10:25 – It was 35.4F (2C) when I took Colin out around 0715 this morning, bright and sunny. It’s already warmed up to 53.5F (12C).
We spent a lot of time yesterday doing detailed garden planning. Not just what we’re going to plant, but how much of each and where exactly we’re going to plant it. Our last frost date, depending on who one listens to, is around mid-May, six weeks from now.
We’re going to start some plants indoors in small container arrays. When those are ready for transplanting, some will go into the garden and others will go into larger pots that will live out on the deck.
We made a quick run into town yesterday to Farmer’s Hardware. Barbara wanted to pick up some seeds we didn’t have. They carry Burpee seeds, all presumably hybrid, but that doesn’t matter for what we’re doing this season. She got two kinds of lettuce, some jalapeno peppers, and some yellow squash. We also picked up some bio-degradable planting containers, including a 4×9 array and ten 1×5 arrays. We’ll use those for starting vegetables and herbs, respectively, filling them with the starter mix we made up in a 5-gallon bucket yesterday, which is equal volumes of peat moss and composted cow manure.
They’ll sit on a table along the French windows next to the door out to the deck, where they’ll stay warm and get plenty of light. If that works well this season, next season we’ll probably put up floor-to-ceiling shelves along that window to let us get a lot more plants started in minimal space.
On our way home from Farmer’s, we stopped at Scott’s. They’re in the process of moving to a new cluster of buildings they’ve built a mile or so north of us on the road into town. They’re not officially open yet, but we stopped by to see what they were doing. Interestingly, they have a seed rack that contains exclusively heirloom/open-pollinated seeds.
They also have several hundred bags of animal feed piled in the middle of their main display area. I tried to convince Barbara that we should pick up some bags of chicken feed and then get some chickens. Colin desperately needs something to herd, and I figured free-range chickens would make a good flock for him. Barbara says no way. She’s not going to keep chickens. I suggested rabbits as an alternative, but she refused again.
* * * * *
Wouldn’t Colin eat the chickens?
No. Border Collies are basically wolves when it comes to herding prey animals, but they’ve had all the kill-instinct bred out of them. Our BC’s frequently corner squirrels, chipmunks, and other small rodents, but the only time one has killed any prey is when Duncan was standing with his face inches away from a squirrel who stood up and bit him in the snout. That was its last mistake. Duncan grabbed it, shook it to break its neck, dropped it, and walked away.
Of course, a small percentage of BC’s go rogue around the time they’re eight or nine years old. They basically decide they’ve had enough of herding and are going to kill something. A rogue BC can wreak havoc on a flock of sheep, killing scores of them in a few minutes. That’s why BC’s are retired from working before they reach that age. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does the outcome is horrible.
Reminds me of the classic cartoon. Two vultures on a branch, one says “screw waiting, let’s kill something.”
Had no idea that BCs snapped like that. Makes sense tho that the wolf reasserts itself sometimes.
n
BTW, our Lowes and Home Depot both carry a couple of seed lines that are organic, heirloom, GMO free, non-hybrid, or some combination of those features. They have LOTS of choices.
If only people did the same thing. Can’t you just picture it, an old guy snapping and going to a nearby liberal arts college and tearing through the faculty and students? Done right we could have scores of dead snowflakes in moments.
“Can’t you just picture it, an old guy snapping and going to a nearby liberal arts college and tearing through the faculty and students?”
Dang, that could be me, a few years from now, still embittered over my grad skool experiences in the English departments, and going on a rampage. And the nearest lib farts college is UVM down in Burlap. Which mos def is run by a totalitarian matriarchy and its pet metrosexuals and other deviates.
OTOH, I don’t have the energy for that sorta thang now, so I doubt I’ll have it in the future.
42 here, with mid-40’s for the week ahead and maybe a few rain and snow showers.
The police here just released the 2016 crime statistics. In light of things happening in Sweden and elsewhere, one particular aspect of the statistics has made the headlines. What’s annoying is that they present the numbers in a way that no one can make sense of, specifically:
Of a total of 495 identified criminals (remember, we’re a small country, that’s plenty), 298 were foreign, and 51 were asylum seekers.
