Don Sanborn's Blog: Man what a week...

Man what a week...

Last Sunday was the first time this year we're doing a complete poop patrol of the yard, it's got to get done! TMI?

What? Bird Flu season already? I haven't taken down my COVID lights yet...

Winston chewed off an outdoor extension cord end, no it wasn't plugged in. Picked up a new end at Ace Hdwr. to replace it.

How do starlings form perfect synchrony and swirl into complex patterns in the sky?

I'd probably crash my car if I saw this while driving... amazing!

Rose is leaf blowing Monday.

WINSTON STRIKES AGAIN... Our black lab Winston does it again...

Monday evening Rose and I had finished dinner, I went in to unload the clean dishes from the dishwasher and load it up with the dirty dishes on the sink sideboard. I'd chastised Winston at least 3 times as I reloaded the dishwasher to keep out of there, (he likes to try and lick the plates). I'd just finished loading it, was rinsing out the sink and hear the loudest god-awful crashing I'd ever heard, I turned to see Winston tearing around the kitchen island heading out of the kitchen trailing the nearly full entire lower dishwasher tray loaded with dishes and silverware with him, it crashed into the fridge and dumped all the dishes and silverware slamming up against the stove as he went. I finally yelled loud enough to get his attention catching him in the middle of the dining room, I carefully unhooked the dishwasher tray that has caught up in his dog collar and released him. Rose put him in the living room and closed the gate as we commenced clearing up all the shattered plates, saucers, and picked up all the silverware that was strewn about before reloading the machine once again. Maybe he'll think twice before trying to get to the dishes again. Nah, he's a Lab... It was chasing after him... Kinda wish I had that on video. The End!

WINSTON

Rose was out clearing all the lawn furniture out of the Barn Tuesday

Rose and I watched "Fallout" Season 1, all 8 episodes on Amazon Prime, we finished the series Tuesday evening and can't wait for season two.

Early Thursday morning the four bears were back at the house again around 12:30 AM, Zeb was up scratching at the bedroom door, I let him in, he settled down after an hour or so. I heard one of the bears huff outside the bedroom window, Zeb does not like the bears at all. I figure there's not a lot of food available this early in the season for four large bears to eat, we're hoping they move on soon.

Goldilocks and her 3 bears...

Jason and James came over on Thursday to help out on the farm cleaning out the old turkey pen.. We need to get rid of a bunch of old tires and hit the dump to get rid of metal scrap we hit Home depot to buy some plywood and grass seed. The boys were as always a big help! They got the stall cleared while I hauled the trailers of straw and manure out to the field.

Friday 4AM Rose said don't let Zeb out, he'd been up for an hour running around in the house whining, I waited until it got light out.

We took a ride to Manchester for 1/2" plywood, well that's what it used to be called anyway, now it's called 15/32" plywood, jeez, it's $27.78 a sheet, some grass seed $40 a bag ugh, 12 bags of bark mulch and the trailer was loaded.

Jason stayed on Friday helping with the driveway mess from the plow, he also finished up the turkey pen while Rose worked on all the chair cushions. We took Jason to Ollie's for dinner.

The weeping cherry is in full bloom, Rose said it was covered in bees on Friday as Jason worked on filling in some of the holes Winston dug trying his best to get to China.

A fleeting spring glimpse of the yard, sometimes we forget to actually look at what we've done and how truly beautiful nature can be.

Jason and I will work on the Turkey pen Saturday putting up plywood walls over the chicken wire. Jason and I finished the turkey pen, the it was off to do a little food shopping, and pick up 10 more bags of mulch at HD, a bag of potting soil, and some bug spray. The plant prices at HD are crazy, $14 for a potted rosemary plant and $4.99 for a single tomato plant. Yikes...

The black flies have arrived and they are hungry!

Today Jason and I worked on repairing an extension cord, and a hose end that Winston ate, we hit the grain store for a couple bales of shavings and two bags of "Wildlife grains" feed that everyone likes.

We turned on the outside water line for the faucet on Sunday, we put the gazebo top on the clothesline and Rose cleaned it up. Rosie tried to waterproof it Monday but, she ran out so I stopped at HD to pick up 3 more cans of the silicone spray, the weather's nice though.

It's almost YARD SALE season...

We got rain early Tuesday morning

We are all sitting in almost boiling water, but a lot of us are not noticing it. We are, or most of us are, in a spiral of deteriorating situations in our own regional settings and in worldwide settings, where events are happening faster and faster.

