Nor'Easter and first frost

Thursday there was an all grey cat out in the deer yard hunting, don't know whose cat it is. 

Before it started raining Saturday I collected a good size bowl of acorns for the deer and turkeys.

I heard on the radio Friday that there 100 Bald Eagles born in NH in 2026!

Rose and moved 30 bags of pellets from the pallets to the dog house porch.  We've been burning the pellet stove in the mornings for the past week.

We went through the workshop, barn, and basement re-baiting mouse traps and putting out glue traps.  Attic, trailer and shed done too.

Today's Oil Price: $5.699

 

SNOW TOTALS BY STATE,   Too soon???

 

 

 

We're starting to see stinkbugs around, the annual ladybug invasion hasn't started yet.

Rose and I went to breakfast at Pressed in Bedford, so good!

What is it with German Shepherds and heating vents?  Rose was vacuuming out the forced air heating vents today, previously Zebulon walked up to the vent Rose was vacuuming and dropped his ball right into the vent, and today I kicked Bullet out of the office so Rose could finish the large intake vent there, Bullet walks back into the office and drops a 3" hard plastic ball into that vent, down the rabbit hole it went never to see the light of day, sheesh...

Tuesday, and finally, we have some sun, it's been rainy for the last 3 days.

"In a labyrinth, there's only one path... and it always ends the same way." 

Jarrod's 44th birthday today, Oct 1st

 

Fall colors are starting to brighten up we're still a week or two away from peak.

 

I picked up a squash pie Thursday while at Market Basket, yum! 

 

We went to Lowes last weekend, Halloween and Christmas displays side by side! 

Supposedly, even with the recent 3 days of rain NH is still in a drought!

 

I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people. -John Wayne 

 

We finished the trim on the house, getting cracks filled and ready for winter

 

I mowed the yard short so that the leaves would be easier to rake and leaf blow.

 

Rose walked the yard ensuring we had the radio fence flags (The BAD Flags) ready around the perimeter of the house to start training Bullet to the radio fence. He did great, then we let Winston out at the same time, a couple of tense moments when we'd lose sight of them but overall he did great, not wanting to stray far from us.

 

We're off to celebrate Jarrod's Birthday Sunday! 

 

SAE 5W-20 motor oil is now $10 a quart!

 

Market Basket hamburger was $9.81 for 1 1/4 LB of hamburger!  No meatloaf for you!

 

GREEN SUPREME Pellets from Home Depot are awesome! Very low ash, almost no clickers, we bought 10 bags the end of last year and liked them in our pellet stove. We bought 3 pallets this year to hopefully get us through this heating season.

FROST tonight ugh.  Rose has all the houseplants in so were ready for it.

I have the propane tank hood installed, I'll have to take it off to make the final connections to the two 100lb tanks for the generator.

32 degrees this morning, the field is frosted.

Rose has been working on the front of the house flower beds, clearing away the dead debris.

 

Rose has a new LED light project a 4' tall star she'll put up on the back of the house.  She has a set of LED Lights she ran crisscrossed all over the front of the now painted white star. 

Today's Oil Price is still $5.699 per Gallon

 

I replaced the furnace and house water filters

 

I put out the trash on Thursday, later sitting at my desk I saw a black speck on the back of my finger, it was moving, quickly grabbing a magnifier looked at the speck, it was a TICK, a tiny nymph tick. I pinched it between my fingers and went to the kitchen, grabbed the tweezers and cooked the little bugger over the stove burner.  It most likely hitched a ride on one of the dogs, or was in the grass as I'd walked to the barn to take the trash out. That's the 1st tick we've seen since we got Bullet 2 months ago. 

Our Pellet Stove is running almost every morning taking the chill off the house. 

 

Friday I'm taking the day off to get the 100# propane tanks connected to the generator. After the obligatory trip to Ace hardware to get a brass fitting I didn't have, it's done, I checked all the fittings for leaks and ran the Genny for about 1/2 an hour.

 

Rose finished cleaning up the Rose circle in the front yard, goodbye roses and perennials until next year.  I took two trailer loads of what she trimmed, and pulled out of the beds out to the field.

 

I pulled the two field cameras out of the main deer yard and mounted them in the winter deer yard. I'll need to change the batteries before the snow flies.

  

We'll shut down the basement dehumidifier this weekend.

 

Halloween's a comin! 

