something that came up

Something that came up today was a discussion about a fily of 15 people living in a 3 bedroom house that was only 20 ft by 25 ft. I went into some detaul about this in my other blog and compared it to our micro house. The main reason I quit writing here was the fact that there has not been any feedback. Without feedback I tend to give up on writing and since no one wants ti leave a comment I havnt been posting. Just something to think about when you read people's blogs. Its not about money or popularity, its about having a comment that makes the writter to go on writing. Just saying. ~W

Just a few rings

For those who have not visited our new store as of yet, these are some of the rings i have posted. Remember you can view them all as well as purchase them at http://Whysprs-whymseys.square.site

Thanks for viewing ~W

added a bunch of rings to the store.

Today I added a bunch of rings to the Whysprs' Whymseys store, if anyone wants to buy any and are out of the United States, let me know. Im not currently shipping international but may be able to work something out.

I would post a pic but can't get it to load aparently.

a new store

I had signed up for square and ended up with a free site, so I placed all my stitch markers I currently have there, will also be adding other items there as well that we wil be selling. But thise wont be going up until we have this fair that we will be at in october.. just 3 weeks out and we are so excited. Lots of work to be done. If you want to see all the items I have made feel free to check us out at Whysprs-whymseys.square.site or at our etsy store, whysprswhymseysshop.etsy.com

we booked our first show.

A day or so ago we just booked our first fair to sell our goods. Its a historic village and we will be giving it a go. 1 saturday from about 10am til 4pm. Other than that we have our Etsy store at http//:whymseys.whysprs.com

We are now selling on Etsy

Our Etsy shop is now open!!!

Right now we have stich markers for those who crochet and knit. Feel free to have a look, will be adding new things quite regular. Leather craft, jewelry, crochet and many other things will be comming.

darkness decends and sent back

I gave a warning a few weeks ago about curses and similar. The use of magick, and those that wish ill will on people. I havnt oracticed magick in many years, I've hidden it though its a natural part of me. I became a christian and dont nessesarily agree with the religion people have pushed. That being said, im not affraid to send things back to some one and bind them out from ever doing it to some one again for attacking me. This is now at least twice this year that some one has done such to me. This time it was a difficult decision because it is mostlikely some one close to me that has done so. Most of the magick I have performed Infound easier to do in an alternate place, the astral they call it. Its natural for me to slip into that state due to being there so often in the past. Anyways, last night i had to send some of that negative back and binded that person so it could not be done again. This doesnt so much break it but sends it back to the owner.

Ever have one of th9se day?

You know one if the ones that nothing goes right and anything and everything that can go wrong does? That was today. Scheduled a day at ine of my regular clients and only expected to be there about 3 hours and not be that hard of a day.

Started out I went in and we discussed the things I needed to do and what was on the agenda. Wasnt a big deal, switch out a busted water hose, cut a limb that had fallen and remove it, trim some limbs that hang down far enough that are hitting the top of the car as you drive down the driveway, mow and weed eat.

Boy was I wrong..

Started the mower just fine, drove it out towards the truck so I could see in the tank and it looked like it had gas in it, which it looked like it had gas in it and thought i could mow the front end and then fill it up when i got back to the house. Nope, I was wrong. Got two thirds mowed by the street when the mower died.

The walk up the driveway from where the mower died was about the length of 2 or 3 city blocks. I was hobbling most the way from my foot and knee still hurting from the weekend.

I got the gas can and put it and the weed eater in the golf cart and drove back down to the mower to refill the gas.

Guess what still didn’t start? The mower, aparently the starter went out and I killed the battery trying to start it. So I went ahead and started weed eating. Got the entire front end on the one side finished. Pulled the battery and loaded it back up into the golf cart and drove it back to house to charge it.

Went inside and told my client about what happened and that inwas going to charge the battery while I cut up the limb.

She told me to use the chainsaw and that it should be good because it had just had a tune up a few years ago and hasnt been used since. I checked the oil and filled the gas tank, primed the motor and attempted to start it. It started but would not stay running.

Inwas already a bit tired from doing the weed eating, so i took the chainsaw back to the shed and put it up, and dug through my tool box to get to my saw zaw. Pulled out my long extension cord and plugged it in and proceeded to cut up this fairly big limb.

I backed up the truck but couldnt get it that close so had to walk these shorter chunks of wood that was still kinda heavy and loaded up my truck. After loaded I pulled my truck back forward and trimmed those low hanging limbs.

