The Commander is Back!!

Back PBM family, Back from the coast, back from a short vacation. Now looking to take a couple of days to recover from the vacation. No, actually, I'm leaving my favorite cafe. I just got done working on the book, The Preppers Toolkit, which will be out probably twenty twenty seven. It's coming together. It's beautiful, it's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be a book that I don't think quite exists yet. It will be a a hard copy only this is not an ebook. You don't want it. You don't want this in ebook form because it will very much be a hands on resource and and the back of the book is going to be your personal resource for your personal information. So I am close to halfway through that book, working with a great publisher, and it's coming along great looks. I mean, you know, it is what it is. It's going to be beautiful. Just another chink on the uh. You know, of the writing of many books, there is no end, I guess the best way to put it. When you're a writer, that's what it is. So but you know all that, all that to say, it is a dream come true. And I should be a little more out in the open about the fact that this this is a thing that I've been waiting for for a very long time. But I'm back, man, I'm back, and I feel good. I'm ready to get back to Red Beacon daily news and surviving America and the daily updates here at PBN, and and driving forward with this incredible network that we've created over all these years. Just yesterday I was looking at how we get on television. Yeah, yeah, I think it's time. I don't know what the cost is, but there's a lot of companies out there that'll stick you right on television. Give you a little app. You can look up on the TV and you get your little app up there, and you know your Roku remote, turn the TV on and watch PBN. We have more than enough content now to support, you know, like a channel on the television. It's not like gonna be running on your regular antenna TV. But you download the app through. I don't know, we'll see how it goes. They come at me with some crazy price. It might not be worth it. Maybe we'll do a little GoFundMe to g get PBN up on TV. You know what I mean, get PBN up on TV. But the hot weather has come Virginia. Man. One of the reasons I got to recover today, I feel, I feel like there's been a lot taken from me is because I snuck up. I snuck up the street to the old tire which was waiting for me up there, because yesterday I couldn't resist. We got back in town yesterday early, but I couldn't resist. Guys, it was one hundred and three or something yesterday. And for those of you don't know, I have a real hard time not pushing myself real hard when it's in the hundreds. There's just there's something about it. I don't know what it is. I really can't explain it. But I just love to work out in the super hot weather. I don't know why. You know I'm beat right now from it. I know it's from that because it was. It was. See the problem with taking time off if you don't know, if you work out right consistently and you take a week off and I didn't work out once right, I didn't work out one time. Well, your body for the first time in a long time, recovers all the way. You know what I mean. You're eating and drinking and having a good time and playing games and being with family and all that kind of stuff. But you're not really stressing the muscles all that much. And all of a sudden, like back muscles and big slabs of leg muscle and all these muscles they heal. I don't know why else to describe it. They finally recover to max. So I already knew that, and I was right because I've done this be so many times in my life that I know. Now in your head, you think, oh, I haven't worked out in a week, I'm probably gonna be weak, right, But the reality is no, You're You're gonna be excessively stronger if you work out consistently. You know what I mean, because you're in a consistent state of recovery most of the time. So I knew i'd come back and I'd be much stronger than normal. And I was that. And the only problem with that is, oh, you can flip that tire a lot more than normal, and all of a sudden, you know you're going above and beyond. And while well, I got home, and every time I get home this time of the year, my wife gives me a look. She looks at me like, what do you need? You need ice water. What do you need? You look like you're about to die. I could see the look in her eyes that it was a good workout, and it was a great one. But one of the things about working out in the insane heat is the tax as you it really does it really. I don't have any Liquid IV right now. I don't want to spend the money on it. I don't know why. There is something in my head. I think what's happening is I'm formulating another hydration like a DIY hydration situation involving coconut water. That's another story for another day. But there's something in my head that's telling me don't pull the trigger on the liquid IV. But I may have to because I don't think it works. It really works, whatever the hell's in it, it just works. You know. The night of you feel less fatigued. The day after you feel more hydrated, less fatigue. Like right now, I feel it. I can feel the devastation wrought upon me by going