Peruviantiger

Me too. I did leave the blind at 9 with the ghillie suit. Got set up on a trail and killed a doe at 25 yds at 10am

Thank you, I was a drunken thieving, fornicator whom God saved by his grace and changed. As a result, he is worthy of using my life anyway he so chooses. It has been an adventure to say the least.

This is an abbreviated account, but long, and as I warned before may be boring, but is so interesting to me.

On a personal level, I first visited a Peruvian prison in 2000. I have ministered in 7 different prisons with two of them I visited the most, and one of these I planted a church on the inside that is still in operation and will be 25 years old in March. We are 1 of 3 outside churches that have been granted permission to have an organized congregation. I used to travel back and forth, but moved there to live full time, to which I did for a little under 10 years. Though I don’t live there any longer, I am still involved and try to go and visit each year. When I lived there, I visited the prison every day for six or more hours except on family days. Though I could, I respected their time with their families, and didn’t go. I used a translator when I first started, but I became fluent in Spanish in prison.

My typical day in the prison usually consisted of preaching in our daily church service, take care of church administration (yes that still occurs even in a prison church) then I would spend about 3 hours with about 15 men discipling them. God raised up men who were the village thief, drunk or men who were falsly accused to be ministers not only in the prison but also out. There men who are in ministry right now as free men.

Enough about my back story. Now on to some things that I know about Peruvian prisons.

1. In Peru there are no state systems, everything is federal. The police, the courts, the prison system, all are federal. Each department (state) has a prison. Though all federally ran prisons. There can be drastic differences between them. As with all things, depends on leadership. Differences such as the morale of the inmates, how the guards treated them, the quality of the food (even though the quality and quantity suffered, some did better then others), medical care and cleanliness.

2. You are guilty until proven innocent. I knew an inmate who was with his best friend out on the town one evening. They were brutally attacked and the best friend died in his arms. While the friend was dying someone else saw them, reported it, and the man was arrested and spent 10 months in prison until he was proven to be innocent. Which is difficult and there is not much hope, because much of the justice system is corrupt, though there are exceptions. So when an inmate in Peru says they’re innocent, unlike here, the probability is actually higher that they really are.

3. Like most prisons there is an hierarchy, but it’s not for violence and restitution (though it could be, just not often as the inmates are pretty chill), but rather for helping the prison administration with cleaning and work schedules for those who did prison jobs. The inmates did have to pay the prison boss in order to get better favor and better jobs.

3. The prisons are overcrowded. Inmates live in groups of 10-15 in cells designed for 4. Men sleep on the floor or together on the concrete beds. The shower and toilet situations are out in the open like they are here. The guards put the men in the cells at 7 pm and lock each cell with a pad lock. They would then open them each morning at 7 am. During the day the men would normally pass the day out in the open concrete pavilion gambling, washing clothes, selling their wares or snacks.

4. There is an economy inside the prison. There are inmates who own bodegas (little stores), others owned restaurants (I kid you not, as I have eaten in them) these are not state owned but inmate owned. There are “door to door” salesmen selling things like clothes, jello, donuts, ceviche, etc. then they also worked to make crafts that were sold on family days. They were always trying to earn money. Now they usually weren’t good with their money as many would gable it away.

5. As I shared before there is little violence and homosexuality as compared to here because of the family and conjugal visits. There is not much pent up testosterone. I know of men who married and fathered children all while being incarcerated.

6. As far as the food is concerned , they would get a piece of bread and tea or coffee for breakfast. For lunch (the largest meal) they would be slopped out out 5 gallon buckets. The meal would be between rice, potatoes or carrots, as they are real cheap and readily available. As far as protein is considered, it would be a small piece of the toughest and cheapest meat there was. If it was fish, it would be the lowest of the lowest, and not fresh. In one prison they would share their lunch with me each day. If you had money you could eat and snack throughout the day. I used to love buying the donuts filled with dulce de leche.

I love sharing about these things, I pray they were enjoyable and interesting.

Been in cricket for 10 years. It’s been great. I pay $110 for 4 lines and a hotspot. All unlimited.

I recently bought one to pressure wash my house to prep it for painting. It did just fine for me. I really liked it. The hose was stiff, but I imagine that is with any pressure washer. Just don’t use the highest pressure nozzle of you are pressuring me washing your house, as it took the paint off mine..

I know there sense of smell is incredible, I don’t know if that is true or not about the scent killing products. What I do know is that I have had them blow at me and rat me out when I have forgotten to use it, and have had them literally walk 10 yards away and not even know that I am there.

I wear a black mask, black gloves and a black dry fit pull over so that I match the inside of the blind so my outline doesn’t stand out through the window. When it is cold, I wear layers. I use the scent killing products and leave my hunting clothes outside.

Lol, I am not strong in comprehension but the OP didn’t ask what my son, butler or wife should / could do, but rather what was the manliest thing I did. I don’t know maybe I missed it.

However, allow me to comment on your post.

1. I have no son at home so there’s that. If he was at home, you are correct, that would certainly have been his job.
2. I would never let my wife unload 750 lbs of feed, and if you would, then shame on you. I like my woman dainty and girly not strong as a ox and manly.
3. I didn’t want to disrupt my butler as he didn’t have the opportunity this morning as he was milking the cows, killing the pigs for making bacon, collecting the eggs for breakfast, and detailing his Ferrari before the rest of the family awakened, lol.

No soaring prices at my house. I have this big turkey ready to go for free. It was 36lb live and 27lbs dressed. I have raised them before, but someone didn't want this one. They didn't have the heart to harvest it, so they gave it to me. I harvested and froze it a couple of weeks ago, and will be ready to go for Thanksgiving.

This actually happened to me twice. It was right after buying my truck, and I did not know that the gas gauge was a quarter off. I literally rolled in the gas station each time. Needless to say, I learned my lesson and haven’t done it since.

I have a 2021 Ram 3500 daully with no mod’s that is my daily driver. 145k miles in 3.5 years, so lots of time in the seat. The sweet spot for me is right around 62 driving on open country roads. I have touched 22 mpg a couple of times and 21 mpg many times. However, I normally sit around 18.