Buying forest land, implementing solar

[Dauntless]

So as I was walking downtown, there were two derelicts sitting on a bench. One was obviously a bit crazy, he was yelling at the other one to get him "Coca-Cola." The other was a bit more together, trying to calm him down. not like there was a store right around there, even if either of them did have any money. They both looked like they lived in a van with no shower or flush available. Hey, you know who one of them could have been, right?

So I walked past. When I got to the corner, maybe 100 feet from them, guess what was in the gutter. A one liter bottle of---Coca-COLA! I picked it up and it was still cold. Unbelievable, eh?

I walked back and gave i to the saner one, who was stunned, then elated. He said "When you really need something, God gives it to you. If you DESERVE it." So the other one starts yelling he wants coke, now that there is some. Funny, how indeed did it happen that someone had just bought that bottle, then dropped if, of all places, right there. And it happens to be me coming along, someone who'll bother to pick it up and hand it to them. Maybe there's a shower out there for him yet. Could be PETA will hold a protest and leave a shower behind for the guy.

If you have a partitioned parcel of land, if YOU are titled, it should have an address. And there should be mail delivery available. If not, get a post office box. My mother not only has an address for the county road to her property, she also has a separate address for her trail through her land, which she has a name for, and the county has numbered every building with the street address of her road which the county recognizes.

All this talk about sex, Do YOU really know what it is?

You've got to pin them against the wall, stare them down, wait for the surprised look, and then plant those lips and start sucking, lol. Maybe I've watched too much anime. . . .

Anime, right. Anyone familiar with sex could tell you how close anime comes to it. But, Dan, is your question answered yet? I find myself wondering what this auger is REALLY for. Meanwhile, being filthy and living in a landfill doesn't have to keep him from getting any. Think of all the homeless women waiting for him to show up in Houston.

So does the fear shit in the woods?

Dan

Now THAT is a deep, philosophical question. As Winston Churchill said about his escape from the Boer POW camp, lost in the veldt of South Africa, with the reward published as 'Wanted DEAD, or possibly alive':

As hope fades, fear vanishes.

 

[swbluto]

Well, I could get a so-called 911 address for this parcel of land but delivery trucks will still not deliver out here with the extensive gulleys in the middle of the road. It takes local knowledge of the roads to get to my property, something UPS does not have. My neighbor said he would fix the roads as they looked keen to use them but it looks like their project has slowed down a bit and now it looks like they're doing frequent drivebys, so no clue when/if that might be happening. I still don't know what they intend to do with the property, hard to think they're OK with a giant crater in their backyard like it exists at present, lol. I assume if they intend living there, they're going to level that out... but... I don't know if they "gave up" or something. The girl stared longlingly at their property as if the "dream" had vanished and I assume they were discussing something since they didn't do anything that particular day.

The only thing it seems that getting such an address would do...

1) Make it easier for the county/government find me for taxation purposes (Does it look like I want to pay more taxes right now? lol), also makes it potentially easier for them to harass me. If they don't know about me, they won't go out of their way to harass me.
2) Make it easier for people who I don't want finding me to find me. And that's the really the big one. A clock is ticking, and if I'm found before the clock goes off, the game's up.

Anyway, I'm on track to get everything on that list, just might take a little more time than normal at the moment. I might have to wait probably 3-4 weeks to start ripping out the tree stumps but that's OK, I really don't need watermelons anyway, lol (I can get a few started in the existing moist depressions while I'm waiting). The garden is a lower priority than local employment. When I moved here, I wasn't convinced my income was necessarily stable (Though it has been pretty stable for a long while), so I purposefully chose this property for exactly that reason. A foothold into the Houston markets. In particular, the technology markets of Houston are more extensively developed than Spokane's. For example, "Entry level developer" jobs is not something you'd find in Spokane, lol. As for job finding, I'm actually in a somewhat ideal location, with all the businesses opening up near the lake, driving down the unemployment rate a bit below the Houston average. Of course, I don't know /right now/, but I will find out soon enough. And the area is a "happy place", with the palm trees everywhere and the collective pride taken in the way the area looks. I think it being a happy place might have something to do with the bettered local economy, above and beyond the fact lake residents tend to be wealthier, lol.

As to watermelon growing, I will confirm that during the summer (Watermelon growing season), that depressions in the ground are ideal as opposed to mounds. Mounds in my backyard (high points) seem to be pretty darn dry and sands shifting like in the sahara, while the soil is fairly moist in the depressions. The water table is down some 15 feet or so currently.

Anyway, I do have a solar water shower bag I could take a shower in, but washing from 'the tap' is easy enough and it works in a jiffy. No hassle.

And... what would commenters call the most recent post. A hit piece? I know where you live, don't pressure me into suing you for defamation, lol.

And, tomorrow is trash delivery day. The first of a series of days to clear my property of the trash, since I recently found out exactly where the trash collection is, something that had been eluding me for weeks, lol. And, I put the trash bags in the shed a day ahead of schedule, lol. I just hope nothing's leaking, lol. (I rewrapped anything that needed rewrapping)

And sex... I just don't want to talk about this... but the experience definitely depends on 1) You and 2) Your relation to them. It's quite possible there's that 'tension' like the person is not quite right for you, and that can get uncomfortable even though that won't necessarily stop it. It actually can make it more exciting especially if they're hot, lol. These don't tend to last and I'd think this would tend to characterize the one night stands common in certain venues. Then there's best friend experiences, where tension is gone and all is peaceful in the world. Then there's the dominant/submissive types of experiences, where it feels quite good having the power,like the way it's supposed to be, lol. Feminism might promote equality and all that, but the most satisfying experiences are anything but equal. [I'm not referring to rape, jeez, lol.]

But that particular girl... mmmm.... that'd likely be the passionate/steamy/sexy category. It's just so hard... mmm.... thinking about it while keeping a straight face, lol.

Maybe not at the moment given my current temporary situation, but rollback a month ago which is where my memory leaves off, yes, baby, yes.

