“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

The heat wave is going to continue the next few days. Some of livestock is a little stressed after several days of 100+ weather. A little extra animal husbandry which will continue for a few more days.

Current events have been extremely well covered by our various c99 contributors this week so I am going to shift gears and present a little history.

Astoria was the first permanent Oregon settlement by a New York City company in 1812. It was established a little more than 200 years after Jamestown, Virginia, the east coast's first permanent English settlement by a London Company. A British warship shows ups and claims the settlement for The Crown for a few years.

Up until this summer, the genocide happening in Yemen was mostly being conducted by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Nearly a quarter of a million people have died. America's involvement was largely limited to giving the Saudis logistical and naval assistance.
That changed this year.

Happy Friday everyone. As always, post any photos you like.

I was a little under the weather this week so I didn't get out with the camera, but I do have some more shots of my tiny friends from the last time I was out with the macro lens a few weeks ago.

I'm on the road. Back to the land of endless corn and beans. Back to the land of Lincoln. And Obama.

If I were king of the world my first decree would be all semis must travel in the slow lane only and they cannot pass each other.

Some observations:

Suddenly every news source in America is telling us that Ukraine is beating Russia.

Such confidence.

I wrote this for my hometown FB group and it was so well received they said I should share it further, and, well, you's my peeps.