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Bwaaahaaahaaa – thought you could distract me with a political discussion, eh?
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^^^ “This space reserved for czar” ^^^
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Just makin’ sure I ain’t got too old and slow
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Who’s Old? Who’s Slow?
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Nobody here. If you are very flexible on your definition of slow, where I am concerned.
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Good morning! It’s coolish and breezy here this morning (46), after a night of rain. Tonight we will have temps in the 30’s, and it is snowing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan! Ahhhhhhh – May in Michigan. I don’t think we’ll get frost around here tonight, but you can see why I am hesitant to plant tender flowers and veggies before the end of the month. Tomorrow is Flower Day at the Eastern Market in Detroit, and our weather lady is advising people to wear parkas and gloves. It was almost 80 degrees here on Thursday, and 70 yesterday.
Think I’ll cook bacon this morning, and the coffee is hot, so all is right around here!
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Good morning Stella and all 🙂
39° here 😞
Last week our Farmer’s Market had radishes, some greens, green onions, rhubarb, and maybe a few other things in the way of vegetables 😏.
Lots of plants available and baked goods, cheese and meat. I can’t wait until the booths are full of all sorts off vegetables.
Thinking about the fact that I need to wear a coat on May 14th to go to the Farmer’s Market 😦
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Sounds like we are getting your weather tomorrow!
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Well I am curled up on the couch with a blanket and two dogs (and wearing flannel 🙄 ), if I hadn’t asked one of the farmers to bring me some cherry tomato plants I might not be able to motivate myself to go today. It is right by the river and in an open space so it is going to be cold 😦 .
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Good morning Stella, it’s a little chilly here this morning, I guess the 80’s is gone for a few days. Our gardens are really pretty now, we’re not getting anything yet other than green onions and lettuce, but it won’t be long now.
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It’s nice to have the cool weather early lettuces. My chives are starting to bloom.
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I plant chives around my roses and they’ve been blooming for awhile. If I could just keep my grandson from picking all of them. He has discovered he likes to smell flowers and he picks them to smell later. lol
The chives are easy for him to get to, so I about don’t have any flowers left on them.
I can’t really get on to him because he makes me laugh when he picks one and smells it and says, “mmm,” while grinning from ear to ear.
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Good morning Stella. We seem to have had the last of our lingering cool weather and are now racing toward summer heat. But I like this year because we did get a spring. Not to mention that wonderfully mild winter.
Today is the big day. Joint birthday party for two of the grandkids. Watching a four year old girl take over and plan a party, right down to tiny details, has been an experience. I hope she grows up and uses that ferocious will and ability for good. I have never seen a child that young with such ability to plan, and so detail oriented. Anyhow, should be fun to watch.
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Have fun! I love little kid parties.
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Mornin’ stella!
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Hi there, nyet!
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94 yesterday and 57 last night. We won’t see anything like that pleasant stretch we had for months, this southern tail of that mess you’ve got is a last breath for us. Out to do battle with plant-eating crickets and some foliar spraying late this afternoon. Trying to tell myself that it’s all worth it for a better quality end product than I can buy in the store.
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Never really noticed much
difference in the quality of
the end product in the toilet. 😉
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I’ve always been more partial to centering on the ‘going in’ facet than the coming out aspect.
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Mornin’ all!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely! Stay warm!!
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Mornin’ Wee!
A lady came yesterday to pick up her daughter’s goat and I told her to excuse all the paint on me, so we got to talking about painting and she said she had paid someone to paint her bedroom, bathroom and living room and it cost her $3500. She asked how much it has cost me, I told her I had bought enough paint and primer for 4 rooms and paint, new brushes, rollers, tape, etc had cost me around $350. She said she wished she could paint, so she wouldn’t have to pay so much, but that she doesn’t know how.
That led to her saying she paid $300 to have a light switch replaced, I about fell over, it takes literally minutes to change out a light switch.
She was in her late 40’s and her husband I’m assuming around the same age and I discovered through our conversation they don’t know how to do anything, the funniest was they had a water leak under their sink, which had it’s own shut off and they didn’t know how to shut it off. The plumber showed them how easy it is and showed them how to shut it off to the entire house and she was amazed.
She asked me how we learned to do all this stuff, I told her because we were raised to fix things ourselves, when your poor you don’t pay people to do what you can do yourself.
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I didn’t know how to do electrical stuff, so I bought a book at the home improvement store. I’ve replaced switches, fixtures, and installed fans and a chandelier. I can’t imagine calling a plumber or electrician for simple repairs, or hiring a painter as long as I am able.
