Category : Family

My daughter asked me to take her debit card and get a few things for her.
I am unfamiliar with these cards.
Taking the items to the checkout stand, I inserted.  Evidently not the correct way.
Tried again…Ditto

The line behind me growing…as too was my frustration.

The checkout clerk (a nice looking gal in her late 30s (I’d guess))…saw what I was doing wrong.

She said  “Strip DOWN, Facing Me.”

oh oh!

I looked into her (nice!) eyes and said :

“You first.”

( :    re
(WS)

I am so MUCH wanting to move up to our (shared) other land.

Will TRY to get up there the end of this month to work more on the dome there.  LOUSY time to go….but NEED TO.  Aho?

If I had a SPARE $4,000.00 I would by a particular 4-season tent and “start” there.

I    would, but would my WIFE (‘M’ – WS)?  Or even would C (daughter) “release” Sky to me / or “change” so HE could move too?  VERY doubtful!

I want him OUT of the School System.  GED via Home Schooling (as we did with C)…or, frankly,  JUST PLAIN STOP ANY SCHOOLING.  That’s what I’D like, anyway. (I feel school is useless AFTER learning the BASICS).  WILDCRAFTING needed to be learned NOW.  Public School = JOB(s)….but SOON even THOSE will be nearly IMPOSSIBLE….ADULTS will be LUCKY to have a Job…let alone “newbies” entering into a “WORK” job.

M puts too Much into HEALTH Insurance.  NOT “GOD TRUST Insurance”.

Anyway, keeps her tied down to the “system” due to this way of thinking.  In that, it means $$$$$ to STAY right here to “Have Insurance.”   sigh

Daughter would NOT move….don’t WANT HER there UNTIL SHE “GROWS” anyway….tho that means Sky will be MADE to stay here.  sigh

Wife wouldn’t move considering C and Sky as well (I suppose).

DANG!

I’m in a dilemma…and DON’T LIKE IT!

M is a HOARDER.  SAVES ALMOST EVERYTHING.  WANTS it ALL UP THERE WITH US!  NO concept of REAL “stripped down” living.

I, on the other hand, “hoard” what I NEED to continue my “work.”  HAVE ALOT…mostly tho : just “THINGS.”

Shoot, don’t even want a COMPUTER….OR even a PHONE!   Can (and WILL) simply GIVE AWAY….Sell or Toss Out OR WALK AWAY.  (Been that way for a Long Time).

I’ve done so…simply WALKED AWAY.  So KNOW I can (and WILL) do so once again.

Went from a HOUSE to a TiPi…Went from a CONDEMNED House in the woods to a CAR.  CAN AGAIN.  But CAN’T with family obligations here.  DANG!

MANY will (and some are NOW)  (be) facing the same “change”.

NOT EASY, is it Folks!?

I TRUST THE CREATOR….Wife SAYS she does.  Doesn’t SHOW it tho.   TOO “Clingy.”      sigh

May HAVE to “break away”….to get the other place Ready.  In time, ALL “mine” WILL at least have a “place” to go to.  EVEN IF A TENT.

Wish I had MUCH MORE LAND up there…to HELP Others “park” for a bit.  Don’t, so…..

As it is, we are spending a “fortune” JUST TO STAY RIGHT HERE! (And BARELY ABLE TO PAY OUR BILLS, TO do so).

“Slaves” to the “system”.

Well, my “woes” are MINE.  Others have NO land to go to.  NO place to “park”.  At least in that, I’m “lucky.”

I’ve been telling…for OVER 10 FULL YEARS to “prepare”.  NOW getting PANIC Emails.

TOUGH, folks!  YOU PAYED NO ATTENTION when you COULD!

Now you are STUCK in your “worries”.  I’ve done what I could AND YOU DID AS YOU PLEASED.  Now, “Pay the Piper!”

Sound harsh?  Well, I TRIED.  SHOULDA PAID ATTENTION!  Aho?

In MY future, I CAN get by on my SS $$.  And If THAT peters out, I CAN LIVE “on the LAND”.  When THAT gives out, I can DIE

I AM NOT AFRAID TO DO ANY OF THESE THINGS!

Are YOU?    re

(WS)

Red Elk asked me to post another comment:

What I’ve found to be disgusting is that people are starting to pick up slang from off of the internet… incorporating them with common English. It’s really hard sometimes to have a conversation with people my age that doesn’t include movies, games, television, you name it… If you talk anything about nature, living in the wilderness, etc they resemble a deer looking in a cars headlights. So far I’ve found none that’d like to venture out to the northeastern part of WA from the west (Redmond Area). Planing on leaving my comfort zone after this winter and slowly working my way on foot and bike while camping/eating along the way in the national forests to Cle Elum, and to Coltville hopefully. Much love!