The reason those number are useless is because they don’t say how many people in total are in each category. Hunting down current figures, and turning these into per capita statistics, we have committing sexual assault in 2016:
– 1 in 30000 Swiss
– 1 in 8000 foreigners
– 1 in 100 asylum seekers
So the asylum seekers are 300 times as likely to sexually assault women as Swiss citizens. Which is no surprise, given the cultures that they come from. Remind me again: why are we supposed to welcome these barbarians into our country?
“why are we supposed to welcome these barbarians into our country?”
Because of the worship of the goddess Diversity. You know, you’re too white as a country and need some darker skin, because skin tone diversity is the only diversity they recognize as diverse.
And Diversity is the single most important thing EVAH.
Hater.
n
(lotta people gonna be asking your question. lotta people gonna be called haters and racists and nazi. Look the namecaller in the eye and calmly ask “So what?”)
Come now, sir; Frau Kommissar Merkel in the country to your north sez that migrants and citizens can learn from each other. I guess that means that female citizens, forex, should either run away screaming when they spot one of these wunnerful migrants, or blow him straight to hell with the rifle issued to her family previously. By the government, amirite? Or did they stop doing that?
WRT to crime stats, your humble Murkan correspondent here who in another life was a police department statistics officer, charged with collecting those stats and sending them along to the State Police and the Feebies, can attest that there are countless ways to fudge them, depending on the outcome desired. From there the MSM gets hold of them and they also disseminate according to their desired outcome. By the time Mr. and Mrs. Citizen see these figures, they are likely to be meaningless.
Not only women. Preteen boys, too.
And you might want to keep tabs on the integrity of your livestock. Just sayin’.
“they are likely to be meaningless.”
Or in this case, TPTB having the willingness to release ANY bad news about migrants might mean the problem is 100x worse than reported.
Or there might be a swiss cultural thing that insists on accuracy and honesty in .gov and official statistics. No way for me to judge from over here…..
n
“Not only women. Preteen boys, too”
Someone once said to me “They’re all pink on the inside.”
n
Reminds me of the classic cartoon. Two vultures on a branch, one says “screw waiting, let’s kill something.”
I couldn’t find a source on the web, but I remember an old Far Side with a cowboy struggling to reach a pool of water in the middle of the desert. Above him, observing the scene, a vulture remarks, “Dang, I think he’s going to make it.”
Another vulture, flying into the frame with a piano clutched in his talons, proclaims, “Oh, no, he isn’t.”
Gotta love proactive carrion fowl … and cows with cateye glasses.
Someone once said to me “They’re all pink on the inside.”
That was nasty. No trigger warning. No safe space designated.
Keep up the good work!
But we can LEARN from each other.
Plus, I saw a little Muslim boy dead on a beach somewhere; and the Muslim kid who got beat up by nasty skinheads; and such rayciss brutality and violence against the Religion of Peace should never be tolerated or ignored, etc., etc.
Oh wait–the buggers invented algebra…
…Omnes interficere: quia non Deo suo.
Sort of like how Algore invented the internet.
A couple that I know from Ingress have a seed/plant company here in the Houston area. Some interesting seeds I’ve not seen elsewhere. I’ve never bought from them, but they are nice people.
http://www.kearleyseedsandpepperco.com/
(Anyone interested in Ingress? Let me know, I’ll send an invite.)
nick said:
You’re starting to sound like a Submariner. 😉
Good Morning all. I’ve been lurking for many a year.
Here’s a list of 230+ Heirloom Seed Companies:
http://www.off-grid.info/food-independence/heirloom-seed-suppliers.html
“You’re starting to sound like a Submariner”
Enlisted: “This is awesome, why not on Thursday?”
Officer: “Cuz Thursday is YOUR turn in the barrel.”
n
My planting is done – 4 tomatoes:
Early Girl as it first to ripen
Beefmaster for burgers and BLTs
Cherry for salads
Ace to complete the holy quarternary
Welcome, Dwight. Nice list.
