Mid April 2025

 Mid April 2025

 

 

 

Our Crocuses are up and blooming

Rose and I picked up some of the wheelbarrow parts we needed, I ordered the rest on Amazon.

We're headed to the feed store today for grain, we'll stop at Mom & Dads 

Three Raccoons came in to the deer-yard on Sunday AM around 2:30AM 

Roses sister Carol is selling their house in Delaware and moving to a new 55+ community in August.

Monday morning it was snowing by 5:30 AM

Rose was out clearing Puckerbrush and Raspberry canes on the side of the barn Wednesday.

5 Deer came in Wednesday evening

I got a Montgomery Wards catalog in the mail, who knew they were still out there...

Lambs in NH in 2025 wethered lambs will be $275, ewe lambs will be $300 the last lamb we purchased 20 or so years ago in 2006 was $40.00.  We used to buy newborn bottle fed beef calves for $25 a piece, not any more.

 

Rose finished clearing Raspberry canes out by the big poplars on the side of the barn Thursday, it looks great cleaned up.

 

I took the Wheelbarrow down to the workshop to rebuild it.   Lot of the bolts holding it together were rusted solid and needed to be cut off.  I was able to get all the bolts out finally, and have one good handle I can use as a template to drill holes in the new handles. It went back together ok.

 

Rose told me to come out the back door, PEEPERS we've got peepers, yeah I know it's the simple things, the woodcocks were Reepping too. Rose said she'd heard them fluttering/twittering as they flew by her earlier, too dark to see them.

Woke up Friday morning to 1/4" of snow on the ground.  My poor grass seed...

 

I finished the Wheelbarrow rebuild, it'll be good for another 20 years!

Rose and I got the metal owl sculpture up in the front yard.

 

 

Saturday morning I woke up at 4AM to a good inch of snow with more coming down, by 8:30AM we had over 4" on the ground, damn we're going to get plowed... luckily we didn't! The snow was down to 2" by 3PM Yay!

 

Supposed to rain several times Sunday

 

The snow's all gone once again.

 

Rose and I worked in the barn resetting mouse traps, and we too the roofing off the collapsed carport.

 

Monday it's sunny, I'm taking the day off to see if we can get more stuff done.

 

It was going to be warm so I opened a couple windows in the house

 

We cleared the back hill of Wild Roses and Raspberry canes, these things are vicious, they have an uncanny way of grabbing your leg then they'll reach around to grab the back of your shirt as I twist in pain to disentangle myself, aargh pulling away.  I grabbed the pole saw and cut out a bunch of dead limbs on the apple tree, and more raspberry canes, they'll come back eventually. 4 trailer loads later...

 

We took apart the old carport pulling out the 24" stakes and later taking apart the screws holding the frame together taking it down to manageable pieces so we can get it to the dump. One foot in front of the other—softly, steadily, always forward.

 

It got up to 75.8 degrees on Monday we got a lot done, not all of it for sure but we made a dent, we'll both be sore Tuesday morning for sure, despite the changes as we grow older over the years the soreness is a part it, part of what we do on this ol' farm, It was a good day!

 

The tree swallows are pairing up claiming houses.

 

We're eagerly awaiting the arrival of the hummingbirds, much like the swallows she knows exactly when they'll be here.

The ants will be here soon enough invading the kitchen, we'll put out Terro and soon enough they are gone, comes with owning an old house that has cracks.

Rose was clearing more brambles today, poking out in the field noting what needs to be cleared.  Still lot's to do.

Oh I forgot to mention Rose has seen the Eastern Phoebe twice this week.

We'll put down the first of the Tick stuff this weekend, were still a few weeks away from mosquito season so mosquito dunks will wait a bit.

9 Deer came Tuesday evening, the herd is growing.

Peepers at our neighbors pond and ours were a peeping away Tuesday night.

Our Sparrow is back sleeping under the back porch in the evening.

It's spring for sure, everyone's out running around, the woods are waking up.

Northern Lights visible on Tuesday night, supposed to be 3 out of 5 potential, took a couple pics, not much to see around 9 pm we'll check again later. Back out at 10:30 pm...

