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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!

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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.
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who came first / townsend
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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,,

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.??

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.

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

... 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"'.

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...on election campaign signage.
The Vierk manor house on the Estate rests close to the street out front, which leads to our ocean Bay. Decades ago, our Public Ways Committee work, saved over a dozen such roads, each providing access for all to the shores. Nearly as many have disappeared over the centuries, usually by the greed of abutting land owners, small town old girl and boy connections, and corruption/cooperation of town administrators.
So we get a lot of foot and bike traffic passing by. The garden veggies we put out for the community seem much appreciated, and many know of our civic volunteering efforts, as above. And of the presence of our intimidating, but friendly, 50+ Kg GS dog Bravo.
Do I digress a bit as I broadcast virtue? Don't you just hate it?
But back to the topic. The (mostly) Democrat political signs in this liberally governed town are starting to appear on our road. As usual, surveys show that the largely silent and non-voting electorate is actually in the majority. And so it goes.
But the shrill/often destructive and violent style of the few altlefties is clear to all with ears and eyes to perceive---except for the few Syndromics, VERY syndromic, who suffer from cognitive distortion and denial, of many sorts. NYC, Portland, Seatle, Chicago, and many others, clearly show the differences between the respectful and orderly gatherings of, say, Tea Party sorts, and the "progressive" lawless paid anarchist rioting on the left.
But there's much more occurring on more personal levels.
At it's worst, many have suffered assault for having MAGA hats on, if they happen to venture into the wrong places. And private property often gets ignored by these lefties, when they get that feeling in the bosom, and the urge to act out their virtue signalling moral sense of superiority. Don't just take my words for it. Sure, it can occur on all sides of political spectrums, as with the deranged 17 YO toting his AR. But those who don't see the HUGE imbalances, well, they are full Syndrome sorts.
At much lower levels, campaign signage gets taken down. And rocks get thrown, and windows broken. Grafitti painted on public and private property. There's been a big BLM sign at the top of this road. People of my ilk typically wouldn't think of removing that sign. Different strokes.
So I'd like to put a T-P sign on our chimney. Way on high.
But the world is full of lower class units, who threaten to tear off limbs, or pummel faces, or jab with hot pokers. Some raised in certain ways are quite capable of many interesting actions. Including bullying.
So the cautionary consideration. VERY cautionary. And one more tedious Vierk dissertation.

As the director of the prestigious Vierk Institute for the Study of Cognitive and Behavioral Political Disturbances, pride does come before the fall. Perhaps I was just a bit too smug about how well we had characterized the more severe forms of Thump Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndromes. After all, one need only to read a few postings/copy and posts from fake news sources, from the loony lefties here, for the usual displays of deep pathology. VERY deep.
But even I couldn't have predicted just how far the signs and symptoms can evolve.
Now here comes a Mz. Kathy Hochul, Lieutenant Gov. of Mr. Cuomo's Empire State of New York. In a full pander, virtue signalling, uncontrollable angry response to President Trump's belated (over a century) pardon of suffragette fighter, Susan B. Anthony, for her 1872 crime of trying to vote, one time House member Hochul had much to say.
She considers the act of the full pardon as somehow unforgivable. An unforgivable pardon, as it were.
Her reasoning is that, even though Miss Anthony broke the (then) laws by voting, "she did nothing wrong". Ghandi and womanizer/thesis plagiarizer MLK, would disagree, as fighting improper laws by breaking them first, then facing the music, was much in their style. VERY much
"His motives in granting this pardon cannot be for any good reason. Allow her to rest in peace.", quoth LG Hochul.
More in line with the most severe cases of TD-HD Syndrome visceral hate and distortions, this could not be. Even has me perplexed. I'm consulting with our epidemiologists, as perhaps we must consider a quite different disorder. And the emergent changes in our country will not please the alt-lefties.
Inclusion and diversity, all right. Of the least beneficial sorts, especially in the large cities.
Once again, the alt lefties confuse the politics of past times with those of today. Fits conveniently well with all their false, VERY false, narratives. Except, of course, for VP Biden's deep and rank real racism.
Live and learn.
Hope I'm not demoted, and lose my stuporvisory private, VERY private, access to all the hottie nubile interns.