entries<br>back, humans invariably arrive 180 degrees out from where they should<br>be...<p>well, there will be a few who figure it out.<br>That actual physical work, and living humble, are vastly preferrable<br>to prostituting yourself to an absolute &amp; totally evil system... its<br>like a masquerade ball, you wander around looking at the beauties<br>behind their masks, glitter powder &amp; paint, uplifted breasts in risque<br>dresses, and if you drink too much wine, you could find yourself in a<br>bed with something that looks far different in the light of morning...<br> a crone witch, pretending to be a girl, only trying to get her hooks<br>into your hormones &amp; heart....<p>much better to smile when you recieve the invitation to the dance, and<br>stay home, and trim the horse&#39;s hooves, or something less risky, than<br>going to the meat market, wandering the aisles, and trying to figure<br>out whats inside all the packaging..<p>happiness is avoiding problems.. This is much better than trying to<br>recover from them emotionally &amp; otherwise ..<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-4542606172314912822?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-48730248502959617222011-04-24T06:18:00.001-07:002011-04-24T06:18:56.136-07:00morning,<br>pretty here, in my shorts under shade of my shelter, getting cooking<br>going, writing emails at same time, and thinking about bloggish<br>things too...<p>worked in garden this morning, did another bed, and cleaned some more<br>main path... it wanders thru center of garden area, more or less<br>level.. we cut it years ago.. So now scraping off organic material,<br>topsoil, removing &amp; piling rocks, and reconditioning the wide path,<br>and leaning a bed against it on the down hill side...<p>looks like tomorrow will get to the end of my currently chopped area<br>below path, and then after that, start doing next beds down hill...<p>its nice, have corn coming up on earlier beds, making a few, then<br>planting them..<p>slowly expanding the area...<p>found a bible passage I&#39;ve been wondering about.. connected to<br>Enoch.. its when they form two groups, in front of JC, those on his<br>right hand are the compassionate types, those on left get sore necks..<p>its an interesting passage, cut &amp; dried, black &amp; white... Did you<br>help those at the bottom? Or just think about yourself.... and how<br>much?<p>me, I&#39;m fairly low on the totem pole... I think only the street<br>beggars and those up in the big hotel in san isidro for the<br>excessively problematic are lower than me.. every body else seems to<br>be doing pretty good in my area... but, I still do try to give,<br>usually to beggars, and groups asking for money for various reasons...<br>Cant give much, but something is better than nothing, and I&#39;m starting<br>to wonder if I should start carrying food instead?<p>do have 50 lbs of bananas going ripe.. Did give away 50 lbs from same<br>stalk already, but not to quote unquote the poor...<p>I&#39;d have to go a ways to find somebody really in need.. most of my<br>little area all has houses, etc., electricity, jobs, families etc..<br>i&#39;m the guy w/least money or close to that, &amp; I&#39;m doing fine... No<br>house etc. But I do have the brush patch, and planting stuff...<p>its the people in town, street people, drug addicts etc. That I think<br>are worst off... would be nice if drugs were legalized, so that<br>chain could be somewhat broken... System spends more on prisons than<br>people with problems..<p>the New World Order types evidently plan on extirminating almost<br>everbody but themselves... Guess they consider anyone less greedy,<br>less dishonest, less ego centric, less arrogant, etc. To be an<br>inferior species....<p>their Malthusian mindset is negated by space elevator tech, and a<br>thousand other possible sollutions to over population &amp; resource<br>limits....<p>not very creative types.. Except when it comes to ways to kill people,<br>which is what they do with most of the money they extract from us...<p>if they ever come snooping around here for people to extirminate, I&#39;d<br>get scaird &amp; run off with the monkeys.... watch what theyre eating,<br>and learn what I can eat etc....<p>I figure the NWO types are most likely to use bio weapons... And<br>nukes... their toys of choice... And they seem to like using economic<br>systems to starve people to death.. Must be a fun game for them<br>somehow?<p>I notice in life, its always what you dont know, &amp; what you least<br>expect, that gets you... The universe has an affinity with such cures<br>to assumption &amp; arrogance....<p>my son sent me some yuppie page off the web yesterday, about re<br>adapting to poverty after a credit &amp; career crash... it was<br>interesting reading, but my realization, was that they were feeling<br>&quot;all better&quot; an awful long ways from the real bottom...<p>I doubt the suffering yuppies ate boiled green bananas for months, or<br>lived under tarps for years...<p>and I saw poverty in Peru a few years back, that would make our happy<br>yuppies realize they were so far from really down, that their<br>emotional readaptation was a minor twitch compared to what I saw...<p>Living as a stone age indigenous person would have been thousands of<br>times better than what the world bank types did to Peru...<p>and now they hope to impoverish everybody, &amp; collect the proceeds...<br>well, the gutless types will starve and never do shinola about it<br>except steal from other poor...<p>me? Not into it all... Money gets used for minimum diet &amp; preparedness stuff...<p> most of what I buy is stuff that will likely out last me &amp; go into<br>other hands...<p>useful stuff, pots &amp; pans, hoes etc.... not Donald Trump I guess?<p>mostly I just try to stash stuff for projects, and to help boot farm<br>food etc. For when things get really bad... also my refugee kit<br>stuff...<p>later, had some friends visit... that was fun, guys, four, one adult,<br>3 kids.. adult long term good friend, kids from my village, so they<br>know me... all growing up w/me on the mountain above, for most of<br>their lives.. Actually, I get alot of respect from local kids, they<br>know my reputation.. Heard stories of crazy stuff... the guy who<br>does things no Tico would even consider..<p>I like kids... They generally like me...<br>a local legend of sorts... its not every village has one of me...<p>they all know I turned out spot on with alot of long term<br>predictions... way before scientists &amp; such started going public..<br>was the laughing stock of the area, for a decade, and then things I<br>had talked about began showing up on TV, one after another.... being<br>right about long term predictions is a fairly shocking thing to do in<br>front of a supersticious and backward people..<p>but I&#39;m seeing the kids are getting a handle on reality...<br>better than their folks...<p>I suspect I&#39;m part of the difference... A catalyst of sorts.. I came<br>here long before internet... started kids thinking..<br>Someone from outside, and advanced for even there...<br>But now they have internet.. not just a small town in a small<br>country, with one TV channel....<p>anyway was happy to see my friend.. he&#39;s been working out of the<br>area... was asking how to prepare for whats coming... told him he&#39;d<br>best be prepared for economic collapse etc. In the next year or so...<br>That his city job would likely dry up, and he&#39;d better have a place in<br>the country to camp &amp; grow food.. he &amp; the kids understood the<br>tsunami danger in the lowlands, govt. Has been on TV about Cocos<br>plate, and they saw what happened in Japan... and they know now that<br>I had it figured out 15 years ago... When I came to this village &amp;<br>bought a farm up on the mountain, I was the first who didnt buy close<br>to the beach, &amp; people asked me why, &amp; I told them about climate<br>change... and what it would mean...<p>they all thought I was crazy... now they see devastation headed their<br>way... their comfy mental paradigm has been disturbed.. it was a<br>place nothing bad ever happened...<p>most of the people in my area live on a coastal plain a few meters<br>above sea level..<br>I live hundreds of meters above the valley floor...<br>its a nice view...<p>they grow oil palm, watch TV, have a wife, etc. And think its a<br>life... they thought nothing would ever disturb it...<p> well, I explained about book of Enoch.. my friend asking questions<br>to see if I was off on some bazaar tangent on a book written in modern<br>times to beguile bliss ninnies or something.. no... gave them the<br>over view.. and they know my history about being right about bazaar<br>things...<p>they&#39;d heard of the dead sea scrolls...<br>They heard alot more before they left..<br>Connected dots for them...<br>alot of dots...<p><p><p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-4873024850295961722?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-23173298845404721902011-04-21T08:58:00.001-07:002011-04-21T08:58:33.036-07:00morning...<p>have been getting my cooking going this morning, ie chopping wood,<br>washing dishes, cleaning beans, etc. also working on an email to a<br>buddy, and also thinking about a realization I&#39;ve been gnawing on<br>lately, trying to fathom what it means...<p>what I&#39;ve figured out is a bit strange... I suspect I know where it<br>came from &amp; why....<p>so, let me start you on the trail, and get you up to speed on it....<p>first, I notice that humans invariably screw things up...<br>second I noticed that we dont just screw things up some, we screw<br>things up as much as is actually possible...<p>when I started thinking along these lines, I dubbed the effect; &quot; the<br>Turd Midas Effect&quot;, for obvious reasons...<p>everything humanity does turns to you know what.... everything we do<br>ends up having a reversed outcome to stated goal...<p><br>everything we do seems to be contaminated with said effect...<p>what I also noted, is that to be invariably 180 degrees out, means its<br>a pattern.. and for everything to have the same exact pattern is<br>uncanny...<p>we fall in love only to hate... We have political representitives who<br>represent our worst enemies, we send our children to schools that<br>make them stupid... We watch TV to keep boredom at bay... when TV is<br>sooo predictably boring....<p>we think money is security.. Ha!<p>we group up into huge cities, when sanity would be peace &amp; quiet &amp; space...<p>we turn our religions into squawk fests pointing fingers at everyone<br>not in our own click....<p>we fight wars &amp; call them humanitarian...<p>we have peace keepers who assist in genocides...<p>Whats the common denominator folks? its obvious as hell, we&#39;re<br>exactly 180 degrees out on every stinking thing.... From our personal<br>lives to our cultures, to our civilisations...<p>in fact, bet you cant think of anything not contaminated by the effect....<p>What does it mean?<p>&#39;Tells me we&#39;ve somehow had our polarity reversed for experimental<br>purposes... Is it genetic? Or is it the ray or energy field mentioned<br>in Enoch making the fallen ones evil?<p>not sure, not too important... What is important, is one see the<br>pattern, and then trail it, to find the cause on one end &amp; solution on<br>the other....<p>Basically all you have to know, is our polarity has been reversed to<br>the universe....<p>this makes combatting the effect much easier...<p>hopefully this realization will spread, but I worry about scammers<br>doing a brisk business doing polarity reversals for the soft boiled<br>egg types...<p>I think its a tool... But one only you yourself, can get a handle on..<br>To use for rethinking yourself... ie &quot;repenting&quot; in the 180 out<br>fanatic Jargon now obscuring the original message&#39;s intent....<p>anyway... Think about it... makes understanding whats going on easier....<p><p><p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2317329884540472190?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-54673109830994497282011-04-13T12:44:00.001-07:002011-04-13T12:44:08.404-07:00morning,<p>nice day here, sun behind a cloud at the moment, but blue skys &amp; 80F or so....<p>I&#39;m munching some bannock with Curry, hot peppers &amp; garlic... Pretty good...<p>listening to short wave, but the propagations have been bad lately,<br>so I tend to listen more at night...<p>sounds ugly up there in Disney land on the Patomicville....<p>Makes me thankfull to be a poor brush rat living in a banana republic....<p>what I observe listening to the call ins, is that people invariably<br>think its somebody elses job to fix things...<p>my, my arent we predictable...<p>you dont suppose the status quo counts on that do you?<br>They seeem to, have installed corks in all the fixit positions...<br>leaving you Yammerheads as Heinline called you, to squawk and scream,<br>and get nowhere but used and eaten...<p>what do we need to see before you get it? The Romper Room lady get out<br>her magic mirror, and say; you &amp; you &amp; you, are responsible for doing<br>something to fix things?<p>you know, one of the reasons I left the US, is because I saw what a<br>bunch of gutless spineless fat slobs my fellow citizens were...<p>you people are going to squeal like pigs in the movie diliverance...<br>And after the status quo uses you real good, theyll cut you throat to<br>shut you up..<p>to achieve anything, you have to pay a price...<br>What I hear is morons who think liberty and freedom is a fone call away...<p>Just call their black box elected, unconstitutional government,<br>Misrepresentative, and FedEx will diliver their new reality overnight,<br>please sign here, for your free freedom...<p>no Silly, you have to pay a price... And not with a checkbook or<br>plastic card....<p>you have to do something, anything, that thwarts<br>the status quo...<p>I found changing my life helped alot in the freedom department..<br>also I feel really good to not be paying for their dirty bomb wars....<p>they dont get anything from me, nada.. Nobody does... and having my<br>boughten food bill down to $30 a month, there arent very many<br>middlemen making very much money off me....<p>I dont watch TV, I dont buy shit on commercials, I use mass transit,<br>dont have a driver&#39;s license or a car, no medical insurance other than<br>clean life, clean air &amp; water, veggetarian diet, home grown fruit<br>etc....<p>I&#39;m kind of a non-participant in reality....<br>civilisation could end tomorrow at 8:00 AM sharp, &amp; I wouldnt give a<br>shit other than for the suffering of all those silly geese foolish<br>enough to buy into a grandiose pyramid scheme called government &amp;<br>technocult.....<p>how did I get here? took risks, made plans, made plans happen, went<br>thru hell, almost didnt survive many times etc... wasnt a fone call<br>that got me here scott free....<p>Tell you a secret; if you dont like whats going on, you can leave the movie...<p>Nature is always happy every morning.. Whether youre around or no....<br>New York could become a glowing crater, and the Pizotes after my<br>breadnuts wouldnt care...<p>I would never know, if I wasnt a Short wave DXer hobbyist....<p>well, I see the monkeys are back.. Hold on a line or two...<p>ok, cut up some bananas for them, I count at least 14 this morning,<br>and saw the Mamma w/baby on her back earlier.... second time theyve<br>come today, and now coming within inches of me to snag banana hunks as<br>I cut them, and also beginning to explore in my shelter...<p>how did I get the cool Tarzan job?<br>
