February already...

 

Rose got me FIERY gifts for my birthday, a cool Vortex tabletop Firepit.

 And a Propane Fire Pit 50k BTUs, cool on the sides puts out a lot of heat.

Rose was shopping at Market Basket a couple weeks back, standing next to an older woman looking at the rotisserie chickens up front, sadly the woman commented to her that she just can't afford these any more. Sad indeed.

Mom & Dad took us out to the Homestead restaurant for our Birthdays on Sunday Steak Tips, yum...

Rose's Birthday on Monday the 27th, I picked up Chinese food and a strawberry cheesecake for dinner!

Deer finally came back to the deer yard early Tuesday morning.

We got another 4" of snow on Friday night.

We went down to Pepperell on Saturday, stopped by Roses brother Jimmy, he was looking good, and getting around well too.  We went down to drop off a couple dinners and lunch for Mom & Dad, I was able to replace a lamp switch that was acting finicky while we were there.

The Moon and (Venus?) looked weird in the sky last night

Feb. 2nd, Yikes, -4° degrees Sunday morning at 4AM.

The world-famous prognosticating groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow when he emerged from his den in western Pennsylvania early Sunday, meaning six more weeks of winter, according to the beloved and age-old 132-year-old folklore.

Sunday off food shopping, prices are staggeringly high!  $21 pot roasts

Fox is still coming in nightly

We had a small herd come into the deer yard on Sunday, Feb 2nd 5 or 6 deer came in around 7:15PM.

We fed the deer extra Tuesday evening in expectation of the herd returning

Thursday AM it started snowing by 8AM we'll have to snow blow for sure.

Superbowl Sunday is a comin' this Sunday!

We have 5-9" of snow due in this weekend, that'll make snowblowin' 3x in the past couple of weeks.  

• We'll have to make the New England obligatory run to Market Basket for Bread and Milk
  
• It's only rough because we blow the deer yard, the walkway, around the house, walkways to the shed and workshop, back and front yards (because we like driving up to the house with groceries) too.  Takes a couple of hours!

Level of Democrat panic over Musk freezing USAID “unlike anything ever seen”

Just remember, COVID-19 was never bad enough to SHUT DOWN the BORDER

TRUMP 2 weeks in:

Mexico caved
Panama caved
Colombia caved
Venezuela caved
Canada panicking
Mass deportations
Hostages are home
DEI programs ended
Bureaucracy slashed
FBI purges are underway
USAID funding cancelled
Gender ideology eliminated
DOGE already saved billions
51 intel agents lost clearance
Border crossings drop by 93%
Reservoirs filled up in California
Just to name a few developments

Trump’s “deals” often reflect a simple truth–the best “deal” for the American people is freedom. Just as our founding documents outline, if only we would honor them.

It’s time we take a page from the president’s playbook and reframe the issues. Take tariffs. Instead of debating market reactions and filling column inches with banal retaliatory possibilities, look at the deeper issue: America shouldn’t need to tax its citizens. The federal government should operate within the original constitutional bounds before the progressive era changed it.

This forces our federal government to confront fiscal realities and carve a path of liberty for younger citizens who could witness a return to a limited government within their lifetime and reap the rewards. And, yes, a strategic Bitcoin reserve plays into this. Issues don’t exist in vacuums, and it’s time to stop pretending they do.

As the saying goes, you can’t pass on what you don’t have. If we want our kids to be free, it starts with us. I, for one, am hopeful that it will.

Thanks To DOGE, We Have Been Learning That Our Government Has Been Doing Lots Of Very Bad Things

The Left is moaning with every action Donald Trump takes to end the WOKE culture of the Obama/Biden years. Obama started the movement as he convinced America that exceptionalism is terrible, that America First is evil, and that there should be no winners and losers. DEI survived the First Trump term and flourished during the George Floyd Summer of Love in 2020. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris embraced the culture and put together an administration emblematic of the country as they saw it. All of this hard work by the Left resulted in the worst Presidency in our history. 

Democrats Can’t Stop Trump’s Agenda

This lightning-fast confirmation process is a clear message to Democrats: Their games, delays, and whining won’t work anymore. The Republican-controlled Senate is steamrolling ahead, ensuring that Trump’s America-First policies get implemented immediately.

For years, Democrats used bureaucratic slow-walking and manufactured scandals to delay and derail Trump’s first administration. Now? The swamp is losing its grip. With Gabbard, RFK Jr., and others ready to take power, Washington’s elitist stranglehold is finally breaking—and Democrats are powerless to stop it.

