Id love to live in Cali if it wasn't for the politics and regulations on everything. Half the stuff I have probably doesn't have the proper buttons or safety tabs and I'm pretty sure my guns and cars are highly illegal haha. But I live in Saguache county Colorado, my dogs run free to catch rabbits, I can shoot guns off my front porch and we use an outhouse. Totally different worlds!
I'm always trying to pump you guys up but I mean no harm in my joking. You have a beautiful state and everything in one package.
It's really becoming a loss for the nation because it affects anyone traveling there or anyone who may want property there as well. Sucks for everyone the way it's going and I worry about Colorado. Many Californians have moved here and they brought their big ideas with them.
It's already happening here to a lesser degree.
Pumping us up by implying we bend over and take it?.... You know that's how you've spoken to some of us. I guess its only a joke though.
I have four kids my two oldest are from a previous marriage. They live with me and I would have to go to court to take them out of state. Not to mention ask my wife to quit her job that she loves, sell my house, close my biz etc...
I grew up here in Riverside County surrounded by concrete and morons. We drove over it and them to get out to the desert to explore, rock hound and look for gold. I left for Alaska when I was nineteen. Worked there the next five seasons May to October.
I'm a snowboarder and skier. I worked in Montana , Oregon, New York, Arizona and Texas in my "off" seasons. Until I had those first two kids. My ex was from Eastern Ca.
So, I planted my feet there for a five years on a twenty six acre ranch. COMPLETELY off grid. Water from a well electricity initially from a genny and then from a solar system we put in ourselves.
When your wife decides she wants a boyfriend in a one stoplight town it tends to be time to start over. Family here so, logical place to start over. Back to the concrete( CHINO can you say barf) until feet are under you...and out of there in nine months. I helped open the first Bass Pro in Ca. was supposed to go to the second but, they scrapped the restaurant so that was a no go. They wanted me to be on the national training team but , I couldn't cause my kids and I was a single dad.
So, I did what I wanted to do since I was fifteen. I moved to the Motherlode of Ca. to look for gold as much as I possibly could.
Ten ( oops twelve years time flies) years later I live in the forrest gold right under my feet, 43 acres claimed three quarters of a mile a way. Remarried to a real women two more kids. A cool little biz.
Not much to complain about.
Other than the legislature making up bs to stop me from doing what I want to do.
I was dredging for a living on a 160 acre lease when the ban was signed...we dredged until it snowed...I got involved in the fight.
I'll admit I didn't know of the issues that modern small scale miners were facing until that year. Notice my Join date for tnet.
I joined because it was one of the few places sharing info on the situation. 49er mikes was the other but, it is gone now.
GPAA PLP etc. were not really doing all that much I've seen more grit out of individuals I've met in person during this than anyone on the outside telling us what we are doing or getting wrong.
I've spent hours and money going to the State Capitol. Standing next to and in front of several people who post here. Fighting or at least trying to fight for those rights.
Any of them and myself will tell you that it isn't about fighting and standing up for your self here.
They use our own tax money to pay for the groups that put legislation in place to take our rights away. While pretending they are doing it because of some sort of public outcry or perceived issue. Which is pretty funny cause every time we are in chambers our side out numbers their side in representation like 8 to 1.
So, many show up against the bills that they give us overflow rooms...and still vote down party lines.
So, please when your pumping us up....trying to criticize us into being as strong and brave as you.....please remember that you just may not know that much about those of us who do fight....and it is not about just giving up and moving to a place that isn't as populated with so many weak minded subjects.
I have quite a bit of family in Colorado I used to want to move there. But, because it will be Californicated in short order...it isn't on my list anymore.