And to leave his answer exactly as he spelled it. ;)  – WS

“B”…know EXACTLY what u mean.
I short cut AS WELL AS MISS-SPELL…HUGELY!…WS has to make EVERYTHING readabel 2 u / all.  Without her, Ive gotton MANY “is this CODE?” Es sent 2 me.  My reason is SHAKES…HUNDREDS of Es 2 answere….NO TIME 2 SPELL CK. ….LOUSY on SPELLING Anyway.
Im TERRABEL!
CONSTENTLY hit the wrong key…OR hit a key 2+ times (shakes).  Poor WS has managed a Good 99% my “way” n interperits.
(WS …send THIS “AS IS”, 2 SHOW).Aho?

Im a PC “dah”…can NOT comrehend PC “Geek” talk.  Just DE-FUSSES MY BRAIN! Took me a few ORS 2 find out what a MOUSE was!  HOURS! 3 FULL WKS to learn HOW TO SIGN-In / OUT (hadda have others do it…Agaimn n Again…till i grasped it).
(U r c-ing NO)W what WS has to put up with!).
PCs r a TOTOL FUSTRATION to me.  Has cost me HUNDREDS OF HUNDREDS OF $$ to keep um (7 now) Up!  Virises GALORE…STUCK KEYS….CONSTENT ReBOOTING (took me a few hrs to understand what was ment TO “ReBoot!”!).
2 Top It Off, im a 1 FINGER TYPER!  What u r reading NOW has taken me VERY CLOSE 2 20 MIN.! to TYP!
Then, along comes things like “LOL” / Etc..
WHAT THE HELL   IS   “LOL”?

Songs?   Hay, i dont care 4 these modren “songs” etc. anyway.  Daughter n grandkids can speak N Chiken STRUT NECK like u wouldnt BELEIVE!  Rubber Lip n STRUT this CRAP liker they were BORN in a Black SLUM!
Been to DOZONS of Resses…NA KIDS THE SAME WAY!  That n Drugs n Sex n…oh, 4get it!
guess im to old.  sigh

WSo, u think UVE got Problems?

Here I am, trying to get all BACK to the DECENTCY of GOODLY COMMON SENCE, n, well, Wanna CRY!
TOO DANG OLD TO WALK THE WOODS!  (“give out” in mere YARDS)…..Family 2 tend so cant get to a canoe n dissapier for a wk. or m. or 4EVER.
Got a GREAT Bike…LEGS WONT MOVE IT!  Hills r MT.s now.  Mts.?  No! CLIFFS!
I dont know how old u r…but at least can Hike n Bike.  STILL “LUCKY”! Better hurry up, kid…u ARNT GETING YOUNGER!

Good LUCK!   re

Doing finishing work in Adam’s Dome.  Now RUGGED ( “indoor / outdoor”) and making a wall (HEAT Shield from Stove) wire holder (to fill with crushed lava stone). All this has been scheduled in advance…and I informed my wife.  SUDDENLY  SHE  had “I need THIS / THAT”.  “Drop” every thing planned….for her “NOW” wants. Ones I COULD have done during the week.  (Does alot of this).

SEE? I have MY problems Too!

Anyway, in her normal rush to ‘do’….she fell.  “That D— BOX”!   HER box, waiting for her to get to its “inners”…..been waiting THERE for nearly 3 WEEKS.  Now “my fault”.

Ain’t life WONDERFULL!

Old “L” will always toss out LITTLE THINGS to irritate.  THOUSANDS of ‘em…MONTHLY!

Trying to “get you down” and your eyes off the Great One.

THANK hIM FOR THESE….That *IRRITATES” hIM!!

Then thank THE CREATOR for the TEST….and Growth FROM IT.

That is, if you’re wise.   Aho?  re

(WS)

To learn to UNLEARN  TO learn, isn’t always easy.  It’s like you, a full grown adult, Taught all your life the “CANT’S” of life…then being shoved back in the womb and emerging again….but as a New Born ADULT…and with all your OLD SELF’S Former Life within you….then learning to overcome THAT!  NO, NOT Easy!!!  It takes time, so don’t rush it.  Aho?

KNOW this can be done tho.  We have one who had to learn that too.  The one who came as a HUman and left as a GODman…our OWN Brother : BIG BROTHER….Jesus.

