Been set up here for a couple days... pulled into an open spot in the first half mile where the NF road has left the pavement of the highway... and not a day of those has gone by, where... someone... hasn't pulled into where we're camped... and parked!... to go to the river...
Kind of like someone parking in your yard... to climb over your back fence... to go to the 7-11 down the street...
No... I don't own this land... but a man's camp is his camp... and the tradition, out in Far Country is; You ask permission, 'fore you enter a man's camp... It's a common courtesy, plain and simple... A courtesy that I've found, Lacking, in a lot of modern Soh-Si-Uh-Tee...
One outfit walked right directly through our camp... No more then six feet from the trailer! ...
Now... you've got to understand... there's another "Traditional Dispersed campsite" just past us, down river, that was clear... and before you get to our "Pull out"... there's a couple "Turnouts" on the road to park for River access... and then... there's miles and miles past us... and millions of acres...
No need to violate the "Space" and privacy of a person's camp.
Do folks have no concept of privacy? or common Courtesy? Why do they think people Boondock? ... or "Dispersed Camp"?
If I walked up and cut 'tween them and their cart in the grocery store... they'd raise a stink... This here is the same dang thing... How can folks not comprehend how rude they are?
Yesterday, the bozo pulled up, and parked... almost at our awning!... and this is in the middle of, The Boss only knows, how many millions of acres on the Lolo National Forest... with a whole great lot, of options...
For a minute or six... I had the almost irresistible urge to let my less then polite cowboy self ... go ahead and let the air out of the rude idiots tires... :) ... but then I realized... I'd be stuck with him and his... 'till the tow truck came! :)
Back in the Zion area, we passed up a boondock camp, for just the reason I'm speaking of... It was too close, to the site another traveler had... It's just plain rude...
A couple of "Examples" from the movies... that voice my feelin's on this; ...
John Wayne said something like this in the Shootist; "I won't be laid a hand on, I won't be lied to... I don't do these things to others and I require the same from them."
.. and Capt. Call in Lonesome Dove; "Can't stand rude behavior in a man... Won't Tolerate it!" (when he whupped that army scout) :)
It's all about common sense and courtesy... a lil' too lacking in this "Civilized" world...
Kind of curious to me... how the ignorant and "Wild West"... was so much more courteous and civilized... then this "Modern" and "Educated" imitation we're stuck with now...
I think I'll call 'em CB's ... Clueless Bozos...
But... lucky me... I had the antidote for their poor behavior... after my less then quiet comments to herself, 'bout their poor upbringing must have been overheard... waaaaaay down by the river... :) and they left after but a few minutes, and fishless...
I turned on good Ol' Bob Seger on the Ipod... and went back to tooling leather... :)
Got the wedding album 'bout 75% tooled... only have the inner liner "covers" left to tool now. Might even start putting things together this afternoon... assuming my usual; "Let's see if I can fix what ain't broke" syndrome doesn't get involved.
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| *Album Covers in Progress* |
I've designed... or... more accurately, am designing on the fly, an album layout, that will require no stitching. Since my good stitching horse is too big to haul around in the fiver... and my lil' stitching pony... is too little to do a reasonable job on anything with any size to it...
... and the fact that as I age... I get lazier by the hour...
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| *Front Cover finished* |
I thought it might be nice to come up with a good design, that would look good, and really simplify construction for those like me... who tool leather... while they're wandering in their RV's... with limited storage for leather tools and such.
So far... it looks like it's gonna work out... The whole thing will go together using only the proper glue... No stitching required... But... don't go holding your breath!... don't want to get letters telling how people fell over and whacked their heads... waiting to see how things came together... :)
Just wish my eyes and my hands would let me do the work with the quality I used to do... guess a perishable skill needs to be exercised a lil' more often to keep it sharpened! :)
So... Guess I should go move that "Warning! BEAR ATTACK!!!" sign... before I get back to Leather Carving... and... before the Sheriff comes by... :)
Brian
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4 comments:
Carry a roll of that yellow police crime scene tape with you and wrap it around nearby trees.
It amazes me how clueless and rude some people can be.
Thats great leather work!
It's becoming a too much common place today that people do not respect others space!
Teri; :) hmmm.... I like it!
Joe and Ellis; The trick for me is... to not let someone else's bad behavior color my own outlook... I can get frustrated by my inability to get a polite "message" across to people who think they have an "entitlement"... so... A WHOLE LOT of Seger on the Ipod! :)
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