Friday Open Comments

Sorry for the political condition of Texas?

It’s Friday!

Mornin’ Gang

Katfish

Up way too early – monitoring a replacement truck after the 1st one we booked yesterday GHOSTED us.

Here’s hoping this Guy can do Pensacola to Savannah today before the 4pm export cut off time!

He should be loaded & rolling shortly *fingers crossed*

Morning gang. Well this is confusing. Mr. Sam was Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn from Bonham. That looks like someone else?

Here’s Ammo Grrrll up early this morning. Good topic. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-474.php

Sadly, the Speaker of the Texas House has always (recent decades) has had to be someone acceptable to the Dems to get the position. Enough limp ducked eReps to ensure Dems actually run the Texasd House despite voters desires. Welcome to politics.

You all have a great day now. More later as it develops. Pray for a storm.

Just thinking of TexMo this morning. Hoping that he is getting the help that he needs.

GJT

That would be Mr. Sam Houston. Yessir, sorry Mr. Sam.

Super Dave

Got a strange feeling that we’ve been going around in circles. 😀

GJT

https://twitter.com/flvoicenews/status/1655936096319188994?s=46&t=nx7YtcQe9k8qGDx31L8lMQ

I’ve always believed we should do this with taxes, you have to write a check, you focus more on what it costs. This is brilliant.

NOW: DeSantis will sign a bill nixing teacher union automatic pay deductions

“That is going to lead to more take-home pay for teachers”

GJT

Of course if we did not have automatic deductions from our pay for taxes, the delinquency rate would be yuge, which would lead to the IRS to operate like mafia goons collecting fees. Oh wait…

Super Dave

Can you stand just one more Bud Light commentary?

Anheuser-Busch CEO Still Not Getting It as He Blames Social Media ‘Misinformation’ for Bud Light Boycott.

Anheuser-Busch CEO Michel Doukeris is doubling down on a grossly lacking explanation for why his once-mighty Bud Light brand is languishing.

“We need to clarify the facts that this was one can, one influencer, one post and not a campaign,” Doukeris told investors on that call.

According to Doukeris on that call, some of the “misinformation” being bandied about was that Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney were working closer together than they actually were.

Cut to the true part;

These boycotts were not specifically about whatever capacity that Bud Light was working with Mulvaney.

These boycotts were a direct response to overreaching corporate leftism, sure, but it’s also a direct response to the left’s assault on truth and God’s natural order of creation.

Americans across the country are sick and tired of being sick and tired with being inundated with leftist nonsense that claims up is down and men can become women with little more than makeup and mutilation.

It’s not just about what Bud Light did; it’s about what they’re tacitly giving credence to.

And that’s a problem that no slick slogan, roster shake-ups, or never-ending PR campaigns can fix.

Bud Light has shown that it cares little for truth.

Now, the people who care for truth care even less about Bud Light — and it’s got nothing to do with “misinformation.”

Texpat

The OC Header

How could anybody not know that is a portrait of Sam Houston ?

A man devoted and risked his own life to establish the Republic of Texas by defeating the Mexicans and now 187 years later the effete, impuissant politicians of the 21st century have allowed his beloved country to be overrun and plundered by the descendants of the very armies he defeated.

Of course his memory is due an apology.

[NoMandateEver – Colleges that Never Mandated the COVID vaccine]

Here I am, wondering if I can get another tub or two in place before I turn into a puddle…

I’m pondering the question as I drink my coffee and…

WHAT YOU SAW ☙ Friday, May 12, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Today, we launch a multiplier operation for Daniel Penny, the New York subway hero accused of murdering a strung-out criminal; and in the roundup: a no-mandates link to use or share; Anderson Cooper gives CNN viewers a non-apology apology; House Committee unveils Biden bank records report; woke new Disney remake is a box-office stinker; Zelensky either delays counteroffensive or starts counteroffensive, depending on who you believe; record numbers of British dying for no reason at all and nobody even cares that much, it’s not like it’s a pandemic or something; bye-bye Monkeypox emergency, which got to end too right after covid; and your Friday amusement

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OPERATION MULTIPLIER: By now, you must’ve heard about former marine Daniel Penny, 24, who on May 1st saved a carload of New York subway passengers by temporarily restraining out-of-control, black homeless drug addict Jordan Neely, 30 — who had a criminal record of previous subway attacks — and who was threatening people on the car and ironically yelling “I don’t even care if I die!”