Like all great Big Brothers, he wants to help his siblings to grow Safe and Good.  To have a GOOD life.  But he can’t do it for you.  He can only advise and example.  When you SEEK help, he’s there for you, instantly.  That’s a GOOD brother.  Now HE is LIKE THAT.  YOUR BROTHER…your BEST “Good” Brother.

When you belong to The FAMILY of God…you need to understand THIS is a REGULAR FAMILY …. and with THAT in mind, you are more and more able to COMPREHEND what you’ve got yourself into.  YOU NOW HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT FAMILY!  TOTALLY “GOOD”.  (Quit a realization, isn’t it!?!)

Anyway, understand WHO you NOW ARE.  An ADOPTED one….with ALL the LEGALITY OF THAT!

You’ve a BRAND NEW FAMILY.  “Divorced” from your old HUMAN one.  A PRINCE / PRINCESS of the KINGDOM of HEAVEN.  With a LIVING DAD.  A LIVING MOM.  A LIVING First Born Big BROTHER.  A TOTAL Family.

Get THAT train of thought in your mind / head, and this will help you grow.  Grow in this family’s “rules and regulations”…that of AGAPE LOVE.

There is ONLY ONE “law” in this new-to-you family : LOVE.

That means WANTING TO LOVE so MUCH, you WANT to “fit in”….and you strive to do just that.  Why do you WANT to “be good”?  BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM…and because HE loves YOU!

No HUMAN (old) “Rules” now.  A WHOLE NEW   ONE “rule”….PURE  L O V E !

Totally different from what you had been raised in, “before.”

When you fully grasp what you have “gotten yourself into”, and ACCEPT THAT….your life begins to change.  You begin to do GOOD, simply for GOOD sake! NOT “work your way to heaven”….but to SHOW what being ONE WITH THIS GOD FAMILY is LIKE!

You become a “Light in the Darkness” of the Earth Minded brothers.  The ones YOU were once part of.  An EXAMPLE of G(O)ODLYNESS.  A “light” that SHAKES THE DARKNESS mankind is in here.

Some see you as a THREAT, other “moths” will welcome the Light…………….COME TO IT.

We of “The New” can NOT “push” our joy…(NEVER EVER “PUSH”!)…..just……..BE.           Aho?  re

(WS)

We’ve been invaded by Field Mice and now Pack Rats (1st cousin to the Peruvian rat called CHINCHILLAS) this year.  For ??? reasons they will NOT hear me and stay out.  WARNED ‘EM “Go, STAY GONE…or Die”).  Ok, their choice.  Time to ‘war’.

We are not ‘killers’ here…tho the mice, well, the HERD of mice, are just TOO MUCH.  Setting mouse traps.  Gotten LOTS too….but still, just not our “thing”.  Aho?

My wife sent me on a “mission”…”GO GET A LIVE TRAP”.  Well, just back.  $90 (+tax )    for  the    smallest   is      TOO  much.     Did get Regular types tho…PLUS Sticky Strips AND Poison.  NONE OF WICH I LIKE TO USE.  Gonna leave it up to “the Warden”. She will probably say “no…return ‘em”  ( I HOPE).

So, what TO do?  “Iz ah IDIOT”….GO BACK TO THE OLD WAYS!

My dad…1/2   Native American  and    1/2   White,  did this… but with a Twist”…COMBINING the 2.  Taught me in my youth.  THAT’S what I’ll be doing the next 2 days!

Dad used a PLASTIC BUCKET…Stretched a heavy Paper Sack over the top….Towards the CENTER he cut “Pizza” strips….baited the center tip(s)…put Water (about 5 inches deep – DEEPER FOR RATS) in the container…put 2 – 3 wide stick RAMPS to the top of pail.  Then set this where he chose.  Mice (AND “rats”) smelled the food…climbed the ramps, walked toward the baited tip(s).  THE “CUT” unable to hold their weight, AND THEY SLID IN.

Drowning isn’t a nice way to die  (been close to THAT 3 times in my life…UGH!)!

And killing not my way anyway.  So will add some food at the DRY bottom and HAUL the “catch” a long way from home.  Release ‘em there.

My father was rather “vindictive”.  When someone “crossed him”…he’d do this too…RELEASING at THIER Yard!  “Let the SOBs Have ‘Em,” he’d say.  (Not MY way tho).

