Sounds like you live in a similar area to me in rural East Texas, though no bus stops near me! Mainly just a good smattering of drug abusers living "out in the country where they can do what they want to!". I have two animal hoarders near me as well where the 4 surrounding counties' animal welfare officers and the local city animal control came out and did an intervention on the one that moved in from Dallas (after being evicted from her house); when I went by they had already hauled off over 200 dogs. I have lost all my Geese and over 300 chickens to the dogs from the other place; last year killing 67 of them which helped cut my losses. I also have been attacked 3 times by dogs on my property and my friend asks why I have a rifle propped up against a tractor tire or something similar depending on where I am working.
COVID lockdowns have brought out a lot of people from big cities so, in my humble opinion things have really changed from being a nice quiet restful place to, a place where marijuana smoke wafts across my property and obnoxious music bothers me from the house a 1/2 mile away as the crow flies, even inside my house with AC running in the window unit! I am hopeful things will get better over time but, drug use and thievery are hard to stop. At least public law is clear on livestock attacks on private property but, that really is a last resort and is not something that promotes a nice quality rural farm life.
Blimey Sid, I hope things get better for you!
I thought that was a really informative guide Jer
I don't know if I should try making a Market Stick, or stick with the one I have!
Really nice pictures. I'm going to the Western Minnesota Thresherman Show Labor Day weekend. They have stationary steam engines, tractors, and construction shovels at that show. I really enjoy it!
Last year, the Rumely Oil Pull tractors were the feature event! Big fan of them!
Thanks Sid, that sounds like a lot of fun
Hope you'll get some pics for us
Great pics and cool old walking stick ! Do you know what kind of wood that is ?
Thanks Steve, I'm afraid I don't know
Whitby looks like a fun place.
It definitely can be Jer, though I preferred it when it was a relatively quiet fishing port, before the Goths descended
en masse 
They take up a lot of space these days!
Brings money into the town (2 Goth festivals a year), but has definitely changed it's character
I guess I'll make my comment about Tool Man. I hope he isn't ailing and becoming acquainted with new limitations.
When he first started acting oddly, my first thought, (ignoring the obvious), was that he might be worried about his health in some way, or that of a family member. I did put this to him, when we eventually met up in the pub, and offered it as a 'Get out of jail free card', which might save him getting a thump, but he insisted not. I actually think he was stressed, but simply worried about losing money at the steam event
See tonight's instalment:
High Noon in The Pier Inn 
Everybody's probably tired of seeing it, but it's the only Lamb I've got...
(I'm not tired of carrying it.)
Definitely not!
Perfect Black Friday knife!
The fact I have waited in all day, with my windows open, so it's obvious, didn't stop another courier sneaking up to the house, and leaving another package on my door-step. Fortunately my neighbour spotted it
Still waiting in for Charlie's package
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