OT ~ Welcome to Saturday!
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
"When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in cedar trees smells."
~ William Falkner
Good morning good people,
Have we heard from hecate?
...
Save this.
Ivishak River, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska ~ Danita Delimont
“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn’t matter: that pebble’s watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space, to the old ineradicable rhythm…” ~ Falkner
Fix the broken with gold
let people be
let ‘em go
where wind blows
why you jealous
ain’t you free
do as needs be
don’t flee, stand up to
stand up.
~ Prosecutors
The porch is yours ...
Comments
ignore, please, editing OT
Governor Whitmer (D-MI) names Blue Cross CEO to transition team
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_BlcUg2WU]
Well, that didn’t take long.
Don't be silly. All Dems are for Medicare for All.
"We make a lot of money off of people's illness"
"We're Blue Cross." Thanks, that made me LOL. Guffaw!
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, what would we do without bean counters denying people their health care?
Where would those people work after getting rid of the crap "Health Insurance" label, and just having the over-priced Medicare4All doctors and pHarma denying people their right to pursue a healthy life? lol I guess the CEOs would start working for CMS? (single payer of medicare bills). Public/private kinda thing?
mindlessly inquiring cynic
eyo, be safe out there and hang on.
Bull in a china shop
hi and thanks for hosting Saturday OT. They are always so beautiful, thanks a lot.
Y'all are so kind and understanding, I can't believe no one has banned me yet for being too illin' and grouchy. saints
Anyone else notice the c99 file uploader is working great? Very responsive, I don't know why. Either I unblocked a script, or JtC did some magic to make it fly. I vote for JtC. Three cheers!
exiv2 is an awesome little utility that comes with my Slackware Linux. I just learned how to strip out the stupid binary comments my Kodak EZ Share embeds in every single photo. It reduced the file size by almost half! doh Kodak
"exiv2 -de rootbound.jpg" That there deletes all the Exif info out of the jpg file, a nice handy privacy feature too.
praise bob!
good day
My pleasure, eyo,
sincerely; you folks help me a lot more than i can contribute to you.
Think i'm the old codger here; i can be incorrigible.
Great news about hecate and please take precautions yourself, that smoke is deadly as well.
You bring so much good info to c99 and i love your fabulous wit making this a good place to be.
Have a safe and lovely evening.
Thanks for the tip about exiv2
Turns out it is on Ubuntu Mate as well. Tried it. Very slick!!!
Cool. Hope all is well with you.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
PG&E power lines may have sparked Camp Fire
All my life I've paid the Pigs Goats and Elephants to keep the lights and gas on. At some point (probably the Clinton years) they outsourced line maintenance to sub-contractors and this is what we get for jacked up rates (solar is more expensive, until it's not).
PG&E power lines may have sparked deadly Camp Fire, according to radio transmissions
What are we gonna do, boycott PGE? This is a
DemocratUniParty problem, corruption stinks up our utilities and the PUC is populated with corporate cronies. fuck those guys9 deaths, 6,453 homes burned in most destructive wildfire in California history
Praying for hecate, and every thing.
amerika's coming attraction
the future happens here first
sorry about that
Hola
I saw your comment and have been meaning to get up with you. Things have been a bit turbulent for the last couple months, requiring parenting of an adult child. That and being light on funds, post trip. My sister and daughter have made it their life mission to overbook me for holiday get togethers, and of course a few hours drive each time. I'll keep an eye on the weather. As long as it is dry and above ~45F, I can ride out. It should be between leaves/football and skiing now.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Morning Tim, mountain started snowmaking last night ...
would love your company; not advising this week as it near single digits by Wednesday; but you know how our southern winters are; could become 60 degrees in short order.
Understand the growing process a little; thankfully, my one, 36, seems to have found a niche compromise in the mountain climbing business and teaching yoga; even took my advise a few weeks ago.
Fortunate to have a loving daughter-in-law; she's an animal lover; especially dogs; though i don't get to see them often; on their last visit, i took joy in seeing their morning reactions to each other; marriage when it works; splendid.
Until then, "keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose in the wind."
Good morning, smiley ~~
I awaken to a foggy morning.
What’s this? Fog again?
Tuesday last brought the morning fog
to this arid desert valley.
The climate seems to be changing
in this area so vast.
I welcome the moisture
but do not trust it is here to last.
Have a beautiful day, everyone!
P.S. I do hope we hear from Hecate soon.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
RA, an image came to be when reading your poem ...
a memory of the land where antelopes play. When living in Ashland, i would drive due east, up around 10-11 thousand feet to a plateau and fish for trout.