hard, you know, because I run to the tire and then I run home from the tire on top of the workout. And it's a lot, it is, it's a lot. It's a workout that most people would do once and say no, like, why would you do that? It's one of those kind of things. But the hot weather, it's a forger's delight. PBN family, Where are my forgers out there? Raise your hands? Where are you? Put your hands up? In fact, while I was on vacation, I peeked in on the phoenix, and the phoenix is harvest in black raspberry, harvest and dewberry right out there. Forging. Now is the time, at least here I can tell you that in the southeast, the blackberries are coming in full force. There's all kinds of stuff. The you know, the roots that you might wish to forge, are getting to maturity, the curly doc those kinds of things are they're getting mature, they're getting bigger. Now is a great time to flex your muscles on the foraging. It's a good time to take a walk in the woods in the shade, even if it is a little hot. One of the best things you can do in your local area, even if you don't forage regularly, Even if forging isn't really one of those things you're like, yeah, I'm gonna do some foraging, right, even if that's not a thing. One of The best things you can do and just set it aside, is print a little map out of your area, of your park, of your woods wherever you're at, or even hand draw it. You can hand draw this map. It's not that big a deal. It doesn't have to be you know, dead on, you're not navigating with it. And then just highlight some areas, circle some areas, Draw some areas. Where the food is right, Where the big BlackBerry thickets right, where the where the greens that you can harvest wild? Where the good fields with the dandelion, Where are the good fields with the with the violet in the dock and the you know the where the cherry trees, Where the black cherry trees, Where the all the different things that are coming up right now? Hell, where the honeysuckle bush is at and they're fun. Now's a great time. They won't be ready yet, but now's a great time to find those elderberries. They're out there. Oh yeah, they're out there growing wild right now. You could find those willows. Those willows are maturing right now. I mean, you know those kinds of things, those those herbal medicines, those wild edibles, all that stuff. It's peaking you know what I mean, some of it you have to wait until. Oh you know, it's another great one to identify right now. It's young right now too, which is probably better, easier to deal with, is stinging nettle. Yeah, down by the water. And look, if you're gonna forage, go to the creeks, go to the waters. There's many benefits. Right, most people don't think about it. But foraging also has to do with things in the water. Maybe not necessarily fish, but what about things like muscles and clams. Right, these guys are for and your fresh water has crustaceans and even muscles. Maybe if it's healthy, that can be you know, they can be forged, easy stuff to get your hands on, So create yourself. A little forging map goes a long way. It can be a hell of a lot of fun over summer break with the kids. Say let's go get mulberries, let's go get blackberries, Let's go get this, get that. And I haven't checked the raspberries in my own backyard. I think the uh, the raspberry thickets probably producing now. I bet after several days of hundreds tends to accelerate things, you know what I mean. The Paul Paul's are. I'm sure they're going nuts too. I think I might have lost the oregano. I might regno, might have died. I had it in a pot. I had a really nice oregano a couple of years old in a big pot. And the weather was so atrociously hot while I was gone. I watered deep watered before I left. But you know, just think that might have been it. It might be it. Oh little yard sale day. Yard sales a great resource, you know, by used, It's all I can tell you for the rest of the year, you know what I mean. Forget about buying new, you know, unless you're buying optics or something like that. But for the most part, man try to buy used. The used market for American goods is just as good, if not better, in many cases tools, you know what I mean. Then what you're gonna buy new. In other words, you go to a yard sell, you buy some old hammers and stuff like that. You're getting a product that is it's just better than what you're gonna go buy it lows, and you're gonna get it for two dollars, especially if somebody you know just want them out of there. So don't underestimate that. Man. I'm telling you, it's a serious resource. You got so I don't know. These are the uh, the summer days are upon us. You know, I hope your garden's going well. Now's a great time also to start considering where all that garden's gonna go. Right, You got your ball jars, you got your canner, your pressure canner. You're gonna go that route. You're gonna do some pickling. You might want to mix up some you can mix up a big batch of pickle if you want to do something like that, right, or at least make sure you got the vinegars that you want to be pickling with, because you know, before long you're gonna be inundated. You will be inundated with produce. You'll be giving it away trying. It's beautiful time, but it can be