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Month: June 2020

Wed. June 10, 2020 – Supposed to be cooler…

But probably hot and humid.

Yesterday stayed hot all day.  Wife and kids got in the pool after dinner, but I watered the gardens.   Cabbage is doing well.  I got about 7 blueberries but they were sweet and delicious.  Peppers going crazy, broccoli still alive.  Out of the six mounds I planted, I’ve got three that sprouted and seem to be growing.  Watermelon or hard acorn squash, I don’t remember which, maybe a couple of each…  Corn is still growing.  Fewer onions than before, damn squirrels dig them up.   Maybe I’ve got some cilantro popping up, something is anyway.

I did get out to pick up my new benchtop power supply and did some cleaning/ organizing at my secondary location.

Today I’m taking some stuff to a local auction house.  We’ll see how it does.  Saves me the shipping hassle, and moves stuff out of the house.  Speaking of, I took 3 boxes of stuff out of my office, mainly old manuals and catalogs.  I like catalogs the same way I like trade magazines.  It’s easier to find stuff you never knew about in a catalog or ads in an appropriate magazine.  Now I’ve got some more room on the shelf in the closet for the good stuff.

So I got some stuff done, but not as much as I’d like.

Dinner was frozen steak on the grill.  For sides, I thought I’d fry some potatoes and maybe do some onion rings.  Six potatoes and 2 onions, half a pack of shrimp fry batter, cast iron fryer, and some peanut oil, and PURE HEAVEN!   Called the kids in and we ate the home made kettle chips and onion rings while they were hot and fresh.  Ate the steak by itself after all the rest was fried and eaten.   So tasty and a nice treat.  I just sliced the potatoes with a mandolin right into the pot of oil.  Wife seasoned the chips with a variety of stuff, but we liked the dusting of Lawry’s best.  Onion rings just needed a bit of salt.  When you’ve got potatoes and onions getting close to their sell by, make meals with potatoes and onions!

Meanwhile, the insanity is continuing.   Part of Seattle is now barricaded off as the “Capital Hill Freezone”, in Cali someone is burning homeowner’s flags that they don’t like (homeowners are next), MN is committed to getting rid of their police, and authorities are debasing themselves in public.  What a mess.  Spicy times are coming.

Keep getting ready, restock, add to your stocks, add to your knowledge and skills.

Keep stacking.

 

nick

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Tues. June 9, 2020 – no riot in Houston

Hot and humid, although we’re supposed to get a break.

Yesterday my weather station peaked at 107F in the sun on the driveway side of the house.  I was working in the driveway most of the day, but I tried to only work when the sun was behind clouds.  I got my hat and vest on too.

It was still hot hot hot.  I felt pretty good though, not like last year.  I think I’m finally recovered from my heat injury of a couple of years ago.  I better be careful and not re-injure myself.

I still didn’t get everything done in the driveway that I wanted to.  More work today.

Swim team practice this morning, then pickup a DC benchtop power supply.  I hope it works, as I’ve needed a good one for some time.  There is a lot of troubleshooting that requires a current limited source, which I haven’t had.

I spent some time in the afternoon in the shade trying to MacGyver a pool vacuum.  The pump that came with the pool (which we swapped out for a more powerful pump/filter) won’t actually draw the water in.  It relies on gravity to get the water to the pump, then expels it.  This is a subtle difference but it means that it won’t draw water through a hose to vacuum the pool like an in-ground system.  After messing around for far too long, I just set up a garden hose as a siphon, tied it to a long handle, and used that to suck up the worst of the dirt on the bottom.  It ran out to the street and isn’t the cheapest or most enviro-friendly thing to do, but that’s what I did.  I didn’t run it for long, and I don’t have any idea how many gallons I lost and replaced.  Oh well, no one said pools were cheap.

On the plus side, no riots broke out during the public viewing for the career criminal.  Local news says over 6000 people came, including the Governor.  There really weren’t good photos to show the crowd size so I guess we’ll take their word for it.  It didn’t look particularly crowded.  It was gloves and masks for everyone with a temperature check at the door (after standing in the sun, in 90F+ heat) and a metal detector…

Nice to see this in the rag–

According to The Washington Post’s database of fatal police shootings, police have shot and killed about twice as many white people as black people since 2015. Yet there about six times as many white people as black people in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Proportionally, black people are much more likely to be shot and killed by cops, according to the Washington Post’s database.