But Neely did die, after being briefly restrained in a wrestling choke hold, cause of death unknown, and even though Penny and some other passengers diligently tried to revive him.

/snip

Thanks to corporate media’s ignorant and dangerous takes, groups of race activists in New York were riled up …and demanding that Daniel Penny be charged with murder.

So yesterday, Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg — yes, that one — yielded to the mob and charged Daniel Penny with second-degree manslaughter, a Class C felony, which requires the state to prove he “recklessly caused the death of another person.” Penny’s fate now lies with a jury, who has to decide whether Penny acted “recklessly,” unless he pleads to a lesser crime in a deal with prosecutors, which seems unlikely for a variety of reasons.

/snip

The real issue today is how the left celebrates criminality (Neely, Floyd, etc) and punishes courage and selflessness. The left’s message is clear: traditional masculine roles will be brutally suppressed by the apparatus of the state. The Soros prosecutors will argue that Danny Penny should have sat still, minded his own business, and let Neely do whatever he was going to do.

That is a microwave recipe for a failed civilization.

So today’s multiplier for Daniel Penny is really a multiplier for civilization. Send a message. Click this link and donate any easily-affordable amount ending in a ‘2’: https://www.givesendgo.com/daniel_penny…

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Mr. C. also links to a spreadsheet of colleges that never required the jab. Just in case you know of someone who has or soon will have a college student.

https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1656827953282416642

Next up (or down, depending on how you look at it): CNN desperately tries to explain why it allowed Trump to be inflicted on its viewers, and the hostess of the event. It seems the CNN audience, being of the ilk that is easily offended and emotionally aroused by such offense, has metaphorically shown up at the CNN gates with torches and pitchforks.

… the network inflicted President Trump on them: because, according to CNN, Trump IS going to be the Republican nominee.

That is, Trump will be the Republican nominee if CNN has anything to do with it. Cooper sadly droned…

This was one of the twitter responses to the above link: https://twitter.com/i/status/1656829251797262337

Hilarious. You can’t make this stuff up. CNN’s old, white gay guy tells its viewers “what they saw.” What CNN was actually trying to do was sort of explain the trick (helping Trump) without giving the trick away completely, and at that awkward enterprise, Cooper failed abjectly.

And then Cooper makes a desperate beg to keep their viewers viewing:

“You have every right … to never watch CNN again. But do you really think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make THAT person go away?”

So, he admits CNN is the echo chamber for the left. Descriptions below the twitter feed included the word “pathetic”.

Super Dave

I’m entitled to my opinion. Not according to Wiki.
Yes, I know that this is Wikipedia but I stumbled across it by accident and was slightly, only slightly surprised by the attempt to censor this idea. Remember there are no bounds too extreme to control speech and even thought.

I’m entitled to my opinion (or I have a right to my opinion) is an informal fallacy in which someone dismisses arguments against their position by claiming that they have a right to hold their own particular viewpoint. The statement exemplifies a red herring or thought-terminating cliché. The fallacy is sometimes presented as “let’s agree to disagree”. Whether one has a particular entitlement or right is irrelevant to whether one’s assertion is true or false. Where an objection to a belief is made, the assertion of the right to an opinion side-steps the usual steps of discourse of either asserting a justification of that belief, or an argument against the validity of the objection. Such an assertion, however, can also be an assertion of one’s own freedom from, or a refusal to participate in, the rules of argumentation and logic at hand.

SMDH

Okay, skipping the failing woke Peter Pan remake and more Ukraine money-dancing, we have a report from the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department, Statistics Division:

The UK Mirror ran a completely un-self-aware article yesterday headlined, “‘Brits are dying in their tens of thousands – and we don’t really have any idea why’.” The sub-headline explained, “Tens of thousands more Brits died than usual from May to December 2022, excluding Covid as a cause of death, raising serious questions as to why so many died.”

