This explains quite a bit, especially when I remember the study that showed that liberals act more on emotion, whereas conservatives use the logic center of their brains to decide their behaviors.
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Where is everybody? Well we got .04″ of rain late yesterday not enough to matter but it poured down for a good 5 minutes before the sun can back out and the gravel road was steaming. It is dry here after discing the west 40 we have a dust bowl for a field.
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In the local news, a New Brockton high school football player dropped dead on a practice field a few weeks ago from heat stroke and then last week another football player (quarterback) from Selma was tackled in the first game of the season and died later of a brain injury.
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Spotted over yonder, this is pretty good;
This is what a teacher told her elementary school class as they walked past my dad, who was in the middle of pumping out their lift station. The pumps had burned up, and my dad and his pump truck were the only things preventing sewage from overflowing. The pumps were on backorder, so my dad ended up babysitting that lift station for about six weeks. In those 6 weeks, my dad made about $36,000, which would have taken that teacher 32 weeks to earn. You might not want to be so quick to judge people, especially if they’re out there trying to make an honest living.
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I’m reminded of the old joke:
A plumber gets called out to a doctor’s house. He arrives, fixes the problem, and gives the doctor his bill.
Doctor: “This seems high! I don’t earn that much!”
Plumber: “I didn’t either, when I was a doctor.”
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Obviously, Hubby and I did something wrong, because we ain’t rich. Hubby didn’t like screwing people over, and would do sewers and such for free for little old ladies.We did have to charge, however, and listen to the complaints. But we knew how much of that money went to pay for: sewer cable (replaced because people acid down their drains before calling us), tools and their replacements, employee pay, medical bills (plumbing can be dangerous, dealing water (sometimes high pressure), electricity, bacteria, gas, flame, and heat – sometimes multiple at the same time), insurance (see), vehicles, vehicle maintenance, etc.
But the customers only saw the bill, not the expenses.
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Trump indicted again,…..YAWN,…..
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Regarding the O/C topic:
Didn’t the mainstream “news” media broadcast pictures of people dying in the streets, dying on stretchers going into the hospitals, and assorted other horrors during the beginning days of the Wuhan Lung Rot? I believe that they did and some time later a lot of those images proved to either be totally staged or of different events. My suspicion is that this the way that they prepped the mental battle space for easy adoption of the clot shot. The over riding goal was to kill as many as possible while remaining out of the spotlight. The shots were a brilliant vehicle to achieve that goal.
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Not quite ready for prime time.
This bat ‘girl’ is a Labrador retriever.-
HA! That was on The Five yesterday. 😉
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Bat Girl reminded me of a dog from my past, up in the Hill Country… Sandy would go down into the Medina River and pick out a rock (oft times almost as large as her head) pull it out of the river and climb the embankment (20-30 feet or so) and carry it all the way up to deposit on our porch – some 6 or 8 acres in from the river…
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She was giving y’all a treasure, because you were such good humans.
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Today’s C&C roundup:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! 2024 continues apace, and continues to deliver. Your essential news roundup today includes: more criminal charges for Trump as Special Prosecutor flails around and accidentally disproves Biden talking point; C&C tackles the Democrats’ new, weird weirdness slur; Democrat National Convention has an ironic surprise guest, and it wasn’t a celebrity singer; policy-snatching Harris evolves into Trump positions; and Tucker tackles Robert Kennedy, who explains his climate positions and ideological realignments in a terrific clip.
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In other news, I was considering going home today- I can be alone at home as well as here, but without the pool that I am enjoying so much. I changed my mind, however, as a friend that was a “maybe” contacted me and is coming to visit today. She is my bluebonnet buddy, and we missed our bluebie trip this year. We’ll have at least one day to go do something, or maybe we’ll hang out at my lonely little pool. I may take her out to eat, since all I have in my refrigerator is..meat. She’ll probably want more than that.And here’s hoping that the mechanic in McAlester can fix Hubby’s truck so he can come home. I’m sure he’s more than ready. What was supposed to be a fantabulous debut of his baby has turned into a nightmare. An expensive nightmare.
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And I love the video of the “bat girl”. Dogs can be so shameless and endearing.
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Mr. C. starts with the “new” legal case against Trump, via Jack
SchittSmith:Mr. C. reports that
SchittSmith is trying to re-frame the incident as being “personally motivated” instead of “official acts” by rewording the original claims and redacting some of the charges. This keeps the idea of prosecuting presidents alive, despite the immunity decision. Do they not realize that they are painting crosshairs on Biden?Here’s a minority report. I believe this superseding indictment is a positive development, since it proves that the Supreme Court did not, in fact, immunize presidents, but rather deleted their de facto common-law immunity and created a legal rubric for their fair prosecution.
In other words, Smith’s new indictment proved presidential prosecution is not just possible, but presidential prosecution now follows a prescription.