Wound up my cord and put my saw away, loaded up the battery back into the golf cart and my car battery jumper and drive back down to the mower. It still wouldnt start and apparently the battery didn’t charge. I used the jumper and got it to finally fire up by shorting the solenoid. But didnt stay running.

I drive back to house and the lady that helps with cleaning inside the house was just getting ready to leave and asked me what was going on. I told her I have to go tow the mower back to the house. She wanted to help by steering.

Guess where my straps were? In my tiredness and not expecting to have to tow the mower back, I had covered them up with the cut up logs. I dug through and found them and put them on top for easy access when I got to the mower.

I drove down to the mower and the lady was already there and looking at the mower. So i backed up to it and started attaching the straps. Went to the back and disengaged the drive mechanism which is supposed to basicly have it in neutral for towing. She got in the seat and I showed her to keep the handles in neutral. It didn’t engage but I didn’t know that at the time.

I started to pull forward and pulled it into the road, but since I didnt know it had not engaged into neutral, the back tires were locked and I left ruts in the dirt. The one end of the strap pulled free when the mower hit the road due to the extra resistance.

At this point I was frustrated but had an idea. I pulled out the jumper, raised the seat of the mower, connected it to the battery and then put it neutral. There was a sound that of it engaging, so I disconnected the battery and booster and listened for it to disengage. It didn’t so I was in luck, the mower was now locked into neutral

I started to pull forward and pulled it into the road, but since I didnt know it had not engaged into neutral, the back tires were locked and I left ruts in the dirt. The one end of the strap pulled free when the mower hit the road due to the extra resistance.

At this point I was frustrated but had an idea. I pulled out the jumper, raised the seat of the mower, connected it to the battery and then put it neutral. There was a sound that of it engaging, so I disconnected the battery and booster and listened for it to disengage. It didn’t so I was in luck, the mower was now locked into neutral.

I re attached the straps to the front and then hooked it up to the truck hitch and pulled it all the way to the house. When we got there I unhooked it from the truck and then and I pulled it the rest of the way and into the shed about 50 feet away. The lady kept telling me that she couldn’t believe i knew how to do all this and wanted to know how I knew to do things. I told her it was growing up fixing things and all was pretty much trial and error back then.

My client at this time was upset and scared that something happened to me because we had towed the mower back, I explained to her what was going on and she could tell I was tired. She told me I sould go home and get some rest. Wanted to know what she owed me for the work I did and I told her then told me to go home and rest and call in the next few days.

After I left I needed to go to the store and get food for Barbie (to see pic of her you can look at my post “pets“). I went in and bought what I needed and a few other things and came back to the truck. Unlocked the passenger door and loaded the items into the truck, shut and lock the door and then went to the driver side. I aparently had also tossed my heys up on the seat and didnt realise it. I was locked out.

I still made it home, woke up today hurting like hell but I survived.

words of warning.

Magick (note the k) a form of occult practice that has become popular again since the "great awakening" from back in the 50s. The words of warning I want to give is that those who are only adept, should be extremely careful in how they handle things. Emotions are strong power as is words and ceremonial repetition, and things come back to you more often than not. There are things one should not play with out there. I often have been asked in the past for love, curses, and many many more types of magick. Everything has balance and you really have to be careful to offset that balance. Along with that, images in your mind also play a part in that you can hold an image there and make it so. This being said, if you are throwing a spell out and suddenly think of some one else, guess what happens? It gets sent to the wrong person or to multiple people. 

Yes magick can be dangerous, but it can be a blessing as well. It is not inherently evil as so many people have said in the past, and its not inherently good either. It is a balance, and those who use it have to be weary of the responsibility of doing such.. 

resupply

Got to head to hobby lobby today and resuply on leather supplies as well jewlery supplies to make more stitch markers. 

Most of the time as of late, i have been making bracelets with beads and thread attached to leather straps. If you would like to see an example you will need to go to my other blog to see the photos. 

