This camp is 95% male and when we had the cookout over Memorial Day, these men were like a bunch of ol' hens cacklin' lolol. All about one guy too and I thought that was kinda sad, especially when it went on & on!! I told hubby I would be interested in hearing the other guy's side of the story, cuz there is always 3 sides to every story ya know!! Well as things happened, we did get a chance to hear his side and lo & behold, it wuz very different!! As we get to know some of these other "prospectors", we realize we don't wanna get to know them at all....not much different than what we left behind us. But our eyes were clearly open, no rose colored glases here!! There are the prospectors and there are the metal detector guys and from what I have heard, the metal detector guys find more than the prospectors, but it is kinda like the Hatfields and McCoys....some make it more difficult for the others and alot of discontent! Sad really!! Their way is best and they are satisfied with a pittance they get for all their hard work! Whereas the metal detector guys find more and big nuggets with alot less work, so maybe it is jealousy, I dunno! What I do know is it is very ridiculous and sad, cuz aren't we all here for the same purpose...for that elusive gold!!
Yes, we were disillusioned by all of this, no we weren't told just how hard a work it is! We surely thought we would have found a significant amount by now, cuz gee whizz it has been almost 2 whole months!! Maybe we should just pack it all in and go back to okieland with the floods and mosquitoes! But isn't this where we belong? Do we have to fight & argue about the same shit every single friggin day? Isn't this what we have dreamed of....a kind of freedom we can't find other places? Are we ever gonna find enough to help with the finances or maybe pay something off? Yep, that is how it has been the last couple weeks? Well we are working thru it all and decided hell NO we ain't going back to okieland to live! We will proceed and forge ahead with our plans and our dreams!! We will make it thru this rough patch cuz that is what we do and how our love survives! We know we belong here! We may be a 2 state citizen for a while, but eventually AZ will be our permanent home!
There are downsides to most any place one chooses to live, but I believe u have to at least like where u live. I do love it here, even tho there are flying gnat thingies that get around your face, etc. and there are snakes amd scorpions! But every morning as I watch the sun come up over the mountains and cast different shadows on the other mtns., I watch the bunnies, the road runners, the skenks and the other wildlife and it kinda put things back into perspective a bit.
So there it is in a nutshell so to speak, things are looking up and we shall overcome and find that peace that we felt when we first arrived!!
Well, as we always find out, man's greed gets in the way of common courtesy and respect! Instead of working together and living in harmony they choose to make it all about the competition of who can get the most!! Figures.
ReplyDeleteI do hope things work out for you guys! Sucks when you leave one rat race only to find another of a different type.
Wild life always makes things a bit better.... I love watching the roadrunners! We have one we call Randall, who lives out by our old barn. He's very elusive and normally in the winter I KNOW he's around because he leaves his little foot prints in the snow by my front door! Sometimes, he sticks around to say hi. Lol.
Positive energy going out to Arizona -- maybe it will find it's way to all those cackling old men and they will chill! Love ya sister friend!! :)