The Hermit Hut Roof plan part 4: the Clamps and Canvas!!

So I finally committed to buying two more 12 foot by 16 foot "heavy duty" silicone polyester (canvas) tarps. So they are advertised as "water repellent" and "breathable."

 Made of heavy-duty canvas coated with polyester, these incredibly strong tarps will perform in a wide variety of uses thanks to the high-tenacity, knitted polyester mesh.

Then I also bought the biggest roofing metal screws - with the sealing rubber washers - inch and half.

So the first tarp I will have to screw into - so I'm going to just lay the tarp over the rafters - and then I'll use the extra length of 6 feet - to then create enough space hanging down - to hold the Rock Wool insulation.

So I can then tie off the ends and put in the insulation. And this will cover over the rafters also.

Then I cut cross beams lengthwise - so 9 feet long - I'll do two on a side so 4 in total.

So oh I forgot - when I have the tarp dangling before I put in the rock wool - so then I mark where to tape the tarp along the rafters. So then I cover BOTH sides of the tarp in Duct tape along the rafters.

THEN I put in the insulation. And so when I screw in the cross beams - it - wait a second - I should just NOT screw into the tarp.

Yeah the tarp will hang down. I put the insulation in to hold in the tarp. I then tie off the ends of the tarp around the framing. So then when I put the cross beams over - the screws as inch and half - will just go into the rafters.... Oh they HAVE to go through the tarp still.

Yeah - unless I got CLAMPS.

Oh Goodwill has CLAMPS - they should be real cheap!!

So I go buy a TON of clamps and then I CLAMP the tarp to the rafters - from the bottom side!!!

Then the tarp is just from the bottom - so that the screws of the cross beams go into the rafter WITHOUT going into the tarp. That's the ticket.....

So that saves that first tarp. So I gotta go to Goodwill to get a ton of clamps.  Let's see FOUR - eight rafters....

Maybe three clamps per rafter? So 24 clamps.

It's a lot but worth it to maintain the water resistance repellent ability of the tarp....

Don't want water dripping through screw holes.

OK...

So now the crossbeams are screwed in - over the insulation and the first tarp that is clamped in.

THEN I put the 2nd level of insulation going parallel with the crossbeams. This stops any "holes" in the insulation (such holes create ice dams)...

THEN I put the 2nd tarp over the whole top of it all. And I secure the grommets on the second tarp.

OK this Amazon link is the CLOSEST to what I bought - I think it's the SAME product

So it's the same size - 6 inch long with 4 inch jaw opening....
And it's a pack of 4 for about $11 or so about $2.50 per clamp. I paid $2 per clamp and I got all of them in the Goodwill store. A couple were bigger but same price. I got 17 in total.

great canvas clamps for photography, fabric backdrops and green screen, painting and other craft projects.

Exactly!! That's what I have a "canvas" that I need to clamp!!

The clamps get great reviews - very strong and don't scratch....

12 x LARGE 6'' PLASTIC SPRING CLAMPS MARKET STALL TARPAULIN COVER CLIPS GRIPS

So in the UK this is how the same clamp is marketed....

US calls it "canvas" -

So I bought the perfect "kind" of clamps for what I want!!!

So

that's the same one - just different "brand."

So same clamps - advertised for canvas backdrop use...

71 customer reviews

And the tips have a articulating soft end that will not fall off like many of the metal ones.

So this is the same company of the clamp - it's not quite the same style of packaging but otherwise identical.

FINALLY - this is the exact same package and brand.

so my niece was playing with the clamps and I tell her how I'm gonna attach the tarp to the roof I showed her photos of. She then asks, "why can't I just use wood?" So I clarify - you mean a wooden roof? Yes... Oh because this is BREATHABLE!!

So then I show her the label....

https://www.thetarpswholesaler.com/12-oz-green-canvas-tarps-16-x-20?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkb_v3vTn4wIVFpSzCh3HFAhXEAQYByABEgIttPD_BwE

This is the same tarp - but different brand.

• 12 ounce weight before water resistant treatment, 18 ounce after water resistant treatment
• Brass grommets in corners and approximately every 24" apart on sides
• Double stitched seams and hems
• Water and mildew resistant; Breathable and strong
• Tarps finished size is approximately 3% to 5% smaller.
• Water resistant treatment produces an odor in cotton canvas tarps that may lessen over time.
• Due to nature of cotton shrinkage may occur and colors may bleed
• Color: Green
• Made in USA

and this:

Green Canvas Tarp Specifications:

• 100% Waterproof material
• Heavy duty canvas tarp
• 20 Mil thickness
• 15 oz per square yard
• Polyester / Canvas tarp material
• 100% Silicone treated yarns
• Full finished size tarp
• Industrial, grade B material
• Tear resistant
• Rot resistant
• 3 Ply strong durable, sewn hems
• Durable sewn seams with UV resistant, polyester thread
• Tear resistant
• Abrasion resistant
• Mildew resistant
• Green on both sides
• All tarps contain sewn seams
• Brass #2 grommets approximately every 24"
• 2-3X's stronger than traditional canvas

These green tarps are made to order. They take 10-20 business days to manufacture.

https://www.tarpsnow.com/green-canvas-tarps-waterproof-tarps.html

If water pools over these sewn areas, the seams may leak slightly. Made in USA.