Although they left off the part about that 4% of the population being responsible for 40% of the violent crime, according to FBI data, at least they mentioned what they did.   It would be nice to see a list of his crimes in the article but at least they mention him being in prison.

According to that same rag, Houston is seeing a spike in Covid-19 hospitalizations, and the biggest single day increase in cases in Texas was Saturday.  That timing sounds about right for hospitalizations from the easing of restrictions here.   Pretty sure we’ll be seeing a bunch more cases soon.  I know some of you guys are anxious for a return to normal.  Hugs and handshakes in church, breakfast with the club, monthly meetings of whatever, but it’s not over.  We’ve had over 2M cases in the US, with over 113K deaths.  Adjust that number by your preferred fraud factor, but even if you use 20%, that is still a REALLY big number, and it isn’t stopping.  Even with 20% over reporting, which would be ridiculously high, we’ll be over 100K deaths before too long.  New cases are not decreasing yet.  Don’t blow it.  Stay with what you’ve been doing.  Let those other guys prove it’s ok to go back out.  If there is evil taking a hand in this, don’t let them succeed.

I’m going to continue as I’ve been, relaxing my contacts with others just a bit but still including mask and gloves where appropriate.  I’ll still be cutting my own hair, and not shaking any hands or getting up close and personal with anyone.

Dinner last night was frozen cheeseburgers, canned corn, and avocados.  I was beat from being in the sun.  Did I mention that night before’s dinner of leftovers included me making gravy from a packet with bb of 2015?   It was fine.  As were the breakfast hash browns from 2015.  Use common sense, but things last a lot longer than you expect.  That might be REALLY important if things keep going downhill.

Keep stacking,

 

nick

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Mon. June 8, 2020 – another week starting

Hot, humid, chance of storming…

Yesterday it was hot and fairly humid all day, although water in the driveway did dry and the Portacool evaporative cooler worked, so it couldn’t have been as humid as it felt.  I’ve seen days in a row where puddles didn’t dry because it was so humid.

I did get some work done in the driveway in late afternoon.  I moved a pallet of stuff onto shelves.  It makes a taller stack, but decreases the foot print.  I was alternating with stuff that had me indoors to cool off.  I was able to condense some stuff too, gaining a little bit of space.  And it’s clear to me I should be going through all my stuff more regularly, to sort, sell, or dump.

We’ve got a storm in the Gulf so I don’t know what today’s weather will bring. I might head over to my secondary or I might just stay here and do other things.    At least I didn’t add to my sunburn yesterday.

I’m sure something will come up to derail my efforts.

Like a global pandemic messed with me getting stuff cleaned out and taken to auction just when I was starting to make progress.  After all, it’s all about me…

Speaking of, it seems to have passed the point in Brazil and India where the true extent can be hidden.   Probably still going into the rapid doubling phase in India, WELL into it in Brazil.   Africa is a big black hole info-wise and so are a lot of other places.   If this was the zombie apocalypse it wouldn’t be long before we stopped getting news out of them entirely.  Since it’s Just The Flu ™, I’m sure places that have dealt with infectious diseases in the past will have no trouble at all.

Really though, it’s still out there, still killing about 1000 people a day in the US, and it’s becoming clear that even if you get over it, you might have lasting and possibly life changing damage.  Don’t get it.    Don’t get complacent or distracted.

It’s just a tiny bit suspicious that when it appeared we might be getting a handle on it, we get a giant virus swapfest, happening daily.  There are some real pros at work.  Did anyone else look carefully at how WELL the slogans were painted in the streets of DC?  The lines were straight, the edges crisp, the letters all well formed.  It takes a lot of effort to even lay out the guidelines for something like that, let alone actually execute it so well, and with really minimal guidemarks.  It almost looked unreal to me.  In any case, if it wasn’t photoshopped, it took work and experienced people and planning and discipline.  Not what you want to see in the enemies of freedom and rule of law.

One way or another, spicy time is coming.  LOTS of people seem to be doing prudent things, far more than I expected.  Shortages of seeds and freezers speak volumes to me.  Canning jars and lids seem to be available at the moment, but that’s another thing I would expect to sell out.  Unless all the people who would can already have what they need… like guns and ammo, you can always use more.

