2019
for most it was Keys, Wallet, and Phone
when leaving the house
I’m not part of “most”
2020
Keys, Phone, Wallet, Mask, hand sanitizer,
sidearm with extra clips
living Trust
hornet repellent, stress ball, fighting skills, Lysol, tactical sunglasses
and last but not least
I like this song better then ” times are a changing”
It is estimated that there were only about 3,000 mountain men and trappers at the peak of the fur trade. Some would become legends in their own time, others would be recognized later. That some were anti-social outcasts from society only added to the myths, tall tales and downright prevarications that are part and parcel of “The Mountain Men”.
Here are a few more of these intrepid souls, some of their adventures and their contributions to the knowledge of what was an unexplored wilderness.
Hugh Glass was born in 1783 and much of his early life is a mystery. He suddenly appeared in St. Louis with a number of Pawnee Indian delegates there to meet with government authorities in 1821. In 1823 he joined William Ashley’s trapping expedition to the upper Missouri. He was wounded in an Indian attack, June 2, 1823 but remained with “Ashley’s Hundred”. After regrouping at Fort Kiowa, Andrew Henry, Ashley’s partner, Hugh Glass and others headed for the Yellowstone River. Glass surprised a mother Grizzly with two cubs while scouting and hunting. His hunting partners managed to kill the bear but not before he was severely mauled. Left for dead by two men left to bury him, he would not only survive, but dragged himself 200 miles back to Fort Kiowa. In February 1824 in another Indian skirmish that killed two men, Glass eluded the Indians and returned to Fort Kiowa carrying only a knife and flint. He would seek the men who left him for dead but never killed either of them. His life would end on the Yellowstone River in another fight with hostile Indians in the spring of 1833 at the approximate age of 50.
Etienne Provost was born in a small village south of Montreal Canada in the year 1785. Little is known of him until he emerges as a player in the St. Louis fur trade in 1815. From 1821 to 1830, he trapped and traded with the Indians across much of the present day states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah. Although Jim Bridger is credited with being the first man to see the Great Salt Lake, Provost and his trappers were in and around this area for more than a year before Bridger entered the area. Provost would begin to lead supply trains to the annual trappers rendezvous, exiting the fur trade for good in 1838. Provost would serve as guide to the mapping expedition of “Papa Joe” Nicollet in 1839 where he would meet John Fremont. He would continue to serve as a guide until 1849. He died July 3, 1850 at the age of 65 in his St. Louis home.
Related: Of Mountain Men and Map Makers
William Sherley “Old Bill” Williams was born January 3, 1787 in North Carolina and moved with his family to present day Missouri around 1795. Fluent in many Native American languages, he was invaluable in negotiation with the tribes before and after the War of 1812. He saw military service as a sergeant and scout in the Mississippi Mounted Rangers during the War of 1812. After the war Williams began preaching among the tribes and married an Osage woman. Sometime after her death he married a Ute woman and lived with his wife’s Ute family. A skilled trapper, he trapped alone, (the Ute’s called him “Lone Elk”) never revealing where his journeys took him. Known to many of the mountain men, he scouted and guided parties extensively. His association with Fremont’s 4th expedition that began in November 1848 ended in the deep snows of the San Juan Mountains as 10 members of the expedition perished due to starvation and exposure. He would meet his own end at the hands of a band of Ute warriors March 14, 1849 at age 62. (Rumors of cannibalism would swirl around “Old Bill” and taint John Fremont’s 4th expedition.)
Editors note: I had intended to continue this series every Tuesday, unfortunately, I lost track of what day it was yesterday, and failed to publish this segment of the series. Mea culpa. The series will continue next Tuesday.
after the morning i had, I didn’t need to meet up with Slick
Slick and I go back a long ways, bout 5 years give or take one
Slick has looked at me the same, since the day we met
Slick must have some sort of sense to know when I come around, for I never see him.
well we met up today
he was not happy
just look at his eyes
that furball literally jumped in my sis’s arms for protection, hissin and growlin
I don’t hiss but I can growl
Slick so dumb he don’t even know it was SIS who caused this deep seated anger towards me. She tricked me into going out to Nancy’s farm. We was suppose to be elsewhere. Her and Nancy had it all planned out.
