Our Christmas shopping is done! Yay!
Rose and I went out Christmas shopping on Saturday night, it wasn't too crowded, we were able to get a parking spot easily. I still remember driving around for 45+ minutes at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua trying to find a spot anywhere.
Rosie saw the bobcat last night out by the burn pile. Watch out bunny! The neighbor across the street up on the hill texted Rose she saw the bobcat up there as well. I haven't see the bunny in two days now...
We need to open up another pallet of pellets last Sunday, Jason came over to help. Jason and I moved a ton of pellets, we loaded one ton on the doghouse porch and have another still on a pallet. We went upstairs and got the toilet reinstalled too, Jason is a big huge help whenever he comes over. Off to DQ for a burger then Christmas shopping, it was already raining pretty good by the time we left Manchester headed home, very thick fog too.
Christmas Music...
While the 1950s were big in terms of holiday pop songs (“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”; “Jingle Bell Rock”) and novelty songs (“Frosty the Snowman”; “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”), it was the 40s (and the very earliest years of the 50s) that saw the release of the Christmas songs we consider the most classic of the classics:
1942 — “White Christmas”
1943 — “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
1944 — “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
1945 — “Let It Snow”
1946 — “The Christmas Song”
1948 — “Sleigh Ride”
1950 — “Silver Bells”
1951 — “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”
We're supposed to get some rough weather over the next 24 hours, possible 2-4" of rain and winds up to 50mph. We hope we don't lose power, but we'll be ready in case we do. Power outages are a fact of life here. We didn't lose power yay, we didn't even get the winds predicted.
Rose's sister Carol took a fall and broke a couple bones in her leg she went in for surgery on Saturday, Rose talked to her Sunday she was still out of it when she talked to her, they cut her leg open from her knee down to her ankle to repair the bones. Carol is in rehab now, just in time for Christmas, bummer.
Still raining Monday AM, we didn't lose power, no real winds either
Though we may appreciate the labor/time-saving of modern machinery, it’s also good to be proficient in off-grid hand tool work. One day, we may not have diesel. Or electricity. Or a working tiller. Hopeless at present, the entire system exists to make us believe we are radically individualistic even as we live in coddled babyhood with our water, electric, gas, and food threaded in from far away. We are just a matter of days away from anarchy and starvation at any time.
Our mindsets are broken.
When the cheap credit and oil and electric run low and times get tight, and the fake green revolution nonsense ends in lots of waste and broken garbage, I do think things will change and people will get back to the soil and to real community.
Even if they don’t, it’s a beautiful thing to think about. And at least we can make a start of it with our family and friends and neighbors.
Our musical interlude "Explicit" LOL
I went out at 4AM on Thursday AM to see if I could get a glimpse of shooting stars the Geminid event. I saw nothing... maybe tomorrow night.
Saturday we're off to pick up a couple of presents to finish up shopping for the year.
Our wounds, we wear like temporary garments until they are forgotten,
but our stories, we don them as forever.
The Book of Barkley
Jarrod's band had a gig up in Weirs Beach Saturday night.
Changed the wipers out on Rosie's car, it was time. The new Rain-X brand ones were the easiest "all weather" wipers I'd ever changed.
I took a walk-about around the property on this heavily overcast day, it's amazing the sheer quantity of dead standing timber. It'd be easier to get out this time of year with the chainsaw and go at it, everything is so much easier to see with the leaves off, the weather this time of year is usually prohibitive. We've been lucky this winter so far. I walked down to the pond outlet to find a couple dead trees laying across the outlet probably why the pond is so high, I'm OK with that.
Rose and I finished up with Christmas shopping, just in time.
We took the dogs for a drive, Zebber was not impressed, Winston on the other hand was the perfect little angel sitting quietly looking out the window. We'll try again today Sunday the 17th, Rose is threatening to drag me out food shopping, ugh...
We're supposed to get some wicked weather, mostly rain and wind though on Monday
The wind was howling Monday morning around 4:30AM, it's supposed to get worse throughout the day into Tuesday.