Saturday we filled a void under the front porch with concrete, using the remainder of the concrete to fill a hole in the barn porch.  We are putting up Christmas lights this weekend because winter is coming, we hung up the star Rose made on the back of the house and a wreath on the front.  Rose tested the lights and they all worked!

 

"Bullet" our 2 year old German Shepherd rescue always keep a close eye on us, he'll run around the corner of the house but runs back in short order to check on our progress with whatever project we're working on. 

James came over, we went out for dinner at the Cowboy Cantina, food was OK.

 

I watched the last half of John Wick 4, awesome, kick ass, shoot 'em up, action film!

 

Beautiful sunrise Sunday morning! 

 

Black and White cat out in the deer yard checking out the grain. 

 

 

 

 

Stay safe out there and enjoy the weekend! 

 

 

 

 

 

The positives that have been accomplished in less than two years are remarkable, and they are legion. So much good has been done in the world, and truly for the average citizen, it’s hard to believe. The leftist media has hidden these:

•     A secure border
•     Criminals being deported
•     A massive drop in violent crime
•     Severe fraud being exposed/stopped
•     DEI halted
•     University bias uncovered
•     Deep-state government corruption halted
•     Vote fraud revealed and curtailed (not enough John Thune)
•     Real wages up
•     Permanent tax cuts
•     Stock market up
•     An economy prepped for growth
•     IRA valuations up
•     IRAs for children established
•     Government jobs down, private sector jobs up
•     Manufacturing rebounding
•     Huge investments in American business
•     The U.S. energy sector unleashed
•     Leftist-leaning NGO funding destroyed
•     Lawfare beat-down
•     Leftist communism exposed and fought
•     Leftist/Jihadism connection exposed
•     NATO increasing defense spending
•     The Greenland deal
•     The Venezuela liberation
•     Panama Canal reset
•     Iran neutered
•     Cuba teetering
•     China backpedaling/faltering
•     Peace through strength, ending eight wars
•     Beginning the Golden Dome defense
•     The world order totally reshaped
•     MAHA helping restore food safety
•     MAHA bringing sanity to the pharmaceutical lobby
•     Prescription drug prices down.
•     Entrepreneurs encouraged
•     Massive deregulation
•     Anti-Christian bias targeted
•     Men out of women’s sports and locker rooms.
•     Preventing sex trafficking, saving trafficked children
•     Dealing with the cartels, drug lords and pushers

And much more. 99% totally positive. A staggering list in two years. One that should be celebrated, lauded, applauded, and supported. Splashed across every media outlet.

We’ve never seen anything like this. We’ve never had it this good. We elected an administration that has performed a regenerative miracle for our country and its citizens. George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were great Presidents with great achievements. We are seeing that kind of greatness today. A country turning around. It’s possible to live life proudly as an American again. We’ve been lifted from the Hell that globalists and corrupt politicians from within and without wanted for us. And we’re just getting started. Because the best is yet to come. 

• If you have small issues you don’t care for, I do too, but please look at the list of accomplishments above. Please compare. Whatever your complaints, remember all the good that has been done. Because the diabolical left will undo it as much as possible if they win these midterms. Small issues don’t count when genuinely great things are happening in droves. 

Until the midterms, we will be watching a massively coordinated attack denigrating all the good that has happened since Trump won in 2024. A combination of the leftist media and apostate “right-leaning” influencers will try to sell us just how awful Trump has been, so the wonderful communists, er, Democrats can ruin us once again. It will be hard to stomach. 

"I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the democratic party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit." —Hasan Piker, DSA 

And if none of that avails — which it won’t — the Dems’ll call out their ground troops, Antifa, BLM, Free Palestine, LGBTQ2S+, the furious transsexuals, the hysterical cat ladies, and suchlike to make a giant ruckus so as to provoke the president to invoke emergency powers to quell the mayhem. And then they’ll point at Mr. Trump shrieking, “See! Tyrant!”

Chuck Schumer is such a shithead. Everybody knows that he intends for the Democratic Party to inflict lawfare and commit warfare on the midterm election (in that order), and hence on the American people, behind an Alinsky-grade cloud of gaslight claiming the other side is doing it.

Climate reporters strangely quiet as Atlantic reaches fall with zero hurricanes for the first time in 112 years.

• 112 years of data, and this is the first year with no recorded hurricanes before the start of fall in the Atlantic basin. (Yes, I know there is currently a category 5 hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean. That isn't part of this record.) 

