Almost Thanksgiving

Almost Thanksgiving

Tomorrow in the United States is Thanksgiving, the American version of a harvest festival celebrating the bounty of the earth and preparing for the winter ahead. We trace the history of our holiday to a documented 1621 gathering of English Pilgrims and the native Wampanoag tribe in modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 

On October 3, 1789, President George Washington issued a proclamation recommending a day of Thanksgiving.  It began with:

• Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be…”
• On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation making November 26 a day of thanksgiving.  In 1941, Congress, then a Democrat-controlled body, passed a law making Thanksgiving a national holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. 

 

Rose is working on Cristmas'ing the house this week

Jarrod is coming over Sunday we're going to double-check the solar panel setup

28 degrees on Friday morning, brr

Current generation: What's a Sears? (hint: There are 5 Sears stores left in the US as of Sept 2025.  I remember pouring through the Sears Wishbook around Christmastime every year!

Can you hear it?

IT'S OFFICIAL: The US Mint will officially STOP minting pennies. Today, the LAST Penny will be minted!  Money is slowly going away, I don't know if digital currency can be stopped.  I went to the bank last week to get $50 out of the ATM, yup it gave me a single $50 bill, WTH? I had to go into the bank lobby and have them change it to two twenties and a ten.  The lady told me the ATMs only have fifties and twenties in them now...

I was under the weather Saturday, very achy, hips, knees, even my elbows were very sore...  other than that I'm Fine...

Busy morning out in the deer yard, the Opossum came in late Saturday evening  around 11:30PM then two Deer and a cottontail 10 feet away in at 5:45AM

Jarrod stopped by Sunday we figured out the solar issue I was having pretty quickly, we'll run some more tests this week.  It was very cold with a stiff breeze blowing out in the field.

Rose and I hit Market Basket and picked up a 22lb. turkey, there should be plenty for leftovers, yum!

3 deer, a bobcat and two raccoons came into the yard Sunday evening.

Monday It's 8AM and the sun is just about to rise above the towering pines in the cove kissing my solar panels with needed sun. The sun was short lived and it was soon mostly cloudy as the winds kicked up too, howling out in the yard.  40+ MPH gusts today with power outages.  Panels are generating between 0 and 8 amps  and from zero to 112 watts on this cloudy day. Tomorrow it's supposed to be sunny all day, a chance to see what the solar panels can really do.

Rose and I trimmed up the doors for the downstairs bathroom Monday night.

Tuesday Sunny, put 1Kw of power into the solar batteries

Rose has her Thanksgiving shopping list going.

Received my 1st SEED CATALOG for 2026 today!

21 degrees Wednesday AM

1st Buck of the season Wednesday evening, 4-6 pointer I think.

James & Jason are going to the Buffalo Bills/New England Patriots game at Foxboro stadium game in December!

Even with normal precipitation in recent weeks, most of New Hampshire is still in a drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. And with winter coming, things could only get worse once the ground freezes. 

Dad turned 91 on Wednesday!   Amazing, 91...

My solar batteries are charged up to 94% this week

Friday was a frosty cold morning, 20 degrees

Friday evening a Fox came through

It's Saturday, we're off to some Christmas shopping, stores were busy but not as bad as I thought they'd be.

We worked on installing the new bath door Sunday morning, the usual trials and tribulations ensued with the install we swapped the way the folding door to fold into the bathroom and magically it worked. 

Sunday afternoon we're off, it was snowing when we left we needed to get grain, hit Mom & Dads to wish Dad a happy 91st birthday and drop off some prepared lunches and dinners.  Li was over playing cards with Mom, it was good to see her, we dropped her off at her house afterwards.

Monday morning at 4AM it was still snowing, we had a total of about a half an inch on the ground. 

Monday we're finally getting the tarp over the camper, got to wait till it warms up a bit first though. By 11am the snow was all gone! still took a couple hours to get it up.

We got the grain put away in the barrels, and then put new festive colored bulbs in the front lights, red and green.  Ladders are put away for the year.  Rose went to start the tractor and it wouldn't start, of course...

