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Overzealous PR is not a strong enough word…:(
1 week agoGood name! Tyler! My Mother’s maiden name..:)
1 week agoBullet holes... Same idiots everywhere!
1 week agoHope the bears can read this as well...
2 weeks agoIf I lived in this house on the right, I would not get anything done because I would be staring out the window at the beauty and changing scenery all day ( and night) long…
2 weeks agoYou didn't write about your exciting encounter with a tiger!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_canadensis
Where is the railway? 8-(
2 weeks agoWhat became of the tick adventure? That is definitely not something to ignore. I had one in my back years ago and ended up going to the emergency care and the doctor had a very difficult time removing it. Still gives me the creeps.
3 weeks agoNot worth the “toll”;(
3 weeks agoToo rocky!
3 weeks agoToo bumpy!
3 weeks agoYay! Hope!
4 weeks agoHomelessness has only gotten worse for several reasons. In my opinion, based on the ones I often see and occasionally speak with, the biggest problem is how easy it is to get free stuff. In the summer they are all over, and many want to avoid having a job... Just dumpster dive, panhandle, homeless shelter, buy a cheap tent with what they get on the street corner and use the rest to get stoned or drunk or both. Some of the ones I have interacted with did not want help finding a job. "Jus' wanna be free man! So don't bother me!"
Also gov. subsidized housing turns into a horrible ghetto rife with gangs and drugs and some want out of that. Others have mental problems. Some of them are mad at the world and anyone they meet. Some just are in between jobs because their business got closed due to high taxes, higher cost of materials, higher cost of required health insurance coverage, etc. Those are the ones I feel sorry for.
In college, I was homeless for a while, hundreds of miles from anyone I knew. Starving, could not afford to buy a comb for my stringy hair. It is a tough life till that first paycheck comes in, and if you are lucky enough to be paid weekly, it is nice. I starved for a month. Slept under seating of a practice football stadium.
Hunger is a great motivator. As the US National Parks always say "Don't feed the bears!" It gets them used to being fed stuff that is not healthy, makes them used to people so they are more dangerous not being afraid of people. Homelessness is similar. Get rid of the just plain lazy and the numbers will thin out enough that the few who want the freedom can do so.
Lots more to the problem, of course, but just giving stuff away is really doing them a disservice.
The old saying---
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Teach, don't just give.
I’m glad I already read the book and know Dea is ok. It was an awful, unfortunate eye event. Still enjoying your adventures the for second time. Thanks for posting them.
1 month ago
Appropriately named..Brrr(tha) but, beautiful!
4 days ago