I found out later from Nancy, they baited me with food
farm fresh egg salad sammiches
sis even had dad’s old smelt dip net in her trunk
Ok I’ll do it, but I want 6 sammiches with chips an bread & butter pickles
deal! off I went towards the barn
I want a yellow one!
you get what the Hell I bring back! I just kept walkin
Ever catch a barn cat?
I’m hear to tell you it’s no fun, and it’s dangerous. In I went with the net, must’ve been 50 cats in there scattering in all directions, including jumping the beams over my head
low snarls an growls an hissing, actually a lot of hissing. after 15 minutes I got one. I got him good
against the wall about a foot from the floor. that was the easy part. reachin in the net with welding gloves on, I tried real nice-like to grab it, which wasn’t workin out, so I finally just grabbed it’s tail an hoisted the feral beast and stuffed it in a the gunny sack I swear that cat went completely nuts after that. it had it out for me right then and there. I came out ta barn declaring
I GOT ONE!
Nancy can make some good egg salad sammiches. after eating everything, we left. now the ride is about an hour 20 minutes and not on a paved road, ruts an holes an just normal michigan roads
the cat has been workin on escape
drive faster sis, it’s got a paw outside bag
try walking with a gunny sack with a cat arm out with extended nails in search of you!
Being careful, I let the beast loose while saying to sis, if that cat comes..
I’m killin it right in your kitchen
she said something to which I still don’t know or care
I was watching the cat
See this radiator?
Bottom left foot of it the cat wrapped it around it for 2 days
didn’t want food no water no nothin
Sis got a way with cats
it calmed after about week
She named it Slick after the odd couple cat
says the cat fine unless you stop by
sure sis, blame me
I wasn’t expecting to meet with Slick, dropping those .22L she wanted from the trading post
I did get my sticky buns in trade as promised
Slick ain’t yellow, and sis ain’t bitchin, and I’m still livin
By Yaron Steinbuch July 20, 2020 | 8:28am | Updated
A California Verizon store’s mask-wearing rule really pissed one customer off – so she dropped her pants and urinated on the floor, according to a report.
A police dispatch operator in Roseville told officers that three people “are refusing to leave, not wearing a mask … they’ve asked several times and she refuses,” according to CBS Sacramento.
“They’re calling back and advising that the female is pulling down her pants and is now urinating inside the business,” the operator adds a few minutes later.
The responding officers collared the woman and found several items that had been stolen from a nearby Dick’s Sporting Goods store in her car, according to the outlet
See Related: Really?… I do not care. Really.
I’m very disappointed that we as a society choose to have this unity and let the virus divide us,” she added about those who reject calls to wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Another resident, Kelly Berger, said: “I don’t really have much to say except that’s probably not the right way to react to it. Simply wear the mask or leave, I guess.”
Verizon rep Heidi Flato told the outlet that the company is requiring all customers to wear masks in their stores.
Original from NY Post Here
Take a stand against Tyranny
Piss on them!
I am always astonished at pets who travel long distances to return to a previous home.
Of course, growing up, one of our three cats took an annual spring trek back to a previous residence several miles away. We would receive a mid-afternoon call telling us Amber was in the back yard, napping. It was our feeling he missed the gold fish pond.
I came across this story and it reminded me of our Amber.
By The Associated Press July 18, 2020, 9:57 PM
A dog that disappeared in the US state of Kansas earlier this month has been found more than 50 miles (80.4 km) away – at her owner’s previous home.
Cleo, a four-year-old labrador, was reported missing from the town of Olathe on 12 July.
Several days later, she showed up on the porch of her old home in Lawson, Missouri.
Colton Michael, the house’s new owner, told local media he and his wife had moved there almost two years ago.
At first, Cleo was anxious when anyone came near her, Mr Michael said.
“She finds her way home, and there’s some strangers living in it.
That would be scary for anybody,” Mr Michael told TV station KMBC.
Eventually, Mr Michael earned Cleo’s trust and had her scanned for a microchip, which owners often fit with personal information so their pets can be traced if they go missing.
The microchip revealed the name of Cleo’s owner, who had posted a missing appeal on Facebook a week earlier.
Mr Michael said his wife recognised the name as the former owner of their home.
Speaking to CNN, Mr Michael said Cleo’s owner, Drew, was “kind of speechless” when told she had been found.