Thanks for that. Water, hum, do you need a divining rod to find a well site; i recall the old-timers using them; plus toying around with them as well, they work, magic.
A beautiful day and weekend to you, RA.
Actually ~
a well-Witcher did come out and do his thing. We’ll find out in due time! Enjoy!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Goo morning, Smiley. Thanks for the tunes and the OT.
Prepping for nest week's camping trip. Finishing packing/loading for tomorrow's departure and then we'll clean the remaining carpets (we tore most of them out). That will give them a week to dry while we're gone. Skipping the farmers' market, which seems weird. Planted a toyon yesterday just as the waxwings moved into the hood. Next year they'll have some extra berries with any luck.
Have yourself a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Just discovered Hollywood was named after Toyon, el; learn
something every day on c99. Critters and birds and butterflies will love those berries. "Toyon can be planted near houses since they are fire retardant when given enough moisture."
Looking forward to a few tales from the road.
Happy and safe camping, to you two.
Good morning Smiley7 and all Caucusers!
Have a beautiful weekend.
A beautiful weekend back to you, Henry; always good to see you.
The E.U.’s misguided idea for requiring a “link tax” on news
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eus-link-tax-will-kill-open-access...
wow, bad, thanks for the link ... link taxes my behind /nt
https://www.euronews.com/live
Thanks for the heads-up; doesn't bode well for journalism
that's already struggling to survive if i'm understanding the issues.
And cheers to you for bringing insights and news to all the OT's.
Hope you a beautiful weekend across the sea.
Good morning!
Hope we hear from hecate soon. I'm sure most of us feel this way, but when he writes an essay, I feel like I need to take special time and space just to absorb and enjoy it. Safety to you and your animals, hecate!
A couple of gardening things. Still no frost here, and I hope it stays away! Beautiful tomato plants finally this year. Two pics below of a recent harvest.
Sunchokes or Jerusalem Artichokes
The last of the sweetcorn.
I know now that I need to plant sweetcorn for a fall harvest. This is the best corn we have ever had. Sprout the seeds and plant them late July, early August in heavily amended soil. It is the first time we have ever gotten full size ears. I even put some in the freezer.
The sunchokes are a fantastic discovery! Last spring I ordered online and got about ten little tubers. These things grew to be about 10 ft tall, a very pretty sunflower plant. I harvested some about a week ago. The tubers taste very much like potatoes. The handiest thing about them is that they are perennials. They can be invasive, but if you have a spot where they can go wild, what a deal. Of the ones I harvested, the bigger ones I am scrubbing, blanching, chopping in the food processor and throwing in the freezer for stews and potato type dishes. The small ones I planted and gave some to my neighbor to plant. One plant can produce about ten pounds of tubers.
Sunchokes also own numerous health benefits:
https://www.donnieyance.com/sunchokes-a-humble-food-with-many-health-ben...
A word of caution though . . . take it easy when you are eating them for the first time. As with many similar foods, they can have the same effect as eating a large pot of beans!
Happy Saturday everyone!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Nice bounty you got there, Marilyn
I didn't know you were a Gardner.
I like what you said about Hecate's writing. It's what I feel too.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Good harvest, Marilyn
You're doing better with the corn than I, although I'm 100 miles north of you. Maybe in a couple of years, as the climate changes, I'll have better luck. Of course, by then, you may be able to grow avocadoes. Ha ha.
Hoping we hear from Hecate soon.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
just stumbled over your sig line -
dirty wars are all over the planet, something doesn't fit there.
I am just being silly to amuse myself, sorry, just for my own comic relief, no offense meant.
I adore your garden's harvest. And just imagine what you could cook with those vegetables.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Do you need a cook, Marilyn? :)
Photos make me hungry for fresh garden produce. Big thanks for sharing. Never tasted a sunchoke, doubt i ever saw them.
Hey, browsed your website last week, good work on those courses.
Been an in-and-out day for me, unexpected visit. hecate is safe, thank goodness; see johnny's new essay.
Appreciate your contributions to our community very much and i hope you and family have a marvelous weekend.
The Turkeys Arrived
Yesterday at the store where I work and we are ramping up for the weekend rush. I made sure to buy my Sister one of the Advent Calendars we have for dogs before they run out, which they will pretty quickly. It's a silly item but it will make my Sister smile, and she needs some smiling right now.
Yesterday, a family who had evacuated out of Ventura County also came into the store. The young boy seemed oddly chipper about it, as if it were all a great adventure. The parents less so. I felt so awful for them, I couldn't bring myself to ask for any details. It just seemed invasive. So I talked about the enchilada sauce they bought and how one of the ways my German mother adapted to California was by making a really good enchilada casserole.