#resupply #leather #jewlery #hobby

Lost track of what I was thinking

Something I havnt talked about is that I do work as a handyman. With this type of work you run into all kinds of crazy, rather it be a possible client that refuses to pay or opening up a water heater closet to find theres no floor and its held up with straps and nailed to the wall.I started out doing just yard work and debris removal and then started getting asked about other things as well. In the begining, I didnt really have many tools other than what I needed to work on my car plus a hammer and hand saw. Now I have an entire tool chest that is packed full and I carry around with me all the time, plus several pneumatics and odd tools that I keep in a shed as well because it wont fit in the chest.I originally did it as a part time job right after my divorce for extra money that my full time job didn’t provide. I would take along my girlfriend at the time and her son with me, I would pay him for the help but only if he actually did work. It gave him a really good work ethic that he shows to this day.A few years in and I had a call from a local lawyer who also gave me business pointers and actually helped me a lot. The work I did for him was more of janitorial services for the most part in his offices. It was one of the oldest buildings in my town, built back in the late 1800s. Later he had me working at his home as well and had to use him as my lawyer to get my workmans comp claim to actually pay my medical bills when I got hurt at work.After I had gotten hurt at work and was able to walk again, I still had issues doing the work that I was doing normally. It was hard work, tossing 50 lb bags of feed almost daily all day long.Anyways, I left there and went full time as a handyman. It can be scary at times not knowing when the next call is going to come for you to make money to pay your bills or buy food. Its always feast or famine unless you have savings. I learned this lesson a few years ago. I had landed this big contract that I knew could end at any time but I took it anyways and quit another job that I had taken when there was no calls. It paid enough that I had paid up the mortgage for 6 months as well as the other bills. At the end of that 6 months I had gotten a few calls but they ended up not paying, normally I wouldn’t have worried about it so much but it was at the end of that 6 months and the mortgage was coming due.I chased down the company that owed me money but they soon changed thier phone number and it was like the company no longer existed. It was a corporate account from a maintenance outfit based out of Florida and I’m in Illinois. The amount would not have been worth the court fees to sue them because it would have cost more than it was worth. It did however cause me to loose our home.This was the fall prior to covid hitting. Thats when I built our tiny on wheels and that is where we are now.

#handyman #oddsandends

A glimpse into our life

JULY 2, 2023 ~ WHYSPRS

As I’ve stated before we are semi offgrid, we tend to use coolers to keep our food cool and can be difficult more in the summer than winter. You will want a good cooler to do this and yes they can be expensive but it is a good investment. The one we chose is the Lifetime 55 quart cooler. We chose it because it has flip tabs instead of having to pull the big rubber pieces up which is hard to do in the winter.

We keep ours outside due to the limited space inside, so you will want to have it in an accessable area and in the shade. Instead of buying ice all the time, you may want to invest in a freezer with solar set up. A freezer doesnt usually use power as much as you would expect and about a 100 watt system with a single car battery should work fine. Just make sure that you have enough amp output for the peak which is when the compressor first kicks on.

With our cook stove, we went with the camp chef, which is a propane stove and has its own oven in case we decide to bake things. We have been using it for about 3 years now and can say it does very well. It has 2 large burners on top, and 2 oven racks inside the oven which can fit up to a 12 inch pizza.

Our toilet is a chem toilet but I am seriously thinking about going back to a composting toilet with a urine diverter. They do work very well and you dont have to continue to purchase the chemicals which prevents the feces from breaking down. Considering the majority of the contents of a toilet ends up being liquid, it would save trips to a dump station for the chem toilet where as with a composting toilet you can either compost the waste, burn it or have it hauled away with the trash depending in the local laws.

We do have a single light in the house, a fan and now an air conditioner in our house. As for heat I am using a buddy heater which sometimes is too hot in the winter, so its not used a lot but is also hooked up to a 20 lb propane tank.

#offgrid #tinyhouse #lifestyle

Playin cbg p2

This is an old post. Aparently it was notes taken from someone  I had met on facebook at the time as with the previous post about cigar box guitars.

Playing Cigar Box Guitar - Part 2
I find GDG /151 tuning good for single note work, double stops, walking bass lines, shuffle rhythms, alternating bass, and bottleneck slide. It leads to an early rural country blues Delta tone. Although you can certainly strum chords, the string intervals of this tuning are not the best for creating a consistent Moveable Chord Method.
Using GDG, I can easily retune to ADF#. Not only changing the string intervals, but the key too. From G to D. This tuning creates an opportunity to play chords very similar to the method used on a standard 6 string guitar. Here is one example of how I utilize it: http://youtu.be/DAlIUpR12LY
See 2 CD Set (CD 4 & 6) Please watch the video demos and read the descriptions. They are on the individual CD listings. Click here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/njmikeb/m.html?_nkw=&_ar mrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

Playing cbg p1

Something that should have gotten posted years ago but didn't....