I bought it by doing something..<p>coming up with the guts to leave the twilight of normalcy zone..<p>until you start fixing yourself, the reality is going to get worse &amp; worse..<p>me? Constant struggle to fix my own sorry butt...<br>That &amp; prepare for things to get a whole lot worse..<p>I dont think anyone else is going to do anything but complain their<br>way to WW3... Wee-Wee-Wee! All the way home, to hell for gutless<br>squealers....<p>remember the fable? Smart piggy put his money on what was substancial,<br> and the half assed piggys lost their asses.... The wolves do blow...<br>Lies generally, unless theyre sucking.. Eggs, blood, etc...<p>hey! Guys! Its a preditory reality!<p>you cant just be little stupid sheepies, and everything will be wonderful.....<p>gotta find your own balance.. Gotta pedal to get there...<p>become; &quot;doo-ers&quot;, not whiners...<p>a quarter of the planet is still wild... Thats a fair sized area...<br>The seas are fairly empty....<p>its all about letting go of the monkey trap....<p>you know, I have a dozen monkey friends now... They might have IQ&#39;s of<br>20 or so.... But they know how to be &amp; stay free....<p>not a one, has asked to use my fone, to call a congressman....<p>they just do it.....<p>Primates... From Baboons, to pot bellied Bafoons....<p>anyway, practicing solar electric guitar most mornings, learning chord<br>rounds... Still a beginner, but learning daily... going to someday<br>play a mean guitar, or die trying... Gotta have something to do, now<br>that I&#39;m free of the system, knock on wood....<p>and the trying habit gets habitual...<p>got an email from my son yesterday... He was happy, scored a stainless<br>Solingen kitchen knife blade at a 2nd hand store for a couple three<br>dollars... same knife new over a hundred...<p>so now he needs to rebuild it, new handle slabs etc... I&#39;m sure he&#39;s<br>got the routine down, saw DAD do it many times, since he was a little<br>kid...<p>so I suggested a wood type &amp; source in a reply email...<p>happy my kid has a good survival related hobby....<br>he who makes knives, always has some....<p>its a refugee item... subsistence tool.... I&#39;m looking fwd to seeing<br>a foto of the used blade... and another foto when he&#39;s finished..<p>do you suppose that one will go into his refugee gear? There beside<br>the Solingen knife my father gave me? its blue steel, pre-stainless<br>era....<p>also he has a couple knives I made, with really exelent steel...<p>and sheathes I sewed by hand... Designed them too.. One is the nicest<br>knife sheath I&#39;ve made to date.. And holds a hunting knife thats the<br>very best stainless to cross my palms in my life...<p>did a nice job on the knife too, perfect lines &amp; proportion....<p> friends still mention that knife to me, now 5 plus years later..<br>i&#39;m happy my kid has it, and the others too... just owning one good<br>knife, is something worth being thankful for...<p>its not how much you own, or how much money you have... its having<br>the right stuff, &amp; doing the right things...<p>do nothing, get nowhere....<p><p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-5467310983099449728?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-8300252960262590622011-04-08T07:27:00.001-07:002011-04-08T07:27:41.564-07:00Afternoon,<br>just had a shower, thunder boomers and an inch or two of rain...<p>before that, listened on radio to an interview w/Lindon La Rouche...<br>never heard him speak before, he was definitely lucid.. understood<br>new world order agenda, and also suggested that we were in for a mega<br>quake above richter nine, perhaps a 12 Richter, on the west coast of<br>US... In the next couple of years.. He gave cause as the 62 million<br>year galactic cycle which I&#39;ve read a little about before..<p>I&#39;m not sure of causes, but I do take the sky gods warning<br>seriously... And I&#39;ve been questing mentally for scenarios to explain<br>cause... I suspect its an all of the above answer..<p>I heard Dr. wong on short wave yesterday, talking about living<br>traditionally as an answer to the problems of our times...<p>same basic answer I promote.. Neoindigenism etc...<p>this morning I worked in my garden project, knocked out another raised<br>bed... aint easy, dealing with an area thats got no shortage of roots<br>&amp; rocks, but I&#39;m building a bed most mornings, and so my garden is<br>starting to look like a garden, one bed at a time....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-830025296026259062?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-76446141249951625802011-04-05T09:26:00.001-07:002011-04-05T09:26:09.128-07:00afternoon, a warm one... was listening to radio, until station went<br>OTA... Wasnt a freq change, so must be having probs...<p>Sounds like the US is getting worse monthly...<p>the problem with the ability to pass unlimited numbers of laws, is<br>eventually you run out of intelligent ones...<p> what happens living in a third world country, its like being an<br>anthropologist.. you start observing the quaint locals... and you<br>go thru phases, and eventually you realize that the defects they<br>exibit remind you of similar stuff back home, that<br> you never really added up... then you get it... Same traits,<br>different cultural &quot;style&quot; at most...<p>then after you figure that out, eventually you get screwed over<br>enough, it clicks, and reminds you of things youve done earlier...<br>thats enlightenment...when you figure out the &quot;your OK, I&#39;m OK&quot; fad<br>was a big fat lie..<p>the human condition is a matter of degrees &amp; opportunity...<p>people just play roles.. different role, different act, same animal...<p>business is the art of ripping each other off.. in the third world<br>thats just more obvious..<p>after years of thought, about lifetimes of problems with others, you<br>eventually realize that problems are invariably connected to people..<br>and that the more independent &amp; self sufficient you are, the less<br>problems you have... the problems in the US, are only problems, if<br>you depend on the system.. the less youre involved, the less leverage<br>they have on you..<p>which is why I prioritize what I do &amp; buy in order of importance for<br>self sufficiency... not too many people get excited over garden hoes<br>these days.. I do.. Why? Because its the tool that most helps me in<br>the direction of food independence..<p>this morning, I built another bed in the garden.. removed some huge<br>rocks in the process.. stuff you wouldnt be able to haul in a<br>wheelbarrow..<p>every bed is a step closer to home grown tortillas &amp; beans or peas..<p>its what allows me to listen to short wave fairly unaffected.. I&#39;m<br>not part of the problem.. And I seperate myself more daily..<p><p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7644614124995162580?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-74801458736141939942011-04-04T04:35:00.001-07:002011-04-04T04:35:27.538-07:00going on two in the morning,<br>I woke about midnight, and built a small fire for tea... around me,<br>jungle bug &amp; ting frog noises... ambient temperature about 76 F....<br>amd I&#39;m waiting for the dawn in a few hours, to go to my garden site,<br>&amp; grub hoe up another raised bed..<p>its not easy.. roots, rocks, and a pickhoe with the pick removed to<br>do it with... I work up a sweat, get a pile of rocks, and another<br>of roots, but in a couple hours, manage to have a nice long bed<br>done...<p>life can be fairly simple... a couple hundred dollars in materialism,<br>and the knowlege of food growing, and one can live in the brush just<br>fine...<p>I contrast that with people who think they have to make thousand<br>dollar house payments or rent, or its the end of the world for them...<p>the technocult could dissappear tomorrow and it would make zero<br>difference to me.. the wild life wouldnt know, I&#39;d just adapt, the<br>sun would come up &amp; the moon set, and I&#39;d just keep expanding my<br>garden project, cutting firewood to cook with, and waiting for dawn<br>to go out and putter in my garden...<p>would only take a few posessions really... A machette, a stout hoe, a<br>knife, Wok, tea pot, stock pot, bowl, cup and spoon.. a lens to start<br>fires with, a blanket to snuggle in, toothbrush, hair brush, a file<br>to sharpen tools, a stone for the knife, and one could live fine<br>under a thatch of leaves on poles.. I have 100X more than I need..<br>Ten or eleven hoes last count.. more pots &amp; pans than I can keep<br>organized, got shovels &amp; axes, saws &amp; drills, chisels and hammers,<br>buckets &amp; canisters for food...<p>my last trip to town, got a really pretty little hoe, a chinese rice<br>sickle, and a japanese style kitchen knife, and some stainless water<br>bottles, all for<br>about $20... the hoe cost the same as 8 lbs of beans.... The rice<br>sickle cost two cups of coffee...<p>I was telling my son in emails what I&#39;d figured out about using hoes<br>in agriculture here, instead of the Tico machete based food growing<br>techniques...<p>Rediscovering the wheel only worse.. People had hoes long before wheels...<p> I&#39;m doing a new raised bed most mornings, expanding my garden one<br>day at a time... intend to keep it up for a year or more... Until I<br>have enough area going that I have surplus food....<p>corn &amp; beans folks... And a diet thereof... I have plenty of fruit,<br>and tropical tree foods going.. One just feels better if you have<br>grains &amp; legumes for daily staples... yesterday was passover I think,<br>so I did flat bread... lived simple, watered my herb plants, dug my<br>raised bed, wrote emails to friends...<p>Got a text message from a young woman I met on the bus, have been<br>helping her w/english homework, she seems nice, has a little girl...<br>anyway, I think I&#39;m going to end up teaching english for free to her &amp;<br>a bunch of sisters, and any body else who shows up, every couple<br>weeks..<p>should be entertaining, I&#39;ve taught english before.. Usually peters<br>out due to Latin inability to show up anywhere on a regular &amp; timely<br>basis...<p>not my problem, I&#39;ll just do it for social entertainment, and to help<br>those who can manage to show up... my guess is I&#39;ll end up with<br>maybe half a dozen young people... some that I know, some that I<br>dont...<p>will be a shock to the village, havent taught publically in many<br>years... Got fed up w/latin trips...<p>but I suspect now will see better results... Theyve all spent alot of<br>money studying english, and gotten nowhere... Just bilked by fellow<br>latins, end up with a piece of paper, and cant speak or understand<br>anything, because the local system screws gringos over, uses latins<br>only, and none of them can ask your aunt Harriet where the bathroom<br>is... Trying for years to teach english with people who cant converse<br>for teachers....<p>the Tico government, and private schools have a little &quot;no gringos<br>allowed&quot; educational Mafia going, its costing the people millions of<br>dollars, and they never learn dogshit... doesnt take long to figure<br>out its a money game.. With government &amp; private schools sucking up<br>wealth from poor people, while denying them any real benifit, by being<br>greedy racist hippocrit bastards...<p>I could tell you horror stories for an hour, corruption, extortion,<br>lies, and people who got promoted to even ministerial levels doing<br>such...<p>all connected to english non teaching.. If you want to go somewhere<br>where nobody speaks english, Costa Rata is your best bet... ripping<br>off foriegners &amp; each other, is all they know..<p>so, I&#39;ll help some kids, because they need it, and let the sky gods<br>take care of the greed heads.. theyre going to need a big troop<br>ship, if they remove all the extremely dishonest people in CR.....<p>The Ticos even have a saying; &quot;If the law really worked, we&#39;d all be in jail.&quot;<p>and theyre telling the truth.. Which is rare here...<p>they have a pretend culture... looks really good superficially, the<br>entire economy is based on everybody ripping every body they can<br>off... Period... from top to bottom, inside &amp; out, theyre planet<br>class sleaze bags... its like a conversation I had on the bus with a<br>tico about it, he gave the usual line; &quot;its not everybody!&quot; and I<br>looked at him &amp; responded; no, its not, but the numbers are really<br>really bad.<p>he couldnt say shit....<p>so I feel sorry for the kids growing up in a cultural cess pool... And<br>I live in poverty, &amp; teach for free, while worthless &amp; arrogant types<br>have high paying jobs, pretending to be able to teach...<br>So I help kids on busses, help people via text messages etc... Its all<br>I can do...<p>I&#39;ve been blocked repeatedly for going on 16 years, and not one person<br>in a thousand here speaks english... but they have a great english<br>program at the national level... Plenty of budget, big words, zero<br>results, due to the tico anti foriegner economic endemic bias... its<br>a sick novela to watch...<p>and why I generally stay home, and dont have much to do with the<br>ticos... All american long termers get to the point they distance<br>themselves from the ticos... its like living in some cartoon reality,<br>a land populated by 150 pound Oregon garden slugs, wearing nice<br>clothes, shaking you hand.. But keep your distance if you dont want<br>covered in their slime....<p>its been the very best thing possible for my own enlightenment.. You<br>live here awhile &amp; you start realizing cleaning up your own act is a<br>&quot;gotta do it.&quot; nobody is perfect, few humans even decent, but here<br>you get enough ego moster bites that you just pray to God to help you<br>not be like them any more than absolutely impossible to do anything<br>about.. its like being in an open air prison, and deciding you really<br>dont want to be like these kinds of persons.....<p>so.. I mostly stay home, play with my neoindigenous trip, and let<br>the world go where it may...<p>the other day I heard an interview on Alex Jones, with Shawn Stone,<br>son of Oliver Stone the movie director... he mentioned the book of<br>Enoch, and connected Angels with Aliens... and its a program with<br>several million listeners a day.... yup! best read book of Enoch,<br>Judges 5:20, Genisis 6, etc... And realize the game we&#39;re being<br>played...<p>the star of Bethlehem is a ship I think.... and Judgement day is<br>quite likely a coming reality, and enough people are going to get<br>their &quot;necks cut&quot; as its put in Enoch, to run the rivers of blood up<br>to a horses bridles described in the bible...<p>so I feel lucky I&#39;ve had Ticos to teach me how bad we really are... I<br>used to think I was an OK guy.... now I realize it aint like I<br>thunk.... its the stuff we think nobody knows about.... We live on<br>two mental planes... Our imagined persona, &amp; our real persona... And<br>we blythly go thru our lives doing shitty things, thinking not good<br>thoughts, like demon possessed pigs... and if we think no one knows,<br>then thats not part of who we are mentally...<p>listen to your own monster for awhile... Its really disgusting...<br>take a look at others.. Thats your &quot;mirror of enlightenment&quot;.... see<br>how disgusting they are? Thats how you are too, if you see the bad<br>stuff in yourself, and not think whats hidden has no effects....<p>anyway, I try to do no damage to others.. And hope people wake up in time...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7480145873614193994?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-90384608434380299952011-03-31T14:10:00.001-07:002011-03-31T14:10:51.064-07:00Morning,<br>overcast, just got in from the garden..<p>dug with pickhoe on a path, ran into alot of rock, picked out several<br>buckets full of gravel, and a wheelbarrow or so of medium rocks, &amp;<br>pried out several big ones... so got more rocks than path...<p>Did plant &amp; water several herb plants, a carnation, and planted a<br>Tangerine tree, and also several spinach plants, 6 I think....<p> shoulder packed two buckets of rock up the hill and to a repair spot<br>on my trail to spring, packed in a bucket of root hunks for cooking<br>fuel... garden project is producing an endless supply....<p> was happy to plant the herbs etc... Dreaming of a nice collection...<br>starting a buying habit every time I goto town... so add to my herb<br>hillock monthly...<p> its all slow progress, but better than counting on the system...<p>also planted a cinnamon start... so a fair number of things<br>planted... I have some peppers going too, but not big enough to<br>transplant yet...<p> And missed planting a couple spinach plants... Tomorrow if I<br>remember.. the spinach is some tropical plant, probably not really a<br>classic spinach, but its a green leafy food plant... Perenial, and<br>roots from cuttings or even roots in water... It likes sun and<br>moisture, and I have one plant that would fill a washtub, and am now<br>waiting on consistent rains to do a bunch of cuttings directly onto<br>terrace slopes... first goal is to do a big area on a slope, then<br>propagate from it, and use for ground cover.... I figure if I use it<br>all over the place in areas, my &quot;greens&quot; security is fairly well<br>established..<p>also figured out recently, that a local plant was in fact Poke Weed...<br> Polk? its called &quot;Jaboncillo&quot; here locally.. &quot;little soap plant&quot;<p>I havent seen one in awhile, they come up in disturbed soil from birds<br>dropping the slightly used berries.... so only a matter of time until<br>one shows up in my garden, or I see one elsewhere &amp; pick some<br>berries...<p> I had some husk tomatoes come up wild..<br>And another plant used for making a drink...<p>and yesterday had my worker plant corn &amp; beans... I&#39;ll be planting<br>corn from now on, as I finish building a bed... about one per<br>morning, seven paces long.. its my favorite size...