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I,ve written a poem or maybe a lyric for a song.

Portugal.

Portugal my lady you have given me your Algarve.
With her sunshine that brightens my day.

You have given me your people .
Who smile at me each day.

You have given me your trees and flowers
That bloom in your walm winter.

You have gaven me your houses.
Painted blue and white.

Your have given me your beutiful calming blue sea.
With sailing boats,thier white sails dance in your yellow light.

But most of portugal my darling
You have given me this man.
In his autumn years,

Happiness.





Written now 22.05 with no editing 10 september 2016.

I dedicate this to the people of portugal who I,m proad to say many are my friends.


Flyme1.

I am a nudist and obviously single ,I would like to know women's thoughts on this

It was a summer of heat or rain or both. So time frittered away and now it is October. That to do list...uh..oops? Now it is work the temps. Too cold to paint..cut brush. Clean the chimney, got that done. ]
Had a quote to cut down a couple oaks. Man, do I hate oak trees! Each tree has gazillions and gazillions of leaves. Which fall one by one by one, hanging on for dear life til Christmas! ARGH! Rake other leaves and they are done. Or rot by spring. Oak leaves...nope. Rake and sweep and tomorrow, do it again. Finally snow covers it all. And then spring thaw comes and the flower beds and everything are solid oak leaves. They NEVER rot!
Guy gave me a quote on just ONE oak. $2,500! Sorry! At that I can BUY a pull behind bucket lift! Or rent one is I could find someone with saw who knows how to use it. Guess I rake.
I searched on line forever again for tarps. All are poly and none will last more than 3 years before my birds make nests of blue. The good is vinyl. Check prices..grrr. What to do...back to used billboard vinyl. I did finally drag a section I had to cover one carport I built. I hate the weight of them. And not that cheap. But, this one is ancient and still OK. Then ran into a company that not only sells used, but new by the foot. I measured the dog trot, figured and thunk about it. Called..you do check over phone, yep. OK, I ordered a 16X100 foot run of new. 86 pounds. It got delivered..poor UPS guy!
My boarder and I got it up last week. What fun..me on top..MOVE cat AGAIN...him below. Got it up and over, pulled and yanked and then I threw string over to tie it down. It just touches ground. But, 20 foot plastic sheeting is under it from before so should be ok. It was $240 and shipping. Quite a bit lighter than the old billboad which is nice.
Hired a guy with chainsaw and we/he cut brush trees from behind one garage. I used to mow when living in that house. Moved up here and rented the farmhouse. Each tenant like the jungle creep bit by bit. Now I will spray in spring any tree that thinks it will grow. More to do, next weekend.
Start to close the loggia ends with doors for winter. Sorry cats, back to other side of house to woodstove and shed to get fed. Be nice to come in living room door without screaming NO. OUT. NO!
Now it is pick what and which to do, see how temps are. Next two weeks above norm and no rain. Work! FASTER!

..eYe would like to plant a decision Tree.
but 1st .. we need sum rain.....
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420. XL intel........} Madison NJ. 1890.
--------....} Math courtesy of McBob.
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.. In dys ] honor of Trick or Treats, McBob thought it prudent ( that's prude + new Test...
To remind you of Chuck Brown and his grocery bag of Halloween rocks. It always bothered me that Chuck could never play football [ due to Lucy's w/craft.] ..then he goes off into the night masked-up as a Spook with 8 eYes....only to get nothing but stone...
.. This year everyone gets to spend Q time in their own pumpkin patch of Orange crush.
Speaking of Q : at about 12:30 pm PST, my 'smart' phone phonix informed me via Y.tube, that the President will be in Dallas, TX on 10/17/20...
And at that time & $pot, Amerika will be re-Introduced to one John Kennedy Jr...
...we are not using any exclamation points here..
for the simple fact that Q has bored & irritated me from day zero. And Nothing [ real ] has been Q's
Mode of operation..if anyone be counting.