“It’s the most bizarre story. Really, she’s everything to us and to my mother,” her owner said.
From door to door, Cleo would have walked 57 miles from her current home in Kansas to her old one in Missouri, according to KMBC.
The dog may have crossed busy roads and a river, a journey Mr Michael described as a “mystery”.
“Now that we know who she belongs to, if she pops up again, we know who to call,” Mr Michael said.
Original: ABCnews Kansas dog makes 50-mile trek to her old home in Missouri
See related: What would we do without…dogs?
Has anyone else had a pet that has had wanderlust, or made an amazing trek back to you?
Yaknow, wait, no you don’t so I’ll tell ya upfront. I was in a great mood this mornin
being almost dressed
boots an cover with coffee lookin at the lake, and ohh myyy what a lake she is
it strange I talk to the lake?
I don’t think so, been doin it for years
lady I hate leave ya but I business to attend to, it’s always a one sided conversation with her
not unlike a teevee
off I went to the tradin post
it don’t look like much on the outside but there’s reason that
if one keeps the place lookin like a rummage sale
when the Taxman cometh he will take that into consideration as you should to!
So in I went first thing I hear is cussing
JC
cousin, I hope God strikes you down and I am there to bear witness
what you wanting? well I don’t wanna know who pissed on your cornflakes, that’s fer sure
I come for can goods
well you are SOL cousin
4 racks 3 shelves each bare,stripped clean
my cousin walks over hands me a coffee, some useless chit chat about hoarders, locusts, along with other lowlifes
( which I probably know )
Well cousin least I’ll get gramma sticky buns that my sis promised to make for me
IF I picked up some .22L for her
squirrel problem eh?
she hates them
2 boxes of the R sub I grabbed
at these prices cousin
those buns best have caramel dripping hot
then he says hey man look at this, just got in the mail this is for a customer
yaknow we get those in at 550.00 plus some change
but not this guy
he ordered online from Palmetto with shipping UP here cost him 850.00
He ain’t right in the head
cousin did you run his name an paper work?
yeah, he checked out real good
I’d say he’s checked out alright we both grinned , more like a grimace as in ewwwwwwww
5.00 bucks for the sign?
and yes I wore more then just my cover an boots into the trading post
my cousin has guns an he knows how to use them very well
one cool item about the lake
she don’t care what kind of music I blast
cues up the Albino bro’s
this is more along the line of what’s for supper?
fish was last night
Bear roast for tomorrow
yes yes yes
I kinda sorta and somewhat make a meal menu for the week
Let’s see…. I got Sticks, I got maple syrup, brown sugar and Carolina reaper
I am good to go!
it’s this way
if you ain’t cookin you ain’t lookin
get out of my kitchen
that’s my standard go to phrase
before the beatings commence; but because I had sharing beat into me
I’ll share my supper kinda sorta and somewhat
lookie no touchie!
sticks (dowels) under the pretzels which are going to be the sticks
not store bought bacon!
just sayin
about a 1/4 cup used of the maple syrup brushed on
that brush gets in all Nooks & Crannies
the sugar was maybe a 1/4 cup tossed on a cookie sheet
tossed the sugar on the painted bacon! while turning, then added the Reaper
See more from Chance: It’s a good day for Peace
225 in the smoker for an hour, using Hickory
Recently I was shown a picture sayin
Everything is gonna kill ya so choose something fun!
I did just that
See? I do listen 🙂
Looking at today’s headlines 99.9999% is nothing but HATE
much of it can and should be laid at Obama’s feet
ohh to be sure it was festering in the schools and universities, among other esteemed institutions
CDC is just one example
I highly doubt any of those who carry Hate in their heart will read this story
a true story
The Tree of Peace helped unite one of the most powerful leagues ever, The Iroquois League of Nations. The Iroquois League was made up of six tribes: the Cayuga, the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora.
The tribes of the Iroquois League at one time were fighting with one another. There were fierce battles, but the people grew tired of the fighting. So they agreed to bury their weapons under a giant white pine tree. They believed that the weapons would be carried away by the underground waters. So they sent the weapons off through the path of the roots. The weapons went in all four directions. After that, the tribes no longer fought. Instead, they formed the Iroquois League.