Officer: “Cuz Thursday is YOUR turn in the barrel.”
Enlisted: “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
Dwight, thanks for the list.
Heirloom seeds will acclimate to the area they grow in, but it will take several years of seed selection in your garden. It is best if you can start with a supplier that is in your area or at least in your growing zone (too bad the list does not supply that data and I am not aware of any suppliers that supply the growing zone of the seeds origination).
I have had consistent reliable results with seeds from http://www.johnnyseeds.com/
I have been ordering seeds from them since the late 70s. They recently became a 100% wholly employee owned company.
I’m all for heirloom seeds and I think I saw this pointed to here as well as elsewhere
http://www.popsci.com/genes-hold-secret-tomatoes-lost-flavor
but….
I still want to see hybridizing and GMO as well. Some progress is good, and maybe some isn’t.
OTH the stupids get hold of the argument way too often. Look at the europeans declaring glyphosate carcinogenic with almost no real data.
_Outland (World-Lines) (Volume 1)_ by Dennis E. Taylor
https://www.amazon.com/Outland-World-Lines-1-Dennis-Taylor/dp/150563119X/
Book number one of a planned two book SF pre and post apocalyptic series. The book is self published via CreateSpace. I read the POD (print on demand) trade paperback version with excellent fonts and paper. I will buy the sequel when it is published.
Basically, a group of college students invent a trans-dimensional device and start exploring a parallel Earth that does not have humans on it. His description of the wandering Smilodons is unnerving. Then the Yellowstone Super Volcano blows up back on their home Earth.
The book pays very serious homage to _Wildside_ by Stephen Gould. It mentions the book in the story a couple of times.
https://www.amazon.com/Wildside-Steven-Gould/dp/0312854730/
I really enjoy the author’s writing style. Short chapters and continuously changing points of view. Also his books do not take themselves too seriously. In my opinion, the author’s second book, _We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse) (Volume 1)_, is the best SF book of 2016.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/1680680323/
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (I could be persuaded to go 5 stars)
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (141 reviews)
@ dkreck ,
yeah, the wailing and gnashing of teeth over on thesurvivalistblog.net when a guest author wrote a very good article about what it would take to get your garden up so you don’t starve to death post collapse. Hint- it involved fast growing, pest resistant hybrids, and a lot of Roundup…..
SHTF and I’m worried about dying NOW, not some hypothetical distant future.
I’ve been thirsty enough to drink the water coming out of an abandoned mine. No telling what was in that (although is smelled and tasted like pure delicious water.)
Snowflakes, even prepper ones, are gonna have to rethink the luxuries of pickiness that they have GridUP when s gets real. BPAs? Roundup? Hybrids? Essential oils? Gimme a case of seed packs, all the fertilizer and bug spray I can get, and OH YEAH, jars of antibiotics. Anti-fungal cream and antibiotics gonna be like gold…..
n
Here ya go, OFD, more confirmation that you’re just a grumpy, sexist, troglodyte. Or something like that. To the casual glance, that link would not seem to show anything like that, but I’m sure that a professor of Postmodern Cisgendered Aggression Grievances would be able to pull proof out of it somehow.
“To the casual glance, that link would not seem to show anything like that…”
As several of the comments mentioned, the fems had no appropriate weapons or devices or whatever to get that guy under control and locked up. Furthermore, I notice, once again, and I used to see this in real life a very long time ago, they show, shall I say, reluctance to mix it up. There are several things wrong there, besides no weapons; very few femcops or “copchicks” as the late Jeff Cooper called them, are physically equipped to deal with the average, let alone large and fired up, male perpetrator. It’s possible to do so, but they need the right training, and that’s the other thing wrong nowadays, the obviously lousy training.
They’re always swarming these perps now, but in this case somebody fucked up and sent three copchicks for a one- to two-cop job, including at least one male cop. In my day they would have just sent me, and maybe one other guy and this perp woulda been on the ground toot-sweet one way or another and I mean ricky-tick. Then they stand by and watch while the perp trashes their cruiser, Jesus wept.