The largest and most bloated bureaucracy in the history of the world has been thrown into a state of complete and utter chaos.  I have no idea how all of this is going to end, but it sure is entertaining to watch.  President Trump is firing people left and right, and Elon Musk is storming around Washington D.C. like a bull in a china shop.  I think that the words “shock and awe” don’t even begin to describe what we are witnessing.  Nobody has ever dared to go into these ultra-powerful government agencies and start turning the tables over.

Half the country thinks winter is over and we are positioned to return to greatness.
The other half thinks we’re approaching Holocaust 2.0

USAID Was Spending $268 Million to Fund Over 6,000 Approved Journalists – While at the Same Time Spending MILLIONS to Silence Conservative, Independent Media Like The Gateway Pundit

Media melts down as President Trump finally starts draining the swamp in a rapid series of events the MSM cannot seem to keep up with so the official narrative is once again ‘Orange Man Bad’, the MSM doesn't quite know what to do except take to the pages of liberal news outlets to whine, complain, and warn their dwindling followers that the ramifications will be dire, and questioning Trump's authority to push his agenda through.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is warning that the “next pandemic” will soon strike and is calling for “preparedness.”

Democrats are hoping that Trump will make mistakes, and hope to capitalize on them when he does. But for now, they are scrambling to find enough lawyers, and lawsuits, to slow down the fastest start in presidential history.

Trump’s Deportation Forces Raid Makeshift Nightclub in Denver, Colorado: Drugs, Weapons, Cash Seized – 50 Illegal Aliens Linked to Venezuelan Tren de Aragua Gang Taken into Custody

This administration is night and day different compared to the previous clown show.

The damage caused by 4 years of “Bidenomics” has been so immense that it is difficult to put it into words.  Everywhere we look, the U.S. economy is rapidly deteriorating all around us, and it would literally take a major miracle to turn things around at this point.  Needless to say, the condition of the economy was one of the biggest reasons why Donald Trump won the election, and he insists that he can get fix it.  Now he will get his chance.  But the economic challenges that he is facing in 2025 are far greater than anything that confronted him when his first term began many years ago.  If Trump is able to get the U.S. economy moving in a positive direction after everything that has happened during the past 4 years, it will truly be a historic achievement.

Nobody can deny the facts that I am about to present to you, because they are indisputable.  Collectively, these facts clearly prove that our economy is a complete mess right now.   

The following are 25 signs that the U.S. economy is dying after 4 years of “Bidenomics”…

#1 In 2024, sales of previously-owned homes in the United States fell to the lowest level since 1995…

#2 Pending home sales dropped another 4.5 percent last month.  That was the fastest rate of decline that we have seen in more than two years…

#3 The proportion of credit card accounts that are just having minimum payments being made on them just hit the highest level in 12 years…

#4 The 60-plus-day delinquency rate for subprime auto loans just reached the highest level ever recorded for the month of December…

#5 Credit rejection rates have hit levels that we have not seen since the global financial crisis…

#6 Restaurant chains are going bankrupt at the fastest pace since the beginning of the pandemic…

#7 After rising 12.7 percent in 2023, the cost of home insurance went up another 10.4 percent in 2024…

#8 The average price of a dozen eggs went up 36 percent in just 12 months, and it is expected to go even higher during the months ahead…

#9 The household income required to purchase an average home in the U.S. has more than tripled since January 2012…

#10 A “healthcare giant” that operates 16 hospitals in the U.S. has just filed for bankruptcy…

#11 The hiring rate in the U.S. in the month of November was “the lowest since the early 2010s”…

#12 The Washington Post has announced that it will be laying off about 4 percent of its workers…

#13 It is being reported that CNN will be laying off hundreds of workers…

#14 As a result of closing their Monterey plant, 433 Perdue Farms employees will be looking for new jobs…

#15 Over the past year, Intel has laid off 3,000 workers in the state of Oregon alone…

#16 Meta is one of the few companies that is doing fairly well right now, but they are conducting mass layoffs too…

#17 Kohl’s has decided to permanently shut down 27 “underperforming” stores…

#18 Over 200 Advance Auto Parts stores are up for sale…

#19 Approximately 500 Big Lots stores will soon be shut down for good…

#20 Walgreens has announced that it will be permanently closing 1,200 stores…

#21 In 2024, a total of 7,325 stores were closed in the United States.  That was the highest number that we have seen since the early days of the pandemic…

#22 Coresight Research is projecting that a whopping 15,000 stores will be closed in the U.S. in 2025…

#23 Cargo theft in the United States has hit a brand new all-time record high for the second year in a row…

#24 59 percent of Americans don’t even have enough money to pay for a $1,000 emergency expense…

#25 61 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 35 say that they feel “financially stressed”…

Trump is a machine driven to bring America back to a land of opportunity and prosperity for those who earn it through meritocracy. It is beyond comprehension that Biden had signed an action that would limit white men as air traffic controllers and replace them with people with physical and mental challenges.

