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Beautiful. Good morning Lucille 🙂
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Good afternoon, lovely! Hope it’s a great one.
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This is as close to fall color as I will get. 🙂
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Does your friend have a time-share for a resort in the Ozarks…
Pig Trail Scenic Highway, Arkansas
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She might have.
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Ahhhhhh…I remember when we lived where there was a Fall. Now we know it’s fall when the leaves fall off of the persimmon trees, the persimmons turn orange and the possums fill the trees.
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Picture of possums filling the trees! Please?
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My son took one, they’re new and unusual to him, I’ll see if we can figure out how to do that. As it’s night you won’t get the grandeur of dozens of twinkling eyes,just a few closer pix of possums giving you that bureaucratic look of having been caught with their paws in the cookie jar/persimmon tree.
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My friend from Chicago saw one up here for the first time, she started running 🙃. I won’t repeat the expletives coming out of her mouth !
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I just say they’re rural Democrats.
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Oh, no. They’re so beneficial and un-leftie.
Opossums: Unsung Heroes in the Fight Against Ticks and Lyme Disease
https://blog.nwf.org/2017/06/opossums-unsung-heroes-in-the-fight-against-ticks-and-lyme-disease/
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I have no real problem with them, they are scavengers that pick up stuff so I don’t have to and they’re not aggressive.
We’ve had ones on the porch the dogs have cornered and I’ve fed them with cheese and dog food and never had a problem. They only live about three years in the wild so we have a pretty good turnover.
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We have them here in the suburbs, but you don’t see them much since they are nocturnal.
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Also, frequently, dead in the road.
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That and raccoons sometimes it seems like a whole family was run over at the same time .
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The ones hit on the road at night are called nocturnal omissions.
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I don’t remember seeing one in Chicago proper but I’m sure I did in the woods or a park. My firmed is far south side Chicago. She was not impressed !
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I saw one in my yard here (at night), and at the house where I used to live in daylight. It was a young one sitting on the fence.
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Sweet. We always had big dogs when I lived in Chicago so maybe that is part of the reason I never saw them around my house.
Here I see foxes, raccoons, possum, skunks, a load of squirrels including some black squirrels and a few albinos!
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I haven’t seen foxes here, but I did where I used to work (deer and wild turkeys too.) We have loads of squirrels here (mostly gray these days; they have crowded out the red ones), smell skunks, and we have rats too (hate that.) I hear that there are coyotes around here but I’ve never seen one.
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Oops. Forgot that we also have raccoons.
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My DH’s first encounter came from a huge one on the front porch. He started calling it like a cat! I started to just stand back and watch the amusement, but when it started hissing at him, he took the hint and ran inside! Lol!
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Here is the tree (with the terriorista). I’ll try to get the possums at night up next.
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These are interesting trees, they’re Asian (actually even the domestic ones are) persimmons, each with a different flavor.
During the summer they’rte heavily leafed but once the fruit starts ripening the leaves start falling. By the time the majority of the fruit’s ripe all of the leaves will be gone exposing the brightly colored fruit to the fruit predators, enhancing the spread of its seeds.
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The terroista!! Love the tree it looks very productive. Love the shock if color!
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Momma possum farther up the tree reaching for her stimulus payment. Ripe ones they’re smelling are the darker orange ones.
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I love it!!! I am going to send it to my City Friend and tell her I have a new cat and she should come visit me to help get it down out of the tree……😂!
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One of the family pack grazing on the fruits of our labor.
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May I ask ‘What does one do with persimmons?’…
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In general, eat them. Our GS eats them, one in each hand, right off the tree, and we do too. We puree and freeze them, I’ve cooked pork in them, and they make a persimmon bread that’s sweeter than pumpkin bread – Czarina justymade some this AM.
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Thank you. I can honestly say it’s a fruit I’ve never tried.
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Just don’t bite into an unripe one as if you do you’ll never forget it.
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I’ll send you the recipe I used, but you’ll probably have trouble getting persimmons. They go from not ripe to over-ripe in a very short time, so nobody ships them, kinda like fresh figs. Maybe they would show up at a farmers’ market. Czar pureed and froze several bags of puree, which is what I made the persimmon bars from. One can also make persimmon pudding.
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Thanks czarina. Persimmon pudding, who knew?
