The resident coyotes continue to appear on the trail cameras. Here's a couple of infrared shots taken at the same location three days apart. The first was just shy of 10 PM and the second was at sundown....
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Sunday, October 14, 2018
Wile E. Coyote
The resident coyotes continue to appear on the trail cameras. Here's a couple of infrared shots taken at the same location three days apart. The first was just shy of 10 PM and the second was at sundown....
Scratch The Itch
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Sometimes you have to stop and scratch that itch.
Very satisfying...
Saturday, October 13, 2018
The Garden Chronicles
I am reminded that the onions have been curing in the machine shed for about a month already making it time to pull the remaining veggies. I also wish things would dry out enough for one last rototilling of the garden before the freeze sets-in. Alas, the soil is too wet already and there's more rain in the forecast for tonight.
Root vegetable kind of day here at The Platz.
German butterball potatoes
Carrots. Lots of carrots.
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Wefare Republican Style
We all are keenly aware that the Republican
administration raised taxes on imported steel and aluminum and our major
trading partners responded in-kind with taxes of their own on American-produced
agricultural products.
The fallout is that prices of most US-produced commodities have plunged faster than a turd in a toilet bowl.
United States agribusiness is being held hostage by all of this winning and the entire obscenity has been inflicted-upon US farmers and ranchers by Republicans.
Yes, you read that correctly. A Republican administration did this. And American farmers certainly did not send an invitation..
Sure, the Republicans have characterized this as unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. Hence the afore-mentioned turd. The result is that most everything from soy beans, ginseng, apples, pork, cheese, cranberries, orange juice, sorghum, cherries and Tennessee and Kentucky whiskey have been impacted. President Trump and his Republican allies have made sizeable gains in their efforts to fray and possibly break trade relationships assiduously-fostered over many years. The end game to all of this economic genius is that markets previously supplied by US producers may seek suppliers from Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and elsewhere.
Even more perplexing is that the answer to this state-sponsored meddling in an imperfect capitalist economy is the Republican adoption of depression era Roosevelt administration rules to make billions upon billions upon billions of dollars in welfare payments to farmers to assuage the economic loss they have inflicted-upon hard-working people.
Yes, you also read that correctly. The first wave of welfare payments started with applications beginning last month with a down payment of $12 billion in welfare payments that Republicans will make to producers who have suffered financial loss at the hands of their tax increase.
Don’t take my word for it – I’ve been
receiving regular, weekly emails heralding the arrival of the gravy train. And get this - as long as your average adjusted gross income
for tax years 2014, 2015, and 2016 is less than a paltry $900,000 you might just be
eligible for another $125,000 of cash money.
Free for nothing. Courtesy of Republican government.
And because China is the largest foreign purchaser of US Treasury securities this can be distilled down to one basic factoid: Republican government is going to borrow from China (and pay the Chinese government interest) so they can pay farmers not to sell pork, soybeans or most anything else to China.
Who’d a thunk any of this economic brilliance was possible three or four years ago?
Excuse me while I step thru the looking glass again….
The fallout is that prices of most US-produced commodities have plunged faster than a turd in a toilet bowl.
United States agribusiness is being held hostage by all of this winning and the entire obscenity has been inflicted-upon US farmers and ranchers by Republicans.
Yes, you read that correctly. A Republican administration did this. And American farmers certainly did not send an invitation..
Sure, the Republicans have characterized this as unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. Hence the afore-mentioned turd. The result is that most everything from soy beans, ginseng, apples, pork, cheese, cranberries, orange juice, sorghum, cherries and Tennessee and Kentucky whiskey have been impacted. President Trump and his Republican allies have made sizeable gains in their efforts to fray and possibly break trade relationships assiduously-fostered over many years. The end game to all of this economic genius is that markets previously supplied by US producers may seek suppliers from Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and elsewhere.
Even more perplexing is that the answer to this state-sponsored meddling in an imperfect capitalist economy is the Republican adoption of depression era Roosevelt administration rules to make billions upon billions upon billions of dollars in welfare payments to farmers to assuage the economic loss they have inflicted-upon hard-working people.
Yes, you also read that correctly. The first wave of welfare payments started with applications beginning last month with a down payment of $12 billion in welfare payments that Republicans will make to producers who have suffered financial loss at the hands of their tax increase.
And because China is the largest foreign purchaser of US Treasury securities this can be distilled down to one basic factoid: Republican government is going to borrow from China (and pay the Chinese government interest) so they can pay farmers not to sell pork, soybeans or most anything else to China.
Who’d a thunk any of this economic brilliance was possible three or four years ago?
Excuse me while I step thru the looking glass again….
Friday, October 12, 2018
Explosion of Color
From the trees in the yard is this:
Tamarack
Soft maple
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White oak
Tamarack
Red osier dogwood
Red oak
Sugar maple
Friday Music
The Steel Drum, or Pan, is a unique percussion instrument
that has only recently been popularized on the musical scene. Hammered from a 55-gallon oil barrel it is
skillfully tuned by hand to produce perfect musical tones. Steel pans are the only instruments made to
play in the Pythagorean musical cycle of fourths and fifths. The drums were developed on the Caribbean
island of Trinidad during the early years of the 20th century. The
artist who plays the steelpan is called a pannist.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – palace of pure thought
and Important musical culture - announced the 2019 nominees for induction Tuesday.
They are (in alphabetical order) The Cure, Def Leppard, Devo, Janet Jackson, John Prine, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, MC5, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Roxy Music, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren and The Zombies.
Looking at these names all I can say is that there is inspiration here for a Friday music playlist.
You can learn more about the nominees here.
They are (in alphabetical order) The Cure, Def Leppard, Devo, Janet Jackson, John Prine, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, MC5, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Roxy Music, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren and The Zombies.
Looking at these names all I can say is that there is inspiration here for a Friday music playlist.
You can learn more about the nominees here.
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