From May to December last year, there were +32,441 excess deaths in England and Wales, not counting covid deaths. That’s 32,000 MORE deaths than normal. The media’s usually-reliable experts are having a hard time figuring out what’s going on….

Professor of Demography David Coleman, Emeritus, Oxford University, informed the Mirror that no one knows for sure what killed so many British last year. He pointed out that, since covid claimed so many elderly and infirm people, there SHOULD HAVE been a post-covid bounce in improved mortality….

“Once those poor [vulnerable to covid] people have been packed off, the remaining population should be healthier, there should be a period afterwards where deaths are lower than usual, but that hasn’t happened,” bewildered Professor Coleman explained.

The Mirror trotted out several possibilities:… But in the end, the paper had to admit they just don’t know what is causing all these excess deaths….

Isn’t it weird how the experts absolutely knew everything there was to know about covid and the rapidly-approved vaccines with 100% confidence just a couple years ago. But now that tens of thousands of people who shouldn’t be dying are dying: the so-called “experts” are baffled and useless.

Monkeypox pandemic has been wrapped up, even for the man-on-man group. Thank goodness we’ve been able to clear up two pandemics in one year! /sarc off

Mr. C. finishes up with this amusing image:

GJT

Spanish Word of the Day: Budweiser

He says he’s a woman Budweiser her Adam’s apple so big.

Super Dave

Well it’s time to get to work anyways.

I see in the comments that the new CEO of twitter is a leftie masker. I hope Elon hasn’t screwed up on this choice.

I have to head out some time today to put some miles on my car. For some reason, my O2 sensors keep going out. The car runs fine, but our mechanic and Hubby are still trying to figure out why. My settings got reset yesterday and I need to get 75 miles on this new sensor before taking it to be inspected before the check engine light comes on again.

So, I may just take a joy ride for a while today. My sticker’s due this month.

Oh, and I did the OMAD thing yesterday (One Meal A Day – a keto thing). Hubby and I treated ourselves to a nice steak house meal, a late lunch. OMAD meals are large enough that I should feel full until the next OMAD, but I haven’t gotten there yet. Dr. Bosworth describes it as “eating until you get that full Thanksgiving meal feeling”.

That meant I didn’t have to cook dinner, so could prep for my Latin class last night. I thought I was pushing a late homework assignment, but it turns out I’m actually ahead of the class.

I was pleasantly surprised on the scale this morning, and my numbers on the meter were much better. I think I need to do that several times a week.

Texpat

#15 Tedtam

For the record, the Two Georges, George Monbiot and George Galloway, are the co-reigning kings of psychopathic idiocy in the UK.

They are so absurd and ridiculous they have become walking, talking parodies of themselves.

Super Dave

Texpat Heads Up!

Possible Meteorite Strikes House In New Jersey.

According to a press release by the Hopewell Township Police Department, a metallic object believed to be a meteorite smashed through the roof of a building in Hopewell Township, New Jersey. The ranch-style home was occupied at the moment of the supposed meteorite strike, but no injuries were reported.

The object, described as oblong in shape (approximately 10 x 15-centimeters), weighing 1.8-kilograms and appearing metallic, penetrated the roof and ceiling before impacting the hardwood floor and coming to a rest.

In an interview published by the AP, Suzy Kop, whose family owns the home, describes the discovery:

“We are thinking it’s a meteorite, came through here, hit the floor here because that’s completely damaged, it ricocheted up to this part of the ceiling and then finally rested on the floor there. I did touch the thing because it thought it was a random rock, I don’t know, and it was warm.”

Authorities are now working to confirm the meteoric nature of the object believed to be related to a current meteor shower called the Eta Aquiariids.

FWIW; I heard about this on local news the other day. And yes, I know Hopewell Township is about 75 miles from Texpat.

