RE:I think this woke business has exceeded reason. Look, in my previous post I didn’t mean to demean Pack Rats. I simply objected as the name is sometimes used in a derogatory manner, and is a nuisance according to the county citations I’ve received over the last ten years. And every year I go to the county meeting and ask: When did frugality become a crime? I know my rights, I can be loud and obnoxious it I wish.
This idea that if you can’t use it today just throw it away has got to stop. There was a time when a mine played, the miners would pull nails and load the boards on a buckboard to take to the next strike. And so the inventory of old mining equipment and materials that I’ve collected over the last fifty years might someday come in handy. I’ve got beams and posts, pullies and winches, cables and all sort of various stuff that was left behind.
I can understand how my equipment yard might seem a little “out there”, but much of that is an optical illusion, something like a mirage, making things look bigger and taller. Probably accounts for the disappointment on the faces of visitors who after passing through the open space in my tumbleweed filled fence line, realize that their hope for salvation only brought them to the end of the Earth, and a shack, a tree, two cows, and a large yard filled with great slightly used mining equipment.
I was thinking of opening a mining museum, but couldn’t figure out how to tell people where to go since nothing for twenty miles has a name.
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