Alright.  Everyone has seen Zombieland right?  What is rule number one in that film?  Cardio.  I will have to step up to the plate and admit that this is true.  Moving here has beaten my ass into submission.  I’m exhausted and sore quite often just because of outside work.

I have sat on my ass for a very long time because of the job.  I know that I cannot keep up with someone that is actually in shape.  Does this bother me?  Absolutely not at the present time.  The reason behind this is that I do push myself to get things done and I’m doing more than most people.

Not only am I gaining strength and endurance right now.  I am gaining knowledge and skills that will prove useful in the future.  I believe that getting both at the same time is a wonderful way to live currently.  Now let’s see how much I can pack into a weekend and attempt to have a social life on top of that.

Found someone on ever famous list of craig.  A dump truck full of compost was plastered onto the lawn and some of it has migrated into the garden.  Yup, the garden is now tilled and ready to plant.  Even migrated some berry of some sort, either black or ras we’ll see when they start to grow.

So in order to build my damn shelves I had to build saw horses.  Fun shit.  Of course the home depot sells 2×4′s in 7 and half feet.  Not the usual 8 feet length that you expect and is normal.  Well needless to say I built some crazy tall saw horses.  Eventually cut them down and have them at the right size.

Now it’s time to figure out the next stage of building in the room for storage and organization.  So now that I have saw horses I can build my shelves.  That was the goal of this weekend.  Build my damn selves.

Here’s the stupidity pictures.  I also have to say hand tools are awesome but suck due to the amount of pain I feel right now.

Hopefully soon I’ll get to those pallets and what they can be used for other than bon fires.

Here’s some pictures of the outside of where I now live.  Getting it all ready for spring planting.  Figure we’re gonna build a chicken tractor (not started yet), a new rabbit hutch (not started yet), larger aquaponics (not started yet) and of course our big ass garden.

First one is the front yard.  Second is the house, notice the flag? , last three are the back yard.

So I figure I’ll start a thread now that I have some time. Not too many pictures, haven’t gotten the out doors yet been working all week but here’s some of the goodness so far. Mind you we moved from San Diego across country towing a pick up truck behind a jeep cherokee. We filled up both vehicles and that means no furniture or any of those “nice” things. Basically living on the very basics that we have access to as we build things up. There will be a lot of things throughout the next few months as we build and get our new place of residence more sustainable.

I have to start off with my dog, my bad:

Forgot to buy a shower curtain, guess what we did instead with the extra one?

My friend and coconspirator smoking a cuban on night number one of living here:

Ooops, accidentally set my hand on fire with a giant USMC lighter:

The important things to build what we need:

Quick view of my room, I mentioned no furniture right?

Guess what my sleeping pad is

My trash can, cheap as hell

General storage of things like ammo, camping gear, cables and anything else that could fit into these

Laundry hamper:

guess the rifles before I build my new gun rack for the room

I’ll take some out door pictures tomorrow before we start working on my truck to get it running again so there will be before and after pictures.

Yesterday I took Daffy to Action K9 Sports up in Escondido.  It was her first time to really be on a farm, and actually get to deal with cows, goats and sheep.  The purpose for heading up that way?  To see if she has a good instinct to chase and herd animals.  Of course she does, it’s what she was bred for.

Daffy did absolutely wonderful.  She has the instinct, she needs to do this.  Unfortunately I’m the one that needs to learn more.  I’m not that great at it.  With time I’m certain that will change.

Daffy got to chase sheep twice yesterday and had a blast.  She was so happy all day out there.  Makes me wish that we lived on a farm just so she could have this every day.  Maybe one day in the future she will.

She and I got there stupid early so we went walking through one of the fields and through a dry creek bed on the property.  While in the creek bed she saw a lizard and charged at it.  Once she caught it she consumed the little devil in no time flat.  It cracked me up.

Looks like for the next few months we’ll be going every other Saturday.  She’ll be a great herding dog

Picked up some new boots a couple of weeks ago.  I needed something a bit more outdoorsy than what I have in the stable of shoes and boots.  Normally I’m a big John Fluevog person when it comes to style.  I even have an awesome pair of 40th Anniversary gold boots from him.  They’re comfortable, and definitely stand out when on a night on the town, yet absolutely horrible if you’re going to be doing anything remotely out doors.  Some research and I came to the conclusion that I’m gonna give Converse a try.  I loved the chucks growing up and skate boarding.  Didn’t know they made boots.

