Dreams about Fences and Driveways and Zombies

I have a hard time getting to sleep. It is usually about 4 am when I finally give out. I'm just having so much fun. I love retirement. I saw the way the world was going about 2010 and I started buying survival supplies and reading survival books and watching survival videos on You Tube. I educated myself. I think I bought every survival gadget they've thought of so far. I have books that tell me how to live off the land. I have books that describe what part of the body does what and what herbs you need to fix it. I have a solar panel that can charge my phone.

I bought my first van, "Swan," and started writing about my new adventures but, you know, you have to keep quiet about it. You're not supposed to tell other people your plans to survive. But I write. So, I just turned mine into a fantasy world and left out the parts about the mason jars I have, the flashlights that work forever, and taking out all the seats in my first van so that I had a little house on wheels. It's been an absolute blast.

After awhile you sort of get tired of the excitement of figuring out how to survive Armageddon. I already have that all done. I figured I'd survive it with my own little bit of land way out in the Ozarks, I'd take all my survival supplies there, and I'd create a fantasy. That's what I'm really good at. I'm good at dreaming up stuff, creating. But I must say that was quite a good ride, I had so much fun for a very long time. I could teach classes. Except, oh yeah, you're supposed to be quiet about it. That sort of leaves me out. I write, you know, lol.

Then there was the "live in your van" stage. I watched SO many You Tube videos about how to comfortably live in your van, how to stealth park, how and where to park for free, how to blackout your windows, and again, I probably have had the best vans out there because mine actually work. Old vans have old parts and old problems that new mechanics have no clue about how to solve. Seriously. So, I had to figure that out for them, where to get the parts, what is essential. Air Conditioning is not essential and somehow, even after you've paid huge sums to people, never keeps working in old vans. I made mine beautiful. I painted them. I made mine comfortable, with little lights and plenty of books. I turned mine into a fantasy world and named my vans "Swan" based off my white sailboat with a tiny stained glass window (in my novelette, "Island") that the girl/woman character learns how to operate based on plenty of spare parts in her storage compartments and all the right manuals and tools.

So, "Swan" gets sailed from Galveston (a place I grew up loving) to Tahiti and Bora Bora (a place I explored long ago, and will always love) by a girl with blue eyes and long blonde hair who sets off on adventures she creates all by herself. The only other people in the entire book is the annoying salesman she immediately has a confrontation with and solves by having more money than he thinks she does. She gives him a penny more than the outrageous sum he has asked for for the sailboat she wants, just on the principle of the matter, I guess you'd have to read the book.

Then, she sails from Galveston ALL the way AROUND South America to the other side, the side closest to Tahiti, and solves her lack of sailing knowledge with simply following a cruise ship to French Polynesia. There she stays in an overwater bungalow, the kind I stayed in. It has a window in the floor. You can turn a little switch and a light comes on that illuminates the clear blue water directly under the luxurious living room floor and attracts dozens of the most beautiful fish on the planet.

So, now I'm dreaming up how to build an overwater bungalow on my survival land in the Ozarks, one with real water, and real fish. Seriously, I am. I googled where to buy the thatch that goes on the thatched roof already, and added that tidbit of knowledge to the encyclopedias of survival skills I already possess in my head. No wonder I can't fall asleep until 4 am. I haven't even mentioned the Bigfoot that turned out to exist and turned out to already be on my land. So, that was about five years of fun figuring out what they are and if they'd eat me. They will. They aren't the scariest thing in the forest, not by a long shot.

I have an iPhone and I have a bunch of games on mine, probably just like you, and somewhere along the line geniuses figured out how to get us hooked on the tiny screen for pleasurable hour upon hour. They didn't want us to figure out how to survive, which is something you really need to know in case of Armageddon, which is what we already have going on.

Oh, the Bible. I LOVE the Bible. So, I spent FORTY years, no, more than that, however old I am, which I'm not going to tell you, some things really ARE secret, figuring THAT out. I have it now. No one, well barely anyone, wants to know what I figured out but I keep telling them anyway, by my writing, just in case anyone ever comes along who wants to go on THAT adventure. I left trails. I blazed trails, and documented the way, not that anyone cares. But occasionally a Davy Crockett or Meriwether Lewis comes along and when they do, boy oh boy, will THEY be happy. I left entire Dragon-treasure-caves full of goodies for THEM. I'm picturing that being someone in my own family line, whom I will never meet, who will come along after me and explore like me. After all, I have my great-great-grandmother's book in my closet that SHE wrote, describing how Texas was explored in the very beginning of Texas. I'm leaving THOSE kinds of treasures behind.

Last night I was still awake at 4 am, determined I will NOT buy another $10 worth of much needed game credits. I was watching the boring 60 second commercials instead, so it would let me go on to trying to solve the next level. This particular game was about moving blocks around, you have to do it fast and right to win. I usually like farming games. I keep wishing they'd make Bigfoot games or Survival games where you don't have to kill everything and everyone, I hate those.

In between the games, during the waiting periods of 60 seconds, I'd let my mind wander. I always have the sound off and I never watch the stupid commercials, I can time it pretty good in my head and I turn the phone over (they aren't going to brainwash ME). I'd let my mind wander to my new FENCE. I'd get a jolt of adrenalin and sheer happiness thinking about my new fence. We solidified the deal and within a month I will now have a new fence at "Angel Creek" - my survival off-grid land in the Ozarks (shusssh, that's a secret) - at least the entire 200' front part by the road that doesn't qualify to be called a road (you don't want Zombies to know where you are or be able to get to you, you know). It makes me HAPPY. So happy. No, seriously, it sends thrills through me much more so than those designed by the greedy game makers.

I'd lie there and dream about my new fence. We're doing it cheaply with the trees I've already had cut down and strong (I asked for super-duper strong) hog wire fence panels. I bet you've never seen such a beautiful fence for under $$, it's a beauty.

"I have a new fence," I'd lie there and think, so very happily. Then I'd remember I can now actually park on my own land, a dream I've had since day one, 2017. "AND a new driveway..." The Bigfoot are not going to be happy.

To be continued, probably forever...xo

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Written April 15, 2025 at 12:11 pm (getting close to Easter; During Passover April 12-20, 2025)