And it's March 1st

Quick get to the store for Bread and Milk, save yourselves. There's a Blizzard coming in on Monday expecting 10-15" of snow here.  Predicting 25+ MPH winds, white out conditions!  Yet another snowpocalypse!

Work was cancelled last Monday! 

Woke up Monday morning to 3-4" on the ground, winds picking up. Jarrod called around 6AM to see if we thought we'd need plowing at some point Monday, he's off work today too.

Yesterday marked one of the most significant Olympic victories for the United States: Team USA defeated Canada to win the gold medal in hockey. 

By noontime the winds were blowing pretty good, we ended up with a good 8-9" of snow.  Rose and I snowblowed the deeryard, the front yard and driveway.

Boston Globe postpones printing of paper for first time in 153 years, due to blizzard 

Six planets in the solar system are going to align in the western sky just after sunset. Those planets will include Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

• The latter two planets, Uranus and Neptune, will need binoculars or a telescope to be seen. The others will all be visible with the naked eye.
• This alignment of six planets is already moving close to its position. The best alignment date will be Saturday, February 28. From Earth’s perspective, the six planets will not be in a perfect straight line, yet will appear close together. 

Loyalty doesn't always shout.

Sometimes, it remains still… even if staying might cost it its life.

Because true love isn't an emotion.

It's a decision.

More snow and rain in the forecast Wednesday it started about 6AM.  Not much about an inch.

Thursday evening; "did you see that" Rose said staring out the dining room windows into the darkness, I stared out, the moonlight reflecting off the snow, shadows and light, something moved fast across my view, was that it? "There Rose said, see 'em?" I saw something, the warped window glass distorts your vision, playing tricks, then there were two shapes not moving, just standing there.  I stared for a while and slowly into the twilight the shapes morphed and appeared to move, barely but I saw it this time.  The glass messes with your eyes making you doubt what you see when you look. There were definitely two figures in the darkness swaying slowly, I could use more moonlight, it was deer, not the cryptids my mind had imagined.  Maybe I've been reading too much horror lately?

 

                                                     For Rose!

Friday evening before it got dark I went out to the edge of the deer yard with a shovel and started clearing the snow off the solar panels, there was two feet of snow piled up at the base of the panels, with several inches covering the panels. I went back into the house, pulled up my solar monitor and the panels were once again producing power. 

It's Saturday morning 2/28, two deer came in to the deer yard for a snack before bedding down for the day.  Rose happened to see them marching through the 18+ inches of snow out in the field.  Normally I receive alerts on my phone that a deer is out there, but I need to replace the Lithium batteries in the two camera's in the yard today both cams are dead until I do.

Rose has plastic up, she finished cutting in around the edges with primer on Friday, priming the kitchen ceiling for paint.

Saturday it's supposed to be 51 degrees today. Rose primed the 2nd half of the kitchen.

I changed the batteries in the two deer yards.  Snow was deep!

 A bunch of deer came in Saturday evening!

Sunday it's Pellet stove cleaning day today too.  And it's snowing!

 

 

 

WAR with IRAN has started! Iran has launched retaliatory missile strikes against Israel hours after coordinated attacks by the United States and Israel on key strategic targets inside the Islamic Republic.

On Saturday, Israel confirmed it had launched a pre-emptive strike on Iranian territory, joined by a broader U.S. military offensive targeting military and nuclear sites across Tehran and other major cities, including areas near the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

While President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday night delivering a powerful, commanding State of the Union address that laid out a vision for a prosperous and secure America, the radical Left was busy hosting what can only be described as a fever-dream circus at the National Press Club.

• While the adults were discussing policy, the “State of the Swamp” counter-event, hosted by the anti-Trump group Defiance.org, descended into a literal “Animal House” scenario.
• The optics weren’t just bad; they were humiliating.
• The event, hosted by the anti-Trump group Defiance.org, featured a “who’s who” of people the American electorate rejected or tuned out years ago.
•     Robert De Niro: The actor, who seems unable to speak without veering into a scripted rage, called the President a “lunatic” and claimed the country is “imploding.”
•     The Media Gaslighters: Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, and Mehdi Hasan were all in attendance, presumably to console each other over their plummeting relevance.
•     The ‘Lawfare’ Brigade: George Conway and Glenn Kirschner showed up to continue their endless, failed predictions of the President’s “imminent” demise.
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Susan Rice’s stark warning to the other half of the country that is not crazy. Her message to Trump supporters: We’re coming after you when we’re back in power. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”  It telegraphed the fear running through the Lefty-left that their crimes against the country are being tallied, carefully catalogued, and presented to a grand jury in Florida. The crimes are bundled as a multifaceted conspiracy to overthrow the US government. Pretty serious. Sedition and Treason. Susan Rice knows what she (and others) did.