Speaking of which, you always think you have enough guns until the zombies come…

Getting training is harder and has more risks now, but if you need it, find a way to get it.  Several of our local ranges are offering classes, despite the restrictions.   LOTS of people are arming up.  Even my wife suggested it was time to get the girls going on the pellet guns.   I guess that living in the middle of a global pandemic makes it possible to see that some of the other scenarios might not be so far fetched after all.

Keep learning, keep stacking.

 

nick

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Sun. June 7, 2020 – not a million man march

Hot, hot, and more hot.  I think I could put that in the template for the site.

Yesterday was hot.  Humid.  Sunny, cloudy, and then we got a nice shower in the afternoon.  Sunny and STEAMY after that.  78F when I went to bed.

Looks like the million idiot march in DC had pretty much the same result as the last one.  And the fires, looting, and destruction continue elsewhere.

Meanwhile, one of the greatest accomplishments of the last millennium, and one of the most momentous for Europe slips by with little notice.

I enjoyed my time in our pool yesterday.  Since we were in the privacy of our back yard, I thought I might get in without a T shirt on… It’s probably been 20 years since my belly saw sunlight (other than my brief exposure last week.)  I was in the shade.  It was overcast.  I stayed under the water.  And I’m still itchy and sunburned on my belly and back.   Not even bad enough to see, but it’s enough to feel like wearing a wool sweater with nothing under it.

Other than finally getting in the pool and the yardwork, I really didn’t get much done.  I’ll try again today.

Dinner was lamb chops, delivered fresh from Costco by Instacart, finally.  Sides were cheese and bacon scalloped potatoes from a box, only a month out of date, steamed broccoli from the last delivery, and dinner rolls.  Dessert was sugar cookies from a pouch, just add a stick of butter and an egg.  Pouch was best by 2017, and the kids raved about how good the cookies were.  How could they have been anything but good with that much butter in them?  They were, in fact, REALLY GOOD.  I ate 7.

If we don’t have a big spike in cases before July 4th, I’ll accept that we can relax our covid response a bit, and move further toward normal.  I don’t think we’ll be doing that, or that we’ll get back to ‘normal’ ever again.  My wife and I don’t think the kids will be back in a school building in the fall.  She actually joined a FB group for homeschoolers to start figuring out what is available out there.  I had no idea, but I’m glad.  Doesn’t hurt to spend some time planning ahead or considering options.  That’s what preppers (and all prudent people) do.

Consider also- truck guns, body armor, fire extinguisher sized pepper spray, a house in the country, and some good hedges against inflation.  Another income stream might be a good idea too.

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Plan for the day is do as much as possible without getting heat stroke, and get some projects finished.  I guess we’ll see….

Keep stacking, keep thinking, keep your mind and eyes open.

 

nick

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Sat. June 6, 2020 – gonna be interesting to see what the protesters do

Hot and humid.

Yesterday was miserable hot and stuffy.  The sun was brutal.  I did my pickup but didn’t head to my secondary.  The location, and the angle of the sun meant I’d be working in full sun, in a concrete canyon- in other words, boiling my brain.  And while boiled brains might be tasty, mine need to stay unboiled and in my head…

So I’ll be looking to do some of that today.  We’re on the edge of a storm system so it might not be so sunny.

First things first though it’s donut day for swim team.   The kids don’t like to miss donut day.

My work will have to wait until after swim team…

Dinner last night was carry out pizza from our local.  The good cook was on and the pizza was really good.  I masked and gloved for the pickup.

It shouldn’t really be a surprise, but the world and the protests continue to amaze me.  And not in a good way.  People have lost their damn minds.  There is a mania sweeping the country.  You don’t want to get caught up in the crazy.  Hold on to your core.

If this keeps going it is gonna be a long and dangerous summer, culminating in one of the ugliest election seasons ever.  Our enemies are not going to let this go by either.

Take your joy where you can find it, but don’t retreat or ignore what’s going on.  And GET PREPPED for a dark couple of months.

 

nick

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Fri. June 5, 2020 – Busy day

Hot and humid.  Maybe more rain?