But being realistic... she changed after I made my advance. She wasn't the same confident sexy person she was earlier. Nervous as a cat and trying to please me. I hate it when people change, lol. I just get the feeling if I didn't withdraw, she wouldn't have been like that. But if I didn't withdraw... what would've happened? It's hard to imagine we'd start making out in front of the customers, lol. [The fact I lol'd here makes me think... maybe it wasn't hard to imagine and not because it's ludicrous, lol. But, I just lol'd there, so likely because it's ludicrous. Yep, didn't lol there, so yes, because it was ludicrous.]

I think I have a tendency to create codependent relationships. Like a line from...

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Looking at all the girls whining about their boyfriend, I get the feeling that's the way it's supposed to be.

 

[swbluto]

If you have a partitioned parcel of land, if YOU are titled, it should have an address. And there should be mail delivery available. If not, get a post office box. My mother not only has an address for the county road to her property, she also has a separate address for her trail through her land, which she has a name for, and the county has numbered every building with the street address of her road which the county recognizes.

Impressive. I take it this girl is likely much older than me? And, I'd surmise she probably rode some kind of real estate appreciation trend over time in a certain hotspot. I think about those people who are paying over half their income in certain places, like Chicago, and I think it foolish; but, they do get the benefit of appreciation if they're in a good neighborhood that's appreciating, so it /can/ be a pretty good retirement plan, especially in hotspots.

My land is appreciating, which is kind of cool. Lots of investors have been sending me mail, trying to buy my property, getting excited by the 20% yoy appreciation. My neighbor speculates that much of the random traffic through here is people trying to find land for sale. It's also pretty cool that I completely capture the appreciation. But... conversely... it does make expansion more expensive. I wouldn't mind if land went back down to $2000, and I could buy my neighbor's property. I could create a more comfortable crop that way.

I don't actually really know how practical a well would be for gardening here. I guess it's probably not a problem for a garden, but I suspect it wouldn't be scalable for larger scale farming. I guess there'd likely be a need for a number of wells to supply a farm. Or one huge brick-lined mexican style well with like a 500 gallon capacity.

Btw, that girl fell in spite of my wearing my dirty shirt. Believe it or not... girls don't fall for the clothes... they fall for the animal inside. [Now I'm just starting to wonder if guys are more superficial than girls are? If guys tend to be attracted by "looks" as "Love at first sight" suggests... it almost seems like it. It's just harder to admit since I identify myself as a guy despite the seeming fact I seem to share perceptions/preferences that are more common among females than males in certain cases.]

Like....

cocoa
gardening
pool
Mainly attracted to personality vs. looks
Bananas (Banana girl)
Organic
Cute little things, like rabbits, lol. And pugs, lol.

I can't say the similarities are particularly extensive (No preference for handbags, Apple or Gucci here, lol.), but I wonder. And maybe that's why I have a way with the ladies when I want to....

Actually, on that cocoa thing, I decided I would eat like the Kuna... and so I took up the cocoa habit... I don't think females are drinking cocoa because they're imitating a tribe, lol. They're drinking it because they're following health fads, and it's touted as a "super food". Of course, I decided to imitate the Kuna precisely because they were so healthy... Maybe our circles overlap more than they diverge.

I saw an empty dorm room with chia seeds and I was betting... "I BET A GIRL LIVED HERE!", lol. Anyway, the person who previously lived there intrigued me, I wanted to know who they were, lol.

 

[swbluto]

Signs of possible local recession
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-Neighbor recently sold off their large RV, leaving the mobile.[Generating cash]
-Lots of people trying to sell their mobiles [generating cash]
-Haven't heard as much gunfire recently. [Maybe bullets have become beyond their budget recently]
-Neighbor looking longingly at their property, as if "the dream" had died. They're now doing frequent drivebys.

Asking the local grocery, the girl didn't seem to be aware of the financials for the business over the last two weeks. But, it doesn't seem to be as busy as I once knew during the middle of the day, but that's a rather limited observation.

Retail stores seem to be emptier than I used to remember them.

I can't confidently conclude much as to the local economy since I have no hard data, but it looks like there's signs of a local slowdown recently.

Wow, this benefactor from Dallas have been too generous! I might be able to buy a farmjack next week and get that garden going, yippee! lol

I really need to educate myself on farming. Glyphosate is applied to corn crops for a reason, so I'm thinking I'll need to figure out some kind of usable organic methods. Should just look it up "Growing organic corn".

https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/garden/corn-growing-guide

Cutworms sometimes attack corn seedlings and flea beetles may chew holes in the leaves of young plants.

Corn earworms are one of the best-known corn pests. They also attack tomatoes and are most prevalent in the southern and central states. Earworm moths lay eggs on corn silks and the larvae crawl inside the husks to feed at the tips of the developing ears. The yellow-headed worms grow up to about 2 inches long and have yellow, green, or brown stripes on their bodies. To prevent earworm problems, use an eyedropper or spray bottle to apply a mixture of vegetable oil, Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), water, and a few drops of dishwashing liquid to the tip of each ear several days after the silks emerge. Or you can try pinning a clothespin to the tip of each ear once the silks start to turn brown to prevent the worms from crawling through to the ear.

European corn borers are 1 inch long, flesh-colored worms marked with tiny black dots that feed on foliage, especially near the top of the stalk where the leaves emerge. They also bore into the developing ears. Bt and spinosad are effective controls if applied early, before the borers tunnel into the stalks. Corn borers overwinter as full-grown larvae in weed stems and old cornstalks. Pull up and destroy such winter refuges to break their life cycle.

Cucumber beetle larvae, also known as corn rootworms, feed on corn roots, causing plants to weaken and collapse. Adults are yellow beetles with black stripes or spots. To kill the rootworms, apply Heterorhabditis nematodes to the soil.

Seed-corn maggots attack kernels planted too deeply in cool soil. These yellowish white maggots are ¼ inch long, with pointed heads. If they attack, wait until warmer weather to plant another crop at a shallower level.

Animal pests can seriously reduce your corn yields. Birds may be a problem at both seeding and harvesting time, while raccoons are fond of the ripening ears.

