The Story of Lori, Chapter 2

[davina61]

One of the folks I chat with on Bad Chad You Tube has been moved twice by the fire in Georgia, so far his house is okay but the fires keep reigniting.

[ChrissyRyan]

Lori,


I hope all is well with you.  Thanks for all you do for us.


Chrissy

[Lori Dee ✅]

Lori,


I hope all is well with you.  Thanks for all you do for us.


Chrissy

Thank you, Chrissy!

Just busy today with errands and appointments.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Now that I am working on my second novel, my neighbor has become interested in writing one as well.

He has decades of experience cooking in kitchens at many different restaurants. He is currently organizing recipes he has collected over the decades and is loading them into his laptop to produce a cookbook.

He wants to go out to his property, where he has a Connex container of stashed supplies. (He is a fellow prepper.) He said he has a box of old recipes from his Irish grandmother that he wants to preserve. We might do some shooting while we are out there, too.

We have planned to go out several times, but the weather has turned to crap: wind, rain, or both. Too windy for shooting, and his land has no roads with soil that is mostly clay. What we called "gumbo" in South Dakota. It sticks to everything, fills tire treads, and then is very slick, removing all traction. Four-wheel drive doesn't matter without traction.

The forecast for tomorrow and Friday? Rain. Of course.

[Stottie Girl]

Now that I am working on my second novel, my neighbor has become interested in writing one as well.

He has decades of experience cooking in kitchens at many different restaurants. He is currently organizing recipes he has collected over the decades and is loading them into his laptop to produce a cookbook.

He wants to go out to his property, where he has a Connex container of stashed supplies. (He is a fellow prepper.) He said he has a box of old recipes from his Irish grandmother that he wants to preserve. We might do some shooting while we are out there, too.

We have planned to go out several times, but the weather has turned to crap: wind, rain, or both. Too windy for shooting, and his land has no roads with soil that is mostly clay. What we called "gumbo" in South Dakota. It sticks to everything, fills tire treads, and then is very slick, removing all traction. Four-wheel drive doesn't matter without traction.

The forecast for tomorrow and Friday? Rain. Of course.

Maybe get your hands on an old tank? I mean, you have the know how!

This neighbour......is he single?😉

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

Now that I am working on my second novel, my neighbor has become interested in writing one as well.

He has decades of experience cooking in kitchens at many different restaurants. He is currently organizing recipes he has collected over the decades and is loading them into his laptop to produce a cookbook.

He wants to go out to his property, where he has a Connex container of stashed supplies. (He is a fellow prepper.) He said he has a box of old recipes from his Irish grandmother that he wants to preserve. We might do some shooting while we are out there, too.

We have planned to go out several times, but the weather has turned to crap: wind, rain, or both. Too windy for shooting, and his land has no roads with soil that is mostly clay. What we called "gumbo" in South Dakota. It sticks to everything, fills tire treads, and then is very slick, removing all traction. Four-wheel drive doesn't matter without traction.

The forecast for tomorrow and Friday? Rain. Of course.

That definitely sounds like an interesting adventure. I'm sure you'll get great pictures when you finally get there. That clay soil is awful. I've worked that before and sticks in lumps to your boots until they are too heavy to lift.

Charlotte 😻

[Lori Dee ✅]

Maybe get your hands on an old tank? I mean, you have the know how!

This neighbour......is he single?😉

LOL. I would have more fun just modifying my Jeep. We have discussed mounting various weapons systems on it: missiles, machine guns, trebuchets, ballistas. I really like the ballista idea, and we have come up with a nitro-cyclinder design. No prototype yet.

And yes, he is single, bisexual, and says he is attracted to trans women. I'm not sure if that was a confession or if he was hitting on me (again).

😁

[Dawn Kellie]

LOL. I would have more fun just modifying my Jeep. We have discussed mounting various weapons systems on it: missiles, machine guns, trebuchets, ballistas. I really like the ballista idea, and we have come up with a nitro-cyclinder design. No prototype yet.

And yes, he is single, bisexual, and says he is attracted to trans women. I'm not sure if that was a confession or if he was hitting on me (again).

😁

You go get him

[ChrissyRyan]

Jeeps are kinda cool.  I saw some of those old ones like they have on reruns of an old TV show covering the Korean War times.  I think they used similar jeeps in WW2.  Maybe they still use them!

[Lori Dee ✅]

Jeeps are kinda cool.  I saw some of those old ones like they have on reruns of an old TV show covering the Korean War times.  I think they used similar jeeps in WW2.  Maybe they still use them!

Yes, the Jeep Willys was very popular back then. The color of my Jeep is called '41 to honor the old 1941 Jeeps used in the military. They are no longer used because the military now uses the HMMV (Humvee), the Hummer SUV. I never cared for them. They are cramped and less fun to drive.

[ChrissyRyan]

Are the Humvees the ones that are cramped or the jeeps?

[KristaFairchild]

I'm a geek for maps and and a lover of locations and natural areas. 

We have wonderful overlaps!

I spent four summers in South Dakota (where I first encountered overt racism) in the Black Hills, working at Wind Cave NP. Each winter I moved back to the mountains above LA (ok, Pasadena) and spent most weekends in the CA desert. Those are the only places I've visited or live where my heart sang. I first traveled to the desert from Michigan, because it called to me. And it was on a family camping trip two years to Death Valley where I dressed male for a week and felt like clawing out of my skin. The desert spoke to me. 

