TSCLT 7.0: Hemis, Harleys, Hooters-n-Harridans

[Wat_Tyler]

I have a hole in the storm until 12.


So I'm wondering about banging out a few miles beforehand.


Besides, what's a little bit of water anyway???

 

[Bidin~Time]

Good Morning Folks!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Sunday, You!!!

 

[Bidin~Time]

My leaving out a humming bird feeder "just in case" has had some results. I saw 2 this morning.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Being wet is marginally okay, for a while.

Being cold and wet, never okay.

We didn't seem to attract any nesting hummingbirds this year
they were all just passing through despite three feeders.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Mom is getting them on the seventh floor, and it makes her so very happy.


Sometimes, one will sit for a few minutes in her ficus tree.

 

[SpeareChucker]

These people just keep getting nuttier:

Vegan lawyer Alex Monaco has said that being a vegan should be treated as a legally ‘protected characteristic’ like gender, race, religion, disability, or sexuality under the Equality Act 2010, and therefore vegans should not be asked to make other people tea with cow’s milk.

“If you were Jewish or Muslim and told to get a round of bacon sandwiches in, no one would bat an eyelid if you refused,” Mr Monaco told The Sun.

“But if you’re vegan and refused to buy a pint of milk to make tea because you believe the dairy industry is torturing cows, then you would be laughed out of the kitchen,” he continued, explaining that many vegans struggle to find “plant-based” food in work canteens or that the “sandwiches all have butter in them”.

Breitbart

 

[Bidin~Time]

Of The 2 I saw this morning one had a red throat and the other had green on it's chest. There may have been a 3rd at the front of the house; I couldn't make out it's coloring because it buzzed right up to my face and startled me.

In other news, the hay needs cut, but the ground it too wet. It would rot in the field before it would cure. <sad sigh>

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Vegans I have known were some unhealthy-looking ashen motherfuckers.


As for me, I think tat cows taste great.


Besides, I can't stand the awful noises they make, so it helps to cull their numbers.


And all that cud-chewing . . . .

 

[SpeareChucker]

You don't know wet until you see what we have. The river has risen so high that
it's flooding over on the east side of town,
and roads are (almost permanently) closed and bridges are in danger.

Our little county road has become a detour route for the flooded state highway
which makes it dangerous just to pull out of the driveway;
people used to doing 55-65 don't adjust their schedule
they just put themselves and us in danger
because they won't reduce their speed.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I have seen reports of the flooding your neck of the woods, SC. It is not something I envy at all.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[SpeareChucker]

The river levels were forecast to peak tonight/tomorrow, but I don't know if that is factoring in this recent tropical system.

 

[bellisarius]

Speaking of cornbread, if'n you like it best to stock up on corn meal now. Come this winter it's going to be pricey.

 

[Bidin~Time]

At least the berry vines here, should be full this year. They thrive in a wet Spring.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Speaking of cornbread, if'n you like it best to stock up on corn meal now. Come this winter it's going to be pricey.

You're right about this. The crops all over are suffering. I haven't even been able to get anything planted in my little garden plot yet because the ground is too wet to work. I guess it doesn't matter, I have just fed the wild life the last couple of years.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Are blueberry bushes are gangbuster!

I'm hoping the blackberry is just as good.

I also tried again to get some raspberry established.
One bush done died, but the other one is doing well.

The peppers and tomatoes are really not 'exploding' with growth.

 

[SpeareChucker]

You're right about this. The crops all over are suffering. I haven't even been able to get anything planted in my little garden plot yet because the ground is too wet to work. I guess it doesn't matter, I have just fed the wild life the last couple of years.

I have a collection of small and odd-sized pallets and what we have done is to lay down a path of black plastic and then setting pallets on it for a walkway. It takes up a little space, but allows access to plants even during our spring monsoons.

 

[bellisarius]

We're doing unusually well out here for the time being. Of course the crops we raise aren't in the 'main stream' category.

 

[SpeareChucker]

*chuckle*


A lot of our farmland is currently in the main stream...

 

[bellisarius]

Starting this fall folks are going to get a pointed lesson on how many consumer goods are affected by corn prices.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Why, because the idiot Trump expanded the biofuel program
instead of doing the right thing and quietly canning the bastard?





Prediction: The shortage will be short of a disaster...

Why? What is affected is more marginal land that was put into production
for political profit and gain by growing non-food crops.

 

[bellisarius]

And last year the media was accusing Trump of "selling out" the farmers.

The fellow that observed that Trump could cure cancer and run into burning buildings to save kittens and still be called a piece of shit was right.

 

[SpeareChucker]

He negotiated more crop sales with Mexico.
This, too, is being derided as a bad thing...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Tried to sneak in a ride.


The rain snuck up on me instead.


So it all turned into a trip to the gas station for a full tank and a bit of rain on the wind screen and the visor.


Maybe next weekend . . . assuming that Allah can get back on the stick with some sunnage.