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The Winter Solstice is Tomorrow the longest night of the year.. Then it slowly starts getting more light out..


Key Details:

  • Date: Sunday, December 21, 2025.
  • Time: 10:03 a.m. EST (15:03 UTC).
  • What it is: The moment the Northern Hemisphere receives the least direct sunlight, making it the shortest day of the year.
  • Significance: Astronomically, it's the start of winter in the north and summer in the south, after which daylight hours begin to increase in the Northern Hemisphere.
 
Key Details:

  • Date: Sunday, December 21, 2025.
  • Time: 10:03 a.m. EST (15:03 UTC).
  • What it is: The moment the Northern Hemisphere receives the least direct sunlight, making it the shortest day of the year.
  • Significance: Astronomically, it's the start of winter in the north and summer in the south, after which daylight hours begin to increase in the Northern Hemisphere.
Thanks for that!
 
It’s official: I’m tired of moving shit. I’m also tired of packing shit. Joy….
🫂 @Wat_Tyler 🫂
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Both... although ingredients may differ
:unsure: So... no fishy crackers for the h00mans?
Always good to be home.............
Welcome back!!
Yes, being home is never overrated IMO!
Anyway, we're at 10F, 30mph winds, and snow falling.

We're supposed to meet some friends tonight for dinner. We haven't called it either way, yet. This looks bad, but as long as the drifting isn't too bad, it'll be fine.
If you go, hope you have a lovely time and safe home again. 🫂
Driving in drifting snow is almost as challenging sometimes as driving in a whiteout. :oops:
We had a problem with flying squirrels a few years back. I don't know if you've ever seen them up close. Very beautiful little critters, but destructive.
Vermin gotta go... pretty from a distance but a nightmare when they decide your home is their home, too
Date walnuy done next is cranberry orange then on to the chocolate and pumpkin
Your home must smell amazing!! 🤤 😋
Hi NB. My weather is the same. Tomorrow it’s cold and then 50 by Christmas!😮
We always had snow showers on Easter Sunday but Christmas would often be in the 50s and gorgeous (during the day).

My dad and the dad across the street would often disappear for hours on Christmas Day. They would play 9 holes of golf using orange golf balls. :ROFLMAO:
His second name is Mr Bad. 😂
True!
 
I got tired of loading, and I rediscovered a couple of muscles that I haven't used lately. That's always fun. I made headway, which was what really needed to happen.
In another lifetime, when I had cats - two of them, I toyed with the idea of training them to make biscuits on my back. Only to realize my two precious babies made no biscuits - eveh.

Treat yourself to a massage when it's done. All those muscles you forgot you had will be thankful. Who knows - maybe the masseuse will be cute, too. 🤭
 
In another lifetime, when I had cats - two of them, I toyed with the idea of training them to make biscuits on my back. Only to realize my two precious babies made no biscuits - eveh.

Treat yourself to a massage when it's done. All those muscles you forgot you had will be thankful. Who knows - maybe the masseuse will be cute, too. 🤭

It's probably just being a touch out of shape there. I'll probably do enough stuff Out West next week to make other things tender, too. A hot shower goes a long way. And I will have Little Miss Bixit Maker
 
We're in the middle of a good storm. Had to go out and clear driveways this morning, and realized I needed fuel. So, off the the next town over for a couple of 5 gallon cans worth. They sure rape you for #1 diesel now. Damn near $5 a gallon!
(But still way better than having it gel up. Ask me how I know...)

Anyway, we're at 10F, 30mph winds, and snow falling.

We're supposed to meet some friends tonight for dinner. We haven't called it either way, yet. This looks bad, but as long as the drifting isn't too bad, it'll be fine.

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This is exactly why I do not live in the UP of MI!
 
There would be death and dismemberment and hell to pay if that was my vent! WOW!

We had a problem with flying squirrels a few years back. I don't know if you've ever seen them up close. Very beautiful little critters, but destructive. Ended up setting som big rat traps, wound the trigger with yarn, and mashed peanut butter in there. (Must humane way I could come up with to dispatch them in the middle of the night).

Not sure what size squirrel you have , but maybe the same thing, but with a piece of steel wire added as a tether would work???

We have gray squirrels and reds here. They grays are awesome at the bird feeder, and I've never seen the. Damage anything. The reds get the 20Ga every time...
Fuck the Skwirrelz!!

(My new band). I’m playing 12 gauge.
 
Update on my wife's and my Hospital S-show yesterday: (She fell and broke her hip in hallway when I was getting some minor surgery)

This hospital was only built in the last several years, and is close to us in our advanced age. They had the extreme misfortune to have some crazy person shoot a police officer and two of their employees earlier this year. So my wife getting seriously injured in the same hallway where this event took place, has made her a minor celebrity the last two days. Nurses from other areas of the hospital have come to check on her since this happened. I just got off of a phone call from one of these nurses an hour ago, telling me that 'they' were worried about both of us, and said I could call her again, if I needed to talk.
I have a good feeling about her eventual outcome, since I've been kind of upset that her regular doctor has never mentioned her gait or walking, that to me looked like she was favoring a bad hip. She'd get angry with me for mentioning it, so I'd stopped. I'm taking this whole event in a positive way, and she seemed good with that approach from her hospital bed this afternoon. She may most likely be in a rehab center on Christmas day, a first for both of us.
 
Wat has what he calls his SSS - Squirrel Sniping System. It's a Marlin 60 with a Bushnell 3x9 scope zero'ed gnat's ass at 25 yards with subsonic ammo. The semi-auto will still cycle that round, oddly enough. It doesn't alert the neighbors.


Of course, Out West, There are almost no neighbors to alert.
I have a similar set up w a Ruger 10/22.
 
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