Seriously, both my wife and I were joking about this the other day. Liberals will go on and on about women's rights, and then insist that men be allowed in women's sports, locker rooms, and prisons. They will scream about terrorism just before they call people Nazis, mime shooting people in the neck, and cheer on assassinations. 

The latest absurdity is the claim that voter ID is Jim Crow 2.0 and the claim that women are incapable of getting IDs. 

This, in a world where, by laws that Democrats have passed, it's impossible to do just about anything else aside from voting without an ID. No bank accounts, housing, jobs, travel (you need a DL to drive and a RealID to fly), leave the country when you decamp to Canada or Ireland, buy alcohol, or God knows what. 

Democrats also hand out IDs to illegals like they are Obamaphones, allowing them to kill people on the roads in massive trucks, totally untrained. 

Apparently, in New York City, you cannot shovel snow with several forms of ID, passport photos, and a Social Security card. No doubt this is a union rule or something, even if you are doing it for free, since you are impinging on their overtime.  

The LARGEST vaccine–dementia study ever conducted (n=13.3 million) found common vaccines dose-dependently increase risk of dementia/Alzheimer’s for a DECADE. A MAJOR Cleveland Clinic study (n=53,402) found −27% flu shot effectiveness during 2024–25 flu season.

• Unvaccinated Are the Healthiest People According to Cohort Study Looking at “Unvaccinated” Americans “There are approx 100,000 adults in America who’ve never received a vaccine in their life…the data is clear, showing the unvaccinated are the healthiest people 

Thanks to a lawsuit against TSA, disturbing new details are emerging about how illegals without traditional ID were allowed to board commercial flights during the Biden era. And buried inside the paperwork is the detail that has many Americans downright furious.

• According to the lawsuit and supporting documents, illegals who were flagged as sex offenders were able to travel by presenting official paperwork related to their sex offender status.
• Yep. Let that sink in for a moment. The Biden regime welcomed in and carted around illegals who were known sex offenders.
• At a time when Americans are routinely told air travel security is tighter than ever, the idea that illegal sex offenders could waltz onto commercial flights using administrative documents is raising even more serious concerns about basic public safety and the rights of American citizens.
• Why would any sane government do this to its people? The only rational explanation is what many Americans have suspected all along: this was about creating a new voting bloc, no matter the cost.
• Experts across cable news and immigration policy circles have argued that the Biden regime’s approach was driven by the belief that mass migration could reshape the electorate. Of course, the regime has strongly denied that, but the perception has taken hold, and for many Americans, not without reason.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz wants you to know he is furious about the massive fraud scandal plaguing his state. He also wants you to know that the federal government’s efforts to do something about it amount to political punishment. He delivered both messages at the same press conference on Thursday, apparently without noticing the contradiction.

 

 

 

February 2026

 

I knocked a lot of the huge icicles off the house, this weekend I'll put some salt pucks up near the edges of the roof to melt the ice dams in strategic places. 

We're watching BEAST GAMES on Prime, Beast Games follows 1,000 contestants—the largest cast for a reality show—as they compete for $5 million, advertised as the largest single cash prize in reality television history.very similar concept to the SQUID GAMES series show we watched 2021-2025.

Rose has been busy painting the kitchen ceiling, it's looking great. We picked up some ceiling paint that goes on pink then turns white.

We put more rock salt on the roof edges trying to melt a path for the water to go.

Friday Feb. 20th, we've got more snow coming in, we ended up with6-8 on Friday-Saturdays storm. And now they're saying another 4-8" wallop on Monday coming in.

Homesteading isn’t a brand. It's not a costume.  It was simply people like me learning how to do stuff. People trying to feed their families in a more human way than stale, industrial life had ever offered. People resurrecting old skills and sharing what worked—not because it was trending, but because it woke something in them that had been sleeping for a long time. It’s seasonal. It’s complicated. It’s monotonous. It’s one step forward and three steps back. It’s failed loaves of bread and storm-torn vegetable plants. Every once in a while it’s stunningly aesthetic with all the warm-and-fuzzy-feels. But the rest of the time, it’s gritty and dull and raw.

