Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Black Friday and Beyond

BLACK FRIDAY

Hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving!

Ugh, our kitchen window is leaking, it's dripping down inside the kitchen, gonna have to see what's causing this.

Rose made a perfect Thanksgiving meal, everything was awesome, the 22lb. Turkey was 100% cooked when we took it out of the oven, very moist, you just never know with turkeys. She made stuffing, with raisins and walnuts, fantastic.

The side dishes were all good, Crystal made green bean casserole it too was  awesome, she said I could have the leftover casserole, all mine!

The pies, Cherry, and Pumpkin, cookies and brownies were a perfect ending to a great meal. Rose made some oatmeal, chocolate chip and almond cookies I really like.

Black Friday Turkey sandwiches for breakfast yum!


We hit Ace Hardware in town for Black Friday that was as far as I was prepared to venture out to.

We drove up to Manchester last weekend, there appeared to be a couple new stores over where the Macy's used to be.  What a driving and parking mess, the place was packed, all I wanted to do is see what the new stores were... It was a cluster, the kind where you could feel your blood pressure rising just trying to get out of there, we didn't even get out of the car. 

Saturday I need to replace the gasket on the front door of the pellet stove, it's sending ash dust into the dining room, it went well, seems to have cut down on the dust.

Jarrod's band "Latchkey" played at Riley's Place in Milford Saturday night, appetizers and a couple great sets by the band, place was nearly full. 

Jarrod on drums

 

Winston loves couch pillows, maybe a little too much sometimes.

 

 


 

 

U.S. Navy Medical Officer Exposes Defense Department Data Showing Alarming Increase in Heart-Related Issues Among Pilots Following COVID-19 Vaccination: Myocarditis Up by 151%, Heart Failure by 973% (VIDEO) According to the data presented by Lt. Macie, there has been a dramatic increase in various heart-related ailments among fixed-wing and helicopter pilots. The figures show surges in conditions like hypertensive disease (36%), ischemic heart disease (69%), pulmonary heart disease (62%), heart failure (973%), other forms of heart disease (63%), and cardiomyopathy (152%) compared to the five-year average prior to 2022.

 

WATCH: Mayorkas gushes over ’12 million people’ in U.S. illegally 

  • The media has been claiming for at least 20 years that there are “11 million” illegal aliens in the United States.
  • Meanwhile, over 8 million are known to have entered the U.S. during the last three fiscal years alone, under the Biden administration.
  • ussanews.com
  • Now Mayorkas claims there are just 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S. and says they are “contributing so fundamentally to our country’s well-being.”

Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America: Voting Will Not Save Us

It’s a con game, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko, a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, and a bamboozle, and “we the people” are nothing more than marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls.

We’re being duped into believing that this mockery of a choice between two candidates who are equally unfit for office actually translates to having some say in how the government is run.

To the contrary, this particular con game is part of a long-running, elaborate scam to keep the Deep State in power and leave the populace deluded, distracted, and incapable of demanding accountability, transparency, and decency from the government and its cohorts.

This makes them look more out-of-touch than ever. Every person who shops in a grocery store, fills up a car with gas, or pays basic monthly bills like a mortgage or rent and utilities, and pays credit card bills knows that everything is higher than it was in the previous administration, pre-COVID-19. This is almost as dumb as when the Biden administration bragged about a Fourth of July cook-out costing 16 cents less in 2021. They think you are stupid. They think you will believe whatever they say.  

The nation is drowning in debt, crippled by a slowing economy, overrun by militarized police, swarming with surveillance, besieged by endless wars and a military-industrial complex intent on starting new ones, and riddled with corrupt politicians at every level of government.

All the while, we’re arguing over which corporate puppet will be given the honor of stealing our money, invading our privacy, abusing our trust, undermining our freedoms, and shackling us with debt and misery for years to come.