 

 

 

FARMERS

They ran to the groceries, they filled up their carts,
They emptied the Hannaford's, Market Basket, and Walmart,
They panicked and fought and then panicked some more,
Then they rushed to their homes and they locked all the doors.
The food will be gone! The milk, eggs, and cheese!
The yogurt! The apples! The green beans and peas!
The stores have run out, now what will we do?
They’ll be starving and looting, and nothing to do!
Then they paused, and they listened for a moment or two.
And they did hear a sound, rising over the fear,
It started out far, then began to grow near.
But this sound wasn’t sad, nor was it new,
The farms were still doing what farms always do.
The food was still coming, though they’d emptied the shelves,
The farms kept it coming, though they struggled themselves,
Though the cities had forgotten from where their food came,
The farms made them food every day, just the same.
Through weather and critics and markets that fall,
The farms kept on farming in spite of it all.
They farmed without thank yous.
They farmed without praise.
They farmed on the hottest and coldest of days.
They’d bought all the food, yet the next day came more,
And the people thought of something they hadn’t before.
Maybe food, they thought, doesn’t come from a store.
Maybe farmers, perhaps, mean a little bit more.

-Anna Richards

 

 

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DOGE unveils $400M unemployment fraud scandal: Toddlers, futuristic birthdates fuel outcry

Senator John Kennedy on AOC is pure gold:

“I consider AOC to be the leader of the Democratic Party.”

“I think she’s the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle.”

“Our plan for dealing with her is Operation Let Her Speak.”

So much for Democrats caring about immigrant children being separated from their parents, they just want those VICIOUS GANG MEMBERS brought back

The administration has not finalized plans, but escalating operations signal a more aggressive approach to combat cartels as a national security threat. The Democrats completely oppose all of this. How dare Trump try to put an end to violence in America, the flood of illegal immigrants, the trafficking of children in and out of the country, child slavery, illegal voting for Democrats, and the robbing of our social security system.

Democrats cherish violence. It’s all they have left. They tried to assassinate Trump twice. Elon Musk receives over 15,000 death threats daily just for figuring out how the Democrats have wasted trillions of dollars. No more laws and no more police, the Democrats scream. No more ethics and no more values for America, they demand.

Our healthcare system isn’t about health—it’s about business.

• And in this business, harm isn’t an accident. It’s built into the system.
• The more I uncovered, the more I realized:
• We aren’t just patients. We are customers.
• And we are all trapped in Big Pharma’s spiderweb of influence. 

Mom's 88th and the Tax Man Cometh!

 Mom's 88th Birthday!

  Pigeon's are doing a great job cleaning up after the deer in the yard.

James came over Wednesday evening we wanted to take him out for dinner for his birthday.  He's been very busy working. We had Chinese.

We had a red winged blackbird show up last week, and Rose heard the Oriole on Thursday March 27th. We're anticipating the Woodcock any day now too!

Dozens of Robins have been patrolling the fields

Mom's 88th Birthday! We're celebrating on Sunday

Something scared Zebulon last night, he barked 7 times and ran to the back windows to look out, unfortunately the front door cam batteries are dead. 😟

U.S. beekeepers report record honeybee deaths, with over 60% colony losses this winter — potentially the worst in history.

Had 4 turkeys trying to get over the fence along RT114 towards the deer yard.

Rose said the Starlings flew in Friday by the 100s making a racket, there were flocks of Robins out in the fields as well.

3:30AM Saturday morning it started sleeting, there were a couple deer in the yard, It's 39 degrees, and sleeting, by 4:30AM it had switched back to rain.

Something is moving the deer block in the yard, we haven't caught it on camera yet.

Ice is accumulating on the trees, we may lose power yet this weekend it's 32 degrees and raining Sunday AM.

The birches are bent over with the Ice

ICY Trees on the way home from Moms

Sunday we went over to Moms to Celebrate her 88th Birthday! 

 

We all had a great time catching up, Jarrod, Crystal, James, Nancy, Todd, Taylor and Jared, Joey, Amy, and Kelsey, Sheila, Rick, Heather, Justine and baby Mackensie, Rose and I.

Mom had a great time holding onto her latest Grand-baby Mackenzie

Snow's just about all gone, there's a couple piles behind the workshop and at the end of the driveway but otherwise we've started spring clean-up.

Rose is raking up around the beds, lots of bark scales coming off some of the Colorado Blue spruce, we've never seen that before.

April 1st 2025, No good April Fools jokes were played on Monday

We haven't seen the bears yet this year, I'm OK with that, they destroy the feeders if we had them up.

