Quote from: EL TATE on February 20, 2017, 05:49:34 PM

if you think about it, THIS right here is a form of "church" for many of us. we talk, share lessons, edify and support one another, contribute to worthy causes, and hopefully all take away something of worth to share with our friends and family and improve our lives and the lives of those around us, all while fellowshipping.

I so agree with you. I do let my feelings get a bit carried away at times while posting, and do not have the knowledge of most on here, but really feel good about this site and the people on it.

Bob,
I think you or anyone can trust the others on this site. Its the way with the community of believers. We all have a common ground, a bedrock that each one of us is anchored in, that being Jesus. Each of us has the holy spirit dwelling within.

He (Holy Spirit) is the great averager of men. He works with common denominators. Those being" Knows Jesus, Loves God, Loves the word, has the messenger living inside, loves good, and hates what is evil, and so forth." With that stuff, we are all equal. Phil may be a rocket scientist (engineer), and I may be a house wife, but through the averaging, we are equals. Neither is the better, only different. Not Forest Gump different, but differing with respect to the gifts. Now although we can all agree that I may arguably be the better looking of this sorry lot, I am no better than the lowly ones, like Shawn, for example.

Make sense? You can be open because we'ze all brothers and sistas' here. No king duck buddy walk amongst us here! Nope, just some individual conglomerations of various chemicals and DNA's, (Some more primitive in nature than others), some water, and one pretty cool holy spirit, a little sticky stuff, and gravity binding it all together.

So say what you want, and like as in with church, actually be heard!

since saturday.. all the horizontal retaining wall and posts have been set. as well as tamping it all in with a jumping jack. been a long weekend.. but it was a much needed win for our corner (dad, brother and myself) since the tunnel has new kicking our butt since day one. hahah



the depressed/half octagon shape is for a burn/'s'mores' pitt that my mom is kinda putting on for our wedding. not only that, but it'll be a cool place to go hang out and burn stuff well after the wedding has come and gone. just kind of a neat little add-on..

those tall posts will be cut off at ground level as well..

Good work there!

Smart using (reusing) old ties, concrete even. That dog will hunt!

HEY HOVER JUNKIE, HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE AIR TOOLS AND HOSES YOU LEFT AT SOUTHEASTERN? RICHARD STILL HAS THEM SET ASIDE FOR YOU TO PICK UP, LOL

Larry, holy smokes, I did forget

BTW, Sarge is running great!

Almost stopped by on Firday. I was in your A.O. and planned to stop in for a chat, but was running late for some appointment or something.
I'll stop in...Any cool excavators for sale cheap?
Case 160...Case 160...Case 160...

Lookin' good, Big D!

Danke!

The boys dumped a couple hundred 5.56, .22, and 20 gage rounds into the range berm over the three days

That thing is a tree murdin' tank!^^^^^^

Painting complete, although I ran out of 1 X 8 and could not trim the back two corners yet

I tied the roof panels together on the top side with a section of the same poly carbonate roof stuff. I screwed that mohekin down and called it G-T-G for now

Trim is going on. The front and rear roof panels secure the whole thing

Both roof panels installed. Local security courtesy of Scout

Front attached

Lots of parts and materials accumulating

The place is always growing

I also hung up 50 more feet of Goodyear air hose

Added a second grease gun...Dog carried off the first one. Haven't given up on it just yet, I figure when I find it along with the red handled channel locks the beast carried off too, I'll be back up to running speed

An extra piece of PVC with cardboard and a rag stuffed inside makes for a good holder

And a handy spot for the bottle of glue

Northern Tool had this rack of bins on sale for like $15 so I scored one and mounted that sucker up

I felt like this would be a good point to start a part 4 to the improving Hide Site build out.

When just starting the idea was to just nail down someplace to "Go-To," in the event the need arose. I wanted something that was within a few hours drive, but still very remote. I found that location in a very low populated county in Kentucky. There are no 4 lanes anywhere near by and only one primary road in the whole county. The rest of it isjust a network of switchbacks and country roads in all different states of repair.

The land I purchased is nothing that ever showed up formally for sale, and I purchased it for cash and closed in a day. There was practically no footprint to the passing of the deed of the 91 acres.

So that was what I would call Phase 1. That and some minimal improvements to the place with the idea being that it was little more than a rally point, or if I carried in camping gear, it would sustain us in secrecy.

Phase 2 had me improving the dirt road into the property and clearing off some of the mess. The site was a farm as we know that was not used for some three and a half decades. Cedar trees had all but taken over what should have been nearly forty acres of fields. Junk was everywhere and although there was a single wire overhead on a pole with a light, there was nothing else.. Phase 2 concluded with my towing in a camper and powering it with a generator.

Phase 3 began with a couple years work clearing hundreds (Thousands?) of trees, and bush hogging the fields several times to gid them of the encroaching trees. That accomplished, the place really started to open up and could support crops or livestock with the addition of some fencing. I added the "Shed" during this Phase which brought me the ability to do more work and repair things that always seemed to be breaking.

