Spring has sprung

Spring has sprung; The vernal equinox, the official start date for the season in the Northern Hemisphere, arrives on Tuesday, March 19.  The 2024 spring equinox will occur at exactly 11:06 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. 

Rose heard the woodcock Tuesday morning at dark thirty when she let the dogs out.

I went out to put the trash out before first light on Wednesday morning, I could hear the Woodcocks flying about.

Grackles "European Starlings" are eating up the meal-worms this morning. 

The deer and other critters are eating everything we put out in the deer yard, there's not a single grain left the next day.

I could watch this for days, plowing a field.

Three deer came in Wednesday evening, 'till the dogs chased 'em off!

Illusion

Why Is The National Guard Being Deployed During The Great American Eclipse On April 8th?

And as the Great American Eclipse of 2024 moves across our nation, the sun, the moon and the other seven planets in our solar system will all be lined up in the sky.

Our entire solar system is literally screaming that this day is important, and you would think that more people would be talking about the giant “X” that is about to be completed directly over the New Madrid fault zone.  The eclipse on April 8 will cut across much of the U.S. NASA estimates that 31.6 million people live within the roughly 100-mile-wide path of totality this year.

Zeb was off to the vet for yearly shots on Wednesday.

Jarrod called to talk about Easter, they're coming over here for Ham and sides.

It snowed on Thursday morning, lots of wind and 1/4" of the white stuff. 

More snow on tap for Saturday, 1-3" supposedly, I'll take the 1" please...

I saw a Bobcat kitten cross the highway by the house Friday on my way home from work, I slowed down but didn't get another glimpse after it hit the treeline.

Woke to 2+ inches of snow on Saturday morning.

It's Zebulon's (Zeb) birthday Today Saturday, he's 5 years old now.

So true...

 

Winter returns... By 10 am we had 4" of snow, I had to move the car as we'll probably get plowed...  I was so hoping to be done with this stuff, snow shovels are already put away!  We were easily a week or two into yard and bed cleanup.

We had a little shopping to do today, I FOUND 'EM, 'Peanut butter filled M&Ms', been wanting to try these.

Rosie did a lot of baking today, Brownies, and 7 layer bars, the house smells amazing.  

Went out to feed the deer this evening, it is really crappy out there, By 6PM it is slush city out there and we're currently in a local flood watch...

 

FDA Loses its War on Ivermectin: Agrees to Remove All Related Social Media Content and Consumer Advisories on Ivermectin Usage for COVID-19

 

Bidenomics means you can't cover your mortgage. Foreclosures are going up while home affordability is at its worst. In my home state of South Carolina, foreclosures increased 51%. Joe Biden’s economic policies are failing America.https://t.co/nvl9DXxgZN

Biden falsely claims wages are up more than prices.  Of course, this is a lie. Average weekly earnings are down by 4.2% because of Joe Biden and overall prices are up more than 18%.

United States Drops Off Top 20 List of Happiest Countries on Earth — For the First Time Ever

President Biden says that he’s cut the deficit by a trillion dollars. Yeah, Big Guy, and I got a bridge…

But what’s so interesting is these same people, very much including the Attorney General and the administration he serves, is working to eliminate cash, to make this a cashless society. Have you been to a stadium event recently? No cash accepted. You have to have a credit card. In order to get a credit card you need a state-issued ID, and somehow that’s not racist. But it is racist to ask people to prove their identity when they choose the next President of the United States. That doesn’t make any sense at all. That’s a lie. It’s an easily provable lie, and anyone telling that lie is advocating for mass voter fraud, which the Attorney General is. There’s no other way to read it. So you should know that. You live in a country where the Attorney General is abetting, in fact calling for voter fraud, and that’s the only chance they have to get their guy re-elected.” See here.

Biden took office with inflation at just 1.4%, and saw it increase to 9.1%, which is a 550% increase. Carter inherited an inflation problem and made it worse. Biden created one. Further, since Biden took office the average monthly mortgage payment has nearly doubled from $1,746 to $3,322, while the median household income has fallen during that time, crushing the American dream of home ownership for countless Americans. Americans overwhelmingly view Biden as the culprit in all these major crises. He cannot legitimately win, nor can anyone his party may replace him with.

