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[Gypsy108]

Gypsy108, quit worrying about when you will leave. Spend this next month focusing on setting up your Etsy store and filling it with jewelry. That is a step to improve your life that you have within your control. You could have it set up and running within the week. Instead of action you are letting worry run your life. Worry is your primary disability and it is blocking everything good from happening. I am banking $350. From my Etsy sales this week. Every week you put It off you are loosing out on income from an activity you love to do. FOCUS on what you can do that you love to do.

Yes...i know...but I've been so distraught with trying to figure things out i have no desire to be creative....my focus has been on how i'm going to leave ....and i just keep going around in circles because of lack of resources....i spend all day trying to help myself....and getting nowhere....maybe you are right.....just stop what i'm doing....and focus on what i love to do....(being creative)  BUT IT'S HARD TO BE CREATIVE WHEN YOU ARE DISTRAUGHT ....i just want to zone out at the end of the day .   I worry so much about EVERYTHING .   But i will try to pull myself together this week.   Thanks Maki2  :heart:  I'll try ......

 

[bullfrog]

My mom used to say "Why worry when you can pray, do what you can get done today."

 

[Gypsy108]

Yeah...i just keep telling myself :   "Don't worry...about a thing.....every little thing's gonna be alright... "

Well, Im cleaning my art studio today....it got a little messed up on Mother's Day when I flung everything out of my jewelry making bag to make my mom a necklace & bracelet...now i will get organized.. and hopefully put a few things up for sale in my Etsy shop.   I'll keep you posted....

:heart:

 

[Ravella and X]

So after reading posts and comments that are full of worry and care today, I hope this silly little true story adds a little leavening to someone's day:

I am so lucky that my little old Scamp came to me turn key. Pots and pans and silverware and bedding and leveling blocks and wheel chocks etc etc. It even came with a fly swatter.

This little trailer is 22 years old, so much of the contents are also that old. While camping far from any town bigger than a blink, I swatted a fly (the deal is, any critter that finds its way in uninvited must die or escape my home and certain death.)

That was the swatter's last fly. The plastic avacado green swat part broke off the plastic avacado green handle part.

Well. I need a swatter. So I did the truly ridiculous job of REPAIRING an ancient plastic fly swatter! I will retire it in Boise when I get there, and repalce it with an updated color. If I can figure out what color is cool for fly swatters in 2021.

 

[VanFan]

Worrying really works!  Here's proof:  99% of what I worry about never happens

 

[Cammalu]

Ravella I seem to be missing most flies lately. The last two nights I sat up in the tiny camper until late with a flyswatter. I only managed to get a couple and there are some really big ones in there. One landed on my arm after I was lying down and I reached around to shoo it off and it felt like a hard beetle! Yuk!

Please come kill these nasty flies since you have that great renovated antique swatter.

 

[user 30781]

Millennial pink ?

 

[maki2]

Sticky fly traps work. Walmart sells some that sticks to window glass. The flies are attracted to the light and go to windows trying to get outside.

 

[maki2]

I can't remember where I saw the posting of someone researching old nautical terms for what boondock meant. They said they could not find any reference to it in the nautical terms.

Well that would be because it is not a nautical word and never has been. It refers to rural areas with few inhabitants.
Here is a link to its definition and origin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Boondocks
 
I have seen people use the term "urban boondocking" that combination of words fits the definition of the word oxymoron which means combining words that have conflicting meanings. The boondocks and urban are two entirely different geographic areas. One has lots of people in it, the other has very few.

Urban boondocking is impossible, lol, but that is not because of parking regulations. Of course you can live in your vehicle in an urban area but it is not boondocking. Bondocking is a rural only activity. 

That is OK great oxymorons always makes me smile when I see them. If you like to use that combination of words it go for it. I won't shame people for it. it is fun to use words in wacky ways.

 

[user 30781]

On my trip to the Olympic Peninsula a couple weeks ago I went into the Port Townsend Safeway in the morning after
camping across the street the night before. Was walking through the produce section and what
do I see but Meyer lemons! I've never seen them for sale up here, maybe in the Pike Place Market
in Seattle. So I got a bag of four and tucked them in the fridge when I got home.

