Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 21:21:59 +0100, D wrote:

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 10:45:03 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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I get the impressions Utah doesn't care much about federal laws and
doesn't have too many state laws.

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Utah is an odd state. As you drive down one of the canyons you can look
across and see the rifle pits that were constructed during the Mormon
War.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
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My brother lived in Utah for about 20 years. He had his work but his
wife referred to it as 'camping out'. In the '60s and '70s everything
revolved around the LDS church. If you were what they referred to as a
'gentile' there wasn't much. The author Ed Abbey quipped that only in
Utah can a Jew be a gentile. It's liberalized quite a bit since then
but it's still controlled by the LDS.

 
Was he able to have many women when he lived there?

His wife was the daughter of a Baptist minister. I don't think she was
into the polygamy bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinesdale,_Montana

The AUB is a fundamentalist offspring of the LDS church and the common
belief is that they're polygamists. They don't cause problems so nobody
looks too closely.

The town is at the base of the Bitterroot range and there are hiking
trails on the slopes. One Sunday I met a young man, two young women, and
several kids on a trail taking a stroll. They were polite, well dressed
and appeared to be enjoying the nice weather. Not my place to get into
their living arrangements.

If you catch one, make sure you save the tail hair. Apparently,
according to the wife, that's what is used for very high quality paint
brushes!

I skinned out the squirrels and rabbits I shot and tanned the hides. With
a squirrel you can pull the vertebrae out and leave the tail intact.
Squirrels have a much thicker hide than rabbits. A tanned rabbit hide is
almost like parchment with fur on it, quite supple. A squirrel is very
stiff until you work the hide like you would with buckskin.