
How Things Work

Still waiting.
I originally posted the photo below on a separate page (here), but liked it so much I wanted to bring it forward.
Enjoy your Monday.
I had cause to think of the 50th Saying today. I was floating down the Elk and kinda/sorta got into that mental state where the gray of the sky, surrounding landscape, and even the water blended together. Subtle variations in the density of the clouds resulted in large splotches of white patches throughout the sky. No sun, just splashes of white.
I guess it was the interplay between gray and white that got me thinking of ‘things concealed’ and what might be concealed in the 50th Saying. I won’t twist things much further than the experts have (at link immediately below) but I want to note three things: 1) symbols are meant to conceal as well as reveal and so images may too be used to conceal as well as reveal. 2) Saying 49 extends a small part of 50 (and may have originally followed it). and 3) Saying 51 further discusses the last part of 50.
I’ve copied it and a pretty exhaustive discussion on this saying by ‘experts’ from here.
Detail and expert discussion on all Sayings is located here.
Jesus said, “If they say to you (plur.), ‘Where are you from?’ say to them, ‘It is from light that we have come – from the place where light, of its own accord alone, came into existence and [stood at rest]. And it has been shown forth in their image.’
If they say to you, ‘Is it you?’ say ‘We are its offspring, and we are the chosen of the living father.’
If they ask you, ‘What is the sign of your father within you?’ say to them, ‘It is movement and repose.'”
Enjoy what is left of the weekend!
It turned out to be a great day; overcast, but in the low sixties. I put my boat in the water with the intent of running a little fuel out of it and then filling it with fresh gas. As it turned out it had almost a full tank (20 gal.) so I ran up the Elk River for several miles and then let the current and wind carry me back down.
About halfway back down to the launch site it saw a sandbar covered in pelicans. Amazingly, the photo’s came out. Given the long focal plane, slow shutter speed, moving boat, moving water and moving birds it’s a wonder I ended up with anything but a blur.
A little (very little) post processing that did nothing more than reduce the light resulted in the images below.
I guarantee that this shit is not going to end well. There is a fresh hell that flows from dicking around in places where the downside is neither understood nor constrained.
Here is the story-line: Chinese scientists have created pig monkey hybrids – paving the way to a future in which human organs could be custom-grown in animals for transplant.
“This is the first report of full-term monkey-pig chimeras”, Tang Hai at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing told New Scientist.
The animals had only a small amount of monkey DNA – concentrated in the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and skin cells. The team is now trying to create healthy animals with a higher proportion of monkey cells, says Hai.
While the long-term goal is to incubate human-compatible organs in pig hosts, the team chose to develop the technique using monkey cells first.
This is at the result of criticism around work done by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte’s team at California’s Salk Institute in 2017. In that case pig-human hybrids were created but concerns were raised that the animals could have partly human brains. Belmonte’s team is now working in China, while a rival team is working on a project to create a mouse with a brain made entirely of human cells.
How friggen twisted do you have to be in order to raise a family in this dystopian hell.
God’s gonna punish me for this, but I just couldn’t get past the resemblance of the wheelchair bound knucklehead to Dr. Strangeloves lovable commie.
Folks on the hard left and the slugs in the ‘media’ really need to buy some vowels and catch a clue.
It’s been almost 5 years since the Donald announced and they still don’t understand his appeal. Here’s a clue: being impeached by leftist commie partisans is a badge of honor. It’s applauded by 75 percent (or more) of the US population. This is true regardless of which party they support.
That’s how the MAGA movement has been able to transition from a band of hunkered down supporters with their backs against the wall to what is now a growing national movement across party lines.
The question that keeps nagging me is why in the world would these knuckleheads continue to push impeachment knowing that it stands an absolute certainty of failing? Is the alternative to trying worse than the sure and certain blow-back? If that’s so, there is some sinister shit going on in the halls of government.
What the hell are they so afraid of?
Kamala’s withdrawal from the Presidential race was arbitrary, capricious, and premature. She should do the right thing; reconsider and then jump right back in. After all, she alone has the strength to stand against the white misogynists and racists that plague our nation. But her desperately needed strengths are not why she’s most needed, its for the memes.
There are millions of hard working memes waiting to be pressed into service. They will now will never see life; all because of the selfishness of this woman.
Think of the memes Kamala, think of the memes! Jump your fat azz back into the race and free the memes!
Drudge has crapped on conservatives so much in the last month or so that they are no longer tolerable. Bongino has kicked off a mo-bedder website that I’ll be visiting for my news.
It would be funny if it were not true. Europe is so hosed.
