It's HOT!
The Dragonflies are back!
Worked on Rose's tractor nothing I did improved the way it ran. I ordered some more parts.
Sprayed the poison Ivy around the place.
A doe walked through the field this morning around 4:30AM
Saturday we went over to the Campground Jarrod and Crystal were at for the day. Jarrod was DJ'ing there from 7-10PM, quite the sound and light setup he has. Lots of folks dancing and having a great time.
Sunday after 4 days off always sad. We took a couple packages of bacon out of the freezer, Eggs and bacon and BLTs on the menu for today.
I saw a couple honeybees over the weekend, still way fewer than normal though.
We started picking Blueberries Sunday after feeding the deer. There were a lot more in the field bushes than the ones we planted on the side of the garden.
Monday I had to let 3 sparrows out of the screen-house, we suspect they are going up under the screening under the top of the tent.
Tuesday, it's gonna be 91 degrees again today thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon.
Wednesday it finally cooled off some, Rose mowed most of the yard, she saved me a couple areas to finish up after work.
We've got a lot of clover this year, bees not so much, most years you need to tip toe around honeybees on the clover.
We're off to the lumber yard today! Picked up 200 board feet of 1"x8"x9' boards 24 boards in total to redo the trim on the barn and workshop. Spent an hour cleaning up the table saw, changing the saw blade on that and a new blade on the chop saw too.
Fireflies were out Saturday night
Sunday morning the woodchuck strolled out into the field near the spring, Winston saw it and ripped out the back door bouncing on his fence line. Good boy Winston!
Facility power upgrade on Sunday AM went south...electricians brought the wrong part with them. Power was down for a couple hours, it took teams from all around the globe to make sure all equipment was shut down properly, Operational technology teams, Database teams, Global Services teams, IT teams, Network teams, which included folks from India, Mexico, US, Canada, and EU were involved. It was 6 hours before everything was restored back to normal. Ugh, now we get to do it all again in a couple weeks one the electricians get the right part...
Our Stella D'oro lilies are flowering
We didn't do a lot Sunday, nice breezy day. Rose brushed Zebulon, Rose swept the spilt grain off the floor in the shed while I fed the deer, I fertilized the tomato plant, and herbs.
Monday I mowed the front lawn once again 89 degrees!
Tuesday 91 degrees, Rose finished building flower boxes for the workshop, she made up some nice wooden brackets for them too. I helped putting them together with some nice 3" wood screws. I was gonna mow, too damned hot for that tonight.
Funny not funny... There's a Phoebe nest on the back of the barn, Rose mentioned she thought she saw a heap peeking out of the nest not moving, maybe dead. We haven't seen mom flying in lately. When I went down to assemble the brackets I pointed my flashlight up at the nest and sure enough I saw two babies with their heads hanging over the edge of the nest not moving, must have died. Rose and I decided we needed to get them out of the nest or flies would be on them soon. I was looking for a piece of wire to pull the carcasses out of the nest when Rose mentioned we had a short stepladder in the workshop, she placed it onto the wall underneath the nest, I donned a rubber glove to grab the birds out of the nest thinking maybe she'd have another clutch if the dead babies were removed from the nest. Well, lo and behold when I reached up with my gloved hand and touched one of the birds in the nest it moved! They're alive! Damned good thing I didn't find a hunk of wire to pull them out of the nest! We'll try and stay out of moms way as much as possible from here on out the Phoebe babies grow so fast they'll be gone in a week.
Wednesday a Heat advisory 95 degrees was issued for the area it goes up until 8PM tonight, ugh...
Word of the day—Pluviophile (n): a person who finds calm, happiness, and peace of mind in the rain.
Wednesday evening we fed the deer, 10 minute later the bunny showed up, we picked the blueberries, Rose grabbed a bunch of ripe red raspberries, the blackberries aren't quite ripe yet.
I noticed the trumpet vines were flowering on the roadside
Early Friday morning at 2-3:30 AM. The dogs were both up, all upset running around, whining, and very clingy. I went outside with Zebulon, standing in the quiet in the back yard when I heard Coyotes start howling and yipping, it sounded like several of them were up the street a ways, we haven't heard coy dogs here in probably 25 years, pretty cool! Haven't seen them yet.
I took the day off Friday Rose and I did some mowing, I worked on the tractor, no luck in resolving the problem with it yet, more things to try.
I was up before the robins on Saturday morning, 55 degrees, so quiet and calm before the world starts to wake. I was kinda hoping to hear the coyotes again, that wasn't to be, maybe they moved on.
Last night, House Republicans sent the rescission package to President Trump’s desk, gutting funding for fake news NPR, liberal PBS, and woke, fraudulent, wasteful USAID — something conservatives have been trying to accomplish for decades.
This massive win comes on the heels of President Trump signing into law the historic One Big Beautiful Bill, which:
- Renewed the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts
- Stopped tax on tips
- Stopped tax on overtime
- Stopped tax on social security
- Expanded ICE for mass deportations of illegals
- Funded the much-needed border wall
- And so much more
The cost of living is totally out of control, and it is absolutely crushing the middle class. Earlier today, we learned that the official rate of inflation has gone up again. Apparently it was the largest increase in five months, but I don’t put much stock in the official government numbers because I know how much they have been manipulated. In fact, the formula for calculating the official rate of inflation has been altered dozens of times since Jimmy Carter was in the White House, and every time they change the formula the goal is to make inflation look lower than it actually is. To me, what really matters are the prices that we are hit with on a day to day basis, and those prices have been skyrocketing. But they keep telling us that inflation is low. Give me a break! But they keep telling us that inflation is low.
TARIFFS ARE WORKING while lunatic Liberals and deranged Democrats all scream that Trump is ruining the economy
CNN Analyst Shocked Americans Aren’t Afraid of Media-Created ‘Climate Crisis’, Meanwhile, the press intends to double down on its climate hysteria.
In the meantime, keep me posted by email or comment if anyone finally gets arrested. Until then, none of what goes on matters. Nothing happens.
Democrats maintain that millions of people will be kicked off the Medicaid rolls. That’s technically true. What the Democrats won’t tell anyone is that the $1.1-trillion cuts in the Medicaid budget are aimed at the 11.8 million people who are:
- Able-bodied yet refuse to work (or refuse to look for work or refuse to accept a job handed to them)
- Illegal aliens who are not eligible for Medicaid
- People who don’t belong in the Medicaid system according to existing laws
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 wasn’t just a win for corporations and the wealthy; it was a massive boost for working Americans, middle-class families, and small businesses. But you wouldn’t know that from reading most mainstream coverage.
The climate issue is still alive today because the legacy news media long ago abdicated from their responsibility to tell the public all of the facts about it. The issue can die of a death of a thousand cuts when the public fully comprehends how they have the opportunity to pose tough questions to the authorities they encounter — teachers, journalists, policymakers. I’m old enough to remember when the bad guys used to flee from reporters asking them questions they could not answer. The public needs to flip that same image against the legacy news media.
Del Monte Foods, a household name in the canned food aisle for over a century, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey as part of a sweeping financial and operational restructuring.
Two weeks ago, the FBI issued a press release that should’ve been front-page news in every city across America. Instead, it will be spun into a feel-good story about “justice” and “accountability.” But let me give it to you straight.
- The Department of Justice just announced the largest healthcare fraud investigation in U.S. history:
- Nearly $15 billion in fraudulent schemes
- Over 15 million pills illegally distributed
- 324 individuals charged, including 96 licensed medical professionals
- 50 federal districts involved
- Only $245 million seized — a fraction of the damage
They’re calling it a win. I’m calling it what it is: an exposed nerve in a rotting system.
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