Clean garden practices, crop rotation, and planting resistant hybrids are the best defenses against most diseases, including Stewart’s wilt, a bacterial disease that causes wilting and pale streaks on leaves.

Corn smut makes pale, shining, swollen galls that burst and release powdery black spores. Cut off and dispose of galls before they open. If necessary, destroy affected plants to keep smut from spreading. It can remain viable in the soil for 5 to 7 years.

This looks hard, lol.

Woohoo! The auger HAS SHIPPED! I knew NOT ORDERING FROM AMAZON was WISE!

WOW! 100F here today. I'm doing fine with the fan on but WOW, I thought this place didn't higher than 94F during the summer, lol.

Smut feeds on the corn plant and decreases the yield. Smut-infected crops are often destroyed, although some farmers use them to prepare silage. In Mexico, however, smut is highly esteemed as a delicacy, where it is known as huitlacoche, being preserved and sold for a significantly higher price than uninfected corn.

It almost seems like you're lucky if your corn has a bit of smut, lol.

When corn smut grows on a corn cob, it changes the nutritional worth of the corn it affects. Corn smut contains much more protein than regular corn does. The amino acid lysine, of which corn contains very little, abounds in corn smut.

Lysine 'seems' to be a good protein to consume, though I'm not entirely sure why. Insufficiency seems to cause anemia and hair loss. http://www.livestrong.com/article/342821-signs-symptoms-of-lysine-deficiency/ I thought there were more significant 'good' reasons for its abundant consumption, though I don't remember what I found previously.

And, yes, raccoons would need addressing in this area. They do like 3-4 a.m., I've noticed.

 

[swbluto]

Yeah, that was definitely a "let's make out" situation looking back. Just kind of realizing it now. Just seems like it'd been so inappropos but that was definitely the ambiance of the moment.

This delirium that's taking over... oh man, don't let this moment escape me, lol.

I knew it was associated.

No wonder it looked like she felt like she lost a soulmate.

 

[Dauntless]

You're calling my mother a girl? She was becoming a grandmother when I was born. I don't know howmuchherland might have appreciated, but she bought in a county with a population of maybe 12,000 and forced the place to be agricultural. Her big contention has been I could sell my house and move there and buy a huge spread, for the price an OC home would bring I guess I could. But the weekend farmers there are either rich guys or retired, it ain't about being a breadbasket there.

So how do your neighbors get mail? Are to sure the Post Office doesn't come on out there?

So you asked the girl at the grocery store how business was and she wanted to make out? Which soap opera are you part of? Is it the talk of cutworms and maggots that makes your thoughts turn to sex?

 

[swbluto]

Well... lol... I wasn't referring to the girl I asked about the business BUT... I did incidentally let her know I ran a business and she had that smile like "I want to get know you", lol. But that's irrelevant (She has a child and she's not of my culture. I mean, gosh, I quickly figured out my preference is for white girls here, lol. There's lots of guys putting down white girls, preferring the subservient asian girls for example, but... I prefer the familiarity in people of my culture, it feels way more comfortable/relatable that way. But... yes... they typically do come with "white expectations" which some people at a certain point in their life might find a hard time meeting, lol.).

As to that "Breadbasket" idea, that's pretty true here. Definitely not a whole of food crops in this area for reasons I don't entirely understand. I guess maybe it's because the beef demand so high in Texas, everyone not raising cattle is growing hay to feed the cattle. That probably explains it; it's likely more profitable and definitely easier than corn, since irrigation doesn't seem to be available in much of the land out here (Corn needs irrigation, hay doesn't). The large acreages here are almost always owned by old people (In this area, seems like 100 acres is typical, I'd guess about $400,000-$500,000.).

So, lack of irrigation and high hay demand by the cattle industry likely explains the lack of food crops, not that it isn't viable if you can meet the watering demands.

And, no, I was not thinking of sex, lol. I was thinking of passionately making out. Which could incidentally lead in a certain direction... but only coincidentally.

Rarely do I actually think of "sex". Only during certain activities do I.

And lookie here, we have a 1 acre parcel of forested land about 25 miles NE of Conroe going for about $2000. Unrestricted. [You'd have to look into the county to see how "unrestricted" it really is.]

For farming, that doesn't look like a bad piece of land. That area does get something like 53 inches of rain a year.

I would be concerned about road access, proximity to services (groceries/mail), and the fact there seems to be a mining operation right next door with the giant manmade lake I can see from the satellite imagery, lol. Not a whole lot of detail on it, but I sure would have been interested in it when I was looking last year. I'm not seeing it on their website either, just got an email from them about it.

$2000 is a ridiculously low entry price to the Houston area and an acre at that. That's the kind of area that could feed more than one person, lol. But I'm guessing it might be noisy as hell during the daytime [This place isn't noisy at all. I was actually a little creeped out by how quiet it was earlier today...]

I wonder if the price is reflective of recent economic happenings... hmmm... lol. I on't think so, real estate isn't typically that responsive to consumer markets.

That particular area, however, is "low income" for at least 30 miles in all directions. My area actually has some high(er) income areas in the immediate vicinity, might explain the higher price.

 

[swbluto]

I remember being at my doctor's office, she asked what I did, and I told her and she was like "It's not wise being alone, it's good to have someone around in case something happens." suggesting I should be getting a girlfriend, lol. Thanks doc, lol. For that town, though, you could say I was winning. Most people were doing part time minimum wage work, so I was making a pretty good amount compared to my peers. (At the time, I was making 2400/month.)

Sometimes I wonder... if her making baby noises was a way of trying to draw out paternalistic behavior (Masculinity) and that's why I felt like I was insulted and got so rightfully angry. If she were trying to draw out masculinity, and I'm not that kind of that person, I think getting angry would be really appropriate. But, I can't say exactly what I was feeling or more precisely the why... definitely feeling a strong aversion/repulsion. I just don't really know the why. Uncanny valley, anxiety, feeling like I was getting manipulated, perceived immaturity, misperceived insult... I just don't know why... whatever it was, she obviously wasn't trying to repulse me.