So I should spray the seams on the bottom tarp - with extra silicone....

and ....

Multiple Use: Cover trucks, machinery and equipment, building materials, firewood/woodpile, boats, patio area etc. It can also be used as a water-repellent cloth for outdoor tents during camping to prevent moisture and dirt.

will you have the 12ft x 16ft tarps available for purchase?

Answer:

now haven't this size tarps available.
By F&J LLC Seller on April 30, 2019

I got the LAST two of this size on the shelf - I wonder if that size is discontinued?

Tarp is heavy duty and I had high hopes for it being waterproof as advertised. After 2 days of rain there was some minor puddling in one section where the tarp was not taught. The fact that the water puddled was encouraging, however when I removed the tarp, a significant amount of water had soaked through. Still a really nice, heavy duty tarp but I feel it's false advertising saying it's waterproof when it is only water resistant.

AND....

another take on the same tarp!!

Cheap tarps driving you mad? You need a Weather Tough® tarp! This rugged 14.5-oz. polyester- and canvas-blend tarp is waterproof like poly and breathable like canvas. That means whatever you're covering is protected from rain, snow and sun while preventing mildew and damage due to moisture. Tarp features brass spur grommets that don't rust or tear out like standard grommets.
Weather Tough Tarp Advantage Over Standard Polyethylene: 1. Breathability prevents condensation damage; 2. Stronger than polyethylene of equal weight; 3. Professional canvas appearance; 4. Won't crack in cold; 5. Conforms to shape of object being covered.
Weather Tough Tarp Advantage Over Treated Canvas: 1. Completely waterproof; 2. Twice as strong; 3. Non-chemical finish is stain- and odor-free; 4. Won't unravel when stitching breaks or is cut.

 Exactly!!!!!! really?

Polyester is a variation of another material within the polyethylene family. Polyesters a thermal plastic material dealt with woven or need a thread. Polyester fibers are mostly spun together with other natural fibers. Super heavy duty polyester tarp material is usually found in tent and awning material.

https://www.tarpsplus.com/materials.html

wow - it really is a blend!

after ten hours - still not leaking!!

• MAIN PARAMETER-Heavy duty, Strong and breathable material, Full 10 oz weight before treatment,,Made from 100% UV protection industrial grade cotton duck
• ★★★CANVAS TARP TARPAULIN FEATURES-100% UV protection,waterproof,breathable , waterproof, easy to fold
• ★★★WIDE APPLICATION - Canvas Tarpaulins protect or conceal equipment and supplies while eliminating condensation. Not recommended for car or boat covers. Canvas Tarpaulins are ideal for outdoor protection of Equipment Supplies, Cargo & Supplies, Trucks, Campgrounds, Construction, Farm Equipment, Firewood and Lumber 

so "encrypt" means "double sided" I guess...............

anti-uv silicone coated fabric

 Designed for all weatherability, including zero winter temperatures and hot summers, making it ideal for use as a roof cover.

 YEP - Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

700 degree high temperature heat splicing-no needle holes,no water leakage.
- Polyester fiber is tightly woven, thick canvas, waterproof and durable.
- Increase the encryption buttonhole, the inner diameter is about 1.7 cm, and the spacing is about one meter.

Oh Encryption is the buttonhole?

 Encryption is a button-hole stitch

So turns out that the Mineral Wool is not available up north. So I'll pick it up on the way. I plan to spend close to $200 for the insulation!!!

So that's $140 for the tarps and $36 for the clamps...

So a $400 roof!!

That is my ONLY expense though.... so not bad.

INsulation plus that size type shed -- hmm could cost several thousand dollars for the wood, etc.

I don't even know if this "plan" will work though - but hopefully.

On Fasting and the Law

This works both ways - arrested for EATING when you're supposed to be fasting...
or the opposite....

Arresting People for Eating in Their Cars During the Ramadan Fasting Month in Iran is Illegal

 https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2017/06/arresting-people-for-eating-in-their-cars-during-the-ramadan-fasting-month-in-iran-is-illegal/

So it's not supposed to happen but it does apparently.

 Her father, who owns a jewelry store, has said that he and his wife had tried to persuade the eighth grader to break her fast earlier, but that she had insisted on continuing for 68 days, to match the number of letters in a Jain mantra.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/world/asia/india-jain-fasting-death.html

So...

“These are our religious rights as per the Constitution, and no one can stop us,” Mr. Gandhi said in an interview.

He added that many observant Jains had undertaken fasts more extreme than Aradhan’s; he said he knew of 13 people who had fasted for 180 days.

Last year, a challenge to Jainism’s most extreme form of fasting — santhara, or a fast unto death — reached India’s Supreme Court, generating debate over when the state should be compelled to interfere in individual religious practice.