Today the Iroquois people have peace with one another and together the tribes form a powerful nation
“Governments don’t live together”
“I’m here to live with you or die with you”
that was a good back and forth between Jose Wales & Ten Bears
See also: only you Carl
Down in Australia there’s a people known as the Aboriginals
they also have what is known as the Lost Generation, but for different reasons
it’s how I see this group called
Millennials
they too are lost
The question was
What’s at stake?
the answer I gave was
EVERYTHING
I offer proof to my answer
Lilith Sinclair could barely contain her excitement at the cheers when she announced herself as an “Afro indigenous non-binary” protest organizer on Friday.
massive applause after saying that their mission is the “abolition of the United States as we know it”
Following her speech, rioters violently attempted to barricade federal officers inside the Portland Federal Courthouse and Justice Center while launching explosives at the building. They also allegedly tied a man to a fence and beat him and held a street preacher at gun point before brutalizing him and physically removing him from their protest, according to a witness at the scene who spoke to livestreamers.
Liberals and some of the more media-focused organizers have repeatedly claimed that the Black Lives Matter riots’ goal is simply to end police brutality, while most of us knew that wasn’t these Marxists only agenda. This woman just let the mask slip on what those of us paying attention already knew.
There have now been 50 straight nights of rioting in Portland.
Can’t we just get along?
Lilith Sinclair
I’ll meet you in the middle
got balls Lilith Sinclair?
or
just Diarrhea of the mouth?
something from the War Department
Expect No Quarter for None Shall Be Offered
so be it
Related: In their own words
KITDAFBS’s view on the subject
Ever ask yourself “why me God. why have you chosen me to still be here out of all them other fellas?”
why me
words from a song come to mind
After all these years I’ve found my occupation just isn’t around
seems liked I’ve drowned
perhaps the answer I was looking for has been found
What is justice? “Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense”. Cicero, Roman Orator (106-43 BC). Justice is the combination of civility and morality bound together under the law to safeguard the peace and security of a society.
Justice is often administered by the judicial system, is it therefore law? “What is in conformity with justice should also be in conformity to the laws”. Socrates, Greek Philosopher. (469-399 BC) Justice may be directed by the force of law but is not obligated to follow the dictates of law.
Is justice blind? “Justice discards party, friendship and kindred, and is therefore represented as blind”. Joseph Addison, English Philosopher (1672-1719) Justice may be blind, but judges and court administrators often pervert the intent of both Justice and the Law.
Some crimes are so vicious and heinous that they call out for extreme measures that defy and deny any response of compassion and mercy for the perpetrator. And yet the scriptures admonish us to show mercy and compassion; Zechariah 7- 9; This is what the Lord God Almighty says, ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another’. Herein lies our problem, how do we show mercy and compassion for a person or persons who have committed evil and egregious acts against one or more of the community?
Is the death penalty justice or retribution? ”Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully”. Proverbs 28-5. Opponents of the death penalty decry its cruelty, but that does not express compassion for the victim, only mercy for the perpetrator.
The penalties prescribed in the book of Leviticus are severe, from being put to death by being burned, by the sword or by stoning. Also quite severe was banishment, banishment often was a death sentence due to the precarious nature of life. For justice to have meaning it must have consequences and let the punishment fit the crime.
An eye for an eye is biblical, is it harsh? No doubt, but the punishment certainly fits the crime.
“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful is just”. Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician and Philosopher. (1623-1662). In order to facilitate justice the judiciary must have the power to pass sentences that reflect the theme of “let the punishment fit the crime”. But that power must be used with due care, often judges subvert the intent of not only the law but the intent of juries as well.
Vigilante Justice, was it justice? Or mob rule? This is an issue long debated, not only its legal standing, but its value to the community. “The just, though they hate evil, yet give men a patient hearing; hoping that they will show proofs that they are not evil”. Sir Philip Sidney, English Soldier and Poet (1554-1586). Using this principle vigilante justice may be viewed as justifiable.
Often in this nation’s past, the only law available was vigilante justice. In the absence of, or the overload of official law enforcement, this was the only avenue for crime to be recognized and the culprits brought to justice. “Justice delayed is justice denied”. Wm. E. Gladstone, English Statesman (1809-1898). Was this the justification for frontier justice to often culminate in summary justice? On many occasions the facts were so apparent, and the crime so egregious to the community that summary execution was justified in the minds of the community.