April 2nd we're supposed to get up to 2" of snow tonight after 8PM

Read an article about the latest Honey Bee die off,  60% over the winter. Sad they'd made a pretty good comeback last year.

We had a half dozen deer coming in lately.

Our Woodcock is back Thursday 4/3 Reeeepppp.  We'll hear them for a few weeks before we see 'em.

Tree swallows came in Friday Rosie was so excited.

Friday Rose and I worked out in the front yard trimming tree branches, I think we unloaded 6 or so trailers of trimmings and leaves.  Rose seeded the hill and over by the trailer that needed it. We transitioned to the burn pile cleaning up the area around it and put down grass seed. We did a lot of fall clean-up so we're ahead of the game this spring.

Saturday AM I woke early around 4:30AM, by 6AM the sky was crimson and the Woodcock was calling.  So cool hearing them calling.

We're a bit sore this morning, lots or raking, filling in holes, and cutting roots! Still more to do we've noticed 5-6 trees down I'll need to cut up and move.

Finished my 2024 TAXES today!  Woo Hoo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The Obama administration weaponized the IRS against conservatives, spied on a Fox News journalist, sued nuns over the birth control mandate in the ACA, spied on Trump, lied to Americans about Benghazi, armed cartels resulting in the death of a Border Patrol agent, and his CIA spied on congress,” one critic noted on Twitter/X.
Fact-check: TRUE.

From COVID origins to the Steele Dossier and Biden's mental health, and more. They lie, and lie, and when they get caught they shrug.

• The Biden administration deliberately destroyed the southern border and welcomed 12 million illegal aliens. And then it lied that Biden had no power to stop the influx.
• The media fabricated the excuse that "comprehensive immigration reform" was needed to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books.
• Upon inauguration, Trump, in a matter of days, stopped what Biden had deliberately engineered for years.
• Biden's handlers wanted new millions of poor illegal aliens, dependent on social services, to swarm the borders.
• They saw them as future voters and constituents to fuel their victim/victimizer Marxist binaries.
• The legacy media permanently ruined its reputation and will likely never be seen as credible again.
  
  The Biden administration, overseer of many of these lies, will be regarded as the most duplicitous and dishonest presidency in modern history. 

In a clip posted Friday to the social media platform X, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the comically overmatched and often creepy 2024 running mate to former Vice President Kamala Harris, told what looked like a small gathering of supporters that Democrats needed to form a “shadow government” in response to President Donald Trump’s administration.

Tim Walz says Democrats are losing elections because they’re not pushing hard enough in favor of DEI, wokeism, and allowing illegal immigration.   As every honest person knows, the exact opposite has held true for years. Democrats have enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the dissemination of information and opinion. Nearly the entire establishment media carries water for Democrats’ preferred policies. Hollywood and the universities do likewise.

With all the fraud and embezzling exposed of USAID, we can now see all the FAKE science revealed from the past decade, including the non-evidence-based Plandemic of Covid and all the dirty, filthy vaccine biological warfare waged against humanity under the guise of “follow the science.”

Come to find out, most “peer-reviewed” scientific studies and clinical research has a fixed outcome from the beginning, when Pharma gurus pay big bucks to fit it all into a narrative that suits them selling toxic drugs, dirty vaccines, and depopulating the planet.

Turns out when you follow the science all you find is a money trail leading to corruption, not scientific at all. To follow the science means you unwind all the fake science, the lies about climate change, the horror stories of lockdowns and masks failing to prevent the contraction and spread of virus, and the biggest frauds on the planet, like Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates. 

Socialism is founded on flooding stable countries with illegal immigrants so everyone is poor, starving to death, and reliant on Big Police-State Government

You understand, all these lawsuit shenanigans with select federal judges from Woke-crazed districts like Boston, San Francisco, Rhode Island, and the DC Beltway are aimed at provoking a second civil war. The objective is to burden Mr. Trump with so many restrictions on the executive that the country can’t be governed without declaring a national emergency.

This is the Democratic Party’s desperate strategy to stay alive: to preserve the flow of taxpayer money to its minions stuffed into the organs of government like cancer cells, and the vast network of NGOs that employ its agents and spread its sickness. The Democratic Party is a malignancy within the republic and the money is the blood-flow that feeds it.