I changed the whole house water filter, and checked the oil tank level while I was there. We don't run the pellet stove when the weather is real bad as it'll get a little smokey if the blower isn't running if we lose power.
It rained, and rained all day, little bit of water in the basement, not too much.
The two dogs weren't happy about the rain
UPS stopped by to drop off some packages, I asked him how the roads were as we'd been getting road closure alerts all morning due to debris and washout, he said they weren't too bad overall.
THE WINTER TRIALS BEGIN...
Rose took a tumble on Tuesday afternoon, the dogs were playing and wiped her out rounding a corner by the pellets, her ankle rolled and down she went. When I got out of work later that evening I felt the foot and it was hot to the touch, not good. She said the pain was steadily getting worse throughout the day, I finally got her to agree to get the foot looked at and took her over to Goffstown urgent care around 7:30PM we got to the local Urgent care and hobbled into the waiting room only to be told they were booked and were closing, they sent us to Rivers-Edge in Manchester. We only waited about an hour, they took vitals, then off to x-ray she went, we were in and out in 2 hours. She's fractured her foot, they splinted and wrapped the foot with a fiberglass shell and said she'd need to go see Orthopedics on Thursday to have a cast/boot put on. She's feeling better on Wednesday morning, she hates crutches, hobbling about like a drunken sailor. This'll be interesting once we get snow and ice.
Now The Days Grow Longer... Starting Tomorrow...
Winter solstice/Date
Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 10:27 PM
Eastern Time
Only 9:01 hours of daylight today.
The Mall is not packed, it's unusual, there are normally 3-4 lanes packed pulling into the Mall I drive by daily, folks blocking lanes, etc. The Amazon effect?
I saw 2-300 crows out in the field by the nursing home this afternoon.
Rose & I went back to Rivers Edge to see Orthopedics to see about a boot or a cast for her foot, they did an MRI in the mean time decided a boot for now, they'll review the MRI and get back to us to see if a cast or possible surgery is necessary. She chipped one bone and another just didn't look right the doc said. We'll go back in two weeks.
Rose spoke to her sister Carol, she's doing better, still in rehab.
Rose and I wish you all
a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
THIS IS A LONG WINDED ONE FOLKS...
The Last Time Democrats Took a GOP Candidate Off the Ballot Was in 1860 – They Would Not Allow Abraham Lincoln’s Name on the Ballot in Their Slave States
As the clock ticks closer to 2024, one outspoken economist is making a dire predication about the markets in the new year.
“Since 2009, this has been 100% artificial, unprecedented money printing and deficits; $27 trillion over 15 years, to be exact. This is off the charts, 100% artificial, which means we’re in a dangerous state,” Harry Dent told Fox News Digital. “I think 2024 is going to be the biggest single crash year we’ll see in our lifetimes.”
62 Percent Of Americans Live Paycheck To Paycheck And The Bottom Of The Economic Food Chain Is Already Collapsing
President Biden is already a dictator with permanent powers: imperial, unaccountable, and unconstitutional thanks to a relatively obscure directive (National Security Presidential Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20), part of the country’s Continuity of Government (COG) plan, which gives unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the president in the event of a “national emergency.”
That national emergency can take any form, can be manipulated for any purpose and can be used to justify any end goal—all on the say so of the president.
It doesn’t even matter what the nature of the crisis might be—civil unrest, national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters”—as long as it allows the government to justify all manner of government tyranny in the name of so-called national security.
The country would then be subjected to martial law by default, and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be suspended.
For all intents and purposes, the Constitution has long been suspended, and we’ve been operating in a state of martial law for some time now.
Coronavirus subvariant JN.1 growing fast in US, already dominant in the Northeast
The Biggest Spike In Homelessness Ever Recorded Is A Sign That The U.S. Economy Is Plunging Into An Abyss
In this economic environment, just hanging on to a decent job is an accomplishment.