For instance, a bank robbery was devastating to a community as that was the major part of the money supply the town’s merchants depended on to be able to transact business. There was no FDIC to cover losses, no recovery unless the citizenry formed a posse and ran the culprits to ground. Unless the posse was able to catch the robbers and recover the money, the depositor was often left with nothing but a bad taste for bad men and banks.
The Death Penalty, is it Justice or Retribution? So far as I can determine, the death penalty is somewhat meaningless. Years of appeals and delays, do nothing to bring closure for the victims and their families. The perpetrator is guaranteed a speedy trial while the victims must languish through lengthy appeal processes sans the compassion and mercy accorded the guilty.
Justice prevails when the sentence of the court is carried out in its entirety, thereby punishing the guilty and bringing closure to the victims. “The criminal law is not founded on the principle of vengeance; it uses evil only as the means of preventing greater evil”. Daniel Webster American Orator and Statesman (1782-1852). Using Mr. Webster’s formula while adding the theorem of “let the punishment fit the crime”, we have arrived at true Justice. Therefore it is appropriate that the punishment of crime afford the victim closure and the guilty a deserved sentence.
The Death Penalty is supposed to be a deterrent to crime. How can this be when all executions are carried out in the middle of the night and tightly closeted in the most secure of prisons? Oh yeah, there are witnesses, persons who have a vested interest in seeing the guilty punished. But for the death penalty to have any real impact, it needs to be public. It should never be the party spectacle of a bygone era, but rather a somber affair, one that befits the enforcement of a sentence of death.
The claim by some that public execution is, “cruel and unusual treatment”, have clearly not studied the history of this nation. What a scurrilous charge that what was once looked upon as a necessary part of our system of jurisprudence must now be hidden away so as to not offend the sensitivities of a select few. In our own history people were held in stocks, publicly whipped and hanged all in the public arena as prescribed by law, thereby dispensing Justice publicly.
The toughest sheriff in America, former Sheriff of Maricopa County Arizona, Joe Arpio, ran what is called the toughest jail in America. Even after numerous jaw-boning attempts by high government officials and law suits to force changes in Sheriff Arpio’s jail, all have come to naught. Why? Because Joe Arpio operates his jail within the confines of LAW. The tough guys say they don’t want to go back to Sheriff Joe’s jail. Sheriff Joe’s tent city jail is either infamous or glorious depending on your point of view. Visual Justice is Justice meted.
Immigration, specifically ‘illegal immigration’ and Justice, are the two compatible? A thorny question but a legitimate one with this caveat. It must be understood clearly that US immigration law was broken. Of that there is NO doubt. The question is one of adjudication.
The United States is being invaded, a horde of people streaming across our southern border that may well contain members of Islamic jihad; while our government does nothing to stop the flow. They as well as we know that summary deportations are the only viable answer to an historic invasion. That stops the inflow, now comes the part of locating and deporting not only the criminal element among the illegal immigrant population but all who entered this nation illegally. For Justice to have meaning, it must be levied equally to all.
Then there is the fraud committed against the American Public by individuals. Welfare fraud, Medicaid fraud and disability fraud while our national debt goes through the roof. The lack of investigation of this massive fraud is the biggest fraud of all. “Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; any departure from it, under any circumstance, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all”. Edmund Burke, English Orator and Statesman (1729-1797). Our ‘civil society’ is being rent asunder by political correctness, absurd directives, and a quest for a utopian dream that is unattainable. Justice and Liberty cannot exist one without the other, for either to be extinguished has been and is the bane of mankind.
That radical Islam wishes to return to the 7th century is a given. The rub comes when the rest of the world says NO! To this the radicals begin a reign of terror, committing atrocities that belie their claims that Islam is the religion of peace. How are we to respond to such barbarity? “We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice”. Herodotus, Greek Historian (484-425BC) This is where Justice becomes visceral, where the struggle to survive calls the shots. When it’s either kill or be killed, maim or be maimed. Almost biblical in its simplicity, but Justice is not complicated, it only becomes so when it becomes the sole domain of courts, judges and lawyers.
Justice is the moral code, the essential fiber to a civilized society. As the mores of society change, so changes our perception of Justice. Our Lord left us a beacon, a path of Justice and Honor. It is to us, the task of maintaining that path that leads us to JUSTICE.
Walt Mow 2016