But my thoughts, naturally, turned to Hecate, and hoping he's buying enchilada sauce somewhere right now listening to some silly woman talk about casseroles.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Love your doggie advent calendar!
Thanks for the sweet comments and for the story about the family. Glad the little boy was oddly chipper. Protection of sorts for the moment.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
You make a good point
Children have their own ways of coping.
If you have a Trader Joe's in your area and want to buy a doggie advent calendar, I recommend getting them soon. They'll probably be gone before Thanksgiving.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Hi zoebear,
Cute calendar, love it, want one, but no TJ"s in the high country, unfortunately. TJ's have some good comparative deals on a few of the staples i use, like tahini, for instance, for about half the price. On occasions, i stop by the Chapel Hill Store when down there.
My stove elements burned out last week; and to replace them, you have to have clear access and room to maneuver from the back. Bad thing is, i will have to do a major move around of shelving, a big job, so not sure what i'll do for thanksgiving as i always cook a turkey, and different kinds of dressings, which i really enjoy doing.
Wild Turkeys are abundant here; fun to watch them too, wow, they can dance.
A few smiles for you today from our online community. Have a wonderful weekend.
Dancing Turkeys
Shame about your oven. Have you considered getting a special Turkey oven? They're not that expensive and even when you do have use of your oven again, it can free up a lot of space for other things you need to make in the oven on Thanksgiving day.
https://www.amazon.com/slp/turkey-oven/3qr3v3v2ef4htov
I've never seen a wild turkey and had no idea they dance. I think that's a good thing because I wouldn't like to eat something I knew could dance. Eating meat is something I've considered eventually giving up. Especially as a practicing Buddhist. It's one of those things that, strictly speaking, is not in keeping with the idea of respecting all life. It's a tough one for me because I like to cook, and I like to eat, and part of that includes beautiful roasts. Perhaps, like the traditions of Native Americans, I'll begin with a prayer acknowledging my roasted Turkeys life and thank him for his sacrifice.
Another thing about Turkeys...
The first time I visited East Berlin to see my extended family, we had a lot of unintentionally comical moments over language miscommunications. One in particular was when we were talking a walk in Berlin's Tiergarten, a park in the middle of the city, where my cousin remarked that sometimes there were a lot of Turkeys sleeping in the park. Really? Wild Turkeys in the middle of Berlin? How odd. So I asked her how they migrated into the city and she replied "usually they come by air." Turkeys fly? That can't be right.
My cousin, seeing the quizzical look on my face, sensed something had gone wrong in the translation, and indeed it had because my cousin was referring to the Turkish immigrants in Berlin, not the bird.
Ha! We all got a big laugh over that one!
Hope your Thanksgiving is thankful and you are surrounded by people who love and appreciate you. Thanks for the smiles
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
zoebear, in take off, a turkey accelerates just fast enough,
getting airborne the moment before a along-legged dog can catch them. Jackson (our family dog) got a mouth of feathers once in the woods. The take off isn't very graceful, but powerful.
Peacock dance from the male turkeys, but the whole flock joins in at times becoming an ensemble; like people--i just thought after a moments review of this--no, the turkeys dance like Martha Graham in community with the reaches and height of Baryshnikov. edit or like a whirling dervish.
Cheers for the cooker idea; didn't know they existed. I bake a lot of bread, too, especially in winter; so, i've a chore to do just as i hope to get busier. Thanks again for thinking about my needs.
Someday, lets all have a reunion:
Thanksgiving Turkey Drop
Whenever I think of Turkeys flying, I always think of Less Newman from WKRP:
[video:https://youtu.be/p00nBSNIPwg]
You're welcome for the suggestion of the turkey cooker!
And yes, we definitely need to have a New York City reunion
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
best morning smiley...
smokier here now than yesterday. 90K acres (edit to add K) and 9 dead as of last night. Have not checked the news today. People are gathering things to drive up. Vans full for those.
music and art for all to wash the pain away for a few moments...
Varo
Fischer
[video:https://youtu.be/tgWI4MhjtmE?list=RD9kwk7wQkAUE&t=126]
Thanks for the ot. Hope all is very well with you. Have a good one...
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Late afternoon 'ello, magi,
Scary, these fires and a great loss to many families. Thank you for caring and lending support to them.
Ta for the Varo and Lisa.
Please be safe and have a wonderful evening.
U.S. stop helping Saudi genocide
but only because the Saudis no longer need us
Gavin Newsom turns to top Hillary Clinton adviser
That was fast. heh
Now that there are so many old people, let's focus on early childhood education above housing and healthcare. Capitalists need fresh meat for the grinder, eh? good times
https://gavinnewsom.com/get_involved
okay