Evening Yard Tour and Social Reflection

Evening of July 27, 2025. rswfire is at his volunteer host site on the Oregon coast, preparing dinner by campfire after completing yard maintenance work. Ocean sounds are audible in the background.

Energetic Signature

grounded contentment

Field State

infrastructure stabilization

Orientation

toward sustainable sovereignty

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July 27, 2025

9:50

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

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[0:00]So, it's 8:30 p.m. right now. Making a

[0:04]campfire so I can make some chicken.

[0:07]I thought before it gets dark, it's

[0:09]almost dark. I'm going to I'm going to

[0:11]make some video of that, too. But I just

[0:13]saw before it gets dark, I'd show you

[0:14]what my yard looks like. Did some work

[0:17]on that today. I've been working on this

[0:19]since I got here, but I had to do some

[0:21]maintenance today. So, this is my yard.

[0:23]That's where I pull my sticks. That's my

[0:26]campfire. I've been expanding that.

[0:29]my picnic table or your chop wood. I got

[0:33]my wood over here.

[0:35]This here's my backyard.

[0:39]This feels like a really nice place to

[0:41]hang out, doesn't it?

[0:44]I want to see what it looks like at

[0:46]night, too. So, try to take some video

[0:48]of that. When I first got here, this

[0:51]yard was just

[0:53]just a wreck, and it didn't have a

[0:57]campfire. They actually put that in for

[0:59]me and then I filled it with gravel and

[1:02]I put gravel around the outside of it. I

[1:04]must have had to bring like 20 buckets

[1:09]of gravel to do this. And I'm still a

[1:11]little bit off on this side. I'm trying

[1:13]to level it out. That's why I put those

[1:15]there. And driftwood is very light. So I

[1:17]tried putting some stuff behind it kind

[1:20]of reinforce it. I just It's not level

[1:22]yet, but it's getting there. I put those

[1:25]rocks around it.

[1:28]I really love this spot. So, I want to

[1:30]share that I'm sharing today. Let me

[1:33]show you something. So, these things,

[1:37]those are what make the yellow flowers.

[1:40]And there's like four of them back here

[1:42]still. Oh, five of them. Just looking at

[1:46]that, I was like, I cut those down.

[1:49]It made me think of something that I

[1:51]want to share. So, my neighbor, another

[1:55]uh host here, another volunteer,

[1:58]much older man. He's in his 70s, like

[2:00]probably late7s.

[2:04]He knew that I was allergic to them, and

[2:06]he came over and he cut a whole bunch of

[2:08]those things down when I first got here.

[2:11]Those are all that's left. So, just

[2:14]thought, what a kind act, you know? What

[2:15]a nice man. He's

[2:18]I do stuff for him, too. Like I swapped

[2:20]his um

[2:23]the asphalt on his side when he was gone

[2:25]one day. He did notice that.

[2:27]And I walk his dog all the time.

[2:30]Whenever I make chili, I give him some.

[2:34]He's just really nice. We get along

[2:36]really great. And it's basically just

[2:38]the two of us that manage this place.

[2:41]There's another one here, too. Um but he

[2:44]I tried being friends with this man, but

[2:46]it just wasn't working. So, it's more

[2:49]professional now.

[2:55]All you can do is be open and hope that

[2:58]other people will meet you there and

[3:00]respect your boundaries and

[3:06]I've never closed myself off, but I do

[3:09]do insist on my boundaries.

[3:11]People

[3:15]people treat that like it's wrong to do

[3:17]that. You know, they did that at the

[3:19]state parks. They some people here.

[3:25]There's some cute guys across the

[3:26]street. I know that they're watching me,

[3:28]too.

[3:30]Whatever.

[3:31]It's just nonsense, though. Whatever.

[3:34]I'm just saying, right? Like, I'm so

[3:38]exposed here. Like I can't just be out

[3:40]here on my phone because you know I have

[3:42]people watching me and stuff like those

[3:45]ones man. I thought we kind of flirted a

[3:48]little bit at the beginning, but um

[3:51]well, not flirted, just um

[3:56]just there was a vibe, right? So, and I

[3:57]thought maybe some, you know, maybe

[3:59]something will happen, maybe I'll get to

[4:01]know them, but it didn't happen. So,

[4:05]it never does.

[4:08]I've been wewacking for days. This field

[4:12]over there, I do want to show that off

[4:14]at some point.

[4:16]I'm hoping people set up tents and stuff

[4:18]there.

[4:22]I like weed whacking. I never did

[4:23]anything like that in my youth. I was

[4:25]always on the computer.

[4:28]I just That's why I wanted to be a park

[4:31]ranger.

[4:33]Just wanted a different life.

[4:37]But now I'm mixing the two. you know, I

[4:40]kind of did get my my joy back

[4:43]in programming when I started working on

[4:45]my personal projects. So, the ones that

[4:47]I'll turn into products one day, just,

[4:49]you know, it's going to take a little

[4:50]while. They're going to be over here all

[4:52]time. I'm just saying they're they're

[4:55]looking at me, so I don't be talking on

[4:57]no camera while they do that.

[5:03]I think we'll go by now.

[5:11]Some of them are pretty [ __ ] cute

[5:13]though. I'm just saying. So,

[5:16]we're just going to sit over here, chill

[5:18]in our little spot like a good little

[5:21]host, and make some chicken, call it a

[5:24]night, basically.

