Beau spent his childhood looking for golf balls, secretly hoping to find a body part in the swamps and marshes. He still looks in odd places for much the same thing (and feeling). Being redhead means that sunscreen, big hats and old business shirts cloak him during outdoor life. He likes baths more than showers, homemade wine and licorice. By god he likes licorice.
Hey did you guys know if you modelled your prison system after ours (The US) you'd have a bunch of people to clean that road up for free!! It'll only cost a few billion USD in government subsidies. Oh also you'll be funding private prisons but it's a win win!!
Love this. I did this during lockdown. Probably shouldn't have added in strength and conditioning too. A week to recover, but an incredibly fun experience
I would have liked to see the whole process of finding everything and collecting it on a pile prior to sorting, this is leaving me feeling somewhat incomplete.
I am 23 and getting married in August. Everyone, while still trying to be encouraging, has told me it will be hard and that I don't know what I'm getting into. I know it's going to be hard, but I love her and I love the life God has given us. I loved your video also, thanks for making me even more grateful
I hope the salon knows your joking otherwise you come across as a controlling abusive partner and the phone calls come across as threatening. Something to think about
I tear up watching your videos sometimes. My dad and I liked to watchyour videos he passed away, but seeing your adventures both inspires me and makes me miss my dad.
In high school I had the bright idea of doing a mile each hour trying to sub 5 for 24 hours straight. All went well until mile 8. I didn't plan very well and started my first mile around 8pm. I ended up falling asleep and missing the start of the next mile. I know I was overly ambitious but hey, I was just a dumb kid. 😊
In almost every location it is illegal to redeem deposits on items not bought in that location. In the Kramer example, even though the bottles/cans included a 5 cent deposit, they could only redeem that 5 cents in New York State. Moving those bottles/cans to Michigan State to redeem the deposit is illegal, they couldn't get 5 cents per let alone 10 cents per. Most locations require ID when redeeming a large amount by state law and many location near the state border will voluntarily require ID for smaller redemptions. A couple of years ago my wife and I went camping in northern Oregon, near the state border with Washington. I collected the bottles that I purchased in Oregon and through away any that we bought out of state. I had a couple of grocery bags to redeem, except no one would redeem them. I gave up trying after about 5-6 stores. Every one required an ID and as soon as they saw my Washington State driver's license they all flat out refused. The first gas station I attempted, I showed them my truck and 5th wheel along with my week long Oregon State park reservation. Their policy was not to redeem ANY amount from Washington State residents to prevent them from buying and driving a few miles to redeem. I pointed out that an Oregon State resident could just as easily drive to Washington State, not paying the deposit and then redeeming in Oregon. I was told that that was the policy no exceptions. I asked if I bought a bottle of water from the gas station, drank it in the store and requested to redeem the deposit if that was allowed. I was told NO EXCEPTIONS. Every once in awhile someone will end up in the news because they attempt to load up a UHaul moving truck with deposit items and drive it to a deposit state. Because of the dollar amount they get charged with felony fraud. Deposit states ensure that these cases end up in the news to try to stop such attempts. I'm guessing that deposit states end up paying out 100's of thousands if not millions of dollars in fraudulent deposit redemptions, most of which is probably a few cents to a few dollars a transaction. On the other hand these states collect several million dollars more in deposits than they return as deposit redemptions. As inflation continues devaluing the currency 5/10 cents becomes less and less worthwhile to take the time to deal with it. This is especially true as local minimum wage increases. If you make $15-20/hour you saving, cleaning, storing and transporting bottles/cans at 5 to 10 cents each seems so little. If you make $15/hour then you would need to process 300 (5 cent deposit) bottles/can per hour to redeem $15. If you live in an apartment you may not have storage for hundreds of bottles/cans. Taking 20-40 bottles/cans for redemption of $1-2 probably isn't worth the hassle of waiting in line to redeem. The obvious solution would be to drastically increase the deposit to 25-50 cents per bottle/can. Except there would be a huge outcry when people had to pay $3 to $6 deposit on a 12 pack of drinks. A large case (40 pack) of bottled water would be $10-20 deposit. As such a low percentage if people currently redeem their deposits they would just see this as a price increase. There would be protests and petitions declaring that the higher deposit "disproportionately affects low income families" saying that these families can't afford the large increase. States with deposit programs get to claim that it encourages recycling while in reality enjoying a hidden tax of 5-10-15 cents per bottle/can because of the low proportion of deposit redemption. These states bring in enough from deposits to pay for the redemptions and administrative costs and still have a net income of millions of dollars per year. I'm just surprised that more locations aren't jumping in on the scheme. Oregon State claims an 88.5% redemption rate (compared to the 35% average). Oregon's deposit is 10 cents. The only way that they could possibly hit that level is if recycling centers are sorting redeemable bottles/can to get that juicy 10 cents (which is much more than most bottles/cans are worth). The 11.5% not being redeemed would be items thrown in regular trash, burned, thrown out in remote locations, transported to other states and disallowing non-residents from redeeming (like I experienced). My guess is that the redemption rate not including recycling centers is probably close to the 35% average.
Having been through the Black Summer bushfires in Australia and having watched mountains of native flora complete with fauna, blaze away in seconds, I will never plant another native tree in Australia. They evolved to burn and they did, with a roar I will never forget. So, despite the flack I will get, I will plant only exotics from now on. Trees from the Northern Hemisphere, which haven't evolved to burn, with larger leaves, and with the ability to go dormant in drought and protect houses in heat. A single mulberry saved a house in one area of our fires. While natives and pines blew up like fireworks, other exotics either didn't burn or came back easier after the fires. This theory is just from my seven decades of observation as a gardener and to the purists who say exotics have no place in Australia, I would say neither do we. White colonists brought so much to our land, mostly not good, but if we surround our imported villages and cities with trees that don't burn as much, that's a good thing. Grow trees as if your life depends on it, because it does.
