I’m back on the farm serving in my apprentice role. The last two days have been all about the reel line, and how the Italians went the opposite way with clockwise and counter-clockwise, when it comes to jacking up this rig.
Once firmly stationary, the hose is pulled out across the field, in this case in a lane mowed between wild flowers. But are they wild, if grown as a crop? The more hose off the reel, the heavier, and we’re talking too heavy for humans from every angle.
Just moving the rig requires motorized towing. Getting the towing pin to insert into the gator’s towing hole is especially tedious in the current setup. Extending the hose takes a bonafied tractor. The gator runs out of oomph after so many hundred feet. Hose is heavy, especially when full of water.
Is that a tremor I’m feeling? The destination trailer is wobbling slightly. That might be wind catching the awning, but I mostly retracted that. Time: 5:20 pm PDF. The Pacific Northwest is on the Ring of Fire and, like Japan, is prone to seismic events.
Sam discussed his evolving landscaping dreams, which include a raised and leveled dirt platform for a dome, which he’d design. Adding structures requires permitting. The place has come a long way already, what with all the new irrigation piping and the informal Flextegrity Museum, which only a tiny elite get to see.
The Flextegrity Museum inherits from Lattice Gallery in downtown Portland, a popup Sam financed in 2019. I was one of the several volunteers on tap to give tours. I’m up for playing that same role today, and in the meantime serve as location scout, looking for places to make our movies.
I talked about a movie shoot where we’d show off a high tech yurt, advertising our Global U tech of tomorrow. We’d have all the shots in the can within days and the director and crew could either stay in this trailer, and / or in town (Springfield and Eugene are but minutes away).
The high tech yurt idea goes way back and I know some folks live in them already. By high tech I mean they’re wired for internet and the people inside are able to tune in the whole world. Yet it’s a remote rural setting with no real need for yellow school buses. Teachers appear online. The occasional van might swing by to take kids to their martial arts training or other team sport.
I don’t have this movie funded yet. Old Man River City either (they’re related). The Refugee Biz is big, maybe the biggest, but for now is back burner as armed thugs storm our precious agricultural lands and play Risk or My Kingdom with live ammo. We hope this wasteful form of cosplay will be ended shortly. These Global U resources, human especially, are needed for more adult purposes.