Feeling like I was getting manipulated, yeah... that's probably it.

https://www.whatiscodependency.com/spot-manipulation/

You might have a gut feeling of discomfort or anger, but on the surface the manipulator may use words that are pleasant, ingratiating, reasonable, or that play on your guilt or sympathy, so you override your instincts and don’t know what to say

Gut feeling of anger, damn straight. I didn't hide it either, than she was like "Oh god, where are you going?! I love you!"... lol.

Was that another test I passed? lol.

Yeah, that totally fits into Dauntless's theory of testing of controllability.

She was trying to manipulate me and that pissed me off. I guess by showing I wasn't easily manipulated, she really fell hard. I guess, I don't really know.

Now I feel like I understand what I was feeling at that moment. I kind of half think I might've been taking it the wrong way, but maybe I took it exactly the right way. And my response was perfect, lol. Wasn't swayed by her disapproval, didn't fall for her manipulation. Wasn't going to tolerate her chicanery.

But....

You know...

If she was simply trying to endear me with lack of ulterior motives... maybe I shouldn't have felt manipulated...

So maybe I was just being paranoid. Paranoia, falsely assuming ulterior and nefarious motives in others. Of course, if you correctly assume said motives, I wouldn't call it paranoia - I'd call it perceptive and insightful.

I think it was paranoia. I think she may have been innocently trying to endear herself, that'd be more fitting for the emotion she was experiencing at the time. And that would explain her reaction when my paranoia led to my withdrawal, for if she were trying to be manipulative with ulterior motives, she wouldn't have acted like she had lost a soulmate. So, yes. Paranoia entirely underlied that whole thing.

Instinctually recognizing this dysfunction, though not consciously aware of it, suicidal impulses came to the front in the days ahead.

Let's see... paranoia suicide. How connected are these two?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/192621.php

Paranoia and schizophrenia: What you need to know

It will impact the individual's feelings and their ability to communicate, to focus, to complete tasks, to sleep, and to relate to others.

This can lead to fear, confusion, and suicidal thoughts and behavior.

Hmmm... I'm not hearing voices yet, but I can't deny there's some overlap with my analysis here.

There was a time, at night, when I was falling asleep and heard someone yell something. I don't really remember what. I figured this was a hypnagogic hallucination, pretty common.

And then that panic attack not too long ago...

Wasn't hearing voices, but was feeling some pretty strong themes and urgencies. I'd like to think it was "The voice of god", but it was like that voice inside, you're conscience. But this conscience was ... oh yeah... being evil and urgent... making my heart and mind race and my heartbeat taking on some kind of scary behaviors, like heavy ongoing palpitations that weren't letting up. Anyway, that really was a freaky night. Luckily, nothing like that has been experienced since coming here, so I'd like to think it's all in the past.

 

[swbluto]

So... let's say HYPOTHETICALLY I'm like a paranoid crazy person who acts on impulse. This girl comes across as kind of disconnected-from-reality, flighty, not-with-it... go I urbandictionary'd the word "flighty" and come up this definition:

A polite way of describing someone who is bat shit crazy

Oh, so maybe we are soulmates after all. Lol.

And, my advance wasn't entirely because I wasn't lacking balls, per se, maybe I'm just crazy. lol

Crazy for her, of course, lol.

Anyway, I'm saying purely hypothetically. Obviously, I'm talking in very subjective terms here that could shift with the context, observers and times.

Yeah, so... maybe there's a good reason why she seems to have me steaming the windows so easily effect. Not because she's a very well practiced flirty ho, but because she's just like me. lol And maybe that's why that entire thing was so effortless and everything fell into place just so fast.

And I was reading that if they glance away, that's a clue you should stop. Nope, she did not glance away. Breathing was shortened, generally acted speechless, almost looked like she was in a state of shock, face flushing red. Looked like she was enjoying the experience as she did not look away. The whole 9 seconds felt like an eternity, lol. (I'm just kidding, it did not.)

 

[swbluto]

I'm just thinking about these wells I'll be drilling.

I wonder if I can fill a swimming pool with this water?

The water coming out the ground won't be crystal clear water (Murky with clay particulates)... so I'm thinking...

Maybe I need to run it through some filters.

A gravel filter for the larger debris
A sand filter for the clay particles and whatnot

I think that should get the water pretty clear?

I figure I could get sand from homedepot. And, for the filter containers, I'd want something with a large area to process the water a bit faster, so a large plastic storage bin from walmart.

I'm just thinking it through, I don't really know if it'd work, but I think it should.

Thinking about the suitability of wells for farming...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/business/energy-environment/california-farmers-dig-deeper-for-water-sipping-their-neighbors-dry.html

There’s a well-drilling boom in the Central Valley, and it’s a water grab as intense as any land grab before it. Drilling contractors are so swamped with requests that there is a wait of four to six months for a new well. Drilling permits are soaring. In Tulare County, home to several of Mr. Hundal’s almond farms, 660 permits for new irrigation wells were taken out by the end of this April, up from 383 during the same period last year and just 60 five years ago — a figure rising “exponentially,” said Tammie Weyker, spokeswoman for Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency.

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The new drill that Mr. Hundal ordered from Texas should be up and running in a few weeks. He says it can push 2,500 feet into the ground, tapping new aquifers and making way for wells that can produce thousands of gallons of water a minute. He plans to drill at least six new wells on his various farms across the Central Valley: Four of them are in Tulare, and two are on property 100 miles north.

“It’s about survival,” he said. “Everybody is pulling water out of the ground.”

“Nobody is bothered,” he added. “The neighbors aren’t bothered. Everybody is doing what they’ve got to do.”

It turns out, though, that some people are bothered — very bothered — and are growing hostile. That’s because the drilling has serious side effects. Rampant drilling causes underground water levels to fall. When shallow farm and domestic wells that serve residences dry up, the underground bounty goes to those who can afford to dig deeper.

Well, I see this is a common practice in California and they're going down some 2500 feet? Lol, I think I only have to go 20 feet for my little operation, lol. (Of course, the deeper I go, the greater the holding capacity; the more water I can pump out at one time as it takes a good day for the water to replenish through the low permeability clay.)

