Author: Garry

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Know Thy Enemy

It’s not just telling that Trump did not trust Pelosi with advance notice of the raid, it’s damning. By equivocally stating that he did not trust her not to intentionally torpedo the operation and intentionally stating that informing her would place the lives of our special ops heroes at risk, Trump has place her a cold, barren, and featureless place with no foreseeable means of escape. She’s toast.

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Abandon The Land of Sand

Over the last couple of days I’ve heard a pretty substantial number of media scum, out of work politicians, and former General Officers (GO’s), blather about how Trumps actions in Syria have benefited our enemies.

One GO said (paraphrase): ‘Everyone wins but the US, Russia wins, Syria wins, ISIS wins, Turkey wins, Iran wins, and the US looses. ‘

Here is a little late breaking news: No one involved in that shithole is a winner. Remove our troops from the middle east. If our allies or friends want our assistance there we should provide it at ‘cost plus 30 percent’ and limit our involvement to above 15K feet.

Those same GO’s suggest that we will be seen as ‘isolationists’. I’ll call bullshit on that argument as well.

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Should the forces of darkness and evil desire to bust their nuts in the land of sand let them have at it.

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Along The Elk

I did take the time to get the boat into the water yesterday, going out around 11 or so and fished (without luck) until about 2 PM. Fishing mid-day sucks, especially if it is a clear bright day.

I snapped a couple of photo’s of a hillside with some limestone outcroppings as I thought that the caves were interesting. I don’t know how deep into the hillside these openings go but I could almost picture native Americans inhabiting them, or at least using them when passing through the area.

The white outcrop is about 40 feet off of the water and the water is 25 feet deep where I’m sitting.

This is a blow-up of the first picture. The largest opening is roughly 10 feet wide and maybe 4 foot high.

Down river, about a hundred yards or so is another series of the same type of limestone features. Again, the openings are roughly 40 foot off of the water.

Blown-up it looks like this.

And a little further zoom:

The trees along the river haven’t gone into full color yet. When that happens (another week or so?) I’m going to get out and fill myself with a little more of God’s handiwork.

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Around Here

It’s looking good for fishing here in southern-middle Tennessee! I’ll get the boat out a little later this morning and see if the bass are willing to play along.

I had intended on building a rock border around the 3 fruit tree areas that I had planted up by the garden but the EPA Tier 4 requirements have (again) screwed me over. If your unaware of Tier 4, it’s the rule that requires diesel engine exhaust to meet very stringent requirements; it’s almost as if the emitted exhaust has to be cleaner than the air the engine was using in the first place. To get the the exhaust that clean the manufacturers use an elaborate system (you could think of it being like a catalytic converter that uses a Diesel Exhaust Fluid) to treat the air. It screwed up on the tractor a few weeks ago and now it’s screwed up our Kubota skid steer loader. Here is what it looks like.

The good news is that it hasn’t de-rated, the bad news is that it will need to be hauled to the shop for repair. Last time it was taken in it stayed for a month or more until the techies could figure it out.

Damn the luck, can’t work and I’m forced to go fishing!