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Guess I have to admit it, warm weather is over. I hate cold. I hate snow. Now if I could just figure out how to put a trailer hitch on a farm and become a snow bird.
I refuse to surrender. Bucket is still on outside wood furnace chimney. So started the fireplace. Most inefficient system invented. How much heat goes up and out, even with the heatiltors these have.
Plus bark and bits all over the floors from carrying in the wood. It is so nice to have the outside one, debris stays outside.
Geese are flying everyday. The river is full of Sandhill cranes. When I was a kid, never heard of them. A restoration project brought them back. Now they number hundreds on the river. Between the geese and cranes on does NOT want to walk barefoot on the sandbars. It becomes the river sewage flow.
I always wondered about the sense in looking up when geese fly over. Read somewhere they dump to lighten their load when they launch. Thank goodness. Saves us dumb idiots who look up.
I was outside, cats around like usual..MOVE..you have 4 feet, I have 2 and I can't walk with 6! I hear the weirdest noise, cats are looking around too. Is it my chickens in distress. Then it dawned on me...snow geese! They are not around much, just pass over mainly. And the strangest gabble you ever heard. Although the Mergansers sound weird too.
My birds are home from the north. I put seeds out every morning in the satellite dish nailed to the side of the deck. I call them and they come flying in. And I yell at my cats..NO!
Hens come up to the house, where is our seeds? I toss into the flower bed terrace. They do good raking. They have lots of the leaves off the terrace already. I like them, they work for birdseed.
Finally had a killing frost. All my bucket planters are done except the lima beans. I don't know if I can protect them or not. Leave them covered and hope. Everything was so blasted slow this year.
I had seen ONE pear on my tree. Wrapped screen around it and watched it all summer. Saw it had fallen into the wire. Went the next day and it was GONE. Wire and all. A whole summer I waited! Thinking s blasted squirrel?
This Saturday getting guys together and finish splitting wood and fill woodshed. Next state got 8 inches of snow already.
Crossing fingers. First deer hunt, 70 degrees in November. First Halloween bash, 70 at night. Boy did I get suckered. But, hope springs eternal. Mild winter. PLEASE?

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Discrimination by race and sex or, rather, denial of its existence: the ole’ good subject; evergreen.

Then don’t forget bashing emigrants and ex-spouses. Someone has to be blamed for our failures.

Now the new entertainment – the pandemic: wet dream for home-woven conspiracists all around the world.

And politics! Don’t forget politics!



So many hills to die on. So many crusades to fight.

Why are there so many crusaders among the single?

So, one of those stunning mid ocean coastal Maine fall days. Blinding sunshine. Almost 70 degrees F, with little wind. Being a cheap guy, I try to combine reasons for any road trip, and was in need of some power steering fluid to flush the system on my 20 year old new Volvo winter beater wagon. Only paid USD 150 for the old Swedish chariot, and did the work meself, to get it to sail through state inspection. But do I brag and digress? I may wax value virtue signaling/self sufficiency/renaissance man--- on topic, in a later Blog.
So early this morning, an email from state GOP headquarters comes in, inviting me to a rally in the Bangor area, near Volvo dealer, with a speech by VP Pence. Easily pushes the reasons for a 80 Km vintage road machine motorcycle trip into the "go" zone. Well, DUH!
We've all heard of the tens of thousands showing for these events, but seeing it in person is impressive. Saw my first secret service agent, at least identified as such, with big letters on her vest. She was definitely not guilty, as well. A helpless sucker for a heavily armed hottie in uniform.
I pass through security, and into the standing room only area. Helo arrives with Mr. Pence and staffers, and I'm prepared to keep my usual low, VERY low,.profile He'll be in New Hampshire tomorrow.
Somehow, perhaps via Miss SS hotstuff, from my chatting her up, word got around that the VIERK, in all his spendor, was in the audience. SS shuttles me to a seated position near the stage, and after the speech, and Q & A, I'm led into a private gathering behind stage. The VP greets me, with his gracious wife, and I also meet a bunch of travel functionaries. But here's the kicker.
Mrs. Pence informs that at a nearby table, a gaggle of hottie staffers are excited to know that the VIERK himself is in the same room with them. Smoking Cohiba Presidentes, with staffers of both sexes, and even the VP lights up. Apparently hotties all are giggling, hoping for a chance to meet the VIERK, and perhaps to make an impression on him.
Got some girlie contact info, and a possible invite to be a science advisor, after Messers Pence and Trump's re-election. Then I got the PS fluid, and rode home, to let you all know.
Can't make any of this stuff up, folks.

If the rubber really hits to road and life as we know it really takes a dramatic turn in a different direction...how much control do you have over your life?

Take for example, this pandemic....many businesses were involuntarily shut down, people lost many jobs, people lost loved ones, people lost relationships, and people lost places where they lived. Did they have any control to make the outcome different?

Take for example, when you get old....some will lose their minds and not know their loved ones who come to visit them on a daily basis. Others will have no control over their bottling functions and defecate all over themselves. Did they have any control to make the outcome different?

Take for example, at any random time....an unidentified vehicle comes and visits you from overhead. You have no recollection of it ever leaving as you watch it overhead from your bedroom window and you and your partner mysteriously end up in the middle of the room facing each other. Did they have any control to make the outcome different?

Those are just a couple of examples I can think of.

With those in mind...how do you proceed with your life? Do you proceed with your hard principles tattooed on your forehead and scream your opinions out where everybody is to hear your voice because what you think is sooooo important.

or

Do you proceed with your life with complete faith and peace that you are doing the right by your fellow woman/mankind. You know things of this life are out of your hands and to try to take over control of what is out your hands can be very stressful and can threaten your health and therefore make a peace within difficult to obtain.


just some thoughts...

Happy Friday all.

When my husband and I were more newly married; one evening... he asked me what I wanted to do the next day. I said don't know. He said, well..aren't there things you want to do. I said yes. But..will get up in morning and see who broke out, what fell down, what broke..and that is what I will do. And if really lucky, might get to do something I want.
Sound asleep yesterday am cause didn't sleep til 3 am. Phone ringing... it is 8am! Answered and it was my tenant. He said huge limb fell and is resting on electric line to barn..what to do.
Said be right down. Got up and dressed and headed below.
He was firing up chainsaw. I said do you have rubber soles, yep..gloves...have pair for cutting. We went up to it. 8 inch diameter at least, elbow resting on ground, base hung on line maybe 6 inches. He trimmed branches which I dragged to brush pile behind barn. I said cut up, not down. He cut some. I said keep cutting, it will bounce off line. It did. Pulled insulator off tree, but line looks OK. Tore a piece of fascia off bodyshop but small and not into roof hardly. Something else to fix.
I said thanks load to dad's memory. Mom told him to cut that tree and he said, oh, can use the shade. Now I have a huge maple that is over shop and barn and lines.
Spent the rest of the day working around. Helped tenant unload two truck loads of wood into my woodshed.
Ask me why I hate waking up!

Two true stories...with a slight embellishment to one of them under the presumption of one's character.


1. Maybe next time Youtube about how to feed your plant. "Forget that...I do what feels good to me and it has been working this long in my life." Result, a dead plant. ...and as a kicker...a friend who had tried to help them out with instructing them on how to feed their plant on the sh*t list.

2. It is not recommended that you use unvented propane heaters in a sealed enclosed area. Similar response, Well...I have been using this one for years and have not had any problems. After sealing his home tighter...result, a dead person.


I don't have much time available....but one can break down the dynamics of the deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance.


Happy Thursday all.

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