I called a plumber to install a new water heater, and fix drain backups (one sanitary, and one gray water), and a handyman to replace my porch stairs. If I can do it, I will. Probably because I didn’t always have the money to hire someone.
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That is how we’ve always been. Since we live in the boondocks we change out our own water heaters, I know you can’t do that in the city if you get caught.
We pay someone to pump out our septic and we hired an electrician when we wanted our electric put underground and a new panel put in.
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People in the city do their own water heaters if they can; I don’t think it’s against city ordinances. They insist sanitary drains be handled by plumbers and be inspected. Also furnaces, but I think that’s more for safety (sanitary leaks, gas leaks etc). I didn’t feel able to do the water heater installation myself; I don’t think I could even carry it into the basement myself!
I do what I can do and feel confident that I can do a good job. I watched my dad and my uncle (a carpenter) and cousins do just about everything themselves, so I suppose I just thought it was the way things are done.
PS: My mom was good at painting and wallpaper installation.
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Around here it requires a permit and a licensed plumber for hot water heaters in town, even toilets your supposed to have a permit and licensed plumber.
I will admit there are some things I do need the hubby for because I can’t move it around.
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Mornin’ Michelle! Yup – the quote for painting 3 bedrooms (all waaaaaaay smaller than the living room from hell) in this small house was $2800.00. Oh, and the small connecting hallway to them.
Thus, I shall be in paint-hell off and on for some time……
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It’s a lot of work and time consuming, but I honestly do not know how someone can’t know how to paint. It doesn’t take a lot of brains. lol
My DH says it’s because people are lazy and that’s why they hire people to mow their yards, paint, etc.
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I admit I started having the next-door-neighbor kid do my mowing a few years ago. I HATE mowing – and he can use the cash.
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Many years ago, I lived in S. Cal. and it would rain in Jan, feb, and march so much that my backyard would be a swamp. If I walked out there I would sink up over my ankles. I couldn’t mow it until April. By then, the grass and weeds would be hip high. I hired the 13 year old boy who lived next door to do it earlier. He was about my height and weight, but his feet were MUCH bigger and he could walk out there without sinking.
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I don’t mind mowing, but I hate weedeating.
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ B!
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Yes, exactly. NK had been China’s big-box outlet for internationally banned military technologies for years but the US, unable to risk losing its source of cheap consumer goods, sort of ignores it. It isn’t hard making the China connections, we just lack the will and enforcement capacity to do so.
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It’s 9:15, where is everybody?
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Trying to wake up. I took some meds last night that knocked me out. Now I’m running late.
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Sleeping in? We had some visitors this morning very early.
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Well I was bravely headed to our Farmer’s Market despite the 39° temperature, then I took the dog out and it started hailing so I brought my two plants inside, made some tea, took a nap, watched a couple of episodes of Criminal Minds and now I’m getting ready to go visit a friend in rehab after he had some health issues.
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Well, I’m glad you checked in. I didn’t know where you were and what you were doing.
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Caturday coffee!
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Mornin’ Menagerie!
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For some reason, with my adblocker program, it not only blocks the like button up top, but all tweeters and such. Mornin’ all. I thoroughly enjoyed sleeping in today.
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This calls for swift and decisive action by the….gAy Team!
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An’ I ain’t got no time fo’ yo’ reactionary jibba jabba, fool! Quote from B. S. BarackUS.
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Read it and prayer for our troops.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/14/wiped-out-air-force-losing-pilots-and-planes-to-cuts-scrounging-for-spare-parts.html?intcmp=hplnws
Take Care
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Sounds like post-Vietnam Carterland when the AF was scrounging parts out of its boneyard. But after nearly 15 years of war eating up our equipment and huge waves of parasitic RAT native and immigrant voters who need 24/7, 360-degree support hampering efforts to repair and replace it looks like the POtuS’s plan tonturn us into a 3rd rate country’s still on track.
Thonk maybe on November we can elect a president who doesn’t think that professional suckling from the Federal teat is a normal state for an otherwise productive person?
