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Morning gang. Up early out here and can’t seem to get back to sleep, so first thing to do is to go ahead and schedule my nap right now. Obviously nothing to report on this time of day, but that first cup of coffee is tasting pretty good.
I forgot to tell you about my deer sighting yesterday. My usual sightings are a few does with a few yearlings – 6 to 8 at the most. I assume that they are more or less permanent residents, and several of them I can recognize by some distinct mark or another. But yesterday, a complete herd came by. I would estimate at least 20 does and yearlings along with three magnificent bucks. Two of the bucks were really nice, and the third one was nice but not quite as large as the other two. They are shedding their antlers this time of year, so I was surprised that all three of these still had their antlers – of course, I would not have know they were bucks if they did not have their antlers. Those are going to be some good finds when someone gets those antlers. BTW, in addition to hunting arrow heads, gathering antlers is a big hobby out here for many people I guess there are people who make decorative pieces from deer antlers, and I’m pretty sure that somewhere out there some quack pharmacist is grinding them up and selling them to old men for medicinal purposes. I tried to get a couple of photos, but my cameras were out of reach and by the time I got back they had spotted through the patio door and moved on off into the brush.
OK, so that’s my story for the morning now. TOK is open today and maybe tomorrow, then Teresa, the lady who runs the place, is headed back for some abdominal surgery, so it will be closed again for 3 weeks or so. She is the indispensable woman when it come to the TOK. You all have a great day now. More later as it develops.
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Short version – here is the beginning of a list of companies that hate you. Therefore, there is no need to act surprised and get outraged once you discover first hand that they hate you and what you stand for. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/these-51-big-businesses-target-conservatives-heres-what-you-can-do-stop-them
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I had to log-in this morning, first time in a long time. Like El Gordo I’ve been up a while, Lil’ Dawg got me up about 4 and I couldn’t go back to sleep so about 5 I just got up but I really wanted that last hour since I went to bed at 10:30 last night, late for me. Still warm here, 67 now and we’ll be back in the 80’s until Thursday night when the next rain moves in and send all the precipitation to our north. The weather guessers are saying we’ll have colder and wetter weather all through the middle of March and the north and west will be bitter cold. Just as I figured, these 2 weeks of summer weather was juts a tease but it sure has been nice for working outside.
Not sure what I’ll tackle today but the warm weather has my wife all fired up and if I worked on all the projects she has in mind I’ll be working into the fall on them.
BUT It’s Monday!
Mornin’ Gang
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Good morning, all! I may run back to Kroger and grab some more sale beef if they have it. I found pint jars at my Local dollar store yesterday for a good price, so I stocked up. I prefer to can in pints. Stock and some soup recipes I do in quarts, but a pint of meat is enough for a meal and I won’t have to worry about refrigerating the leftovers if I do quarts of meat. It’s rare I can find beef at a price I like, so I’m canning it while I can.
3 jars failed to seal last night. I think I over filled them. I’m going to try for another cycle today and see if reprocessing those jars works.
But first, I must finish my morning coffee…
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Slowly soaking in the coffee, and trying to pry my eyes open this morning. Gotta drive my singing partner from church to see his cardiologist this morning, after he got a call wondering why he missed his appointment last Monday. His answer – “because I was in the hospital” – so they rescheduled him for today… And, bless his heart, he refuses to drive to the Woodlands, under the best of circumstances… Guess the hustle and bustle of today’s Woodlands is a bit much, considering he was born some 80 years ago on a farm outside Montgomery. It’s always a treat to get the history of whatever we pass on the roads from someone who remembers what was there when that freeway was NOT.
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#6 SuperDave – ROTFLOL
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PERSISTENCE ☙ Monday, February 27, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS
Roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Your roundup includes: US Department of Energy randomly issues a racist report blaming the pandemic on a Chinese lab leak; China and Iran escalate their way toward the Proxy War; Musk gets a little leverage; blockbuster study destroys more CDC lies about the vaccine’s safety; and John Fetterman’s story gets weirder, if you can imagine that.News:
Re: Dept of Energy (why does it have its own biolab network?) releasing the source of the neverending WLR nightmare:
Childers asks “Why release this now?” Of course, there’s no clear answer. They claim new evidence, but provide proof of said evidence.
Color me shocked. /sarc off
Most of today’s chatter about this article relates to vindication for all the people — myself included — who were criticized, cancelled, or worse for ‘spreading’ the apparently-true ‘misinformation’ that the Wuhan Institute of Virology must have been somehow involved in this disaster. I even heard somebody’s put up a website where we can all apply for an apology. Possibly.