 This is actually an official tradition of Jainism - you're considered a saint if you die from fasting....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/world/europe/denmark-muslims-ramadan.html

Meanwhile... Christian or Nonmuslim Europeans freak out from Muslims just eating in the early morning and late evenings!!  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44209471

 id fasting throughout the working day raised challenges for modern society.
She cited potential risks for bus drivers and in hospitals.
Bus companies were among the first to say they had no problem with Ramadan.
Arriva, which runs a number of bus routes in Denmark, said it had never had any accidents involving drivers who were fasting. "So de facto it's not a problem for us," spokeswoman Pia Hammershoy Splittorff told Berlingske Tidende (BT) newspaper.

 Meanwhile "intermittent" fasting including a 16 hour fast a day - is now gaining popularity - or an 8 hour fast a day..... as considered very healthy.

Turns out there are 25 holidays and events throughout the year associated with a tradition of fasting (with Yom Kippur being the only holiday that is commanded of us). Twenty-five!

hmmm....

So I guess fasting does "activate" the law.  https://www.asiaone.com/health/starving-live-fast-dieting-craze-feast-or-farce

In June, in a story headed "Five day 'fasting' diet slows down ageing and may add years to life", the Daily Telegraph in London reported that researchers at the University of Southern California had developed a nutritional regime that calls on followers to eat 34 to 54 per cent of their normal calorie intake on five days at least four times a year, with a specific composition of nutrients.
A trial of 19 humans placed on the so-called fasting mimicking diet once a month for five days had shown decreased risk factors and biomarkers for aging, diabetes, cancer and heart disease, and no major adverse side effects, the Telegraph quoted the researchers as saying.

 So someone says they lose about 12 pounds during Ramadan - over a month. I will lose that much in 3 days sometimes - while working in the forest and fasting!!

So I don't do normal fasting - I do "energy feasting" - which combines meditation with fasting.

But modern "classical" physics is not going to understand this.

Unlike modern Western cleansing methods, bigu has a strong religious influence. It was initially perpetuated by Taoists as the first step towards immortality: abandon food, which the body converts into waste, and instead absorb qi, a type of spiritual energy. In doing so a person feeds their soul, leading to spiritual immortality.

The secret of how Bilocation works - a Yang Shen body

The inferior virtue - if you study Pregadio - is actually for the immortal body training. So with Superior Virtue you get faster results but with inferior virtue you are working against the mundane ways of the world - after enlightenment is already achieved.
 
So the time is bidirectional intention and can not be separated.
 
As I have mentioned - a dude was dying from cancer and I could smell his rotting flesh - since I had fasted for 7 days while meditating the whole time at age 29. So then Chunyi Lin healed him while Chunyi was in full lotus and so the rotting flesh death smell went away. But then we took a break and the dude had brought his female who then sucked off his energy. The energy was from the Emptiness and sent as a Shen healing but since the dude ejaculated - I could hear them through the thin walls - then I could also smell his rotting flesh death smell come back. So in that case the Superior virtue healing of the Emptiness was changed back into yin jing and the rotting flesh cancer death came back. I was shocked that the lady could even be in the same room with him but of course as WEsterners they were totally oblivious as to what was going on.
 
So as the book Taoist Yoga explains - the left eye is Yang Shen but it is also Yin Qi. and the Right eye is Yin shen but is also Yang Qi.
 
So then you have to rotate the eyes to make the Yuan Qi and the yuan qi emanates out of the third eye pineal gland. But the Yuan Qi is created via the right side of the heart.
 
So the right side vagus nerve goes to the right side of the heart via the right eye as the yang qi. So that is the descending down of the yang qi but it has to be purified by the Emptiness via the yin qi and Yang Shen - which is actually from the virtual photons of the Future.
 
So a Yang shen healing is to create multiple shen bodies - but you are doing so at different slices of Emptiness spacetime. Since the spiritual master is turning the light around of their Shen - then for them they experience it all happening at the SAME time due to light not experiencing time nor space. But the Emptiness is spacetime directly and so even "zero and infinity" are relative to spacetime itself.


Yes so the Red Dragon is male but has the yin internally as water and for alchemy - the yang spirit which is our external spacetime experience with the eyes open - this must be reversed - so that the yin qi of the red dragon (that powers the spirit) is then descended into Earth - and so the yin qi then feeds the yang qi of the water.

So then the Red Dragon then becomes the female Green Dragon as wisdom energy of the Yuan Qi of the universe - after it has been sublimated up via the white tiger (which is the yang qi from the black tiger). Then the third eye and heart purify this energy so that the green dragon now has substance due to the red dragon blending with the white tiger - as their copulation in the third eye.

So yes that is the reversal you speak of. But when the energy leaves the body, as John Chang points out, then it is as the yin qi without substance. So the Yang Shen relies on absorbing blue light of the yin qi energy - and this means that the yin qi blockages of the red light (the red dragon) and then being purified via the green light. So then just as in relativistic quantum physics - once the blue light (from the virtual photons of the future) are absorbed this then creates Golden Light via the green and red light.