Today wound up being feeding day for the worms. I’ve now got 6 flat bins, and after today, I can treat them all basically the same and feed them all at the same time. I would estimate the number of adult worms in each bin to be about equal at probably about 400 worms each. FYI, a pound of worms is about 1,000. One bin seems to be going great with newborns, but it could be that they are just more visible in that bin than in the others. I have not included the little shoebox nursery bin which has several cocoons and several newborns, many almost too small to see. According to the experts, it should take those about 2 months to reach maturity. Everything got fluffed and stocked with food, so if I was smart and knew what I was doing I’d probably just go away and leave them along for a couple of weeks, but I seem to be unable to not check in on them every day or so. I hope that I have not over fed them, but I think I’m safe for now. There’s a good chance that by July or so the population of the bins will have doubled, and by that time I should be able to get a better bearing on feeding and where to go from there.

I’ve got one extra large tote that I’m tempted to just toss the whole mess into, and I may eventually do just that. It can probably accommodate 10,000 worms or so, so that something for study this fall or later. Still waiting on the storms that are promised for later and the resulting floods. The weather dude keeps promising rain tomorrow – sort of like the sign in the bar that always promises free beet tomorrow. Think I’ll go hit up the grocery store for more rotten fruits and veges. It’s either that or mow the lawn.

Bonecrusher

The entire MMGW argument is made null and void with these 3 equations.

The commies running our govt and other institutions will not like this reality one bit. Not exactly light reading but well worth the effort.

Well, we’re at a week and the bees are still ignoring the hive box, even with the pheromones.

Bee guy never made it out yesterday, he had to work late. Looks like it’s gonna be tree felling time. I don’t think the hive’ll take that calmly. That’ll mean wearing a bee suit in this humid, hot weather. Better him than me.

It would have been so much easier if they had just chosen to march themselves into the new box.

BTW – Handyman is making up a buncha wild lettuce extract, a pain reliever. He dried a bunch of wild lettuce and is using Everclear to extract the active compounds. I’ve seen a recipe that was a basic “cook down,” but Handyman likes the alcohol extraction process better.

Hubby took some of his WLE pills and found that they are the best pain reliever that he’s found. He said the pain in his knee went from a 9 to a 5, making it so much easier to function. He’s been working in pain for years, God bless ‘m.

WLE acts a lot like an opioid, but it’s not. It doesn’t have the addictive properties of an opioid and is much safer to use.

I ordered some for him.

Bonecrusher

TT: Please provide linkage to order WLE pillz. I want some for my lovely Mrs.

Texpat

I have no idea what WLE pills are. Definition anybody ?

mharper42

Morning, gang. I went to a HOA meeting last night, first non-Zoom meeting since sometime in 2019. It wasn’t well-attended — guess most people would rather not meet in person. This meeting was a status report on a City of Houston project to upgrade a mile of Tidwell Street where it plunges through our neighborhood. My house isn’t on Tidwell, so I won’t be affected other than occasional inconvenient traffic rerouting, but I don’t drive much these days.

Shannon

Yeah, I don’t suppose he’d give up the recipe and process?

Shannon

Could just drink the Everclear, but that’s too hard on the esophagus.

Shannon

This article discusses the health potential benefits and dangers of wild lettuce.

bsue54

Nat King Cold is currently running the cool down phase, (actually the FREEZE Phase) with 3 trays of steaks and one of frozen meatballs awaiting their turn at freeze drying… Steaks been in the freezer a long time – but figure it’s a good learning project, and if we get hungry enough…

mharper42

Wow jiggers, we have had some bizarre technical glitches during the previous 24 hours. Yesterday I thought I would need to buy a new modem, as I couldn’t connect AND the modem itself was blinking one of its 4 lights. (No, I don’t know anything about a modem, or what those lights mean. All I know is there should be 2 steady blue lights.) Fortunately, I was able to operate for 24+ hours hitch-hiking on 80+’s modem.

Also conked out part of yesterday was my AT&T phone. I didn’t realize that until later, when I heard that a neighbor had tried to call me and it wasn’t going through. She said it might be the Xfinity outage that everyone was inflicted with. Well, Chez Harp may still have something coming in from Xfinity — I am still paying them a small amount every month — but it isn’t for my old-style AT&T phone. And my phone was working later on yesterday.