God sows the fastest growing seedlings not in our strengths, but in the soft soil of our weaknesses.

Rose was out with DR Weed whacker Thursday cleaning out some areas around the yard and field.

Jarrod's band the "Latchkey Trio" is playing "Riley's Place" in Milford on Friday night.

Higher prices, a broken border, raging wars, violent campuses—is this what Joe Biden promised Americans four years ago? Quite the opposite: In his 2020 convention address, Biden said that he would lead America away from Donald Trump and toward "a different path," where "together" we would "take this chance to heal, to be reborn, to unite. A path of hope and light."

If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day?

The tiny glowing diode deep in “Joe Biden’s” brain dims a bit more each day (pause) while low men and women in high places trifle with the fate of the nation. Everyone dreads what’s coming. In an election year when inflation is once again on the rise and the latest GDP report came in “well below expectations,” it would seem like a bad time to promise to raise taxes on millions of Americans. Yet that’s just what Joe Biden did. On top of that, his policies have cost lower- and middle-class Americans a whole heap of money. The inflation his spending bonanza caused is effectively a tax, and wages during his tenure simply haven’t kept up with the cumulative 19.4% price hike. Every single American is at least irritated by paying more for almost literally everything. Most are choosing not to do things they did just a few short years ago.

Bidenomics: A lower standard of living for everyone.

A Warning to America: 25 Ways the US is Being Destroyed | Explained in Under 2 Minutes

Now Joe Biden, seeking another term, is wheeling out the corpse of the U.S. economy and pretending that it is still alive. But even though economic conditions are bad right now, Joe Biden and his minions would like us to believe that everything is just great and that a new golden age of prosperity is right around the corner…

The International Monetary Fund last week ripped the Biden administration’s out of control spending, calling it “out of line with what is needed for long-term fiscal stability.” According to the New York Post, the IMF, an international organization aimed at fighting financial crises across the globe, warned that ever-growing national debt in the U.S. poses a long-term risk to the global economy. “Something will have to give,” the IMF cautioned in foreword of the World Economic Forecast published on Tuesday.

New York Home Depot Hires Guard Dogs to Protect Customers From Migrant Grifters

Bishop Says Biden Doesn’t Understand Catholicism — ‘I’m Not Angry at Him, He’s Just Stupid’

In the U.S. about 68% cant afford a $1000 emergency expense. Its been like this for a long time. Life can change fast. Self financial management should be taught in schools, but isnt. So you have people taking on thousands in debt, and one even moderate financial strain can snowball into trouble.

For nearly a decade, the D.C. swamp has used every tool in its arsenal to take down first candidate, then president, and then citizen Donald J. Trump. They’ve lied, connived, impeached, indicted, sued, misconstrued, cheated, deleted, changed laws, ignored laws, and just plain broken laws to take The Donald down.

When you have an unrestrained invasion from the third world, you become the third world.

The Final Sellout? Uniparty Devils Sending $95 Billion to Corrupt Foreign Governments – $300 Million Goes for Ukraine Border Security but ZERO DOLLARS for Our Own Border Security

For those of you thinking of buying an electric car to save the planet just read this.

Finally you get a “zero emissions” car. Presently, the bulk of the necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries come from China or Africa. Much of the labor for getting the minerals in Africa is done by children! If we buy electric cars, it's China who profits most! Let that sink in.

NPR editor says network ‘turned a blind eye’ to Hunter Biden laptop story because ‘it could help Trump’

Biden Tries to Dunk on Trump in Tampa and it Goes Horribly Wrong: “How Many Times Does [Trump] Have to Prove WE Can’t be Trusted?!”

“There’s a point to it of course,” he added. “It was a humiliation exercise. It was designed to degrade the country and dispirit the rest of us.”

Yesterday, 129 Democrats in state assembly defeated an amendment to prioritize homeless veterans over illegals for state shelters. Amendment is now dead. Massachusetts House Democrats Vote Against Bill to Prioritize Homeless Veterans for Shelter — Argue that Illegal Immigrants Need More Support Because They Don’t Speak English.

From The New York Post: Joe Biden is the least popular commander in chief at this point of his presidency in the last 70 years, below even Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, according to a blistering new poll — imperiling his chances of re-election.

$3.5 Billion Slipped Into Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill To ‘Supercharge Mass Migration From The Middle East’ …

As House Democrats were set to hand power over to the Republicans following their midterm loss, they slipped in a provision into the House’s internal rules under the guise of aiding their less affluent members; a $34,000 allowance to ostensibly help with living expenses in Washington D.C.