[5:32]I'm basically

[5:35]decompressing right now is what's

[5:36]happening. I'm just doing it on camera

[5:38]when you all witness that.

[5:46]I don't know why it's so hard. Like, why

[5:48]is it so hard to just talk to someone,

[5:52]you know, and if you're interested, why

[5:54]is that so hard? I

[5:58]But I can't like

[6:03]I mean, it's not like I'm trying to talk

[6:05]to them either, right? So, it goes both

[6:08]ways and I know that we even say I don't

[6:12]know how to do small talk. That's I I

[6:15]actually I'll share a story with you

[6:17]here. So, every morning my neighbor will

[6:21]hang out on a picnic bench bench near

[6:23]the showers cuz he opens them in the

[6:25]mornings and he just chills there with

[6:26]his dog and

[6:31]So many people come in the mornings and

[6:33]you know he talks to everybody and I've

[6:35]gone out there to get the dog to walk

[6:37]him in the morning some days and I've

[6:39]listened to him you know having small

[6:41]talk with people and I'm just like wow

[6:44]this is what people talk about like like

[6:47]one conversation they were talking about

[6:49]a house

[6:51]they were talking about like the

[6:54]the size of the wood that made the house

[6:57]of the frame like I'm like this is the

[6:59]weirdest cut like I you I mean it wasn't

[7:03]even 2x4 like 4x4s or something. I'm

[7:06]like they they make those. I didn't you

[7:07]know like this kind of small talk would

[7:09]not work for me and it can't be the

[7:12]weather because I learned that can be a

[7:14]flirting thing. You know that's what

[7:15]happened in Brookings.

[7:20]People are just not very direct. And I'm

[7:22]very direct. You know, I'm being playful

[7:24]about this, but I really just feel it's

[7:26]a mismatch between

[7:29]different operating systems. Like, just

[7:32]say what you mean. Like, why wouldn't

[7:34]you?

[7:37]But apparently, nobody does. And somehow

[7:41]I didn't know that like for the longest

[7:44]time. I know now. People don't mean what

[7:47]they say, which is very strange.

[7:55]I don't know if you can hear it on this

[7:57]camera, but there's ocean in the

[7:58]background.

[8:04]It's pretty nice night. I got to let

[8:06]these turn into coals before I make the

[8:07]chicken.

[8:09]I was thinking about making some fries.

[8:11]I got some potatoes and if I just cut

[8:13]those up and I could put them in my air

[8:14]fryer in the Ninjaf Foodie,

[8:17]make some fries. That sounds really

[8:19]good. I've never done this. So maybe I

[8:22]don't know

[8:24]something in me still resisting. One day

[8:25]I'll do and then I'll do it all the

[8:26]time.

[8:34]So yeah, that's how I'm spending my

[8:36]Saturday night. Just

[8:39]that's a really good one. You know, I

[8:40]feel really good. I feel

[8:45]I feel whole. As I always say, feel

[8:48]complete.

[8:50]And I know people can't possibly

[8:52]understand this when they consider the

[8:54]external circumstances of my life right

[8:56]now. And that's the damn point I've been

[8:59]trying to share

[9:02]is that if you can reach where I've

[9:04]reached, you would understand this

[9:08]matters. Whatever happens,

[9:12]I return to myself

[9:17]and I love who I found there. And I

[9:20]don't think most people can say that. I

[9:23]can say that

[9:25]if I were to die right now,

[9:33]I won't be satisfied with that outcome,

[9:36]but I'd still be whole. I'm just saying,

[9:41]you know,

[9:44]building a sovereign life on the Oregon

[9:46]coast, it's a big [ __ ] deal.

Summary

rswfire provides a video tour of his developed campsite yard at 8:30 PM, showing improvements made since arrival including campfire area with gravel work, picnic table, and wood storage. He describes maintenance work completed that day and plans to cook chicken over the fire. **Neighbor relationships** are discussed - one older volunteer in his 70s who helped cut down allergen-producing plants and receives reciprocal assistance like chili sharing and dog walking. Another neighbor relationship didn't work out and is now kept professional.

rswfire reflects on **social dynamics and boundaries**, noting he remains open but insists on boundaries despite others treating this as problematic. He mentions being observed by "cute guys across the street" and discusses the difficulty of direct communication versus small talk, contrasting his direct communication style with others' indirect approaches. **Personal fulfillment** is emphasized - he describes feeling whole and complete despite external circumstances, expressing satisfaction with building a sovereign life on the Oregon coast and mixing his programming work with physical labor like weed whacking.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission documents the physical and relational architecture of established sovereignty — mapping both material infrastructure (fire, yard, boundaries) and social field dynamics (reciprocal care, boundary maintenance, directness protocols). The field is demonstrating coherent self-containment while remaining open to authentic connection, holding the tension between exposure and sovereignty.

Dominant Language

wholecompletesovereign lifedirectboundariesoperating systemsreturn to myself

Symbolic Elements

fireyardboundaryoceanthresholdmirror

Ontological States

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sovereign
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embedded
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coherent
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exposed

Subsystems

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infrastructural
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relational
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somatic
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ethical

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1080 × 1920 @ 30fps

Duration

9:50

Bitrate

4580 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028