There will be no apologies unless it’s politically expedient, but I don’t see how that can happen. Unless there’s a huge groundswell of voter rage, but then all those voters will have to admit that they’ve hornswoggled by TPTB, and no one wants to look gullible.
So, prolly no apologies. The narrative may weaken, but it will take a long time for the misinformation to become truth. But Mr. C. thinks the news release has something to do with the next story, so let’s see what else is up his sleeve today…
On Friday — just two days before the WSJ dropped its exclusive article packed with quotes from anonymous intelligence officials who know about how all the super-secret, un-named agencies feel on the lab-leak issue — the Washington Post ran an indignant story headlined “China Considers Sending Russia Artillery Shells, U.S. Officials Say.”
Ah! So, quit covering up for China and make them a villain before taking action?
Action? But Biden is “in charge”. /snuffle snort/ Onward (after skipping some delightfully snarky commentary)…
Keeping in mind the Department of Energy’s five-page lab-leak brief, and the fact that the Biden Administration used to think that accusing the Wuhan Institute of Virology of negligence was “racist,” consider how alarmed Team Biden was by Friday’s news China might toss some of its spare ordnance in Russia’s direction:
… a prospect that has alarmed those in the Biden administration who believe Beijing has the ability to transform the war’s trajectory.
/snip
Well. And just when Ukraine was on the brink of turning Russia into a third-world country. I’m sure you’ve seen, as I have, the countless articles tallying up Russian losses and salivating at the prospect the superpower would soon “run out of munitions” and start fighting with sharpened ski poles or something. Apparently all these geniuses never predicted that other non-NATO countries might eventually get pulled into the ESCALATING conflict.
/snip
And if Proxy War supporters start saying, “well, we’ll just have to beat China too!”, then I intend to mock them so hard they’ll never sit down again without an inflatable cushion ring. Just try it.
But that’s just what the geniuses on Team Biden appear to be getting ready to say:
[U.S. Secretary] Blinken warned [China’s senior diplomat] Wang Yi that there would be “consequences if China provides material support to Russia or assistance with systemic sanctions evasion,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price… National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday,.. “China should not want to become tangibly involved in that manner.”
Let’s just go to war with EVERYBODY!
Suddenly, I am more motivated to can more food, and quickly.
Anyway, it’s not just China. In the same article, the WSJ reported that Iran will be shipping more weapons to the Proxy War, too:
“Today, we have additional information that Iranian support for Russia’s war is expanding,” Kirby told reporters Friday. In November, he said, “Iran shipped artillery and tank rounds to Russia for use in Ukraine.”
Iranian support for Russia’s war is “expanding.” Isn’t “expanding” another word for “escalating?”
So. The dots I am connecting are (1) the Biden Administration’s anger at China for dabbling in its Proxy War, and (2) the magical, unrequested production of a hastily-prepared Department of Energy report adding one more tiny piece of evidence suggesting that China could be held responsible for the pandemic.
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Childers has a new Danish study that reports the mRNA is still hanging around inside your body 28 days after it was supposed to have gone on to wherever viruses go when they die.
This is NOT good news for the jabs or the people who took them. It shows that almost every original safety factor claimed about the jabs was NOT TRUE. Specifically, the researchers found:
We surprisingly found fragments of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA up to 28 days postvaccination in blood from chronic HCV patients vaccinated with mRNA vaccines from both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
In the study, while they were testing for other RNA related to hepatitis, the researchers accidentally stumbled across covid mRNA in patient blood samples as late as 28 days following injection. It’s a critical fact that all the study patients were Danish, because Denmark is one of the few countries that properly followed guidelines to aspirate prior to injection, which prevents accidental injection into the bloodstream.
So, Danish medicos were careful not to inject into veins, which could carry the virus throughout the body. IIRC, the virus was supposed remain in the arm and just sit there for a few days, pumping out spike proteins and encouraging the immune system to react.
Liars. Anyway…
… The CDC’s central safety claim for the vaccines was that the mRNA degraded quickly in the body… The CDC explained that mRNA is a very unstable molecule, and the body quickly eliminated it. But this study proves the opposite — the mRNA was discovered hanging around a month later, and that was the oldest sample they had.
It could be longer.
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… the Danish study disproved the most significant safety claim, that the mRNA quickly disappears from the body. … it raises a new horrifying possibility: that the mRNA could be reproducing itself. Otherwise it is difficult to explain why the mRNA hadn’t been already removed by normal body processes 28 days later.
