Good morning everyone.
Is 30 degrees this morning and clear skies. Much frost over everything, including the latent onions and potatoes still growing from summer. Guess I'll have to pull them up and stash in the garage, where we are down to our last couple of onions and a bucket of 'taters we harvested in fall.
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I thought it might be nice to close the year out on a constructive note. I tend to focus on all the insanity, but there's many good things going on around the world. People are creative, and folks, given our path, we better be able to adapt and be constructive. It will be up to us. My major prof often said our job is to develop farming methods that work to sustain and improve soils. My better half's mentor emphasized building a positive future image of where you're going (in order to get there). In the decades since, we've tired to practice both of these philosophies.
Afternoon folks!
This week we've got blues in big portions starting off with an album from Muddy Waters in the early 70's and followed up with some serious Detroit blues from the 50's with Eddie Burns and John Lee Hooker. After that there's a compilation album of Piedmont blues from Blind Boy Fuller and Sonny Terry and another comp from Taj Mahal. Then there's a live album from Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady before they became Hot Tuna and we finish up with a talented guitarist in the folkish category, John Renbourn.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Good morning, good people!
We all got past Christmas, and now New year's celebration looms! All that food! All those beverages!
We learned a cooking lesson the hard way on Tuesday, and that is, the effects of eating Great Northern beans that are under cooked. Maybe by less than 20 minutes. Not the best start on enjoying the holiday it was supposed to be. Thank goodness, the episode was over in 24 hours. NEVER AGAIN.
Typically, this is the time of year we are in the Hill Country. Music venues in Fredericksburg, Luckenbach, and Albert. I ran across this video by sheer accident, and I hope you will skim through it long enough to see what we see in Fredericksburg at the beginning and Luckenbach at the end. Also, the locals that were interviewed sound a lot like me...heavy Texas accents. It is all charming, historic, an ambience impossible to duplicate.
Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.
Happy Holiday season everyone. With all the talk in the open threads the last few days about the meals being planned for yesterday I trust everybody got enough to eat. Hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends.
Due to being under the weather last week and inclement weather this week, it's been a while since I got out with the camera so tonight is a mix of a few new photos, a few leftovers from previous outings and a few recycled (previously posted) photos.
Seasonal Colors
I have posted more than a dozen emails from Republican bots that somehow imagine that it makes sense to flatter me with effusive praise for my patriotism and my long standing support for the Trump Cause.
After I ignored several of the appeals, the tone shifted to scolding me for not responding to previous duns.
This morning, it goes back to flattery:
Mike Johnson, 56th Speaker of the House
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Morning - been enjoying the videos Lookout has been including the past few Sundays on regenerative agriculture and the direct farm to consumer business model. While viewing them I suddenly realized the stories were showing a lifestyle I grew up within and has been a part of my adult life, both as producer and customer.
My folks a rented run down farm when I was a toddler. City kids wanted to grow food. They came up with a plan of two primary revenue streams: cream from a small dairy herd to be sold to the local Co-op and extra milk fed to market hogs. Their town jobs kept up with the expenses of the growing enterprise. Life was good until a forced sale of livestock during a down cycle. It took several years to recover.
Ranchers and Farmers keep trying. After the rented farm changed ownership they bought the run down hobby farm with only a 900 sq ft house, because the place had a nice barn and root cellar. After trying a little of this and a little of that, they settled into a cow/calf operation and did direct sales of grass-fed beef.