So then the Golden immortal body is the yang shen created from virtual photons of the future that are then absorbed back into the body and stored as PHONONS - or Yuan Qi ether energy. Phonons can not be seen but can be listened to - and so this is the paradox of the 5th dimension as the Emptiness. In science Phonons are not limited by the Pauli Exclusion Principle - but Photons ARE limited. So the PHonons are a kind of antigravity pressure - and this is what enables levitation also.

So this is why the Golden immortal Yang Shen body always has to return back to the Yuan Qi source as infinite time-frequency energy or phonon energy of the 5th dimension that is in eternal motion but can not be seen. So science calls this "noncommutative phase" logic - is it the logic of the Taiji as explained by music theory. So the Void inherently has infinite yin-yang energy to it, embedded within it - for eternal creation of matter from spacetime itself - just as a black hole turns into a white hole.

 strange - I don't get the "past" - as qigong master Chunyi Lin said, "the past is dead." So also he says the hardest person to forgive is yourself. Some people say "let's make great memories." As if the only purpose of the present is to have a nice past? Totally boggles the mind. Others say they have regrets - as if someone could predict what their present would have been if they had only done something different in the past? Again this makes no sense since we could have a brain aneurysm any second - and suddenly our past and present would vanish. The future is eternal though - it will keep going even if we are not around. Yes there is eternal joy in the future. Strangely sometimes we can experience the future before it happens! Precognitive visions - these are even more "rich" in perceptions - more vivid - scintillating is the word. Yes the future is scintillating. So as the qigong master Chunyi Lin says - the EArth, Sun and Moon will always be here.

So sure in the ancient past the Moon was a lot closer and so our days on earth were much shorter - and life was very different from now. Life is gonna keep changing - and maybe even vanish. It is kind of like what people consider to be "sentient" - versus say a mushroom mycelium communicating with a tree via biophotons. So or bird migration or our sense of smell. Quantum biology has now proven that our "present" is actually Superluminal - FASTER than the speed of light! So the future is always secretly guiding us a pure joy - from the heart. This is what we experience beyond even deep dreamless sleep.

Deep dreamless sleep is pure bliss - so we need that pure bliss every night. Joy is going beyond the Sun - via the heart - so it is a harmonization from the future, called "negentropy" of the fifth dimension. Erwin Schroedinger wrote a book about this in the 1930s called "What Is Life?" He realized that the origin of our life is from the same Negentropy as what creates the Sun. So we have to live in what I call the Cosmic Rainbow Vortex of the future. A qigong master Zhang Hongbao - he called it the "Golden Key" of "superluminal yin matter" - from the future. He got involved in politics though and so fled China and he declared a Democratic Chinese underground government - in the U.S. then He had a mysterious car accident while he looked for a new qigong center location - most consider him to have been killed by Commie Spies. So best to stay out of politics.

When we die then we will all experience this Joy of the Heart - a good book on this is the "Tibetan Book of the Dead." So when I found my dad's dead blue body suddenly I experienced the same JOY that he was experiencing - I was surprised as the amazing love joy of the heart that I felt. But the night before he had a heart blockage of a broken heart - and I had never experienced that blockage from someone before either. So both surprised me. But I was happy for him that he got to experience that great joy at death.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead says that a person needs to capture that Joy right at death - when the spirit merges back into the Absolute Void. But most don't go into that Brightest Light because our spirit has emotional blockages stored into the light - from the 5th dimension - the yin qi blockages of red light. So we need to visualize more blue light from a Joyful future. The blue light literally increases our serotonin joy levels to then increase the oxytocin love. For example a person could get blue light treatment - coherent quantum blue light - and then it increases the serotonin levels. This is why Krishna is blue and also Hathor - the holy Cow Goddess of Egypt - she is blue.


Science says that energy-information is not lost but just transformed. So in science this is considered a random lost with a 180 degree shift in spacetime into a white hole. But science is an "external measurement" system inherently limited by "time-frequency uncertainty" or Fourier Uncertainty. Meditation instead is the "highest technology of all technologies" (qigong master Yan Xin) because instead of time-frequency uncertainty there is the Law of Phase Harmony in control (Louis de Broglie's most famous discovery - most important discovery I mean, as he stated).

So yes there is a LITERAL spacetime vortex. This is described in chapter 11 of the book Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality.

So I had this happen to me and I stopped my meditation and turned to a quest to discover the true meaning - unfortunately I did not read the book in detail - and that answer eluded me for 10 years!!

So essentially when the Shen spirit leaves the body it HAS to be "covered" by Yuan Qi (a spacetime bubble). Even qigong master Chunyi Lin said that one time he did too much healing and so he experienced this same dizziness and so he had to have his advanced students teach Level 3 while he recharged his qi through meditation.

So I call this the difference between General Relativity and Special Relativity - again using science as an analogy. So with special relativity you maintain a constant speed without acceleration - I think that's the basics of it. So this is the same as the spiritual ego maintaining Samadhi as Pranja or Wisdom awareness as is required in Mahayana Buddhism.

