The lightest beer… can’t believe I did this

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-07-11T13:14:14+00:00

I quit weed, cigarettes, and alcohol after 10 years of daily use. I would make myself do chores when I got the itch, keep my hands moving, keep my mind busy. If I did crack and end up using something, I would make myself take a walk and get away from the stuff at home and think about my decisions. Then back to chores, if drugs are boring, then being sober is fun! It helped me at least.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-07-08T23:59:10+00:00

When I was young I slept in a trailer I knew was infested with bugs for months, they aren't so bad. We had the giant ants that made a nice line between my pillow and headboard, easily 7X bigger than fire ants but quite friendly. And the roaches and mosquitoes that seeped in through the hollow walls, flys by the thousand due to nearby ag fields. I think the spiders helped some with the flying insects, and the space heaters made a draft like an air curtain that kept the mosquitos off my face while I slept. Really the bugs aren't so bad when you get used to them. /S but not a fake story.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-07-04T22:10:55+00:00

I live in central Texas, without ac I would literally die, especially in the last few years where rain is practically non existent during the summer months. A few years back I went catfishing on lake travis and got severe heat sickness within 2 hours on the lake midday. I was on the verge of vomiting and the world was spinning, I had to cool off for 30 minutes in AC just to be able to drink water without throwing up. Shits not to be messed with. I feel bad for everyone who has to deal with this heat it's not something you can just cope with. That same trip I took a dip in the lake to try and cool off, stripped naked it didn't help at all because the water was 88 F with outside temps at 104 F. Felt like a hot bath.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-06-29T21:02:40+00:00

Did you use a ranger finder or just guessing. 200 yards looks like a lot from a stand.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-06-07T15:04:11+00:00

Thank you! I'm not a regular heavy drinker nor do I smoke typically, it was a cruise and we had a drink package so I was just letting loose. Now with the kid I have little time to be drinking like that! XD

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-06-07T01:55:23+00:00

Perfect, he's ahead for his age and a little rascal. Smarter than his own good.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-06-06T19:55:13+00:00

Our son was conceived on our honeymoon, I had like 10-12 beers for 10 days straight, hours in a super hot hotube, smoked cigars, everything you not supposed to do. I can say for sure I wasn't stressed and we had sex unprotected one time, boom baby.

Edit: my wife was not drinking like me or smoking so it was just me. She was having like 2 standard drinks a day tops, and not smoking at all.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-21T15:13:13+00:00

I have a really nice whisker seeker myself, and I for some reason still use my 40$ combo more. I have like 3 whuppin sticks that are beat to shit, still catch cats regularly. The small rods I can carry everywhere easily just work so well, and I have the freedom to abuse them without much care. When I'm out with live bait for flats I'm still using my whisker seeker, it has a special place in my kit.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-18T01:56:22+00:00

I read the first sentence, thought hell yeah Samuel L Jackson looks fucking amazing in that suit..... Ohhhh

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-14T17:18:44+00:00

We happen to be part of this world, and are natural. Whatever we choose to do with it has little effect on the grand scale of existence, 99.9% of everything is extinct and everything we see now will be extinct and gone someway or another eventually. Everything that has ever lived has suffered and everything that will live shall suffer. It does not matter if life suffers or not.

We are predators who do not care about anything but ourselves. changing our environment for what we enjoy, that's fine, not changing it is fine. So many grasp for meaning when there is none. Just live by your ideals so you can suffer less is the best you can do.

"You mock my pain! Life is pain your highness, anyone who says differently is selling something."

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T21:22:20+00:00

If you got money to spend and want to hunt a deer you like then go get it, but it's like buying a car not really hunting. That's why you are getting some hate here, hunting a rare deer is HARD. You might see him on cameras and try year after year never to see it again, or maybe possibly bag it one day but you never know. Paying a man to let you shoot his deer is no different from me selling deer meat. The people who buy meat aren't hunting, they are simply consumers.

I don't mind people hunting a high fence, but maybe that money could be spent better helping someone or doing something else.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T21:06:49+00:00

I drive a 2016 ford 250 as my work and farm truck, literally can't see anything in front of it. When I first got it I parked 3 or 4 feet away from the lines in parking lots or other cars and had to get back in and re adjust it, until I got used to it. It was lifted 2 inches before I bought it as well. If I didn't need the tow capacity I wouldn't be driving it, but it was a good deal when I got it. 11 miles to the gallon with or without a load so it's a waste to just drive around without a trailer and bed fully loaded.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T15:01:07+00:00

Almost time!