More Snow, I'm tired of snow blowing the stuff!

Sunday Sunrise

 

Sunday/Monday another 4-8" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not too long ago, Texas State Representative Gene Wu (D-Houston), chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, jumped the shark to say out loud what is usually left unsaid about the Democrat agenda:

• The day the Latino, African American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone.
• The same unapologetic left-wing weaponization of illegal immigration is occurring in Europe. Sheer numbers there have already radically changed the demography—and political constituencies—of the continent. 

Word of the day:  kak·is·toc·racy
[kakɪˈstɒkrəsi]
kakistocracy (noun)
kakistocracies (plural noun)
    Government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state:
        "the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy"
    A state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens:
        "the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"
        "the man in the street must share part of the blame for allowing such a kakistocracy to entrench itself" 

And here’s where it gets even more inconvenient for the Democrat talking points:
    95% of Republicans support voter ID laws
    71% of Democrats support voter ID laws
    85% of White voters support voter ID laws
    82% of Latino voters support voter ID laws
    76% of Black voters support voter ID laws
 

VANCE: "AOC is somebody who doesn't know what she actually thinks. Politicians are given lines and when you ask them to go outside the lines they're given, they fall apart... This is a person who is mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her." 

Is the weather warmer? That is your fault. Is the weather colder? That is also your fault. Better give up all your freedoms, pay more taxes, live in the pods and eat the bugs. 

 

Weekend Winter Wallop

Today we say goodbye to January...maybe February will be better!  

 Saturday temp was 0.9 degrees this morning.  Feels like -22 degrees.

 

Our Weekend Winter Wallop, 12-18" of snow is expected!

 

I hope everyone has prepared for this bad storm, it runs from Texas, all the way up to our neck of the woods. They’re calling for snow, freezing rain, and up to 3 inches of ice in some areas of the country that'll break power lines, trees and more, Ouch. Are you ready for it? This may mean long power outages, dangerous driving conditions, etc. Be sure you have a way to keep warm without electricity, have plenty of water stored up, we've got jugs and pans of water on the wood stove in the kitchen in case we lose power. 

We stopped over Mom & Dads on Saturday, Lisa was over making cookies, they were good! She was making Mom & Dad a Tuna casserole! 

Well it's Sunday 1/25, we have a bunch of little stuff to do before the snow starts  around 10:30AM. Deer corn into barrels, a bag of dog food to bring in, and ensure the cars are in a good spot in the front.  Rose has us well prepared for a possible power outage, all the LED lights charged, water available, coffee made up, portable power generators ready, flashlights charged and ready.  We keep the kitchen cupboards open to we don't end up with frozen cans of soup and vegetables all splitting open.

We're running the oil furnace so the basement stays above freezing.

Sunday morning the news stations are still saying 12-18" this'll be fun!  We got around 20" of snow

10AM the town issued a town-wide street parking ban. 

By 10:30 we had the dog food in, bird seed and corn barrels filled, trash to the barn and deer block out in the deer-yard, and my car in a good spot for snow clean-up.  Let the snowpocalypse begin! We're done outside it is bitter cold out there!

It snowed like crazy all day and was still snowing at midnight when I went to bed.

Jarrod stopped Sunday night to plow the front yard for us likely saving us several hours of snowblowing.

Work cancelled first shift on Monday, good thing it's a mess out there.

While Jarrod and I were plowing the front yard out, what looked to be my plow guy drove by, I called our plow guys house and left him a message that we still wanted him to plow the driveway.  His wife Jess texted us back and let us know that Dave had passed away last week, his cancer had come back and after he plowed us out last week he went to the hospital and passed away shortly thereafter.  It's a sad day, he was a great guy, I enjoyed our conversations in the driveway.  We texted his wife Jess and offered to help with their animals so she could got out to take care of stuff.

Jarrod texted me Monday morning to see when we wanted him to come back again.  We agreed on mid afternoon, I gotta get myself a truck with a plow. 

I need to clear off Roses car still.  I'd cleared mine to move it earlier but still need to finish it.

Wednesday morning -7.5 degrees... ugh, to damned cold to go down to the barn to put the trash out for sure.  Grateful there's no wind, we're watching the dogs closely this morning.

Snowmageddon Continues: Another Major Storm Could Slam the East Coast This Weekend.  Hah it's going to miss us, Yay!