OK, I guess that just about does it, and proves that yes, OFD is a grumpy old sexist fascist, etc., etc.
I’m just trying to imagine three unarmed girls trying to take me down when I was in my 20’s. They’d all have been down in 5 seconds, 10 tops. I probably wouldn’t have trashed their car, though.
Several times in the long-gone past I was there when MPs or cops were surrounding a drunk, upset man, trying to figure out how to subdue him… and I waltzed through and got him calmed down without a raised hand. Once was in Korea and the troop was in my battalion though we didn’t know each other. I bought him a soda and a little bit to eat and everything was fine. The other times were in the US, when a ring of ODCs (Ordinary Dumbass Cops) were surrounding a soldier in town and were surrounding a guy I knew. Again, I got them calmed down with no harm done.
In all cases, the MPs or ODCs expressed their displeasure that I’d stepped in. I was not noticeably sympathetic to their whines.
These days, of course, they’d have shot or tased me as soon as I ignored their “order” to stay out of the way. (Which would have just pissed me off and led to all of their deaths, but that’s not the point.)
I can say pretty safely that three unarmed, average-sized grrls can’t take me down even now, despite a sore back and sciatica. Unless they’re pretty hot and it’s in a bedroom, of course.
One hard punch in the face to a couple of them and tossing the third over the car. Then strolling away. Wouldn’t trash the cruiser, as the repairs come outta my taxpaying pocket, unless, of course, I’m a penniless migrant living on the dole. I’m guessing about 30 seconds for me to do that gig.
x-posted w/Mr. SteveF; Yeah, I’ve also calmed down those sorts of potentially violent situations with the yak-yak and just fucking listening to the person. Being halfway decent to them, instead of clubbing, Mace-ing, and tasering them and throwing them in a cell. But Steve and I would almost always be in the minority; the default reaction of cops arriving on the scene is to immediately use force, however much they deem necessary.
And sure, nowadays Steve and I, intervening, would also be clubbed, Mace-d and tasered, or even shot.
When I was in my 40s I killed eight men in under a minute with my bare hands. I got the first couple by surprise, but the rest knew I was there.
Three unarmed women? Not a chance. Not unless one of them flashed me and had a good enough figure that I was momentarily stunned. (Not a chance of that actually working, but I couldn’t sit here and let OFD get all of the sexist, fascist pig points for today.) And if I were the kind of barbarian scum which is currently infesting Sweden, I’d have had them tied up and stuffed in the back of their own car and be driving it to deliver them to my other barbarian scum friends for the evening’s entertainment. (Sexist, fascist pig bonus points, yo.)
Walmart, sheesh. They “lost” part of my “store pick up” order. Yet tracking says they received it. The lady at the desk said “it’s here but I can’t find it”.
So. If they don’t have a thief in the place, someone took my stuff and went through a checkout lane to pay for it. Either way, I don’t have what I ordered. But hey, they issued a refund this morning.
I re-ordered and of course the ground beef is out of stock. Again. Ok, six cans of beef to get free shipping AND delivered to the house. Or at least to the gate 900 feet away from the house.
Funny thing. I can’t order the chicken or turkey. “Not available with your shipping options”. To store or to house. I’ve tried using different Zip-codes. San Antonio, Dallas, and Edinburg do not work. I suppose there is a reason to not sell canned chicken or turkey in Texas.
Not really sure I would like either because the canned chook I’ve tried falls into mush, but why not try a can of each? For soup, if nothing else.
Oh, I like “Sun Bird Hot & Spicy Szechwan Seasoning Mix”. NO stores around here sell it anymore. Wall-mart, HEB, nobody. I get the not available w/ your shipping options message.
For the Sunbird mix, https://eyelevellink.com/products/sun-bird-hot-spicy-szechwan-seasoning-mix-0-75-oz-pack-of-24 should get you there. $2 or so more than Wal-mart but it’ll be here tomorrow. I found the site from the Sun-Bird site.
