Well with the price of gas up here we got to save where we can. And as we don't have Reservations. It is legal to buy smokes at the Native smoke shop. Plus (if ya so desire) we can grow are own pot here legally. For personal use only. Can't sell it, but ya can trade it for gas I suppose. HAAAA Hay pump jockey take a hit of this. They forget ta charge ya for the gas. Thats what I hear anyway.

 

What about making a post with the information in 'General Chapter Annoucements'?

 

LMFAO. People do what they have to do.

 

I thought if anybody. You and Rex would get a kick out ta that Mike.

 

When I first joined the Chapter, there was only one 'Hot Thread"...As I looked today there were....Well, more than one hand, but I didn't have to take my shoes off to count...Guess that means two.

Guess I could have had a better teacher than ' Jethro '!

All kidding aside... The chapter seems to be growing by numbers and participation.

 

Done!!!

 

Damn I wish I could just click my heel's together and come home sometimes. Maybe after this neck surgery in a few days they will be able ta tell me ta retire or not. Than we will see.

Sorry just chattering. Generally.

 

Yea I'd like to use those rez shops, but...I'm a law abiding citizen. Unless I think I'll get away with "it".


Reminds me when I got back here again in '96. We took Donna's Z-car to the Swinomish rez and bought $400 of fireworks and loaded them into the back. Mortars, big rockets, etc. Under that long, big, glass hatchback on 280Z cars. I merrily drove past the State cop sitting at the exit and tooled on home. Later, i was reading the newspaper about how real fireworks are illegal here and all the busts that were being made. Whew, lucky me. I took the truck next time and covered 'em up.

C'mon down outta' the wilds :~)
Good luck with the surgery, and coming retirement if it happens.

 

JR, did ya' get my PM yesterday? Pls pass me the contact for those smokes.

 

Ah Rex. But the hunting and fishing is so good it is like cheating. Get 4 tags per person over 18. That's 8 bucks in my house. And the season is nere half a year. Halibut and king salmon year round. 12 silvers a day in the summer. And the bay here is so full of em ya can almost walk across on there backs. So quiet, so peaceful, so rusty. Plan is ta put in a convenience store and let my good neabor run it. Buy a few acres around Shelton and have the best of both. Looks like the rocking chair is gonna kick in early so this could work.

 

Yes I did Rex, 10 mins after I got it.

WARNING This is the 2 time a PM has not went out after being sent.....

I looked in my sent file not there.....I'll resend in a few!!! Need more coffee & a smoke.....

 

Yea the wildlife there is beyond compare. We're damn near fished out here in the Sound, it got so bad I quit fishing. The State greedmasters were issuing so many licenses that the number of salman licenses sold equalled 0.78 fish per license of the allowable catch statewide.

And I stopped putting crab pots out because the state would oversell those licenses too, and then "emergency close" the season to sporters and only allow the big commercial boats in that paid top dollar. I got nothing against the Commercial Fishers, it's the problem with our state regulators that try to pit "us against them" and then shortchange all of us.

When I visit my parents on the coast in South Oregon, there's fewer and fewer commercials able to fish anymore. Fifteen years ago there were 53 big boats at the dock; now there are just 18. They're out of business because of a combination of over fishing, foolish regulations, and the tribes getting away with fishing nearly year round.

A Makah fisher out of Neah Bay dumped his 30-ton load in the bay at Port Angeles, dead, because he couldn't get the price he wanted. The price went up and he caught another full load and sold it. No fine, no arrest. Only the tribes can do that. They were here first, but they're using modern industrial fishing gear!

Sheeeit, I've drunk too much coffee and gotta' get off the soapbox.

Anyhoo, when Lisa travels out of Alaska to "The Lower 48" she can't wait to get back. But Shelton's a nice area, the weather's better, and stand by for outta' control feel-good government.

Read the Seattle PI online if you don't already, to get a taste.

 

K, I'll be here

Having a nico-fit

 

Ya. Mason County is a joke. But it is close to Grandma in-law and a hole heard of other inlaws that migrated out of Camp Grisdale.

 

Camp Grisdale, the 'ol logging town, near where an old steam train fell off the mountain into a river?!? Y'all are a logging family! Sheesh, most of the 'ol mills now are closed, not many trees left on this island here either. My friend Dennis H., an old logger, went outta' business here long ago...he wants to buy my bulldozer, thinks he's going to get back into it.