5712 Front Spring ’22

These should have been posted a month ago, but I often go a month or more snapping pics before getting around to looking at them.

Lawn can be watered twice a day when it stays sunny and still get burned.

More Chilling Than Imagined

I certainly cannot imagine how Dick Cheney’s daughter seems to be the only thing standing between fascism and democracy in this country. All you MAGA mutherfuckers are on notice. Anybody who even suspects they may have one word of support for Spraytan Stalin or any election lie nonsense is my mortal enemy. I’ll be thrilled to help some of you cocksuckers carry your lies and beliefs to the grave. That is something you can really believe.

Repeating myself to this wholly regrettable degree. is getting tiring.

Weed Tree Re-Invented

I did a little project last spring to clean up a climate-killed tree, transforming it into a pole light for the driveway. The other half of that tree went the same route again this year, but turned out to be considerably more difficult. We needed a new, longer ladder and somebody to watch me attempt suicide by gravity. So I waited until the Town guys were hanging out before their regularly scheduled landscaping activities, and invited them to watch with their flashing yellow light truck while I dropped branches onto the street.

Only issue with the taller side now is it sorta becomes a street light at this point. Maybe I can do a deal with the Town to get that going. These solar pole lights start getting expensive up into the +400-watt range. I had to replace the original unit installed a year ago, due to a failed battery. I haven’t checked it yet, but it was getting drained every night over the winter, so that is probably what went wrong with it. It was a 300-watt model and the new one shown below is an upgrade to 400-watts.

One cool thing about the tree is it isn’t actually dead. The main trunks died off, but it’s now sprouting new branches out of a few spots, so maybe it won’t eventually fail after the roots rot out! It really is a big ‘ol hardwood weed.

Alaska Burning

I’m no expert on deciphering the data in some of these systems, but this looks worse in just simple terms of density and number than what we had here with the Cameron Peak Fire last year. Not in the news because not enough people are suffering from it?

Bet the Canadians will start to complain pretty soon…

Why Now?

If recent history is any indication, it should be obvious. Republican margins of victory have been steadily declining in Presidential elections for decades. It was pretty important to hang on to it last time, even if it just happened to be with ya know, Scammy Davis Jr. Ironically, the future voter’s lives they seek to protect with today’s Supreme Court ruling will certainly add to that same untenable electoral trend amplified by the pandemic’s wrath. A new, dark chapter in America’s legal history is now underway, leading to things like raging pandemics, widespread gun violence and insurrections – little stuff like that.

Wanna bet they deliberately leaked it, in a soften-the-blow tactic to mitigate an expected potentially seismic backlash? How’s that investigation going, John Roberts? Expect the bible-thumping zealots to start going after contraception at the state level next. The patriarchal authoritarian medieval religious bullshyt has got to stop. No social entity, be it a government – Federal, State, or Local, Religion, Court or interests thereof hold authority over a free man or woman’s control of their own body.

All aboard!! We are headed towards a failed State, on the authoritarian train to civil war.

As long as it fits whatever definition your medieval superstition calls for.

Boots

Me and this guy are a couple of real gimpy buds, just glad to still be here.

The Definition of Integrity

I’m not devout enough to get the Gawd connection, but despite being a staunch right-winger, I believe Arizona House Speaker Mr. Rusty Bowers and me might see eye-to-eye on a few things.

Right and wrong don’t play politics.

“It was part of the terrifying and far-reaching conspiracy orchestrated from the Oval Office that began soon after the election. Trump illegally interfered with the Electoral College. He put the lives of ordinary Americans in danger. He sent a mob to the Capitol on Jan 6 threatening his Vice President. And to this day he remains a clear and present danger to American democracy.”

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