Hey, spread the money around a bit. 🙂
“I’m just trying to imagine three unarmed girls trying to take me down when I was in my 20’s. ”
I would have been history. I was a skinny thing that wore 28×34 Levis. Never been much for a fight, more of a runner. Can’t hurt me if you can’t catch me.
Plus I’ve got a thing against hitting women. Not that I’ve never been tempted to give one a solid backhand right in the face.
paul said:
I have had the same thing happen and upon closer examination I have found that the seller is actually a third-party and an order placed for their product cannot be combined with a Walmart order. Whenever I am searching on Walmart’s site I filter by “2-Day Shipping” and “Retailer – Walmart”.
IMHO, Amazon’s third-party sellers are sketchy enough. Those on Walmart are really sketchy, so you need to be sure they are a real company with a history and not a name that sounds like something real.
What are you saying, DadCooks, that I made a mistake by placing an order from a vendor named Walgrins?
Well, they should be able to fill your order for v!agra, no problem. It’s a round red pill right? No problem.
You’ll love it!
n
Eh? Why would I need v!agra?
I’m married. Have been for years.
Got a bit of a late start today.
Had to spend over an hour and go to Lowes and Home Depot, and STILL didn’t get all the stuff for my projects.
I did get the new woodpile built and the pecan logs moved and stacked.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kd1vtfd3nu3otyf/20170402_181922.jpg?dl=0
I also got my onion set into the ground.
Bought the material for another 2 of my fence “window boxes.”
Harvested ONE stalk of broccoli from the same plant that already provided the last stalk.
Lime tree is mosdef dead from the freeze. Only the root stock is sprouting. The rest is dry and brown. Which sux rox. No one had regular lime trees this year so I won’t get it replaced until next year, unless I get lucky and find a tree.
To my surprise though, I have marble and golf ball sized fruit on my Grapefruit tree. I never saw any flowers on it. That means I’ve got one tree in a pot, with a ripe fruit, and a huge amount of flowers, and one in the ground that hasn’t produced a fruit in 3 years but now has finally fruited without me ever seeing a single flower. Weird doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Mature pecan is finally leafing. Pecan in a pot is just now budding. Nothing on the peach yet. Nothing on the orange. Grape vines are lush and green, don’t know anything about whether they’ll fruit or not this year. We’ll see.
Lots of collards finally, almost all of them hit a growth spurt.
The cukes and zukes seem to have established themselves and are sprouting either flower buds or new leaves. That’s farther than I’ve ever gotten before.
Figured out why my turnips are doing poorly. Something about the potting mix only has the very top of the soil getting wet. I put an inch of standing water on it, and only the top 1/4 inch of soil gets wet. The rest is powdery. I should have been watering MUCH more heavily. That changes now.
Learning curve people. That food don’t grow itself……
nick
“Eh? Why would I need v!agra?
I’ve been married for years.”
It’s cheaper than an affair?
Anyway, I’m sure Walgrins carries only the finest in ED snake oils…
n
Heh. Hey, you know the old saw about, whatever they accuse you of is what they’re doing? See if you can guess what my first wife accused me of, when things had fallen apart? This was after she’d moved out, back to her mother’s house, but we were still married and I hadn’t filed for divorce yet.
Cops say the first thing the perp says is what he’s really thinking about…
“Hey, it’s not like I’m gonna rape you.”
n
When I was in my 40s I
killedscrewed eightmenewes in under a minute with my barehandsXXX. I got the first couple by surprise, but the rest knew I was there.FIFY
I couldn’t help myself, sir. When you come for me, kill me in my sleep, please.
Learning curve people. That food don’t grow itself……
I’ve seen what farmers do. Several of my great-grandparents were farmers. Farming is hard work.
Ditto. And I’ve worked on farms. Not for me. I’m a lazyass.
-eyes rolling- As I understand it, you’re married and have daughters. I’m sure your life is already a worse hell than anything I could do.