<p>the garden area has some topsoil, due to the rocks... the past<br>owners chopped the place constantly for pasture, burnt the place every<br>year... and ran cattle on it... A steep mountian... erosion, likely<br>no place on earth trashed any more effectively.. They chopped the<br>brush back with machetes, and so rocky areas got a higher chop...<br>meaning more brush, less grass, so cows went there less, less erosion<br>etc...<p>so the rocky area is where theres a bit of topsoil left... so..<br>Yours truely digging in rocks, removing brush roots, consolidating<br>topsoil into raised beds, etc... its a real tough job...<p>but its what I have to work with... And getting plenty of exercise...<p> cheaper than a gym membership... in fact I was thinking this morning<br>how sports, &amp; other modern exercise, is &quot;Pseudo Work&quot;... much of it<br>immitates tasks of agriculture, like the shot put, I was shot putting<br>rocks out of my garden...<p>I think alot of sports etc. Is people who are too good to work.. And<br>historically they got tired of being beat by peasants... So they<br>invented exercise etc...<p> work sanitized for a nobility...<p> it feels good to get back to the roots and rocks of life... I&#39;ve<br>done everything subsistence in pieces in my life... now I&#39;m in<br>progress of putting it all together in absolute terms.. listening to<br>the news on short wave tells me that I&#39;d best boot it.. WORLD WAR 3<br>has already begun.... It just hasnt gotten up to speed yet....<p>I figure the hard digging is good practice... sooner or later I&#39;m<br>going to need a fox hole/fallout shelter... and if I procrastinate<br>too long, I may have to dig it in a hurry..<p> these resource wars have winners &amp; losers... Not just the innocent<br>people they depopulate off the top of the oil, but big players....<br>Sooner or later, things will get pushed too far... and the nukes<br>will fly... And many, including self, think its not far off.. A<br>couple three years at most, could happen next week, for all I know..<p>so its a good time to be going into the subsistence crops.. &amp; its a<br>good time to be improving my habits, and toughening up physically.. &amp;<br>its a good time to be buying those last list items for long term<br>survival in a post technocult reality....<p>I have a couple months until my next run into Panama, and thinking to<br>get another pickhoe, and some machetes for stash.... I also bought a<br>couple files for sharpening.. I entend to keep buying files, as<br>theyre one of the most important consumables in subsistance living..<p>basically all I do now, is prepare...<p>people used to call me paranoid.... now I watch them playing catch up..<p>fallout shelters are selling like hot cakes... I&#39;ll build something<br>simple... just a hole into the dirt somewhere with the best drainage<br>possible..<p> three feet of dirt is a thousand half factors, and I&#39;ll rig a<br>blanket over the entrance to filter dust out of the air... where I&#39;m<br>at, no big issue... could likely survive fine sleeping in my own<br>bed, unless someone nukes a Sub up wind from me, off the coast...<br>nearest target is Panama canal, a couple hundred miles away.. likely<br>the width of the average sized state in the US.... And I&#39;m generally<br>up wind.. Those waves on the Pacific come in from the west night and<br>day for a reason... the wind pushes them..<p>I wonder if the canal will even get hit.. The Chinese run it, and the<br>US needs it most... Neither has incentive to take it out..<p> the Russians arent likely interested in it.. Not with the Arctic<br>ocean warming up.. Theyre soon to have a nifty shortcut of their own,<br>over the top....<p> its an anacronism really.. Long gone are the ships bucking the seas<br>around the horn....<p>now there is rail, and trucking covering continents coast to coast..<br>Canals are convienant, but they arent a necessity...<p>Besides, WW3 will be over almost before it starts... a couple hours<br>of fireworks &amp; the party is over for the Monkeys of Hubris &amp; the<br>Vanity &amp; Greed Gods...<p>Governments are like spoiled children fighting...<p>and that will be the end of humanity, except for a few survivors, who<br>will be back just off the stone age.. no shortage of metal, no<br>shortage of things, as long as you dont mind seeing decomposed corpses<br> while youre scrounging...<p>personally I&#39;d be afraid of residual radioactivity &amp; dormant<br>microbes.. and I&#39;d rather have everything I really needed up on the<br>mountain..<br> One scenario I&#39;ve thought about, is the Mega quake being set off by<br>nuclear winter thermal shock... if that happens, 80% of humanity gets<br>the toilet flush treatment... first crumble and crash the cities,<br>then all the coastal versions get a serious washing.. the quakes &amp;<br>tsunamis to date are just the Orchestra tuning up.. meanwhile all the<br>silly monkeys are happy as long as its happening to somebody else...<br>little do they know, that theres a number line, and theyre on it<br>somewhere...<p>its like the peaceful protests now.... should we be peacefully<br>protesting the killing of millions by the military industrial complex?<br> what it means, is when its your turn in the gas chamber, maybe<br>someone will peacefully protest it.... That will make it all better,<br>right?<p>wake up you morons.. Peaceful protests are for cattle at slaughter houses...<p> JC said if you didnt own a sword, sell your clothes &amp; get one... Do<br>you suppose it was to ornament your nakkedness at peaceful protests?<p> I think not...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-9038460843438029995?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-62282375510227360502011-03-28T07:27:00.001-07:002011-03-28T07:27:52.805-07:00How would I design micro geothermal power plants?<p>Well, first I&#39;d try to keep the laser bore hole small to make it<br>easier &amp; cheaper to do.. Perhaps a couple inches or less...<p>then to eliminate any piping into the bore, I&#39;d make it cycle like a<br>geyser... Where basically you dropped a shot of water down the hole,<br>and got a steam hit.. with this I would run a turbine, which would<br>then turn a large heavy flywheel to even out the power..<br>I&#39;d have the turbine connected to the fly wheel with a coaster rachet<br>like on a bike rear hub, so that the fly wheel wouldnt have to drag<br>the idle turbine between pumps... Then I would use permanet magnets<br>around the fly wheel to produce a pulsing DC current somewhat above 12<br>Volts, for line losses etc. And the pulses at perhaps 60 cycles, so<br>w/pulses you could easily transform it into a pulsing DC of 120 volts,<br>or to use as 12 Volts to charge standard batteries.. the 120 volt<br>pulsing DC could be used to pump the current around the farm or<br>village with less line loss...<p> I&#39;d design the steam system with a condenser, that had a gravity<br>slope, probably using it for heating or air conditioning around the<br>farm or village, with the gravity slope designed so the condensate<br>water drained back into the geothermal well in passive cycles.. This<br>way the system would run continuously, provide two types of current,<br>and only need a lubrication system for turbine &amp; flywheel...<p>so basically you&#39;d need a truck with a Laser &amp; power plant mounted on<br>it to bore the wells, and to install the power plant on top by<br>cementing in a pipe down to solid rock... such a system would bore<br>geothermal wells for the price of the energy used to power the Laser,<br>and it could be portable enough to drill &amp; relocate quickly &amp;<br>efficiently...<p> and thats my answer, to the lying assholes with no brains, who<br>promote nuclear &amp; other forms of toxic power...<p>another couple Items I bought on my town trip was some yuppie water<br>bottles.. The stainless steel versions are starting to show up here<br>ocasionaly now.. so far I&#39;ve gotten three 26 ounce size, for $3.65<br>each in the stores that sell factory over runs etc... I&#39;m thinking to<br>use them for seed storage, bulk condiments, &amp; food concentrates for my<br>refugee kit... I&#39;m hoping they get other sizes in... Would like some<br>larger and a few smaller.. and I wish they&#39;d manufacture versions<br>with wider mouths, and perhaps designed for home canning of food....<br>These would require a better lid/stopper system.. maybe a stainless<br>cap &amp; O-ring...<p>it sure would be nicer than heavy &amp; breakable glass jars..<p> What started me thinking about the stainless bottles was use in<br>holding Rum etc. in unbreakable containers.. would be nice if wines<br>and other beverages even came in such containers... the actual cost<br>difference between glass, aluminum, and plastic containers is probably<br>slight... personally I think it would be better if even tin cans were<br>replaced by reusable stainless containers..<p>another item I picked up, was a small 6 Volt gel cell battery to run<br>my short wave radio with.. It cost me what a couple months worth of<br>regular disposable batteries do, and will likely last for years...<p>I can charge it from my solar panel... So now I&#39;m set to hear the lie<br>by lie account of the demise of humanity..<p>I also bought half a dozen plants, mostly herbs, as I&#39;m thinking to<br>collect some every month, and then propagate them over time into good<br>sized areas of each type, so we have plenty of herbs for medicinals<br>and seasonings..<p> the planting season is getting close... a couple more weeks and<br>we&#39;ll start getting consistant rain..<p>another item I bought was a set of &quot;glomers&quot; style vise grips... They<br>looked handy for holding small projects while filing or drilling<br>etc... kind of a neonomadic&#39;s vise....<p>so, it was a good town trip for the neoindigenous survivalist type...<br>several refugee kit items... and even a few stainless steel things...<br> I think pack ratting away practical stainless steel items is better<br>than buying gold or silver....<p>if only 2% survive, wont be alot of market for gold, &amp; if most or all<br>of the cities are flattened, there wont be any factories... So it will<br>be down to building forges, and starting over with metals scrounged<br>from dead cars etc... Its a long ways from scrap metal to a forged hoe<br>or a stainless knife... I see stuff being cheap now... got the hoe<br>head for the price of 8 lbs of beans... I can grow tons of beans with<br>that hoe, and leave it to my kids &amp; grandkids after I keep an<br>appointment with my designers... I dont think 8 lbs of beans will<br>make it that far...<p>Last month I had some critical dental work done, and so didnt get<br>much, but I did buy some strings for the electric guitar, got 4 E<br>strings, as thats the one that breaks most often, and I got 2 of the<br>next three strings, and hope to soon get some of the last two<br>strings... I cleaned and painted a can from air rifle pellets, and<br>melted vaselene over the carefully coiled guitar strings... its the<br>tropics, everything rusts, rots, or degrades here..<p>What I find about materialism, is that on a nano-budget, I can make<br>progress due to my neoindigenous lifestyle...<p>One actually needs so very little, if you arent trying to live in the<br>sea of vanity up to the water line of &quot;normalcy&quot;...<p>it was such an emotional relief to let go of the technocult.. I<br>became much the richer that instant..<p> these days I pass up alot of stuff... mostly because it doesnt fit<br>my mental paradigm anymore.. also I know what a drag having too much<br>stuff is...<br>likely dont have a tenth of what the average american has stuffed into<br>their house.... and still have a hundred times more than I actually<br>need..<p>I seem to be fine tuning my material collection steadily towards a<br>pretty good set up for the times ahead... I try to use every bit of<br>money to finish projects, or get items that are wise to have during<br>the collapse of civilisations...<p>Lately I&#39;ve been thinking about the melt down in Japan, and how<br>Obvious the lies are coming out of the Squawk boxes of the world....<p>and it is something I&#39;ve long written about, that nuclear power is a<br>grave &amp; ever present danger... JC called it an abomination that causes<br>desolation in Mathew 24:15... sentient beings wouldnt use<br>abominations....<p>I listed these purchasses for you to give an example of what its like<br>to think neoindigenous, and how you can use the current availability<br>of materialism to constantly boot a more fundamental lifestyle...<br>I dont own a car, or a house, I dont have a TV... and I&#39;m able to<br>live on $100 a month<br>fairly comfortably because of the mindset, and do it happier than I<br>was living in the US, &amp; holding down a job... when the technocult,<br>the money &amp; materialism goes away, it wont be any big shock to me...<br>I&#39;ll be working in my garden every morning, just as I do now.. and<br>over the next year I&#39;ll be altering my diet, buying even less, and<br>eating even better...<p> I have plenty of food even now... From the food trees I planted,<br>tropical tubers etc.. I&#39;m actually improving my diet &amp; life<br>steadily... if I get another year or two, I&#39;ll be very well set.. To<br>me it will be a seamless transition from current reality to a new<br>post technocult version... I&#39;m already well over halfway there...<p>and by NOT trying to maintain a modern lifestyle, or packrat away<br>excess wealth in the form of ornamental metals, I am able to make<br>consistant progress, and to also learn alot... And to spend my hours<br>doing fun crafts projects, gardening, etc..<p>it could be done in some form almost anywhere..<p> so, I get to be a strange man.. Navigating his way thru the<br>dreamworld of modern insanity, questing continually for a life<br>improved in real terms... And I get to have fun doing it... Camping is<br>a nice lifestyle... I was showing some women friends in town fotos,<br>it was fun, to see their reaction to my stone fire pit with a roof,<br>wheelbarrow loads of several different types and colors of bananas,<br>and fotos of my garden project, and the terracing I&#39;ve been doing...<p> so, here I sit, a fool on a mountain, 68 floors above Tsunami<br>levels, cooking banana bread...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-6228237551022736050?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-24973231277869052472011-03-27T12:29:00.001-07:002011-03-27T12:29:23.601-07:00morning,<br>home alone, enjoying the solitude....<br>Relaxing, doing some puttering...<p>went to town a couple days ago, paid off some dental work, and did my<br>shopping..<p>spent about $30 on food for the month, and shopped the stores for some<br>list items... And for any items of opportunity...<p>I found a nice little Mexican hoe, forged, that was the perfect size<br>and shape for a refugee kit item..<p>have been thinking of doing a set, by making an E-tool by rehandling a<br>kid&#39;s sized shovel available here, then doing a matching hoe, with<br>both having about 24 inch overall length... Then I have an axe, that<br>I made by cutting two hatchets apart, and welding them into an<br>interesting little double bitt axe... thinking to do a 24 inch handle<br>for it also, then I have a rula style machete thats the same length<br>over all that I made, and I made a nice leather scabbard for it, and<br>its already in my refugee pack...<p>downsized stuff has limits to what you can do with it, but in a<br>refugee situation, would be better than nothing... basically<br>camping equipment, but several orders of magnitude above the normal<br>stuff.. &amp; definitely enough tools to start life over in the brush...<br>I prefer full sized tools, but feel quite capable of building a hut<br>etc. With those tools.. And even growing food...<p>I also found an interesting little 12 inch traditional Chinese rice<br>sickle.. I paid $1.65 for it.. thinking that it might be good<br>steel, as it looked like a tool not generally exported.. Simple, and<br>very basic...<p>I got it home, and tested the temper of the blade with a file, and<br>found that it was the correct temper for a sickle, quite hard... so<br>hard in fact, that I couldnt use a file to sharpen it.. sickles are<br>stoned...<br>This one needs the angle of the cutting edge laid back about 2X, and I<br>started with a hand stone, and decided it needed to wait for a visit<br>with my grinder first, as it would take several days down at the<br>spring with a stone to do the job...<p>I consider the sickle to be a great score for the survivalist... as<br>its one of man&#39;s most important tools, and this one is not some soft &amp;<br>crudely designed piece of junk for the yard tool market.. I&#39;ve owned<br>such, and gave them away to someone I didnt like...