Tuesday we're off to the dump to get rid of some old lawn equipment. A dead lawn tractor and 2 push mowers that have been sitting around taking up space.  We had to drain the oil and gas out of all of them or the dump wouldn't take them, got that done, we got the trailer hooked up and wouldn't you know the trailer lights wouldn't work...  Off we went anyway, get to the dump and they tell us they can no longer take tractors with tires, they'd take the 2 push mowers though.  UGH!  So its either we go back home and remover the tires or head for the junkyard to see if they'll take it off my hands, luckily the junkyard took it no charge, we rolled off the back of the trail and we were off!  We stopped at MB on the way home to get pies and milk then we went back home,  took the ramps to the barn, put the sides back on the trailer and drove it back to the field where it'll spend the winter.  WERE DONE WITH THE PRE-WINTER CHORES! 

Fox came through at dusk, along with the coyotes, they don't stop, they just run through looking' for rabbit or squirrel most likely.

Wednesday, It's the calm before the big day here, last minute preps and cleaning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s an “undeniable truth in American politics” we all need to understand: “You can always count on Republicans to pre-emptively surrender,” and “you can always bank on Democrats then completely overreaching in response, thus self-generating their own backlash.”” 

To put it a little more graphically: You’re getting raped. The Democratic Socialists will make sure you get extra raped, and when that doesn’t work, they’ll assign double the number of rapists to make sure you get good and raped.

• Yes, the current generation is getting done dirty, financially speaking. Voting for communists socialists Democratic Socialists isn’t going to make it any better, in the long-term.
• STOP VOTING FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PASS NEW LAWS — we have enough already. Start picking folks who will clear away the onerous undergrowth of legislation and rules, and you’ll see things getting affordable again. 

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), with five other Democrats, rolled out a video that, in my view, is among the most reckless, disingenuous, and dangerous political messages of all time.

• Their stark message, delivered by all six speakers in patched-together statements, was directed to the several million members of our U.S. military and intelligence services. It reminds them that they have not just the right but the responsibility to refuse to comply with illegal or unconstitutional orders; and it includes not-so-subtle urging that they do so right now, before it’s too late.

• Americans whose minds have not been pickled by leftism are not impressed.  The Democrat instigators have been called “TikTok Traitors,” the “Seditious Six,” the “Idiot Six,” and worse.  President Trump immediately accused the lawmakers of sedition and demanded that they be arrested and stand trial for their potentially deadly provocations.  In response, the Democrat provocateurs have pretended to be outraged that the commander in chief would correctly describe their seditious actions as seditious.Senator Elissa Slotkin — one of the “Seditious Six,” a former CIA analyst, and a protégée of John Brennan — is busy playing the same sick word games as Slick Willy and commie Brennan.  She claims that her seditious video is meant only to draw attention to President Trump’s “illegal orders,” but when she is pressed to name one such “illegal order,” she admits that she is “not aware” of any.  

McDonald’s Price Increases from 2019 to 2024:

    Medium French Fry $1.79 -> $4.19
    McChicken $1.29 -> $3.89
    Big Mac $3.99 -> $7.49
    10 McNuggets $4.49 -> $7.58
    Cheeseburger $1.00 -> $3.15

    Some of this is over a 200% increase in price. This isn’t inflation — it’s legalized robbery. 

CDC Says Vaccines May Cause Autism

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that it’s possible vaccines cause autism, in a reversal of its previous stance.
“The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,” the CDC said in a Nov. 19 update to its website. “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” 

To be clear, Trump has limited political capacity to change the economy for the better. He has three years left on his second term and the fiscal problems he’s dealing with were created through decades of government and central bank mismanagement (or deliberate sabotage).

Even if Trump had two more terms it would be difficult, and I’m setting aside the fact that the political left does not want the economy to be fixed and will do everything in their power to keep instability in place. Why? Because the worse things get the greater their election chances in 2026 and 2028. And, the more the system breaks the easier it is to convince the public that socialism is the ultimate solution. 

Another day, another Democrat found to be involved in some sort of fraud. I don't think there's a single member of that entire party who speaks the truth or plays by the rules. And the legacy media -- ever the loyal lapdogs of the Left -- fawns over these people, burying scandals or spinning them as virtues. From multi-million dollar fraud schemes tied to congressional insiders to impersonating lawyers to springing illegal aliens. From doctored court evidence to unconstitutional residency fraud, the evidence piles up like Kamala's campaign debts. We're witnessing a pattern of blatant lawbreaking enabled by a complicit media that prioritizes Marxist idolatry over accountability. 

BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping revelation, Sec. Brooke Rollins found 5,000 DEAD PEOPLE getting SNAP, and 500,000 PEOPLE getting SNAP “2 times under the same name.”

• And that’s just what they’ve confirmed…
• “This light has now been shined one of the most CORRUPT, DISFUNCTIONAL programs in American history!”
• “80% are able-bodied Americans – they can work, don’t have small children, taking care of an elderly parent. They can work, they choose not to work, because they’re getting significant benefits from the taxpayer!” 

New slogan: “The Democrat Party, Now With Less Democracy”. 

Should America’s constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the “system” and have exhausted all available remedies to “fix” that “system,” they will feel wholly disconnected from the government that rules over them. A cascade of institutional crises will exacerbate public distrust in the “system” until the “system’s” legitimacy collapses.

“Freedom is never guaranteed,”  “It must be fought for, protected, and passed on to future generations.”

Democrats can’t allow that message to spread.  If students learn to recognize Marxist tactics when progressives use them, the entire leftist project collapses.  That’s why teaching the truth about communism matters more than ever. 

According to the World Health Organization, doctors around the world have killed more than 60 million people over the last 20 years. Not all of them were on purpose, of course, but many were caused by doctors' overall ignorance about health, brainwashing by pharmaceutical companies and a stubborn unwillingness (tied with arrogance) to learn about the true causes of health and wellness.

• Instead, they mostly just push prescription drugs, chemotherapy, surgery and vaccine injury denialism, often while berating their patients for daring the learn anything on their own.  
• Yet the evidence proves their system is a failed one that only produces mass suffering and death, not health. Vaccines don't prevent transmission of disease. Chemotherapy doesn't reverse cancer. Cholesterol drugs don't save lives. Prescription pharmaceuticals do not resolve root causes of anything. The entire facade of allopathic medicine is a fraud, hiding behind marketing smoke and mirrors, with lucrative kickbacks to the dishonest doctors who keep pimping the failed treatments for profit, all while condemning those who dare to question their "religion" of pharmaceuticalism.
• These statistics bear out the only rational realization: The more you want to NOT DIE, the more aggressively you should reject everything a doctor tells you, as they are purveyors of mass death at a truly Holocaust level (times ten).
•  - Your doctor is 101 times more likely to kill you than your spouse.
   - Your doctor is 94 times more likely to kill you than a non-spouse family member.
   - Your doctor is 66 times more likely to kill you than a total stranger!
  • The faster you get far away from your doctor, the safer you'll be, and your risk of death will plunge dramatically. That's because, of course, doctors claim to "treat" you with things that actually kill you: Vaccines, prescription pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, risky but ineffective surgeries, and so on.
   
  In fact, across all professions in America over the last century, no profession has killed more Americans than doctors.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

Veterans day 2025!

Veterans Day 2025! 

We had a half dozen nice size turkeys come in Wednesday morning around 7:30AM to clean up any leftover grain in the deer yard.

We still need more rain, the well is still spitting, so we have some water, just not enough, we're still hoping for lots more before the ground freezes up.

The Full Moon was bright in the sky Tuesday evening 

Rose put up the bird and suet feeders last week, no birds are coming in though.

We were again supposed to get high winds 10PM Wednesday into Thursday morning, we didn't, OK with me, less branches to pick up.

The birds have finally found the bird feeders

Our Bluebirds have been going house to house, not sure if they're looking for a new winter abode.

Rose smelled skunk early Thursday morning, I'd kinda hoped he'd moved on. 

Thursday the Fox came through the deer yard

I went out Thursday night to see if I could see the Aurora Borealis (Northern lights) last night, Nope not here...

We're still hustling around, trying to get everything done before winter officially hits, it was 28 degrees this morning and although Accuweather doesn't show snow or freezing rain until December 16th there's still lots to do.  

1. Tractor needs putting away, one down one to go
2. Snowblower needs to be brought up to the house - Done
3. Remaining sand barrels put out - Done
4. Putting the quilts out on the clothesline - Done
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Friday morning Rose saw a Coyote crossing the field at 8:30AM in the morning, I scrambled to grab the camera but missed her. 

Rather sad... "A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time.

