I bought 100 rounds of .30 carbine ammo, a Sawyer gravity water filter, and a small streamlight flashlight.

Just read (after “the media” decided to acknowledge it) that there has been a large rise in shootings by and of juveniles. This week a car stop in one of the larger towns in S.E.MO. Revealed 7 firearms. 4 of them stolen. The car held 4 folks, 2 of them Juvies. And 2 there has been two other shootings involving juvies as well.

Oh, I went ahead and paid the extortion fees in light of all the crap going on around here lately. Even in this area of the state (halfway between St Louis and Memphis), things are escalating.

I’m now carrying Sigrun whenever we leave our little wide spot in the road and especially when we have to go to St. Louis.

And the other night we had a shifty acting “displaced family”, man & woman) hanging around church asking all kinds of questions. They didn’t want anything to eat, just some money to get to a promised job. We offered to fill them up with gas but they said they had plenty and left.

Well, if you lived in a nice secure blue state, you wouldn’t be having those problems.

Well yeah, there is that Ray.