The bureaucrats don’t get that slice of cake – poor snowflakes. The bottom line is that we cannot expect yesterday’s thinking to bring success today. In Physics the juniors are concluding their study of Newtonian Physics, specifically the application of Newton’s Laws in the real world. lol. “Hey! They just can’t improvise, adapt, & overcome, I guess. I would like to see some mandatory re-education for the gimmes. Is that what our Country is all about? Improvise, adapt, and overcome is a powerful way of thinking for any person who is faced with an obstacle or a desired objective in life. – oldhomesteader- my Grandad was born in a soddy near Pawnee, Oklahoma, in 1900. I just re-watched the movie, The Martian, over the weekend. No matter how big or how small the problem. If a person is able-bodied, work or work for welfare – do discussion. But until he posts on this topic, may I recommend a lot of ketchup. Talk to Roger today about his 10-session Coaching Program.
Many places, especially private communities, shut down to avoid injury, and lawsuits. Great article! In Humanities we continue our journey through Dante’s. I found it was just on there with flimsy plastic clips, and at the first little nudge it fell off. That could have been the overall theme of the Memorial Weekend this year. The front bumper of my car is wired on.
An example… When we moved to the farm DH came an asked me what size nails he would need to hold up a certain weight. Yes, how many millions just expect to be taken care of?
• For example a couple years ago I had shoulder surgery, which wiped out an ability to hold a hunting rifle with both hands. A lot of people used the street because many of the restrooms you had to pay to get in. by Ken Jorgustin | Jan 8, 2018 | 100 comments. The thing snapped right off. An inch of snow (ok, maybe an inch and a half) will seriously cripple the Seattle metro area. Warner, NH 03278. And it’s always the same people who have to be shown time and again that there’s more than one way to do many things, that quitting is just the easy way out. But clearly, this gated community couldn’t function. Personally, I have a long history of doing just that, as a child, as a Boy Scout, in school, and in both the Army and in various jobs since. OR they see and know, but refuse to life a finger to change their Give-Me status. He told his driver, a private, to “Go find Sgt. SCG,,, hey a mud hut can be home sweet home ,,,ask a real old time cowboy ,called em soddys warm in the winter ,,,cool in the summer,, or so I’m told ,a little water on the floor keeps the dust down. This was not just a snow storm, it was the single digit temps at night that did us in. An appeal to … . Overcome. I learned the importance of improvising, adapting, and overcoming as I struggled with being physically unable to tie my shoes for many years. It’s interesting how these phrases are captured and used over time. isn’t this like fixing anything with bailing string, or wire and duct tape! It seems we all talk of Skills, Stuff, Location, and the Gulch like they are the cure all to an EMP, economy, or whatever disaster that may strike. And BTW Thanks for the funny anecdote about your folks.
Its the flakes behind the wheel that are the most dangerous! Still remember a story about when Grandad was a small boy, they got home on the buckboard and great-granddad had to move a tumbleweed that was bigger than the buckboard out of the cut going to the front door. Fish-Sauce and Chocolate works best for the little crunchy critters. I grew up driving in snow (Mt. Please scream and shout somewhere else.) Improvise Adapt Overcome. Of course, if you go south enough, you have a choice of the Gulf or Mexico. Since none of us knows what the next SHTF will be, or what turmoil it will bring down on us, mental toughness combined with flexibility/creativeness will be a huge deal. (Rodney King Riots… Read more », Nailbanger, perhaps someone who’s been through it successfully can offer some possibilities. haha. Those are words I live by and have used many times.
I used hand-warmers (from my vehicle) taped to the water line to thaw out the frozen pipe. , hermit us Heros are only in comic books or past history. When things don’t go as planned you can either shut down, or…. Even bad luck can quickly destroy your carefully thought out strategy. When a Nor’easter is ripping down your power lines in the freezing cold or the bold go into a flaming house to rescue someone not even their family. They just get used while the original intent not being the purpose during our modern era. yep- Puerco (oh excuse me) Puerto Ricans get FAR more fed funding then they pay into the pot, and they don’t pay personal income taxes either. When she opened her purse to pay for her lunch it was filled with packages of salt, pepper, sugar, ketchup, milk and napkins. She still manage to pack in the tp. I was more less being sarcastic. In a true SHTF you gotta figure more is NOT going to work than is going to work (and I’m not just talking about equipment or electronics). If you admit you think you might be crazy, rest assured, you’re not. I have never in my life seen so many disgusting, sub-human beings as during that time. Also at the end of the movie, Watney describes surviving by solving a problem, and then if you solve that, you get to figure out the next one. When your chainsaw breaks down, or you’re out of gas/two stroke oil, do you have a bow saw? Toasting works pretty well, but take the back legs off – they scratch! Thanks for the consideration ………..but as a southerner I don’t think any of us with good sense would ever consider that disparagin in any way. I was surprised to hear that because the weather map I saw didn’t show any snowfall that far south in SC. Just sayin, it happens. The .gov or the retired senator who’s plans went down the flusher when they would not move over or give in his demands….???
“Improvise, Adapt, Overcome” is an unofficial slogan among Marines made popular by Clint Eastwood’s movie, Heartbreak Ridge. And if they felt jilted or passed-over, they would cuss you out or threaten you because you somehow stood in the way of them getting more free-stuff. At this point, i dont really care if im at ground zero anymore, this world is so screwed up i have no interest in saving any of it, NRP Oh and forgot to add,
Having dealt with truly crazy people on a fairly regular basis for years as part of my profession, there’s one thing I can say with confidence. So I asked my mother how much snow they got….