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Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/WeeWeedTX/status/1317061327316279298
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Morning Wee! Feeling good. A cool fall morning, but not nearly as cool as they said it would be.
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Airish here, too. Mornin’ Menage!
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Morning Menagerie! 32° here. 3 more farmer’s markets and then it is done for the year 😦 .
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It was supposed to be 39 here but only got down in the low 50s. We do have cooler weather into the mid 60s for a couple of days though.
I’d love a trip to that farmers market. There is supposed to be a great one in downtown Chattanooga but I couldn’t go. I wanted to get lots of produce this summer to ferment, but it couldn’t happen.
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Sorry Menagerie! I know you are active and being sidelined just stinks.
Love our market. Always wear my Trump gear and always get positive comment, especially amongst the Hmong people.
2 Liberals always give me dirty looks but “Meh”. They are just hateful angry *ssh*les.
Temp is currently 37° .
Truth.
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45 and sunny here at 10 am!
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33 degrees at 8 this morning. It’s gray and overcast and there’s more snow forecast for tomorrow….
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We are getting there. Forecast is for a low of 36 tonight.
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Oh gosh, that brings back memories.
Mornin’ lovely, Stella, ladies and gentlymen.
It always snowed, living in Sierra Vista (Huachuca, Mule, Painted Mountains). Always melted by noon.
Everyone in town and on base would walk around with winter coasts, hats, and gloves.
Wicked Son and I would put on long sleeved sweaters, laughing up those sleeves at all the ID10Ts.
A good time was had by all.
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I can picture that happening here.
Autumn is my favorite season, the crispness in the air, beautiful colors, the geese leaving!
I ent out with a fleece this morning and took it off as soon as I walked out the door!
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Last couple of days we’ve had ten geese at the pond.
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My mum’s neighbor feeds them so we have a bunch. Last year not so much. I have would like to stay when they are first coming around and just shoot a BB gun to scare them away every time they land. My mum doesn’t want to offend the neighbor.
And it is against regulations to feed them he has been reported ti the DNR and still continues to do it.
I think I am going to send him a Thank You letter next early Spring “Dear Sir, I would like to thank you feeding the geese, I get more and more thankful every hunting season as the birds keep getting plumper and plumper.”
Maybe that will give him a moral dilemma?
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I think we are their truck stop.
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Morning Miss Wee 🙂 !
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Ass many times ass the Democrats have been caught in crooked – if not downright illegal – activities over the decades you’d think that their political body would have developed an immunity to getting caught.
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Mornin’ Z’s!
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We dun swapped ‘hat and sticky’ fer ‘cool and clammy’…ain’t Fall in the South wunnerful?
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It’s flat cold and windy up here.
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Yeah, but that weather’s in your resident brochure.
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Good day to you, WeeWeed! Happy Friday and more “peaceful protests with patriots” around the U.S.
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Mushrooms.
The inspiration for the disco ball?
I had the name of the photographer but when I copied and pasted with the link it disappeared 😦 .
Photo Sarah Lloyd
And one more by Sarah since I can post 4 photos (Thank you Stella for your site it is a lovely haven in the swirling nonsense of Today’s Madness ❤️).
Good morning beautiful people 🙂 !
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Good morning!
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Good morning Stella 🙂 . Sun is shinning brightly in spite of the temperature!
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Here too! Tucker seems to love the weather.
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My little dog stays stuck to me, under a down quilt if I’m sitting down. If I’m out and about she is in her heated bed 🙂 !
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Tucker was prancing around in the downed leaves this morning!
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I’ve had two dogs as an adult. Neither liked the leaves on their toes. This one walks like I put dog shoes on her like she is stepping in something yucky 🙄.
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“Wow!”, he says, reaching deep into his bag of moldy jokes, “he must be some fungi to be with!”.
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‘shroom for everyone’s puns.
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I knew there was a morel to that story.,
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Spores so…
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Mycelia mistake.
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Not toad day Czar,
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Mornin’ all. Still looking forward to Winter or Fall, or something cooler. It is only 77* at 9:00 this morning. 🙄 I am soaking wet from our walk. Two more weeks.
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Hey aus, 54 here, and feels great!
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Morning Aus 🙂 !
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Woo Hoo! 59 and semi-clammy here but you gets what you gets.