• Farmers' Almanac The Maine-based publication, said Thursday that its 2026 edition will be its last, citing the growing financial challenges of producing and distributing the book in today's “chaotic media environment.” Access to the online version will cease next month.
• The Maine-based publication, not to be confused with the even older Old Farmer’s Almanac in neighboring New Hampshire, was first printed in 1818. For centuries it's used a secret formula based on sunspots, planetary positions and lunar cycles to generate long-range weather forecasts."
• November 07, 2025 Farmer’s Almanac, based out of Lewiston, ME, is ceasing publication after an incredible 200+ year run.
• Over the years, there has been some confusion between different almanacs, so to be clear: The OLD Farmer’s Almanac isn’t going anywhere.  As we have since 1792, during George Washington’s presidency, we will continue to publish our annual edition, while educating and entertaining readers online at Almanac.com. 

• I already ordered our copies for 2026! 

We did some food shopping, MB had turkeys, we'll pick up ours next weekend.

We're working today, patching up the corner of the workshop.

We're getting the old dead tractor and a couple of old push mowers out of the barn in preps to put the newer tractors in there. We re-arranged moving the quad sideways so we had more room in the barn so we can fit the two tractors inside. We managed to get the old tractor onto a trailer to get it to the dump.   I need to get the gas and oil out of the two push mowers. 

Brought the snowblower up to the house from the barn, it started right up on the third pull! 

The cottontail rabbit and a raccoon came into the deer yard Saturday night

We picked up a small pot roast we'll cook up for Sunday, we're putting lights on the Christmas tree, it's supposed to RAIN! 

Pigeons and crows have been regulars out at the Deer yard lately

The deer did not come in Saturday evening, very odd. The doe and her two fawns did come in just before dark on Sunday, they are growing like weeds.

The madness of modernity has made the simple life wildly attractive. It calls us back to nature, connection, and being human.

We put the lights on the Xmas tree Sunday, I turned the tree while rose laced the lights through the branches, it looks great!  Rose wants to put up a second tree too.  Rose has been looking online for just the right ornaments.

Pot roast dinner was awesome, perfect for a dreary Sunday evening.  I added mushrooms to the usual roast, big honkin' chunks of carrot, sweet onions and new potatoes to round it out.

Monday I noticed my Solar setup Smart Shunt monitor connected to my battery bank and the solar array wasn't coming up on my monitor, went to the basement to take a look and found the 12v LED light I had there so I could see what I was doing wouldn't light up, thought well that's weird...  Something drained my batteries way down, I got the charger hooked up to one and it's charging now...

 

Tuesday VETERANS DAY 2025 Thank you for your service!

 

I CALL FIRST SNOW!  We had flurries Tuesday 11/11 at 9:30AM!

Rose worked on the Christmas tree putting garland on,  I worked on a solar array power issue, think I have the issue resolved.

I let the dogs out at 6:30pm the air was crisp and cold, winter's here folks.

Five Deer came into the deer yard on Monday evening, the herd is growing.

5 minutes earlier the Coyote ran through 

Massive CME (coronal mass ejection) from the sun today, they are rating this one a 4 out of 5 on the scale that measures the CMEs.  Rose and I went out to see the Northern lights spectacle it was damned cold out, 31 degrees and windy!  A small area of green was visible on the northern horizon, 15 minutes later a much larger section of the skyline was red and green.  Wednesday night its supposed to be peak viewing!  This was the third day in a row that the Sun has unleashed an X-class flare…

Pic from my phone in the front yard facing North the greens with red fading in and out.

The reds started moments later

Later the horizon greened up

We'll go out to look again for the Northern lights Wednesday evening

Wednesday, it's trash day, noticed the Poplar trees have finally lost 99% of their leaves.

It's supposed to SNOW by 8:30AM Wednesday morning, we didn't see any...

Rose has been pulling out trugs of Christmas stuff, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here, little by little! 

Wednesday evening around 6pm a Raccoon and the Coyote were out in the deer yard, coyote followed him out if the yard.

Worked on the solar system for a while, both batteries are charged now!

Went out around Wednesday 8pm, nope, no northern lights tonight.  

The fox came in at 9:30 PM Wednesday evening, something spooked him. 

I checked for northern lights again at 4:30am, skunk patrol it was spitting snow and was cloudy.  I did see the cottontail rabbit though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On November 13, 1789, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin wrote: “…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” 

“Obamacare premiums are set to soar by 26% next year — clear proof of what Republicans have been saying from the start. Democrats built the law on government subsidies and false promises, not affordability or competition.” —Matt Margolis 

The truth is simple: the ACA failed. It drove up premiums, strangled competition, and left millions paying more for less. 