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…The original clinical trial participants could have easily been tested for mRNA well before the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization. Why didn’t the FDA make Pfizer and Moderna determine how long the mRNA persists in the body? And why did the CDC falsely claim that it quickly degraded?
/snip
Tomorrow I’ll report on some encouraging developments related to prophylactic treatments for people who’ve taken the vaccines.
I’ve heard of some prophylactic treatments, too. There may be a way to eliminate or mitigate the spikes.
Hopeful.
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The Childers tackles the Fetterman saga. It seems that after Fetterman was hospitalized for possibly a long time – sorry Pennsylvania! – his wife packs up the kids and flees. Yep, she left her life partner all alone, battling depression (or whatever his real health problem is), and took off for the hills.
The family — sans the dad — is trying their best to cope with the press of events by doing fun holiday activities like zip lining, turning John’s slowly-unfolding tragedy into a heartwarming journey of joy and self-discovery.
And rumors are flying:
Pennsylvania’s elections statute is complicated, opinions vary, and the answer is not perfectly clear. But as far as I can tell, if Fetterman resigns before August 10th, his replacement would be specially elected. But after that date, the Governor can just appoint Fetterman’s replacement, who could then serve until the end of 2024.
So in other words, they have to keep him going until after August 10th.
All these facts, plus Fetterman’s complete disappearance from public view, are fueling a host of rumors, like a rumor that he’s already died,or that he’s in a coma with no signs of brain activity. So far none of that has any verifiable factual support that I can find.
So, is the Mrs. leaving her husband because he’s dead? Or because she wants to create the impression that he’s okay so she can leave? If he’s okay, why isn’t he engaged in his official duties?
I guess time will tell. I wonder if Pennsylvania is suffering voters’ remorse.
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Judicial Watch doing the work that paid civil servants refuse to do. Or rather, they are forcing the taxpayer paid civil servants to do their jobs:
Los Angeles County, California confirmed it had removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from its rolls thanks to a settlement with the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch, the group announced Friday. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in 2017 on behalf of itself and four registered voters in Los Angeles County. Election Integrity Project California, Inc., another public interest group, was also a part of the lawsuit.
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A California-based law firm has accused Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Runbeck Election Services, and a slew of other election officials, mayors, judges, city councilman, and county supervisors in the state of receiving bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
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“In 2018, Mr. Thaler discovered, incidental to another matter, a series of trust deeds evidencing that cash laundering through single family residences in Arizona was pervasive and ongoing,” Breger continued. “With that, a new investigation began with the focus being on money laundering and related racketeering activities in Maricopa County and several other Arizona counties. The Harris/Thaler office currently represents several parties directly damaged by the racketeering activities.”
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On page 85 of the report, the list of Arizona officials who allegedly have falsified deeds in the purported money laundering scheme include 40 names, notably including Gov. Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Sen. Krysten Sinema, Rep. Ruben Gallego, Mesa Mayor John Giles, Arizona Speaker of the House Ben Toma, as well as Maricopa County Supervisors Bill Gates, Thomas Galvin, and Clint Hickman.
“This list comprises individuals where investigation has been completed. Additional officials including judges and election officials for Maricopa County and spouses are currently implicated by the evidence obtained to date,” the report notes.
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Woman posing with awesome car and awesome airplane at Houston’s Hobby airport, 1941. A Eastern Airline DC-3 and a 41 Lincoln Zephyr, two-door model. Pretty lady. Gorgeous photo.
H/T Traces of Texas
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but the real secret was to take the cast iron skillet, rub the inside with shortening/lard and put it in the oven while the oven is pre-heating.” When I poured the cornbread batter into the screaming hot skillet, it sizzled… and the bottom was delightfully crunchy – but not at all hard
Watched Fay do it that way for over 34 years. Thanks for the memory.
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Tedtam@7:58pm
Sometimes, your writing sparkles. This was one of those.
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Metal rust removal oxide painting coating removal 1000w laser cleaning machine
Sure could have used one of these on badly corroded oilfield iron. Then it pans over to the equipment required, yeah probably not.
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#15 Shannon
I didn’t see a Tedtam@7:58pm…
Morning, gang!
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This is one of Shannon’s old Chilean flames.
I didn’t know she could sing, but here she is with her version Tom Waits “Temptation”.
Very, uh, sultry.
She was once in a lead role on stage with the musical, “The Mambo Kings”.
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Harper
Last night’s thread
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#16 GJT I’ve been wanting one of those since I first discovered it a few years ago but after a little research I found out that at $10K it was out of my budget. The device is worth every penny but I can’t justify it that much cash.
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Texpat
Oh my.
