No news isn't always good news
Good morning everyone.
At the farm since last Thursday. Had to meet the tree guy early morn to begin felling big cedar trees, two live ones beginning to die, and two dead ones.
They got bucked and sliced into firewood sized rounds and chipped all the branches into a pile of chips as long and as tall as my little Mazda truck.
Have a crapload of rounds to split. Good thing I have a power splitter. Still, three foot rounds are gonna take awhile.
Family come up Sunday and kayaked down river (it was low 90s) and had a general good time. Water was chilly though.
Monday was 95° and impossible to get anything done after noontime. Had to wait till after 6 o'clock to begin work again.
It doesn't get dark till 10 pm up at this latitude.
I just can't work on anything physical when it gets hot anymore. It just drains all the energy out of me.
And to think I used to work in the "Hot End" at Owens-Illinois Glass Co. back in my early 20s. And then construction sites for the next 35 years.
Pushing 78 has it's own realities.
Anyway, thread is open.
What have I missed newswise? Are we bombing someone or no?
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Heh, good morning e1. Temps here have been bouncing
from mid-seventies to nineties, maybe up to a hundred late afternoon one or two days. Output is definitely down. We've harvested maybe 6 pounds of apricots and lost more than that to overnight windfalls, so we made some nets for a couple of areas out of the shade-cloth/frost covers and a tarp, under maybe 1/3 to 2/4 of tree, need to do more today, maybe, after costco and small grocery run. We need to be as well set up as possible by Friday because we'll run up to Calistoga Friday, spend all day Saturday, and wander home Sunday. We're usually Sonoma people, but every couple of years of so we have to hit Napa just to see what's up, especially since we still have quasi-membership status at a couple of wineries there.
Be safe with your wood splitting, never had access to a power splitter myself. Got to go chop some apricots for jam now.
be well and have 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 --
Morning EL
My apricot tree is still growing, but has yet to fruit. It's three years old, so I don't know how long it will take.
Three yo cherry trees fruited last year moderately. But nothing this year.
Gonna need to do some research.
So have a nice trip Friday.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Sounds like a lot of tree work
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Know how you feel with the heat drain on energy supply.
Have to stay in the shade as much as possible anymore.
Thawing out a Boston Butt for a pulled pork (Carolina style)
for the cookers group. The writers cancelled tonight which is
good as my creative flow is on hold just now.
Think the Izzies are still bombing Lebanon, but Iranian tankers
are streaming out of Hormuz without interference.
Thanks for the OT!
Zionism is a social disease
Yeah
Two trees were hanging precariously over our travel trailer/abode, gazebo, and critical infrastructures (water/power).
Carpenter Ants had infested one and I was afraid it was weakened from rot inside.
Once cut I could see a football size hollow of rot going down the middle teeming with ants.
It wouldn't have lasted long.
Have a nice pulled pork dinner/lunch/dinner/lunch.
It always takes us days to eat a big roast.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good morning, e1!
Feeling pretty chipper?
Up until I was into my early sixties, I could stay out all day in July and August, bathe and groom horses, ride and train them, haul hay and 50 lb feed sacks into the barn, even when the heat index exceeded 100deg.
And then, one day at the dressage trainers in August, after my second 45 minute dressage training, I slid off that saddle, told my trainer I would see her late September, that the heat finally overwhelmed me. I stopped working my horses daily, then stopped riding altogether. My horses became my playmates. In August,there are days when I walk a block from my office to the courthouse that I have to hold on to something after I climb stairs. I get dizzy headed.
We are under a flash flood watch until Thursday morning. The authorities are patrolling the more notorious bridges and culverts for water levels. Houston, Beaumont, Baytown, Galveston, and Anahuac are under water in places.
Trump is at the G7 meeting, says with a straight face that the US is uninvolved with the Ukie conflict with Russia. Iran has made it clear to Israel that they must leave Lebanon and leave them alone. That should really make a difference, amirite?
I closed out 3 more family law cases, have 3 or 4 to go.
Gettin' there!
Stay cool, dude!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Heh, chipper. I see what you did there.
I try to stay out of the sun as much as possible. It helps.
Sorry about all the flooding. At least it's somewhat cool though.
Retirement is so close you can taste it, emirates?
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Our forecasts and predictions
said this would be a very dry summer. Well, it rains all the time.
We have such high humidity, shade only slightly cools a breeze and prevents sunburn. That last ride with the trainer was under a barn roof with huge fans blowing on the students and horses. It takes a little longer to have heat exhaustion in the shade.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
From what I've been reading
....Trump's comments that you have reported are going to send an unprecedented wave of alarm through the dual-national Neocons stationed in the White House.
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Trump's blunt words open a crack in the Foundation of the overarching bond that welds the United States and it's financial and military resources to the Zionist Masterplan to control and exploit the mineral and metal resources of the planet. Tendrils of this Mastery now reach into every foreign government and monitor every financial node of global civilization.
I suppose we should now be thinking about Trump's inevitable successor, who could take the helm sooner than expected. Our Overlords seem to feel most comfortable with brain-damaged Presidents who appear to succumb to the prodding of the Neocon handlers and watchers stationed in the White House, and at the State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council, and on the Big Donor Supply Chain for members of the House and Senate.