…
Waaait a minute. I’m married and have a daughter.
Dammit!
BTW, my daughter, age 9 3/4, informed me this evening that she doesn’t plan on having sex any time soon. I gave her an extremely skeptical look and told her that was good, because otherwise I’d smack her upside the head. And then find whoever gave her the idea that it would be a good idea a good smack upside their heads, too.
So much violence and hate and sexual deviance here tonight!
No trigger warning and no safe space, either!
To top it off, the usual suspects are crowing that Cankles is back in the nooz again, along with her new best-ever pal, Bernie Sanders. These fuckers just never go away and never shut the fuck up. I guarantee you that even in my 60s, I could take any three of ’em in a room and kill them with my bare hands in under a minute and be exceeding glad of it, too. Eight is not in the cards, though, but I’d give it a whirl if pressed. See, the thing about getting this old is I don’t much give a fuck anymore and figure I’m way beyond my allotted time already.
That said, I’m back to my medieval and “Early Modern” (Renaissance, but the PC shitbirds don’t like that because it implies all sorts of cultural “triumphalism,” etc., etc.) Scottish poetry. Wife thinks we should go to Scotland for our 20th wedding anniversary in August of 2018. I said sure, especially if the second civil war has kicked off here by then; we’ll just fade into the heather up in the mountains and disappear. Fuck it all.
BTW, my daughter, age 9 3/4, informed me this evening that she doesn’t plan on having sex any time soon. I gave her an extremely skeptical look and told her that was good, because otherwise I’d smack her upside the head. And then find whoever gave her the idea that it would be a good idea a good smack upside their heads, too.
Find some of those birthing videos on youtube and show them to her. Not the five minute pansy ones, the five hour birthing videos. Dad and Daughter quantity time !
All pre-teenage girls should see both natural and caesarean videos. If I sat through two caesarean operations in the operating room, they can do it. Don’t bother with the boys, they will just ignore it.
And condoms should be available.
To top it off, the usual suspects are crowing that Cankles is back in the nooz again
Cankles should be made to wear a three inch tall L on all of her clothing. And her forehead.
L for Loser* or for Liar**?
* She lost, progtards! Hillary Clinton will never be President! She “won” her Senate seat only because the machine put her in that seat. She’s a lo-o-o-o-o-o-oser, progtards, and you need to accept that reality.
** Not only a liar, but a stupid and clumsy liar. If she didn’t have thousands of Democratic operatives with bylines and talk shows running cover, she’d have been exposed*** as a L-I-A-R within hours of her opening her mouth.
*** We apologize for the disgusting mental image of Hillary exposing herself to all and sundry.
Not a bad idea. Not just yet, but maybe when she’s 12-ish.
And, yah, I’ll probably tell her that condoms will be in the bathroom and I’ll run cover for her if she needs it. I did that for my sons and it’s only fair she get the same.
On the other hand, I value courage and steadfastness in the face of adversity, so I see no reason not to intimidate the crap out of anyone trying to get her clothes off. Cordially. You know, like the axe murderer who’ll help his neighbor put up a garden fence.
Hillary Clinton will never be President
This gives me daily joy! The only thing better would be seeing her stroke out live on TV. Or BJ having a heart attack. Or Capo Chelsea hit by a bus. Does she even drive ala Cankles?
Am standing in line to checkout at Walmart. Only 2 checkers. 30+ people in line. The self checkout is closed. Argh!
At HEB they would call every man up to check people out.
We see that up here at the Wall-Mutt “superstore,” too; long lines at two registers, no self-checkout open. And various staff wandering around slowly doing re-stocking of shelves and suchlike. Apparently unable to operate the registers.
And in the Increasing the Daily Joy Department:
Not only will that fugly pig-bitch from hell never be National Administrator, neither will elderly Commissar Sanders! Nor his lovely wife Jane as First Lady. Praise be!
And I seriously think that Princess Chelsea is way too dumb to manage any kind of major campaign, but of course they’ll simply hire real pros to put her in there, where she’ll turn out to be a carbon-copy of her….ya know, I can’t even bring myself to use the word WRT to that creature.
