Like the swallows returning to Cappuccino , I saw my first helicopter-with-fire-bucket of the season yesterday. Yup, its the burning time. The air quality has gone from “ok” to “extra chunky style” and it smells like a week-old dumpster fire.

Picked up a new-to-me paperless AR the other day and took it to the range for a test firing. Shot fine. Clean it up and off it goes into storage. At this point I have something along the lines of a couple dozen AR’s so I’m not really in a hurry to get any more…but when one comes along at a decent price sans paperwork…thats hard to pass up.

About the only deliberate prepping activity I’m doing right now is financial stuff to try and get some money in the bank for the end of 2022. Its my goal to have enough by the end of next year to purchase a chunk of nowhere. Even though I’m nowhere near ready, in that regard, I still peruse the online listings to see whats available out. The short answer is that everything is available…its just wildly overpriced. (Or, at least, overpriced in my opinion.)

I don’t think we’re going to have another real estate meltdown like 2008, but I do think we’ll see this superhot market eventually flame out and start to cool down. And when it does, there are going to be a lot of people holding the bag on properties that are worth less than whats owed on them. And, I am hoping, thats the sort of timing that will coincide with my purchasing. We shall see.

I was thinking the other day, other than a nice chunk of dirt, the only other shopping list item I want is a semi-auto .50 BMG. Other than that…pretty much have everything else dialed in. (Of course, now that I say that Xenu will appear or the Yellowstone volcano will go off….)