To make Republicans look bad, Democrats have to lie, while to make the Democrats look bad, all Republicans have to do is point out the obvious and the truth. 

Hear Nancy Pelosi’s daughter admit Jan 6 was a set up by the establishment & there was no insurrection. Nancy Pelosi’s nepo-baby, Alexandra, was caught on camera admitting essentially that January 6 and the ensuing prosecutions were a marketing gimmick to propagandize the public for the benefit of the Democrat Party.

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If you believed the establishment propaganda on Jan 6 you are a typical American, a.k.a a chump

They will do the same to you if you ever oppose them…

The current administration continues to maintain that “Bidenomics is working,” even as only 14% of voters said that the economy is better off under President Joe Biden, while 70% felt the economy has suffered under his policies, according to a Nov. 13 Financial Times poll.

    House Speaker Mike Johnson has released over 40,000 hours of J6 footage including capitol police body cam footage to the public in the interests of transparency, an action which should have been taken years ago. Each new piece of footage only confirms what many Americans already understood – That the few scant minutes of available video recycled by the media paint a false picture of what really happened. Many would argue that J6 was nothing more than a protest that was turned into a riot by police incitement and establishment spin.

  •     Even worse, there are many people now languishing in prison because of that spin.
  •     The latest footage shows capitol police inviting protesters into the building as they peacefully assembled in the corridors (the same people who would later be prosecuted and labeled “insurrectionists”)…
  •     …Keep in mind that if such tactics had been used to incite BLM or pro-Palestinian riots there would undoubtedly be 24/7 news coverage of it.
  •     These revelations further confirm why J6 footage was withheld from the country for so long.

Economist: Bidenomics is Putting ‘Astonishing Burden’ on American Households

From Reagan through Trump, annual interest payments on a new mortgage, with 20% down on a median house, were stable.  Under Biden? Up from $8,500 to almost $24,300…over 285% of the level under Trump! Thanks Bidenomics…  

If a person finds the KKK racist and despicable because they promoted hatred, terrorism, and murder of blacks, how can someone then excuse Islamism’s promotion of hatred, terrorism, and murder of Jews? If they condemn the one, must they not condemn the other?

The moral and intellectual leadership of the Democratic Party has fallen into the hands of ultra-radical “progressives” who are the sworn enemies of decency and common sense.  Already they have ruined the Democratic Party.

Speaking of forgetting, our corrupt, drooling, non compos mentis president is somehow running, er . . . shuffling, for reelection next year. The people who pull old Joe Biden’s dry, withered strings want you to know that he’s actually quite energetic, hard-working, deeply empathetic, and a devout Catholic, not some wild-eyed escapee from an Alzheimer’s ward. And after you’re done laughing at such claims, make them your own.

On the topic of useful idiots, our partisan, Big Government bum-kissing media tells us the 2020 election was the most secure and above-board election ever. Never mind that the Democrats unilaterally engineered a million ways to cheat electorally, and that the courts and the feds brazenly refused to investigate any of it. Disregard that President Trump and other Republicans were comfortably ahead on Election Night, only to suffer mysterious setbacks in the following days or weeks. Although it had never been easier to cheat electorally than in 2020, our thoroughly despicable media informs us no one cheated! It was a miracle, an article of faith that you’d better take to heart if you know what’s good for you.

As for the worst that could happen, you could be a female athlete competing in violent or grueling sports like rugby, boxing, martial arts, track or swimming, and find yourself matched up against a man pretending to be a woman! And you know in your heart, you’re about to get your brains beat out, either literally or figuratively. You also realize that, should you withdraw, you will be called transphobic and threatened in every possible way (see Gaines, Riley and Rowling, J.K.). No, it’s perfectly fine in today’s world for mentally-ill men, with or without their original equipment, to dominate women’s sports. Just buck-up, buttercup, and take your beating like a man, er . . . woman.