Breitbart is showing off the new offering from Springfield Arms; a sweet looking pocket 1911 chambered in .380. The thing that caught my eye was the ambidextrous safety. It’s loads better than my Ruger LCP safety (Which doesn’t exist. At all. Period)
No safety means (for me) no round in the chamber, which in turn means that to engage a threat moving rapidly in my directions would be a challenge. I love a good challenge, just wish it would be more of the air conditioning variety (see below) and less the “you can really get your ass in a crack” variety.
Oh well. Read more at Breitbart (here).
It’s that time of year here on the farm where all of the heavy lifting is done for the year and I’m able to shift into ‘maintenance mode’.
We borrowed the neighbors seeder and planted wheat in the front two pastures. It went in at roughly 75 pounds per acre across 50 acres of pasture.
We now have eight calves birthed and if all goes well 4 more will appear between now and the end of the year. We’ve put out 4 tubs of a molasses and grain mix and have put the hay back into the rings. The cows are consuming 4 bales a week.
I started work on the fruit trees that I planted last December. First order of business is putting down some fertilizer and getting the planting area further established.
I put out a cup of 8-8-8 fertilizer beneath each tree. and then put week-block and hay on top of the entire planing area. The above photo was taken before I began, the one below about half way through completion.
I’ll finish the rock perimeter in the coming days and then begin working on trimming back the branches. The Plum and Peach Trees should be trimmed to the ‘Open Vase’ method. The ‘rules’ for getting there are shown in the graphic below.
Now, here is a close up of what my Plum and Peach Trees look like. I’m a fair way away of having them trimmed out right.
The apple and pear trees need to be trimmed as well, but they are clipped differently. The photo below is of the 4 Apple Trees.
They will need a lot of work to get them to look like the ideal central leader trees shown below.
Anyway, there is a lot to be done to get the trees into shape but well worth the work if they produce to their potential.
I’ve got nothing against wealth nor would I bash a successful man for accumulating massive amounts of toys and bobbles.
But when you believe that your wealth grants you a louder voice or special dispensation, then we’ve got a little problem. Bloomberg should be a little more like Trump: loud, brash, unpredictable (and vulgar sometimes) and totally about removing the government from the backs of the people. . . . not adding to the volume of governmental burdens so many Americans currently carry.
Earlier in my life I had a 20 year stint in the Army. One of the places that I served was in Korea, it was the late 70’s and that nation was both still recovering from it’s war and trying desperately to join the 20th century.
I returned to Korea in the early 90’s for a couple of weeks on another Army mission and found that the struggling masses there had completed their journey into the modern era. How was it that Korea evolved into a robust and modern society while so many other countries have not been able to make the leap? I’m pretty sure it was due to the tough love that the United States dished out. The US set up a ration system for American goods; Korean’s could not buy anything made in America, they were forced to make their own goods. Everything everyone of their citizens needed had to be produced in their own country. This set the wheels of commerce in motion and, via the wonders of capitalism, the Korea that we see today emerged. In short, they were forced to solve their own problems (albeit with US assistance).
Turning to South and Central America; if I lived in one of the many shit-holes there you could bet your ass that I’d move to the United States in anyway I could. Borders or not, I’d drag my butt by hook or by crook into the safe zone (US)…….if it were possible. Speaking for myself here, the only way that I would stay and fight against the tyrants, gangs, dictators and the graft would be if I had no other choice. If coming into the US was impossible, I’d be forced to fix what was broke at home.
So therein lays the rub. The goodheartedness of the citizens of our own country is prolonging the inevitable in South and Central America. Until these ‘refugees’ and ‘migrants’ are called to task to solve their own issues, the madness will continue.
Some would rightfully argue that our permissiveness at the border is by design. That heartless US politicians pull at the heartstrings of our own citizens to bolster the roles of the Democratic base. I count myself among those with such beliefs.
Evil takes many forms, not the least of which is the manipulation of good people with the intent of doing them harm. The Democrat’s, with their actions on our southern border, harm not only our citizens, but also an unbelievable number of Central and South Americans that are forced to live under tyrannical regimes because their own citizenry has been given options other that solving their problems.
I don’t condemn our population of democrats that show a loving heart. I do wish that they could see how thoroughly they have been manipulated and awaken to the damage they are doing to millions upon millions of lives south of our border.
The politicians, however, would sell their very soul for continued power and wealth. They deserve our condemnation and scorn.
Win my gratitude, solve this puzzle!
It’s gotten colder over the last couple of evenings and my lingering issue with the heat/air system in my cabin has once again surfaced. Here’s the problem: two central air units that will not work in tandem. The entirety of the problem is related to a 20′ ceiling in the living area. It looks like this
The living area downstairs actually uses the upstairs unit to heat/cool. There are 6 air registers from the up unit into this area: 2 on the ceiling of this room, 2 on the walls in this room (on the left) and 2 on the wall in the sun-room (in the background on the right).
