Some Pictures From My Father's Place

[PlanetFrnd]

ah ha, I found the picture of his leftover y2k food

Yes, but can he play that 12-string?

 

[TooTall]

They'd probably have a ball there. Thing is, he doesn't want to part with anything. You could off him $100 for one of his 20 cookies jars and he'd refuse but he'd think he may need it someday.

Subtle hoarding? At least he isn't collecting human feces. Only the most hardcore of the hardcore hoarders make it onto that show.

 

[AKAK]

[quote='BusNative;194528;6]Yes, but can he play that 12-string?[/quote]




[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NrL50pL9FM"]YouTube - ‪Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven cover (12 string guitar)‬‏[/ame]

 

[DubCoffman62]

My brother just sent me some old pictures that he scanned. Back in like 1980 when my mother left my father said fuck it, packed up us in a truck and we headed out west for a 4 year adventure. Gold was high at the time and he thought he'd make a living panning for gold. If I remember correctly after one month he found exactly $8 worth That's me holding the bucket. I believe this was the Applegate river in Southern Oregon

We eventually landed at this cabin up in the hills outside of Jacksonville Oregon which was a castle compared to the camper we had been living in. We slept in the loft in sleeping bags. For much of the time there was a wasp nest about 3 feet above my head where I slept but we worked out a deal, they don't fuck with me and I don't fuck with them. I never got stung.
Sometimes I used think back to all of the hardship we endured and get bitter. We left a very comfortable existence for this, all almost overnight. Then one day I read that book "Into the Wild" and it kind of clicked. My father was this guy. He came from a very well-to-do family but he didn't want that. His mother was a bit domineering and always trying to steer him towards what she felt was best for him. This was his way of saying "fuck you all, I'm going to do what I want to do!"
Like I was saying, there were many hardships such as lack of food, lack of proper clothes, extreme heat in the summer and cold in the winter but I also have many fond memories of this time. We learned to supplement our diet with morel mushrooms, crawfish, a variety of fruits and berries that grow wild up there, I worked on a ranch that was nearby and often got paid with raw honey and milk, eggs and occasionally meat, we had a vegetable garden, we occasionally were able to trap pheasants and quail, just so many things that I would've never experienced.
This is the cabin where we lived

 

[powerlifter]

Cool pictures. You definitely learn a lot from something like that...I think living like that definitely gives you respect for a dollar bill some people don't have.I thought I was the only person on BP who eats morel mushrooms.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Cool pictures. You definitely learn a lot from something like that...I think living like that definitely gives you respect for a dollar bill some people don't have.I thought I was the only person on BP who eats morel mushrooms.

It certainly does. What it also does is condition you for tough times if they ever come. For someone older an extreme drop in standard in living would be traumatic but if it ever happens to me it won't be such a shock. I've been there, done that.

 

[BUCKYLE]

That's pretty beardly. I'd have loved to grow up like that.

I fucking love wild mushrooms.

 

[Gatorubet]

Bah! When I was a kid we'd grab those wasps that you are so lovey-dovey with and sting our own stomachs to keep our mind off the pain in our gut from not eating. You had raw honey, meat, eggs and milk????!!!! I 'd have DIED for just a smell of that. We had dirt to eat. Not the fancy dirt you have these days, all clean in bags at the Home Depot, but olden days dirt, with arrowheads and buffalo poop in it. And we were GLAD to have it. We'd walk 40 or 50 mile to school just to get beat with rods and sent home.

And you have an electrical box on your cabin. We never had electricity. We'd make the smallest kid in the house stand still while we lit his hair for light to write our homework. We had no fancy paper or dead sheep skins to write on either. We'd use paper bags we'd steal from kids whose rich show off parents went to the "food store". We didn't have pencils either. We'd break into nearby churches and strip lead paint from the windowsills, pop it in our mouths and chew 'em down to get something that would leave a mark on the paper bags - - - which we would hand it in to the teacher the next day -and get beat with rods for using paper bags to write on.

Bah. Soft kids like you make me SICK!

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Bah! When I was a kid we'd grab those wasps that you are so lovey-dovey with and sting our own stomachs to keep our mind off the pain in our gut from not eating. You had raw honey, meat, eggs and milk????!!!! I 'd have DIED for just a smell of that. We had dirt to eat. Not the fancy dirt you have these days, all clean in bags at the Home Depot, but olden days dirt, with arrowheads and buffalo poop in it. And we were GLAD to have it. We'd walk 40 or 50 mile to school just to get beat with rods and sent home.

And you have an electrical box on your cabin. We never had electricity. We'd make the smallest kid in the house stand still while we lit his hair for light to write our homework. We had no fancy paper or dead sheep skins to write on either. We'd use paper bags we'd steal from kids whose rich show off parents went to the "food store". We didn't have pencils either. We'd break into nearby churches and strip lead paint from the windowsills, pop it in our mouths and chew 'em down to get something that would leave a mark on the paper bags - - - which we would hand it in to the teacher the next day -and get beat with rods for using paper bags to write on.

Bah. Soft kids like you make me SICK!

Luxury!

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[DubCoffman62]

Bah! When I was a kid we'd grab those wasps that you are so lovey-dovey with and sting our own stomachs to keep our mind off the pain in our gut from not eating. You had raw honey, meat, eggs and milk????!!!! I 'd have DIED for just a smell of that. We had dirt to eat. Not the fancy dirt you have these days, all clean in bags at the Home Depot, but olden days dirt, with arrowheads and buffalo poop in it. And we were GLAD to have it. We'd walk 40 or 50 mile to school just to get beat with rods and sent home.

And you have an electrical box on your cabin. We never had electricity. We'd make the smallest kid in the house stand still while we lit his hair for light to write our homework. We had no fancy paper or dead sheep skins to write on either. We'd use paper bags we'd steal from kids whose rich show off parents went to the "food store". We didn't have pencils either. We'd break into nearby churches and strip lead paint from the windowsills, pop it in our mouths and chew 'em down to get something that would leave a mark on the paper bags - - - which we would hand it in to the teacher the next day -and get beat with rods for using paper bags to write on.

Bah. Soft kids like you make me SICK!

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[Crump's brother]

Cool pictures. You definitely learn a lot from something like that...I think living like that definitely gives you respect for a dollar bill some people don't have.I thought I was the only person on BP who eats morel mushrooms.

Spent many a day looking for mushrooms in the strip mines around Avondale as a youngster.

 

[Pheasant]

...I worked on a ranch that was nearby and often got paid with raw honey and milk, eggs and occasionally meat...

 

[DubCoffman62]

I can't believe it, he landed himself a live gig on the local radio station

 

[NFBuck]

WTF is going on here?

 

[Crump's brother]

Damn, that's cool. Is it available online? Highly doubt I can pick up that station here in NH.

I'm also guessing he has quite the compost heap. Am I right?