So some of the urgent errands I thought I had for today have self-healed. I can just go to the store and get milk and bananas.

Texpat

In the Recent Past

It is not my nature to discuss my physical condition or various problems therein. I’m not a complainer or inclined to ramble on about medical problems unless it might be related to offering helpful information in some way as in my infrequent comments about my chronic back injuries.

There are far more people out there with far worse problems I might have. This is not to criticize those who comment on their medical problems if it makes them feel better to share that information. I’m not personally comfortable with it myself.

A little over 16 months ago on Friday, December 24, 2021, I walked into the hospital at 3 AM having a myocardial infarction and received two stents. One of them was for a right branch bundle block my doctor and I were aware of that had been there for at least 20 years. He was confident collateral circulation had formed over the years and it was not a big concern.

I took two COVID vaccine injections in March of 2021 and had a physical including an EKG the following summer. The only blockage revealed was the old one I mentioned above.

The odd and unexplainable second clot was very long and 90%+ occluded in the major artery running across the front of the heart muscle. It had not appeared at all in the EKG a few months prior.

In the same period, my body exploded into a severe plaque psoriasis condition the length of both legs. It was compounded by the blood thinners and anti-clotting agent Plavix I was given after the heart attack. To say I was miserable was an understatement and I will save you any further graphic descriptions.

Additionally, I developed tinnitus in both ears while I was still in the cardiac unit at the medical center.

I went through two dermatologists who were of no help. In the summer, while in Texas for Fay’s funeral, I also contracted COVID even though I was supposedly inoculated against the evil Chinese lung rot.

I finally found a rheumatologist in September of 2022 who diagnosed me with severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis overlaid on my existing osteoarthritis.

All of the physicians asked me about family history regarding the immuno-deficient psoriasis. I told them there were no occurrences going back to my great-grandparents and they found it very unusual. It is well-known to be hereditary.

To summarize at this point in time, I had developed a large, almost totally occluded arterial blood clot, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, intensified osteoarthritis and tinnitus in a relatively short period after taking the COVID injections.

I began various intravenous infusion treatments in the fall of 2022 and then, in the first week of December, I woke up with my upper body covered in eczema including my face, neck and eyes on top of the existing psoriasis. My rheumatologist gave me as much prednisone as he thought I could tolerate to try and get the inflammation under control.

I was able to finally find a good dermatologist who, working with the rheumatologist, has started me on a regimen of Dupixent injections and things were going well with the eczema. However, in the last three weeks, I have developed a severe case of osteo/psoriatic arthritis that has been extremely debilitating so now I am on hydroxychloroquine twice a day.

I believe all of these maladies are a result of the Pfizer COVID “vaccine” injections I took twenty-five months ago.

Hamous.net and Me

Exactly two weeks after I walked into the hospital on Christmas Eve morning, Mark Tipton passed away in Houston and I inherited this website through the heroic efforts of Squawk to save it and we will never be able to thank him enough for his work, a generous gift to all of us.

I had hoped to be able to do more with this site and wanted to produce some significant original articles and essays. Needless to say, it hasn’t happened and I have struggled to this point to just keep the doors open with Squawk’s invaluable support. Tedtam, Shannon and Wagonburner have been great in their contributions and especially on those last minute instances when I haven’t been able to post anything for the next day.

I know this has been long and I hope not too boring for y’all to endure, but I have believed I owed an explanation of not having done and produced more over the last year and four months. I’ve felt disappointed and frustrated about the situation, but I have hesitated to confide these personal problems given my inclination for privacy, discretion and the situation of others in far more dire straits than me.

Texpat

GJT

God Bless, Texpat. Prayers for you and can’t thank you, Squawk and all the others for the efforts in keeping this place going.

Super Dave

Texpat, I for one appreciate the information and haven’t expected a full blown LST type blog. I understand your reluctance to speak up and I’d likely be the same if I had serious maladies. I think we all appreciate your keeping the Hambone Site going or reconstituting it as it were. And of course Squawk was a lifesaver also.