As many times as I hear that, I wonder how deranged you need to be even to think it. That is the type of insanity that Trump and his A-Team are tasked to uncover and correct. The Left is making noise and trying to convince America of the danger that is Donald Trump. His actions will be our triumphs and will finally push aside these noisemakers. The Democrat Party is wounded and floundering. Its resistance to Trump may put it on the heap along with DEI.

Turbo cancer most likely caused by Covid jabs has increased breast cancer cases in America by almost one thousand percent in just 5 years

First plowable storm of 2025

 First Plowable Snowstorm of 2025

I received a couple more seed catalogs last week, I've been reading them cover to cover and dreaming of garden 2025.

Trudeau is out, our 51st state?  Trudeau says 'not a snowball's chance in hell' Canada joins U.S. | CBC News. Trump celebrates Trudeau’s resignation, calls for U.S.-Canada merger

Winter camping?  I've been thinking about it...

Our medical system is broken!  $30-50 dollar co-pay every visit.  I wait 6-12 months to get in to see my primary care doctor, 6+ months to get in for an eye exam, jeesh... On a positive note my recent visits to a couple of local urgent care facilities (Rivers Edge, and Dartmouth in Manchester) seemed to be better managed than in the past!

They were talking about a snow even for the weekend of the 12th, but last I heard it'll miss us.

I cooked up some clam chowder, over the weekend, I added a can of minced clams, a small can of corn, whole milk, and butter, awesome!

It's Chili season...

I picked up some sourdough starter, hope to get the starter bubbling this weekend, it'll go great with our Chili!

Fox has been coming into the deer yard nightly.

I cut up a ham into 3-4 bags for us, a whole ham is too big for us.  I brought all the fat scraps and bone out to the deer-yard for the foxes.

Winston has a new game, the hall gate that leads upstairs was removed, he'll run up and grab one of my slippers or a sneaker out of the bedroom if we forget to close the door, he has yet to destroy one but... He's also dragging the bathroom and hall rugs down to the loveseat.

Looking like a largely snow-less winter here this year so far.  We're getting an inch or so Saturday, it actually turned into 3".

Running errands Saturday, we stopped by Mom & Dads on Saturday dropping a few dinners and lunches off. Tractor Supply for dog food, we picked up some onions for soup, and cabbage so I can make some sauerkraut.

We simply don't know what this critter is, maybe a possum???  You tell me...

We're making up some Turkey soup on Sunday, none left in the freezers. We'll make some Chili too.  Rose is working on the Soup, I'm cooking up the steak, stew beef, ground beef and andouille sausage for the chili.  Rose and I are dancing around each other between the fridge, spice cabinet and the stove.  We're gonna need some bigger pots!  The house smells amazing!

2 Gallons of turkey soup and 2 gallons of chili are done, the Turkey soup was taking too long to cool outside so we split it into two pots, Rose was nearly done  ladling the soup into quart zip-lock bags burping the air from each bag, laying them flat in cake pans, it didn't take long and into the freezer it went. We'll have turkey soup and good bread for dinner Monday evening.

We pulled some trugs out of the shop and brought those to the kitchen, Rose is sorting the contents.

I cleaned the pellet stove again last night seems these pellets are dirtier than those we've purchased in the past.

Didn't see anyone come into the deer-yard last night.

Brr 7 degrees this Friday morning

Weather folks are predicting 3-6", now up to 4-8" of snow for us Sunday evening. "This will likely end up being the first general snowstorm for the Interstate 95 corridor for the mid-Atlantic and New England."

With the storm approaching tomorrow, we'll get to the grocery store today to pick up the obligatory bread and milk!

Sunday I pulled the meat off a couple of rotisserie chickens, Rose made up two  pot pies!

Sunday we put the Christmas tree away in the back of the shop, and cut some straps to put between layers of totes.

I ran the generator for 15-20 minutes to keep the battery topped off just in case we lose power.  Rose made up an extra pot of coffee.  I think we're ready for the snow, we always think we're ready and mother nature has a way of outdoing herself.