And ordering a drill from Texas, that's not hard to believe! I bet you the drill manufacturer is somewhere in Houston.

"Shallow farm well", that sounds like my application!

 

[swbluto]

Figures, the only person ordering a complete set was a foreigner (Australian). There's a sudden affliction striking America, and I suspect it's fear-driven 'penny pinching' as I'm doubting this Endocrinologist Tech lost her hours. And I suspect the same is probably true of all the other penny pinchers who've purchased so far this week, lol.

Walking through the valley of the shadow of penny-pinchers, I will fear no poverty.

I do actually wonder how much my sales are competing with non-related categories. If people are spending more money on jewelry for example because of the rampup in jewelry listings due to the recent slow sales, that would leave them less money for my category. And this platform does act like something of a community ecosystem, and not just a search based platform. Jewelry can expand indefinitely while my category has built-in limits. But the timing of that article makes me think there's fear gripping the markets.

It's actually one of the main reasons why I wanted this garden, so I could subsist off of it. I didn't really trust "the free market" as I'm well aware that you're dependent on others generosity for your livelihood. If those people suddenly get stingy due to fear (or among employers/shareholders, fear and/or greed) suddenly you're finding yourself poor as well as everyone else who gets affected by it and if you're dependent on your for livelihood, you're /quite/ possibly f'ed.

It's good to see I had this insight and I'm hypothetically prepared for it; kind of caught me late in the season, so I don't really know if I can totally subsist off my garden, but I can trim the foodbill signficantly I think. Those raccoons will likely be the peskiest critters. [Strong evidence a raccoon ate my banana sitting on the outside table last night. I think raccoons likely eat pretty much everything a person does, explaining their peskiness for crop growing, lol. And I don't doubt raccoons are pretty smart: https://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/raccoon-may-be-smarter-your-toddler . I'd likely have to get medieval on their ass to prevent them from entering my garden, lol.]

You know...

Maybe that's what I'll do.

I'll grow and market organic watermelons to the local area. Seems like that Almond farmer from california was making a small fortune and possibly because food is one of those inelastic markets, people still buy it even if they're penny pinching with everything else. Of course, he's in a high-demand high-price part of the produce market. I'm not sure if the same is true of watermelons... I do doubt it... seems like watermelons were predominately marketed along the roadsides here by africans. I guess if I were growing for profit, I should go after a high demand, high price markets, and this would likely be "healthy foods" and "superfoods", like almonds.

I consider watermelons a superfood, though, I guess it's not really publicly recognized as such, lol. Rich in lycopene and l-citrulline, former shown to have significant positive vascular effects and l-citrulline being a potent vasodilator due to it converting into l-argnine after absorbing into the body. L-arginine largely does not get absorbed into the body as bacteria metabolizes it, so l-citrulline is the ticket to increasing the body's l-arginine levels. (L-arginine is also widely promoted as crucial to muscle building, though I don't really know the science behind it, but for sure, muscle tissue is rich in arginine, so it's not unlikely.)

There are other foods with l-citrulline.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/321823-foods-containing-citrulline/

Like onion, garlic, peanuts, soy, liver, salmon, red meat, walnuts, almonds and cocoa.

Most red meat also contains alpha-galactose-1,3-alpha, so the jury is out on that one as to its net affect. Seems like people of old were subsisting off meat just fine, though I get the sense it wasn't a super abundant food in the day of old (Hard to capture before the age of guns.), so I don't think necessarily excess regular consumption is ideal. There's plenty of good research suggesting it isn't. But I don't really know; the studies I'm remembering, I didn't discern if they had discriminated between processed and unprocessed red meat, and they very quite easily didn't. Studies have a tendency to gloss over the crucial details.

I'm suspecting people in the days of old who hunted food, did a lot of jogging and sprinting [You jog to get close enough to them without startling them, then you sprint as fast as possible to catch them offguard for a quick kill.], so that quite possibly offset any possible deleterious affect of red meat consumption to a large degree. Both due to increased arterial diameter and a boosted immunity. The role of the sun can't be ignored in this, since it benefits both the previous factors as well.

I wonder if that had anything to do with the ladies falling for me. Having embraced my hunter spirit, they could sense it and were attracted accordingly. Hunting down females is not entirely unlike hunting down prey; fearlessness and ambition underlies both. The idea of "The quick kill" seems to have parallels.

Mind just orgasm'd at the thought of that. Usually that means I feel like I just came across a strong truth.

Maybe it is wise to escalate quickly. Those who don't seem to usually get friend-zoned more often than not.

I can't deny that my quick escalation was remarkably successful and I get the feeling that's not the exception. And, I probably did catch her off guard.

I just wonder if that ... forcefully demonstrated my 'hunter spirit' which she fell so quickly for.

I guess maybe modern society is so far removed from its ancient roots, that it's not really widely recognized nowadays, but perhaps girls like the hunters (the strong 'hunter spirit') and guys like the caregivers at its core.

I do think back to the economics professor who was sweet-talking me and caressing my arm, I noticed this behavior came after the fact I shared stories of successful conquests in hunting down the elusive wiis at the time, lol. She... quite possibly felt strongly attracted to the hunter spirit.

I can imagine in an age not too long ago, the guys with stories of their successful hunts probably didn't too bad with the ladies.

Lol. Perhaps she was attracted to 'the garden', hunting down those veggies and helping with the groceries, lol. I don't think seriously, however, that induced the infatuatory response; it was the 'quick kill' she fell for. The fearlessness and pursuit therein.

 

[swbluto]

Well, this is getting exciting. Looks like the wolves are after me. I was getting fenced in to pursue job searching but I just kind of realized there's another benefit; I can implement privacy which is going to be desired. Not just from thieves but also the wolves.[I don't think privacy is going to protect me from thieves; will likely make me that much more targeted.]

I thought this would eventually happen, and it happening this quickly isn't altogether surprising. They know they're working against a clock and the sooner they make the kill, the better the reward. So, I have some defenses that can potentially help me.