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Will Trump set up a “blacklist”. I sure hope so. 😆
https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/05/13/a-trump-blacklist-for-political-operatives-who-opposed-him/
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Nixon set the bar…
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Technically speaking, I would go back one more to Lyndon, but that’s just splittin’ hairs, I guess. That aside, I hope a whole bunch of these “consultants” take a bath on this go-round. You’ll still see them on the idiot box, but that doesn’t pay nearly as well as 15% of a $10M ad buy. 😆 😆
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Yeah, I can see your point. LBJ wasn’t as blatant as Tricky Dick was but was every bit as slimy. I tend to side with Nixon though as Inthought Watergate was a great operation except for that stupid piece of tape screwup, and his unleashing the B-52s on the North and mining Haiphong was long overdue. Wish he’d have mined the ports and unleashed the bombers earlier, some better bomber tactics and blasting the radars at the airports would have helped too, but what we had worked, as opposed to LBJ’s handwringing crap.
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Lyndon was much more discreet about his shenanigans. I’ve read the first three installments of Robert Caro’s bio series of LBJ, and he was a sneaky bastid, from way back. I amy who had a negative net worth when he got to DC, and owned newspapers, TV and radio stations by the time he left. As well as a 1500 acre ranch. He was a player for a long time. 👿 😈
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My mama, who was a real nutjob Kennedy fan, was convinced until the day she died that LBJ had Kennedy assasinated. She arrived at that conclusion the minute she heard the news, and never gave it up.
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I’m not so sure she was wrong about this one. 😉
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Well, it is one of the popular conspiracy theories. I’m really not into conspiracy theories, as you probably know by now, but many people are.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly, Miss Stella, but just because one is paranoid, it doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get ya’z. 😉
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Negative worth coming in, bucks-down coming out, sounds Clintonista to me.
We had a black Republixan, last election cycle, who as part of his campaign ran that puece of tape where LBJ talked about his work to make thevRAT party own the blavk population by handing out endless free stuff. He thought it would turn on the lights, instead it ensured his defeat in the targeted community.
There may be a very few who get into politics to serve mankind but, as in the Twilight Zone episode, just about all have other and less noble agenda.
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Sitting here with the GGS watching a Smurfs movie. Never realized how much Gargamel looks like one of my old Civil Service bosses…
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Yeah, like for true: cheesy male-pattern baldness haircut, bent nose, dorky smile, the entire visual and vocal package. Main difference was that while Gargamel is an evil, manipulating magician my boss was a Fedearal accountant. Hmmm, guess when you put it that way there’s not that much of a difference.
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OMG it is…Bathroom Barry!
http://canadafreepress.com/article/bathroom-barrys-real-legacy
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The KGB Never Forgets and Never Forgives
https://ricochet.com/kgb-never-forgets-never-forgives-anything/
“Putin and his mafia understand the West,” he said. “They understand that the West is now in a political, economic and moral crisis. Putin said it was time to strike, and he was proven right — in Ukraine, in Syria. In the UN, with the UN resolutions. He knew well-organized authoritarianism like his, run by a good KGB officer like him, would win. He saw that the West was weak, and used this period to get away with as much as he could.
“The Russian people are accustomed to a very strong power. For them, it’s a guarantee against the horror of anarchy. The main fault is with Obama, who has returned to isolationism, leaving the world to this new Soviet Union. Hollande and Merkel feel they have no choice but to cooperate, even in matters as basic as human rights. Only a small part of Russian intelligentsia is fighting for freedom….
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I just finished reading that over on teh FB. Apparently we don’t have many people in this Country who play long-ball. Although it’s much easier to do when you set yourself up for however long you want to be in charge, instead of having to do that pesky campaigning every 2, 4, or 6 years.
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Part of it is the non-teaching of history in our schools too – another topic on FB this morning.
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Hey Mr. Nyet, what happened to you serving breakfast and your cheery salutations?
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Yeah, what happened?
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Yes, I miss that also. Was always comforting somehow to see my name was still there. And the breakfasts were divine, nice not to cook!
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Now, this is fascinating ….
Ingestible origami robot unfolds from capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach (w/ Video)
In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.
The new work, which the researchers are presenting this week at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, builds on a long sequence of papers on origami robots from the research group of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-ingestible-origami-robot-unfolds-capsule.html
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Was “Alien” one of these things gone rogue?
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LOL
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I’m watching a Hannity special “Trump vs. the Left” right now. When it is available, maybe somebody can link to it. So far, it has been good. They are contrasting Trump’s policies and the Left’s policies.
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I’ll keep an eye out for it.
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Just thought of two shows that I like which are available on YouTube:
The Supersizers – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242512/
Great British Bake-Off
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I’ll have to see if I can find them. I think I watched the Great British Bake-off with my friend.
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I love Supersizer. It’s a few years old, and it is a mix of comedy, history, and food. Each show picks a different era.
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