The downstairs unit services the kitchen (in the background on the left), the downstairs bedroom, bath, and laundry room. I’ve place two 5 foot ceiling fans suspended 4 feet beneath the ceiling to move air ‘captured’ in the high ceiling. An additional 4 foot ceiling fan is in the sun room to push the air out of that room. Here is another view of that area.
The picture below is taken from the other side of the room. The there are two registers in the ceiling (between the rows of lights) and one register, that cannot be seen) above and to the right of the window on the right.
Besides being a pain in the ass, it gets expensive trying to heat this room. Right now, I’ve got the upper air unit set on 71 and the lower set on 66. Even with the unit set on 66, it is roughly 70 degrees in the rooms serviced by the lower unit.
Any suggestions you can provide would be great!
I got the note below (less the photo’s/graphic) from ‘Gleason’. Thank you for the kind remarks and thoughtful contribution.
We are all in this together
Together? No, No, No! Sorry, that should have read TO GET HER! We are all in this To Get Her. Her and that Lil Bitch Barry. Heavenly Father Promises us that the road we travel won’t be easy,. But, it will be worth it. We must ENDURE TO THE END my friend. You needed a BREAK! Everyone who visits this site fully understands your distress with all that is going on. We are in it To Get Her.
THANK YOU for posting something again. It IS APPRECIATED.
It is Heart wrenching, if not heartbreaking, to witness the Left’s constant march toward Socialistic Progressive Marxism. One has to ask, Why are they pushing so damn hard all the sudden? It is because they know that they are trapped. The Patriots have these Rats Trapped. Frigging Nancy Piglosi runs off/ESCAPES/Avoids Capture, to Spain. She is our Self-Appointed Ambassador/Representative to attend some EnvironMENTAL Conference, as if that is more important than sticking around with the other RATS at this Particular time? She is a NATIONALD ISGRACE, an EMBARRASSMENT. Her Timing is Curious to say the least. We have to keep the SPOTLIGHT on these RATS. They are like fish in a barrel.
You have a beautiful farm from some of the picks that I have seen here on your site. My Dad was a farmer too. He also raised hogs. He worked his AZZ off everyday driving a delivery truck. He came home to a cluster pluck every night, and worked that into the night, every night, and weekends too, for nearly 30 years. You have a tough row to hoe on a daily basis. It ain’t easy. Thank You for ALL THAT YOU DO!! And Thank you for this New Posting on one of my FAVORITE SITES.
A brief vocabulary lesson:
Oppression is not hearing a word that offends you. Oppression is being told you cannot say a word because it may offend someone else.
Europe is so hosed. I wonder how long they will travel down the diversity path before there is enough kindling on the ground to get that sure and certain blaze set off right.
Steadfastly encroaching on the civil liberties of working Europeans while simultaneously importing a replacement society that does not work and is bound by no rules is a recipe for massive conflict. But, that may just be what Europe’s socialist betters are trying to encourage. After all, the more uncivil their society becomes the more ‘common sense’ controls are required in response.
It’s been about a month since I last posted; the pause was a welcome break from the grind of posting a dozen or more meme’s daily for months on end.
I had always planned on being more thoughtful on this site but, dammit, the world seems to be unfolding as if were a fantasy in the mind of a loonie while our national discourse has become something George Carlin would reject as to foolish to describe by monologue.
These are indeed strange times. Such ignorance across the land…..sheep to the slaughter. Graft so grand within our body politic that I wonder if the knuckleheads that are feasting at the national teat won’t rip the nipple from the breast.
With all that said, I’m back and will make an earnest attempt to lighten the mood during this time of madness. Just as the Titanic had someone to rearrange deckchairs, I’ll be doing pretty much the same here as our ship of state goes down in flames. After all, I’m a Journalism !
The best meme’s I’ve seen today come from the Woodsterman’s place. The self proclaimed ‘Blogger Bad Boy’ has outdone himself with this Halloween tribute.
A long time reader, Phssthpok Pak, sent along a link to a little mood music. Enjoy!
Postings will be a little slow/low again today; I’m sanding, caulking, and re-staining the cabin. Cows are calving, leaves are turning, and Garry is staining….all is right in my world.
I guess that Pelosi believes she will fool enough folk into believing that the impending vote on the ‘rules for the impeachment inquiry’ is the same as a vote for an impeachment inquiry that she can slip into this investigation without actually exposing her cabal to the wrath of voters. After all, downstream they will be able to say they never voted for the inquiry, only for the rules should there be an inquiry.
DC: There is no greater place of scum and treachery.
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