Clematis

The Clematis (KLEma-tis) is a genus of about 300 species within the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, and they are finally blooming on the farm. It’s official no more frost!

Pretty purple flower discovered while painting the fence. Happy weekend!

Dead Goldfish Heron Invasion

We hate Herons. Nothing about them is good, they’re on the menu nowhere.

Crack of dawn and I can see a great big heron standing still by our lake. These effn birds eat 10 pounds of fish a day so it’s always a constant battle to chase them away.

Herons, at least our visitor was very friendly and let me get 15 feet from him where he eating yet another of my goldfish. The thought crosses my mind to grab a firearm and pop him.

The heron takes off and the 7 inch fish is flipping. I pick it up and try to revive by holding it in the water to get some water into its gills. No luck. Dead fish.

Walk a few feet and there is another giant goldfish, deader than dead. Now I don’t know how long it takes a fish to grow but these two were pretty old, and pretty to boot. My kids stocked the lake with 50 minnow sized ones 7 years ago and they’ve been doing what fish do ever since. These fish were so fat, likely getting ready to spawn.

Set my kids glove by them to give you an idea of the size of his meal. No doubt the heron will be back for breakfast.

Bastards.

Tick Attack

Tick and I don’t mean Tock. Coldest spring on record and we’re under attack from ticks. Last night at dinner felt a little itch around waist and sure as shit, plucked a tick from my tidy white waistband. Stabbed it right on the dinner table. Real appetizing. Kids
freaking out.

Another busy day today of digging out trenches, weeding and mulching on the farm. Wore a hat most of the day. 70 degrees, sunny and windy as shit.

Grabbed a beer and a burrito. Laid down for bed and sure as shit another tick- this time on my head. DISGUSTING. Came right out with a pull but nasty, nasty.

Doesn’t seem to be too fat from having sucked my blood for who knows how long. I am hoping the little bugger wasn’t there for days and does not carry Lyme’s Disease. No spots on the bastard that I can tell.

Just nasty. Hmm, going to ask the vet
is we can use flea and tick medicine on humans! The Deet sure as shit isn’t working.

May 6, 2013
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Chemtrails Suck

Chemtrails suck. PHOTOS! Radar has not a cloud in the sky, and then the aircraft show up obscuring what should be a sunny day. It’s 70 degrees on the farm, at 30,000 feet it is surely colder. Yet even in the heart of winter, we rarely see the kind of obfuscation of the sun by chemtrails.

Why do some planes leave effluent and others do not? We suspect something is added to the fuel to cause the chemtrails. We get that contrails exist and then dissipate, chemtrails take forever to dissolve. We are all working outside on the farm, making efforts to plant and feed the animals, just what are we breathing? What are they spraying?

In photos, here’s a nice day taken over by chemtrail crap.

No UFO’s- only a few lens flares.

May 3, 2013.
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Chapters of Life

Making the later chapters in your life better than the early chapters. That’s what life is about.

“Everyday, everyday, everyday
Everyday I write the book
Everyday, everyday, everyday
Everyday I write the book, yeah”

Elvis Costello, lyrics. “Every day I write the book.”

FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Reblogged from Follow The Money:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boston-bombers-fbi-hunting-12-strong-1844844

The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.

Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.

More than 1,000 FBI agents were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.

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Conspiracy Theory and the Boston Marathon Bombing

Reblogged from Arthur Goldwag:

As a "hate expert," I am less interested in the who, what, or why of yesterday's terror bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line (you can take this to the bank: it was a person or persons who hates the US, and who at some point, whether driven by personal demons or ideology, concluded that maximally-publicized maimings and killings would advance their cause), than about the people--also driven by personal demons and/or ideology--who are certain that they already know all there is to know.

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