Finally, consider two implications. First, the lying media, currently gushing over Prosecutor Smith’s new superseding indictment, isn’t apologizing (but should) for the tsunami of demented stories it breathlessly ran about how awful the Supreme Court decision was, just two months ago.
And Mr. C. makes my point:
But second, and maybe even more importantly, consider that, if Trump wins, other presidential prosecutions will be on the menu. Jack Smith just drafted the roadmap.
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Regarding the ubiquitous “weird” tag that the left is trying to hang on the Trump election gang (and btw, pot – meet kettle):
But reflecting the label back on them seemed … too easy. There must be more to it than this. We must be missing something. So I tried to figure it out, for you. Last week, the New York Times tried to explain the powerful electoral effect of weirdness to its woke liberal readers in an op-ed titled, “The Hidden Grammatical Reason That ‘Weird’ Works.”
The reason must be extremely well hidden. It required another six pages to explain it.
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Okay. “Any perceived weirdness on the left,” the author wryly admitted, “is old news.” You don’t say. In other words, they’re reflecting again.
But then I thought, wait a minute. I’m old enough to remember when far-left Austin, Texas adopted weirdness as its semi-official pet moniker:
Well, which is it? Is weird good? Or is it icky? Once again, Democrats’ flexibility with vocabulary has weirdly wangled themselves into a pseudo-intellectual corner.
Mr. C. points out the large number of other towns/states that have embraced “weirdness” as a compliment. Say what? So, is Trump & Co. being complimented? Or is this merely wool-pulling over the eyes of flyover country denizens? (Which seems to be failing miserably, as the FCD’s look at the folks throwing those weird stones.)
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The DNC is being reported as a WLR superspreader event. But….but…but…I’m sure all of those folks were vaxxed to the max!
Given the level of debauchery on display, I wonder if mon
keypox also got a foothold and is just not being reported.Go figger.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.
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And now for the Cackler’s flip-flopping (again):
What are poor Democrats supposed to think about all this John Kerry-like flip-flopping? Are they now for the fascist border wall? Or against it? Is fracking destroying the environment? Or is it keeping gas prices low? Is Kamala lying for votes? Or does she really mean it? Is she evolving, revolving, or is she oscillating like an electric fan? [snuffle snort!!!]
The Biden-Harris Administration halted the border wall on day one. But now she’s for it? Even ABC commentators expressed bemusement.
Is Kamala Harris just Trump Lite?
This is either the inevitable result of Trump Derangement Syndrome (they have become so obsessed with President Trump that they are now turning into him, like that horror movie about the obsessed roommate), or they are admitting Americans want Trump’s policies.
The flip-flopping just confuses already flabbergasted Democrats even more. So either way, it’s good news.
Maybe this should be the Cackler’s new campaign logo:
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Salcedo is covering the documentary about China & “green energy” in Texas, reported by Texas Scorecard.
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I’ve just started this video, but the endocrinologist is making a point about high-carb diets and the connection to “soy boys”- fat is needed to make the hormones that run our bodies, and the low fat, high carb diets can increase estrogen levels, resulting is the less-than-manly males that are increasing in our population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlqd57Z9SRI&t=309sI wonder – if the carnivore diet becomes (even) more known and popular, will this have an effect on voting trends? I don’t see too many testosterone heavy men on the left.
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Did I kilt the blog again?
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced Monday that since he signed Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, the state has removed more than 1 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls.
SB 1 aimed to “uphold the integrity of elections in Texas” by establishing uniform voting hours across the state and banning drive-through voting and unsolicited applications for mail-in ballots.
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“The Secretary of State’s office is in the process of sending all 1,930 records to the Attorney General’s Office for investigation and potential legal action,” the press release read.
Over 6,000 of those removed from Texas’ voter rolls had felony convictions, 457,000 were deceased, and 463,000 were on the suspense list.
The release noted that the removal process is still ongoing.
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No observant Jew gets tattoos on their body due to the prohibition by God of Pagan symbolism and adornments. I realize other people do and take a libertarian position on their right to do so. It doesn’t mean I can’t criticize the practice, if only on aesthetic terms. I also think they should be aware of the risks they are taking.
The Food and Drug Administration has been warning for years that some tattoo inks are brimming with bacteria—a large assortment that, when injected into your skin, can cause inflammatory reactions, allergic hypersensitivity, toxic responses, and, of course, straight-up infections. And, worse yet, the labels that say the inks are sterile are not reliable.
But, a recent recall of three tattoo pigments from the same manufacturer does a good job of illustrating the FDA’s concerns. The water-based inks, all from Sierra Stain, had a bizarre array of bacteria, which were found at high levels, according to FDA testing.
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Let’s not discount the fact that tattoos disrupt the acupuncture meridians. Basically nothing positive can come from getting inked; it starts as mildly negative and goes downhill from there.