<p>this one weighs ounces, and is definitely going into the refugee<br>kit... I know the value of it in a reboot from scratch survival<br>situation.. And I do grow rice.. using a primitive central american<br>method.. here they sell a curved knife originally brought in by the<br>Banana companies, to cut stalks of bananas into &quot;hands&quot; as theyre<br>called.. and for awhile these knives were hard to get, and people<br>kept them as prized items for home grown rice... And most had to use<br>regular kitchen knives to cut rice with... so finding the exact right<br>tool, with thousands of years of design evolution behind it made one<br>happy shopper...<p>primitive humans lived on native grasses before the Improved strains<br>of grains came along.. They used small stone knives to cut the<br>proto-rice etc. And archeologists study the blades for usage, guaging<br>by the amount of polish by the silicates in the grass stems of the<br>flint &amp; obsidian blades..<p>which means some blades were likely used just for such work &amp; saved<br>harvest to harvest, &amp; not used up doing other jobs..<p>to me, survival in whats coming means that we will likely be knocked<br>back into the early iron age for awhile.. the sky gods predict near<br>extinction... &amp; some biblical scholars put the projected number of<br>human survivors at about 2% of humanity... And as Jesus put it, if<br>these days were not cut short for the sake of the elect, there would<br>be no flesh left alive...<p>which if you analize the semantics, negates a pre tribulation rapture...<p>I think the thing with the nuclear power plant in Japan demonstrates<br>how its going to be... The liars, thieves, &amp; killers we know of as<br>governments, corporations, and Bank$, are going to careen along<br>unchecked by any amount of wisedom however slight... I already hear<br>the propaganda on Short Wave for both a continuation of Nuclear power,<br>and a continuation of the resource wars...<p>both of which will lead to the Apocalypse, and I dont think we&#39;ll have<br>to wait long to get there....<p>which is incredibly stupid considering that geothermal is<br>everywhere... some places more drilling, some less, but the truth is<br>we have the tech to put geo thermal power plants anywhere on the<br>planet, &amp; get absolutely free &amp; non poluting power, and are able to do<br>it NOW! and if we applied a small fraction of the money spent on oil,<br>coal, or nuclear power, or on wars over such, we could develope even<br>better technology able to bring geothermal power down to family farm<br>level... how? I would suggest using lasers, and burning small<br>diameter holes, and designing small power plants that any village<br>could afford...<p>But who am I, eh? some fool on a mountain living on the edge of the<br>jungle, and harming no one, while my &quot;Betters&quot; who are so wise in<br>their own minds, contaminate the planet with things that will kill &amp;<br>deform humans for billions of years, if we made it past their greed &amp;<br>arrogance based follies...<p>think about all this when you hear the propaganda being fed you via<br>our economically enlightened &amp; exaulted ones...<p> they make me want to vomit....<br>Thats what I think of &quot;People Magazine&quot; types...<p>infinite hubris... finite reality....<p>and sanity is the art of struggling to not be insane..<p>insanity is what you see sold on TV....<br>Talking heads who spin beautiful lies for consumption by masses who<br>have forgotten how to think independently....<p> I&#39;ve been watching the monkeys that come for my excess bananas,<br>feeding about 16 last count..<br>They remind me alot of humans.. little assholes trying to pig<br>everything for themselves with Three Stooges on steroids social<br>behavior... Chop off their tails, blow them up to a couple hundred<br>pounds, and put them in business suits, and give them a language, and<br>a keen ability to lie to themselves &amp; each other, &amp; you have humanity<br>in a nutshell....<p>the sky gods should have started with Racoons<br>or Kinkajous or something else... Even Gorillas would have been<br>better... I think they must have ruined some Chimpanzees to create<br>us..<p>Yeah, Racoons would have been better.. Less neurotic....<p> I also bought a couple kitchen knives.. One is a very nice design, it<br>had a fancy Japanese name, but is basically a short french knife with<br>an extreme drop point.. a nice &quot;Veggetarian Hunting knife&quot;... and I<br>reshaped the bakelite handle by filing off the squarish corners, and<br>have been working on its edge, sharpening it one sided, to create a<br>finer inclined plane, as I see it as an ace tomato slicer, and its<br>metal was 440C Stainless.. and will hold an extreme edge, if I can<br>keep it out of other people&#39;s hands...<p>lately I have been busy building a new garden.. Working most mornings<br>for 3 hours with a pickhoe carving terraces and building raised beds<br>in the flatter areas.. what I have done now is the size of a big<br>country garden, but its just the beginning... The space I have is over<br>an acre, about half a hectare perhaps, the size of a soccer field... I<br>calculate it will take me a year with the pickhoe to finish... Why<br>so big? because its my goal to be 100% food self sufficient a year<br>from now... going to grow grains &amp; legumes on a large enough scale,<br>that I can quit packing the stuff up the mountain... And because I<br>expect in the next couple three years for there to be a nuclear war,<br>and I&#39;m hoping some people I care about make it out of Babylon.. I<br>even got an email from my niece, now a middle aged woman, with two<br>little girls, and she sees how bad things are getting in the US, and<br>is seriously thinking about moving down.. I&#39;ve offered to give her<br>land for a house site, and use of any amount of land she needs to<br>build whatever dream she desires... I have about 70 acres.. I didnt<br>buy it for just me.. in fact, all the people I care about have the<br>same offer.. imagine that... being able to escape the US, and live<br>in paradise on a farm with a thousand tropical fruit trees... it<br>seemed better thing to do, than working a government job to me...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2497323127786905247?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-74561631577206614182011-02-24T15:11:00.001-08:002011-02-24T15:11:51.300-08:00Late afternoon,<br>sundown soon, was a hot day in February here in the Banana Republic....<p>have been busy building the new garden, pickhoe most mornings,<br>trying to get ready for whats coming...<p>also have been reconditioning tools, removing rust with Ospho, and<br>painting... today painted a small hatchet &amp; an 18 inch rula machete I<br>made, also made leather scabbard for.. Both hatchet &amp; machete are<br>going into my bug out kit....<p>I also rebuilt a hoe dag tree planting tool, going to use it for<br>planting bananas etc...<p> the new garden is coming along fine, have been terracing, and soon<br>to break out into a flatter area where it should go much faster...<br>Also planted a couple experimental beds of papa chilicanas, where I<br>used rotten logs, forest duff, and brush choppings, mixed w/topsoil,<br>to create deep beds of compost to plant the spuds in...<p>my farm was a ruined cattle farm when I bought it, with zero topsoil<br>left.. in the last 15 years of rehab its grown an inch of topsiol<br>here &amp; there, due to decomposition of the brush leaves etc....<p>So as I&#39;m digging terraces, I pull all the organics and topsoil onto<br>the slope, and then carve the flats... Here in central america its<br>best to grow things if possible on slopes for better drainage, which<br>results in better tilth, while the flat surfaces get rain hammered and<br>stay soggy....<p>so my terraces are distinct, with the operative surface being the<br>slope, and the flats used for access paths, or growing rice, which<br>likes hard soil &amp; does fine on mineral subsoils if you season them a<br>few years in clover... Its a limestone mountain... and I double dig<br>by carving the terrace toe into the deep mineral subsoil, and mixing<br>some with the organic material &amp; topsoil on the operative slopes...<p>I&#39;ve also been struggling with some dental work... seems mercury<br>fillings degrade ones teeth over time, as well as being toxic...<p>interesting how the experts are always puffed up about how much they<br>know, and later we get to pay for their mistakes, and their attitude<br>never changes.. theyre always wrong and pretending to be invariably<br>right...<p>anyway, glad I have a good dentist...<p> I did a low budget town run, got food, dentistry, and managed to buy<br>a couple small screw drivers, and a couple three cheap stainless<br>cookware items... bowls &amp; fudge pans....<p>the screw drivers are replacements for some that grew legs, and<br>thinking to buy a couple more of the same size, and upgrade my sewing<br>awls... 70 cents and a couple hours with a file.... I use a fine 3<br>sided awl for sewing heavy leather, and a fine round awl for nylon<br>strap etc.......<p>I also found a yuppie style stainless water bottle for $3.65, and<br>snagged it for my refugee gear... its 26 oz. So a bit smaller than<br>the water bottles I&#39;ve been making from stainless thermos liners and<br>plastic water pipe fittings...<p>I also found a couple of stubby 115 V light bulbs, for another<br>project; collecting parts to turn a cheap stainless chowder mug from<br>India, into a light bulb stove for my hotel survival kit... i wake up<br>in the wee hours of the morning, and would like coffee or tea, long<br>long before the latins drag sorry asses out of snuggly beds and open<br>their cafe&#39;s.....<p>and the hotels usually have no more than one electrical receptical,<br>so I can use their power to warm up my water &amp; brown it some... and<br>the bulb stove would double as a lamp.. As hotel rooms here often have<br>the lowest wattage bulb possible, making reading after dark hard on<br>one&#39;s eyes...<p>I also searched online today, as my old fone batteries allowed, and<br>found the beginning of the trail to Arni Coro&#39;s QRP transcievers made<br>from lightbulb parts... arni is in wikipedia...<p>and he&#39;s spot on about transcievers from junk parts...<p>I think its the answer to government controlled web, and day after<br>armagedon scenarios; QRP very low power transcievers running a digital<br>web, beneath government radar, and at post nuclear power consumption<br>rates.. I suggest such webs have send &amp; recieve intervals, and<br>computers retransmit to extend web outward....<p>I suggest all you folk who consider yourselves survivalists get into<br>QRP, AND GET SET UP, as government will soon be choking your web<br>access down to politically correct pablum &amp; more than mildly incorrect<br>propaganda... Read; official lies.....<p>and the only way around the faggot bastards is going to be low power,<br>mobile, HF webs.....<p>and after they get done nuking the dogshit out of our pretty bluegreen<br>planet, you&#39;ll be lucky to find five watts laying around to use to<br>communicate with...<p>that kind of wattage can be had from crude home brewed batteries, or<br>nearly dead car batteries...<p>also suggest again everybody get a download library going, stored EMP<br>proof... would be wise for the hackers to get around wikipedia&#39;s<br>silly online only format, and down load it onto EMP shielded hard<br>drive arrays etc...<p>cause baby, your going to miss it when its gone..<p>and if everybody who can, stores as much as possible, it can be<br>brought back to life.....<p> anyway, I&#39;m digging in here... The New Zealand quake wasnt lost on<br>me... earthquakes &amp; food shortages in diverse places, and wars &amp;<br>rumors of wars, is starting to smell real familiar....<p>and so most mornings I&#39;m swinging my heavy grub hoe, headed for a one<br>acre subsistence garden to grow even my staple crops in..<p>I rely on the system, like I trust my exwife...<p>actually the ex has become a better person... While the government has<br>become a terminally insane collective entity....<p>best you run from it... Its a real monster...<p>I feel quite content reducing my contributions to governments to less<br>than I give to street beggars... as the beggars seem to be better<br>quality humans than politicians and bureauocrats....<p>and every cent possible I&#39;m trying to upgrade or augment my survival<br>gear, especially agricultural tools...<p>strange thing; I&#39;m getting forged hoe heads here in central america<br>for $8, thats the price of 8 pounds of dry beans... imagine if our<br>anscestors could have traded 8 lbs of beans for a tool capable of<br>growing tons every year?<p>so I&#39;m trying to get a few extra hoe heads, for those stragglers who<br>happen to survive hell day...<p>a hoe head will sure be worth more than it&#39;s weight in gold after the crash....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-7456163157720661418?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-91475990442675476072011-02-08T04:54:00.001-08:002011-02-08T04:54:49.269-08:00Morning,<br>been busy since dawn, a bit of organizing, washing dishes, heating<br>food etc.. Is a nice morning, clearer skys, rained last night, but<br>stars out when I woke.. was cold so I lit a fire for company for<br>Chia &amp; me...<p>too wet to dig in the garden, after lastnight&#39;s good rain....<p>I thought about all you people cornered into cities, and whats coming,<br>and how you never get to see the stars, or sit by a fire with a good<br>dog...<p>looks like insanity to me... Always chasing your economic tail, like a<br>city dog chasing cars...<p> and I feel sorry for you in whats coming....<br>Sounds crazy, I know, the biblical stuff, but all I can say, is read<br>it for yourself.. genesis 6, talking about non-earthling humans<br>breeding w/humans, or Judges 5:20 about ships in space fighting in<br>land battles.. or all the stuff in book of Enoch online...<p>once you get it that it an extra-planety project, and they use<br>machines, and that theyve manipulated us since day one, and that its<br>a project in progress, not a cute &amp; comfy fairy tale religion about<br>nice guys and some grandfatherly god looking out for our interests in<br>spite of all the shitty things we all do, it gets real serious<br>fast....<p>the nice guys have done mass genocide on this planet on various<br>ocasions... exterminating Sodom &amp; Gamorrah for being too<br>politically correct... exterminating the occupants of the now<br>israel area ahead of the jews wandering in to take over homes &amp; lands<br>and planted orchards...<p>and coming back to exterminate all but a few survivors, who they<br>happen to like the genetics of, like some horse, or registered<br>goats...<p>and our military isnt going to do shit to stop them.. Its got its head<br>up its own aft end, bickering with other forces of neo-nobility, over<br>petty shit..<p>so I think we&#39;re going to deserve what we get... and get what we deserve...<p> all the people playing big money games... all those who are<br>mini-Madovs, expecting Berni to make them rich with out having to do<br>anything themselves, except loan money.....<p>smells like decadence in denmark to me...<br>Snobby bitches &amp; fruity blue nosed husbands<br>talleying up their shekels on computer daily...<p>do you suppose theyll be suprised, when some random astronomer finds<br>an incoming object the size of a small planet, and that its<br>deaccelerating...<p>uh! Oh! only one thing can deaccelerate in space...<br>Something that can apply energy, and has control factors....<p>aint gonna be no little flying saucers guys... Its gonna be huge, and<br>when we look up, we&#39;re going to see doom written all over the bottom<br>of it...<p>theyre going to land it somewhere, likely after they conquer the rat<br>infested, flea bit planet...<p>the ship is big enough to cover most of europe, or a quarter of the<br>US.... do you suppose theyll evacuate the area? I think theyll let<br>you evacuate it yourself....<p>glad I live on a narrow hunk of land...<br>Glad I live humble....<p>glad I aint too proud...<br>Theyre down on all of that...<p>and alot of other things..<p>anyway.. Will be interesting if this blog gets searched and read when<br>the ship/city is spotted...<p>quite the horror for some....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-9147599044267547607?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-90030107296540637702011-02-05T09:53:00.001-08:002011-02-05T09:53:43.064-08:00Morning,<br>went out digging at daylight,<br>carving a terrace trail above the new garden area, and on this end...<br>It was a section thats been bothering me, wanted to get it done, and<br>almost did, except ran into big black biting ants on the last few<br>feet of the far end..