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The haze is so bad out here today. Visibility is down to a mile or so.
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21 Shannon
Are you getting some of that dust out of all those storms in West Texas ?
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I don’t know, Texpat. Could be.
Construction of dozens of millions of warehouse square footage continues unabated between Katy and the Brazos. And there’s the I-10 rebuild still going on in the same area.
With zero wind, some of that dirt in the air may be drifting this way.it’s much worse than the Sahara Desert days.
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All my paperwork at the plants is covered with fine grit.
Welcome to Lubbock South.
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I remember walking out of my apartment early one morning in Addison (north Dallas suburb) back in May 1980 and my truck was covered in red powdery dust from Mount St. Helen’s eruption in Washington state. Car washes were jammed around Dallas and it lasted for a good 10 days or so.
Mt. St. Helen to Addison around 1,600 miles as the crow flies.
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A very polite British Gentleman telling a snowflake EweToober he’s not going to move out of her shot.
He never gets nasty, he simply sits down on a park bench and refuses to move. GOOD FOR HIM.
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Well, I made my appointment for my first PT for Wednesday morning. Today has been a reminder that I may just need it.
I guess y’all will just have to enjoy Mr. Childers’ writing style without me.
Keep the groaning to minimum, please. /sarc off
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The video in #24 above is well worth the watch. It is a great way to deal with the obnoxious snowflakes.
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#23 Shannon – your Lubbock South reminded me of the time I lived in Amarillo, and my parents still lived in Abilene… They’d get a dust storm and Mama would tell me that she went outside and waved because she thought she saw me fly by on a dust cloud. (And I was glad to read your #14 – the telling made me smile, too)
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Texpat @10:03am
After watching her all those years on the TV show NCIS, I never knew she could sing nor that she could speak/sing French.
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I’ve experienced one major dust storm – while attending A&M. The dust was so thick in the air that one could see across the main drag, but not much further than that. All classes were canceled. Lasted two days, IIRC.
Folks from the Lubbock area would probably laugh at us for being such wusses, but our systems were not set up for, nor used to, sucking in all of those particulates. I’m sure they shut down the a/c systems in parts of the campus.
And driving…
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Once in Amarillo we were driving home and encountered a dust storm accompanied by some rain. It was literally splashing big blobs of mud on the windshield and the wipers could only smear it. We had to pull over and wait it out and then drain the windshield washer tank to regain visibility. They still don’t have IFR cars apparently.
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I have seen mud rain a few times, also, sandblasted hoods driving in a sandstorm.
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Lubbock Cuz said the winds were 80mph. Here we would call that a category something or another, there they call it a Monday.
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Mom said you had to dust every single day, no matter how tight your house was.
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When Lovely Daughter and took our trip to Italy, once place our tour guide, Robert, took was to the quaint mountain top village of Erice (Air-uh-chay). On a clear day, you could see part of Africa on the horizon.
As we were driving around, I asked why all the bricks on the roofs. Robert told us it was to hold down the roof during the vigorous windstorms that originated in Africa and brought sand to the village. “No matter how tightly you close up your house, you’re going to end up with sand inside,” he said.
On another topic, I noted that the village streets were narrow, sometimes not even a full car width. “How do they handle it it two cars approach head to head?” I asked. He said they’d just sit there, honking and staring each other down, until one car started backing up/down the street to make room for the other. That could be quite a ways.
I was able to see this for myself. It took about ten minutes before the downhill side driver gave in and slowly backed up to allow the other driver to take possession of the roadway.
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It seems the insurance company has swallowed my referral for physical therapy. I may have to cancel Wednesday’s appointment.
I may wait until tomorrow to cancel, in case the insurance decides to cough up that fur ball.
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I have seen mud rain a few times, also, sandblasted hoods driving in a sandstorm.
If you have plastic headlights, be careful. Those will definitely get sand blasted. It happened to my mom one time on her way to Andrews to help take care of her dad.
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I’ve never seen raining mud, but I have heard of it. Doesn’t sound like fun at all.