So for example Poonjaji described creating multiple Yang Shen bodies - bilocation - read his memoir, "Nothing Ever Happened." He appeared at his birthday parties - multiple of his bodies - since his different students wanted him at their birthday parties.

But Poonjaji was not consciously aware that he did this! He found out later. So in Mahayana Buddhism they require that the yogi remains consciously aware via the spiritual ego - so there has to be a constant "upgrading" of the light - like a strobe light - the light has to be turned around. This is called the Quantum Zeno Effect in western science. So you can then prevent the "collapse" of the wavefunction back into a linear spacetime direction with gravity. Instead you maintain the 5th dimension as nonlocal awareness being merged with the Light as spiritual awareness.

So for example if you have a precognitive vision - this is a dream that is MORE REAL than being awake. But you still have to go "out of samadhi" back into left-brain dominant consciousness to then analyze what it means - in relation to your "current" time frame. Maybe you will do this - or maybe not. Or there is the example of the most famous Buddhist master of Thailand - Phra Acharn Mun. So in his free biography - it is described how his meditation buddy was levitating. But as soon as he realized he was meditation (his left brain consciousness becoming dominant) then his body fell back down. So he had to train to maintain his samadhi as awareness in right-brain dominance - by turning the light around. So like a strobe light - he recharged the light as a coherent frequency resonance - and so he was awareness as Wisdom prajna that he was levitating.

But as Master Nan, Huai-chin points out - these spiritual abilities are all still tricks while the Emptiness remains the only eternal awareness - as Ramana Maharshi also points out. So the end of the Taoist Yoga book states that the Yang Shen then dissolves or dissipates back into the formless awareness - the cosmic Yuan Qi.  So it is the Emptiness itself that DECIDES when a Yang Shen will appear or not.

So the more a person meditates then the more their body EMBODIES the Emptiness - or as qigong master Chunyi Lin http://springforestqigong.com has stated - his body is just an Empty Vessel for the Qi energy.  This is the difference between Siddhis and Shakti as India yogis recognize. Or the difference between psychic energy (yin qi) and spiritual healing (Yuan Qi).

My zero tolerance of credibly alleged child rapist Drumpf sends me into nightly deep meditation

Since moving to my new "senior" living community - we have a small space with a very big tv blaring the corporate-state mass mind control media every night. So I make sure to have the advertising muted and also whenever the credibly alleged child rapist is featured (usually at least a half hour total every night). This makes for some nice peaceful quiet as most of the corporate-state mass mind control media is just getting the credibly alleged child rapist "Fix."

But now this is being used as an excuse to attack me - while I was away up north building the Willow Palace - certain elements were scheming to use my above standards of zero tolerance - to claim that I have some kind of special needs that make me oppressive of others.

So I will just now spend my evenings in deep meditation in my room - which is, of course, what I would prefer anyway. So I could care less about the corporate-state mass mind control media. I didn't watch any television from my post high school days - up until moving back to my folks - so that was 20 years of watching NO corporate-state mass mind control media - and at the 10 acre forest house - then I was able to meditate in the basement.

But now my meditation room is literally directly on the other side of the wall of the huge mass mind control t.v. blaring the credibly alleged child rapist promotionals.

That's ok. In meditation - I can block that stuff out. I was not able to meditate before since it was not considered "normal" to hide in your room to meditate - when in fact meditation is the "Highest technologies of all technologies" to quote qigong master Yan Xin. Meditation is the hardest work possible - and most important work possible.

So any excuse I can get to do more meditation - I will certainly pounce on it. So hopefully this new situation will enable me to skip out on my meager attempts at filtering out the promotion of the genocidal ecocidal empire for hours every night - and instead do something much more important.

It's official - I just got permission to meditate during "TV time" - the 4 hours of blaring Child Rapist genocidal imperialism nonsense. 

Safety Orange Bonanza! Bicycle Fit for Long Haul Commute: roof plan part 3

So I scored at Goodwill both a "safety orange" baseball hat and "safety orange" big t-shirt. So now we get to discover if I am being intentionally hunted - in which case I'll make for a much easier target now - OR the better scenario - that because I previously looked like a deer (my overalls are "deer" colored) - this will help.

Hopefully I just imagined the whole "bullet whizzing to the ground nearby me" experience.

You can also do a foot soak a few times per week. Add five drops of tea tree oil to a half-ounce of carrier oil, mix them, stir into a bucket of warm water, and soak your feet for 20 minutes.

 I thought I had bruised my toenails - but no - it is black fungus I guess. I forgot I had this before and I treated it with tea tree oil. This time I'm trying "soaking" the whole feet as I have several toenails now affected. The first time - that is not a full return - so it must be spread from my work boots.

Anyway so I have my feet soaking now - which means I can't go into full lotus at the computer. I figure the LONGER I soak my feet - the more effective this will be. I poured in several ounces of teatree oil. I think I can kind of feel it taking effect.