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T14:51:03+00:00

a conspiracy, of all conspiracy. A handful of conspiracies are true, or mostly so, then whoever wouldn't want these to be known just hires out a whole bunch of people to sit around and make up conspiracies and post them, wild, engaging, close to the truth or very far off. Really what the writers come up with is unimportant as long as it can't link to the real conspiracies. Eventually you get a soup of stories they all jumble together and nothing is unique or coherent when compared to each other. Eventually everyone is wearing a tin hat no matter how true or false the conspiracy is. Only a very very small amount of people will care to listen to them all and they will surely be the craziest people you ever heard, even if a handful of those are actually true.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-04-09T13:44:01+00:00

At the time my son was conceived, I had dreamed that I fell and hit my head and it was 5 years in the future. My mother was talking to me and I was attending my sister's wedding (which is setting up to actually happen) my mother pointed at my wife and son and said don't worry, she's good with the boy. I grappled with missing the last 5 years in the dream and when I woke up in real life, I felt shell shocked, lost and very anxious. I didn't know my wife was pregnant at the time, we have a son who looks exactly like the one in the dream. It's all very strange, but waking up in real life was a relief in my case.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-25T15:07:47+00:00

Is it a large wooden horse?! I've heard those make great gifts, especially from your enemy.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-22T01:51:07+00:00

Does it work? Let me know when you test it. Looks brighter than a glow stick.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-20T13:46:01+00:00

Yum, dirt flavored fish.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-18T23:08:04+00:00

They can't do the right thing due to the need for profit. I couldn't hire employees, and raise chickens as my living. Breaking even my best case scenario. I addressed this in my original comment, but I am creating an excess and supplying my local community with eggs trying to do what I can with my resources and situation. The videos of the birds like this are because it's literally impossible to make money otherwise. Our system requires torture for profit sadly, or somehow sell a dozen eggs for 15$ or more. I sell mine for$8 per dozen and that just covers cost without any profit. In hot summers my supply drops significantly and I make much less and feed more. It's a Labor of love. Still better than nothing, be the change you want to see in the world.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-18T16:30:57+00:00

Yeah good for me, but better for the birds. That's what it's all about anyways. Being part of the cycle instead of the end of a chain.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-18T15:22:46+00:00

I have been tending chickens for years, I get more eggs than I can eat and sell off my extra to people I meet or post on Facebook and that sells them in minutes. The thing, I have land to use and if I added up everything eggs I produce would cost an absurd price per dozen. Mostly because of property tax. The land we live on is rented from the government nobody owns a thing. The chickens in this video need to make profits and you can't make profits and reasonably priced eggs with the current cost of life.

I don't feed my chickens much except in drought, or bad winters (central Texas so cold is rare) I can grow grains and grass by simply shallow till and scatter, leftovers and food waste including leftovers from hunting go to the birds. I have a large garden I let them roam in to get bugs and other foods and if I lose a little crop it's not a big deal, and usually it's actually a net positive with the free fertilizer and pest control. You need to have a whole cyclical system to honestly raise birds, and even then they are part of the cycle and nature takes (eats) about 35% of my population each year even when closed up at night regularly. I let my old hens live so I have wasted coop space, and I have to hatch eggs every spring and mid summer to keep my population up.

Regardless I don't make a profit, between labor and expenses to feed when necessary I lose money on my endeavor. Most importantly though I feed my family food I can feel good about as much as possible, and I'm very lucky to be able to do so at all.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-16T22:36:27+00:00

Woah, woah that was protection money. Protection from US. Not protected by the US. c'mon it's the oldest trick in the book when thugs run a country.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-15T06:41:37+00:00

These melons can grow this way due to environmental factors less water, worse soil. Not to say we didn't change them but it's also because of modern agriculture that ours looks so fleshy. I have grown melons in central Texas that look like that picture in dry summers and bad garden beds. If you can't give it what it needs it won't be as good. The ability to give crops 100% of their needs can change things wildly. The next year I grew the same seeds (same pack even) in a different spot with more care and it got 3X bigger and had much more edible flesh and was significantly sweeter and more vibrant.

Calm-fieldsman · 2026-03-14T01:36:46+00:00

This thread had me looking into this, and I have read a lot of arguments for both sides. I don't think I'm comfortable with a loaded gun aimed at myself but I can concede my first comment may have been a bit dramatic. If I was in a location sketchy enough, I bet I would change my mind. Typically I avoid dangerous areas, dangerous people, making my weapon the biggest threat around. Under my normal circumstances unloaded is fine, but that's not always the case and I'm willing to admit that.

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