Now, with premium tax credits set to expire by December 31, 2025, Democrats are panicking. 

Their healthcare “achievement” is collapsing under its own weight, and Trump’s reforms threaten to expose just how deep the failures run.

 

The gatekeepers for the woke communist movement are obviously Democrat politicians and media influencers. They have been consistently and actively encouraging mass hysteria and violence. They have used media spin to protect activist groups like Antifa, pretending that such organizations don’t exist. Whenever activists cause harm or death, the media and political leaders immediately move to defend that action as if it was justified.

When asked why Democrats are continuing down the path of militancy, their response is that Donald Trump is a “dictator and a fascist.” Yet, these same people can’t seem to come up with a single legitimate example of HOW Trump is acting like a dictator.

Deportations of illegal immigrants? Most countries on Earth have basic immigration laws and enforce them much more harshly than the Trump Administration does. Cuts to federal programs and employees? The President is perfectly within his power of office to reduce waste in the federal government. How about using the National Guard in US cities? Democrat leaders in those cities have aided violent activists, helping to disrupt ICE operations while threatening the lives of agents. If they don’t want the National Guard in their cities they should stop waging war on immigration officials.

From Trump’s remodeling of the White House ballroom to the US troops countering drug smugglers, everything Trump does is blown out of proportion by Democrats into an “end of democracy” scenario. Their useful-idiot followers then take these claims as permission to create even more turmoil.

The government shutdown in particular is becoming a nexus point for this agenda. The Senate needs only five Democrat votes to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, but Democrats refuse to see reason. Meanwhile, they are blaming Republicans for the consequences of the shutdown, specifically seeking public pain as leverage over conservatives.

Trump is already being held accountable for a prolonged shutdown of EBT. The Democrats know their audience well. They know that the free-stuff army is entitled, vicious and easy to manipulate

The only possible counter to that is to dump the filibuster, pass the CR, and then leave it dumped. Push all twelve budget bills through with all the defunding of all the crap programs and agencies. Get rid of unnecessary Departments, overturn roadblocks and rules. Make everyone in the federal government outside the Judiciary and Legislative branches answerable to the president. No independent taxpayer-funded agencies, and while you’re at it, there’s no such thing as an NGO if it gets money from the government. Fix it. 

For the political left, any disagreement with the majority leads to immediate ostracism. The hive mind does not tolerate individual rebellion. Only the gatekeepers can change the mindset or the mission of the mob.  It is strange then that this dichotomy has resulted in conservatives, with their values of liberty and independence, seeking order. Meanwhile, leftists, in their Orwellian uniformity of thought, seek chaos and the deconstruction of civilization. You would think the relationship would be reversed, but this is the way it has always been. 

Danish cattle reportedly dying in droves after government mandated a methane inhibitor "Bovaer" to re-engineer cow farts

Pre-Biden we went from 17 million on SNAP benefit to 41 million on SNAP benefits in this country!

Non Compos Mentis "Non compos mentis" is a Latin term meaning "not of sound mind," used in legal contexts to describe individuals who are unable to make rational decisions due to mental incapacity. 
“I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away healthcare for 17 million Americans, and I hope you’re really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can’t even treat you for it. I hope that you die in the street like a dog. … One day, you’re going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. … You are the worst piece of s**t I have ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at. … God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets because I will make you regret it. F**k you. I hope you die.” —Helena city commissioner candidate Haley McKnight to Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy 

Either illegal immigrants are getting healthcare benefits or they’re not. In this case, two things cannot be true at the same time. Despite that, Democrats are still trying to claim that illegal immigrants are not getting healthcare benefits when they, in fact, are. And the Democrat Party wants it to happen. Here’s the receipt. The illegal immigrant burden on our healthcare system is monstrous, and the Democrats have been unashamedly defrauding the American people by the billions of dollars to fund it.

How exactly are they pulling off this heist? Until the Republican Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law earlier this year, Democrats employed various methods to get away with pilfering American taxpayers’ pockets. This is exactly why the Democrats are keeping the government shut down — because the OBBA makes it more difficult for them to give out “free” stuff to people who are not citizens of this country.

Zohran Mamdani's victory speech tonight was reminiscent of something you would expect to hear from a dictator like Fidel Castro, not the Mayor of NYC.  "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no problem to small for government to care about"