FlyingGoat checking in from UY

[Flying Goat]

Don't know if any here will remember me. I've been gone for a couple years.

After the mess in the GOM had us sick (I could feel myself dying), we sold out and moved to Uruguay.

Healthy again now, thanx to good sea air & clean food, water, etc. Have dropped 60 lbs and fitter than ever (over 50 now).

My first legal grow here last year, outdoor, of Pehkuruder. I thot I was a good indoor grower with all the hi-tech, soil mix, etc. Heheheh. Down here, we have only sand & have to build our own soil. Ditto ferts. I am growing in big wood boxes above the ground, to foil the leaf-cutter ants, filled with a permaculture mix of rich earth, horse manure, compost, and charcoal (terra prata like the Incas used). My ferts are all fermented wild herbs like plantain, dandelion, and several seaweeds.

Outperformed ANYTHING I have ever grown before... Got 5x the weight at harvest each plant. Must be the hole in the ozone, eh?


Whatever happened to the Chronic Pain Club? Hope everyone just didn't die off...

FlyingGoat
aka Flying Goat

 

[paladin420]

Welcome back sir. Great to hear about your good days.

I believe I just Uragauy is going very legal and sane with some new laws?

Puff puff pass my friend

 

[cr0n]

Hi FG,

Glad you have returned. Last I spoke with u was just before you moved (over at seedshare). Happy to hear things are going well for you.

 

[b00m]

Welcome to ICMag Flying Goat

 

[Flying Goat]

Ratz! - keep losing my post - it tells me to log in & refresh page again... Pfft.

Well, we got down here on 4/20 of 2011

Sick as dogs, uptight to where ya couldn't pull a pin from our butts with a tractor. Found a bit of dirt for $9k and cut eucalyptus trees & started building our house. Louisiana Swamp House in the woods. Exterior is lapped pine boards ($2.50/ea)... Just a 400 sqft shell now, but downright luxurious compared to 1st year in a 9x9 ft room, bed up against the wall daytime, on floor at night.

When cool weather comes, we rent a cabana about 4 blocks from the beach for $225/mo, all bills paid but propane for stove (about $16/mo). Firewood is $60/cord. Laundry service (if I don't do in a bucket) is $2.50/6kg, picked up & delivered. Internet modem $16/mo, phone (mostly texting) $5/mo. Calls are more expensive.

1-1/2" thick ribeye with all the fat left on, all organic, grassfed, grassFATTENED, we can buy 4 steaks for about $5.50. Of course, we have to share one steak, cuz we don't eat as much as we used to when we were younger.

Thanks for the welcome, folks. Ask all the questions you like.

Maybe I will post a Goat's Garden thread here this year... Lineup for GG is Zambian Copper, Thai, and Casey Jones, planting beans this week. These will go amongst the eucalyptus & acacia where tourists fear to tread for fear of snakes... I has me holes... ;p

In greenhouse (mesh only): Another Zambian (seed repro for a friend), C99 pineapple pheno, Black Domina (this was to die for last year)...

Amongst the tomatoes & herbs - an endless array of autoflowers... Instant Coffee, Solid Bottom, Pehkuruder, Cream Caramel x Auto Assassin... and whatever else I have room for.

Thanks for the great welcome.

 

[Flying Goat]

Geez! Do you other "newbies" have to refresh page & log in AGAIN with every single post? WTF??? If this keeps up, I'll hafta take my toys & go home...

I WAS gonna add...
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Wow, it let me post!

Good to hear from you Croni! I see some others are still here as well...

Loving it down here, will never return. My residency papers go in next week...

I'm 60 lbs. lighter, healthy & strong again. The BP cough, spitting up blood & black stuff, stopped on its own here 3 days after we arrived... (nothing worked up there, not even my NDN meds with cherry bark). :-(

We're fitter than ever - actually hardbellies now, but over 50! Hubs is doing a 90-day contract job in the gulag for some cash... We have our eye on 10 hectareas (26 acres) & wanna slip into that slot skillfully, with much slight of hand. (Will explain once I have PM privileges again.)

Anyway, the Goat is back in action & ready to grow the HELL outta some stuff this year...

Ultimate blessings, all.

FG

 

[Flying Goat]

Paladin -- Just so you don't think I'm gay when I speak of my "hubby," I'm an old goatwoman... Just lacking the goats for a little while longer...

Cheers, nice to meet ya.

 

[hayday]

Hey there Goat,I've been wondering where you lighted.Seems like you found your spot in the world.You might not recognize the name as I changed handles but we were friends as you were leaving your old spot.
Really glad y'all are well

P.S. I wanna come visit...

 

[Flying Goat]

Hey there, Smurf -

Come on down! I have the house to myself until December 20, when I move to stay summer with my lovely friend & landlady... I'll put you up, no dramas. Bring sheets for single bed & your own towels & pillowcases. Bring Tabasco.

If you prefer, there are other cabanas available side by side... Surfing is getting good, water warming up.

Had a lovely batch of mussels the other day - in their own juices, then removed from shells (those I didn't eat right away, slurp, slurp)... Then put back in the half-shell, covered with mix of minced fried bacon, onion, garlic, tomato & cilantro, slice of Queso Colonias on top, under the broiler (or propane torch) just til cheese is melted...

That with some hushpuppies with red pepper & onion & chives inside, plus algae from the sea... Freaking delish, man with a glass of red or white... Or even the local beer!