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You want to know why I find the Red Cross despicable.
Haythem (“Ethan”) Abid, a Red Cross official, holds a PLO flag at a “Free Palestine” rally co-sponsored by the group “Montreal4Palestine,” on Oct. 22, 2024. Source: Facebook.
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WeLCoMe RINOS!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-08-27/welcome-rinos -
One party rule in California passed taxpayer funded home loans for illegal aliens.
that’s the goal nationwide.
One party totalitariancrat rule which the Texas Cornhole, Mikey Johnson, murky Kowski, the Kentucky swamp turtle, mark Warner, Susan Tom collins, and about 150 other rinos in office will gladly and gleefully support.what is Texas and other red states backup plan if they steal it again?
someone?
anyone?
Ferris?
guv wascally Wabbott?-
How can this act possibly pass Constitutional muster? Taking my tax dollars by force and then giving said dollars to an illegal alien is a form of slavery; I think we dealt with this 150 years ago.
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AT&T had a massive outage today. I haven’t been able to open any websites until now. And it’s still slow as molasses.
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Havent noticed anything.
AT&T for home & cell.
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Came upon the rare Long John Silver’s earlier. Had to stop. It was good.
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Doesn’t matter if the kammunist shows up for the same old tired format, rigged debate on Sep 10, since it’ll be Trump vs the two Mobsterators anyway.
and in this corner, weighing in at 1000 pounds of pure bovine, communist propagandist bullsh!t and filling in for the kammunist, we have the kammunist media team of David Manure and Linsey shovels it.
george steppedinwhatsovis was unavailable because he’s still busy trashing women who accused slick Willy of sexual things in nature.
eye did knot have you know what with what’s her name.
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I would never sell any land I owned in Texas to any proxy buyer of a communist regime. I don’t care if it was two acres or a thousand. The Farm Bureau leaders seem to be more worried about members being able to cash out and buy that fancy Key Allegro condo in Rockport and 42′ Yellowfin Offshore fishing boat so they can retire in style. The Texas Foresty Association is even worse or maybe they are just that dumb.
In a significant shift from its previous position, the Texas Farm Bureau will now not oppose—and may even support—the state legislature’s proposed ban on land sales to hostile foreign nationals, such as China.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Chinese firms and investors have acquired 383,935 acres of U.S. land. Notably, in 2015, a former member of the Chinese communist army purchased 130,000 acres in South Texas near Laughlin Air Force Base.
Last year, the Texas Senate passed legislation to ban China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia from purchasing Texas land, but the bill was ultimately killed in the Texas House. With more than 95 percent of Republican voters advocating for the ban, the issue has become a priority for the Republican Party of Texas. Following criticism during the recent primary elections, Texas House Republicans appear more determined to pass a version of the Senate’s legislation in 2025.
It looks as if a lot of letters and emails from Farm Bureau members across the state turned the FB around or at least backed them away from their position.
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This former German model, now politician, gets fined for telling the truth. The AFD Party in Germany is “far right”, doncha know. That’s because anybody to the right of JFK is now considered a KKKNaziDictator.
German politician of the AFD party, Marie-Thérèse Kaiser was just convicted & fined $6,000+
Her crime? Posting statistics showing that Afghan immigrants are disproportionately committing sexuaI assauIt in Germany.
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Lake Livingston Dam has problems and during Beryl there was concern about compromise.
So what is the dam problem? Where is the information? Why izzit like pulling teeth to get a FOI request fulfilled? Why can we the people not find an inundation map if the spill way failed?
This guy does yeoman work telling us what is available and not to us.
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I remember Casey Jones from back on the Florida university bridge collapse. He is very good. I watched the whole video. Unfortunately, his links are mostly dead.
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Courtesy of the Biden/Harris administration.
German businesses and residents are paying the Russians $10.81 per million btu and they are heading into a serious economic downturn. Thanks to the Biden administration Texas cannot sell the same gas to the Germans that is selling in the USA for $2.07 per million btu today. Even with the LNG shipping costs we could be saving the German economy before it drags down the rest of the European economy.
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AT&T outage is pretty bad. I have online service thru WiFi here at home because my broadband provider has their own towers.
But phone service is completely down (except for texting).
Daughter says the County Dispatch is down for local fire departments and sheriff’s department.
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Waiting here for whatever rain is supposed to show up today, and it would be nice if it amounted to more than the .02″ we got yesterday.
We’ve managed to have high overcast now for a couple of hours or so and would like it to amount to more rain than yesterday. Weather Wizards are still insisting there will be rain today in the Houston area. It would be nice if it parked over us for an hour or two….
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Harris is a gutless moron.
She’s insisting on a pre-recorded, edited interview format.
