@randtntx

Puts the 'outsourcing' issue clearly.

"The horizon is not so far as we can see, but as far as we can imagine"

the fisherman, had trouble with organized labor.

Ian Welch has something to say about that. No one likes organized labor.
https://www.ianwelsh.net

@Lookout

Our tree cutter calls certain trees 'widow makers' as they are dangerous to cut down. I used to climb trees with a chainsaw, but don't care that much anymore for acrobatic adventures.

Running out of options for the Friday OT. Can't seem to get anyone to stick. Any suggestions or volunteers?

Thanks!

A buddy came over and helped me cut up a big dead poplar which finally fell. I was too nervous to cut it down cause the top looked rotten. We lucked out because the tree was next to the camp house. It just barely missed it, but did catch a picnic table which will require four boards to repair. Made a pretty good pile of firewood. Pop, pop, poplar makes a crackling fire.

We see turkeys every day. They like to work the road walking by the garden picking up seed and gravel. Another buddy claims they look like dinosaurs when they run. Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird. Maybe we would have become a more peaceful nation without the predator/scavenger nature of the eagle as symbol.

Hope y'all are having as nice a weather as has developed here. Have a lovely day everyone!

@jakkalbessie

It's fun watching the turkeys spread their tail feathers while doing the mating game dance in the spring. More like a strut.

Enjoy!

Thanksgiving was the time of year we always enjoyed going to Zion National Park. The park was much quieter then and it was a great bicycle ride up the road to the Zion Lodge. We seemed to always find a flock of wild turkeys near the road and could watch them as they foraged through the grasses. Was a nice moment of rest before we pressed on the the end of the road and then the thrilling ride back down to the campground.

@enhydra lutris

Hope your office cleaning went well. A successful project for me usually entails several steps.
Planning, securing materials, preparation, starting / doing / completing and cleanup. Like you, the list is long and in various steps at any given point in time. Most depend on the weather, as well as my mental / physical abilities and energy. Which vary by the the month of the year, the day of the week, the hour of the day and the phase of the moon. Trying to organize the available shop space and necessary tools is concurrently key.

Good luck!

Little Eva? Really? I don't even remotely remember that one, you're getting as bad as Joe S.

Locally we have two kinds of wild turkeys the habituated ones who ignore your presence and the more feral ones who either run away or attack. Both types seem to be acutely aware of their location. Those in parks and such just saunter around, including when croring or milling about on roads and in parking lots, and those that sprint across roads in a slightly elongated formation with one or two stragglers and usually both scouts and rearguard.

Meanwhile, S.A., in this case, Belize, has some real kick-ass turkeys:

Pine tree silhouette
painted by the
harvest moon
on a shining sky
ransetsu

Monster chore list is somehow not diminishing, has evolved into the postponement priority list, as in it is more important to postpone this than it is to postpone that. Leaky old boat is not remotely ship shaped, and the only thing Bristol about it is that it got Bristol Stomped:

be well and have a good one

@Pluto's Republic

Keep to the dictated script. Leaky vaccines? There is no there, there.
They know there is no real protection from the virus with the vax. But it won't be
admitted by the rulers. Just a slight inconvenience for the truth.

Two hosts of "The View," Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro, were yanked in the middle of today's show, just ahead of an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The table of women had been tested before the show, presumably by Harris' people. The results came back mid-show, with two of the hosts testing positive for breakthrough cases of Covid-19

After a broadcast delay, Harris went on to conduct the interview from a remote location. She did not interact with Hostin or Navarro before the show, according to a White House official.

The positive results were announced by "The View" host Joy Behar during the show after Hostin and Navarro were asked to leave the set. Hostin and Navarro were seated at the table with the other hosts at the beginning of the program.

The tables were cleaned and disinfected after they left the set, Behar said, who continued hosting the show on set with her co-host Sara Haines. Behar said Hostin and Navarro were both fully vaccinated.

Harris has received two doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine and was administered both shots live on camera.

"I hope that you're in a safe spot right now. We did everything we could to make sure that you were safe because we value you so much," Behar told Harris at the start of their interview.

Harris responded: "Thank you, Joy, and to everyone. Listen, Sunny and Ana are strong women and I know they're fine but it really also does speak to the fact that they're vaccinated and vaccines really do make all the difference. Because otherwise, we would be concerned about hospitalization or worse."

Whatever.... Kamala.

What it speaks to is the fact that the virus does not stop the spread of Covid-19, and these television workers should be wearing masks and should stop teaching viewers how to spread the virus on live TV.