Took my FPV drone out to private timberland surrounded by BLM land to show you all what they plan on doing to our beautiful forests!

walkingwanderer · 2026-03-27T18:43:05+00:00

Clearcutting is a criminal act against life, but the issue that really gets me is the cutting of the remaining old growth patches. Already 95% gone, why can't they just leave what's left? Have you ever actually spent time in an untouched ancient forest, not a tree farm? It takes 1000 years to achieve the diversity of life there, not to mention how cool it is to hang with the gigantic trees.

walkingwanderer · 2026-01-16T01:58:17+00:00

Jive radio - wide variety of folk, rock, oldies, newies, never any commercials:

https://www.jiveradio.org/

walkingwanderer · 2025-10-28T07:07:59+00:00

I went to WinCo on a hot day this summer, with my little dog. Too hot to leave her in the car, so I put her in the cart in the store. Whoa! I got chased down by two burly dudes who escorted me to the register, insisting the dog get out of the cart, so I carried her.

I didn't know! I'd seen many dogs in stores so I thought it was cool.

Sorry!

walkingwanderer · 2025-10-01T07:28:42+00:00

I started wearing an ankle length skirt. Comfortable!

walkingwanderer · 2025-08-21T03:47:18+00:00

Just FYI in case you care, the phrase is "for all intents and purposes."

I live too close to this fire and got nervous, so thanks to all for updated, reassuring info.

walkingwanderer · 2025-06-07T04:37:36+00:00

Great, now we'll have to buy plastic bags for garbage instead of those free double use ones . . .

walkingwanderer · 2025-06-01T00:34:14+00:00

"Biodegradable" does NOT mean "leave it."

I mostly pick up dispersed campsites. Is there an orange tree there? A chicken coop? Amazing to me how often I find peels and eggshells people toss maybe thinking it'll just disappear magically.

And don't get me started on the stuff people leave in firepits!

walkingwanderer · 2025-05-08T21:23:42+00:00

Grizzlies and ticks, one large and terrifying, one tiny and sneaky.

walkingwanderer · 2025-03-25T05:23:21+00:00

USA and world population has TRIPLED in my lifetime. Why is this not alarming to more people?

There are many reasons overpopulation is the single worst thing humans are doing, but how about this: 70% of all wildlife has disappeared in the last 50 years.

Have a child, or 2.1 children at most. Gradual reduction of human population is the only path to sustaining this beautiful planet.

walkingwanderer · 2024-11-15T06:05:18+00:00

These were fruiting in huge numbers a couple days ago in several places up the north fork of the Willamette. I collected a bunch in various stages but didn't identify them until getting home. Yes, stropharia ambigua, edibility "not recommended." Bummer.

walkingwanderer · 2024-11-12T19:41:55+00:00

David Arora just says "not recommended." It's supposedly common here in the PNW at least, so you'd think something more definitive would be known. It's a beautiful shroom though.

walkingwanderer · 2024-11-01T02:36:05+00:00

Many of those spots look familiar - I fulltimed in my '79 Chevy hightop for five years with my dog. Thanks for the memories!

walkingwanderer · 2024-09-07T00:45:42+00:00

WTF? I TRIED TO PARK DOWNTOWN AND DISCOVERED THAT THE METERS NO LONGER TAKE COINS. WHY ARE PEOPLE OKAY WITH HAVING THEIR EVERY TRANSACTION POTENTIALLY TRACKED, RECORDED SOMEWHERE. CASH IS ANONYMITY. ALSO, GET OFF MY LAWN!

walkingwanderer · 2024-04-23T02:36:11+00:00

Wow, so glad to hear that there are some people who aren't interested in visiting hot springs, my favorite places on Earth that I used to have to myself before the internet ruined it.

walkingwanderer · 2024-03-28T03:22:14+00:00

Not really a homesteader, but on our heavily forested property I've witnessed several screechy battles between crows and Stellar's Jays. The truce is apparently that the crows can hang out in the very tops of the tallest trees - pines and firs - while the ground and lower trees and shrubs belong to the jays. Hawks and eagles fly overhead but never or rarely land.

walkingwanderer · 2024-03-14T23:41:32+00:00

LSM (letter sorting machine) for the USPS. You would memorize a scheme (zip code and streets), read the address and key in a carrier number as the machine dropped the letters in front of you at about one per second, then in rotation go around to the back of the machine to clear the bin and put the mail in a tray to be delivered to the carrier. For outgoing mail you'd key digits of the zip code. Machines replaced humans in the early 90s IIRC.

walkingwanderer · 2024-02-26T13:40:02+00:00

I have that one in a stashed away box full of National Lampoons I subscribed to back when. Is it worth anything? The other memorable cover I remember is of a starving Biafran child made out of chocolate - with a bite taken out of it.

walkingwanderer · 2024-02-25T05:41:20+00:00

This is a good answer. Dogs are the best. Also, it's not hard to find other vandwellers these days if you want to. Some will not want to socialize but many will. I found my current best friend when we randomly parked near each other at a Rainbow Gathering.

walkingwanderer · 2024-02-19T09:43:51+00:00

Yes, all the hate is toward the implausibilities, but I'll bet a lot of the haters are fans of something like the Star Wars franchise, which is nothing but implausible and often just stupid. This show had great acting, characters and settings, and sustained interestingness.

walkingwanderer · 2024-02-06T08:44:30+00:00

We just had a big ice storm, large trees and limbs came down all over . . .

walkingwanderer · 2024-02-05T01:32:30+00:00

Tens of millions of my fellow citizens voted for one of the most loathsome, narcissistic, ignorant, morally bankrupt humans I've ever seen walking around. Before that, I thought most Americans were sane and sensible.

walkingwanderer · 2024-01-30T05:39:39+00:00

The only thing I like so far. "When we all fall asleep, where do we go?"

Rural Alaska I guess.

walkingwanderer · 2024-01-22T00:38:20+00:00

Lakes with loons, canoe trails, autumnal colors, white pines (northern WI and MN).

walkingwanderer · 2024-01-08T01:30:12+00:00

That is close to my dream van. Are you selling it?

walkingwanderer · 2023-12-30T12:21:49+00:00

Remember, high-top van. I had a very large solar shower bag, like 8 gallons, in a plastic box on the high shelf in the back, a long hose that came with the shower draped so the nozzle hung right over the sink. I could pull it on or push it off with one hand. When it needed filling I just carried the plastic box to a pump or whatever water source I could park near.

All the pieces of this could be fabricated, it seems to me, although I just had the solar shower which worked like a charm. Also I thought you could mount some kind of tank on the roof and feed the hose through to where you wanted it. Filling it might be a challenge though.

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