I believe all of these maladies are a result of the Pfizer COVID “vaccine” injections I took twenty-five months ago.

I’d bet a “C” Note that you are right.

Bonecrusher

I read somewhere that nattokinase (sp?) is effective in neutralizing the spike proteins associated with the jab and the actual WLR. If I am not mistaken, nattokinase is a thing found in tofu..

bsue54

Here’s what our new “buddy” looks like

bsue54

Hey Tedtam – this is what Nat King Cold looks like full of meat

Texpat

Just to be clear.

All the heavy lifting for Hamous.net has been done by Squawk, not me.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1657045096410275840

Did Mr Haney just wake up from his rip van winkle nap?

it kills me how these republicant’s act like they don’t know and haven’t known what’s been going on at the border since NWO proponent Bush the daddy was president.

I give him a B+ for his acting like a tough guy though.
Good kabuki mr Haney but your still 0-237 in the results dept.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Trump impeached for a phone call.

the illegitimate wooden dummy, fake president regime are the generals of the invasion of the USA.

the republicant’s house says, what? Me worry?

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Bless you Texpat and Bruddah Squawk.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VQL1J7X?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Bones – this is what I ordered, but I think Handyman found his Wild Lettuce Extract at…CVS?

Texpat –

I’ve been feeling bad because I don’t feel like I’ve been carrying much of the load. I love your posts and am always amazed at your content, in breadth and depth.

I shall attempt to take more of the load off of you. This blog is a community project, and you should not feel at all guilty for any thing. You’ve carried so much of the load and have elevated the conversation with your contributions.

Get well, know that you – along with every single person here – are in my prayers daily.

Thanks to Squawk and all the contributors for helping to keep these doors open and the Couch fun.

I’m just a rider on this train here, but fundamentally I consider everyone on here a friend whether or not I’ve had a chance to actually meet in person or not. I’ve got no idea how long I’ve been hanging around over here, but I started in LST days. Having said that, I look at this as a place to share with friends – the good, the bad, and everything in between. I suppose that I may be one of the more senior members of this group at 76, getting ready to be 77, and I can’t think of a better place to share my thought, ideas, frustrations, and health issues than right here. In my opinion, that is one way we can help share the load a little bit. It took mh 2 years to let us know about her loss. Others just disappear. TexMo has been up front about his issues, his decision and the processes involved, the planning and such to help prepare us for the inevitable – the strength and courage that it takes to face it and to deal with family and friends. What else could we ask for from a friend than to be included in such an event – the opportunity to learn to cope with our own mortality in many ways. I’ve got all kinds of parts breaking down all the time, but overall I’m in pretty good health for an obese old man. But we never know when we are just standing around minding our own business and the lightening bolt strikes and life changing events occur. BFF is recovering from 3 pelvic fractures. She is active and on the go, and this has been a lifestyle change for her, but she’s out of the wheelchair and moving on the walker now – I need to know that to continue to encourage her to take little baby steps but always to make progress.

OK, I’m rambling, but I just had some thoughts about what we share on this site. And besides, being old give us an unalienable right to complain about every little thing. And I do appreciate being able to come over here and catch up, share my thoughts, and learn.

I was able to refurbish two tubs today, rehoming almost a dozen earth worms and getting more seeds in the dirt. Off to run some errands. Gotta get those 75 miles on my car so I can get it inspected.

Dang, that shower felt good….

Later, dudes and dudettes.

PS: Bsue, you keep teasing me with pictures of Nat, and I may have to pull the trigger and get one of my own…

mharper42

Sorry to hear about these problems, Texpat, especially if the blasted jab caused any of it.

Katfish

#36 – Those are the strangest lQQking guns I’ve ever seen! 😉

Katfish

#33 –

God Bless, Texpat. Prayers for you and can’t thank you, Squawk and all the others for the efforts in keeping this place going.

^^^^^^ What He said!!

#34 –

And of course Squawk was a lifesaver also.

^^^^^^ What He said!!

Texpat

One more thing.