Meanwhile Larry has apparently disappeared. With any luck he’s in an ICU or hospice somewhere and knocking on Hell’s door. Where he’ll meet previous criminal scum traitors like LBJ, Truman and Pharaoh Roosevelt II, maybe even the Great Eliminator himself!
can you imagine the horrible freakshow of crocodile tears when either of those two old criminals finally does pass beyond?
Oh the wailing, oh the paeans, the sanctimonious speeches…
Jeez, now I’m headed to bed and I’ll probably have nightmares.
n
Headed to bed myself, but it will be sweet dreams…
You’ll be able to wash your truck in those libturd-snowflake-SJW-prog tears.
Pax vobiscum, fratres…
Find some of those birthing videos on youtube and show them to her.
Not a bad idea. Not just yet, but maybe when she’s 12-ish.
My wife worked at Catholic Charities Home for Unwed Mothers over on Montrose in Houston back in 1980. She had one young lady in there who was only 11. And her boyfriend would drive by almost every night and yell over wall for her. Some of these girls get fertile as early as 10 nowadays.
I am amazed that my wife did not get pregnant before we got married. I never had condoms in the car and she did not carry them either. I look back on those days in amazement now.
OFD wrote:
“I can say pretty safely that three unarmed, average-sized grrls can’t take me down even now…”
ONE average-sized grrl can take me down, especially if she has nice jugs and flashes them at me. Then I’d be powerless to prevent her and her grrlfriends having their wicked way with me…
Sigh. “Getting old is hell.” ™
If a guy’s IQ is in the bottom one percent what IQ would that correspond to?
Should such a person be driving a car?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-03/ingle-farm-hit-and-run-guilty-plea/8412100
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/law-order/kane-bowman-pleads-guilty-over-shocking-hitrun-death-of-father-kieran-hayward-in-ingle-farm/news-story/a40d15be6be4ba76102a1a052230b38e
I don’t know, but it sounds like he’s a moron. Literally!
No
[snip] We apologize for the disgusting mental image of Hillary exposing herself to all and sundry. [snip]
On the other hand, such images can be used as contraceptives for adolescent males.
Nope, adolescent males have only one response to nudity… and it ain’t disgust.
n
And now our desperate retailers have something called “Spring Black Friday” according to the eflyer I just got from Home Depot.
n
“If a guy’s IQ is in the bottom one percent what IQ would that correspond to?”
About 65 if SD=15 or 62 if SD=16. IOW, mid- to upper-moron, like Moe on the Three Stooges.
And in other news,
looks like I’ve got a Speed Queen top load manual controls washing machine in my future. Wife is fed up with the front loader.
The only question is if we get the matching dryer (mainly for OCD related completeness sake). It might make it easier to sell the existing washer/dryer as a set.
Anyone actually have the Speed Queen? @dadcooks?? Used yours yet?
n
added- according to my wife, getting a top load manual SQ is not just a prepper thing. A whole bunch of the ladies on her local FB group have made the switch. Seems that if you have the money, (and the group is for women in an area with a very high median income) the new thing is “screw saving water, I want my clothes washed clean and quickly too.”
Yeah, I’d definitely get my daughter on birth control by the time she turned 14. All kinds of things can happen to girls that age. Many have sex without intending to. Beer, date-rape drugs, peer pressure, parties, her own biological imperative, pregnancy clubs, even forcible rape. My first priority would be keeping her alive, then STD-free, then avoiding pregnancy. A girl’s gonna do what a girl’s gonna do.
WRT service at Walmart:
We have 3 Walmarts in the Tri-Cities; one each in Kennewick, Richland, and Pasco. Our’s in Kennewick is in a different universe compared to the others. It is clean, returning an item is no hassle, employees working the aisles will actually take you to something you are looking for, a “supervisor” is monitoring the checkout lines and directs you to the shortest one and calls for more checkers if the available lines have more than 3 carts waiting. Self checkouts, 2 banks of 10 at each end of regular checkouts with 1 bank always open.