Another day.. another x- Ray.
...no time / guess who
who came first / townsend
...who else ? / J. Beck group.
...the real paradox of Atheist Astrophysics
is just how g'd damn Truufy it is....
Black hole sun / Soundgarden
..goodbye blue sky / p Floyd
Goodbye yellow brick road / E John

what happened to respect, ,please , thank you ect ect ,, have been replaced by foul language..
has cursing become the norm ,,parents regularly curse in front of their children , and then wonder why their kids grow up being so disrespectful ,,
and not only young people have adopted this way of life ,i have seen many videos of older people that seem to think cursing at some one gets the point across..
ok i have sworn at times grrrr but only at myself at getting something wrong or hitting my finger when i should have been hitting a nail,,
and before people start to shout the odds ,,yes this is more of a western thing ,, has foul language become the first language i wonder,,
do i respect a woman that swears ,not a chance , it is neither feminine nor right,, the same as i do not respect any man that swears in front of a woman or child,,

I have heard it said that the U.S.A. was a great country and in the process of being great again. Maybe it is.

I don't like talking politics, and maybe I am just missing something here...which happens a lot with me.

But, we are suppose to have the best medical care in the world. Heck, that is what justifies why we pay a fortune for it. "You pay so much because you have the best healthcare system in the world"....I have often heard it said.

Then why are we leading the world with the most reported cases of Covid? The countries that are in second and third place behind us....I believe have already hit their apex. We...on the other hand...the professionals have no clue when we will hit our apex. In other words, the growth of this virus if far from finished here, and how many more future cases are unable to be predicted.


Why is this... with the "best healthcare system in and the world" Why?


Is it lies?
Is it incompetence?


Just something that baffles me I guess.


Something does not add up here.

Either other countries are under reporting.
Either we are over reporting.
Or....we were very ill prepared...and arrogant perhaps?

In any case, I have heard it said, that when the worse happens...it will bring out the true character of others. With political affiliation set aside for a second here....lets hope as a semi-intelligent group of people living in this great country...lets hope we can pinpoint, when we vote for putting leaders in place, that have control over our lives, we vote the right people (competent) in place. I don't care if they are Democrat or Republican....male or female.

Happy Friday...Stay safe and healthy all.

In a couple of weeks, if all goes well, I'm slowly transitioning from the Navy-owned housing community of Ribault Village in Atlantic Beach to Campus Towers Apartments across the river in Jacksonville, FL near Edward Waters College and several restaurants. My new pad is going to have a kitchen, living room, dining room, walk-in closet, bathroom, 1-bedroom-I hope.??

... But criminal, violent, looting, racist, lemmings to decades of Democrat urban rule, lives,--- well, how could these ever matter nearly as much, as the ones the ueber left likes to refer to as Uncle Toms?
Ask the data sources, which of these two groups fill our jails, kill each other in droves, leave families fatherless (and dependent on the new daddy----the taxpayer), and show other such high character behaviors.
Can't make any of this up. But watch the full syndrome types try magically to spin it all away. And laughably to toss the R word about in their anger and virtue signaling.
Might make a nice chimney sign, on one of the Vierk castles. Readable from the street, side by side with the MAGA shtick. And a big picture of the big guy. And of his co-winner, VP Pence. No?
The other sign, could use a campaign poster from the local Dem Party headquarters. Taking a sign saying "Biden for PRESIDENT". And with a little cutting and pasting, we have, "Biden for RESIDENT---of an Assisted living Facility". Suited many when it was, "Hilary for PRISON"'.

have jeans been mainly blue in color for the last 100+ years. Why is that color so popular for jeans?

Can you name the 2 breeds shown?

There is a bull (not shown) laying down by the trees. Can you make it to the building?

Strangely the local coyotes seem to avoid this field. They probably know Darwin lives there.

In the West they call folks who live with these critters Cowboys. In the East they are just a Hillbilly.

Hillbillys own many cool toys.



This one, a neighbors, is fairly old (as the stamped marks on the trunnion imply), but it still throws a 6 (7 actually) pound shell over a mile easily and does so at least twice a year.



Thanks to Covid19 I am laid off from my job making coffee at the 7-11, so I am passing the time making my own small (it will be a 1 pounder) yard cannon out of some 1040 steel scrap. The barrel is done and now I am building a collared trunnion of 4" S7 steel bar scrap. Everyone should have a hobby that is fun.



I am pleased to be a country hill billy.