W55: A Sunday Picnic… With Guns!

This week started off with a bang… Literally! Okay, not funny. But seriously shooting guns feels great. I think Molalla culture may have worked its magic on me; I wear all camo, love to shoot guns, and live in a motorhome.

But no, seriously I went shooting guns with my family on Sunday. I shot my grandfathers 357 and my step fathers .22. The AK47 in the photo above belongs to my brother. I actually didn’t shoot that one, I just wanted to hold it. I plan to buy a gun pretty soon, probably just a .22 rifle, or perhaps a rifle powerful enough to take down a deer. I’d like to go bow-hunting, but if I can’t get any deer with that, I’ll just use a gun. I think guns don’t have the ethics or skill they way bow-hunting does, and guns come from the industrial economy, but I want subsistence here, so I don’t really care. I know that guns won’t last forever, so I learn to hunt with a bow and arrow and traps too, but right now I’d like to provide myself with as much “free food” as possible. Though the cost of guns, ammo and hunting license’s don’t really make deer hunting “free.”

The rest of the week I felt weak and tired and depressed and spent working at my job. I haven’t felt as deppressed as I have this last week in years. I laughed, telly Penny, that I thought about those silly “stress points” scale that dictate your anxiety and depression levels. You know, moving to a new place = 200 points, the death of a loved one = 400 points, etc. I have moved to Molalla, lost contact with most of my friends and started working at a new job. The weather also turned cold and nasty again, adding to my melancholy. So yeah, aside from unloading a few rounds of hot lead, I didn’t do shit this week. We’ll call it a feral failure.

Urban Scout’s Laundry List Week 55:

1. Construct and set Deadfall Trap. (Nope)

2. Write about Bleeding heart and that other plant. (Nope)

3. Build a compost pile. (Nope)

4. Finish my Collapse Vs. Rewilding draft and post it. (Yes!)

5. Paint Motorhome. (A little)

So yeah, this week we’ll try something new; reverse psychology. I will do nothing on my Laundry List:

Urban Scout’s Non-Weekly Laundry List for Week 56:

1. Do not construct a dead fall trap.

2. Do not write about Bleeding Heart and that other plant.

3. Do not build a compost pile.

4. Do not write a blog on AdBusters Vs. Rewilding.

5. Do not write a blog on Meaninglessness Vs. Rewilding.

6. Do not finish painting motorhome.

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