 

“We didn’t need another reason to understand that the Left must be defeated, but we got one anyway. A new and SHOCKING poll shows that many Democrat voters are willing to remove President Trump by any means necessary — whether by impeachment, invoking the 25th Amendment, passing away from natural causes, by a military coup, or being assassinated at a rally.”

American taxpayers would face a net fiscal burden of over $350,000 per household in the next decade if the Democratic Socialists of America’s top policies were adopted, according to a report released Oct. 1 by President Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers.

 

2026 Hopkington FAIR!

We went to the Hopkington fair on Saturday Sept 5th, just before we left I'd checked the weather, it said we'd get a 4 minute shower.  We were there around 5PM and were there an hour or so and it started to rain pretty heavy, everyone was scurrying to get out of there. I checked the weather on my phone and it said it would now rain until 9pm...  We still had a good time, Rose had a sausage, pepper and onion sub ($15), I had a pepper-burger ($10) yikes but so good though.

We stopped over to see Mom and Dad with James and Jason "the boys" on Sunday

Bullet and Winston are getting along so good!

51 Degrees Monday Morning! It's cooling off that's for sure

The boys came over for a cookout on Monday! 

Jason went back to NJ on Tuesday he made it back, less traffic than he encountered on the way up here.

Tuesday and Wednesday the hummingbirds were still here, by Thursday they were gone. 

We have a couple deer coming into the yard now.

Looks like they're coming to put on our new roof on Saturday, they think they can do it in a day!  They did, finishing up around 7PM.

It's really starting to look like fall around here!

One or our apple trees went crazy and produced so many apples looking more like bunching tomatoes there are so many, it's a yellow delicious variety we think, they are small, a bit gnarly, but so abundant we'll have to do something with them!  I'll check on the other apple trees too while I'm at it.

 

A powerful tribute to the victims and heroes of September 11th begins tonight at the top of Mount Washington.

• The "Honor Summit" will send two beams of light into the night sky from the summit of New England's highest peak—similar to the iconic beams displayed each year in New York City at Ground Zero.
• The tribute will run from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. tonight and each night through Saturday.
• Organizers say the beams could be visible from as far as 135 miles away on a clear night, creating a sweeping reminder of the lives lost and the heroes who responded on September 11th.

Friday we poured the concrete platform for the propane tanks we use to run the generator. 

Saturday the roofers showed up at 7AM and finished up with the roof install around 6:30PM the roof looks great!  There was a lot of scrap plywood pieces from the job, a bunch of 1/2 and 1/4 sheets of plywood, we saved them all from the dumpster, now what will we build?

Sunday was a wash out, Rose went food shopping, apparently everyone else had the same idea she said the register lines were crazy, I stayed home nursing my knee.

Tuesday 4AM it was 42 degrees, brr, 62 in the house, time to get the pellet stove cleaned and running in the morning.

• Rose saw a Bald Eagle Tuesday in the back yard!  So cool! 

FALL FOLIAGE MAP  Use the slider at the bottom of the map.

Beautiful sunrise Wednesday morning

We're seeing butterflies, Monarch's and Swallowtails headed south  

We're still knee deep in getting ready for winter, we need to get a plow company still, sand barrels out, and a few projects we just haven't gotten too yet!  

Gas is crazy out there $4.49 at one station, we filled (4) 5 gallon jugs last night $90.17 to fill just those 4 up!  Yikes.  And 4 more to go, we try to have 8 jugs on hand for snow equipment, mowing, and generator duty.

Our oil company isn't publishing fuel oil plans yet... (waiting for the price to go up) Last time we called it was $4.99 a gallon!  Today, Thursday Sept 17th it's $5.699. It's gonna be an expensive heating oil season! 

Last I looked our pond and therefore my well level is high.

I'm ready to give in to retirement!  Thinking January!

Mortgage rates are up again!

• Zillow / Yahoo Finance: 7.00%
• Better Mortgage (settled index): 7.22%
• Money.com: 7.00% APR (average)
• Bankrate: 7.02% national average
• Wall Street Journal (via Bankrate data): 7.02%

We've been talking about all of the special dogs we've had over the years. Good times..good dogs ...good memories.  Some really special dogs. Our amazing companions over the years: Jake and Midnight, Magic, Chloe, Cooper, Gordon, Harley, Zebulon, Hannah, Winston, Bullet! Some pretty special rescues in that mix! 

