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Goats Raised
Goat farming is a niche thing in America, there are only about 18,000 goats in New York State compared to 1.4 million cattle. Texas is much bigger into goat (and cattle) production, they have 740,000 goats and 13.1 million cattle.
Should abortion be banned? 🤱
Should abortion be banned? 🤱
I am a believer in freedom of choice and the right of people to make private choices in their own lives. Especially with the abortion pill, if not for state restrictions, it never has been easier for women to get a safe and legal abortion in the privacy of their own home.
The abortion pill isn’t available for all stages of pregnancy and can have side effects like a miscarriage requiring medical supervision and may not be appropriate in all cases. Sometimes in person care and counseling can be better and should be allowed. But I think more medication abortions are part of the way forward and fewer abortion clinics.
I’m no fan of organizations that promote abortion and sexuality for purposes other than child birth. While I think care should be available for those in need of an abortion, I have problems with active promotion of such organizations. Maybe they feel like they have to zellous advocates for abortion when the opposition is so certain but I find it rather obnoxious. I hate the throwaway society, throwaway human life included.
I’d like abortion to be medicine, something private, non political. Something decided by families in the privacy of their own home or with a trusted doctor and not something brandished around town. Not a political issue but a personal one.
the fastest dataframe crate in Rust – with Ritchie Vink (Ep. 146)
Blue skies and no wind makes for a beautiful morning ☀️
A cool autumn but not cold feeling without the wind and lots of sunshine.
Taking down camp 🏕️ once again but as soon as Friday morning if the weather is decent I’ll be back in the woods as I’m thinking of doing a long weekend up in Madison County at Charles Baker State Forest. 🚵 Thinking about riding trail and maybe bringing the kayak 🛶 and on Saturday or Sunday paddling up through Nine Mile Swamp.
Probably check out Huyck Preserve 🚶 midday then maybe log in and process some of the data jobs at the Rennselaerville Library, then head home unpack, shower 🚿 and hop on my bike 🚲 and ride down to Hannaford for at least enough groceries for the first half of the week. Monday I’ll go to the laundromat to have clean clothes for work and then Thursday get propane, supplies and fuel ⛽ for my truck in preparation for that Columbus Day Weekend trip to Madison County.
Who knows though, the hurricanes 🌀 down south could change track or other things happen between now and the end of the week to change my mind. But I would like to do a trip to Madison County when it’s still colorful, warm enough to kayak and the trails are still open at Charles Baker. But I do fully admit it will be a busy weekend for work so it won’t be all fun and games.
Catskill Park Towns
Just buy a house, it will be great 🏠
Your the Director. You make good money, you’ve saved and invested, you could buy a house with cash or get it at a good interest rate if you wanted the tax advantages of letting your money grow in the markets.
Don’t you know it’s foolish to pay rent. You’re just making your landlord rich, paying his mortgage. Renting is a temporary thing you do or what you do when you have no other options because you’re poor. Did I mention it’s foolish? Think of all the money you would be saving, paying the bank and establishing equity in your own home.
You’re in your mid forties but you’re still riding your mountain bike to work most days, except when you take the bus and transfer over to the shuttle. You know like the drunkards and the poor who don’t own cars. You’re spending your weekends in the wilderness, smoking pot, drinking beer and burning shit. Listening to shitty old music. Even when it’s cold and snowy as you hate living in the city.
But I really don’t want a suburban house. I hate lawns, I hate carpeting and vinyl siding. It would be such a waste of money to buy a structure I hate, costs a ton to heat and light and I wouldn’t bother even making the most minimal of repairs because I hate it and it’s all just garbage to me.
I want a small cabin up in the wilderness wherey I can shoot and own whatever hand and long guns I want without special government permission, burn whatever garbage I want and not waste my time washing out plastic bottles and tins cans for fake recycling, have pigs, goats and any other livestock I want, grow cannabis and other feed stuffs. I don’t mind shitting in a bucket, chopping wood or fiddling around with batteries and solar as that’s that I do half the year when I’m not back in my cesspool apartment in the city!
It will happen some day. Not that far in the future. I can see my net worth increasing and my years of experience paying off at work. After all, not everybody becomes a director. The financial experts say I am a fool but they are not me. They don’t understand my love of the wilderness and the small towns, the freedom to live the life I want to live. The houses I see on Zillow are so distasteful as is everything New York State and the liberalism it all involves.