October 12th

 

Sunday, morning started with a nice sunrise, then cooled and it got cloudy

We'll work on clearing the trees for the solar array mount today so it's ready for concrete into the post holes, I'll set the poles into the ground and finally begin moving the solar panels.

Rose's Star with lights was mounted on the back of the house.

Eight 3-5" willow trees, along with a 7" birch that fell down in the spring, 4 loads of brush to the burn pile later, we're beat! At least the rain held off until we finished!

Rose has what she needs for making Birch tree deer.

It's the Big pumpkin festival in Goffstown this past weekend!

 

The yearly Ladybug Invasion has started!

 

Rose cleaned up the Harry Lauder's walking stick bed on Monday, it's a cool bush!

 

Rain Tuesday 

 

The Phoebe's and Bluebirds are still here.

 

4 Deer came in for a snack on Tuesday night

Saturday evening a Fox came through the deer yard

Rose's newest creations are using some of the Harry Lauder's Walking stick to hang some spoon rests and mini teapots.  

I was up at 3:30AM this morning, it's coolish, around 50 degrees, Rose was up at 5AM, we were out of the house by 7:50Am and it was already a chilly 41 degrees we're hoping to get out early this morning for breakfast at Sawyer's Main Street Breakfast & Function Hall before the place is swamped, then hit St. Matt's flea market.

I drove low by the pond and looks like despite the rains we've been having the water levels are down a good 3-4 feet, so we're still hoping for more so we don't have any well issues.

I've got 5 trailer loads of debris from the Rose circle that Rose cleared out to pick up and transport down to the pond.

Thought this was funny...

Rose was cruising this afternoon, brought the birch trees we'd cut down to the barn, she'd grabbed a dozen of the cinder blocks for the sand barrels

We brought all the lawn sculptures down to the barn 

Sunday AM it was 27 degrees when I got up, Yup we got a our first HARD Frost!quickly fired up the Pellet stove, it was 66 degrees in the kitchen, brr. 

We're trimming the wild rose that climbs the telephone pole at the driveway, it'll snag your hat right off your head when you walk by if I don't.

Digging holes for the solar array posts today, should be fun hopefully not too many rocks.  After finishing the 4 holes for the array uprights, I pulled the 12' 4"x4: post with the martin house on it out of the ground and dug a new hole at the side yard where Rose thought it'd look better.  We'll pick up 4 bags of concrete this week and cement all the poles in before the ground freezes up. 

"May God Bless America” – Official Music Video, Jason Bellard, Steve Gruber & The Freedom Project

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We'll cut up some of the birch we harvested and give a go at making some Birch deer.  Rose saved some branches for the antlers too.

Three deer, a fox and a raccoon are coming through the deer yard almost daily now.

I changed all the deer cam batteries

Rose finished clearing the Lilac bed down by the driveway, we did some leaf raking, Rose on the leaf blower me on the rake, grabbed the 12x20' tarp, raking the leaves onto it and then dragging the tarp down by the pond with the tractor.  Yard looks a lot better now with most of the leaves gone.

Bullet is off to the Vet Thursday Oct 22nd in the morning to get neutered, he'll be coming back with a cone of shame. He did well with the surgery, he was slightly drunk when we picked him up, he did a lot better than we thought he would maneuvering with the cone on his head.  

He really doesn't seem to mind the cone

Bullet lives for balls!  That cone's not gonna stop him!

All the leaves are almost off the maple trees, we'll have to go back and haul the remaining leaves down by the pond.

This weekend we'll concrete the upright poles for the solar array then we'll mount the panels.  The array will charge the (2) 280AH 12V batteries that with the inverter will keep the furnace/pellet stove, a few lights, fridges and freezers cold for at least 2 days without solar or a 110V charger charging the batteries for when the snow/ice storms hit, and for when when oil, gas and propane cost too much.

Friday Oct 23rd Bullet doesn't seem to mind the cone at all, he ate all of his breakfast, he's pretty much back to his normal self, we'll have to keep him fairly calm , he's on meds for inflammation and pain but overall doing very well.  He's great at getting his cone on, surprisingly he'll walk right into it when asked.

We still have a few things to do outside yet before the snow flies... we'll leave a couple of the chairs out for a few more days at least!

It was nice out Friday night, I walked down to the blueberry bush in the field and found the small solar panel that runs the light we'd put on the bush face down in the grass explaining why the string of lights wasn't working.

Damned cold on Saturday morning 27 degrees. 

Saturday Oct 24th we planned to set the posts for the Solar array in concrete, I put together the four triangular struts that would angle the panels towards the sun and drilled the mounting holes at the top, I didn't get to set the posts.  We'll continue on Sunday.

I kicked the furnace on for the first time this yer to chase the chill out of the house, it was 62 inside this morning.

Sunday we set the four solar array upright poles and set the Martin house pole in concrete while we were at it.  I think we'll need 2 more bags of cement to fill the holes completely.

Wednesday I'm dropping my car at the shop, need an oil change and have a slow leak in one of the tires. 

We drove by the pond (Same level as my well) and it's looking really low again.  We'll have to be careful with water usage, no more rain in the forecast until November 2nd.

 

 

 

  

 

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Admits Democrat Run Blue Cities Have America’s Worst Homeless Crises  

Notice anything about the bottom five state governors? Every single one is a Democrat. And seven of the bottom ten are, too. Meanwhile, Republicans dominate the top 10 best governors list: 

"All Americans will now be able to go to the fraud.gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities... If you turn somebody in and you let's say report and find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%. That's a lot of money."

Trump Responds to Ilhan Omar Saying “Not to My Knowledge” When Asked if She Married Her Brother 

Great news on Affordability front - prescription drugs just took the BIGGEST MONTHLY DECLINE EVER and are down year over year by over 4%.  In July there was a 3% decline but last month's 4% decline beats that! Keep in mind that this is not just slower inflation for drug prices. It’s actual deflation. September’s prescription-drug reading means prices were actually lower than a year earlier. The broader medicinal-drugs category, including nonprescription medicines, was down 3.4 percent, also a record annual decline.

Trump promised to make medicine cheaper. He pursued a series of agreements intended to accomplish that. Americans are now seeing the sharpest annual decline in prescription drug prices the government has ever recorded.

FRANCE RIOTS EXPLODE: Islamo-Marxist Rioters Threaten Macron’s Palace as Historic Buildings Burn to the Ground, Police Run For Their Lives, and Stores Get Looted. 

These Democrats are after everything they can waste or spend.... 

You can never be pure enough for that ever-morphing malignancy: a left-wing revolution. 

 

 

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.