“Come closer,” the fire says. “Slow down. Stay awhile.”

Minus 9 degrees Thursday morning, brr.

Friday I got my car inspected, Rose's will get done next week. 

We're making our chili this weekend, we'll big batch it so we have some for the coming months.  Rose bought a big roast we cubed up and 3 or so pounds of ground beef, our tomatoes, the house will smell great!

I need to clean the pellet stove Saturday, and do a bit more driveway cleanup.

The chili started cooking at 9AM and it simmered all day Saturday, all the preps Rose did Friday paid off, it was so fast and easy to throw together, we added spices, finally the ground beef, rose added the beans, and we topped the pot off with a couple more cans of tomato then more beans before we declared it done. I put the huge pot out in a snow bank to cool off so we could bag it up for the freezer on Sunday. When I went out at 8PM the pot had melted down to the handles. I had several bowls, it's a good batch! 

We bagged up 12 quart bags of chili, I had another bowl for lunch, so good!

Mom and Dad took us out to dinner at the Homestead Sunday evening! 

Winter, The Prairie Homestead : If you look at anything healthy—soil, trees, animals, human beings—there’s a rhythm. Expansion and contraction. Effort and rest. Growth then dormancy.

• And dormancy isn’t failure.
• It’s part of the design.
• Winter is not a mistake. It’s not a holding pattern. It’s not the world wasting time.
• It’s the world doing what it’s supposed to do.
• And this year, more than ever, I can feel myself being pulled toward that truth in a very specific way.
• The kind of darkness that whispers, You can stop now. You can be small for a while. You can be unfinished.
• Spring is intoxicating. It’s the first green blade pushing up through the mud like a tiny miracle. It’s the first calf on wobbly legs. It’s the moment you smell thawed earth and the sun touches your skin for the first time in months.
  
  
  • But I wonder if we’ve started treating spring like salvation, like it’s more valuable than its sister seasons.
  • As if, once we get to the next thing, the next season, the next version of ourselves, we’ll finally feel okay. 
  • So if you’re reading this and you’ve been feeling that itchy impatience—counting down the days, clenching your jaw through January, waiting for your “real life” to start…
    
    What if you didn’t?
    
    What if you let winter do what it was designed to do?
    
    Let some things go quiet on purpose.
    
    Stop trying to grow in every direction all the time.
    
    Sit with the darkness—and let it teach you something.
    
    Light will come. It always does. 

 

 

 

IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY!

 6 MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!

February 6th already, Superbowl Sunday is coming up this weekend!

SUPERBOWL SUNDAY!  We went over to Jarrod's to watch, Ribs, yum!  Pats got walloped!

Cold is cold but when the wind starts blowing, well that’s a whole different ballgame. 

 

 

 

 

 

Most people are only now realizing that — even in so-called “free” countries — government-sanctioned propaganda, censorship, and misdirection are pervasive and routine.  To the surprise of citizens taught to “trust the authorities,” the unvarnished truth is a bitter pill to swallow: Governments regularly employ psychologically manipulative, and even exploitative, forms of information warfare against their own citizens.  Politicians and generals tell lies to mobilize the American public for war.  Economists and central bankers tell lies to justify money-printing that robs from the middle class and rewards wealthy elites.  Government regulatory bodies tell lies about the safety of food and medicine before taking lucrative jobs inside the global food and pharmaceutical industries.  The Chamber of Commerce calls the offshoring of blue-collar jobs and the importation of slave-produced crap “free trade.” 

Voters did not elect Trump to manage decline. They elected him to fix things that were not working. That is why DOGE mattered. For a brief moment, it validated what Americans, particularly younger voters, already believed: that the federal government is bloated, corrupt, self-dealing, and largely insulated from consequences. Under-40 voters, the most disillusioned cohort by many measures, were the most supportive of DOGE, the most open to arrests for corruption, and the most likely to agree with the statement that “he who saves his country violates no laws” (57%). 

Here’s something else the media won’t tell you. 

Tennessee officials keep track of and report the number of crimes committed every year in the state by illegal aliens. The figures for 2025 were just released, and they are shocking. 