I relocated the camper to a ledge I carved out of the hillside with the now functioning track loader. I bedded that in laying gravel and improving the site weekly. Although powered still by a noisy generator, it was becoming livable. I continued to clear the fields making all sorts of discoveries to include a 1830's Amish built well that still had six to eight feet of water, although the quality of said water is questionable still.

Another big step forward happened with the addition of actual grid supplied electricity. Now the plan remains to go off the grid and live normally, for now the power company supplies the electricity to run all sorts of tools. Speaking of which, the shed has improved and improved, now having heat, pressurized air, saws, and a more complete compliment of tools.

With more and more time being spent down there, I was going through the camper's 40 gallons of water every few days, so that became my next focus. As with everything, I am not going all the way to the final solution, however building out in steps. These smaller steps are cheaper, digestible, and quickly add to the livability and capacity of the place.

Late in part 3, I was constructing the new water tanks and enclosure structure which will house and keep 660 gallons of the wet stuff from freezing during the cold months. I am using solar power, passive type to accomplish that chore.

We shall begin part 4 and Phase 4 with that project, so here goes:

Shawn. I'm going to call you out on that with all brotherly love. That's no different that saying an attractive woman walking alone at night in s bad part of town and got raped "had it coming". If I stomp the crap out of every flag burning lib tard how would the establishment react?  I should be able to cover my truck in trump stickers and not worry about vandalism.


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I see it both ways. Shawn is correct with keeping the low profile. But so is the Texas Red Neck. I have every right to honor my flag and display the units I served in while in a combat role. I know the rats are out there, and I know they are cowards. Sometimes I like to put the patriotism out there just to say to them "Hey, you weren't man enough to face another man in battle, you'd rather sneak around like some coward...But when I come we both know who's gonna win the day..."

So both points valid. It comes down to a matter of choice, a subjective thing...

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And just like that it was loaded, stacked and padded. Only need to strap it down and hook up to it and I'm on my way

Then the pump board and the far wall

I now have the building broken down and loaded for transport to the farm

It took very little time to tear it down. It took more time and care to carry all the pieces outside through a low door than unscrewing it all

A Dangerous Intersection Comes Neigh


The line of those seeking to live good productive lives and the line of people driven from a number of evils is converging.

We are not well, we are not healthy. As a Nation we are diverging. Led by forces which I believe are driven by the power of evil. Call those forces what you may, globalists, fascists, anti this or pro that, but to me the larger game is in play: Good vs evil.

If anyone thinks that we are out of the woods because the election of a change for good agent is in the white house, they need only look around. The left is growing more violent all the time. The talk coming from them is more and more hateful and indeed, hate filled. The right seems to be barely restraining itself against being pushed too far away from their common sense beliefs. We now have “Fake News,” Embellishments, outright lies and few people know what to believe anymore. Confusion is the flavor of the day. The right does something, then the left interprets that action as prejudicial, or hateful. 

The President acts to defend America against immigrants who may be killers, and the left thinks we are banning Mexicans. I made note of that because people waving Mexican flags in Los Angeles were protesting a supposed ban on immigration. This action illustrates how misinformed people are these days. The ban had nothing to do with Mexicans. Well unless they were coming in from Iraq. The ban had little to do with a specific religion, the Muslims, but focused simply on all immigrants from specific countries who lack proper vetting procedures.

We have grown so stupid as a nation and a culture that no one seems to know what the issues really are. Do you realize that if folks simply focused on the facts, that almost all of the protests would not have happened. That is assuming people possess the ability to interpret factual information. I would expect to see some family living in Minnesota being angry about Somalia being on the banned country list, but why should Mexicans in Houston or LA be concerned?

And another point, Why is the left so hell bent on flooding our nation with Muslims? Does anyone get the fact that when Muslim cultures flood a country having a Christian culture that crime soon skyrockets? Did anyone notice what is going on in France? In Belgium? In Germany, Or Sweden or literally any place where Muslims are introduced? They don’t fit here in anything but small numbers where they are afforded the opportunity to assimilate into our culture while away from the watchful eye of their gestapo, the shakes, clerics, and imams. I don’t know about you but if I was out walking with my wife or daughter in the warm weather with the ladies wearing typical summer clothes and some self-appointed Shira law enforcer tried to stop her…Well, suffice it to say there would be trouble.

You see, I view this AO as my nation. I love it, I was born here, I fought for our principals, I earned my rights. You know the country I grew up in. The one that had Catholic and Baptist, and Methodist churches and Synagogues here and there. I don’t ever recall hearing the prayers all day long from Mosques, well not until I was forced to leave my country to fight in a war in a, yep, Muslim country! Several actually...

The people on the right have been pushed into accepting two men marrying or publically kissing as acceptable. I find that sickening, but the left demands me to participate. I simply cannot, ever. So they label me as something I am not, homophobic. No I am not that, I am simply a Christian and a follower (Most of the time…I fail from time to time) of the teachings of Jesus and the word of God himself. I am called a fascist because I love my country??? I just think of that as being a citizen and hopefully, a patriot. But people on the left don’t like the fact that I have those feelings. I once came out of the restaurant on a date night with my beautiful wife. My truck was all keyed up. I called the police, and they came. One officer said, “Ah, that’s why.” He pointed out the prominently displayed US flag and Army unit patch decals I had on the back of it. He explained that publically displaying US flags is seen by some as racist!

