Day: December 25, 2019

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Become a 2020 DEC Campground Ambassador in the Adirondacks

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Become a 2020 DEC Campground Ambassador in the Adirondacks

Love camping in the Adirondacks? Share your passion for the great outdoors next summer by volunteering for the DEC Campground Ambassador Program and you’ll enjoy two weeks of free camping in exchange.

Somebody I know from school 🚸 passed this along knowing how much I love to camp ⛺ and spend time in the wilderness. But I hate campgrounds. My comment:

I don't do campgrounds if at all possible, I don't like camping anywhere I am in ear shot or eye shot of others. I like to be able to have big fires, listen to music, drink beer, pee where ever I want to, burn trash, shoot guns, and pretty much do whatever and whenever I please. Things that are generally not considered neighborly behavior. In other words, camp at least a quarter mile from anyone else and often much more remote wild country then that. 

I'll stay at a rustic campground with pit privies when it's the only option but I try to avoid even that for wilderness camping. But I really don't like doing that if at all possible. I live in the suburbs and I have neighbors when I want to be around other people.

While a lot of my colleagues are settling down buying houses and raising families I'm living in a jam on rather threadbare moldy apartment on the bus line. Saving and investing money wherever I can for when I don't have family locally, move out west or down south into a small off grid cabin heated by wood I chop myself and a small solar system on sufficient acerage that I can have bonfires, burn my trash, hunt and trap, four wheel and hobby farm. In a state with low taxes and not a lot of regulation or zoning codes. 

Post No. 195212

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I am glad that I fixed my microspikes again… 👣

As the rubber has broke and chains 🔗 have come apart over the years I’ve bent chains and replaced missing people with wire from broken USB cables and other parts. People are too quick to throw away perfectly good things, stuff that may be pretty but can be repaired to be perfectly functional again! 

NPR

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A Christmas Tree Thrives On Farms, Struggles In The Wild : NPR

Adelgid aside, this stand of firs is pretty rare, Cory says. At the end of the last glaciation, about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the area was a lot colder and the firs lived all up and down the mountain. As the area warmed, the trees had to move farther and farther to the top of the mountain. Today, the Fraser firs live on just seven mountain peaks in the southern Appalachians, and Roan Mountain is one of them.

Cory runs his fingers through a fir's soft needles — one of the characteristics that makes it a desirable Christmas tree — and says that, genetically, the trees that grow on Roan Mountain are the same as the ones on farms.

Post No. 195212

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There is no reason to be sadistic when it comes to coding… 👿

If something can be implemented at the command line using PHP and its easy and fast to do it that way, I might as well do it that way. 

This Children’s Book Is All About a Black, Gay Santa Claus – VICE

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This Children’s Book Is All About a Black, Gay Santa Claus – VICE

Back in October, author Daniel Kibblesmith and illustrator A.P. Quach published Santa's Husband, a children's book chronicling the life of a black, gay Santa Claus and his partner, Mr. Claus. Kibblesmith came under attack after the book hit store shelves—but folks open to the idea of a more inclusive portrait of Christmas rallied to his defense.