One of the roof returns (pigeon boxes) was showing some rot and carpenter ant damage after 130 years I guess it's to be expected. 

Rose was caulking some of the cracks at the peak of the roof that showed up during the re-roofing of the house. 

With the concrete pad now cured, I got the two 100 pound propane tanks up unto the platform, I'll look to get the hood installed, tanks connected to the regulator and hose run to the generator in the shed.

I have a lot of shrub trimming to do the bushes get out of hand so fast!

We're recharging/replacing batteries in cameras, and various lights in sheds in preps for colder weather coming.

Saturday we picked up a few things at the grocery store, a pumpkin for carving, and a couple of Mums for the walkway.

Sunday: Today's the day, deep cleaning of the pellet stove!  It'll be fun, I'm used to the stove now, every time I clean it out it gets a little easier, just in time too, it's cold in the mornings 46 degrees.  Rose worked on putting all her teapots back on the shelves that she'd pulled down during the roofing. It's done, and the pellet stove fired right up.

We finished filling up (8) 5 gallon gasoline jugs we store for the generators, snowblower, and lawnmowers, $180 later we're set for winter. 

Rose has almost finished the teapot shelf in the dining room, all sparkling clean and gleaming!

IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF FALL! 

We're off to the Vet Wednesday, Bullet for his booster shots and Winston has a bump on his nose that we'll get checked out.  The two dogs together are a handful, they did well though!  Winston's nose bump she wasn't worried about, we'll put Bacitracin on it and watch it over the next month.

39 degrees when I woke up this morning! Brr, I fired up the pellet stove to take the chill off.

Gas prices dropped a bit back down to $4.21 a gallon by Wednesday 9/23

We've got a Nor'easter headed our way for Friday night thru Sunday, doesn't sound like it'll be to bad, time will tell. 

The bad weather turned up like an uninvited guest full of booze and bad manners.

Hurricanes lowest level in the Atlantic in over 100 years!! 

We've got a Nor'easter headed our way, we're just about ready! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new survey from the Center for Strategic Politics found that 59 percent of Democrats would favor a military coup to remove President Donald Trump from office. All it took was four years out of power for these Democratic voters to embrace a coup d'état to negate the results of the last election. What is particularly chilling is that many of these voters still portray themselves as defending democracy by calling for a military takeover.  

"I dunno, but if I were president and the poverty rate dropped to the LOWEST RATE ON RECORD, I might make a big deal out of it — a lot bigger deal than the Trump White House is making,"

Listen, I’m not blind to President Donald Trump’s successes, nor am I ignorant of his failures and excesses. But I am thankful for his unconventional approach to governance. I think he has made some mistakes while pursuing the right objectives, winning some and losing some, but most of which are successful resets and long-term actions that get lost in the leftist propaganda mill that runs 24/7/365.  The media will do anything and everything to minimize the positives and amplify the negatives. 

Wasn’t it CNN and MSNBC who didn’t cover the Thursday night Trump press conference to America and now they are crying because they want to report on Trump. Can’t have it both ways you idiots.

Do You Remember When Old Joe Biden Cut Credentials to 440 White House Journalists?… The DC Hacks Didn’t Cry Back Then 

Most Americans have never experienced that kind of speed. They’ve known recessions, certainly—the technical kind, the temporary kind, the kind that ends with rebounding markets and analysts declaring victory. They’ve never known a genuine crisis, the sort that grinds forward for years, rewriting the social contract so gradually that each degradation feels like common sense by the time it arrives. The sort that leaves permanent scars.

We may be closer than we think. Not because of prophecy, but because of arithmetic. Debt structures, demographic shifts, and institutional fragilities have accumulated to levels that historical precedent suggests are difficult to sustain. The question is not whether stress will come, but whether those experiencing it will recognize the tremors before they’re already falling. 

The Democratic Chicken — or the Socialist Egg?
Who created whom? The answer is demonstrably clear: Democrats radicalized themselves.

The US DEPT CLOCK https://usdebtclock.org/ 

Democrats... Free health care. Free child care. Free college. Debt forgiveness. Housing assistance. Food assistance. The list changes with the election; the appeal doesn't. There is something you want, and we will find a way to make somebody else pay for it.

• None of it is free, of course. Somebody always receives the bill, whether it lands on the taxpayer, the consumer, or the next generation. But that isn't what the voter hears when a politician says "free." The voter hears exactly what the word says: Free. 

I know some of you won't get this, still funny though!

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