Former Trump Defense Sec Says Liz Cheney, J6 Committee Threatened to ‘Make My Life Hell’ If He Contradicted Their Preferred Narrative

Quite simply, of late, the unbelievability of the government’s positions and actions has escalated significantly:

•     We are supposed to believe that the southern border is secure, the millions of impoverished, military-age males flowing into our country pose no threat to our economy, culture, or national security, and the only people opposed to this invasion are racists.
•     We are supposed to believe America is a fundamentally, systemically racist country.
•     We are supposed to believe a new economic principle (clearly not from the Chicago School of Economics) holding that paying the same price for a smaller bag of Doritos is intrinsically different from and somehow more sinister than paying a higher price for the same size bag of Doritos. (The latter might well be the result of inflation while the former is clearly some type of fraud.)
•     We are supposed to believe that our withdrawal from Afghanistan was a well-planned and brilliant success, not one of the worst military and foreign relations disasters in our lifetimes.
•     We are supposed to believe that DEI is a far better rubric than merit for making all our institutions—even our military—better.
•     We are supposed to believe that it is perfectly fair and right for biological male athletes to compete against biological females—despite the former being dramatically overrepresented in winners’ circles.

This list could go on for pages, but some of the examples are far weightier than others. The Russia Hoax, arguably the most corrupt, treasonous scandal ever orchestrated by the cabal of governmental agencies, opposition party, and media, delivered a massive body blow to government credibility. The COVID scandals—from identifying origination to lockdowns to the efficacy of the vaccines—and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal fully exposed in the Twitter Files release were a one/two punch combination that left government credibility on teetering legs. The knockout blow may well be the open lawfare being waged and escalated by the DOJ against anyone and anything that appears to threaten Democrat/Administration power.

In the meantime, Democrats have gone from a pro-worker and pro-border security party to one of open borders. They’ve changed from advocating that abortion be “safe, legal, and rare” to demanding any and all abortions for any reason at any point in the pregnancy; all objectors are bigoted adherents of the patriarchy. They went from “get your laws off my body” to “take this vaccine or lose your job.” They turned MLK’s colorblind dream into a race-obsessed nightmare. They went from champions of free speech to Big Brother censors and historical revisionists. Arguably, the biggest shift of all is on sex. Once advocates of women’s rights, Democrats no longer even know what a woman is. The Rainbow Mafia dictates Democrat Party positions today, grooming and recruiting young people at an alarming rate. 

 

That's All Folks!

It's a busy time here on the homestead

 

It's a busy time here on the homestead

Hoping the wind on Monday dries out the property some.

Rose started the Lawn tractor up and saw the bunny scoot out of a nearly bush.

Crocuses are finally blooming on Wednesday, Rose is working on the blackberry bed and snowball bushes today.  The beds are looking great!

SPAM used to require you to use a key to open it too...

Winston and Zebulon are having a blast this week, running and playing as Rose works out in the yard. The mud is mostly gone and the grass (what there is of it) is starting to green up.  They are going to bed early every day this week all tuckered out.

Purple Finches arrived on Thursday.

I was almost killed on the way home from work on Friday. I saw a white pickup come to a dead stop in traffic at the Rt. 101 intersection in Bedford. I was in the right lane beside him as I crossed over 101 when he just stopped, what the hell is he doing I thought, I drove on.  Up past Market Basket I saw the truck pull into the breakdown lane a couple times in my rear view mirror. I was stopped at the next light and this truck is coming up behind me fast, not slowing down, closer and closer, crap I'm gonna get hit I thought for sure it was over, I gripped the steering wheel as tight as I could, I had nowhere to go and waited, I heard screeching tires, the guy jerked right into the breakdown lane at the last second veering to my right just missing me. He went by me, taking a right, one second later a cruiser with flashing lights sped by me following him, Yay!!!  Cop, right place, right time!  Go Git him...  Scared the crap out of me... Not the way I wanted my weekend to start for sure. Someone was watching out me for sure.

Rose thinks the bear came in, the suet feeders were opened up though not destroyed and are now empty.

The swallows are due in any day now.

