Non-Typical Solutions

Enjoyed Tony’s posts and am sad to hear of his passing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Blessings for your kid! Teaching can be very rewarding! Every person is their own individual not one the exact same!!!

Cat….lots of things you mention are considerations! As an educator I see it every year! Anti-bullying week! All the sudden, teacher teacher Johnny is bullying me! Okay let’s go up to the counselor and see what’s going on!!! No let’s not I was just kidding!!!! Many many times the “bullied” are the bullies! Of course not always the case! There is a LOT that goes on at school….all levels! First you arrive at school and guess who has already been on campus for 30 minutes? The kid who’s parent(maybe) had to be to work At 7:00 and didn’t wanna leave them at the bus stop at6:30am! Chances are that kid has few friends and is behind in school! Free breakfast….yep and guess which kids are in there? The ones that are living in foster homes, with grand parents or parents on welfare! And guess what, they eat the little box of cold cereal and throw the rest in the trash! Bell rings and anywhere from 15-30 kids show up late anywhere from 10-30 minutes late! There’s a good chance they aren’t that successful in school and really don’t like 1st hour! Usually blame it on mom! Lunch…..kids hang out with the kids they like but on the computer attendance program Johnny’s parents have a restraining order on Jimmy because Jimmy introduced Johnny to pot last week at the skate park and there’s 300 kids at lunch and the teachers on lunch duty need to keep an eye on them! While keeping them from running on the outside tables, off their cell phones, not vaping and the 20 girls who went into the bathroom at the same time from smoking pot! Plus the jackass boys from trying the latest TikTok challenge of busting all the soap dispensers off the wall! Finally, school is out, parents lined up around the block in the parent pickup zone! Most of those kids come from the “successful “ homes and their parents don’t want them riding the bus because it’s too harsh for them to handle! So guess who’s waiting for the last bus to pick them up? Yep, low income kids that live way out, go home to sometimes no running water, no computer or internet to do homework and they usually come to school the next day wearing the same clothes! Lots wrong out there! Lots of kids coming from broken homes and honestly $hitty living conditions! And education system needs a serious internal gut check! Education was never intended to replace parenting! Sorry…….long year!

Latest I read states that the shooter was arrested in 2018 for threatening to shoot the school up. Current two kids in Az that were arrested for threatening to shoot a school up yesterday. Cottonwood and Prestcott valley..........................we aren't gonna get in front of mental health fast enough, fastest fix is to protect our campuses until better proactive solutions can be installed...........fencing, detectors, trained personnel, etc.............

Actually................I've heard you can drive into a crowded sidewalk at Christmas time and be just fine.........................

We had a training last Friday on a new program that we are going to "implement" next year to help students with "mental health"! While it might sound like a great idea you can't imagine the amount of red tape and paper trail required to get any action from an administration level! In most cases we are asked to take into consideration a kids home life....................duh................possibly the #1 common factor. Creating a campus with one entry and one exit sounds like a logistic nightmare but in my opinion is gonna have to happen if you really want to protect our kids! Including metal detectors! One of the big considerations is training adults that this is what needs to happen because this will cause backlash by adults who want the "freedom" they had as a kid. I mean, we get reamed by parents because we have a designated drop of area that takes "time" to get through because so many kids get driven to school by parents or siblings. Even though the drop off zone is for their children's safety. Times are very different! I am a huge proponent of trained armed staff and have volunteered to go through training! I was listening to a guy on the radio talking about "see something say something"...............which I am a huge believer in that concept but there is a pretty rough side to that as well, my neighbor who is anti gun sees me loading up for a hunting trip packing guns into my truck and all the sudden I have cops at my house investigating? Lots of things to consider but sitting on the sideline just praying ain't the only thing we need.........we need action, shut off all this foreign aid to countries that don't give a fit and invest in our children!

Beto........is all you really need to know..............

Can you imagine processing the scene????

DANG!!!!!

Interestingly enough I got into a discussion with a G$F officer darting elk off of FS 26 last summer. Supposedly they were putting collars on elk to track wolf impact. I asked him why he thought there were so many elk in the area specifically the Alpine meadow! He told me they had always been there which is debatable. When my dad built his summer home in the edge of the "Alpine meadow" back in the 70's a person had to drive to Reservation Lake to see elk I hope you are correct about the buildings and you are correct about the slippery slope and going to heck!!!

Judd ranch was up for sale 4+million.........had to know that anybody that could afford that price was gonna wreck it!!!

Man.....sounds good!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's gonna take a lotta green days to fix the mess and get things headed north again!!!

My folks claim my first camp out was at Diamondrock when I was 4 months old and that would have been August of 60! My dad built a summer home in Alpine late 70's! Any time I have a spare minute I spend it somewhere in unit1/27 During the COVID lockdowns Alpine was mysteriously like gestapo mask, the cabin had visitors so I was desperate for a room. We stopped at the Aspen Lodge to try and get a room for the night! Got treated like dirtbag because I didn't have a mask on and they wanted bank for the room one night........we just said forget it and drove back to Snowflake. The development where my dad's place is has had many changes in ownership with properties and we have felt the long hand of Kalifornication within that development! It's like Joe said.....just stay in Kalifornication if you are just gonna bring it here to Az.........but I fear we are too late!!!!

Looking to get some feedback on what these rigs are going for right now! Cole bought this for his detailing business up in Gunnison while he is going to college! What does the CWT community think it is worth on todays market? 1996 4Runner Manual 5 Speed 4 X 4 170K miles on the new motor 320K miles on the body Engine Block Heater New Springs 3" Lift New: belts, clutch, battery, plugs. Clean interior Medium wear open country tires. Personally, my advice was not to sell!!!

No he didn't sell it I think we talked him out of selling it for now!!!!

I know this has been discussed before but I am horrible searching past threads. Anybody have any experience with this brand of surveillance cameras/system? Thanks

Thanks a bunch for the review!!! I think I’ll only need a 4 camera setup! Small house and small yard! I appreciate it!

Recommend this system? Mostly curious about clarity and user friendly? I have watched an install video and it seemed doable!

That is some great footwork Vowell........!!!!

It's my own made up.................... Pretty Dam Accurate!!!

Nothing I hate worse than someone thinking my project isn't as important as some high$ person but you are probably PDA!

Custom work no matter the trade requires time and customer service! As soon as it gets subbed out it takes a step back from "custom" work. Some specialty areas are more easily subbed out with no regrets while others are hard to match. When I was running my own custom cabinet shop it was a very unpredictable circus act taking deposits for jobs and making sure I had the time to meet customer satisfaction. You don't always get it right but you know after a couple of blunders how to manage/schedule jobs. When I went from full time cabinets to teaching and part time cabinets it was interesting how the jobs fell. I out front told people that I would not take on a full size kitchen during school months because the job plus coaching there was no way I was going to keep people happy. Through covid I had a customer that wanted another kitchen from me, I had previously built three for this lady. I told her I could start May 1st 2020.........................she had doors for her remodel job on her house that didn't come in until August 10.......she put them in storage and she waited until May 2021 for me to work on her kitchen and house! I realize this is a person that had the time to wait......the point is when you make customers happy.......they will come back!!!! Good luck in trying to balance out real job and taxidermy! My wife is the only person I ever had work for me on cabinets and I knew her work was always going to be quality!!!