Boy am I glad I went this route.  These boots are absolutely comfortable.  Upon putting them on for the first time they already felt like they were broken in for me.  Still stiff in some places, but where it truly counts is where your foot is sitting on the inside.  These things have a nice spring added in because of the inserts that come by default.  If you normally wear a specific type of insert I can only imagine these boots being even more comfortable.

The side zipper certainly makes getting them off easier.  Perhaps I haven’t worn these enough yet to make it easier to put them on as I still have to untie them each time I put them on, but thems the bricks.  It’s a nice little addition for someone who has never had boots that zipped up on the side.  I don’t see myself wanting boots without this feature again.

The sole of these boots is what most impresses me.  They’re very grippy on just about any surface.  Normal around the city I can’t imagine myself falling at all.  Yesterday when I was with the dog on a ranch we went for a short little two mile hike through a dry creek bed and I had no issues climing over dead trees, over the banks, through the sand or the fields we were walking in as well.  Definitely feel good for the next time I go hiking and camping wearing these things.

Usually at the beach I’m barefoot or just in flip flops but decided today I would give the boots a water test.  Water is hard to come by here in San Diego County.  I hit the waves slightly, not enough to submerse my legs up to the knees but enough to get the boots wet.  My feet stayed dry with that test.  On the walk around and over to the swamp area of the dog park I had no issues with that terrain either.  Feet stayed dry, never lost footing which is a miracle when you have a hyper dog always running around you.

All in all I give these boots an A+.  I have no clue how they would work when it comes to cold weather but I feel they would be fine if you wore wool socks.

I recently won an ebay auction for a Baladeo 34g knife.  Figured it was a good price so why not?  I’d like to give a light weight knife a try and might as well toss up my initial thoughts on it.  I’ve been using it for a day and I’ve already come to a few conclusions.

First off, this knife is retardedly light weight.  I thought my usual EDC (every day carry) "knife" was light weight.  Normally I carry a Skeletool by Leatherman that weighs in at a bit more than five ounces.  Putting this knife in my left pocket I could have easily forgotten that it was even there.  Thankfully there’s a decent clip on the blade that holds very securely.  Definitely a bonus.

The second thing that really shocked me was at how thin it really was.  They make this happen with a folding knife by only having one part of the "handle" that you would normally find in a knife of this nature.  It’s not that big of a deal since it’s all compact and held together tightly.  I don’t forsee myself accidently getting cut when taking it from my pocket or even my belt if I have it on there.  Not too shabby.

Thirdly, usually when I purchase a blade I have to sharpen it.  Rarely has a knife come to me that was razor sharp.  With the 34g I was able to shave part of my face with no problems.  Of course this was made much easier with the use of shaving foam.  Not out in the woods right now so I don’t have to deal without that little luxury.

That’s definitely the good.  I need to toss in what I don’t like about this product.  I am left handed.  I do understand that this is a minority within the world.  I shouldn’t trust myself with something this sharp in my stupid right hand that has less dexterity.

While cutting open some boxes at work, basic cardboard and packing tape, the knife collapsed on me.  I figured I didn’t have it locked securely into place so I verified that I did.  A few small cuts later and it collapsed a second time.  This thing is definitely not made for people who favor the southpaw.

I tried widdling some wood, and shaving the bark off of a small branch I cut with a different knife.  I would not want to use this thing for either of those tasks.  If I needed to do anything with wood, hell even thick weeds, I would be sore pressed to have anything productive happen.  It’s simply far too thin and flimsy for any serious work. 

Cutting vegetables went well.  It sliced through a tomato without blinking  due to how sharp it is.  Very easy to clean after that.  I figure it would go through an onion or potato equally as well but don’t have any to test with.

Does this have a place in my pack?  Or should I just put it away?  Honestly I believe it’s only use for me shall be as part of my small fishing kit.  Keeping it sharp and it’s ease of cleaning along with how thin and flexible the blade actually is leads me to believe that this would be a great light weight fillet knife while out on the the trail or even just dock fishing.

If you’re definitely a gram weenie it’s a decent knife for small camp chores.  I wouldn’t try to rely on it more than that.