Before and After Rennselear Train Station
LEFT - 1995 before the train station
RIGHT - 2018 after the train station constructed
Topics
Point
Basic Beaver Trapping – Basic Beaver Trapping “Footholds with actual catch on film as it happens”
"Want to catch more beaver? Well keep it simple no need to get fancy. Here is one of my best producing sets made with footholds on a castor mound. Watch as I make the set and you actually witness the beaver work the set and get caught and head down the drowning wire!! Please"
States Where Abortion is Banned
This should be noted that map show all states that currently restrict abortion to less then 20 weeks, with most allowing it up to 6 weeks, though there are a few that are from the start of conception. And some of these states have their abortion bans being reviewed by courts. But still, abortion is far less available these days then a few years ago.
Climbing the Hump 🐪
Hump Day comes quicker when you work remote on Monday, have meetings downtown on Tuesday and Thursday and plan once again to be remote on Friday. Probably do Rensselearville this weekend, mostly to ride trail and enjoy the colors. Who knows about Columbus Day Weekend, it could rain or I could go out to Madison County. I do need to do an oil change soon too, maybe I’ll do that one of the weekends I’m in town. Or I could take it to the shop, but it’s almost easier to do it myself and save a few bucks. Plus used oil makes a great fire starter.
So yes, it’s Wednesday. 
Insert mandatory camel jokes into your daily routine. Keeping moving forward, it’s not a super nice day but pleasant enough to be riding my bike work. 💻️ I was bad and didn’t respond back to emails or process any data jobs because I was tired and just wanted to lay back in bed, watch some of the Youtube and sleep. 
Figured I’d be in the office at 8 AM and things aren’t that urgent. But the work accumulated and grew over the night.
Apparently I am not only schizophrenic, I have bipolar depression according to the Internet advertisers. 
Amazing what happens when you click on an ad, you even more of the same type. I’ve long been fascinated by mental health and how it’s used for social control, 
not to mention the benefits of better reguating one’s own emotions for more success and power in life. Plus mental health is fascinating for somebody who likes smoking pot and wants to learn all the best ways to get high up in the wilderness. 
To be fair though, with all this time remote working, 
hanging out in the wilderness up at camp, smoking pot and drinking beer by the fire 
listening to the Dire Wolf, I have become a bit feral. I mean I wasn’t clean-shaven on Tuesday, as all my razors were dull 
and I didn’t shave daily camping over the past weekend. At least I’m becoming a stranger to my office, that said, I do come by on days when I actually have ot be here for in-person meetings on Tuesday and Thursdays and Wednesday to catch up on work. And heck, maybe on Monday next week, as the weather looks like shit, 
and I should be in office more 
I tell myself, as you miss things when your remoting in from the wilderness. 
Like the smell of the North Albany Sewage Plant and the exercise of riding your bike to work. 
Which states observe Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day? | Pew Research Center
How Much Land Would I Need to Own.
When I own a land, how much land do I think I’ll want to own? I think I would want to own enough land to:
– Be able to hunt and shoot firearms at a backyard range, which would mean at least 500 feet from the nearest other house.
– Be able to ride four wheelers on my land, have some fun in the mud without making too much of a mess.
– Have enough land to hobby farm, such as pigs, goats, and other smaller livestock, which means they’ll need pasture and a bit of distance from the house.
– Be able to compost food, leaves, and other waste.
– Be able to burn trash and have bonfires, without causing a nuisance or smelling my neighbors burning their trash.
– Be able to listen to music as loud as I want to, hang lights outdoors, drink beer, and have a good time with buddies.
– Have junk cars and other equipment I’m working on, or saving for scrap use on my land without bothering others.
– Be far enough back from the road so I don’t have to see others or have others piering onto my land.
Obviously, none of that doesn’t require that much land if you have the right kind of neighbors and the right kind of state and local government that leaves people alone, but having more land often comes with having better neighbors that mind their business while you mind your own.
My parents have a little under five acres — surrounded on one side by city reservoir property — but I think I’d rather have closer to 50 with much less house and barns, as my focus would be the wilderness not having a fancy home or barnyard. Obviously, this is an expensive goal, but living farther out means you can get more with less money.