My brother lives outside of Denver, though I rarely get there. I'm glad you've found a safer and more affirming place. I'm 64 so your journey is speaking to me. I've never considered any gender affirming care very seriously due to my age, so you have me thinking! 

[Lori Dee ✅]

Are the Humvees the ones that are cramped or the jeeps?

The Humvees. They just crammed more stuff in them, like the crew was a second thought.

[Lori Dee ✅]

I'm a geek for maps and and a lover of locations and natural areas.

We have wonderful overlaps!

I spent four summers in South Dakota (where I first encountered overt racism) in the Black Hills, working at Wind Cave NP. Each winter I moved back to the mountains above LA (ok, Pasadena) and spent most weekends in the CA desert. Those are the only places I've visited or live where my heart sang. I first traveled to the desert from Michigan, because it called to me. And it was on a family camping trip two years to Death Valley where I dressed male for a week and felt like clawing out of my skin. The desert spoke to me.

My brother lives outside of Denver, though I rarely get there. I'm glad you've found a safer and more affirming place. I'm 64 so your journey is speaking to me. I've never considered any gender affirming care very seriously due to my age, so you have me thinking!

Wow, we do have overlaps!

I grew up in the LA area: Lennox, Long Beach, and Manhattan Beach. When I was ten, my parents bought a ranch near Hinkley (Barstow area) where we raised rabbits commercially. That was decades before Erin Brokovich showed up. My dad was an Engineer who worked for NASA out at the Goldstone Deep Space Complex.

My parents divorced, and my dad moved to Denver. I traveled around with my mom for a couple of years, then moved back in with my dad. We moved from Arvada to Loveland, and he still lives there.

In South Dakota, one of my neighbors was Black Elk's granddaughter. She led the push to rename Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak. She told me the Lakota creation stories and invited me to go with her to Wind Cave to visit the sacred site. I think we went three or four times, then she moved away, and we lost touch. I wouldn't go back without her, or without an explicit invitation from the tribe.

I am 68 and started transition at 62. I, too, was worried that my age may be a factor. My Endocrinologist told me that age does not matter even for surgery. What matters is your overall health. If you are healthy, there is nothing to stop you. If you have health issues, then those must be taken into account. Unfortunately, as we age, more of those health issues arise. So it isn't the number of years you have survived. Just your state of health that matters.

[Lori Dee ✅]

So much for the plan to go shooting tomorrow.

Winter Storm Warning issued April 29 at 7:52PM MDT until May 2 at 12:00AM MDT by NWS Pueblo CO

🫨

[KristaFairchild]

Wow, we do have overlaps!

I grew up in the LA area: Lennox, Long Beach, and Manhattan Beach. When I was ten, my parents bought a ranch near Hinkley (Barstow area) where we raised rabbits commercially. That was decades before Erin Brokovich showed up. My dad was an Engineer who worked for NASA out at the Goldstone Deep Space Complex.

My parents divorced, and my dad moved to Denver. I traveled around with my mom for a couple of years, then moved back in with my dad. We moved from Arvada to Loveland, and he still lives there.

In South Dakota, one of my neighbors was Black Elk's granddaughter. She led the push to rename Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak. She told me the Lakota creation stories and invited me to go with her to Wind Cave to visit the sacred site. I think we went three or four times, then she moved away, and we lost touch. I wouldn't go back without her, or without an explicit invitation from the tribe.

I am 68 and started transition at 62. I, too, was worried that my age may be a factor. My Endocrinologist told me that age does not matter even for surgery. What matters is your overall health. If you are healthy, there is nothing to stop you. If you have health issues, then those must be taken into account. Unfortunately, as we age, more of those health issues arise. So it isn't the number of years you have survived. Just your state of health that matters.

It's even more amazing now! I hung out in Long Beach in the early 90s because my wife was from HB. NASA? Yeah, I run a planetarium. Of course I've hiked Harney Peak but found Mateo Tipi more spiritual when I went there at dusk. At Wind Cave life tours for Lakota children sometimes.  Arvada? That's the city my brother lives in. Lakota? I visited Pine Ridge many times and studied Lakota religion. I did a vision quest near Newspaper Rock (near Barstow, I think) and adopted the kangaroo rat based on that vision. That was 35 years ago and still my totem. 

My health is great except for my joints. I'm feeling a stronger interest in HRT though necessitates a potentially challenging conversation with my wife. She is supportive but may have a boundary. 

[Lori Dee ✅]

Wow. Mind blown.

I love Kangaroo Rats!

[KristaFairchild]

Wow. Mind blown.

I love Kangaroo Rats!

That's my nature name. K-rat. I'm nonviolent, but have you seen them battling rattlesnakes? 🤯

[Lori Dee ✅]

That's my nature name. K-rat. I'm nonviolent, but have you seen them battling rattlesnakes? 🤯

I love their big feet and that tuft of fur at the end of their tails.

As kids, my brothers and I would try to catch them. They are so fast!

[Stottie Girl]

LOL. I would have more fun just modifying my Jeep. We have discussed mounting various weapons systems on it: missiles, machine guns, trebuchets, ballistas. I really like the ballista idea, and we have come up with a nitro-cyclinder design. No prototype yet.

And yes, he is single, bisexual, and says he is attracted to trans women. I'm not sure if that was a confession or if he was hitting on me (again).

😁

Definitely hitting on you Lori! There is no other reason to disclose that to you surely?