My farm friend had warned me I was going to get foot rot - but I had forgotten about my black toe fungus. I had that awhile since I never had it before - so at first I just thought my big toe was bruised. Then during some google search suddenly I happened upon an image that matched my big toe. So I poured tea tree oil directly down into the toe nail and that made the fungus disappear! Pretty awesome.

Well I mean it came back again after my farm foray of daily swamp stank boots. But I guess I need to just keep soaking in tea tree oil all the time for a while.

 According to a 2013 study, tea tree oil was effective in reducing growth of the fungus Trichophyton rubrum in nail infections. T. rubrum is a fungus that can cause infections such as athlete’s foot and nail fungus. Improvements were seen after 14 days.

  It usually takes a few months for the nail to heal completely.

 yeah so if I lapse in treatment then it will come back. I just can't be soaking my feet all the time but I can "pour" the tea tree oil down into the nails.

So then - I have been taking the "bicycle route" to my land up north - and there are several miles of gravel road. Plus the shoulders have gravel elsewhere. So I realized if I do every bicycle up there - a long trip that I would take several days to do - then I need some off-road tires. Luckily Goodwill supplied me with a smaller frame 12 speed with off-road tires today!! So I snatched that up.

Then I made a donation of some of our stuff - that was meager but the coupon was 50% off!! I'm not sure why they are doing 50% off coupons now - it seems to have been going on for a couple months....

So I got a bicycle and safety orange shirt and hat - for about $13.

Yeah that's an amazing price for a functioning bicycle! One of the break pads doesn't work - just needs adjusting I guess. But just having back wheel breaks is alright - I would plan to just "old skool" along - tool along like a Rastafarian - and take my time. Not one of these "Weekend Warrior" trips.

So that way if the car every breaks down or I need to go up north on my own without the car - I can just hop on that bicycle and I'm set to go! If it breaks down? Well I'm out $8 or whatever.

I should get a tire patch kit and I have a pump - but it's a big pump. I don't have a little travel pump.

I definitely feel tingling under my toenails - the fungi life form is struggling....

So here is my latest Roof Plan.

I get two of those Silicone polyester breathable waterproof heavy strength tarps. That's $100.

So then I put one tarp over the rafters - don't even attach it. It's extra big - so I push it down a bit through the rafters - so it hangs a bit lower with space.

Then I get the 3 1/2 inch R-15 Rockwool Comfort Batt insulation. I fill the space between the rafters - putting the rockwool on top of the tarp. The tarp should hold since it has so much extra space hanging over the sides.

So then I attach the tarp with all the gussets - it has a ton of them - but I do not put any holes into the tarp itself.

Then over the rockwool - I put in cross beams going the other lengthwise - against the rafters. So this goes OVER the rockwool but since the rockwool pressed down into the hanging tarp - then I should have space.

So then I put another layer of rock wool the OTHER direction - going parallel with the lengthwise cross beams. This prevents some "mantalk" term for when you get ice dams on the roof from gaps in the insulation....

So then I put the 2nd tarp on top of that rockwool - and I attach that tarp underneath as well.

So now the main problem is compression of the insulation - thereby undermining the R-value.

But the comfort batt is way cheaper that the compressed board which has a LESS R-value anyway. So if it gets compressed from snow, etc. then I'm just saving money and I can add more insulation later.

So then will the roof have enough "strength"? The tarps are extra strong and with the rafters and cross beams and TWO tarps? Yes I don't think I need any plywood sheathing. This way the roof will "breath" and yet should also be waterproof - since each tarp is water proof.

There you have it.

Simple. No nails - no staples - into the tarps. oh except where the cross beams go over the rafters - but I'll try have insulation cover over the rafters also.... and just compress it down.

So it's still expensive. $100 for two really nice tarps.
Then probably $200 for the insulation - or maybe more. Just a total guess.

Also I need to get a bunch more Metal No Trespassing signs - no hunting, etc. and then write my name and number with permanent marker.... So one for each "corner" of the property. Then one every 500 feet - so that is just two more signs. But I'll just put them on one side - the gun crazy side. So I'll add 4 signs to that side.

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/97B.001

The owner, occupant, or lessee of private land, or an authorized manager of public land may prohibit outdoor recreation on the land by posting signs once each year that:
(1) state "no trespassing" or similar terms;
(2) display letters at least two inches high;
(3) either:
(i) are signed by the owner, occupant, lessee, or authorized manager; or
(ii) include the legible name and telephone number of the owner, occupant, lessee, or authorized manager; and
(4) either:
(i) are at intervals of 1,000 feet or less along the boundary of the area, or in a wooded area where boundary lines are not clear, at intervals of 500 feet or less; or
(ii) mark the primary corners of each parcel of land and access roads and trails at the point of entrance to each parcel of land except that corners only accessible through agricultural land need not be posted.
(c) A person may not erect a sign that prohibits outdoor recreation or trespassing where the person does not have a property right, title, or interest to use the land.

Does not say "first and last name" - so I'll just put last name.

So I can sign my full name as being illegible and then just make my last name printed as legible!

This defines me as under Agroforestry legal protection.

17.458 AGROFORESTRY.

Subdivision 1.Definition.