 

Everyone knew that there would be violence once Donald Trump returned to the White House.  He has been the most demonized man in America for the past eight years, and there are a lot of people out there that have deeply internalized the propaganda that has been relentlessly pounded into their heads.  At this point, there is no president in the entire history of our country that the left hates more than Donald Trump.  Just the mere thought of him can provoke uncontrollable rage in many leftists.  So it was inevitable that there would be violence, and I am entirely convinced that what we have experienced so far is just the beginning of a tsunami of civil disorder.

CDC finally halts $11 billion COVID funding scam as health officials admit the ‘pandemic’ was a fraud

Obama accused of laundering USAID funds to fuel global protest movements, regime change operations, it all goes back to Obama...

“HATE TRUMP” – The sole goal, policy, stance and ideology of the sinking Democrat (Communist) Party and every single (Fascist) Liberal in America

 

Well, the good news is that this is one of the seven federal agencies just closed by DOGE and President Trump. And it was so incredibly corrupt, so cartoonishly wasteful, that it’s actually difficult to believe that it was even real. But, oh, it was real. Very real. And once you hear how these people dwelled in their government palace, you’ll understand why the swamp is terrified right now.These are the government slush funds the left is fighting to protect. They’re out here firebombing Tesla dealerships—risking their own lives and freedom—not for justice, not for the people, but to save corrupt agencies that exist solely to bankroll lazy bureaucrats and their overpriced oil paintings.

Just think about that for a second. How brainwashed do you have to be to commit arson for the rights of elitist paper-pushers to blow taxpayer cash on BMW leases and dog photo storage?

The left hasn’t just lost its soul—it’s lost its damn mind, too.   

REPORT: One-Third of D.C. District Judges Were Not Born in the United States and Had No Prior Judicial Experience When Appointed 

End Times Villain Bill Gates Says That AI Will Replace Humans In ‘Most Things’ Who Will No Longer Be Needed In The Coming Dystopian Future

The skirmishes between the judiciary and the executive branch, particularly since Trump’s election, have escalated into a full-scale war with unelected partisan judges refusing to let President Trump govern. Although this looks like a war between the President and the Courts, it’s really about the Left vs. the Right. And the Constitution is caught in the middle.

Destroying the Constitution

The Progressives, especially since President Woodrow Wilson, have a long history of undermining the Constitution to meet their own agendas:

    Progressives demanded that Congress delegate its lawmaking authority to supposedly ‘neutral’ and ‘apolitical’ experts. They then sought to shelter these professionals and technicians from the play of raw democratic forces by providing them with robust protections against presidential removal. Progressives take not as a flaw but as a positive design feature the ability of these independent agencies to subvert a presidential agenda and frustrate the majoritarian preferences that lie behind it.

When we study the actions of the judiciary carefully, the political left claims that Trump is creating a constitutional crisis; in fact, the crisis is an ideological one. The term “constitutional crisis” is meant to cause alarm, not define the facts of what is occurring. 

Her attacks focus on the dislike for Trump and his agenda, rather than basing her arguments on facts. Aside from the author’s use of hyperbole, comparing Trump’s actions to the South in the Civil War, no evidence is given that he has attacked the rule of law. He hasn’t shown disrespect for the law, but only for the attorneys and justices who have practiced lawfare. And in fact, he is trying to re-establish the meaning of the Constitution that the Founders intended. Since his approach is unconventional, the progressives insist he must be wrong.

Border Patrol asked Rochester, NY cops on patrol for emergency assistance on Monday after pulling over a van with an estimated eight people inside. Rochester cops responded to the scene with lights and sirens, ordered the suspects out of the vehicle and helped put them in handcuffs, according to local WABC affiliate WHAM. It was not immediately known why the van was stopped.
But the completely routine police response was enough to raise the ire of Democratic Rochester Mayor Malik Evans, who held a press conference on the incident Wednesday.
“The officers on the scene verbally directed the occupants to get out of the vehicle, and this is against our policy,” he said. “Our policy is crystal clear. City police officers do not help or participate in federal immigration activities,” he added, noting he personally instructed Police Chief David Smith to remind every member of the force about the directive.
I would quit that minute. The whole police force should quit in protest. What kind of TDS-infected, anti-American scumbag would ever come out with a statement like that?

Trump administration cuts $11 billion in COVID-era public health slush funds: Ending the era of waste and abuse