And whatever you do, don’t question “climate change”. No, the fact that meteorologists can’t accurately predict whether it will rain tomorrow, much less predict what the weather will be like in a hundred years, should not disturb you. Ignore the increasingly corpulent heads of our armed forces prattling on about climate change being our biggest enemy, as opposed to, say, China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran. And look the other way at the hypocrisy of fat-cat millionaires traveling to climate change symposiums in their gas-guzzling private jets and yachts. When it comes to climate, “We’re doomed!” is the only correct view. And you’d better not forget it.

George Orwell correctly predicted a world where wrongthink could doom a person, and that’s the world we now live in. Either learn all the right views and spout them publicly---lawn signs are a nice touch---or have a steel front door installed.

That’s not the only stupid action the Left has taken in recent days. The synthetic global warming panic has been largely a success story for left-wing environmentalists. Despite an almost complete lack of legitimate evidence, leftist Greens have, through incessant repetition by way of a compliant media, succeeded in terrifying a public which had little or no understanding of the topic. At the same time, they have corrupted, through manipulating the grant process, an entire scientific field and most researchers working within it (climatology can no longer be considered a science, and nothing worthwhile will come out of it for decades at least). Conservatives, as is often case involving fields outside their comfort zone, have fumbled the debate, arguing on the exact terms set by the Greens (for instance largely accepting the semantic switcheroo from “global warming” to “climate change.”)

EXTREME?

Conservatives are used to being called “extreme.”
Speaker Mike Johnson is ripped by liberal media for his “extreme Christian nationalist” views and for his belief in covenant marriage.  That is to say, Johnson believes that it is necessary to pare back progressive spending in face of ruinous government debt before the country is bankrupted, and in his personal life, he believes that marriage really is a matter of “’til death do us part.”  So that’s extreme?

Under Biden, America skids towards poverty — government data show median wage has fallen to just $40,847.18 …
























 

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Rose and I wish you all the best 

The most enjoyable,  and of course, most delicious Thanksgiving ever.  We have a lot to be thankful for this year!


When we notice the things that we do have, we end up with a lot of the
“best days ever” that otherwise
we might have missed.
 
I saw this... Chances are good that your Thanksgiving is going to be a disaster—that’s how Thanksgiving is—but the kind of disaster matters. There’s the type of disaster where the turkey gets burned and you forgot to buy potatoes, but everyone laughs and makes pasta and it’s really the best Thanksgiving ever. Then there’s the kind of disaster where cousin Dave's date passes out drunk, your niece locks herself in the bathroom to cry, and someone has to call 911. Whatever happens, roll with the disasters, and keep a light heart and a sense of humor. Hopefully no one will remember the truly bad parts of the day.  I don't think this family has ever had a day that bad...
 
TRIVIA:  "Jingle Bells" was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song – The classic Christmas carol was not intended to be a Christmas song at all but rather a Thanksgiving tune or a drinking song called "One Horse Open Sleigh," written by James Pierpont in 1857, according to the International Center for American Music blog. However, the song became so popular around the wintry holiday that in 1859 it was reissued under the name "Jingle Bells."
 
ABCDEFG has the same melody as twinkle twinkle little star, and so does Baa Baa black sheep... And you just sung them both in your head just to see... Din'cha

Rose & I

I have seen enough about how time goes that I now know all this won't last forever... Some day we won't be able to keep up with this old farm, hah,  some days it feels like were already losing the battle, we get frustrated that everything we want to get done simply isn't, faster, faster.

Sometimes we need to slow down and just enjoy the time we have left, catching the joy that's there before it's all gone!  Time tries us, we're not broken by it, not now, not yet, but some day things will change for my Rose and I.

We mark our time here watching the trees, shrubs, critters and plants grow, like children much to fast, some plants get ahead of us because life gets in the way, we find it then takes twice as long as we think it will now, it's sad some how.  