<p>its good exercise, swinging a heavy hoe, moving large amounts of<br>dirt.. You know youve done something...<p>and it looks so nice when you finish a path or terrace...<p>I have quite a bit of digging left to finish the section, but am<br>happy doing it, will be very pretty, and more than a repair job on<br>the cattle erosion and wounded scrub left from past owners of the<br>land...<p> I erase the cattle erosion, create nice access trails, plant<br>manicillo clover under the citrus, and plant food plants on the<br>slopes..<p>when I get done reshaping the area, will go back with a light hoe, and<br>till the slopes, and plant papa spuds, Sagu, maybe some ginger? and<br>will do areas of a perinial tropical spinach green... until salad is<br>as sure as politicians lying....<p>Heard yesterday the nominal right wingers on short wave, figuring out<br>that their new republicans were about to make the Anti-Patriot Act<br>permanent..<p>i.e. Their great white hope was about to castrate<br>them..<p>yup! doesnt matter which way you vote, or who wins, you get screwed..<p>I gave up voting about 20 years ago...didnt want to legitimize the<br>shenanigans...<p>now days I focus on getting ready for where it all leads...<p>to a culture, politics is like cancer... the least you can do is not feed it..<p>in modern times, its like an IQ test looking at who&#39;s bailing out..<br>The really stupid ones seem to be going down with the burning blimp..<p>And those with half a brain or better are getting out of the<br>technocult in droves...<p> its small by percentages, but substancial by numbers...<p>I feel pretty good, beat the rush... got my land about 15 X cheaper<br>than they will..<p>which means on average theyll get 15X less land...<br>i got almost 70 acres, the average escapee from the technocult today,<br>will get maybe 5 acres..<p> I went to Panama the other day, it was a budget<br>trip, but I did find a place selling military surplus clothing.. I<br>walked into the guys store after seeing the used camouflage hanging<br>out front, and discovered he had German Army style wool pants...<br>Which are my cold weather favorites.. I got a pair for my refugee<br>Pack/kit, for nuclear winter effect..<p>here I am in the tropics, booting cold weather gear eh? he also had<br>a bunch of other stuff.. I want to go back to his store every trip,<br>and buy an item or two...<p>work up a stash of jungle clothing, enough to last my life I hope...<p>Also found a new Agriculture store, with some good tools.. will be<br>back there every chance also.. they had Imacasa machetes cheaper than<br>anywhere I&#39;ve ever seen.. and I&#39;m hoping to work up a stash of a<br>dozen..<p>I was short on money, so I did alot of scouting for things on my<br>lists, and found the best deals, to hit next trip....<p> I also found some quality nylon rope, I want to do a small project, a<br>sling for killing giants.. saw a really nice one on line,<br>search images;<p>honda_balear_013<p>which is an incredibly nice braided leather sling, that taught me more<br>about slings than anything I&#39;ve ever seen before.. sized for egg<br>sized rocks..<p>I want to do a modern materials version, using braided nylon rope, &amp;<br>have been thinking how to do the pocket etc.. I&#39;m currently thinking<br>to unbraid the rope &amp; core a bit, and fray it out evenly from both<br>ends and use contact cement to glue it between nylon seat belt strap,<br>and a hunk of leather, then sew over it all, creating a leather<br>lined/nylon backed pocket, and 3/8&#39;s inch ropes.. Then pull out some<br>rope core on the ends, and progressively trim, to create tapers for<br>loop &amp; release...<p>I like archaic weapons.. why? They still work fine, and are under<br>rated.. look at it this way, the weapon of the anti status quo<br>protester around the planet, is the stone... Not much of a match for<br>an assault rifle, but a thousand people throwing stones can give an<br>army patrol a real headache...<p>its like the problems in mid east now.. if the people had slings, and<br>acted in mass, they could make the military monopoly franchise on<br>force a historical footnote.. a big protest might be a hundred<br>thousand or more people.. Arm them with slings, and the police wont<br>win..<p> the problem with peaceful protests, is one side is too stupid to<br>bring any weapons... real handy for the other side..<p>JC said if you dont have a sword, you should sell your clothes &amp; get<br>one... do you suppose he thought much of non violent protest?<p>non violent protests are for giving a warning.. They arent an ends..<br>the most effective non violent protest, is the one where all the<br>protesters are armed to the teeth...<p>personally I think things have gone way beyond the level of being<br>fixed by anything short of world wide civil war.. its either that, or<br>the status quo wake up.. Which is about as likely as Santa deciding to<br>wear green next Christmas...<p>the non violent protest programming came from the TV set.. Same as all<br>the other programing...<p>sounds good on paper, but its effectively a zero...<p>being nice will get you screwed... Fact of life folks..<p>you think the skygods will show up unarmed?<p>in any potential conflict, rule of thumb, is you take the best weapons<br>you have.. if youre stupid enough to let the government disarm you<br>with words or paper or movies, youre just right for a slave....<p><p><p><p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-9003010729654063770?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-12390421231341130692011-01-29T07:23:00.001-08:002011-01-29T07:23:42.583-08:00Morning,<br>locust roaring, I&#39;m doing bannock &amp; gravy over the sacred flames....<p> did a nice practice stint on the guitar...<br>Starting to be able to use the chords, juxtapose with notes, and feel<br>I&#39;m a year from being able to play decent enough to go journeyman, and<br>begin learning from other guitarists...<p>lately thinking about the civil unrest in the mideast...<p>and how it came to pass.... heard one newspaper was asking why the US<br>always supported dictators?<p>answer is simple, they can get what they want that way, and not have<br>to pay a fair price for it...<p>by installing dictators &amp; keeping them well armed, they get resources,<br>bases, and slaves at an extreme discount.... support a small but<br>corrupt elite, have it look good on TV with enough slant sauce, and<br>they get to be power trippers and greed heads, jackals &amp; hyeenas....<br>while you flag waving morons pay for it all in taxes &amp; body bags, and<br>end up picking up some of the Karmic price tag....<p>and now they have a world empire going, they dont need you except for<br>cannon fodder..<p>and while you were sleeping, theyve robbed you blind, stolen your wife<br>and kids, and neutered you... Nothing left but the butcher shop to<br>do....<p>they have steroided cops, modern version of Eunichs, to beat you up or<br>kill you, theyve been poisoning your food and water, and doing worse<br>to your mind.. while you were a good little slave repeating the<br>politically correct mantra of &quot;normalcy&quot;...<p>watch closely the video from Al Jahzeera... Your turn is next, after a<br>few more countries, and the chimp in the white house, with the big<br>voice is nothing but a great liar, as will be his replacement, and all<br>those following, until you John Q. public, actually get up off your<br>couch potato ass and do something about it... and I dont mean bitch<br>to your congress pig...<p>anyway, I&#39;m glad I dont live in the US any more because you people are<br>disgusting....<p>you have your heads playing Ostrich up your south ends..<p>youre a bunch of fat cowards... And youll be watching TV, and eating<br>boxed food, when theres the knock at the door and they start the<br>process that ends up with you in a land fill...<p>&quot;its the law.&quot; ?<p>its the law youre a stupid gutless coward, and its the law you pay for<br>it all, and its the law you die on time...<p>they want a utopia.... doesnt have you in the picture... Unless youre<br>a foxy vanity headed young bitch.... Or a stupid slave... and when<br>the bitches get too old to look nice, theyll put them down like<br>dogs...<p>ditto for the slaves...<p>so yeah, watch your TV, eat your grease box food, and ask why the US<br>installs and supports dictators...<p>same reason they do it in the US... So they can pig everything.. and<br>for awhile they needed you, the Junior pig club of elite wannabees...<p>but youre soon to wake up with a head ache &amp; shackles.. And a guy with<br>a small knife, who insures you never reproduce anything like<br>yourself....<p>watch your TV, and think; &quot;coming attractions&quot; with you &amp; yours on the<br>recieving end of bullets and tanks....<p>what goes around, comes around.<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-1239042123134113069?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-9063128241082863262011-01-25T09:21:00.000-08:002011-01-25T09:22:59.410-08:00I noticed on the form work for passport, that they were asking if I&#39;d<br>ever been anyone else too?<p>must be something in the water.. Everybody is worried about being<br>someone else all the time...<p>perhaps, having an identity crisis in the tangle of humanity... Not<br>sure who they are at any given moment, and wondering if you know<br>either?<p>yeah... I&#39;ve always been me... Never attempted normalcy, so I still<br>know who I am 24/7.....<p> probably puts me on a list of suspicious types? A dossier on people<br>who seem to know who they are? while everybody else is being who<br>ever their TV is telling them to be at the moment....<p>normalcy &amp; free are a dichotomy pair...<p>glad We planted plenty of bananas... Us abnormal types, and the<br>monkeys will have something to eat, as we look out upon the machine,<br>and wonder when the sudden destruction will rubble it...<p>wont be terrorists who take out human civilisation... It will be<br>insanity in leadership.... theyll transmorgufy into the wrong people<br>at the wrong moment, and that will be that....<p>glad the Money Demon has never been able to get its claws into me....<p>Also got to see the new Spanish style toll road to the coast... stop<br>you every few kilometers to pay again... just like in Spain when I<br>was a kid 45 years ago...<p>Money going into the king of Spain&#39;s coffers..<p>so much for independence from the monarchy...<p>&quot;A wise ruler rules by emptying coffers, and filling bellys.&quot; (Tao)<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-906312824108286326?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-26506915621182304252011-01-25T06:46:00.001-08:002011-01-25T06:46:54.442-08:00Morning,<p>just getting a fire going, food on, pretty weather, barefoot &amp; shorts,<br> going to be a nice day...<p>Went to san jose yesterday, got my passport applied for...<p>the embassy was a zoo... about 20X more people than 10 years ago...<br>the Ticos working there were doing a really exelent job, with the all<br>kinds of people there for government &quot;stuff&quot; for lack of a worser<br>word... the management running the place, obviously insane... had a<br>system of taking tickets and computer screens to wait service, I<br>waited about an hour for my number to come up, screen said window 18,<br>so I started looking, last window was 17, door guard tells me theres<br>no window 18... Machine rolls on, I go get in line at a window, tico<br>guy nods when I explain about no window 18, serves me very<br>professionally...<p>the waiting area was fun, all kinds of people, speaking in both<br>languages with equal fluency..<p>a group of mormon missionarys, some Amish types, but the other<br>version, a bliss ninny woman who was about 60, asking me bazaar<br>questions, like who I was at the moment... I guess when youre a<br>tripped out on crystalology neurotic skitzoid, thats important.... I<br>thought about her questions, finally decided I was myself at the<br>moment, and told her I was Gris right now.. didnt tell her I&#39;d<br>always been me, might have tweaked her beyond ability to cope to think<br>there were mentally stabil types who were consistantly themselves....<p>got out of embassy, to wait for my ride, got chased off the sidewalk<br>by guards, even at the corner of the block, american citizens, been<br>thru their security twice, not allowed to be on the same block as the<br>embassy to wait for their transportation.. The big brother eye saw me<br>at the corner by the crosswalk, and had guards come run me off... so<br>much for being a Veteran etc...<br>
I suggest you not do that, ie military service, if the absurd drones<br>havent the brains to have a bench to sit on and allow you to be<br>outside your own embassy..<p>any terrorists reading this blog;<p>I&#39;d consider it a personal favor if you could figure out how to<br>surgically remove the Federal Tumor from our backs... would be glad<br>to make the Koran required reading in high school or something in<br>return for the much appreciated service...<p>the homeland security types must be hiring only meth heads for<br>management or something.. Because thats how their system acts....<p>Anyway, San Jose had changed, bigger, busier, more malls, starting to<br>look like California to me...<p>and I got to see the chain hotel corporate eye sore area on the coast<br>at Hauco... I think its a prison for people with money who want to<br>see the sea once in their life or something... they get to pay alot<br>of money to have a box with a window looking outside at a normal hunk<br>of average beach...<p>all made me appreciate how unique my life is, and how diminishing the<br>natural ambient has become...<br>My little hut on the mountain will soon be surrounded by sprawl and<br>mental illness... an island in the sky, waiting for aliens to come<br>beam me up, for not getting involved in the insanity...<p>money, money, money... the speed drug that kills...<p> humanity is clueless....<br>Poor fools... sudden destruction ahead....<p>anyway, happy to be home... Dog was happy to see me.. I feel sorry for<br>all those people in the city who dont know any better...<p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-2650691562118230425?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-18290633698665007582011-01-18T15:04:00.001-08:002011-01-18T15:04:19.011-08:00afternoon....<p>worked in the new garden this morning, carving terrace paths.. put in<br>about 3 hours with grub hoe, axe, machete, and wide pattern hoe..<br>turned some cattle erosion &amp; some scrub into a designer spot for<br>growing things... doing an area with some interesting topography..<br>which I like carving, as the finished product is usually pretty...<p>I have a small tangerine tree in a pot that I carried over there in<br>the wheel barrow, it will be a few days, but working over an area, so<br>I cant plant it...<p>I have maybe half a dozen Tangerine trees going.. It will be years,<br>but looking forward to having tangerines to eat by the wheel barrow<br>loads.. one of my favorite eating fruits.. I want this one in the<br>garden, for snacking when I&#39;m working there... Decadent I know.... I<br>should be feeling guilty about not being a success in the rat race...<p>a friend left me a few TIME magazines, so I&#39;m onto the latest neurosis<br>in the technocult... Ambition...<p>well, I have a portfolio... of trees &amp; plants.. no 401K, no stocks<br>in bellwhether blue chips, no hotel on boardwalk....<p>my portfolio has been gaining value every year...<p>no stock market fraud, no bankers buying off politicians to screw<br>common folks with endless absurd &amp; crooked laws, no plunge protection<br>team, twiddling the free market for class benefit... no military<br>industrial complex with a big hard-on for my oil reserves... just<br>livin&#39; poor as a church mouse, but doing fine....<p>I cut up a couple wheel barrow loads of fire wood with my favorite<br>axe, I diced up some chopped brush, so I could work it with a hoe...<p>as I worked, I thought about things I want to plant in the area, what<br>goes where etc...<p>it was a happy 3 hours... I got a good workout, no monthly gym<br>membership fee.....<p>today the monkeys came several times, but I didnt have bananas, but<br>they hung around for awhile watching me, I was sharpening garden<br>tools, they stayed about 6 ft away, draped over limbs of a flowering<br>shrub.. one laid on the wheel barrow..<p>it obvious the kids have accepted me as the neighbor guy....<p>have several big Toucans around the house, no fear of me... And this<br>morning one of the gold breasted hawks, called &quot;Gavilon&quot; here, perched<br>on one of my ring of Cortesa trees at sunrise, in the yard... theyre<br>a favorite of mine, very pretty, similar to a red tail hawk, slightly<br>smaller, but very pretty...<br>I&#39;ve been planning my tool handle projects, figuring sizes for sawing<br>the blanks for each item... looking forward to having a bunch of new<br>tools ready to use...<p> trying to get my collection filled in... 