"Agroforestry" means the cultivation of short-rotation woody crops using agricultural practices to produce timber or forest products.

Subd. 2.Agricultural pursuit.

Agroforestry is an agricultural pursuit.

History:

1997 c 216 s 23

 https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/41B.048#stat.41B.048.4

e) "Short rotation woody crops" or "crop" means hybrid poplar and other woody plants that are harvested for their fiber within 15 years of planting.

So I harvest their fiber to GROW MUSHROOMS!!

Subd. 2.Agricultural resource.

"Agricultural resource" means any organic matter which is available on a renewable basis from agricultural processes, including agricultural crop, animal, and wood production, waste, and residues.

The Inner Smile as Shen of No Shen (Light of No Light)

for me - I rely on full lotus pineal gland trance to stay in bliss. So the Buddhists talk about the "lower emotions" - so sadness is a lung blockage (smoking), fear is kidney (caffeine), anger is liver (alcohol) - worry is pancreas (sugar).... I encourage people to sign up for the free Spring Forest Qigong newsletter - pdf link  that's the latest copy. Just go to http://springforestqigong.com to sign up as the free international guild member level

anyway so most of the time people cycle in those lower emotions. But once the central channel opens up - then it's serotonin bliss from the 2nd brain (intestines) into the pineal gland and then the increased serotonin then increases the oxytocin love hormones of the heart. Then the Yuan qi kicks in - the cosmic mother qi via the right side of the heart. 

Females are proven to have way more oxytocin neuron receptors. So as I've point out - this is why the recent medical doctor fancy "trans" surgery is a scam. Only the female orgasm STAYS in the relaxation parasympathetic nervous system so that the serotonin builds up into oxytocin. Then at child birth there is a huge oxytocin increase and then for breast feeding there is oxytocin increase. This oxytocin is then the basis for mammalian mother bonding with the young - through females.

But also it is proven that eye to eye contract increases oxytocin - so this is why dogs are great as pets - as they have droopy inner eyelid muscles, co-evolved from human domestication - to make the dogs look like human cute babies to us. So then we have "puppy dog" oxytocin bonds with the dog staring into our eyes as the dog wants the pets.

But unfortunately patriarchy has changed this now - especially with the Rambo porn culture that equates ejaculation with freedom and power. So as Dr. Gail Dines points out - there is a sadistic escalation in porn - and this is inherent to the physiology of ejaculaton addiction. The male ejaculation spikes stress cortisol as a "switch" to the stress nervous system.

I don't think I've read the "inner smile" book word for word but I've probably looked through it. A local bookstore (that of course closed down) had a lot of the Mantak Chia books - I tried to buy from them when I could. But anyway the Taoist Yoga book is more of a "northern" style based on strict celibacy for males. Mantak Chia is more of a southern China style - but as Chunyi Lin says even for advanced training then there has to be strict celibacy.

So Chunyi Lin also teaches the "inner smile." This is really about visualizing light as healing energy and the "smile" is - as I used to point out over 10 years ago on the interwebs. Our inner ear that connects to the vagus nerve actually was our JAW bone when our ancestors were tree shrews - who knows when? 10s of millions of years ago I guess.

So that's what is fascinating - the inner smile is also an ancient physiology connection of the pineal gland as our "First Eye" and then our inner ears as our jaw bones. So I also used to call this "flexing" the pineal gland. Since I can now FEEL my pineal gland - then I can also "turn my light" around - to visualize but also FEEL my pineal gland as the inner smile.

So then with our eyes closed in meditation - we resonate the light as a self-amplifying laser energy - the biophotons. So this is quite literal science as biophotons are coherent laser light based on quantum frequency. This is how the chakras "work" - so our spirit intention is based on the frequency of the light.

As Chunyi Lin points out then - the difference between martial arts as fighting and qigong as meditation is then the Intention. In fact then by turning the light around into the Absolute Void (of the 5th dimension) then the intention is the "light of no light" or "shen of no shen."

Actually in Daoist Neidan "yin qi" is considered to be without substance while "yang qi" is considered to be with substance.

So John Chang makes this point - that it is the yin qi that leaves the body but the amount of qi that leaves the body is dependent on how much yang qi is stored up. Then when yang meets yin there is an "explosion" - which is the Yuan Qi being created.

So then in Neidan - the yang qi is sublimated but then purified via the third eye and heart by going back down the front - after the yang qi builds up in the skull. So then as a substance it is then swallowed - after it flows out of the sinus cavity from out of the skull. Then the qi is absorbed back into the intestines where it is stored.

So yin qi is tied to the blood while yang qi is tied to the cerebrospinal fluid. So then the pineal gland transfers the qi from the blood (yin qi) into the qi of the cerebrospinal fluid (Yang qi).

Duty to Retreat in Public! Minnesota is a Code Yellow State

Yellow is “castle doctrine only, duty to retreat in public,”

 This is quite fascinating - so the glasses lady - (yes I got new 1950s big black generic glasses - the only kind that fit me for my outdoor work - and available via the free Canadian socialism healthcare that I am on via Minnesota)...