But I will need to start storing provisions in the various buildings I might inhabit. And, should have a charged battery and inverter in each building to power the fans so they're inhabitable if need be. And, I will definitely need to get the metal shed midge proof. I think maybe the screen I got doesn't have a tight enough pattern. Need to get prepared for lockdown.

The RV is definitely getting on the property tomorrow morning, no delays this time (Hope it doesn't rain). And the fence has been upgraded from high priority to super high priority, lol. Meaning working throughout the day, and no hesitations to do midday pickups, I must accept the risks. I will start working at 5 today, and I'll be working on preparing the fence perimeter and getting it ready for installation. Will need to remove trees and saplings, basically.

The idea of having a lockdown before I'm going to work... how would that play out? Maybe I'll just hope I won't have to.

And, wow, this is starting to sound like the Branch Davidians and the Waco Siege, lol. (It's not really that serious...)

 

[swbluto]

Seriously, though, they'll have to find me first which they may or may not. But in the case they confidently think they have, I'm going to have to be prepared for that. My incentive is to delay it as long as possible, for there's multiple clocks I benefit from achieving.

I think I'm going to create a privacy protected path from the shed to the back and I'm going to try to inhabit the shed midday. Would cut down on energy costs and also improve my escape routes, not that I think using said escape routes wouldn't necessarily be wise, but I might want to tend to my garden while under siege. Might want to go for a swim.

And I need to start seriously building cash reserves. So, all unessential assets of value need to be actively marketed and sold. I think I might have to build an electric fence for the raccoons.

And, I'm permanently cutting the mexican grocery off. I resolve to eat fish and peas for protein and salt if I need to. They've been really draining me this week, and I'm stopping it completely. After the first two times of being wronged, I'm saying NO! That's not happening ever again. If I need to, I'll just buy their canned fish or whatever if I don't pick it up from the grocery.

Anyway, I'm lucky that at this point, it's not a super serious matter. if it were, I don't think I'd be getting a letter in the mail, but a special kind of escort. And, I wouldn't want to be in Texas and definitely not Florida.

Girls love them bad boys, I guess, lol.

Exactly, they want protection. And, in some cases, provision.

 

[swbluto]

Stockholme syndrome - where the captured girl falls in love with the captor.

Pretty easy to understand. The first boyfriend killed off wasn't really that good at protecting her, and presumably the second guy is, so she falls in love with him.

 

[Dauntless]

All that on your mind, I'll bet you FORGOT to watch Michael Phelps trying to outrun the shark. (Er, OUTSWIM.) What a life or death struggle, Indeed, the climatic death at the end. The shark launching into the air as it catches its' prey, crossing the finish line with the body hanging from its' mouth. Two seconds, that's all Michael Phelps needed, TWO SECONDS and he wouldn't have gone out a loser.

Do you think maybe the shark would have fallen in love with you and NOT eaten you?

 

[swbluto]

All that on your mind, I'll bet you FORGOT to watch Michael Phelps trying to outrun the shark. (Er, OUTSWIM.) What a life or death struggle, Indeed, the climatic death at the end. The shark launching into the air as it catches its' prey, crossing the finish line with the body hanging from its' mouth. Two seconds, that's all Michael Phelps needed, TWO SECONDS and he wouldn't have gone out a loser.

Do you think maybe the shark would have fallen in love with you and NOT eaten you?

Wait, what am I reading? Are you implying this girl might be a black widow?

Maybe my instincts were right, and I'm not 'paranoid' but 'perceptive/insightful'.

I just want to believe... lol... and I've been called paranoid here, so I really want to believe that, lol.

You don't know how long I've looked at the stars thinking she's out there somewhere, and I just found her, you know? Granted, maybe in a different situation and a different state of mind at the time, but you know... hypothetically, none of that should /really/ matter.

She didn't come across as a tiger, though, looking for her prey. She seemed so innocent up until /that/ particular point.

Yeah, anyway, water under the bridge at this point.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=black%20widow

A female who feeds off of the mental, physical and material means of a male and then leaves him for dead.
A woman who sucks the life out of a male just like a black widow spider does, and then kills him after having her way with him.

I see with 268 Thumbs up and 72 Thumbs down, this is indeed a real concept that's probably more prevalent than I want to accept, lol.

Maybe my instincts were right. GOD DAMN IT, lol. I guess maybe at some point I just need to accept my only use is to be used and I better get used to the idea, lol. I was thinking maybe I should adapt and in the event of marriage, force a prenuptial agreement. If marriage never came about, then I don't really think I have anything to worry about as far as getting my property taken from me and just go with the flow.

Even with that knowledge, didn't really help the feeling like I was getting manipulated; massive turnoff, that.

But... you know...

You hear about those guys who try to manipulate girls with gifts and that's a massive turn off right?

Let's assume those guys were looking for sex.

So let's say this girl was trying to manipulate me with her baby noises.

What's to say she wasn't looking for sex and perhaps I shouldn't have been too concerned? lol

Well... I just don't know... she didn't seem to have my best interests at heart, likely because the distance and the way she looked, despite infatuation obviously going on in hindsight, suggested personal disinterest. But that's why I think it's paranoia, because I couldn't read the signs of infatuation at the time and mistook it as disinterest.

I couldn't read the signs of infatuation because... I've never induced it before merely by looking at someone in a certain way.

There's the girls that are looking at you, blushing and acting like they're tripping over themselves in front of you (That very characteristic head movement like they're touching themselves, lol), that's not really hard to read. But, I didn't /know/ I could freaking induce it by merely flipping a switch, lol. Now I know, of course, lol.... but I didn't at the time.

I only did it because I felt the compulsion and didn't hold back.

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[This is what I'm getting reading this post at 8 p.m. now, lol]

 

[swbluto]

Okay, I told my neighbor of the incoming auger used for drilling wells, and he acted like so pleasantly pleased I was offering him the use of my auger so he could drill some wells. He started giving me shit, lol. And then he started asking for favors (Could you pick up some 4x8s with your van?).