• Last year alone, illegal aliens from 119 different countries committed 2,183 violent offenses. Illegal aliens murdered 41 people. Illegal aliens committed 145 sexual offenses. Illegal aliens raped 11 children.
• Illegal aliens carjacked 966 victims. Illegal aliens kidnapped 40 people. Illegal aliens assaulted 66 police officers and first responders. All these crimes were committed in just one state in one year by people who never should have been here. 
• Because of the Democrat/media frenzy in Minneapolis, you know the names of two radical activists—Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But no one, other than family and friends, knows the names of the 41 victims murdered by illegal aliens in Tennessee.
• Democrats and their media allies won’t tell you about those 41 victims because they don’t care about them. They only care about keeping every illegal alien in America so they can become future Democrat voters, no matter how many Americans are robbed, raped, or murdered. 

Rather than lowering the temperature, the Democrats have doubled down and lied about these deaths, calling them “executions.” Make no mistake: These “executions” were the result of deranged, brainwashed leftists putting themselves in harm's way.

• Despite video evidence clearly showing Good struck an ICE agent with her car and Alex Pretti inserting himself into a law enforcement operation while armed – both recipes for disaster – the Left continues to peddle lies, putting agents simply trying to arrest the worst of the worst and protect American citizens in grave danger.
• Yesterday evening, new video footage was released that allegedly shows Alex Pretti, who had altercations with border patrol and law enforcement prior to his death, violently spitting at officers and kicking out one of their SUVs' taillights. There’s been absolute silence from the left-wing media who, like NBC News, have attempted to portray Pretti as an innocent ICU nurse with zero culpability.
• It’s time to restore law and order across the country and crush this opposition: Deport every single illegal possible.
• This mission will not succeed if we allow the radical Left and left-wing media to spread their false narratives. 

President Trump said in a statement earlier this week, “a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests going on in the streets.”

He further noted that Omar is under investigation by House Republicans, probing how she went from low-IQ Somali to multi-millionaire while serving in Congress. Omar, whose community has stolen billions of dollars from the American people, has reportedly gone from being worth  $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million now. 

“Follow the science” became the rallying cry throughout the darkest days of COVID. However, it turned out to be just a form of virtue signaling — a means to point out how much more culturally responsible some people felt they were compared to others. The point is that we should take “science” with a grain of salt. Failure to do so can lead to sketchy vaccines and horse medicine overdoses.

So, be sensible in the way you look at life, but try not to cling unduly to the things of science. Draw enlightened conclusions based upon the best data but then don’t get your feelings hurt if new information proves you wrong. 

It’s Gotten Worse: New MRC Study Shows Media Bias Against Trump Has Hit New High – More Than 9/10 at Times.

• Finally, while we cannot say that media bias has had no impact, it certainly has not proven decisive. After all, despite (because of?) relentless media attacks, Trump won two (three?) presidential elections.
• In short, imagine controlling ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MS NOW, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Hollywood, the universities, etc. — in other words, almost every major source of information and opinion in America — for decades. Then, imagine that you still failed to persuade a majority of voters — how awful must you be?
• Democrat media propagandists — at least in rare moments of honesty — must look in the mirror and ask themselves that question. And that has to rate as the brightest silver lining of all. 

"If local officials don't want ICE arresting criminal aliens at large in their communities, the solution is simple," Charles said.

• "Turn them over to us in a safe, controlled environment like a jail — instead of releasing them back onto the streets to victimize the neighborhoods where your children go to school, where your parents live, and where families worship, shop, and spend time with your loved ones."
• Since President Donald Trump returned to office one year ago, Charles said Minnesota has released nearly 500 illegal immigrants from state or local custody instead of transferring them to ICE.

Once again, Democrats are offering nothing affirmative in service to the American people.  All they have is opposition to President Trump and Republicans.  They’ve taken the 20% side of every 80/20 issue. 

asking if you remember some of the things they told you before the election of 2024. What Happened To Trump’s Gay Conversion Camps? Well, Arielle and friends.

Remember when they told us the gays would be in conversion-therapy camps as soon as Trump got elected?
Other things they told us

•     Joe Biden was coherent
•     Kamala was best for the job because of skin color
•     Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation
•     Inflation was a "good thing"
•     Social Media was absolutely NOT censoring conservatives

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, and the violent targeting of federal agents in Minnesota, non-leftists in America must accept that leftists intend to do them harm. There are no signs that Democrats want to de-escalate political tensions in the United States. On the contrary, at least since community organizer Barack Obama became president, escalation — including verbal harassment, stalking, physical intimidation, and outright violence — has been a key component of Democrats’ political strategy. Scaring political opponents into silence or subjugation is now standard operating procedure for the Democrat Party.