The back yard is a mud pit again mainly due to the dogs constantly running through there.  We'll wait until after the storm to put more straw down to keep us from sinking down into it.

Last night we got about 8" of light fluffy snow Sunday night, perfect for the snow blower.

Monday morning, plow guy came and plowed the driveway, we have a good 8" of snow to clean up this morning.  

Rose dragged the snowblower out of the shed and it started right up on the electric start it. She started snow-blowing the hill while I roof-raked the house. The snow was light and fluffy the snowblower approved.

We're in it now.  -7.1 degrees Tuesday AM, we got down to -12.8 degrees Wednesday morning.

Work is crazy, 30% of staff are out sick over the past week, some have Covid!

Yup, I can't believe it either.  Thursday, January 23, 2025.  I'm 65!   Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-five?  OK the Beatles song actually says "When I'm 64" the song still plays in my head though...  

Sunday mornings go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

Rose made me my fave Shepherds Pie, and a Chocolate Strawberry cake!

Jan 24th It's my brother Joe's Birthday today!  Happy Birthday hope you have a great one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Our Long National Nightmare is Over’

 

President Donald Trump (GOD but I love being able to say that again) is back! Stating today, or tomorrow at the latest, things are going to begin changing for the better! So, let the good times roll!
 

This is when Elon puts his open hand over his heart (which by the way is NOT part of the Nazi salute anyway), and raises it to the crowd, who are all cheering. He does it twice, out of pure excitement and gratitude, but the FAKE NEWS legacy media saw it as a grand opportunity to play the Nazi card they love so much, still trying to convince their base that the new Trump administration is going to round up all the Democrats and Liberals and send them to concentration camps and the Bayer/Monsanto gas chambers.

Even though the Nazi-style government by the Democrats is over, fake news is STILL pushing the false narrative that Trump and Musk are Nazis and White Supremacists

Joe Biden Pardons MULTIPLE Family Members in Shocking Abuse of Power

Joe Biden has used his presidential pardon power to grant clemency to multiple family members on his last day, raising serious questions about corruption, nepotism, and abuse of power at the highest levels of government.

Biden issued preemptive pardons to James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden for any nonviolent offenses they may have committed from January 1, 2014, through the date of the pardon.

Joe Biden Pardons Tony Fauci, Loser Mark Milley, and Entire J6 Select Committee of Liars in Final Act Against America

Never forget what the Democrats have done.

The mask is completely OFF.

Reagan Once Said, 'We Should Measure Welfare's Success by How Many People Leave Welfare'?

Biden exits office with record-low approval, majority call presidency a failure

What could happen if Trump and Congress, possibly following advice from DOGE, would “take away healthcare,” meaning radically reduce healthcare BURRDEN? Suddenly, medical care could become affordable, timely, quality, and compassionate. 157 million workers would get a raise of $23,968 to spend as they choose. Hopefully, they would put the money in a new, deregulated and therefore unlimited, bank account called a tax-advantaged CSA (Care Spending Account). They could shop and spend their own money for both care and insurance. Sellers of both care and insurance would have to compete for consumers’ (buyers’, patients’) dollars. This would infuse free market forces into healthcare driving prices down and elevating service. With Washington no longer in charge, the doctor shortage would begin to resolve.

Wasteful spending on BURRDEN would drop dramatically, potentially releasing more than $1,500,000,000,000 to use productively for care and/or to return to taxpayers. (Pay attention, DOGE!)

Medicaid and the ACA would be replaced by block grants to the states for state-designed and state-operated medical safety nets. This would further reduce federal spending, improve predictability of federal as well as state budgeting, eliminate a powerful incentive to spend, and improve access to care for the medically vulnerable.

Looks like “taking away healthcare” would be very good for the health of Americans.

SHAMELESS: Joe Biden Issues Largest Single-Day Clemency for Criminals in American History, Shattering Old Record Set ONE MONTH Ago by Him

The New York Post reports that approximately 1,947 people are waiting to be pardoned upon completion of their sentence and about 6,625 cases are awaiting commutation. This means Biden still has time to set yet another record with three days left.

Even if he takes a pass, Biden will likely make other nasty moves before an actual leader arrives in the White House on Monday.

Energy Department Deploys Helicopters Over D.C. — Scanning for ‘Radiological or Nuclear Irregularities’ Ahead of Trump’s Historic Inauguration

Imagine the power we would have if we stopped fighting against each other in the name of two parties who care nothing about us.

