Recent content by JIM PETERSON

========== I had a certifiably crazy GF once (no reflection on her camping choices) and it only took me about 3 years to figure out that one way you can know if you're in the presence of someone truly crazy is that after a while, you begin to think that *you* are the crazy one and they're...

Nothing quite as gratifying as making a problem where one doesn't exist, eh? It's not a cesspool. It's more like a fence post hole. By morning, ALL the liquids have seeped into the ground. And then the hole is filled in with dry earth. You'll never see or know where it was. Which is kinda' the...

So if someone gets in over their head and can NOT pay what they owe, what are they supposed to do that would be honorable in your humble opinion? In Idaho, the demographic with the fastest increasing rate of suicide are seniors. They've taken all this pride their whole lives in paying their...

There's a reason we no longer have debter's prisons in this country -- also a reason why options like bankruptcy exist -- to keep people from jumping off bridges when they find themselves overwhelmed by debt. Do not those who offer unsecured credit with high limits to college students and young...

========== I just dig until it's not fun anymore :) If the BW tank is full, it usually requires two or three after-dark 'dumps' to empty the tank . . . and then we're good for another month or so. I doubt the typical mentality at The Slabs is anything close to what southern Cali is known for but...

I think you can find a lot of different views on that. The one I subscribe to says that ALL natural sewage "treatment" occurs in the top 12 to 16" of soil -- anything deeper than that is sewage disposal *not* treatment. Which is to say that 12" of soil cover should be plenty.

I think we have to make a distinction between doing business with each other as individuals and doing business with international conglomerates who owe no allegiance to any particular country anymore -- a million times less loyalty to any one of us. I suppose you can hold them in high regard if...

It's weird how that all works out, eh? If you're trying to run a business and you end up with some asset which is more liability than anything -- something that will NEVER pay its own way . . . if you let that go back to the bank, the manufacturer, or whomever, THAT is considered a "good...

========== I get that -- we are serious off roaders too. Consider this review we wrote for campendium.com : https://www.campendium.com/ferguson-lake I doubt that many can claim towing their 33' fifth wheel to such a place. Our 7.3 diesel engine and low-range 4WD made all the difference in the...

Because we live fulltime in our rig -- and lived in it for five months before I retired (while we still had j-o-b-s and options), we had to have something that was liveable right away. I can't imagine anything which depreciates faster than a new RV. Their value will plummet 25 to 40% once it...

Employers definitely live on their own one-way street. They seem fairly insistent that we give at least two week notice but some companies have been known to provide security escort to your car once you give that notice. My wife won't be eligible for early SS until Feb 2020 so she quit her job...

========== Yup -- that's the place. We actually built a barn there this winter -- see link below for more details. Most of the 'slabbers' (those who live there year 'round) and even those (like us) who do winters only have "gopher holes". It's a hand-dug, square hole -- sized so that a used...

========== I know this is a bit long; hoping you'll read it anyway. It is a response to something STEVE posted a while back but my response was far too long for a "comment" and so I've been sitting on it for a while  :) ========== Steve wrote: "But as far as me personally, if I had $650 left...

Newbie to this group -- finally figured out me confirmation code was languishing in the spam folder (which I never look at and regularly delete) but I am a bit surprised to see what folks are willing to pay for an *empty* cargo trailer. In 2015, we paid $4,200 for our '94 33' fifth wheel and it...