Now I have heard that, but to see the hatred spread out over my truck was bringing that home to me and making it personal. I see white people who call others “Whitey” and say that whites are privileged. That’s crazy all by itself, the fact that one white person is calling another white out in a derogatory manner. But what about this White Privilege thing? Is that as prevalent as the liars would have us believe?

I have been called by that name myself. I grew up in a 900 square foot house. I lived in the attic. I had no heat and no air conditioning. I had to buy my first car and have worked since I was sixteen. When I joined the Army after High School. I wasn’t paid enough to either eat or buy car insurance. I chose to eat, but could only do so every day, if I could find five cans of beans on sale for a dollar! Any less and I’d be on a fast for twenty four hours. I only received $75 a month for food rations back then. But I fought through it, shooting squirrels and rabbits for my meat and getting free gas or food from the Army every once in a while. Others knew I was dirt poor and would invite me to dinner, and I’d accept. Afterward I’d thank them for their kindness.

I had to scratch and claw and spend most of my life in crap holes all over this planet but eventually I came out a well-educated and highly paid pilot and flew in the Airlines for a time. So how was any of that privileged? Truth is, of course, none of it was. I and millions like me, worked for what we have. I did not choose a life of crime, or drug use, or of lies, or looking for the fast buck. Making excuses did not put food on the table or gas in the tank. I just buckled down and hit the grindstone every day. So why do people of any color think they deserve anything for free if they made all the wrong choices throughout their lives, and continue to make them? The fact is they don’t! They will live shallow, burdened, and mostly meaningless lives and die having done nothing for their fellow man.

But these people vote, well they do when they get fed, paid, and bussed to do so. They are given a voice. They are propped up in some false position of righteousness that they do not deserve. They make so much noise that they scare people. They are backed by some powerful and influential people who I think are the very definition of evil, people such as George Soros. Through the money and influence of the silent backers they are told what to think. Most of these protesters are pretty stupid and are easily influenced and are simply being used to add numbers and noise to a movement. A movement that is artificial and created to be used. The backers are actually set to eliminate these useful idiots once they are no longer needed. Anyone think Soros wants a world filled with transvestites, homosexuals, or black lives matter activists? Nope, not on your life. If Soros could get us Christian strong believers to sell out to him and kill off the poor, he’d do it tomorrow.

These powers are at work out there. We, however, will not be pushed farther. We were approaching civil war here in America under Obama. I would suggest that the election of our champion, President Trump is serving to tip them toward violence. And just how is that going to work out? When an angry mob throwing things enters a Christian conservative neighborhood, I can only guess how many might die before the gunfire stops. You see, the police have been beaten back into an indefensible corner. If they act, their actions will be scrutinized by the left and they will suffer at the hand of injustice. So they are tolerant to the point of not doing their jobs in more and more situations. What that does is emboldening the left.

They get the feeling they are growing stronger because some are allowed to shove a conservative campus speaker around, or burn a couple of city blocks that a mayor has allowed them to burn. The thing that has allowed this to happen is our respect for the law. But the law is an ever thinning line, maybe just thread nowadays. That thread is breaking in places and could snap on a regional or national basis with the next social crisis. Should you be caught in that region, you are as alone and on your own just as if the nation had been nuked.

Things are not getting better. They are growing worse. Violence is more and more common. The left wants, demands actually, that we give Muslims everything they want. Reason and logic has left the building and we Christians stand now as an exposed bedrock much the same as Half-Dome in Yosemite national park, and are being eroded by the weather. A storm blowing out of hell itself with a maelstrom of attacks on every facet of our lives. Some people in the protected heartland may not feel it, but travel into a large city center like LA or Houston, or Chicago, or Baltimore or even our nation’s capital, and you’ll likely see it firsthand.

Go there wearing a shirt that says “I love Jesus” and you risk your life! That can no longer be just a simple statement. The left (Evil) has changed that to read: If you are gay, Muslim, black, or who knows what, then I hate you! In fact I think I am better than you, and you are wrong, and I am right.” That simple proclamation of faith does not mean any of those things the left would believe of course, but the hate filled left surely believes it! So when you do so, know that in this day in America it may get your truck keyed or even a visit to the emergency room or morgue!

If you aren’t training, planning, putting away, and preparing, you are a fool. If you aren’t praying and studying the word, you are not using your greatest asset. We are not healing as a nation. We are a people sliding down the slippery slope into a morass of chaos.

Rage against the evil! Live your lives and live them well. Find courage and stand. Live your life for the one who can save all of us, but don’t be tricked into believing things are fine, they are not…

Most people around the area of my farm have cisterns that collect rain water or have water trucked in. Rain more than keeps up for most folks

she keeps on getting re-elected, so that should tell you something.

Maybe we should relax the nuclear test ban treaty in her district