Playing Cigar Box Guitar - Part 1

Most folk, blues, gospel, and rock & roll songs are played in the common keys of C A G E D. They are all relative to each other. Each has a Major Scale that contains 8 notes (octave) A popular approach is to tune to the key of G. 1-G 2-A 3-B 4-C 5-D 6-E 7-F# 8-G

Here are 4 suggested tunings:

GDG / DGB / GDGB / DGBD

Here is an example of GDG tuning. Notice notes 151 from the G Major Scale are used to create this tuning. Use string strings: A (.045) D (.035) G (.026)

All aboard!!!

JUNE 28, 2023 ~ WHYSPRS

So been out doing the dishes, yes I do the dishes outside.

Anyways, when I’m doing the dishes I tend to listen to music, today I was listening to some Ozzy Osbourne. “Crazy Train”, it says it all about what we are living in today.

"Crazy, but that’s how it goes

Millions of people living as foes

Maybe it’s not too late

To learn how to love

And forget how to hate

Mental wounds not healing

Life’s a bitter shame

I’m going off the rails on a crazy train

I’m going off the rails on a crazy train

Let’s go

I’ve listened to preachers

I’ve listened to fools

I’ve watched all the dropouts

Who make their own rules

One person conditioned to rule and control

The media sells it and you live the role

Mental wounds still screaming

Driving me insane

I’m going off the rails on a crazy train

I’m going off the rails on a crazy train

I know that things are going wrong for me

You gotta listen to my words, yeah, yeah

Heirs of a cold war

That’s what we’ve become

Inheriting troubles, I’m mentally numb

Crazy, I just cannot bear

I’m living with something that just isn’t fair

Mental wounds not healing

Who and what’s to blame

I’m going off the rails on a crazy train

I’m going off the rails on a crazy train"

Writer/s: John Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Robert Daisley

Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

What I mean by “it says it all about today” is, that just by watching the news for a few moments any day of the week, we hear or see how people are attacking, rioting, killing, and hating on each other on a regular basis.

We really do need to learn to get along and quit being violent towards each other on this little marble of a world we live on. It’s gonna get real hard for all of us if we don’t.

A diffrent kind of easy bake oven

Over the years, I have baked things outside on the grill using portable oven and even though it is fairly small it works great for making biscuits or a small pizza. I remember once several years ago when we had the one tiny house, we had an outside kitchen that I had built. We went through several stoves until I had bought one I found in the local news paper ads. The oven didnt work on it and our son wanted pizza. We couldnt make a pizza until we had a working oven and this one did the trick.

You may want to purchase a separate oven thermometer because sometimes the one that is built-in can get to where it doesnt work over the years, plus it will give you a better reading from inside the oven. Temperatures can vary depending on your fire, rather it is under it or if you put briquets in a pie plate and set inside it as I have also done before.

Once you get using this type of oven and you learn how to keep the heat at the temperature that you want, you shouldnt have any problems and will only be limited to the 10″ size of the oven.

things I know best

I know a bit about a lot of things but there are a few things I know quite a bit about. Fishing, camping, simple get arounds for daily things (aka life hacks), and basic old school business (the new type I cant exactly wrap my head around that well). So my guess is just that I need to take you on a journey of things I do know as I try and wrap my head around things. My mind likes to be scattered at times because thats just how it works I guess. So let us begin again.

I am Brad, but I am known by many other names. Whysprs was one that I started using many years ago back when I was in college due to I had a tendency to get into trouble whispering to the student that was next to me when he would ask me a question about things being said. So after a while I transliterated it from whispers to whysprs. It became my screen name across the college so that the other students in my tech classes would know that it was me since most of them only called me whispers due to the interruptions of the instructor calling me out.

Now you know the story of the name so lets move on.

Since I was a kid, I always yad an interest in camping, fishing, hunting and living off the land. That being said I incorporated a lot of it together and anything I could learn from about it, I would consume the information, use what is useful and works and then discard that which didnt work. 

To be contiuned....

Mush

JUNE 24, 2023 ~ WHYSPRS

Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?

I know it doesnt sound ideal, but I grew up with a mom that was raised not long after the depression. We wasnt rich but we wasnt not poor either, about 90% of my parents earnings went back into our family business.