If it seems to you that the economic headlines that we are being fed by the mainstream media are completely and utterly disconnected from reality, you are definitely not alone. They tell us that inflation is under control, but I was just at the grocery store today and I could hardly believe the prices. They tell us that unemployment is “low”, but large companies are laying off workers in droves. And they tell us that things are getting better for the middle class, but the truth is that by mid-2024 the vast majority of Americans will have less money than they did in 2019…
Barack Obama produces Netflix film adaptation that says white people shouldn’t be trusted in the apocalypse …
Kamala Harris: "This is the most election of our lifetime" pic.twitter.com/aNg7JNIqle
Biden Admits 5,000 Illegals Aliens Released Daily, 670K Known ‘Gotaways’ in 2023!
Austin told Congressional members that if they don’t cough up more money for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, they might find their relatives being shipped off to fight Russia. “The Biden administration is openly threatening Americans over Ukraine… Pay the oligarchs or we’ll kill your kids.” Now, isn’t that a cheery holiday message from our government?
Among all voters, 60% agreed that the unprecedented legal charges against Trump were politically driven by the Democratic Party, while 31% disagreed. What’s surprising isn’t that majorities of Republicans (81% “agree,” 13% “disagree”) and independents (53% “agree,” 35% “disagree”) see eye-to-eye, but that a plurality of Democrats (49% “agree,” 44% “disagree”) also believe the prosecutions are politically motivated.
President Joe Biden is the least popular president in modern U.S. history with an approval rating of 37.7% to 55.6% who disapprove of Biden.
Biden’s sub-40% approval rating is the lowest of any president since Harry Truman. The next lowest approval rating belongs to Biden’s predecessor, former president Donald Trump, who bottomed out at a 41.7% approval rating.
Below are a few Trump reminders.
- Trump knows the media can’t be negotiated with, or reformed. It must be defeated.
- Trump smoked out rats from hiding places. We now know our intelligence agencies are corrupt.
- We watched Trump loosen the grip of political correctness, while Republicans wouldn’t engage.
- Trump made it clear it’s a privilege to enter our country, foreigners should assimilate to us.
- Trump wants back that nostalgic America guided by relentless optimism, grit, and determination.
- Before Trump, politicians hid from the public that China is our mortal enemy. Now we all know.
- Trump’s virtue, backbone, and fortitude are the new standard to judge candidates.
- Trump’s supporters, and the spirit they embrace, are the new life force of the Republican Party.
- Trump was born for this current crisis, the life and death fight against woke communism.
- The “cold” civil war divide in our country was exposed by Trump, not created by him.
- In war you need strong men to make a stand. Trump is a manly man, with resolve.
- When you’re in the right, you fight to win. Sometimes this means doing distasteful things.
- Leadership strength is in short supply. Trump understands there are no clean hands in a fist fight.
- Trump wants people to learn how to love our country, not be taught how to hate it.
The decisions and actions between March 16th and March 30, 2020 were the primary factor in the election of Joe Biden and the Obama-led Marxist takeover of the presidency and the Executive Branch, which has eventuated in the following:
- A de facto open border resulting in over 10 million illegal immigrants and an untold number of potential terrorists flooding the nation,
- $10.3 Trillion in new national debt since March of 2020 (in 2008 the total national debt was $10.0 Trillion),
- A potentially permanent stagnant economy and ongoing inflation resulting in one dollar in November of 2023 buying only 82% of what it did in March of 2020, while real disposable income is down 7.5%,
- A politically weaponized justice system and federal police force (FBI) targeting Trump and other political adversaries as well as everyday Americans,
- Permanent uncontrolled mail-in voting in 34 of the 50 states,
- The massive expansion of the government-sponsored censorship and domestic spying industry,
- An overwhelming erosion of confidence in the Federal health bureaucracy due to manipulating data, promoting lockdowns, and the haphazard approval and mandating of the COVID-19 vaccine,
- The funding of a never-ending and unnecessary war in Ukraine, the enriching of Iran, and the greenlighting of Chinese expansion and belligerency.