Rose and I on the farm in Pepperell, remember buying grain for the cows, sheep, pigs, chickens and goats in 100lb sacks, that's how it came, we'd pick up what we could afford that week in our old pickup then haul the ten to twenty sacks to the second floor of the barn throwing a sack over your shoulder and up a flight of stairs one bag at a time. I don't think I could heave a 100lb sack onto my back today. Today the Grain for the dogs comes in 44lb bags, while the deer grain today comes in 50lb paper sacks that are much easier to handle than the 100lb sacks we hauled a lifetime ago.  Were still moving wood pellets in 40 lb plastic bags to heat this old house.

We chose this life, this path, we walk it now a little more slowly happy with what we built, what we've made Rose and I. There's always more to do, our ever growing to-do lists seem to grow longer year by year, maybe when I retire if I'm not too broken we'll catch up Rose and I...
 
I've been thinking more and more about retirement lately...

 

Back to it...

I got my snow blower running again last Saturday, it fired right up 2nd or third pull, I moved it to the shed by the house.  We're ready...

We're cooking a small turkey today, we'd picked up two last week @ .69/lb.  Jimmy says Stop & Shop has birds for .49/lb. nice.

Our crazy Lilacs are all messed up, the warm spell is making them leaf out.

Rose's Christmas cactus is flowering it sits on the old wood cook stove in the kitchen for the holidays, its huge!


We've been gearing up for Thanksgiving hitting a couple different grocery stores. I can't see how folks can afford to shop at a Shaw's, crazy prices.  Saw a package of Armour bacon for $9.98 yikes...

 
AROUND THE FARM

Rose saw a cottontail rabbit tonight out in the side yard, yay! We thought the varmints had wiped them all out! 

There was a 4 point buck out at the deer yard Friday morning, Zeb saw him and looked back at me as he ran off. 

Saturday evening a deer huffed/bleated at me from out in the cove.  Really loudly, a gruff gravelly huff, I'd apparently interrupted his corn dinner.

Four inches of snow on Wednesday morning the 22nd by 4AM, it started raining by 5:30am, it'll probably all melt today.  Winston saw his first snow and barked at it not knowing what all the white stuff was, he and Zeb played for a while, then the plow guy came Winston was scared and ran to the back porch while Zebulon barked at him.  Winston stared in awe as the snowplows drove down the highway out back.

Wednesday evening, the yards a slushy mess, Rosie's running out to the deer yard to feed the critters

There's a weird thing going on with Blogger, going between my desktop and my tablet I'm losing stuff, stuff I write on the desktop doesn't show up on the tablet sometimes even with a reload.

Rose has the kitchen all ready lots of snacks for Thanksgiving, the house all gussied up for Christmas.

Winston is doing great on the Radio fence, he's having a blast with his new found freedom.



“Joe Biden’s cake has so many candles on it that it nearly burned down the White House,”

Interestingly, the U.S. Credit Rating has only been cut one other time in history. Care to guess when that was?  2011.
When Joe Biden was Vice President and Barack Hussein Obama was busy destroying this country in much the same way that Joe is doing right now.

HOLY CRAP!

🇺🇸FDIC Bankers Discuss ‘Bail-Ins’, Bank Runs & Market Collapse

They're talking about financial crisis and their lack of faith in our banking system and how to keep the public from freaking out.

"I completely agree…you can't tell the public about this, they would… pic.twitter.com/0dSFYQYWVT

Trump kept his documents secured at Mar-a-Lago, under Secret Service protection, while Biden kept his classified docs all over the place and within arm’s reach of his crack-addict son. And speaking of Hunter, there’s evidence that he was using this classified info in some of those overseas business dealings that his dad had never spoken to him about. On top of that, as Matt Margolis reminds us at PJ Media, “Soon after the scandal broke in January, we learned that the documents had been originally discovered before the midterm elections, indicating a cover-up.”

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s 91 felony counts for Donald Trump, and zero for Joe Biden. And one tier of justice for those of us on the Right, and another one for those on the Left.