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In Kansas we had Snirt, a combination of dirt and snow where the high wind blew the dirt up and mixed with the moisture and rained what looked guano fertilizer. Small round hard pellets a little smaller than a BB. One morning I got in my Toyota pickup and there was a big pile of it in the drivers seat and I had to brush it out before it melted and made mud. If you’re wondering how it got in there it blew in around the door seal. Those old 70’s model Toyota trucks were junk, the body was made out of beer cans and if you leaned against the front fender it would oil can. That said the drivetrain was pretty good and the little 18 R motor had plenty of power with the 5 speed, (new at the time). My first and last Toyota BTW. 😉
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One of the other Girl Scout leaders and my Mama were talking during a scout meeting – musta been in the midst of a dust storm, or just after one… She said that she and her husband had a garden wedding – they were not terribly amused when a dust storm blew in suddenly, then it started sprinkling rain and her wedding dress wound up covered with red-dirt mud “pox” – in the 5th grade, all my fellow Girl Scouts and I thought that was hilarious – but then we were only about 10 years old at the time
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Damn the bumper came off ! 😀 Old Chevy with 4 flat tires, abandoned on the dirt road after it got stuck. I guess the green truck that was pulling it went to find a tractor….Me?!?! I ain’t got no stinkin’ tractor. 😉
Only in Alabama.
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It’s real windy today and I saw what I thought was a dust storm but it was pine tree pollen. My truck is now light yellow instead of white.
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They just revised the forecast and we are apparently going to get a genuine snowstorm here tonight. Underground has been bouncing the snowfall up and down from 2.5″ to 5.0″, but now we’re 90 minutes from the start of the storm and they are at 6.0″.
I thought we might get by without any this year,
I have to go buy gas for the snowblower. Later.
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I just got up from a lay-down, and as I was settling in at my computer, the comments section of the C&C was in front of me. A sentence about possibly getting cancer orally, i.e., by eating “it” prompted me to go look for “it”.
It belonged to a prior comment about labratory grown meat being produced by “immortal cells”. Know what “immortal cells” are?
Cancer. They are cancer cells.
And Bill Gates predicts we’ll be eating bovine tumors as our meat in 16 years.
Will we get cancer by eating cancer? We just don’t know. It could be safe, or touted as safe…or it could be next “jab”.
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James O’Keefe is scheduled to speak at CPAC.
Oughtta be a barn burner oratory.
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Super Dave
I drove a slightly later vintage Toyota PU.
Flimsy body, but I bet that thing is still running for somebody.
And still eating an alternator about every ten months.
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#42 TedTam – I believe that I would rather eat bugs or veggie burger… That article just killed my appetite entirely, for the moment. If Bill wants to eat bovine tumors himself – Bon Appetit to HIM, thanx but NO THANKS for me
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I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I went ahead and put 6 squash plants in the ground at various spots around the house. Mostly close in to the house and on the south side, but a couple out by the fence that should get all day sun. Poor soil out there though, but we’ll just see how they do. They might at least get big enough for the deer to find and eat. I’m banking on no more serious freezes this year, and we all know how foolish that can turn out. I do have a back up plan if freeze is predicted though. Tomatoes are just coming up, and it will take them some time to get large enough to even consider putting in the ground. Watermelons are just a little behind the squash, but the deer love those things, so I’m going to wait a little longer on them and try to find a good place to hide them when I do put them in the ground. I updated my dianthus/bluebonnet pictures over yonder, and the bluebonnets are really starting to bloom, but they are a long way from being in their prime, so if anyone wants to bring them over feel free to do so.
Overall, a bright, sunny, and warm day with less wind that the past couple of days. I just couldn’t stand not getting outside any longer.
My brother tells me that up in Colorado where he lives that if you go somewhere you had better lock your car and roll up your windows or when you come back your car will be full of squash and zucchini – I may wind up the same way here with all the plants I’ve got started.
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Nice garden spot, EG!
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My squash and zucchini’s in the little planting cups are going nuts. Nuthin else yet.
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The Christians in Syria are slowly rebuilding.
This is a FB link so I’m not sure if it will work for everyone.
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Got another “Friend” request. I think I’ll pass. 😉
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RE: #50
Obviously, the word is out that Super Dave is a sucker for redheads. They’re coming for him from all directions.
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Well, I wish it was a little later in the day. I’ve done good outdoor work today, enough to let me know just how badly out of shape I am, but I did get some things accomplished. Now if the weather will just cooperate. And the deer will leave everything alone. Guess I’ll go try to find something on YT to kill another hour or so. More later. Oh, thanks mh for bringing that photo over. I think they are all going to be very happy in there together and look good for a while since they are really just getting started,.
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Texpat, HA! FWIW; This one seems real most of them don’t.
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OK, I’m outta here. Nite nite you all.
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Hello and Good Night Hamsters,
Just stopping by to greet you and tell y’all I have enjoyed today’s commentary. Too many things required my attention today, so I’m late in getting time to say Hello. Everything is OK here, no worries, and looking forward to time to post stuff tomorrow.
And yes, that western dust is making quite an appearance around here and definitely is not friendly to sinuses.
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