The greatest disruption to my daily life with all these medical abnormalities has been sleep deprivation. All my life, I only needed 4 or 5 hours of sleep and I could sleep anywhere – planes, airports, train stations, bus stations, in my truck – you name it. I was always able to slide right into deep REM rest and feel refreshed after less than 5 hours at the most. I spent decades traveling and it was a blessing I didn’t truly appreciate.

Over the last few years and especially with taking all these drugs like beta blockers, statins, etc., I have completely lost that ability and waking up refreshed and rested is a long ago memory. Never take it for granted.

I have to stay in bed and rest even if I am not getting sleep as one would normally expect just to let my body rest. In other words, I have to remain in bed for 7 hours to achieve the 4 hours of deep sleep I used to get and I can’t get up at 5 AM like I used to with no problem. It’s a constant battle and I hate it.

Just met with Bee Guy. It seems my sugar water and dead blossom seems to have finally garnered some interest in the hive box. He said he opened it and there three bees inside. Good news – they are checking it out. Finally. After he left, I saw about four bees flying around it.

He said they also have two queens, which is unusual. Usually the first queen to hatch kills all of her royal sisters, but he said these two must’ve hatched at the same time. Eventually, there will be a palace coup and the hive will have its monarch. But it also means that the hive hasn’t settled in permanently. From what he could see through the thin entrance to the tree trunk, he’s not sure that they have enough room. They’re bringing in food, but it doesn’t look like they’re laying eggs yet.

So, if the scout bees like what they see in the hive, the bee march may just take place after all.

He said if nothing happens in the next day or two, he has a cone-shaped mesh that can be used to discourage the bees from getting into the current hive, effectively forcing them to look elsewhere for a new abode. OH LOOKEEE HERE! There’s a vacant apartment building right next door!

Texpat

In New York City where accused murderers and rapists of certain levels of melanin are able to walk out into the streets in personal recognizance bonds or bench tickets for nothing, a highly trained, white, combat Marine is required to post a $100,000 bond in order to go home for protecting his innocent fellow citizens.

I swear if I never set foot in that sh!thole again, it will not bother me.

Shannon

Announcing the First Annual United States Third World Sh!thole Awards.

Nomination deadline May 21.

I’ll go ahead and nominate Houston, Texas, just to get things rolling.

Shannon

Just to get the easy ones out of the way, I also nominate Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, CA.

Our predicted storms are still out west about a hunnert miles when looking at the radar. We have a local severe weather watch, but no warnings have been issued yet. My best guess is that this will be another of those lines of storms that gets within about 10 miles and splits – half going to our north and the other half to our west. It will then reform on the eastern side of the county and flood Austin and all points east. That seems to be our typical pattern.

I was hoping to be able to stay up late enough to see some of the stormy weather, but it’s looking doubtful; and usually once I get to bed, I’m not getting back up to watch when it does come, although I have been known to do that in the past. I’ll report back in if that happens. It’s still an hour until bedtime, but I can’t tell how fast this front is moving. More later.

mharper42

I happened to find Billy the pretty boy cat lounging in my front yard. When he saw me, he hustled around to the back yard and got up on the wooden apron of the old gazebo. That is where he sits to watch for food. By which I mean a bowl of food. For him. And yet when I approach him with a food bowl, he gets scared and backs away from me. I had never met a loose cat with his odd behavior. But at least he seems to have decided this is a good place to hang out, and he does like the chow.

Shannon

Happy Brunette Friday.

Shannon

Adee

The closing of the Swinging Door restaurant is making the news on KHOU in a minute or two.

I have never been there, but with the overhead drone shots, it looks like my kind of place.

Change sucks, sometimes.

The storm front seems to be approaching the county now, so that puts the main line less than 30 miles out. I’m still not having much luck getting information as to strength, direction, speed, and such. Being Friday, all the weather people must have gone home for the weekend. No other advisories have been issued by the NWS. I can certainly still see the potential for it to break up just enough to let SS slip through without a drop of precip. Latest estimate says 11:45 local time, so I’ll try to stay up just a little while longer.

Shannon