I’ve noticed the New Traps today….ones with “names”…have their Names / Logos on CHINISE MADE Traps.  What USED to be QUALITY has gone to “Looks Good…HAS THEIR NAME…so I’ll Buy it”.  IVE FOUND THE CHINESE “Short Cut”…WEAK SPRINGS!   Springs that OFTEN Break Backs / Etc. but the poor beasts are STILL ALIVE! (I’ve had to “do ‘em in” myself, with a hit on the head).  DANG!  If you HAVE to Kill…KILL QUICKLY!

Wish THOSE makers lived ‘just down the road.”  AND the Once EXCELLENT USA COMPANY “heads” who have “Buy Cheap, Sell High” ‘money grubbers’….. I would do a LIVE Trap and RELEASE ‘EM in THEIR YARD!

Poisons WORK, but then the poor beast crawl off and die…OFTEN in YOUR WALLS!    UGH, the SMELL!

(If my wife chooses this, I’ll move to one of my Domes and let HER trace the stench!)    ( :

Anyway, this trap is a CHEAP and EASY “winner”.   Good Luck.   re

(WS)

LOL!

Daughter had a mouse on her dresser last night.  She keeps a night light on.  Noise woke her…mouse was on other side of a “water ball” thingy she has.  Was looking at her through it…water ball MAGNIFIES!  “2 HUGE…..GIANT EYES…I mean HUGE! STARING AT ME!  SCARED THE HELL OUTTA ME!!”.  Ran off..a BABY  Mouse !  (:   re

(WS)

I just was loading my truck with several bags of our garbage to go to the dump. As I did I was reminded that: “This is YOU.  As you clean the porch it not only gets rid of the trash, IT MAKES THE PORCH LOOK CLEAN AND REFRESHING AGAIN.
This trash is as You, Red Elk.  YOU collect.  You “HAVE.”  You are not liking the SIMPLICITY of OF WHAT YOUR LIFE CAN BE!  So, you gripe and moan…BECAUSE YOU “CLING” to NEEDLESS “THINGS”….And ADD TO IT!

This represents Your INNER Spiritual Life!

I AM GETTING YOU PREPARED  I N S I DE !   FREE!   “Trash Free.”  Do you understand?

You can do something about it Now…or FORCE ME to do it FOR YOU, LATER!  The choice is yours, My Son.  Either you help Me help YOU…NOW….or it won’t be only Meachelle who “won’t like it”…IT WILL be YOU, AS WELL!  AHO?

Hear Me :   TO have NOT is to have ALL -  ME!    It must be done to LEARN TO TRUST ME  F  U  L  L  Y!   YOU, Others MUST BE THE TORCH THAT OTHERS WILL COME TO!  Aho?”

I have just returned from the garbage dump.  Thinking on what was shared by “Him” and thinking “that was IT”…not so!

It continued:
“Now you know why nothing was given to contemplate on in this morning’s Prayer Time.  NOW is the ‘Contemplation.’ Aho?
Know this, son:  ‘To GET is to GIVE.’  As you realize, all these “things” are an outreach of your Inner Self (as you have already understood).  Now look deeper.  I have watched you learn.  Watched you Share.  This is GOOD.
I have ‘doled out’ my gifting to you over the years.  Always “just enough.” BARELY enough.  Yet you have reached your age despite the hardship.  I HAVE GIVEN so YOU COULD Learn AND SHARE.
You tell “look to nature” to learn.  This is True, for nature has MUCH to teach.
Now SEE THE BIRDS  (at this I was shown a nest with 3-4 young ones.  Each being fed.)
Do you see how one is Fatter then the others?  Do you see one is exceedingly weak?  WHY is it so?  LOOK!  The FAT ONE IS HOGGING OUT THE OTHERS!  “GIVE ME…GIVE  ME” is its mindset.  It doesn’t matter about its brethren, it ONLY CARES ABOUT ITSELF!  GREED!  This Greed is KILLING ONE and WEAKENING THE OTHERS!
‘Survival of the fittest’ its said.  SURVIVAL OF ITS  SELF wants.
Man is like that.
Yes, it grows fat…but IN ITS WEIGHT, when this one tries its wings, IT FALLS THE HARDEST!  Its GREED is HURTING IT!
Man is like that.

Son, HOW FAT IS YOUR BELLY???

It is not LOVE and CARING that “WANT  WANT  WANT” provides at the end.  It is LOVE and CARING that BRINGS SURVIVAL FOR ALL!
Thus you TOO must be as a bird that SHARES…for ALL.

Now You must look into the ‘Lesson of the Birds’.

I have given and given and GIVEN.  Now your nest is LITTERED with the Leavings.  NOW You COMPLAIN: “I NEED A BIGGER NEST!”  And ask for such.  WHY?!  So  you have a BIGGER PLACE to MESS?!!
You’re big enough to FLY…Well, DO SO!