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Yeah, latest take on the CDC falling on its syringe is that it’s Trump’s fault as he politicized and suppressed its working while interfering in its internal matters. No word on why the CDC failed to react adequately after the SARS-1 and hemorrhagic disease outbreaks under Obama…that’s old history, don’t count, and to ask is RACISSSSSST!
There were those in the Federal disease business who considered the CDC structure a hive for docs and PhDs who couldn’t/didn’t want to get their fingernails dirty to nest. There are workers there who bust their butts…but…you have that overarching bureaucracy of Mds and PhDs who decided to become bureaucrats and take up the hypocritic oath.
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Bureaucracy seems to be the mantle for all democrats no matter their profession. They lie, steal, obfuscate and make things up so they don’t have to admit that they are wrong.
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They need bureaucrats as an excuse to cover for their incompetence as well as as a place to employ their incompetents. Bureaucracy is a self-licking ice cream cone for the Democrats.
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LOL! True.
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The trouble with Dems, and most liberals, is none of them actually want to go out and do something. They only want to rigidly control what anyone else can do, and never in their planning process is thought given to production. And I am serious, no sarcasm.
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Agreed.
I saw a liberal post a whole long list that went something like this,
I don’t want free health care I want the taxes I pay to pay for health care.
(You guessed it, she doesn’t pay taxes and no there is no way I was going to take on explaining taxes to her. )
As to the politicians, they want to rule by fiat. Did you see Nancy saying about her constituents “And we feed them.” As if they are her subjects and she is letting them have a bag of rice on her birthday.
Sick entitled group of people.
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A couple of days later, I was doing some work in the front yard when a woman whom I had seen before, but never spoken to, walked by.
“Did they steal your sign?” she asked.
“Yeah,” I said.
She shook her head.
How odd, I thought.
Then it happened again — and again.
“Four more years!” one woman shouted from her car.
A man called approvingly from his pickup truck: “Get a bigger sign!” Another woman rolled down the window of her SUV: “You’re the only one around here with guts!”
I met more neighbors in half an hour than I had met in nearly a year of living in the neighborhood. It was incredible.
This was the “silent majority” — or, perhaps, a silent minority, but not an insignificant one. We were all living in fear — even of each other! — until one person broke the ice. And it felt good.
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There’s on ‘Biden-Harris’ sign I’ve seen out here and none of the locals will touch it. The area’s aflood with Trump signs and the opposition ‘respects’ them and isn’t about to touch them.
This area, if Biden wins, won’t cave in to Leftist Federal dictates under Biden any more than it did under Obama. There are liberal enclaves sitting in our few major cities but not out where people have dirt on their hands at day’s end.
Big race here is Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is running again against failed SecAg-under-Clinton Mike Espy. He’s about the only Rat tool with enough name recognition in the state to compete, and this race is expected to be dirty.
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Mine is a primarily Dem area. I don’t have a sign, but I am putting my flag out every day, as is my next door neighbor.
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The Garvey Flag?
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Just listening to Bill Whittle’s analysis of the election. He said something that made me laugh out loud:
“The last guy to endorse Joe Biden was Barack Obama, and he did with the enthusiasm of a guy who was asked to move furniture for a friend and has a truck.”
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Someone replied that this took place in Manvel, TX. Whoever and wherever they are, God Bless them!
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There’s going to be a Trump rally in Macon, GA tonight! I won’t get to go, but I do want to watch. It’s about 150 miles South of us. I also heard Doug Collins is having a big rally tomorrow at a farm just about 10 miles South of us. Matt Geatz, Popodopoulous, and others are supposed to be there as well! Sounds like fun!
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There is one in progress right now in Ocala FL (see post.)
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“We Did Get a Diagnosis Yesterday from My Doctor… Unfortunately, It is Cancer” – Prayers for Dan Bongino After He Breaks News of Cancer
By Jim Hoft – Published October 16, 2020 at 4:59pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/get-diagnosis-yesterday-doctor-unfortunately-cancer-prayers-dan-bongino-breaks-news-cancer/
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Prayers.
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President Donald Trump Sends Signed MAGA Hat to 15-Year-Old Utah Student Who Was Bullied and Assaulted for Supporting Him
By Cassandra Fairbanks – Published October 16, 2020 at 5:46pm
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/president-donald-trump-sends-signed-maga-hat-15-year-old-utah-student-bullied-assaulted-supporting/
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