Only I HAVE to wear a strap - so I look like some "special needs" person. haha. Cuz I don't want my glasses flying off when I get sweaty in the forest or whatever. I hope my close vision adjusts here - ok so also the flirtatious young "glasses" lady adroitly changed the subject to "so what do you have going on for the rest of the day?" I mentioned that I hoped I didn't get shot at on my property up north as a bullet seemed to whiz by me. Anyway she says that her brother got confronted even though he was on their own property in northern WI. So apparently in the northern parts - if you don't introduce yourself to your neighbors then you're an "intruder" that can be shot at. hmmm. Oh well. I'll figure this out. haha.

so it's illegal to fire from 500 feet to another person's Building - but a "tent" is NOT a building. Plus their house is beyond 500 feet. So someone else was a gun person but still couldn't prove that the teenage neighbor was firing at him. haha. Pretty funny. He tried even firing back - and he tried talking to the dad - and he got yelled at - and the cop couldn't do anything. I'll go look up the teenager's name again - it's in the county record office. Then I'll go drive by to see if he has a "target" that he's shooting at - that faces my land... I want to make sure to know his name first. Welcome to AmeriKKKa............

OK I just confirmed - yes my neighbor is an environmental, labor, republican party member. This is the strange new "radical populist" combo of a democrat type status switching over....

Of course I am assuming it is the teenage son - the dad does not live there as they are divorced. But all I know is after each "hay bine" mowing then the shooting is interspersed. So maybe - whoever is doing the mowing is then taking target practice breaks.... or shooting at sparrows....there's no squirrels in the forest. I suppose the neighbor shot them all or something.

“Duty to retreat” means that you absolutely MUST retreat to a safe place, no matter what, and you’re going to have a very difficult time using “defense of self or others” as a defense against murder charges, because you also have to prove you had no choice but to defend.

 https://www.quora.com/I-see-signs-that-say-will-shoot-trespassers-Is-it-legal-to-shoot-someone-who-trespasses-on-my-property

 In stand your ground states, the property owner reserves the right to perceive a person as threatening and apply deadly force. If you don’t live in one of those states, you most certainly can not shoot people for trespassing alone.

 So the eyeglasses lady was wrong!! You can't just go shooting at people even if you think they are an intruder - in Wisconsin even - (although WI lets you do it from your car apparently).

I just wonder if the "right wing" has picked up on the "stand your ground" philosophy a bit too much - as in thinking they can deputize themselves into a posse. "Stand your ground" in Virginia:

 So, if someone shoots at you, you may only shoot back as warning. If you kill them, and the homicide can’t be proven justified, you will be charged with manslaughter or murder.

The defendants offered a plea to the stand your ground law. It might have worked, but was rejected because they did not own the property that Coffey and his family trespassed on. They were tried separately and convicted.

So you can't go shooting at people just cuz you think they're intruding on land adjoining to your own!!

 Use of lethal force in a non-threatening misdemeanor scenario, like trespassing, will likely result in a criminal prosecution for maiming or manslaughter.

But consider private property large enough for the owner to engage in hunting on it. If they see a rustle in the bushes, how do they know it’s you, rather than the animal they are currently hunting?

The fact is that a rustle of a medium to large animal in the bushes looks the same whether it’s a human or some other animal.

 .... yeah but the rustle is not on their land! Of course if they shoot at the rustle and the bullet then goes onto someone else's land....

Depending on state and local laws “private property”, no hunting” and “no trespassing” signs must be located and annotated with contact information per local law to have effect.

OK I'll get the permanent marker and put up more No Trespassing Signs with my contact name on it.

 , but when the officer arrived I was told that because I did not have my signature on my "No Trespassing" signs, there was nothing they could do.

 First and foremost, there needs to be either a personal notification directly from the landowner to the trespasser in the previous year telling them that they are not welcome on the land, or the land has to be posted in a specific manner at least once a year.

  the landowner's signature or name and phone number need to be included. The signs need to be posted either every 1,000 feet or less, or 500 feet or less in woody areas where the boundary lines are not clear, or on all primary corners and at all access roads and trails.

I did this my first year - but the signs did not last - maybe a couple did...

 You might be shooting your neighbor who is trying to get the drop on the guy who is actually breaking in.

 https://www.quora.com/Should-I-shoot-a-burglar-entering-my-neighbour%E2%80%99s-house

 And does A lot of target shooting and skeet shooting so there's gunfire heard on his property frequently. A good bluff can deter A lot of people. If they even remotely think that they may get shot it will change their notions about taking chances trespassing.

So it's possible the neighbor thinks that I am a trespasser - or a potential one....

PENAL CODE CHAPTER 9. JUSTIFICATION EXCLUDING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY 9.41 allows use of force against a trespasser, 9.42 implicitly eliminates use of deadly force against a trespasser. You may push them off your land. You can’t kill them for standing on it. Unless you fear for your life. Sniping from your cabin in the woods doesn’t contain any threat of harm to you.