Rain, Harvests, Spiders, Squash, 3DP, Airing, Hike, Acceptance And Transistions - Tuesday
I woke to the sound of the rain yesterday morning, at the standard time, though I didn't realize it until I saw the wet deck then opened the slider to hear it louder. The doppler showed the mass which was moving north so was not going to be hitting us for too terribly long.
It really dumped for a bit but soon it moved off and by the time the sun came up it had stopped and moved off.
I then pulled up the map for Hamilton where I was to be these days.... Yeah it's good we weren't camping in the canyon for the deluge that happened.
7am the rain was just done.
As I left from dropping R at school the sky looked quite cool.
I probably should just pull the last squash plants, this is it from a few days...
The sun was nice to help dry off the pants so it wasn't so wet wandering the garden.
My barn spiders are such badasses. She is eating SUPER well. The table around the scale is littered with the debris/carcasses/husks of her prey.
Some bigger cucumbers in the bunch this time.
Then my bird tomato had ripened so it came in the house.
Not much of the garden left and I HAVE to till to prep for the garlic planting which will be happening sooner
than later.
My biggest pumpkin is green... A pair of the orange have holes in them so will go to the sheep, who won't argue a bit.
The grapes are still on and need to be picked. I don't know what will be done with them. I probably should just juice them all but am not feeling like canning. We haven't used the last batch I canned.
One of my other spiders looking all hairy and protected under the edge of the metal roof.
I left my phone holder in the truck so needed to print out a new one for the sled. Thankfully I remembered how I made the base attachment so it was a pretty fast setup. The print took a while as I did it at 100% infill. I have to go and sand down the posts though to make them fit as I added too many walls I think.
My poor sleeping bag required airing out and it smelled a bit better after sitting in the sun for much of the afternoon.
I have to get the amaranth pulled even though it looks great it is throwing seeds EVERYWHERE and next year I will have a slew of them to pull from the rows.
Mid afternoon I went for a wander up the hill to see the sky as the clouds were looking pretty epic.
And I was not wrong.
The sky looked killer. There was no wind otherwise it would have been a killer flying day.
I had a good long talk with Art about Blodgett Canyon that we didn't get to climb in and what the potential is for the future. There are just a handful of climbs in the entire canyon and room for sooo to be done. There is room for routes everywhere and it is not that far of a drive away. Likely going to have to wait till next year when weather windows work right.
It's taking me time but I am coming to terms with my truck dying. The circumstances of it and the fact I made it to my SIV and got to ENJOY falling from the sky and stepping past and through the INTENSE level of fear I felt before the extreme low of the death. The location I landed in was about the most perfect possible for the middle of nowhere with the Clark Fork river right there, an empty closed rest area all to myself, well back from the freeway, best tow truck driver ever, the truck is now just 199 miles from the farm and AAA will do the tow, and I am going to buy myself a re-manufactured crate engine to drop in this thing and bypass all the bullshit.
In that vein I am powering down. I need the funds FAR more for my truck than to let sit here and languish doing essentially nothing for me. My monetary risk aversion has been a big weight that has fucked me over right and left and I am tired of this shit.
I'm also beginning to see a way past the wall of permanence I feel with the farm. I thought I wouldn't be able to get to a point that I could detach from the land but I'm finding myself feeling the potential now. Washington state is FUCKED and I am really quite ready to get the hell out. I didn't think I would be able to leave all the things I have built here but I had a bit of a mental shift yesterday in seeing that all I have done here was possibly just for us for the time and I need to look at this more as a job I have done for someone else and then move on to the next project.
Not moving tomorrow but this is the first time my head has felt okay with the idea in 16 years. I have no real connection to the region in truth, just the family, 2 close friends who also moved up here from CA, and a number of acquaintances. I've self isolated on the farm for so long being around groups or in public has been uncomfortable which is a viscous cycle that feeds itself.
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It really is messed up in this state, my friend!🙄
Years ago, we would have moved, now we have a six week old granddaughter 100 miles away down by North Bend and it would be almost impossible for the Mrs. not to be able to see her granddaughter grow up!😍
It wasn't bad when we bought the farm but the continued slide off the deep end is just getting worse and faster.
Very true… We’ve been here 25 years. They just seemed to want to take everything away from you!🙄
Exactly. 19 years for us. One of the insanities coming at us soon is the "13 year old can make medical decisions without parents knowledge" and only getting to send notes to his doctor, not see records. To me that sounds like a culture that is actively grooming kids.
Very sad, but I think you’re spot on!😳
My youngest son that just had a baby girl six weeks ago he’s already trying to figure out how to keep her out of public school…
Not exactly the best way to have kids socialize with their peers, but he feels that the schools are indoctrinating our kids!
It’s every part of this state, unfortunately……
I just learned from my son as well that they now have restricted how many cartridges you can have in a magazine. I believe it’s 10 now😮
That went through years ago I think. It's been fought in court a few times but the judges in this state are all on the take. Silly, I'm 15 miles from Idaho so just go over there and get as big as I want.
Yeah, if it wasn’t for our granddaughter, Idaho sounding better and better!💪😇☺️
I home schooled my kids from 1990-2000. It was still considered an odd thing to do at the time I began, but became less and less unusual as time passed. Those who thought it weird would ask me, "But what about socialization?" So one day I sat down and made a list of all the social skills I wanted my children to learn, and realized none of them would be taught at school. They were all things we would teach them at home, as parents. Home schooled kids don't need to be isolated hermits. Nowadays most localities have some sort of home school get-togethers, or co-ops. My kids had friends who were home schooled and some who were in public school. We saw to it that they had plenty of opportunities to get together and play and interact. Also, church activities gave them more chances to hang out with their friends and age-mates.
When my oldest applied for his first summer job, we learned that the manager always put the home schoolers' applications on the top of his pile, because those were the kids who knew how to actually work, were more conscientious about their job, and could comfortably interact with people of all ages. So please tell your son not to be afraid to consider home school as an option.
Definitely will my friend!😊
I believe with home schooling kids actually get a better education!😇
Church youth groups will definitely help as well!👍😊
It seems red states and blue states are both trending towards authoritarian escalation against us, just from different angles. I agree Washington seems more opposed to me, but finding where to land for favorable politics and climate seems a challenge. There's a lot to like about Idaho, but their library laws, marijuana laws, and other factors remain concerns even if they are relatively business- and gun-friendly.
We'd rather Montana. I really like the region between Ronan and Hamilton. It's hard there too though with the politics, but in the end no where is perfect or will ever be so a lot of concelations have to be made in the end. I really like the potential for flying around Hamilton and the climbing uip Blodgett is out of hand with too much potential for new routes.
None of this is now really it's just I have never had the possibility of the thought enter my head of moving from this farm until now.
Having lived in Montana for 11 years, I consider myself a Montanan at heart, even though I've lived in other states much longer. I'd rather be there, too, but Idaho was as close as we could get, due to my husband's job. And now we have grandchildren here.
I've been to that area. The National Bison Range is neat, and you have options from agricultural land in the valley to forested seclusion on the mountainsides. If you stay away from the Kalispell tourist traps, it's not too crowded.
In the grand scheme I prefer the western slope of the continental divide. Leeward is almost always drier with less tress. That leaves a shit ton of area to look at as potential.