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

I used to think I was just a regular guy, but . . . I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist.

 

I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a fascist.

 

I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a homophobic.

 

I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business.

 

I am a Christian, which now labels me as an infidel.

 

I believe in the 2nd Amendment, which now makes me a member of the vast gun lobby.

 

I am older than 60, which makes me a useless old man.

 

I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.

 

I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, which makes me a xenophobe.

 

I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

 

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

 

I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland for and by all citizens, which now makes me a militant.

 

Recently, a sick old woman called me and my friends a “basket of deplorables”.

 

Please help me come to terms with the new me . . . because I'm just not sure who I am anymore!

 

I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through these abrupt, new found changes in my life and my thinking!

 

I just can't imagine or understand what's happened to me so quickly!

 

Funny . . . it's all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years! As if all this crap wasn't enough to deal with. I'm now afraid to go into either restroom!

 

In God We Trust

Took one for the team he did


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We were scrambled out early for desert shield/storm.

When they bounced the 82nd Airborne, the next batch of guys to go was the 5th Special Forces Group. SOCOM cut a slice of the 160th (Me) to support the 5th SFG.

We had no idea how long it was going to last or when we might come back home. But after a few weeks, we were getting pretty hairy lookin' So Dave, our 1SG decided he needed to give everyone a haircut. He sort of volunteered me to be the first. You know, officer leading the way and all that crap. So I took the seat and sucked it up.

Thing was, who could balk it if the biggest guy in the unit had a buzz by top? Didn't matter, that was early September and we were over there the entire time for the build up and the war afterward...

$ inch should move a little water and the Y's make sense then.

Did you ever figure out the well issue with all the crud in there?

There was an odd "Second surfacing" of debris that we cleaned out again.

After that other projects were consuming my time, so it is a due out at the moment

Everything bagel...garlic cream cheese...........

This is definitely something to look into.  I hate to say it but I have used $@#^bucks coffee for years.  I wouldn't mind at all finding a good coffee with a good cause/general belief system to start investing in.  I will try some Just Black.

There is a lot to be said about Timmy Hortons

Over in the Afghanistan, Timmy-Ho's sent a couple 53' containers in an Air Farce C-17 with a store inside. Longest lines in the kandahar were there every morning. Timmy Horton supported their troops. Can't say I've ever seen any of the hippie Starbuck cowards anywhere near a combat zone. They cook coffee during the day, then "Man up" and throw stones at our police at night. Sorry, I'm getting political again...

Well, heck, I own this site, I can get any darn way I want to!

I am sick and tired of the hippie liberals dressing themselves up with cool boutiques and coffee shops and trying to think they are "good." They are not, plain and simple. You either support your nation and the good things of your people, or you don't. You are either for God or (as we say in the hills of the tucky), agin him. Black or white, right or wrong, left or right.

We are right
Right means we are conservative
Which means we are usually right (Correct)
The first born sits at the right of the father
Jesus sits at the right side of God
I like being "Right"


RC




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Good Job!

Love that red door!

Used a percolator all the years I was in the army going around the scenic areas.  Quickly threw away the guts and just dumped coffee in the water.  A splash of cold water or a pinch of salt will sink the grounds and make for a good hot cup.  Learned that from some of the old guys in scout camp and grand pa making coffee in the fire place.

Hmmm, never heard of those tricks

Guess we A-V-8-ers weren't as tuned in as you engineers

Either that or

We were always hanging around places with mess halls ;-)

As you have them, those wye's are backward, and water will have to go past and then come back to make that turn. You may want to rethink using wye's and use a standard tee, or simply turn those around.

I placed the Wye's that way on purpose. I didn't want all the water to fill the first tank. I wanted the water to bypass somewhat so that it would "Dam up" a little and hopefully fill the tanks somewhat equally. The tanks will be connected at the bottom via a 2" manifold, so equalization will take place over time, but in case I have a water truck come out and top me off, I wanted to design in some type of equal filling

The hole comes through just in front of where the water tanks will sit, so I'll just zip tie the PEX line in place to secure it down

The green tape line represents the forward edge of the 330 gallon tank

I mounted that into a piece of 3/4" pine board

The outlet will be routed through the hole in the block of wood, then out through the hole in the side of the structure. I'll foam seal the thing to within an inch of its life when it gets installed

Here is the pump board with the pump, the pressure bladder and the pex tubing all screwed together and ready for some dog to chew apart

And the new Sur-Flow 55psi pump

I figured out what to do with the mangled pump. I'll order a new pump base, the plastic part and repair mine. THen I'll plumb a line to a spigot so I can have a point to collect water for building, washing or squirting the little people who come wantering by too close ! ;-)

...or an extra fuel pump for the cumminGs! hah

Good one!

And what is wrong with a 200 gallon shower?

Nuthin!

First off, I mounted the filter "Holder"

The mechanicals will be mounted on this PT 3/4" plywood panel which will mount about here:

The pipe was built on the floor of the structure. The "X" marks the center of the tank and the 6" fill port

A 5" hole saw is about right for a 4" sched 40 or 80 4" pipe

Due to the wall thickness, I had to come in from both sides, using a pilot hole (Get it: Pilot hole!!!)