He then told me of these water whiching methods used for locating water, and he sounded like it totally believed it work. He told me everytime the stick bounced on the ground, it's a foot, and when it stops bouncing, that's how many feet down the water is.

I'm like... "Wtf? sounds like magic or superstition to me, lol."

Anyway, I was aware of the concept having seen it in movies but I found it strange someone actually believed it, lol.

Yeah, anyway...

He's got some magical thinking and that's not necessarily bad. It's just not my kind of thing unless... I REALLY WANT TO BELIEVE, lol.

I was told you need to apply for a permit to use a well in this county.

Hmmm...

Well, I guess it makes sense since my use could potentially affect the water levels and if poorly implemented, might potentially contaminate the water supply.

But paying permit fees and all the extra costs associated with the regulatory process (Like minimum requirement of whatever sort) just likely doesn't fit my current budget, lol, especially with the number of wells I'll likely need to supply daily water needs for 7000 sq. ft.

Anyway, my neighbor was telling me that tomatos tend to die during the middle of the day with direct sunlight. He made it sound like tomatos need a little shading during the middle of the day here, and he planted his directly under the tree so the only direct sunlight was in the morning and the evening.

I guess that's not really hard to implement, would I'd need to put a cover on/off at certain times of the day.

I just wonder what other plants will need this midday sun protection...

I was just hoping I could just straightup grow corn, lol.

Anyway, he was telling me I could apply for foodstamps.

Hmmmm... I swear that able-bodied middle aged men weren't allowed to have foodstamps in Texas. But he made it sound like this county didn't care. Anyway, foodstamps would be pretty nice, being able to pocket almost all my income which is kind of meager at the moment, lol. If I had foodsecurity, I really wouldn't be too concerned about applying for employment and just plugging away at expansion. But applying for employment introduces vehiclesecurity, for if the van breaks down, job security is no longer possible and thus foodsecurity is out the window. And a second car, at this point, potentially opens me up to seizure (Loss of hardearned money). And while I might idealize subsisting off my crops, I'm aware that crop failure happens due to weather/pestillence/etc.(And in my case, inexperience, lol) which is why farmer's insurance is so hefty, so that's not really a solid form of foodsecurity. The only solid form of food security I have outside of foodstamps is earning money online and that feels kind of iffy at the moment, lol.

I guess I'll apply for employment then continue building savings, won't buy a second vehicle until I have to. OR... I'm thinking.... maybe my neighbor will let me store it on his property? lol. I'm sure he wouldn't mind having a second vehicle, lol.

 

[swbluto]

Just cleared out the front for the fence. Now I just need to clear out left side, a little bit of the back, and a little bit of the right and I'm done with clearing out the area for the fence to be installed. Next comes privacy measures, gate installation and so on. RV is on the drive tomorrow morning.

The vehicle gate will be very simplistic with the only goal being that of keeping humans out. I'm sure I'll implement further measures if/when I get chickens. Still need to figure out where to put the back gate.

 

[Dauntless]

Wait, what am I reading? Are you implying this girl might be a black widow?

Why, no. I'm asking if you think the shark would fall in love with you. You seem to think that's a common occurrence in your life. Don't you think the black wido would fall in love with you and not eat you? Of course you do.

Maybe my instincts were right, and I'm not 'paranoid' but 'perceptive/insightful'.

No, you're paranoid. Acknowledging that would be "Perceptive" and "Insightful." But you haven't acknowledged it yet, so. . . .

So I've got this woman that' s sort of hanging around. Doesn't do all the overt things you're imaging women do around you, so you know what that means? It means I"m NOT imaging things. Maybe she really IS interested in me. When she first started working there near me, I told this guy I barely know "Michelle Rodriguez is working here. You know how they'll to work as a waitress or whatever to research a role?" He's saying no way, or course, then I say "Here she comes." And he's in shock when he sees her. She doesn't have the tough look they give Rodriguez for so many roles, she looks like the normal everyday Michelle Rodriguez, remember 'Lost.'

So you think I should be messing around with the Michelle Rodriguez look alike and giving you a hard time about it?

http://autoweek.com/article/nascar/joe-gibbs-racings-furniture-row-discipline-should-have-included-adam-stevens

 

[swbluto]

Wait, what am I reading? Are you implying this girl might be a black widow?

Why, no. I'm asking if you think the shark would fall in love with you. You seem to think that's a common occurrence in your life. Don't you think the black wido would fall in love with you and not eat you? Of course you do.

Maybe my instincts were right, and I'm not 'paranoid' but 'perceptive/insightful'.

No, you're paranoid. Acknowledging that would be "Perceptive" and "Insightful." But you haven't acknowledged it yet, so. . . .

So I've got this woman that' s sort of hanging around. Doesn't do all the overt things you're imaging women do around you, so you know what that means? It means I"m NOT imaging things. Maybe she really IS interested in me. When she first started working there near me, I told this guy I barely know "Michelle Rodriguez is working here. You know how they'll to work as a waitress or whatever to research a role?" He's saying no way, or course, then I say "Here she comes." And he's in shock when he sees her. She doesn't have the tough look they give Rodriguez for so many roles, she looks like the normal everyday Michelle Rodriguez, remember 'Lost.'

So you think I should be messing around with the Michelle Rodriguez look alike and giving you a hard time about it?

http://autoweek.com/article/nascar/joe-gibbs-racings-furniture-row-discipline-should-have-included-adam-stevens

Lol, I don't care about what you do. I completely understand my situation is a bit different than the middle-of-the-city kind of situation, and all the opportunities/difficulties therein. Hanging back in Spokane, yeah, there was lots of girls approaching me like "Oh yeah, I want to get to know you" but that changed when there was no longer girls just walking by me in the neighborhood, lol. I'm pretty aware environment has a lot to do with it. But, if you feel like rubbing it in... psssst.... MAKE YOUR OWN THREAD, lol. Then I'll have the choice if I feel like reading your saga just like everyone else here has the choice in my thread. Hell, if I was reading my posts as someone else, I'd imagine I'd be like "Not this post again" *SKIP*"... lol.