It was certainly hot and humid yesterday.  Stifling when there was no breeze.  It did rain like crazy late in the day, which cooled things down a lot, but that was pretty late…

I got a few things done.  I moved some stuff and cleared some stuff at my secondary location, in preparation for throwing a lot of stuff into the dumpster.  I’ve got a literal truckload (53ft trailer) of stuff to sort, save, recycle, and trash.  That is just the trade show booth, but it will make a lot of room for other stuff.  No one is buying any tradeshow stuff in the next year or two.  Certainly not a booth that has been reworked a couple of times already.   About half of the volume is trash now, with some saveable pieces, and some of the shipping containers for reuse.  I could scrap out the rest, keeping just the containers to sell at some point, but I might keep some stuff like generic walls and towers.  All the lighting is too old and doesn’t meet current requirements, the chairs were more stylish than comfortable, all the messaging and signage is for a company that hasn’t existed for years…  I had hoped to rework it one more time and resell it again, but, I don’t see tradeshows being a thing again for a long time, and I need the space.

That is part of what I hope to do today, start moving that cr@p toward the dumpster.

I’ve also got some auction pickups to do.  I intend to put shelves in the space I open up so I scored some Metro racks on wheels.  This is taking priority because I need somewhere to put the racks… and some of it has to happen today, some tomorrow.  When you are buying in the ‘secondary’ market, you get it when you see it, not when it’s convenient.

All this will certainly make my homelife better, should make my selling of stuff easier, will make it possible for me to do some of the stuff I like doing, and has needed to be done for a long time.  Not really how I expected to be spending a worldwide pandemic.  Damn strange zombie apocalypse.  Although now we have our roaming bands…. can’t shoot them in the head yet though.

Toured the garden yesterday.  Some more blueberries are ready, must be at least 5  🙂  The citrus is doing well.  One of the cabbages has formed a firm center to the head.  It’s the one in the best sunlight, go figure.  Sunlight is important for success at gardening.  Who knew?  Broccoli is still growing.  Asparagus went leggy right away and looks like ferns now.  I’ve gotten one stalk off it in how many years?  I am just keeping it alive until I can transplant it somewhere new  at this point.  Corn and melons continue to grow.  Potato plants continue to die.  No idea what that is, the soil is clean bagged potting soil, so shouldn’t have any grubs or root destroyers in it.  It started out so well too.  Apple and peach trees have leaves, and look like trees, but no flowers and no fruit.  Peppers are still good though.  All in all, likely to be a disappointment.  Good learning though.

In the world and locally, covid is increasing in places that had people getting together.  That bodes ill for the rioters and protesters.  We said a couple of weeks ago that we’d know if easing restrictions led to more cases, and it looks like it did.  We’re starting to see some of the earliest cases, and should see more soon.  3-5 days from exposure to symptoms for most people, one to two weeks of sickness before either getting better, or worse.  So about 2-3 weeks from exposure to hospital admittance…on average.  I’m no fan of NY pols, but whichever one said that all the protesters should consider themselves potentially infected and self isolate got it right this time.  Chances of the public actually doing that??? Zero.

So keep working, keep your awareness up, and keep stacking.

 

n

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Thur. June 4, 2020 – the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire…

Hot again, wet.  Probably rainy as well.

Yesterday was all that with some serious downpours depending on what part of town you were in.  We got hammered at the house, and I got hammered on my errands.

The sun did come out late in the afternoon, but everything was wet and the humidity was at saturation.  Not pleasant.

Dinner was canned pulled pork from Costco, at least a couple of years past best by, half with bbq sauce, half without, served on hamburger buns, with pasta and canned corn (of course) as a side.  Kids gobbled it down.   We’ve been using 2 cans whenever I make something from storage, but my planning was for one can and more rice or pasta for a really long term condition.  Still got plenty so it makes sense to stick with small variations on our normal meals for now.  Reading the Little House books, they eat a lot of salt pork as their meat, and have a lot of meatless meals.  In last night’s chapter Ma writes down her recipe for 3 meals for the itinerant preacher that will be “baching”  and cooking for himself.   She figures he’ll probably make himself sick with his own cooking.  He figures he’ll learn to cook as he goes.   Both are probably right.  (Also, a jar of pickles was a major treat for the girls, like something they’d never tasted before.  We live in an age of unheard of abundance.)

Swim team practice this morning, then I’ll head over to my secondary and do some cleaning and organizing there.  Maybe I’ll fire up the forklift to move some stuff closer to the dumpster.  I’ve got to get aggressive and make some room.  It would also be nice to finish a couple of the projects I’ve got started here too.