I&#39;m thinking I need to<br>get another pickhoe same head as I cut the pick off of for my grub<br>hoe, and have for rocky areas.. I like to keep the grubhoe sharp, and<br>rocks ruin the edge... And if I get the same exact head, can just swap<br>heads easy enough on my handle...<p>Also planning on doing a 5 ft staff of Cortesa, would be a nice<br>possession, my passover walkabout staff?<p>thinking maybe eventually a spike in one end, and maybe a crutch tip<br>on the other? town &amp; country?<p>maybe I should do a shrunken head on the spike end for a cover in<br>town? need to find one of those talking heads on TV.. politician,<br>lawyer, buearocrat? : )<p>Was reading in Leviticus last night, boy, an eye opener.... Human<br>sacrifices to Yahwey... And dont trim your beard... wonder what<br>he&#39;d think of all the guys who shave their faces to look like women?<br>also dont cut your hair... hmmm? Never knew Jehova liked long hair &amp;<br>beards... Funny how most of the bible thumpers seem to have missed<br>those passages..<p>I&#39;m not much on long beards, in a tropical climate... but at least I<br>have one... And dont get haircuts either...<p> Leviticus was full of interesting stuff, like all the things you<br>stone or burn people to death for...<p>reads like a laundry list of popular culture...<p>You dont suppose on arrival theyll still be frowning on witchcraft,<br>mediums, adultery, &amp; incest? not to mention murder.... Does<br>murdering Muslims with drone aircraft count? could get pretty ugly if<br>they burn the 80 or so people it takes to run and service the<br>drones....<p>could go all the way up to the president I suppose? &amp; do un to<br>others? At Guantanimo...wonder if the Ranchers will have a little fun<br>with those who gave the orders to torture? I suspect torture is<br>possible, JC mentioned those who screw up kids, would be better off<br>never having been born....<p>doesnt sound like they get a painless lethal injection...<p>one needs to remember, that the old testament is chock full of<br>killing... and book of Enoch talks about killing fields for the<br>culls...<p>and Jesus does seem alot more laid back, but he isnt who does the<br>judging or the ordering...<p>&quot;There is one who judges.&quot; doesnt sound first person... and if I<br>have it right, the one who judges, is the same one who doesnt like<br>short beards and hair, homosexuality, witchcraft, adultery, abusing<br>kids, destroying the planet, murder, lying, ripping people off...<br>Its a really long list...<p>I&#39;m thankful I havent gotten too far collecting such experiences...<br>And I dont intend on adding any demerit badges if I can avoid it..<p>because fear is a healthy thing, when youre dealing with something<br>beyond your ability to even imagine... Its like the ultimate fear of<br>the unknown... I dont think I want to assume &quot;Auto-forgiven&quot; I think<br>it might be good incentive for cleaning up my own trip considerably...<p>while theres still time...<p> I dont understand everything.. But I do understand there are ships<br>involved.. that makes it real to me... Not some fairy tale... any<br>body with star ships, can likely have their way with me... Whether I<br>like it or not....<p>the good news, to me, is they do seem to value good traits... if it<br>wasnt for that, I&#39;d see little hope...<p>I&#39;m on the side thats honest...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-1829063369866500758?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-88852510380483517292011-01-13T15:38:00.001-08:002011-01-13T15:38:11.150-08:00In a galaxy billions of years old,<br>to assume there isnt an established galaxy wide civilisation, millions<br>of years old,<br>is logically absurd.<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-8885251038048351729?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-90259337629695519422011-01-10T05:58:00.001-08:002011-01-10T05:58:53.692-08:00going on 3 AM, munching hot flat bread, dying fire,<br>have been awake before midnight, slept early.. Feeling fine...<p>waiting for daylight... Thinking to work in my garden..<p>went to town a couple says ago.. Running errands.. Bought little,<br>saving pennies, but still did some visual shopping.. Didnt see much,<br>and it will be awhile before I get back with money to spend...<br>Everything I saw &amp; wanted fit long term goals... not attracted to the<br>glitter &amp; plastic... Always after the fundamentals these days....<p>things I&#39;ve discussed here in the past...<p>the neoindigenous goals are working really well for me.. eliminating<br>distractions.. Creating focus..<p>knowing the goal of survival thru whats coming, helps alot... I keep<br>steady on my course...<p>building my personal culture from the bottom up, battling with my own<br>defects... Progress at a snail&#39;s pace is vastly better than progress<br>the wrong direction..<p>bought some food, 30 lbs of flour, 15 lbs of corn, 8 of peas.. And<br>thats it for the month... Making mostly banana flat bread, getting<br>bananas fairly regular now.. So the flour was just a way to use them<br>cooked..<p>living simple, living happy...<p>preparing at every opportunity for the certainly uncertain certain<br>future... when you know you have a small hole to get thru, doing<br>that becomes your focus....<p>Been reading some magazines from the states.. Feel sorry for those<br>people... Insane with vanity, driving a terminal culture, &amp; never<br>realizing where it all really leads...<p> I feel lucky to be a lone brush rat... my humble lifestyle has<br>some serious security to it... And all my projects etc. Are along the<br>same lines... planting food, making survival related gear, trying to<br>improve my situation as possible... working against time, my own<br>defects, and the defects of others..<p>saw my little niece, she was happy to see me, her mom got a little<br>toaster oven and now wants me to teach her how to bake breads... my<br>niece was visiting family on the indain reservation for christmas,<br>came home to a refridgerator full of bananas, and has been helping<br>herself every since.. her mom says she eats bananas for breakfast<br>every day.. I remember as a kid getting bananas on my cereal, and<br>wishing there were more bananas &amp; less cow fodder... well, I got my<br>wish..and now making sure another little kid gets plenty of bananas<br>too... she doesnt mind... in fact I suspect she&#39;s quite happy<br>filling her cheeks with high quality organic monkey food, grown by her<br>strange foriegn uncle... I left her mom 4 lbs of flour instead of<br>bread this time... same money out, 4X the food... and now with her<br>new kitchen toy she can learn how to make stuff....<p>asked my niece where the bananas come from, her response was; &quot;YOU!&quot;<p> was a good laugh...<p>I told her when she could take care of herself going to the bathroom<br>etc. She could come up with her dad to work, and I could start<br>teaching her english...<p>her response was; &quot;dad can help me with the bathroom stuff.&quot;<p>we were playing with some alphabet toys she had, and I was teaching<br>her the letters in english and spanish at the same time.. she<br>repeated, and pronounced well... so I think when she starts coming<br>up, I&#39;ll just do the same thing, teach her in both languages, to<br>read, speak, write, etc...<p>she&#39;s been enjoying talking to my son &amp; his wife in the states on<br>skype... Theyve been enjoying it too... we&#39;re all kid lovers.. dont<br>take ourselves too seriously....<p>kids pick up on that, that youre not an important buffoon in your own<br>mind, and ready to relate with them on fun levels..<p>its like one time with my oldest son, fell and skinned his knee pretty<br>bad, wound was full of dirt and gravel, so I had him in the bathroom<br>sink carefully washing the wound as tears &amp; sobs came &amp; went.. I was<br>worried about infection, and figured I&#39;d best disenfect it.. So when<br>he wasnt paying attention, got the iodine ready... And just to throw<br>him off a bit mentally, him not having the iodine experience<br>previously, I told him &quot;oh, by the way, just wanted to warn you, this<br>is going to hurt like hell!&quot;<p>and dashed the iodine on the wound while he was still thinking about<br>what I said... howls and screams ensued, but soon sibsided, and<br>then he was kinda laughing and sobbing at the same time, realizing my<br>joke... that I&#39;d played with him mentally while applying some<br>involuntary parental torture for a good cause, to his little person..<p>well, now its a big person....<p>but I&#39;d bet he remembers the incident....<p> anyway, dawn soon, its car O&#39;Clock, noises wafting up from down on<br>the highway, all the vanity heads rushing off to the rat race to pay<br>for all their favorite sins....<p>and the toads have come in for the morning and gone into their hiding<br>spots... Done with another night of slurping up yummy stupid bugs...<p> I&#39;m thinking gardening at daylight, and guitar practice later after<br>a bath.. Enjoying the tropical life, while most of you live in your<br>mindwashed state of perpetual lust for more... life isnt a job, or a<br>sleek car, or an excessive house on payments.. Life is simple things..<br> the rest is added bullshit.... most wont understand until it all<br>crashes.. And theyre brought back down to fundamental levels...<p>anyway, think I&#39;ll snooze a few minutes while all of you are being so<br>rudely awaken by alarm clocks, and staggering to the bathroom and<br>getting into icy cars for the long hajira of the daily money race...<p>have a good day, but at least start asking yourself if its really sane<br>to be a hyeena instead of a human?<p>what the pack does isnt a really good idea...<p>best become at least a coyote and escape the trap...<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-9025933762969551942?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-82662476487773314462011-01-06T10:38:00.001-08:002011-01-06T10:38:05.531-08:00morning,<p>have been busy, and enjoying nice weather..<p>working in the new garden area, carving with my grub hoe, which is a<br>pickhoe I minused the pick on...<p>but its rained last couple nights, soil is wet, so I&#39;m catching up on<br>other things...<p>brought in another wheelbarrow load of bananas yesterday.. getting<br>to be a regular thing... Had to compost some yesterday that got over<br>ripe before dog &amp; self could get to them, we&#39;ve also been having help<br>from a troop of monkeys.. Averaging between 7 &amp; 10.... they have come<br>to within 8 inches of me to take bananas... and they come every few<br>days..<p>listened to short wave last night, and some this morning, the usual<br>new world order rags..<p>to me its entertainment.. I live thousands of miles outside the US,<br>and have only been back once in going on 16 years..<p>in Costa Rica the New world Order will have to compete with local<br>corruption for what they can siphon out of guys who work for a couple<br>dollars an hour, and have kids &amp; grandkids holding their plate out...<br>good luck... any economic tide that runs this way, disappears down<br>the worm holes... and not much ever comes back out...<p>I was thinking this morning about politics, and what a big farce it<br>is... Turkeys in Ties.... Gobble, Gobble, where did it all go...?<p>to me, its bleeping meaningless.. dont get sucked into TV, so I<br>havnt seen enough video of Obama to know how he walks...<p>and the rest of the gang I know mostly by name only.... wouldnt know<br>Pelosi from Palin if they were both asking for a dance...<p>did see a foto of Hillary, the wicked witch of the east, boy she&#39;s<br>looking bad, the dark power is obviously eating her up... wouldnt<br>have recognized her without the caption on the magazine page.. looks<br>like the Democratic Cantidate for the Queen of Halloween....<p>I feel sorry for her... addicted to power... has to be the worst<br>addiction in the galaxy..<p>anyway what I realized, is how unreal it all is.. The songs &amp; dances<br>are interesting, but it doesnt affect me, and might never.. (a<br>couple of yellow Parakeets in my kitchen area as I write.)<p>anyway, on politics, it all boils down to power... assholes telling<br>other assholes with guns, to go force other assholes to cough up their<br>money for some bogus land of Oz scheme we call government...<p>what you call this or that Satanic Incarnation of control freaks &amp;<br>greed heads is unimportant...<p>all that matters is the guns, who has them and who is willing to use them..<p>my buddy sent me the stats on several US states deer hunters<br>numbers... A half dozen or so states combined came out to be the<br>biggest army on the planet.. and they werent the states most into<br>hunting..<p> and those boys have their own uniforms, camping equipment, vehicles,<br>and ammo... and no few of them Vets...<p>the status quo are like cockroaches dancing on the train tracks...<br>passing laws the train cant come their way....<p> When the Caboose of history rolls off into the sunset, all grand<br>roaches with faces &amp; names, wont be so much as a wet spot on the<br>tracks..<p> and why doesnt it affect me? because I decided some 16 plus years<br>ago to trade the rat race for a brush rat&#39;s title.... one of those<br>strange guys who live in huts on mountains... it really is a good way<br>to acquire wisdom... You learn what a bunch of bullshit civilisation<br>is, and how little you need it..<p>as soon as people realize they dont need the big &quot;Palaces of Vanity&quot;<br>rented to them by the banks, and that they can be alot more happy in<br>real terms in something humble &amp; remote, be it cabin, hut, yurt, wall<br>tent, tipi, etc. thats when the tide will turn...<p>I&#39;ve never made a house payment in my life.. Why should I? Doesnt look<br>like any fun... my, my, how people suffer for their vanity... slaves<br>to their own egos....<p>being homeless isnt a shame... Its an opportunity...<p>all you have to do is realize how little you actually need to live free....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-8266247648777331446?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-32185333709886716942010-12-07T03:33:00.001-08:002010-12-07T03:33:16.436-08:00morning...<br>A sunny dry season day.. Yesterday was the first obvious day of dry<br>season, and today a repeat...<p>have been busy this morning, guitar stint before daybreak, then<br>sending emails, then doing dishes &amp; bath at the spring.... Also picked<br>and shucked corn for seed, now drying in the yard...<p>and just washed some glass bottles at the spring, to use for organizers etc..<p>I&#39;ve always saved bottles.. always wanted to do a spice rack, and<br>use the saved bottles and jars to fill up with herbs from the garden,<br>and boughten spices etc.<p>my vision was that hut in the mountains, or the Hogan, or the yurt...<p>little did I know it would be a wall tent with no walls in Central<br>America.... And at the moment I have seven wild monkeys about ten feet<br>from my shelter, eating bananas I&#39;ve set out for them... when the<br>new banana area comes on, no doubt I&#39;ll have wild monkeys climbing all<br>over me, once they get used to me having them all the time... so...<br>A tich more Tarzanish these days.....<p>one thing follows another, and spice racks are going to follow new<br>shelter project...<p> that &amp; alot of other projects...<p>One thing I wanted to mention to you, is that I&#39;ve quit buying matches<br>&amp; lighters... nowdays I&#39;m using a welder&#39;s striker, and a small<br>bottle of gas with a Bic pen refill tube inserted in an undersized<br>hole in the cap.. a few drops of gas where you want fire, remove gas<br>bottle from immediate vicinity, use striker to ignite the volitile<br>vapor....<p>just one step closer to being self sufficient... and wondering if I<br>could use the volitiles from cirtus peels to do the same trick...<p>its all about finding the balance point... And considering where the<br>system is going, I think getting away from it is critical..<p>I had hoped to do the spice rack for a good woman, but so far, none<br>of the above has appeared in my life... have had a fair chain of not<br>so good women... but luckily never did the spice rack, or it would<br>have dissappeared with one of them, on their way, in the quest for<br>infinite vanity...<p>these days, theyre more interested in money, and getting their hands<br>and mouths on each other, than being decent partners for a man...<br>the missing rib seems a total loss at this point....