Al Gore Warns: People Having Access To Non-Mainstream Information “Threatens Democracy” …
As bad as the situation is now, we haven’t seen anything yet. Of course, we are quickly moving towards similar conditions and there is one thing we have today that the 1970s didn’t: A massive snowballing national debt.
Currently, the US national debt is $33.8 trillion and has a 120% debt-to-GDP ratio. In a single month (October) the US added over $600 billion to the debt, and at the current pace the total official debt will hit over $41 trillion in one year. The speed of this accumulation is frightening. To put this in perspective, the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve added around $9 trillion to the debt in 8 years during the corporate bailouts. Under Joe Biden, this is set to happen in a little over 1 year.
Leftmedia Smears Homeschooling as Dangerous
In a blatant anti-homeschooling hit piece, the Washington Post ridiculously makes the claim that homeschooling allows for child torture.
The president made this bold statement after criticizing his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, asserting that Trump “failed” to invest in America’s infrastructure. “Four years of infrastructure week, but it failed. He failed. On my watch, instead of infrastructure week, America is having an infrastructure decade,” Biden declared. “Over a billion 300 million trillion 300 million dollars!”
Steve Cortes, the chairman and founder of the League of American Workers, emphasized in a column on the website that the economy was a primary factor influencing the 77 percent of surveyed voters who believed the nation is on the wrong track. Additionally, of the 39 percent who viewed the president favorably in handling the economy, a mere 9 percent expressed “strong approval.”
CDC Director Issues New Covid Alert, Urges Americans to Wear Masks
Tactics
The Gestapo’s power focused upon Hitler’s political opponents through lies, atrocities, and reprisals. It often made up facts against political opponents in order to achieve its objectives. Those political opponents included people deemed dangerous to Nazi policies and politics. They could arrest and imprison anyone and always assumed that their targets were guilty. Once arrested, people found it difficult to prove their innocence.
The Gestapo crushed opposition through actions, both legal and illegal, such as fear and intimidation. It operated without any civil or criminal restraints. Propaganda, which included censoring the media, kept the majority of the population in line.
Sound familiar?
“The scale of dying is incredible … In the nine months of this year, it’s like 158,000 Americans died more than expected. That’s more than all wars combined since Vietnam.”
Shocking Report: U.S. Government Data Reveals a Staggering 143,233% Surge in Fatal Cancer Cases Linked to COVID Vaccinations
The Biden administration, in a recent report to Congress, highlighted a significant surge in illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border. An average of 5,000 illegal immigrants per day are being released, with over 670,000 individuals known as “gotaways” having evaded border authorities in the fiscal year 2023.As the situation in the United States devolves, it’s difficult to imagine that our current situation is simply a series of surprising, unfortunate events. Some things are outside human control, such as the megadrought, wildfires, and some hurricanes and floods. Mother Nature isn’t helping us out this year.
But wait, there’s more.
Take into account the following:
Cargo ships filled with merchandise are not allowed to dock and unload
Non-farmers and foreign entities are buying up farmland
We’re facing an economic catastrophe that looks to only be getting worse
The “othering” of those with different political or medical opinions
The President himself is fueling the division
Our culture has been quietly and insidiously damaged over the past few decades.
He threw our borders open to foreign invasion, simply because Trump had closed them. Joe’s policies added an additional 3.8 million criminals to our society. That’s enough people to populate Los Angeles -- admitted with no vetting, no control, and no apology.
Joe added $5 trillion to our national debt -- enough $100 bills to reach the Moon and back 10 times. The spending drove inflation to a 40-year high. Interest rates reached a 20-year high, as the Federal Reserve struggled to tame the mess. In so doing, Joe placed home mortgages out of reach for many Americans.
He choked domestic energy production, making us again dependent on foreign oil. Prices for gas and electricity skyrocketed. In the process, he enriched Russia (a producer of oil) and China (a producer of solar and wind technology). We’re expected to pay no attention to the little issue that the Biden family received millions of dollars from Russia and China, for no apparent service.
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