Every morning, mostly in winter but also on other cold days. After waking up and getting dressed, I was handed a large cup usually that was filled with a drink of liquid corn meal mush. It was usually mom that would make it and was cooked with a bit of bacon grease or butter and sugar, then added milk to thin it out and cool it enough to drink during the wait for the bus. Having mush always takes me back to the times of those cold mornings of holding my mush in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other and heavy backpack on my back while waiting in the cold just before daylight for the bus.

I still eat mush every now and again and always use butter and sugar instead of the bacon grease. My wife was recently introduced to it by me one morning and she couldnt believe she hadnt had it before.. lol

A long day for not doing much

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Today I did lawn mowing, even though it was using a riding lawn mower, it still took 2 hours and was very hot. The heat will always take the energy right out of you and this year it seems to be doing that a lot easier to me. I didnt get to weed eat much because my trimmer spool ran out and will be getting more like in the next couple days and then will need to go back and weed eat. Either way the lawn still looks good.

Other Places You Can Find Me

You can find me on other social media as well if you're interested. I will be getting more content up soon, just haven't had time to do so until now.

•odysee

•youtube

•wordpress

Hope to see you at one of these places as well. 

Thanks for visiting.

~W

Yard Ninjas!!!

JUNE 19, 2023 

Before I start this post, I wanted to share this with anyone that would be interested.

Can you squeeze in 5-8 hours per week for this remote job and earn 35 to 45 bucks an hour to make posts or comments on social media posts? If your answer is yes, then visit this link

Yard Ninjas!! What are they? The little guys that do regular acrobatics, parkour and sounds like they are filming an old kung-fu movie on my roof every morning. They tend to use my porch roof as a spring board to launch themselves into a nearby tree. Yes, I’m talking about squirrels aka tree rats. They have been eating the crap out of the ripe mulberries that became ripe way early this year. We haven’t had them here on the property as far back as i can remember, so was glad to see them this year. I noticed 1 or 2 last year but we now have several families of them. Just an observation the last few days.

the start of a new blog in a new location

Working towards moving over to a wordpress platform and will still be posting here as well, but you can follow me over to the new blog as i figure it all out. The big reason why im moving over that way is because i have been moving away from google.

whysprs in the winds

Side Hustle

I like most people need that extra cash to get me through sometimes, or just to have money to spend if i want to go out and do something. There's lots of side hustles to do out there that can do that, some are harder than others. One that im trying out at the moment is posting comments on facebook, youtube and twitter. If you would interested in doing similar, you can follow this link and get more details into how you to can start your side hustle for posting on social media and making an extra $30-40 per hour doing so. https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=whysprs&vendor=socialpaid&pid=jobquiz&ifso=

Going in a new direction (a new season)

Ok, so over the years I've tried to keep this blog going and have always been putting it on a back burner quite a bit, sometimes not even coming back for a year or two. Life the past couple years has thrown me several curve balls, 2 of which were close brushes to death, but i keep kicking. From all the times I have been beaten down and broken from life, i have become a survivor. Some of the lessons I have learned over the years are as follows:

1. Life will throw lots of punches at you, you just have to learn how to dodge those punches and get back up every time.

2. Cirve balls if you swing at them you may strike out, but if you bunt them, you can at least get onto the field and take a base. Once those bases are full you may end up with a home run.

3. The world's pace has speed up over the years, but take it at your own pace. Remember the tortoise won when he raced the hair. Even though everyone is runing around like crazy, you can still take a slower pace and get what needs done of you plan it out.

4. Doctors are not 100% right about diagnosis, it is called a medical "practice" after all.

5. You dont need a lisense or certificate to practice herbalism in the united states. The last 2 years I have been learning how to heal myself via thenuse of herbs by natural means.

6. Chasing money will wear you out over time, that time you put in you can not get back.

7. A single moment can change your life forever, rather good or bad.

8. When one door of opertunity closes, another doesn't always open, but be watching because if you're not watching another may come along later. 

9. Time and place. I say this many times a day, everything happens if you're at the right place at the right time.

As i remember more i will post more. Soon I will post about these new life changes that are taking place, I have many ideas on how I will be doing things from now on and postingnmy thoughts and hopefully I can help some onenout there with what all I have to share.

Thanks for reading, 

~W