<p>but I suspect the progenitors will fix all that... cut a few million<br>necks, and leave the decent ones who arent too silly....<p>sad.... I suppose there will be a very loud women&#39;s wailing when they<br>learn they get to be executed for being genetic culls..<p>the planet is a farm folks, we&#39;re part of the decorations, and instead<br>of being happy camper primitives, we&#39;ve trashed the other planted<br>life forms, and built Cities as monuments to our Hubris &amp; Vanity.....<p><br>and the progenitors might notice all the Missing Buffalo.... and the<br>Elephants, Whales, Dolphins, Gorillas, etc. and decide its time to<br>thin out the neurotic/narcistic proto humans a bit...<p>One thing I&#39;ve noticed doing my homework, is in the bible, all the<br>examples of culling give half...<p>two men in a bed, one gets jerked, two women grinding, one suddenly<br>isnt around to gossip with... Ten virgins with lamps, 5 are wise, and<br>5 get left out in the dark...<p>so, I wonder if they plan on editing half the survivors? could be<br>rather rude... if one adds up the numbers for death from wars, famine<br>&amp; plagues, it leaves less than a quarter of humanity..<p>so if you cut that number in half at the neck line, may be 500<br>million or so executed at the same time... would explain the rivers<br>of blood up to a horse&#39;s bridle...<p>Gee? I sure hope I can get my act cleaned up enough while I&#39;m busy<br>surviving, to make it into the better than 50% types... that<br>&quot;Getting a D or an F&quot; could be pretty bad... if I cant make it as an<br>A student, I think I&#39;ll try for an A anyway, that way if I bomb out,<br> maybe get a B, or at least a high C.....<p> and as JC pointed out, there is one who will judge... I.e. It aint<br>him... my question, is &quot;what&quot; will it be? might not even be remotely<br>human... Or maybe just barely remotely human? I&#39;m not sure which<br>would be less pleasant... Human judges are bad enough..<p>so only remotely human could be alot less understanding, and a not<br>even human type could have some bazaar criteria for what it takes to<br>be a decent proto-human lab rat type....<p>Another thought that comes to mind, is after the neck cutting garden<br>party, theres going to be plenty of survivors who&#39;re missing<br>partners, who didnt make the grade... should be quite the singles<br>club... especially with the survivors knowing theyre going to live as<br>ordered or else..... one reads the mandates, and theyre strict... no<br>way I&#39;d pass without serious amounts of grace... and if I found<br>myself with neck intact, and expected to live up to the ten<br>commandments etc. it would be good if I&#39;d at least thought about<br>them, and attempted compliance before hand...<p>another thought, is the importance placed on Preparedness... Passover<br>was the first observance, and ordered to be celibrated; &quot;Forever&quot;....<br>so I suspect it was considered critical to the human mindset that we<br>be good boyscouts, and keep out scoutknife sharp, and our pack<br>ready...<p>one of my up coming handle making projects, is a walking staff like<br>for passover/exodus, out of Cortesa.. mostly just to have, if I was<br>going walkabout, I&#39;d want to grab my 7 ft cortesa spear, with it&#39;s<br>440C type stainless bitt.... A far better walking stick in a post<br>Holocaust world.....<p>but I think I&#39;ll do the staff, just in case I need it, plus its a<br>good device for shelling beans &amp; chick peas.... in fact I&#39;ll<br>hopefully be making a set of threshing tools, from 5 ft staff, to say<br>4 ft bar, and maybe a couple of 36 inch or less sticks, all for<br>threshing various subsistence crops....<p>I have a Cortesa flail that I made, but stuff in the legumes families<br>wants less whack &amp; more whomp<br> to thresh...<p>no, I dont think I&#39;d want to be living too vain a life leading up to<br>judgement day... might be a good idea to err on the humble side a<br>bit....<p>I see plenty of Christians living like spoiled princes, hogging up<br>resources &amp; reality, just sure this or that contrived dogma, like the<br>Rapture, or<br>Auto-Salvation just for believing etc. Is a sure butt saver for<br>them... but that isnt what the manual says scouts... thats what<br>people making a profit off of bliss ninnies say it says..... And both<br>they &amp;<br> victim/ninnies could end up taking turns on the same chicken&#39;s<br>dreaded stump....<p>from what I read, compliance is the real issue... Talk is cheap, and<br>people will believe anything, so it all boils down to following<br>orders... you dont suppose &quot;Jehova of armies&quot; knows anything about<br>having orders followed do you?<p>that the supreme general of this end of the galaxy posted his<br>doctrine, and you, not even a raw recruit yet, start thinking its<br>discretionary... And think you&#39;ll get away with some he-said-she-said<br>shit....<p>its your courts martial, and your neck, literally.....<p>and if I was a woman with an obvious cull, I think I&#39;d go solo, and<br>same for men with vanity headed slitches... its like having a best<br>friend thats a bank robber.. not likely a good influence... Nor much<br>of a defense...<p> I see endless numbers of men making survival decisions based on fear of what<br>their &quot;Sex-mommy&#39;s&quot; approval rating will be...<p>and no doubt plenty of women swayed by their economic security and<br>vanity enhancement benefactor also.....<p>the way to destruction is broad &amp; easy...<br>And the path to survival narrow and difficult....<p>to me survival is a higher priority than either sex or vanity...<br>survival is real security, money is false security...<p>and vanity is filthy....<p>anyway, running out of space, and I have a song stuck in my head;<br>&quot;That old wheel&quot; by Johnny Cash, so I think I&#39;ll heat up the six<br>string and work on my version....<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3218533370988671694?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-52684081377993223962010-12-02T03:21:00.001-08:002010-12-02T03:21:24.983-08:00I think the monkeys have eaten the most..<br>Well, theyre likely hungry, not alot of food due to the excessive rain...<p>just checked the bread, looking good, will turn it in a few minutes..<br>I ground the corn more fine, experimenting towards a better corn<br>flatbread... I like to play with the little things, and get a recipe<br>as good as it gets...<p>I&#39;ve done this for years, trying different things with the<br>ingredients available here, nothing too fancy, but I have come up with<br>some good basic food recipes....<p> its a cheap hobby... and I&#39;ve produced the ability to eat well, on<br>easy to grow &quot;weed foods&quot;... things you plant that require almost<br>no care..<p> thinking about the women i&#39;ve communicated with, on line, and here<br>in person...<p>I notice a couple patterns, they always think they know more than I<br>do, and their own vanity has them enamored with the big lie...<p>it will be interesting to see who remembers me as things worsen....<p>I always look at it as I&#39;m trying to save this or that woman from<br>whats starting to happen now....<br>They seem to see it as an opportunity to do the &quot;Romantic Twiddle<br>Dance&quot; with another male..<p>So sure of their own power of attraction, and their own instinctual<br>ability to manipulate....<p>but as a male, once youre on to the game, its never the same again..<br> enticing, yes, manipulate, no...<br>Seems to upset them.... but I&#39;m not worried... As things worsen,<br>more people will wake up, including females... I see it as just a<br>matter of time until one I like sees me as a good idea... All those<br>games &amp; vanities are likely to go by the wayside as the shit hits...<p>is surviving a form of love? ah? I think so... Whether it be love<br>to keep living, or love to keep you alive, its a fundamental..<p>so the warrior in the beat up armor might get to be a good choice<br>after all... He&#39;s no young prince, but he&#39;s fought a lot of battles,<br>and is still here....<p>doesnt matter really... I know how to travel alone...<br>no few miles behind me... Some still yet ahead....<p>later, listening to short wave... plenty of discussion on VOA about<br>wikileaks documents...<br>Mostly petty shit.. less than flattering descriptions of various<br>national leaders..<p>mention/discussion of North Korea... evidently a currency devaluation<br>in north korea, following the american/globalist model into collapse<br>mode..<p>so I guess the US has more in common with North Korea than an<br>entrenched misrepresentitve form of government? or a military<br>industrial complex that sucks up everything? Well theres the cold<br>climate, and that they eat alot of potatos... people in US soon to be<br>eating more potatos too... Because they wont have bread...<p>and North Korea is a spoiled beligerent nuclear power... Theres<br>another match up.. Eh?<p>soon to trade one petty tyrant for his son... Yup.. We had that too!<br>bush-bush era...<p>maybe we could solve the diplomatic row, by offering them sister city<br>status for their capitol with washington? we seem to have so much in<br>common...<p>I&#39;ve actually heard North Korea broadcast on short wave before, a rare<br>DX... they were as glowing about their leadership, as VOA is about<br>the Hillary &amp; Barrak show...<p>personally I&#39;m beginning to suspect that politics is like past pull<br>date items from the butcher shop...<p>doesnt matter which butcher shop.. it all stinks...<p> politics by unenlightened humans is failure prone.. all I hear is<br>bickering..<p>I think I&#39;ll mind my own business.. get my own trip in order.. And<br>not believe in political fairy tales... If politics was capable of<br>solving problems, we would have run out of problems long ago.. looks<br>to me like politics is most capable of creating problems... results<br>so suggest..<p> sad, but true.. hoeing in my spud patch is a more effective way<br>of solving problems than believing in a system no better than the<br>people who make it up... I notice theres one thing thats never on any<br>political agenda; &amp; thats letting me run my own life as I see fit, and<br>leaving me alone to be able to do it... its why I live here on a<br>mountain in central america... thanks to the mud, rain, snakes,<br>rodents, etc. Nobody wants it, no oil here, poor soil, rude<br>neighbors, etc.... so I get left alone.....<p>living on Humble mountain has it&#39;s benefits.. No women for hillary to<br>help, no minoritys other than one white guy.. theres just me &amp; my<br>own problems... solving them one at a time, thru realizing my own<br>imperfections, and trying to improve my habits.. solitude is<br>peaceful..<p> my goals are simple...<p>wanting too much is the most common of problems for humans... the<br>fights in marriages, the lifetimes of payments, the obiesity, the<br>greed, like Rats wanting to eat, gnaw on things, and breed more<br>Rats.. we gnaw on want...<p>And have been manipulated into unsustainable expectations.. its like<br>the women I deal with... they want too much... So I&#39;m not good enough<br>for them... its not the person that counts, to them its what I can<br>get for them...<p>and they want their cake &amp; eat it too...<p>The Ticas want a lard laced diet, a nice house with a TV, a car, and a<br>plastic card.... Where did they learn all that? the TV of course..<br>they watch soap operas all day, which here is mostly yelling and<br>screaming and people plotting.... Personally I wouldnt own one of the<br>pieces of shit... its like the internet, 99% garbage... I go online<br>maybe look at some images, download a few, of things I&#39;m interested<br>in.. maybe used wikipedia a dozen times in a couple years.. if I<br>visit sales websites, its not to shop, its to see whats there..<p>dont have much of an online neurosis..<br>Its like visiting the junk shops on the Panama border... Filled to the<br>brim with shit, I go, and usually not one percent interests me..<br>not interested in fancy clothing, cosmetics, or imported foods.. I am<br>free from want of such... mostly I&#39;m after ingredients for my various<br>projects, and things to enhance my preparedness.. why am I free of<br>limitless wants? because my dream doesnt need all their shit...<br>I buy things that suit my lifestyle, practical items... I buy<br>more items of stainless steel than any other material.. why? Because<br>stainless is long lasting, and practical things are made from it, and<br>can be made from it..<p>I also buy tools, but very few now... I have most everything I really<br>need... and all I&#39;m doing, is filling in on what few agricultural<br>hand tools I&#39;m missing...<p> a lifestyle of freedom frees me from the wants associated with<br>normalcy... my shopping list looks like something from a hundred<br>years ago, of some guy living up in the brush... the necessities of<br>life dont change.. every day I use from a list of less than 50<br>items... And I have all 50.....<p>So I find it a bit bazaar that women expect me to be able to support<br>their endless vanities... got the 50 items Babe... what more do we<br>need? got extra too... I think I have four teapots... I use two...<br>One to carry cooking water in, and a little one to make tea or<br>coffee.... my current want in kitcheny items, is to collect up a<br>stack of 12 inch stainless pie pans.. Why? To use to dry grain and<br>chick peas in... I have a stack of pizza pans that are nice for<br>drying stuff, but want something with sides for the easy to spill<br>grains... not a complicated desire... my guess is I&#39;ll buy them<br>one at a time, maybe two, until I get a half dozen or so.. strange<br>man? Eh? buying big pie tins.. they dont take up much space<br>stacked.. They dont cost much, and theyre useful for all kinds of<br>things.. they add to my ability to be self sufficient<br>permanently..<p>would it impress a woman? prob&#39;ly not, not until the collapse comes,<br> then she&#39;d notice how well they worked drying harvests...<p>until then she thinks she needs limitless plastic shit... filling<br>shopping carts with vanity... its about spuds babe... and corn &amp;<br>peas &amp; peppers.... Its not about being a neurotic poodle headed vanity<br>freak...<p> pushing a shopping cart all the way from heaven to hell....<br>Thirty seconds of pleasure is not worth paying thirty years of being<br>harranged constantly for more, more, more...<p><p><br>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-5268408137799322396?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-89383917222519933392010-12-02T03:20:00.001-08:002010-12-02T03:20:35.258-08:00Morning,<br>and a drippy one in the rain forest...<br>I&#39;m feeling pretty good, just got the fire going, and put some left<br>overs on to warm for breakfast...<p>made a realisation a few minutes ago, that alot of problems could be<br>cured, if I could continue working towards personal independence...<p>what I&#39;m talking about, is the problems with personal relationships...<br> notice that in the technocult people use money to not need each<br>other on a personal basis... i&#39;m wondering if it isnt in part a<br>reaction to constant interpersonal problems created by our intrinsic<br>self centered points of view... And that we use jobs etc. To seperate<br>ourselves from each other, because we cant fix the problems in<br>ourselves and have that be enough due to relationships being outside<br>the self, at least one other person, and often multiple players....<p>I find it sad... that we&#39;re so egotistic that we cant get along in<br>harmony with the people we mix with.. And that we have to distance<br>ourselves from each other, and use jobs &amp; money to avoid the<br>interpersonal differences....<p>I dont see using money for this as being a good idea... money is<br>constantly terminal... Always debauched in some manner by your local<br>national status quo, and soon to be robbed by the world government<br>types mega-status quo.....<p>and here in Costa Rica, I have some limits imposed by the legalists &amp;<br>the cultural mindset...<p>the legalists have it rigged where foriegn nationals cant work jobs,<br>and can only work in their own businesses, sounds good on paper,<br>jobs for local people &amp; all that, but still water runs deep, and in<br>this case there&#39;s another side to the story.....<p>there is a deep set anti-american/anti foriegner game being played..<br>Where the game is; they all act in unison to trash any &amp; all<br>foriegners... its systemic, endemic, &amp; insidious... what this means,<br>is any and all attempts to create and run businesses by non nationals,<br>has about the same chance as a snowball in hell... what this means<br>is you cant work a job, and you cant successfully run a business...