This set-up also helps to explain why we don't hear one peep about the outrageous international atrocities committed by the US during the past 50 years. All nations are keeping their heads down. Not a word of it is mentioned during meeting and assemblies of various international organizations. A long list of pressing topics are pointedly ignored, or side-stepped, at global venue, including the United Nations. This is nothing new, of course. It went on like this throughout the 20th century, as well. However, modern technologies have opened tiny windows in communications networks. Full spectrum surveillance works both ways, doncha know. Information definitely gets out; truths do get told. Recently, it is coming though Iranian Rap music of the Lego kind. A huge numbers of ordinary citizens are listening, as they never have before. Soon, I'll drop a link to one of these overlooked listening posts. Big tech and Hasbara take them down as soon as they are posted. If you try to email a link, it is intercepted and you receive a threatening note. Try it sometime.
Another notable trend: High value foreign citizens and immigrants are quietly 'retiring' their careers and leaving the United States to return to their home country. Many scientists and academics across a number of industries have already left. It's a good time for them to go.
Sorry for all the typos. I'm dealing with a temporary vision issue and don't catch them all..
congrats on reaching 78
I sent a bad link earlier today
In another open thread of a refinery fire. Reportedly no one was hurt working at the refinery.
https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2066779966629372253?s=20
Hi E1!
It's quite hot here. I can't take it really, so I stay inside a lot.
I'm looking forward to three days of holiday weekend swimming coming up. That's about all I can do now. I wait until after five.
Found the "classes" Kishore is posting on US-Chinese relations very good. I found part 3 of his interview with George Yeo a former long time Singapore minister rewarding. I have to say, I'm not much of an Ezra Vogel fan. I don't buy his apologetic view of Japan's imperialism, namely that it was intended to benefit China.
Here it is:
"...almost a crusade against China" can also be understood in terms of Edward Said's Orientalism. I thought highly of On China as well. I think George Yeo's observation that Chinese inner palace dramas lend insight into the nature of its current governance was brilliant. What's the connection between dynastic palace politics and communist governance today? Yes, exactly! I came into this insight several years ago by overdosing on quality Korean historical dramas. Dynastic governance in Korea was based upon study of the Chinese classics. Kishore even noted that the Yi Dynasty governed for 5 centuries. China was the model. I'm still working on my first Chinese historical drama, Swords into Plowshares.
The Wikipedia write up on the series has an AI warning, unsourced references, etc. I didn't rely on it, just using that paragraph above for convenience. I've read other Chinese sources using a translator.
几万里梦醒无争
Thousands of miles, awaken, the dream of no conflict.
I'll try to load the drama's OST-
己所不欲，勿施于人。
The truth is that he is nuttier than a fruitcake!
Huckabee's a loon, but....
what he's saying is, in a warped way, kinda sorta logical.
Since, if the Israelites had been wiped out, there would have been
no subsequent Christianity or Islam. Both drove technological development
and exploration, as did conflicts between and among them.
Inter-Christian rivalry was a big driver for the waves of English migration
to what became the USA.
Puritans - to New England
Royalist/Cavaliers and domestics - to Virginia, Carolina
Quakers - to Pennsylvania
Scotch-Irish - to Appalachia
all came from distinct Protestant religious orientations at times when
they were suffering political/religious/economic repression in Britain.
(See 'Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America' by David Hackett Fischer for
much more detail)
All these, of course, figured strongly in the development of what became the USA.
So, in that narrow sense, Huckabee isn't completely wrong.
But he's still a loon. A dangerous and embarrassing one at that.
Since I have a warped mind Iran should send one of the
vessels loaded with oil to Cuba.
The rest of the tweet:
Yep
Send both to Cuba.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Oops wrong essay.
Lucky you're not in
Blue-fascist Oregon - they'd make you be permitted and pay for the privilege of floating down the river...
Right about now, even at 95 degrees you're likely cooler and less thoroughly surveilled than the folks in Santa Cruz County, AZ - compliments of Elbit Systems (yes, the same outfit the UK is imprisoning folks on terror charges for vandalizing).
Full-spectrum surveillance test bed - the better to send Americans' personal data (via your friendly local Fusion Center) to the fun folks at Mossad...
Zions R US
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It would appear the integration of USRael is complete.
At least in the 'intelligence' gathering sphere. A bane on
congress to allow this state of affairs. We have been waving
red flags for years. Perhaps the military is our last defense?
Zionism is a social disease
Speaking of Blue-Fascist Oregon….
There may be enough signatures to put this on the ballot this year; they’ve come short previously. It goes beyond outlawing hunting and fishing. I was asked to sign the petition at Saturday Market last month. I asked if it’s true that it’d be illegal to kill pests. He said yes but there’d be humane ways to remove them. I politely declined but looks like they didn’t need my signature….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-oregon-initiative-would-criminal...
Anya
For exa
How to humanely remove ants? Can’t imagine how to humanely trap them and then remove them—to where?
Anya
confusing humane
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with human mind leaves bug brains out of the discussion
if it is you confronting 50,000 ants in a situation, ants do not care
about the odds, let alone humane treatment. It is social survival.
Zionism is a social disease
We can't use any
political capital to end wars, genocides, or famines; or provide for our veterans or seniors; but by Gawd those Oregonian ants will be *protected*.
Good thing that there isn't anything actually important going on in the world, eh? This is the collective brunch-crowd brain on blue-team performative wedge-issue measures.
Not a fan. We've got a bigger problem now...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I can't handle working in the heat...
...these days. In my youth it was no problem. In fact it's almost 8 AM Wed, and I'm headed out for chores now before it gets too hot.
Aging is a trip ain't it? Take care and good luck with the wood splitting project, and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”