an overwhelming time if you're not prepared. Right. So, you know, we're in the what how many days in of this war are we in? I've seen the gas price go down. The further south I went, the better it got. You know, we're still living in this American system, but it is our system. Never forget that. I'm trying to tease all this out what it is to be, what it is to be America at American two hundred and fifty years in And it's fun. It's it's a fun thing to look back and to look at now and to look into the future. You know, with the fourth of July approaching, it's important to understand it. Not what we have been that's important, not even what we are, but what are we gonna be? What are we gonna be? There's a big poetry contest happening, and I'm going to submit a poem to it about the two hundred and fifty years. And one of the things that I came through I came about in writing lines and lines of poetry about America, and you know, scratching this and adding that and rasing this, and you know, all those kinds of things that you do. You know, if you think you slack twenty lines down on a piece of paper and you're done with your poems, it's a thing, man, It's just like anything else. They're drafts. But one of the things that was really interesting was for years I'd believed that and many people have believed I'm not unique in this or genius in this, that this is it for humans. This is it for mankind in terms of freedom, in terms of the opportunity of governing ourselves. And people have believed this for a very long time, right long before artificial intelligence. But now in other words, if the experiment of man governing himself becomes is deemed a failure, right, if it's deemed a failure, because the violence and the chaos and the civil war and the outbreak of this and outbreak of that, it becomes the story rather than our successes, right, because we do live in a cynical society that likes to watch cynical videos and click on cynical things, and you know, advertisers like to attach themselves to these cynical pieces of content. If man governing himself is deemed a failure, if that experiment in freedom is deemed a failure, then we needn't worry of Kings PBN family. We don't have to worry about kings because we are building the greatest tyrant god of surveillance and genius and terror in artificial intelligence. And that's exactly where we will slip if we give up on America, if we were not even just America, but man's you know, right to govern himself, And you know, it's one of those things. But it's inevitable now, and it'll get easier and more people will opine for it as more people get paid by it, to simply say, why not let the big smart computer tell us what to do and why to do? Why are we why? Why on earth are we depending on the flawed concepts and the ideas of just another man or other groups of men to come up with how our society is run? Why when we have this brilliant piece of technology, this technological god tyrant, that'll give us all the right answers. But of course, then I started thinking about the fourth of July. I started writing about it. I started creating a couple stanzas about the fourth and about fireworks bursting in the air over cities and over rural America. The same powder that burns over cities burns over rural America on the fourth of July eves. And what is it that we celebrate as Americans? I started to think about that, what do you really celebrate? And I arrived at a line that I didn't write, but was written for me because of what I think we really do celebrate as Americans? Is the next chance, the perseverance in the adversity that it is to be America. That the I think we sell clebrate on the fourth of July, of course, the founding of the nation and all that, but I think we also celebrate the fact that we get another shot. We celebrate the fact that through twenty twenty six, America's made some grave errors. We've done some bad things. We've you know, personally and as a country, we've made some mistakes. We've done some great things, and we'll celebrate those two. But I think what we really celebrate is the opportunity to form a more perfect union. That's what came into my head. I said, what do we really celebrate? We celebrate the second chance, the third chance, the fourth chance, the possibility to continue on and to form a more perfect union, just as our founders intended, right just as it all started out, in order to form a more perfect union. And I do think that the majority, and I do think that the best people and even the the majority, forget about race and best and quality and this, and that I do think they understand that America, like all countries, is flawed, like we are people. Therefore we are flawed. But the big difference is next year we'll strive to do better. And it's evident in our world and in our nation that will continue to strive to do better. And I think if we give up on that, then it's off to the tyrant cyberpunk god of technology to rule humans for until we you know, nuke the power plants or whatever, until we go Matrix who knows dark in the skies. I don't know, PBN family, But what I do know is it's June, it's forage time, it's garden time, it's food storage time. 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