The Walmarts in Pasco and Richland are just the opposite and are not even up to third-world standards.
WRT 9+ year old and sex:
I would find out where she got the idea. I have a hunch her teachers are talking “gender identity” in school and demeaning boys.
WRT birth control pills:
Not a bad idea, they help regulate periods (as in make them predictable so no accidents in school) and help with the cramps. However, a serious talk with your doctor as which pill is used is very important and a female should not stay on the same pill forever. The preceeding information is provided by my Wife, a retired RN, and approved by my Daughter, a certified man-hater 😉 .
Nah, I’m not worried about that. Small, private school. The kids mix in age groups, and some of the younger girls catch what some of the older girls talk about.
RBT wrote:
“Yeah, I’d definitely get my daughter on birth control by the time she turned 14.”
I was in high school in the early to mid Seventies, and when I was 14 there was a girl in my class who had a reputation for being “friendly”.
The following graffiti appeared on an outside wall of the sports change rooms:
“Kay Todd is a virgin” which was about as true as Miles Teg is a rocket scientist or Bob Thompson is a devout Southern Baptist.
DadCooks wrote:
“Not a bad idea, they help regulate periods (as in make them predictable so no accidents in school)…”
Isn’t it possible to take pills that mean you only have one period in three to six months or more? If I was a female that would be a huge plus. Also less need for more pills to combat PMT.
Bad idea. Women are supposed to have monthly periods. I knew a girl back when I was in grad school who used her regular birth control pills to eliminate her periods. They came in a little dispenser with 21 days’ worth of real pills and 7 days’ of dummy ones. She just stopped taking the dummy ones and took only the real ones every day. No periods. But it’s a really terrible idea to do that.
Yes, but there are even more precautions/contradictions than the regular pills.
Edit/Add:
Not just a bad idea, but dangerous. There are special pills for the long time between periods and yes they are more expensive. So people think they can just skip the dummy pills. Very bad idea and can have very bad consequences. Unfortunately there are some bad doctors who will “prescribe” the “skip” method.
Nude Cankles might just be the exception that proves the rule. At most there might be some horrified fascination, like when you go past an accident where half of someone’s face is burned off.
“Look at the europeans declaring glyphosate carcinogenic with almost no real data.”
No worries here, I’ve got mine (from a buddy who uses it by the hogshead)!
“Outland (World-Lines) (Volume 1)_ by Dennis E. Taylor”
Thanks for the tip. I just bought the Kindle version, because I enjoyed the Bobiverse book which you suggested previously.
Nude Cankles might just be the exception that proves the rule. At most there might be some horrified fascination, like when you go past an accident where half of someone’s face is burned off.
Or like the freak show at the Carny.
Speaking of accidents, what’s Chelsea been up to lately?
Yeah, I’d definitely get my daughter on birth control by the time she turned 14. All kinds of things can happen to girls that age. Many have sex without intending to. Beer, date-rape drugs, peer pressure, parties, her own biological imperative, pregnancy clubs, even forcible rape. My first priority would be keeping her alive, then STD-free, then avoiding pregnancy. A girl’s gonna do what a girl’s gonna do.
At age 11 ? 12 ?, I started telling my daughter “girls get pregnant, boys don’t” about once a month or so. After a year or two, she started repeating it with me.
WRT birth control pills:
Not a bad idea, they help regulate periods (as in make them predictable so no accidents in school) and help with the cramps. However, a serious talk with your doctor as which pill is used is very important and a female should not stay on the same pill forever. The preceeding information is provided by my Wife, a retired RN, and approved by my Daughter, a certified man-hater .
You definitely need doctor supervision for birth control pills. My cousin’s wife developed a blood clot in her leg after she started taking birth control pills. She still has the blood clot (but reduced in size now) and and is taking blood thinners now. Apparently her father’s family is prone to blood clots.
When you have a son you only worry about one penis. When you have a daughter you worry about all of them.
Now that’s funny right there!
n