Galt's Gulch

The Sign in my Backyard

Posted by $ Abaco 4 days, 1 hour ago to Entertainment
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Just before I moved from Commiefornia a young lady moved into the rental house across the street from us. She got into woodworking and would always be out in her garage, wood chips pilled up everywhere, working away in the norcal heat - all that loud noise going on. It didn't hurt that she addressed the heat by working in daisy dukes and a bikini top...but I digress. She made a couple things for me and one was a small sign that reads "Galt's Gulch". I went out at sunup this morning and took a picture of it at the base of my back fence. We have a nice view of the Truckee Meadows and a look past this sign at it. Gives me a nice feeling...different than the feeling of seeing that young lady... more lasting.

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  • Posted by jack1776 3 days, 23 hours ago
    Abaco, me and my wife did the Commiefornia exit four years ago. Best move I could have done, never had any real friends in Lincoln, CA but we moved to Idaho and have many new true friends. LOL, I was pulled over in Truckee on the way out with my last load (going too fast with a trailer) and the CHP officer looked in my truck and said, "You moving out, I'm jealous" and let me go with a warning. It might have been the Trump hat also... Oh and the F*&k Biden sticker in the back window. Where did you move to?
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    • Posted by $ Abaco 3 days, 13 hours ago
      I remember when Lincoln was very quiet. I used to shoot landings out there at the airport. When I got my pilots license in Auburn in the 80s I met the guy Lincoln’s airport is named after. I ended up in the Reno area. I love living in northern NV.
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  • Posted by CaptainKirk 2 days, 22 hours ago
    LOL, my daughter lives outside of Reno.
    And I latched onto Truckee, which is not far from her... Nice...
    While being Gen Z. She's read Rand, and is mostly libertarian. Already bought her first house... (even she calls it her first house... as I believe mindset is everything).

    As you celebrate Thanksgiving... Be thankful for your little piece of the Gulch!
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  • Posted by VetteGuy 4 days ago
    Enjoy the view ... I am envious.

    I wanted to move to a more rural setting, but ended up in a subdivision closer to the grandkid [at the wife's insistence]. sigh ...
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 3 days, 23 hours ago
      We've been rural after having left the People's Republic of Taxachusetts years ago. Rural living invites having a tremendously long TODO list. My wife's outside right now building a new horse fence, while I'm taking 5 min off from trying to get the fuel on one of our diesel trucks working. Wouldn't start, cracked open two injectors and got a dribble instead of a spurt. FSS? Fuel filter? This truck is now the item that's ahead of all the top-priority items.
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      • Posted by $ Snezzy 3 days, 21 hours ago
        The relay for the fuel shutdown was loose. Truck is now working again, and my wife's finished the fence. Next step is to move two ponies, Tumbleweed and Buttercrunch, into new paddocks.

        We're beginning to entertain a crazy plan of selling the whole works, ponies and all, to someone who relishes the idea of providing pony rides to kids. No, we don't know where we would go. Geezer Gulch, maybe?
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  • Posted by term2 2 days, 21 hours ago
    Gulch is first of all in the mind. Secondly its inside of your house (castle). After that, its pretty hard to actually live in Galts Gulch here in the USA except by yourself with almost no one else around.
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    • Posted by $ Abaco 2 days, 13 hours ago
      Pretty true. For a few years before I left Commiefornia I started to plan a "commune" of several acres near Ione, California. I wanted to acquire the land in the rolling oak region, put several modest yet comfortable homes on it and include a pool and central structure for home schooling and office spaces for the parents. I'd design and equip solar thermal, PV, private sewer and water. Several families we knew who are like-minded and also no longer had any faith in the public education system there would buy in and we'd only have to leave when some parents would go into town for work or groceries. But, one day it dawned on me that the county would get alerted by some leftist busy bodies that there are "strange people with children living in this odd commune..." and we'd get targeted and it'd all be for nothing. I don't think the lefty totalitarians would leave us alone. You'd have to have the invisibility of the Gulch or forget it.
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      • Posted by term2 20 hours, 9 minutes ago
        Living under the radar is essential. I would say that 4 families probably would work. The issue would be the precious children's schooling. The system would be upset at not being able to force the children to attend government indoctrination schools. I dont know the rules on home schooling, but I suspect that would be the sticking point in your plan.
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