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jstan

climber

Jun 24, 2017 - 08:03pm PT

Your picture was not taken in the Pit. I have contacted the NSA so we can search all of So Cal using US National Means to try and find where your photo was taken.

After working on 62 today and disposing of four large screen TVs, I went to the Pit around 4PM. You won't believe who I found camping there. Robert Goulet!

Anyone who wants that wood should, I think, cut and split it in the Pit, and leave it there in the sun for at least six months. When they get it home it would be wise to tarp it tightly for another six months.

Russ Walling

Social climber

from Poofters Froth, Wyoming

Jun 24, 2017 - 08:34pm PT

So Jstan... seems pretty obvious you were the dumper, or at least orchestrated the deed

Instead of a convoluted bedtime story, can you explain why you are dumping fire wood at the pit?

Simple question

zip

Trad climber

pacific beach, ca

Jun 25, 2017 - 06:53am PT

This appears to be a very nice option to staying at the pit.
https://www.rent29.com/

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jun 25, 2017 - 07:15am PT

I've never been aware of The Pit as an option, especially with millions of acres of BLM land to the east.
But then I'm not inclined to consorting with tweakers and opioid addicts.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jun 25, 2017 - 09:53am PT

Locker, you should sign up for my ST Reading Comprehension and Political Correction Re-programming class.
You assumed I was referring to whoever might use The Pit.

jstan

climber

Jun 25, 2017 - 12:22pm PT

Well, satellite technology has come through. I had to get top secret clearance but the NSA has located the TV in locker's photo. It is in Morocco. I have booked passage next week to deal with it.

I really have to admit something. I find what I am doing to be great fun. Some time ago we found a king size mattress in the middle of 62 across from Gary's tire. I was not about to man haul it 300 feet to the Team's collection point. So I hooked on to it with the truck and hauled it down the road in a cloud of dust. As I pulled it up onto the shoulder I opened the driver's window and let out a "YeeeeeHah". So much fun.

Mike:

Why donate labor to maintain someone's private property that's closed to public use?

OK Mike I have a question for you.
Why type stuff into ST when it does not pay?

jstan

climber

Jun 25, 2017 - 12:43pm PT

Mike:

Good talking with you. I have enjoyed the conversation.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Outside the Asylum

Jun 25, 2017 - 12:47pm PT

Mike: Most of the selfless work that jstan and associates do is as steward of public land, or land adjacent to it. He has abolished the absurd notion of the "Somebody Else's Problem" field.

Russ Walling

Social climber

from Poofters Froth, Wyoming

Jun 25, 2017 - 01:02pm PT

JStan, you should run for office... you have a knack of not saying anything in the face of easy questions.

Studly

Trad climber

Jun 25, 2017 - 01:09pm PT

Russ, you should start a company and call it Fishing Expeditions. Wait, that's a little long so maybe shorten it.

jstan

climber

Jun 25, 2017 - 02:01pm PT

Russ:
You know now how John McCain felt after he questioned Comey.

jstan

climber

Jun 25, 2017 - 02:32pm PT

Mike:
I'm not going to try and say something like Anders.

Posting today for reasons the same as yours. Yesterday while picking up litter it was somewhere hotter than 110F. Nearly passed out in the bush. Years ago I could go all day with no water. Now?

Pffft!

You can believe that answer. Goldstone is another kettle of fish. He used to throw cartwheels on 5.10..... while whistling. I figure he probably can't include the whistling now.

Russ Walling

Social climber

from Poofters Froth, Wyoming

Jun 25, 2017 - 02:48pm PT

That's one way to look at it JStan. (!?!)

Thanks for the non answer and it would be great if you could stick to removing couches from freeway lanes with a hearty "yoo-hoo" and not dumping any more firewood or doors at the Pit. Stocking the Pit with firewood and a table is sending the wrong message, because supposedly, THE PIT IS CLOSED. Encouraging the dimwits with an incentive to be there is a bad precedent, regardless of who is cleaning it up, monitoring it, or writing the citations at some later date. Resist...

jstan

climber

Jun 27, 2017 - 05:26pm PT

Russ:
Just to stay current I went down to the Pit Tuesday morning. Perhaps three quarters of the large rounds from the dumped pine were gone. A whole lot of the problem was suddenly solved!

Since you seemed interested in it as fire wood I want to thank you for relieving me of a couple years of work. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

When I first saw about four trailer loads of Bark Beetle killed pine had been dumped, I knew I had a problem. I could not use my chipper shredder to convert the small stuff to mulch. If I would use it and then shred anything on my place I would be spewing fungal spores everywhere. That meant I had to take all the small stuff to Landers. Two truck loads it turned out.

I did not want the county to bury the big stuff. At the present rate Landers will be higher than Everest in 100 years. So given no help from anyone else, the only way out was to do the onerous two years long work needed to process diseased wood so I could safely use it as firewood. I am assuming you will come back and take the rest soon. The whole problem has been taken off my back! You can imagine how pleased I am. By the way today I got rid of the door that some one had used as a table.

Was good that it got only to about 100 today. Hard day. On that road behind the Hospice I took out
2 recliner chairs and recycled the iron
2 recliner chairs on wheels and recycled that iron
1 box spring and recycled that
1 queen sized mattress

If you want to see what this is all about the Clean Team will be meeting at 7AM at the Post Office in JT tomorrow. Then on Thursday the Yucca Valley Improvement team will meet at 7AM on the east side of Von's parking lot in YV. Watching these two groups tear into the trash and litter is a real trip.

Again. Thanks so much for the help!

Russ Walling

Social climber

from Poofters Froth, Wyoming

Jun 27, 2017 - 05:38pm PT

One time in the Valley I saw a bird up in a tree, making all sorts of noise. It was a fat bird, no doubt a fan of tourist food and bad habits. I pondered this bird and how it must be to have such a gift as flight, yet not even know it. It was then I decided that even a bird must know it is fat. Fast forward to modern day Joshua Tree: a dry land filled with ample opportunity to get fat, and not know the gift of flight. During the warm nights I think of this bird and just how fat I am, but the difference is I DO know it, unlike our twig sitting friend.

Through it all, the Pit is still closed and the fat bird is probably still fat in the Valley, with little care for the many mattresses and nightmarish fungi under his feet and within his gaze.

Clear as mud... I'll remove the rest when I can

Russ Walling

Social climber

from Poofters Froth, Wyoming

Jun 27, 2017 - 06:13pm PT

It used to but I think they were used as firewood... maybe a fake camera sign now. Signs don't mean much to the illegal dumpers and junkies. Just makes it safer for them

At some point this summer it will be closed off at the access roads... with terrain most likely instead of the shoddy "gate" used in the past. I bet the "workers" might even be sloppy and drop a few hundred nails in some critical spots. We'll see

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jun 27, 2017 - 06:57pm PT

Fast forward to modern day Joshua Tree: a dry land filled with ample opportunity to get fat, and not know the gift of flight.

This is a conundrum that will occupy me for at least the rest of my Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout, if not into the wine course.

Russ Walling

Social climber

from Poofters Froth, Wyoming

Jun 27, 2017 - 07:06pm PT

Tad: Got another truck load of wood out this eve... one big pile of really small stuff left. All the rounds and long rounds are gone. Kinda wish a tweaker would just drop a match on the remaining pile.

The only sign there is a half of an alarm company sign.. nobody is falling for that!

Reilly: let me know if you need more nonsense to ponder with your wine... I can deliver