Leave the clutter.  Leave the nest.  It’s served its purpose.  You’ll ALWAYS remember it….but NOW you can have the WORLD as your “nest.”  LET GO OF “THINGS.”  FLY in the FREEDOM and JOY of BEING WHAT YOU ARE MEANT TO BE!  a FREE FLYER!
A thing of BEAUTY that the ‘landlocked’ MARVEL at, and Wish They TOO could SOAR.

It is one thing to be shown what you have…but QUITE ANOTHER to SHOW the Teaching of it.
This is but a study book. It is Not ’til you APPLY its teachings that MANIFESTATIONS BECOME!

I gave and GIVE the book.  YOU must give the AMBITION.

I leave you now.  It is up to YOU to apply, or grow FAT and get NOWHERE!  Ho.”

re

(WS)

My Brothers and Sisters,
You are not me.  In many ways we are alike, yet each has their OWN “way.”  I’d like to share my thoughts on my way:   FREEDOM!  At least as I FEEL its meaning.
Do you KNOW what it’s like to be “unburdened?”  To have Nothing?
Right now I have so MUCH “Things.”  I’m literally Overflowing with “THINGS”…and I’m POOR?!!    Shoot, I can barely MOVE ABOUT in this house!  Can you believe FIVE TVs?!  FIVE for gosh sake!  Only 4 living here…WHY do I/We need FIVE!!!  ???
Our closets so JAM-PACKED we need to store “everyday” clothing in BOXES and LAUNDRY SACKS!
Heck, HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH! ???

I’m stuck.   With a Collector….and my wife is just that.  SO AM I !
I can’t  NOT blame MySELF!  (Bad grammar, but true)

I HAVE TOO MUCH STUFF!  Me, PERSONALLY.

I LONG for “the simple life”…..the days I was in a TiPi.  That was NOT a LONG TIME AGO!  10 years?

Gosh it was nice, but it was Lonely.  Meachelle wanted nothing to do with it.   sigh

So I bent to her Will  (it’s called marriage).  HAVE and HAD to.

Do you know what it’s like to go from an Uncluttered space AND ITS CLEANLINESS, to one of WALKING Room ONLY in a BIG Space?

UNCLUTTER, to TURMOIL?  And then ADDING TO IT, To BOOT! ?

Well, guess what?  I’M GUILTY.

Yup, me.

Disgusting , isn’t it…………………….

Now I want “OUT.”  Up past my brown eyes in STUPIDITY.  “STUFF!”     stuff  Stuff  STUFF!

What an idiot……………………………

Well, I can do something about it.  At least to MY “stuff.”

Methinks our Living Creator will “help” M on hers.  A FORCED lesson.  She’s not gonna like it………

“BEND LIKE A GREEN REED.”

Friend(s), YOU WILL BE FORCED INTO THE SAME “WAY.”

A MUST “way.”

Look about you.  See the clutter.   IS it WORTH IT?

Well, no.  Nice to have, but NECESSARY?   Only you can decide.  Me?  I WANNA “HIBERNATE” IN MY MINI DOME!

Thing is, tho IT’S “clean,” ALL my “STUFF” will still be within easy reach, mere yards away. Convenient.  Aho?

Hummmmm

(I’ve got ALOT to think about.)

You?
re

(WS)

Keep thinking about those who tell me “This (what-ever) is FROM GOD.”  Donations, help, etc.  Then down the road comes reminders of what THEY’ve given.  Seems their gOD doesn’t GIVE….
MINE DOES!

I certainly don’t At ALL, mind “returning”…but at HIS will.  He’s not a “whiteman giver.”   ( :

I NEVER “REMIND”…that’s NOT “GOD Giving.”

Find nearly all secretly want a “favor,” eventually.  A few I simply refuse outright.  Then all get MAD because I’m not “grateful.”

‘Til now there’s few I trust….Always wonder if they had/have an “agenda” in their giving.

I’m so Disappointed in mankind.

Praise The Lord tho there ARE 3 to 7 who have held “held true.”  It is THOSE I don’t mind spending prayer time on.  “Work time” on.  FREELY.

THEY ARE WORTH MY EFFORTS, Knowledge, and TIME.

It is THOSE I TRULY “CARE” About.  DEEPLY care about.  I DON’T FEEL “OBLIGATED” or PRESSURED with THEM.   It is those who are a “Pearl of great price.”  Aho?

“Do NOT let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”  A good thing to consider on.  Aho?

GB    re

(WS)