She wants to bring her low testosterone running mate along with her because she can neither speak nor form in her mind complete sentences or coherent thoughts. -
AVERAGE MONTHLY RENT 1 BR, 1 BATH APARTMENT IN NYC JUST HIT $4,500
This will keep driving up New Jersey home prices. New York City has about 50% of their apartments on rent control, they banned AirB&B and they regulate how many apartments landlords can keep empty. It is total insanity. The only residential housing built in NYC is for the nearly rich and the very wealthy.
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I cannot find a word about this anywhere, not even Fox26, the original reporting station. Does anybody remember this Baytown story from 4 months ago ? Why has it seemingly disappeared ? This wasn’t a barrio or some dump, but a nice home in a well-kept neighborhood.
NEW: 10 illegal aliens busted for child pornography at Texas human smuggling ‘stash house’
A group of 10 illegal migrants from Asia and Guatemala have been arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography at a Texashouse,
The suspects were taken into custody after authorities searched the house, during which several electronic devices were seized by the police.
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A group of nearly a dozen suspected illegal migrants have been busted for allegedly possessing child pornography at a Texas house that officials say was being used for human smuggling. | Fox News
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Bsue, did you use google or DDG or something else for the search ?
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I used Google and DDG and typed in FOX26 and the verbatim headline of the story and it kept hitting on all kinds of other illegal stories.
The mystery here though is there appears to be no other news story anywhere about this.
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Hmmm. Surprised that there is no follow up on Fox26 website. The story indicates perps were arrested in Chambers County. They need to send someone over to Anahuac and talk to the D.A.
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The Feds probably swept in, gathered them up, gave them each a new apartment, cash, and a cell phone. Somewhere in America.
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If it doesn’t fit they must omit.
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I sent Fox26 a note on their website Hotline and noted that we never saw a follow-up story.
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I sneaked out and mowed the largest part of the yard just now…the part which seemingly overnight turned into a crabgrass farm. I have no idea how it could happen so fast. It is quite evil. It is tough as nails. This insanely wet spring/summer had the entire yard get away from me for weeks at a time. Over the years I have mowed 90% of the yard at about about one inch – because it is nothing but weeds anyway. It kept the grass burrs at bay and if I missed a week due to weather or back problems, it wasn’t a big deal.
But this crabgrass…I have to cut it at almost 4 inches, even with brand new blades.
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I’m ready to move to town and buy a yardless condo.
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I guess crabgrass is what I deal with – shoots up needles about two foot tall?
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Thats sounds more like Bahia. Especially if those “shoots” have a couple of 1.5 inch long seed heads on top….with little tiny black seeds?
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Never looked that close. I will do that! Doesn’t matter I can’t treat an acre and a half of it.
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Texans QB Case Keenum is out for the season with a foot injury, he’s on his final year of his contract and being 36 yrs old is most likely out of football. He is one of the good guys.
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Went car shopping today and wifey picked out a new to her ‘22 Hyundai Palisade with 30K miles. Bad timing on the vehicle front, we really like the Hyundai Sonata she has now but it hit a 100K right at our retirement, not normally a concern to me but it is showing some signs of future issues and she wanted a SUV anyhow. Dealer wouldn’t give us crap on it so going to sell it outright – hate selling cars.
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Top view of single crabgrass plant.
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Oh yeah, I have that too. Thick and tuff, weed eater won’t hardly dent it.
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Side view of healthy, thick crabgrass- like most of my lawn.
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We have a landscape maintenance guy who is diligent if he sees any crabgrass show up. They come and treat it immediately.
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Had a lovely afternoon with my church friend. We just got in the car and started driving and talking. We ended up repeating scenery, which made us both laugh. We drove for about four hours, just enjoying each others’ company. Then we ate dinner and returned to the condo and are now watching some TV while I do some Latin studying in between conversational bouts.
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Thought seriously about a Hyundai hybrid SUV, just couldn’t bring myself to make the leap.
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Bahia grass seedheads
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Yes, that is what i have all over. I have a good mix of San Augustine too, i keep trying to keep it healthy to choke out that stuff.
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If you let the Bahia get to the point of developing seedheads like in the photo, you have waited too long. You gotta keep it whacked down.
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I’m using an online Latin dictionary resource, one that allows for users to submit errors. One of the things I’m struggling with is the masculine/feminine/neuter designations, as well as memorizing the five noun declinations, the 3 adjective declinations, and the multiple verb conjugations….ah, yes. I chose this, right?
Anyway, I was looking up a word and found an error history from 2017. The user comment?
“Im triggered because you assumed the gender of the word”I had to LOL.
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Checked Hambone to see if I have missed anything and found several new posts this evening. Caught up on those, and I’m happy that nothing outrageous has happened tonight.
Still no rain here. But it is predicted again for tomorrow, which probably will not come here either, of course.
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