Immigration.  Present levels of immigration will destroy our country.  And that's no longer a thinly shared belief, as polling demonstrates.  Is there anyone left who does not think that the border is wide open and a significant threat to our security, economy, and even America's prospects?  This was deliberate.  The only question remaining is why?  Was it to help Democrats or to help our enemies?  With an embattled and befuddled Biden, we honestly don't know the answer.

Trump's fight against the swamp and regulatory dysfunction would have continued unabated.  Gradually, the cost of government (as well as the headcount) would have decreased.  We were on a path to fiscal sanity.  In contrast, Democrats fight against small government.

Back in February, former President Barack Obama launched an effort called the “Change Collective.” If you’re not familiar with it now, you probably will be soon. Supporters describe it as a “new community-based leadership initiative” meant to “empower emerging leaders to bring people together.” At the forefront of the effort will be “local changemakers across the country.”

I’ll go out on a limb and say its endgame is the enforcement of a collectivist narrative, the abolition of local control, and the top-down centralized control of all communities. After all, that’s the pattern of every Obama policy, most notably health care and education. …

Currently, the initiative focuses on urban communities, with pilot programs in Chicago, Detroit, and Jackson, Mississippi. But the ultimate goal is to flood the nooks and crannies of all America’s local communities with “changemakers” and “influencers” who have been trained to recruit everybody into accepting a woke narrative and to silence any voice of dissent. That’s always what socialists mean when they claim to “bring people together.”

        Constant reformation of the President's comments.  
"What the President meant was…"
        "I would refer you to "X" for additional comments."
        An ever-growing hostility to reporters who "push" beyond Jean-Pierre's scripted verbiage as delivered straight from her notebook.

Democrats evacuate after pro-Palestinian protesters swarm Democratic National Committee headquarters in DC

COVID

Dr. McCullough: No One Should Take Another Shot, COVID Vaccines Are Not Safe For Human Use  

Americans are pissed off about surviving a pandemic and paying for the privilege: ‘They want these prices to be back where they were’  

“Spanish flu” probably started in Kansas soldier barracks and spread due to WW1. The only reason it’s named the Spanish flu is because Spain was the only country that reported on it- many other countries had a media blackout on it. 

CLIMATE 

Demolishing the Human-Induced “Climate Emergency” Fairy Tale Geologist, Professor Ian Plimer, utterly demolishes the human-induced “climate emergency” fairy tale, in three and a half minutes:

“[Six of the six] great ice ages started when we had more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than now. We have 0.04% of that gas in the atmosphere…… pic.twitter.com/oVgSXNOnaf




















 

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Caw!

 CAW!


 

There was a Coronal Mass Ejection, a CME, we went out several times, no northern light to see here, nothing, there's supposed to be potential to see it through Friday.

We got some sleet on Thursday, no real snow.

Finally got a couple of snow shovels at Home Depot. We're ready!

Winston will go on his radio fence last week for the first time, it'll be fun to watch him, he's 7 months old now, it's time. Winston by the way did great with his new found freedom from a leash, he had a blast, only once forgetting the "bad flags" that mark the radio fence borders. He's pretty tuckered tonight from running, playing and jumping on Zebulon off leash, so much to do, checking out his whole yard, things to smell, and eat, and roll in.

I was out moving a couple of the flags that mark the boundaries of the dog fence and I hear a weird grinding noise coming from inside the camper, what the heck could that be?  Turns out Rose had placed the vibrating solar Mole chaser stake in the camper sink and it was occasionally getting enough sun to rumble away in the metal sink, scared me for a minute. 

Starlink satellites were visible at 6:03pm  a week ago in the western sky. Rose and I waited for them to show up, a couple of planes came through, that wasn't what we were looking for, finally one showed up above the pines in the front yard, then another and another we counted 22 satellites streaming across the skies, pretty cool to see them.