But, hey... I might be interested in seeing what works and what doesn't. So, don't forget all the juicy details when you make your own.

(And, thank you, you confirmed what I've already fully acknowledged by now.)

 

[swbluto]

Why, no. I'm asking if you think the shark would fall in love with you. You seem to think that's a common occurrence in your life. Don't you think the black wido would fall in love with you and not eat you? Of course you do.

I'm not going to question what you mean here... I'm just going to nod and smile.

(Wait, are you calling all the girls who fall in love with me sharks as I perceive them?[I kind of think that's what you mean... consistent with the paranoia accusation] Or you implying that everything falls in love with me, including sharks, because I'm like adonis? Vain beyond hell, lol. Either meaning seems really incorrect. And, though I might perservere on that particular moment at times, because it was a confusing moment that I've recently been fully discerning, it really was transient in the overall scheme of things as her intentions became pretty clear when she reacted the way she did so it wasn't actually all /that/ important. The real tragedy is that I never really saw her again as I stopped going to HEB during the daytime and now I never go to HEB at all, it's too far away, but that's not exactly an interesting memory to recall. I figured out she never worked nights, and then I started questioning why I went at all.)

 

[swbluto]

So I've got this woman that' s sort of hanging around. Doesn't do all the overt things you're imaging women do around you, so you know what that means? It means I"m NOT imaging things. Maybe she really IS interested in me.

Lol, whatever. I'm not really imagining anything when it comes to women, lol. The overt stuff is exactly that, pretty dang obvious and there's no misinterpretation there. The more subtle things I've never seen before and don't really expect based on past experiences, yeah, it's open to misinterpretation but I eventually figure it out. And, I think by persevering on these confusing moments, I solidify it into memory so I don't misinterpret similar future situations. So, it probably plays a strong role in learning.

That whole "breathless" thing... I've never left a girl breathless before so I didn't really recognize it. They might be crushing, but they aren't choking on their words, they're coming up to me and chatting up a storm. Or throwing their head back in pleasure as I walk by them. Or... they can be more explicit too, don't get me wrong.

Not this whole frozen in place, fixated, nervous, flushing red face, shortened breath, breathless behavior with a slight o-face look. No, I've never seen that before.

But I'm imagining it now thru reenactment... It almost feels like f'ing intense infatuation, except I'm not really getting infatuated looking off into empty space, lol.

Man, when's the last time I've felt that kind of infatuation? I swear that part of me died years ago. Might get some fleeting butterflies, but not that whole love chemical coursing through your heart feeling.

It seems like that was common in my teens. Telling me, I was designed by nature to marry the girl of dreams in my teens but modern society is really screwing it up.

That.. racing, beating hard, heart rushing high feeling. Yeah, that's probably what it is, an adrenaline rush feeling.

Makes me wonder... was she attracted to me before my advance, and then suddenly she's like "Oh shit, he wants me so badly", and everything starts rushing and you're confused and gobbled up in these racing thoughts, and the only thing you can do is stand there and look like an idiot because you've just been called out, lol.

I think she kind of was if she was like.. biting her lips and exposing her backside for my pleasure. But... I don't think she was 'crushing' at that point... she was probably feeling a lot like me, that strong sexual attraction. But I don't think she was crushing at that point.

 

[Dauntless]

Look at that word count. I've certainly inspired people before, but for just one person to be so taken by a single post. . . .

As for confirming what you already know, I just think all the 'splainin' Dan has done should leave further confirmation unnecessary. I mean---well, Dan, YOU explain it to him.

Got someone nearby that really llooks like wonder woman. Unfortunately she's not all THAT nearby. Want a pic?

 

[DAND214]

All Ii want to know is, when is this loved story paperback being released. You could make millions if not at least a 20 spot. I just can't figure how you feel that women just flock to you and you have no idea which way to turn/run.

Go back to the hot one at HEB's, go get her and learn what's all about. Then you can come back and educate use, since we are lost with your advances you appear to have.

Then after that is done have a few kids and get that mansion in the forest done. I can't wait to see it. I would think you will have the balls to at least show us. Not the feds, just us.

Dan

 

[Dauntless]

I would think you will have the balls to at least show us. Not the feds, just us.

Dan

But if he posts the pictures ANYWHERE, the authorities might be able to use them to find where he took her. And nobody wants to read his love story until he's actually getting the girl in it.

Kind of think his story needs a love triangle approach. Kind of like 'The Creature from the Black lagoon.' An offbeat love story that inspired not just a sequel but many offbeat imitators.

OOh, you got it all wrong on why monsters get all the girls. It's not because they feel 'Safe.' (Haven't you WATCHED any of those movies?) It's because they don't know what they want. Like with that Bangles song, 'If you Knew what she wants.' Yeah, you'd be giving it to her. But the monsters don't waste time on what they want, they just go get the girl.

And that explains all the determination to steal the friends' boyfriend. He must be worth having if someone else is dating him. Oh, that goes for the gayguys too, if the other guys go for him, she thinks she'll like him.

Meanwhile, you think you have them seeing this?

I assure you, they're seeing this:

This could work in your favor. Think of what she's accustomed to going out with.

Oh yeah, one other tip: High school reunion. So how many were already divorced by the time we got there? I mean there was this beautiful blonde cheerleader the likes of which everyone fantasizes about. Well, I avoided the hell out of her because she was one of the meanest girls on campus. So freaky to walk up while she's berating everyone and have her suddenly trying to turn charming at me. Dang, you KNOW she'll be divorced shortly after the wedding, eh?

Then there was this girl I was trying to date senior year, but word got out of the guy who inherited his trust fun and bought a house. He being in last years' graduating class. The girl suddenly knew who the man for her was. So at the reunion the money is already all gone, they're renting someone's garage to live in. Guess who's suddenly all interested in me. Their garage was a few blocks from my HOUSE.

Me not wanting anything to do with them only made them more anxious. What I SHOULD have done was acted all whiny and desperate. That would have gotten rid of them, eh? Oh, wait, am I saying your favorite technique will never work?

Well, I sure ain't sayin' you'll be carrying the girl over the threshold that way.