Meanwhile, I don’t know how this rioting ends.  It’s clearly getting outside support.  It also has a parallel governing structure.  Those are two of the requirements for a successful insurrection, which is very concerning.  It won’t end with them having their demands met.  70% of the country will not accept them, and the rioters don’t actually have any idea what they’d accept to stop.  Like all of the left’s demands, they are designed to NOT be meet-able.  That lets them stay in a perpetual state of agitation.

The wuflu is not going to ignore the rioters and protesters either.   We’ll either see more cases, or we’ll know it’s no longer a threat.  I’d love for it to not be a threat, but I expect cases to rise dramatically, especially in the cities.  Texas is already seeing an increase, likely due to our early relaxation of restrictions.

On top of the wuflu, the protests/riots, and all the shifts in geopolitical alignment, we’ve got all our (ab)normal election year drama coming up too.  It’s not gonna be calm.  It’s not going to be ‘normal’.  I expect a LOT of domestic terrorism and unrest.  Localized violence.  Maybe even worse.

Get ready for all that.  There is still some time.

Keep stacking.

 

nick

 

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Wed. June 3, 2020 – more stupidity nationally

Hot and humid.  Chance of rain.

Hot all day yesterday.  I was in the truck most of the afternoon, and I will be again.  I bought some shelves to help organize my auction stuff in my storage area and I need to pick them up.  They are Metro racks on wheels, which should be useful.  I have a plan of attack for some stuff at my secondary location, I just need to find the time to execute.  That will improve a lot of things here at home too.

As I was driving around today, one of our local Houston talk radio hosts pointed out that only a few days ago, when people gathered to protest the continuing lockdown, our newbie democrat socialist emergency manager, the Mayor, the Chief of Police, and just about everyone else was condemning people for not social distancing, for gathering, for leaving their houses.  Suddenly, the Chief is HUGGING people, the Judge insists that protesting is the responsible thing for a citizen to do, and huge crowds of people are gathered every day with little PPE and no distancing.  So if it’s something they support, lockdown be damned.  And we’re not supposed to notice the duplicitous and self serving flip flopping…  Notice.  Write it down.  Keep track.  Vote.

Watching the most egregious attacks on cops last night, and then reading the comments, I really don’t see how we can avoid a civil war.  Lots of commentors on twitter noticing that too, seemingly for the first time.  There are people who haven’t given it much thought, and missed the Ferguson riots because they were too busy with work or family, but they’ve got time now, and they don’t like what they see.  That seems to be true for both sides.  Unless some single horrific event is so shocking that it changes the country’s mood, I think as part of the bigger overall changes in the world we’ll see an actual civil war here or some sort of low intensity apartheid.  I don’t see the sides reconciling or stepping back from the brink.

Think hard about what that might mean for you and yours.  Pandemic and the economic destruction we’ve seen in the last 3 months seemed a lot less likely than a civil war in the US, and yet… here we are.  War, pestilence, and famine.  Here we go.

Dinner was Taco Tuesday! Ole’!  Freezer meat, spice packet, fixin’s from the fridge, and a few of the 200 tortillas I put in the fridge when this all started.  Kid1 says “I LIVE for Taco Tuesday!”  Hooray for the daddy.

In the mean time, while we prepare for what might come, we continue on with our daily lives.

Keep stacking.  No matter what comes, it’ll be easier with money in the bank, stalwart allies, useful skills, and a full belly.

 

nick

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Tues. June 2, 2020 – headed out of the house today

Hot and humid, possible rain.

Yesterday was overcast and humid most of the day.  90F in the shade.  I spent too long in the driveway and got a bit overheated.  I’ve got to watch that.  It’s harder to keep track when the sun isn’t beating down.

One of the things I had to do was go through the onions I’d stored outside.  A lot of rotten onions and potatoes, and the smell was pretty bad.  Cleaned up and salvaged the potatoes the day before, had to do the onions today.  About half were rotten or something had snacked on them.  The other half just needed to have the outer skins pealed and everything washed.  I’m a bit surprised that I lost basically half or more of the potatoes and onions, which should have been good for months longer, after only two and a half months.  It points out the importance of ‘cool, dark, and dry’, which I don’t have.

I made some very small progress in the driveway and garage.