I'm going to make some lemon bars as soon as the butter softens up.

 

[highdesertranger]

Hopefully this link works, the term Boondock,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boond...he,city-folk. It can also refer to a mountain.

I have heard this before about the military bringing the term home from the Pacific islands. I didn't realize the year was the early 1900's, I thought it was WWII and I didn't realize it was the Philippines that was the origin.

So there you go.

Highdesertranger

 

[wayne49]

Sticky fly traps work. Walmart sells some that sticks to window glass. The flies are attracted to the light and go to windows trying to get outside.

Make sure to place the correct side, the less sticky side, on the window. Should come with "This side toward flies [enemy]".

 

[maki2]

My campsite friends are all heading out tomorrow, their 14 days are up and the wind wont be as strong tomorrow. Some are heading further south to get warmer. It will be below freezing tonight., posdibly near 22 at this elevation. I went out today and bought a gallon of diesel for my cooktop / heater. That will last for quite a while. It will warm up to 40s at night in day after tomorrow. However at 6 this evening while sitting inside my hands are getting cold so I am going to turn on the heat for a while and luxuriate in it for a few hours before bedtime. The cold will likely wake me up out of my cozy downy nest around 4 am coordinated with a call of nature when I will again turn the heat on.

I need to decide where I most likely want to camp next then get an early scouting start on finding a 14 day spot because of memorial day weekend.

My plan is to pack my screen room into the car tomorrow and the next day get an early start and use my car on its own to find a NFS camping spot close to Flagstaff on the West, South or North that is easy to get my trailer in and out of. Set up the tent to claim it and then go back and fetch the trailer. If i dont find a spot I like the first day I still have a few more days to look around for other options and get to know the area.

 

[Ravella and X]

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Cammalu

Please come kill these nasty flies since you have that great renovated antique swatter.
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Next year. Until then, you're on your own with those camper flies!

 

[Ravella and X]

Millennial pink ?

The pink on offer was pepto-bismol pink, so I went with lime green. A color that's always in fashion? Now I've got to give the ancient swatter a solemn send-off in this rest stop trash can.
: )

 

[Cammalu]

Aw come on Rav. You are a crafter! Can’t you think of something to make with that old gut crusty flyswatter?

 

[Ravella and X]

Yeah. I'm going to MAKE room for the new one!

 

[maki2]

I did get the screen room down and stowed away. But when I finished I was super tired so I called Sunday afternoon a day of rest, only doing non strenouos chores. Going tomorrow to check out a campground some foruum friends are at. I won't camp with them, but hope find a spot somewhat nearby. I had planned to camp there anyway so it was nice to find out my friends are around hanging out there this week. It is closeby to a place I wanted to do a bit of sightseeing at which is why it is top of my list of options in the Flagstaff area.

Going to be freezing again tonight. It is already getting much cooler now that the sun has gone down but this afterbnoon was sunny and reasonably warm, not too much wind. I managed to wash the better part of a weeks worth of windstorm dirt out of my hair and got it dried quickly in the sun. Good to relax in solitude after a rather busy week.

I hope everyone had a good day too.

 

[user 30781]

The pink on offer was pepto-bismol pink, so I went with lime green. A color that's always in fashion? Now I've got to give the ancient swatter a solemn send-off in this rest stop trash can.
: )

 

Close enough.  I've been thinking about you since it was mentioned that you were at 7,000 ft with a storm coming in, or something like that.

How did that go?

 

[Ravella and X]

The weather isn't what spoiled my fun. It was very lovely and peaceful there, and I know how to keep my little home warm. But then, the weekend came....

Kids, dogs, generators, ATVs, and a friggin chainsaw! Grrr. The kids were turned loose in a side by side and apparently told to stay in the campground. The kids also were in high spirits their first night and thought it'd be fun to bang on the door of the dark little trailer and run. Twice. I finally got dressed and went to the daddies gathered round a huge fire. No more kids banging on my door. But being on the kids' ATV tour trail was still enough to make me want to leave. Had to wait for good enough weather though. That happened this morning and now I'm deciding where to hide for memorial day weekend.