Best of all - gourmet eats for nada... I even got me some octopus in a tidepool once... Yeah... Ceviche... I'm digging it.

Best time to come is now, before high season. Otherwise, wait until after Easter weekend - airfares fall like a rock & so do rents. This house rents for $6k/mo in summer but $225 in winter...

Yepper. Found me nest, I have. Ain't leavin' it, either. Ever.

Friend me or something, if you would. I need some private info & am lurking...

Cheers, and hugs from the other 'down under.'

FG

 

[Flying Goat]

PS - see that little tear-shaped hump under Brasil in S.A.? There's the Rio de la Plata between ARG & Uruguay. I be up at da top of UY, next to Brasil... On a peninsula in a fishing village that had 1,300 people when we got here, now over 2,000...

 

[Skip]

Hi Goat! Nice to hear about Uruguay. I've considered relocating there myself.

As far as your login problems go, just make sure the remember me button is checked when you login and you won't have the problem.

 

[hayday]

Your new place sounds heavenly.Good food and good sport.You know once I get there,I aint leaving Right???
Jk...I'm not leaving Taxes
I sent ya a rep message

 

[Flying Goat]

Hi Goat! Nice to hear about Uruguay. I've considered relocating there myself.

As far as your login problems go, just make sure the remember me button is checked when you login and you won't have the problem.

Thank you so much, Skip. The site has changed a lot while I've been getting settled & recovering my health...

Add to that that I'm blind as a bat & I'm getting fricking OLD now... I get pissed, I tell you! (old George routine - gotta love him)

Muchas gracias for taking the time to help an old lady.

 

[Flying Goat]

@ Hayday -

No worries, mate. If you're artistic, you can make enough cash selling your stuff to tourists on the beach. Ditto if you're a good cook, esp of fish, since we have a local fishing fleet.

Tobacco grows very well here, and you can raise all you need to eat on just a lot. You can still keep chickens & stuff in town, maybe goats out where we're building, but too many loose dogs for me to feel comfortable without being there fulltime.

Next winter - homemade woodstove from slabs of iron, made by a friend... Copper coil passive water heater... (instead of the black hose coiled on the roof).

You will need 2 certified copies of your birth certificate, ditto any divorce papers. Send those to the secretary of state where you were born and/or divorce was filed & have them apostilled. Get a letter from your bank saying you're a good guy. Another from any friend with letterhead - they're really impressed by nice paper down here. Bring some old electric & water bills. (Helps open bank account if you have one.)

UY lets you in on a 90-day automatic visa... If you stay up to 90 days, you can extend the visa for a fee in MVD, or like me up on the frontier, you take the bus to town, cab back to UY, exit, then cab to Brasil, get stamped in, then go back to town & get your shopping & hop the bus for home on the UY side... ;p Technically, you're supposed to stay in Br for 24 hours, but I don't spend on hotels, so I go back the next weekend & do it again in reverse.

I apply for residency this coming week. Then, once I'm 'en tramite' I don't have to cross the border anymore. I have a letter by an atty proving my income, Interpol has my fingerprints, I'll file my birth certificate with registro central in Chuy... All I need do then is submit my earthsuit for a good old health check & tetanus vaccine... Men have all the luck. No prostate exams. But women get their tits squeezed & irradiated, get poked & probed... It's just not right, I tell you. Thankfully, the whole deal costs less than $50, so no dramas.

About the tetanus vaccine. I'm going to ask to self-administer, since I have experience, and will put in my thigh... Since I always 'go commando,' they'll turn away when they see my bare butt, and I will squirt the shit into a snotrag brought special for the occasion.

That, or you can offer 500 pesos ($25) as a bribe & say you're allergic to eggs (which I am). I will try the first, and if no go, will do the 2nd, justification being I can handle in the leg better than the arm.

You can stay in UY for up to 3 or 4 years going back & forth as tourists. I sometimes log into BR & 'stay' for 3 months. Very lax up here, but things are changing. They're putting in an aduana in Barra Chuy (bootlegger route past Customs)... But you can still do the bus thing. If you arrive by cab, no way they'll spot you on the bus & they usually can't be bothered to look.

Before the VW rusted out, they'd see the Rocha county license plate & just wave us thru. If raining, they never come out of the building... ;p

Yep, you can do it down here on $500/mo. But, for us, me getting all my docs translated & filed, and then trying to rent in town & construct at the same time, my $1200 SocSec doesn't go far enough. Still, we eat good & keep comfy. But the house gets built a bit at a time...

Which is the UY way. Most often, people build 1/2 the house - kitchen, bath, sleeping area. Then, the next year or so, they build the other half & have living area & another bedroom...

Yes, I am a Pajarito now... and I love it.

 

[4smokazONly]

welcome...

 

[Double Kindness]

girl-
good to see you back on here. I see you're still sassy as ever. ?I seem to have misplaced 85% of my seedstock, looking for them for months now, especially the landrace af's from a while back...

 

[nattynattygurrl]

Welcome back FlyingGoat!
Glad to hear you have found your paradise and that you are regaining your health.
Enjoy it!

 

[guineapig]

The Goat Flies again!!!!!

I'm interested to hear about your terra praeta and fermentation data

kind regards from guineapig

 

[dimodz]

high & welcome back to ic,


nice to see u here

best vibez
D

 

[JediMasterVon]

Welcome back FG!

J