Biden’s FAREWELL LECTURE criticizes abuse of power, misinformation, and the military industrial complex – everything his regime EXPLOITED every day for 4 years

Climate Change: The real question is, do you believe your own eyes or the report of a government-funded academic whose salary depends on providing evidence of warming?

TRUTH ABOUT BIRD FLU: All confirmed U.S. Bird Flu cases have been MILD with ZERO hospitalizations or deaths, and it can’t efficiently spread human-to-human

Biden, is handing out participation trophies for some of the worst people in the swamp in his final weeks in office.  Former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the two deep state weasels who led the frivolous Jan. 6 congressional Select Committee, each received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest civilian award in the country. 

Meanwhile, the supposedly serious and professional journalists, with their inside access and White House sources, accused those of us who noticed Biden's obvious decline of promoting dangerous misinformation. They spent plenty of time "reporting" on the right-wing plot to raise questions about Biden's fitness for office, even though polls showed that more than two-thirds of Democrats thought he was too old to serve another term. They kept interviewing Democrats who put party over country by lying about Biden's health. They took their word for it, because they're far less interested in "speaking truth to power" when a Democrat is in charge.

The American people, who were right all along, deserved better. We take a fair amount of pleasure in saying this: We told you so.

In the four years since the Capitol riot, Democrats have tried incessantly to turn it into a national tragedy akin to 9/11 and/or the Pearl Harbor attack. With the goal of preventing Trump from being able to seek the presidency again, they even called it an insurrection (it wasn’t) and accused Trump of inciting it (he didn’t). 

Climate Change Cult proven by science to be completely wrong time and time again

• Climate alarmists who support the fake climate change narrative love to use faulty charts, warped statistics, and cherry-picked graphs to propagate their lies. They will take a few hot years from a graph and use that as the focal point of their argument but leave off time periods before or even after that to draw attention to one highlight that supports their scripted narrative.
• Climate alarmists will say every natural disaster from now on is the “worst one” we’ve ever seen. Many of these storms are created by weather modification technology that adds to the precipitation, increasing flooding events to fit the narrative.  

The Biden-Harris regime is leaving behind a legacy of government abuses, censorship of Americans, and the weaponization of law enforcement against their political opponents. Two House committees have uncovered evidence of systemic abuse by federal agencies, the Intelligence Community, and Democratic leaders to suppress conservative voices, manipulate elections, and expand government overreach. Reports released in December 2024 by the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government detail a coordinated effort to weaponize law enforcement against Americans. These findings expose a troubling pattern of censorship, surveillance, and political targeting that undermines constitutional principles and raises alarming questions about the future of American democracy.  

But what should have been a unanimous vote broke partly along party lines. 145 pro-crime Democrats decided to vote to let illegals stay in America even if they sexually assaulted or beat women.  How sick does one have to be?
Republicans, of course, voted unanimously to protect women and get tough on illegals. 

The few duties “Joe Biden” had in that role (under poor supervision apparently), he converted into a money-laundering and grift operation — most notoriously his adventures in pre-war Ukraine, where First Son Hunter played bag-man from his seat on the Burisma gas company board. That racket evolved quickly and neatly so that at just about every airport around the world that Air Force Two landed, Hunter and “Joe” were clocking-in fat bribes, supposedly for “influence.” That was the joke, of course, because “Joe Biden” had no influence with his President Obama, who regarded him as an idiot, a bumbling Inspector Clouseau, of whom he famously said, “Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."  So, adios, “Joe Biden,” you miserable, treasonous bastard. History will record you as the one president so far who was consciously a villain outright, in true self-knowledge of his own wickedness. You left your country a wreck in every dimension: in national security, national bankruptcy, national pride, and national confidence. Go back to Delaware and sit in the dim light of your room with the curtains drawn so you won’t have to hear about the gruesome discoveries to come of what you left behind.

There has never been a worse time in history for Americans to try to live their lives in peace, serenity, safety and good health as the past four years under the Biden tyranny. Led by Obama and his communist cohorts, the U.S. government engaged in more corruption, embezzling, Ponzi schemes, drug running, human trafficking, wars, staged mass tragedies, and censorship than ever before in history. It’s been a 4-year horror story, and anyone who has survived is to be congratulated. 

Well, the loons are back in D.C., but they’re not here to welcome Donald Trump as he prepares for his inauguration on Monday; they’re here to scream, thrash, make a commotion, and just generally behave like escaped mental patients.

Trump Shuts Down Biden’s Migrant CBP App, Canceling All Pending Immigration Appointments