It's a yard work weekend, we're cleaning up the poplar down by the barn today.  My chainsaw was being ornery, didn't want to start after sitting all winter, 20 or so pulls later it finally sputtered to life... Up onto the stepladder to trim some of the branches that hang too low in the snow. I dragged 3 trailer loads of brush to the burn pile.  Rose cut all the Sumacs out with loppers, and she got the DR brush trimmer and cut out the brambles on the side of the shop and the driveway hill, it looks great now. While Rose did all that I cut another 12' off a dead pine into manageable pieces along the road, loaded it into the trailer and off again with 3 more loads to the burn pile, there's still 20' or so of it left all tangled in vines and pucker-brush. I lost my glasses throwing an unwieldy piece of log into the pile, I did find them though hanging low on a branch down by my feet. I mowed a couple sections of field as I made trips back and forth to the field. Rose trimmed back the wild Rose in the driveway while I raked the dirt and leaves the plow pushed into the perennial bed, I got the bed cleared of debris and took a full trailer load off to dump it all off the ledge by the pond.

All the Crocuses are blooming in the yard, Rose figures we're a good 5 weeks ahead of normal for mid March.

Bug B Gone tick stuff needs to get put down, one of my guys at work said he's already pulled 6 ticks off his dog in March, yikes...  I checked we were smart last year and bought 2 bags of the stuff.

It's raining on Sunday St. Paddy's Day in the morning, Corned Beef and Cabbage, carrots, and potatoes!  Yum!  I can't wait!

I re-filled some of the dog bones with peanut butter for the doggos.  Keeps the occupied for an hour or so.

Rose is off doing some food shopping, I'll peeled the carrots while she was gone, took a walk out, fed the deer and cut some pussy willows for her.

Corned beef and cabbage was awesome, the cabbage took longer than we expected but it was still great!  

 

Biden’s Economy

Bidenflation has devastated the average American. Prices on food are so high, the media and other Leftist refuse to provide real numbers. So, we either get deflated numbers or they omit items that will skew the numbers in the wrong direction to suit their narrative.

The Heritage Foundation tracks Bidenflation here, and the numbers are shocking.

•     Disposable income down 7.5 percent,
•     Home ownership affordability down 36.3 percent
•     Credit card debt up 38.7 percent
•     Monthly savings down 79.3 percent

The Democratic National Committee Senators voted AGAINST having this sentence on the census questionnaire. ‘Are you a US Citizen’? This allows for all illegal (undocumented) ‘residents’ to have a voice in our elections – just what the Democratic National Committee wanted all along. They continue to strike down all Voter ID requirements.

Biden unveils massive $7.3T budget with $5.5T in tax hikes, plans for ‘highest burden’ in US history

Dollar Tree, which owns Family Dollar, announced it will close 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of 2024 and 370 stores within the next several years.

From time to time, we warn about Social Security and Medicare becoming insolvent and why that’s happening. In short, when Social Security was launched, there were 16 workers for every retiree. Today, there are three, and it will soon be two. Similar ratios apply to Medicare.

There has been ZERO job-creation for US-born workers since June 2018… Zero.

All ~3.9 million is from immigrants.
(Chart from @zerohedge) pic.twitter.com/HGz0OSDvBD

Violence and crime are already completely out of control all over the United States.  In fact, you definitely wouldn’t want to be caught in the streets when hordes of our lawless young people are running wild.  If things are this bad already, what is going to happen if the election in November does not go the way that leaders on the left want and they give the green light to millions of radicals to cause widespread chaos all over America?  I think that we got a small preview of what this could look like during the riots of 2020.  Unfortunately, since that time the open border policies of the Biden administration have allowed millions of extremely desperate people to come pouring into this country.  The stage is being set for civil unrest on a scale that we have never seen before, and it certainly isn’t going to take much to push our society over the edge.

🇺🇸BIDEN: "We have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America!"

How many countries are there in America, Mr.President?pic.twitter.com/Yl0Gh1jxbF

 

 

 

 

“Is there no limit to how criminal the American government is?”

“This is treacherous actions against U.S. citizens,” said another. “Attempting to implement UN ‘migration rights’ with no respect for nation’s sovereignty. End UN membership. Toss them out of the U.S. Lockdown ALL borders.”

Still, others wondered how the Biden regime gets away with operating in such a lawless manner while “nobody does anything” about it.

‘This is pure treachery, and it has to be stopped,” said another. “They are using taxpayer money to pay the way for illegals to get here.”

“Another reason NOT to extend the continuing resolution,” said another, referring to how Congress has been funding the budget for what seems like forever.

This is just another kick to the collective groin of American taxpayers.