Today I’ll be taking a load of stuff to my secondary location.  I’ve got a bunch of cardboard to dispose of (got a recycle dumpster there), and some stuff that needs to be moved from here.  Also my pool test kit is there and my wife is getting anxious to test the pool.

And I’ve got a couple of auction pickups to do.  Started back watching the auctions.  Yup.  Trying to get back to normal.  I’m bidding on a couple of freezers.  If the stores are out, the auctions might be the only way to get one.  I certainly don’t want to pay what the last auction got for their uprights, over $500 each.  I don’t really want an upright at all, but it would fit better in the garage, and there aren’t any chest freezers listed at the moment.  If I’m right and we’ve started the big change, having another freezer to fill with food will be a Good Thing ™.

Kids spent a lot of time in the pool, despite the overcast, maybe more than if it was sunny.  I might rig a shade for them once the water warms up in the sun.  I don’t want them crispy with sunburn.

Swim team practice this am.  It gives the kids a chance to really stretch out and use up some energy.   I’m not happy about the contacts, but got outvoted.   I’m trying to keep my distance while I watch.  Normally I’d be selling in the concession stand or doing maintenance around the grounds.

Speaking of watching, I spent an hour watching live streams of various protests.  Lots of noise and movement, not a lot of action.  Not many cops in the videos I watched live.  Just a bunch of people in a mob wandering around.   No sign of it dying out anytime soon.  Not many masks.   And if the wuflu is contagious at all, we should be seeing some big spikes in a week or two.  If not, then there won’t be any legit reason to continue with full lockdowns.

However, everyone should continue with their heightened awareness, and think seriously about increasing their security stance…  you never know where the stupidity will break out.  Or you could just continue to stay home…

Dinner last night was costco prepared lamb shanks, from the freezer, with homemade mashed potatoes with onion and bacon crumbles.  Canned peas and some naan bread from the freezer made it a meal.

Oh, and our old friend ebola is back. Congo-Kinshasa has a new outbreak on the other side of the country from before.

Keep learning, keep planning, keep stacking.

 

nick

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Mon. June 1, 2020 – still locked down, but you wouldn’t know it

Hot, humid, and we’re on the edge of a storm system, so maybe rainy.

Yesterday was all those things and sometimes cool as well.

I got some stuff done, mostly moving and organizing in the driveway.  So much still to do.  I guess that’s where I’ll start today.

Dinner was steak from the freezer, cauliflower done like twice baked potatoes.  My motivation to cook was low, my wife did the cauliflower.

Kids spent as much time as possible in the pool, and I hope they never get tired of it.

I did look around the gardens a bit.  Potatoes are dying.  No idea why.  Corn is coming in, about a foot high now.  I only planted a few stalks to see if it would grow and if the squirrels would get it all.   Harvested more sweet peppers.  Tomatoes have flowers but I’m told it isn’t cold enough for them to actually get any more fruit this year.  We’ll see.  Broccoli is doing ok, cabbage looks like it’s coming along.  Got 4 blueberries today.   Citrus is about the same as it was.  Nothing on the peach or apple.  Squash and/or watermelon are still growing, I’ve lost track of which mound was which.  I really should have made notes.   Grapevine is flourishing, I hope that means I’ll get some grapes this year.  The other grapevine didn’t die, but it didn’t grow much, maybe it will recover next year.  Obviously, my garden barely gives me any food at all.  The learning curve is steep in this part of the country, and in my yard especially.  Get started NOW.  If you can’t plant, build beds and start work on fertilizer or compost.

Summer’s here and so is the rioting.  Didn’t get enough out of the shutdown and isolation so now we’re mixing in public and burning what businesses made it through.  You’d almost think someone was pushing this along.  I’m pretty sure OFD would have had some things to say about it.  And while you’re thinking about the dead guy and the riots, ask yourself what’s different this time, from when the diversity hire shot an Australian housewife in her bathrobe.  And, why does anyone outside of Houston or MN care this time?

If you’re out and about, keep your awareness and know a couple of alternatives to your travel routes.  Arm up.  Review the law in your state.  Clean up your social media NOW, in case you have a problem later.  This all goes double if your home or business is in the line of fire.

And don’t forget that COVID is still out there, still spreading, and still sickening and killing people.  We’ve got a brief pause before we start seeing cases related to all this public nonsense.  Restock, refresh, restore.

Keep stacking,

 

nick

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