Sunday morning it was 20 degrees at 3:30 AM. Brr.

Today I need to check one of the barn lights that isn't working, and put the analyzer on the Tucson, it's showing a check engine light now.  Turns out it's a sensor, not a major issue! Yay!

With the weird weather we had this year, mostly rain... and as I dragged the fallen leaves to the garden using a tarp I couldn't help thinking how glad I was that we didn't plant the big garden this year...

I purchased a new Fire TV Cube from Amazon, got it hooked up, pictures better, I need to get a better HDMI cable to see if that helps with occasional delays.

14 degrees here this Monday morning out with the dogs.

The LED light on the barn we couldn't get to work is now working, in the wrong mode but still... I think the solar panel was placed wrong, we moved it so it'd get more sunlight, I'll adjust the mode this weekend.

I have to bring the snowblower up to the house tonight.

Learned this week, many in our California are just now heading back into the office just now due to COVID, WTH?

Winston is doing great on the radio fence! Yay

Rose and I, (ok, I helped) made up some of her special brownies last night, Sugar Cookie base, Reese's PB cups, and brownie, for the holidays.



Systemic cheating, however, now dominates Western life.  Elevating “diversity for diversity’s sake” over all other metrics for gauging achievement has reduced merit and hard work to second-class virtues.  Rewarding illegal aliens with amnesty has cheapened the sacrifices of those lawful immigrants who have struggled to integrate into their new home countries.  Allowing delusional men to dominate women’s sports has cheated female athletes of a fair playing field for pursuing excellence.  In ways big and small, “woke” governments, corporations, and academic institutions cheat Western citizens of the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their own labors.

THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

The Middle Class Is Working Harder Than Ever, But It Is Being Absolutely Eviscerated By “Bidenomics” 

‘Every group — Democrats, Republicans and independents — list rising prices as by far the biggest economic threat . . . and the biggest source of financial stress,’

I truly wish that it was an exaggeration.  Unfortunately, for decades Americans have been extremely irresponsible with their finances.  As a result, credit card debt is at an all-time high, auto loan debt is at an all-time high, mortgage debt is at an all-time high, corporate debt is at an all-time high, state and local governments all over the nation continue to get into absurd amounts of debt, and the federal government has piled up the single largest mountain of debt in the history of the world.  Our whole society is absolutely drowning in debt at this stage, and the only way out is for the entire system to collapse.

No sane nation interested in the safety of its citizens would open its borders to tens of millions of illegal aliens, refuse to prosecute violent criminals, or secretly resettle anti-American, military-aged “refugees” into unsuspecting American communities.  No sane nation wastes its resources harassing patriotic citizens as “domestic enemies,” while turning a blind eye to the damage caused by Antifa and BLM riots and the very real threats from Islamic terrorism.  

Israel & Hamas

The AP, CNN, Reuters, and The New York Times used footage and photos from reporters embedded with Hamas terrorists during their slaughter of hundreds of Jews.  These Western media outlets then posted the photos in their coverage of this horrendous surprise attack on Israel.

COVID

Anyone else notice all the COVID daily drama has ceased in the news?

Media is Now Blaming COVID Jab-Related Heart Attacks And Strokes On CLIMATE CHANGE

Money

Explaining the very simple roadmap for how you dethrone the U.S. Dollar:

    – Weaponize the dollar
    – Incentive oil producers to dump the dollar
    – Cause an inflationary crisis at home
    – Banks collapse
    – Tell everyone they will be made whole if they sign up for the CBDC
 

Most people simply believe whatever they want to believe whether the evidence supports it or not.

 

ILLEGALS

IT’S THAT BAD! Illegals Flee Chicago, Return to Socialist Venezuela!




















 


Fixing the yard hill & Labor day

  Fixing the yard hill: Tuesday we're got 8 yards of 3/4" crushed stone, and 18 yards of loam delivered to fix a lot of sloped are...