<br>you&#39;ll get trashed by everyone, from people you employ, to suppliers<br>if theyre local, to clients if theyre locals, to the legal system...<p>ask me how I know...<p>anyway, my point is, that its not independence thru money thats<br>wise... but there are other types...<p>and I think its wise to become independent of both money &amp; other<br>people as much as possible... And I&#39;m working towards those goals...<p>first by working on my self sufficiency.. food, clothing, shelter,<br>tools, and weapons.... no man is an island, but the more self<br>sufficient we are, the less problems we have with each other...<p>the more self sufficient we are, the less we need the economic system,<br>and the less we get ripped off by the crooked games of the Elite.....<p>so I&#39;m applying the neoindigenous mindset to both problems... and<br>slowly as able working towards complete self suffiency, and a working<br>isolation on all levels except social, and I find knowing the truth<br>even frees me from much of that...<p> I find social connections invite business connections, which invites<br>problems...<br>just like family connections...<br> its all a balance thing...<p>no such thing as total independence these days...<p>anyway, its why I work on these fronts, other than being hobbies, and<br>wise for whats coming... Alot of what I&#39;ve done in life has been<br>reactions to problems with people... by minimizing the effects of<br>money &amp; people on my life, I find tranquility...<p>&quot;Use money, to eliminate your need for money.&quot;<br>&quot;Use people (labor etc.) to eliminate your need for people.&quot;<p>Use what you gain, to help &amp; enlighten others...<p>that way independence comes full circle... its not then just another<br>self centered thing....<p> this morning I&#39;ve been working on my shopping list.. soon to do a<br>run to town, get everybody their money, and buy some foodstuffs for<br>myself..<p>if theres anything left over, I try to push my projects a tich.. This<br>time hoping to get a couple small items to finish the crossbow cable<br>with...<p>and maybe some rubber boots...<p> one is never free from want at the bottom end of reality... I just<br>try to make progress a constant, however slight, however possible...<br>Usually able to get one item a month now.. and we&#39;re talking small<br>items... I find that I have more projects than economics...<br>everything on my list, are items to finish projects, or to better my<br>situation for whats coming, or both.. sometimes items stay on my<br>lists for literally years.. but doesnt it feel good when I can<br>complete a long term project, or get a long term item..... the good<br>news, is the enforced minimalism combined with what I&#39;ve realized, has<br>created a pretty good focus...<p>I know if I were still living in the states, I&#39;d still be trying to<br>do too much, and at least this way, my trying to do too much is very<br>minimalized...<br>
I think my biggest mistake in life, has been doing too much for<br>others &amp; too little for myself... Sad, but not a bad comentary<br>either.. now I quest for better balance... While I see others coming<br>at it from the other end....<p> Lately I&#39;ve been thinking about arrow making again... looks to be<br>coming up in the next Calandar year... and I&#39;ve been thinking of ways<br>to do it all myself ingredients wise... yesterday I was thinking of<br>ways to build plastic nocks.. and started mentally processing ways to<br>do it... my personal goal is going to be a gross of finished<br>arrows... to achieve that will take some doing.. why a gross?<p>because its more arrows than I&#39;ve used in my entire life, and because<br>when the collapse happens, its likely I&#39;ll need more arrows than<br>ever...<p>if I cant figure out a way to make plastic nocks, I&#39;ll go retro,<br>and devise up a decent working self nock system...<p>I plan to do something similar on the points, worst case scenario<br>will be 3/4 inch steel broadheads siezed into a kerf in the shaft with<br>nylon thread, then varnished or epoxied over...<p> I&#39;ve made arrowheads since I was a kid.. Started with metal, also<br>later learned knapping stone &amp; glass..<p>one day, when I was working a job, I found a lost arrow in the ditch<br>beside a road...<p>the arrow was wood, feather fletch, plastic nock etc. but it had a<br>home made steel broad head that was siezed and then epoxied over... I<br>kept the arrow for years, and admired how nice a broadhead its lost<br>owner had made... it was a good system...<p>here, I&#39;d use machete steel, which is cheap and available.. And as<br>there isnt any big game to speak of, I&#39;d go 3/4 inch wide on the<br>broadheads.. better to keep them smaller to keep them from planing<br>off, or being too heavy, or using excessive amounts of materials...<p>I&#39;d cut the steel with abrasive wheels, perhaps rough them out<br>seperately, then clamp into a stack to regrind to get uniformity...<br>likely in stacks of six...<p> it would take awhile to make 144, but worth the doing...<p> factory made broadheads are expensive now... as is feather fletch..<br>its time to go around the problem by figuring out ways to make our<br>own...<p> invariably the way around modern &amp; convienant, is retro, and doing<br>the job as a hobby &amp; challenge... the more you make, and the less<br>you buy, the less you need your day job... thing to remember, is full<br>retro equals no job.... before jobs were invented, people made what<br>they needed for themselves... and any free time, benefits from<br>planning &amp; thinking, or working hard, etc. Were their&#39;s....<br>folks, you&#39;ve been sold down the river long ago...<br>a fat slave, is just as much a slave, as a skinny one....<p> later... Raining, I&#39;ve got bread baking in the fire pit, trying a<br>finer grind of corn meal, and some diced up ripe bananas in the mix...<br>Use flour, salt etc., this batch filled up the skillet pretty good, as<br>thick wet, as cornbread with leavening when finished... Did a bunch of<br>dishes at the spring, ground the corn, washed/rinsed some clothes,<br>and packed in &amp; chopped firewood, all while it wasnt raining...<br>now awaiting my food for the day... have eaten a few ripe bananas<br>today, fed a couple to the dog, and the monkeys have run off with<br>several...<p>continued........<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-8938391722251993339?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-34899936866556765712010-12-01T03:16:00.001-08:002010-12-01T03:16:23.626-08:00Early evening,<br> listened to short wave awhile, but nothing interesting, so I shut it<br>off... And slept for a couple hours... Then woke, restarted a fire,<br>for mosquitos, and now relaxing...<p>still thinking about normalcy, and primitive weapons... to me<br>weapons are a hobby... I&#39;ve always been interested in indigenous and<br>ancient cultures... so even as a kid began using and making organic<br>arms... I was raised in a redneck family culture, so got the usual<br>culture of firearms etc. And taught that milk comes from a cow by the<br>direct method, and meat isnt made by a machine....<p>but I really dont like killing anything, except parasites, so to me<br>weapons became a hobby &amp; a survival skill...<p> I know how to kill... how to cut a throat, skin, gut, butcher, cut<br>and wrap, freeze, can, or dry...<p>but I prefer to get my protiens from nuts &amp; fish...<br>I&#39;m not an instinctual killer..<br> and I&#39;ve long suspected for years that the human genome was moving<br>away from killing... And I&#39;ve read things in Enoch which support<br>that... at least that some of us are becomming non-killers in growing<br>numbers, while there are those becoming worse killers in fewer<br>numbers... I suspect natural forces are at work... And that if it<br>wasnt for nukes &amp; climate change the game could play out long term,<br>and result in the end, to being a few vampires in the spotlights who<br>came to a much deserved end, at the hands of a generally peaceful<br>village...<p>unfortunately we&#39;re running against the war and natural catastrophy<br>clock... and time seems to be short... And the vampires have nukes,<br>and are legislating away pitchforks &amp; torches...<p>the peasants seem to be reacting correctly though... buying more<br>forks than ever before, and getting higher tech torches...<p>good job, fellow peasants....<p> how do you recognize a vampire? thats easy... Theyre those guys on<br>TV with the suits &amp; ties....<p>instinctual liars, killers &amp; thieves....<br>Who come to kill, steal, and destroy....<p>and promote it as normalcy...<p>If you havent read the book of Enoch, connected it to Genesis 6, and<br>Judges 5:20, and realized that the game is alien arrival, well then,<br>you really dont know anything...<p>the book of Enoch can be read online for free..<br>The two best translations are at steve quayle&#39;s website.. I&#39;ve read a<br>third, couched in king James style biblical english, but it has the<br>same problems as the king james bible; quaint, out of date, and<br>difficult to understand unless you were born 400 years ago... the<br>book of Enoch is mentioned in the bible, and when Christ said &quot;read<br>the scriptures&quot; during his time they included the book of enoch, and<br>later editing by the church convienantly removed the parts that were<br>most likely to enlighten the peasants... the results of that editing<br>are called the bible...<p>I hear people talking about being &quot;saved&quot;...<br>Saved is a verb in past tense... so being saved ahead of the fact, is<br>like boarding the Titanic<br> and thinking youre safe because there are some lifeboats, without<br>bothering to count noses, and compare to number of boats or their<br>capacity...<p>being &quot;saved&quot; ahead of the crisis, is like the rapture cult; sounds<br>good, but its not what is written...<p>so I think a bunch of backslapping, hippocrit, jargon heads, are in<br>for a rude awakening...<p>when its all over, if youre still alive and your neck hasnt been cut,<br> then youre technically &quot;saved&quot;...<p>until then, youre making assumptions... possibly, &amp; likely, &quot;fatal&quot;<br>assumptions....<p>and personally, I feel I&#39;d be extremely fortunant to survive whats<br>coming... in spite of a lifetime of collecting survival skills,<br>being 200 miles from the nearest potential nuclear target, living on<br>a mountain, in the easy to survive in tropics, and having spring<br>water, and a thousand food trees planted and beginning to produce, and<br>other non tree foods planted, and years of experience living on yucca<br>&amp; green bananas....<p>if you want to believe youre saved, thats your business.. but I<br>notice that what Jesus said, seems to suggest a very practical<br>person... And his advice in Mathew 24 about running for the hills<br>doesnt seem to jibe well with people&#39;s logic that has them saved<br>automatically no matter what...<p>he would have said; dont worry, hang out where ever you are, as youre<br>already &quot;saved&quot;....<p>I feel sorry for the kids of the saved heads... Likely to end up as<br>small grease fires after the flash, because their parents were such<br>bliss ninnies...<p>Get out of Babylon....<p> I&#39;ve heard Mathew 24 being explained on &quot;family radio&quot; as being<br>about churches... try inserting the words; &quot;nuclear bomb&quot; in line 15,<br>where it says the abomination of desolation, and see if it makes any<br>more sense to you... Churches my ass.... and if you believe what<br>Harold Camping says, its likely to be your ass that gets fried... The<br>guy isnt just off base, he&#39;s out in left field and misleading millions<br>to their deaths... and the passages he explains as describing the<br>end of the universe next May, are in fact a description of the effects<br>of a nuke, if I&#39;m correct... the universe isnt going to end next<br>May...<p>more likely its when brother Harold has his retirement party...<p>&quot;Opps! I was wrong again, thanks for all the money.&quot;<p>making alot of money off being wrong, and misleading people, isnt<br>much of a guarantee of being saved...<p>read the bible for yourself, apply the &quot;from space&quot; concept, and see<br>how it works.... then decide if youre &quot;saved&quot; or not yet...<p>as Jesus pointed out just before he left, that when he returned,<br>&quot;people would look up and understand.&quot;<p>whats up folks? is &quot;Heaven&quot; maybe &quot;the Heavens&quot; and when you finally<br>get it, will it be too late to change your own nasty habits? and will<br>they likely think kindly of you for going along with normal? The same<br>normal that led to the destruction of a planet? wouldnt it be better<br>to rethink yourself now? quit following wolves who bleet sheep<br>talk...<p>and I&#39;m taking a personal risk here... The risk of being wrong, and<br>misleading... could cost me my neck... But I&#39;d rather be wrong and<br>get some people on the safe side, than be right and keep my big mouth<br>shut... To save my own neck...<p>it all makes sense once you get the from space overview... and I dont<br>care if a billion hippocrits howl for my blood... truth is truth...<p> read it for yourself.. Apply the thesis... Then think about normalcy,<br>what it really is, and what should you really be doing?<p>Chattering about being saved? or getting your buns out of ground<br>zero, and your head out of vanity land?<p>-- <br>Sent from my mobile device<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5370070352088214531-3489993686655676571?l=survivalandsubsistence.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Gris Bosquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08008023295005561229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370070352088214531.post-1011632242569150312010-11-30T12:50:00.002-08:002010-11-30T12:51:59.492-08:00Morning,<br>seem to be inside a cloud this morning...<br>But it only rained a little then stopped....<p>I&#39;ve been doing my usual routines; hiked up and packed firewood down<br>off the mountain, chopped it and split it with my favorite axe,<br>rebuilt my fire with sidelogs, and got some pea soup going.... its<br>done now, and I just put on some flatbread...<p>another experiment in minimalistic cooking... after discovering that<br>I could make thick flatbreads in banana leaves, I tried it without<br>the leaves, by using a smaller fire &amp; cooking more slowly, and it<br>worked very well....<p>so this morning&#39;s experiment is trying it with unleavened corn<br>bread... so I ground corn, and rinsed all the floaties out of the<br>meal at the spring... and mixed with some wheat flour to glue it<br>together, and just poured it into the skillet....<p>Have been having monkeys show up at my shelter site to steal bananas,<br>they come within a few feet of me now... got a wheelbarrow load of<br>bananas this week, split half with my worker, and now sharing with our<br>arboreal little cousins...<p>and observing their antics, reminds me of people, and how they grab<br>from you and say meaningless things while doing it... I guess we<br>havnt come all that far in the last million years, still self<br>centered...<p>I think I&#39;d rather center the self....<p>I&#39;ve learned alot from living &quot;poor&quot;.... its not what you lack that<br>hurts, its how people treat you... attitudes... so I&#39;m thankful for<br>the humility 101, knowing others is wisdom... Now just to apply it to<br>myself to enhance personal enlightenment....<p>Lately I&#39;ve been having some success, changing/improving my own<br>habits.. have been using organizing &amp; repairing &amp; maintaining my gear<br>as a way to improve my life at low cost, and need no one to make it<br>happen...<p>I find living alone to be very educational... No one to blame for<br>anything except the mug in the mirror... others may do thoughtless<br>things, or lie, or have their attitudes, but I&#39;ve figured out the best<br>way to prevent being trashed emotionally by people&#39;s trips, is to<br>remove my own &quot;me element&quot; from the equation... so I&#39;m learning to<br>accept that people are incurably egotistical, and use the experiences<br>to push for my own personal independence...<p>if I try to do something, and think it requires help, and ask for<br>help from people I assist however possible, and then get refused,<br>I&#39;m learning that rather than become hurt or angry, I get farther by<br>just &quot;going around&quot; the problem...<p> i.e. Figuring out another way, that doesnt require anyone else....<br>this has been working well...<p>the more self reliant I am, the less I bother others... And the less I<br>need others, the less I feel trashed by their self centeredness..<p>and I&#39;ve been finding that my