I made a friend
This cow! Sweet little heifer. He was leading her all around a busy country show and she didn’t flinch.
I asked. Her mother is a milk cow and her father is a meat cow, but they’re going to give her a chance to be a milk cow.
Weasel approves!
We’ve gone out of our way to buy their milk ever since. I mean, we often did anyway – it’s excellent milk – but like a lot of smaller dairies, their milk isn’t ultra-pasteurized, so it usually has a short date on it.
I suppose it’s time to check out farmer’s markets, too. The real ones, where farmers sell stuff in bulk. Not the twee ones, where middle class artisans sell specialty cheeses and bespoke gin to the middle class.
August 30, 2022 — 7:43 pm
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The last of the village fêtes
It’s a bank holiday here today (read: long weekend). The last one before Christmas, believe it or not. That means it was the last village fête of the season. There are a few more commercial events, but this was the last amateur festival.
It was rammed. Packed. Stuffed. Busiest I’ve ever seen it.
They all have been this summer. Chock full of people dying to get out and go somewhere and spend money.
It was a little hard, to be honest, seeing so many happy people celebrating and knowing the shit is most definitely about to hit the fan here.
It’s like, have you ever cut yourself badly in the kitchen? And, for just a second, there’s no blood, no pain, no sign of it…but you know what’s coming. It’s like that.
Oh, I just thought the tombstone was cool. I wasn’t trying to be *that* doomy. Saw it in the churchyard. Completely unreadable, sadly – not even the date.
August 29, 2022 — 6:33 pm
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Two questions
This is our septic tank during installation. It is a complex beastie operated entirely by a finicky computer. Oh, how I wish I was kidding. We had to agree to this to buy the house. If the power goes off for more than a day or so, we cannot shit.
It is my belief that the power will go this winter. Maybe for only a few hours at a time. Maybe longer. I am partial to the occasional shit.
So we’re looking to buy a generator. Uncle B is excellent at researching these things, but I thought I’d ask if anyone had insight.
We’re thinking something small, sufficient to power one thing at a time. Like, plug in our two freezers until they’re down to temp. Same with the fridge. Plug in the shit tank for an hour until it does its thang. We’re not trying to run the whole shebang off a generator.
Just thought I’d ask.
Unrelated, it came up in the comments of the previous thread what supplements people were taking to ward off the coof. My own regimen was zinc, magnesium, C and D (with quercetin on hand in case I needed it). I ran out of C recently, went to reorder and thought…how long am I going to do this?
Well? How long are you going to continue your covid supplements?
Oh, and don’t forget – Dead Pool tomorrow. Be here. Or don’t.
August 25, 2022 — 7:09 pm
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Hmmm…
We went to a country fair this weekend, and this was one of the booths. I looked it up and this outfit has been around since 1995, but I wonder if there’s any acknowledgement that business has been booming lately. They haven’t put out a press release in two years.
Meanwhile, just when you think Biden’s team couldn’t be more politically inept, today’s student loan announcement is just right. Ten grand isn’t enough to help anyone with serious student loan debt (who were plumping for blanket forgiveness), but it’s way enough to piss off anyone who didn’t go to college, didn’t take out loans of paid off their loans the painful way.
Bad feelings all around! And all for the low, low price of $300 billion!
Finally, I gather we have a Dead Pool winner. Lavendergirl has tragically taken another life: Len Dawson cut down at 87. I have time to gin up enthusiasm for Friday, so see you back in two days!
August 24, 2022 — 7:46 pm
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Go home, grandma – you’re embarrassing me
This is Carolyn Maloney, politician. She was mentioned in a Breitbart article today. I don’t know anything about her, but she’s a Democrat from New York, so hisssss. I’m here to be cruel about her fashion choices.
Why do older female public figures do this look? See it in color. Blonde hair, red lipstick, glommy eyelashes. She doesn’t look like a young woman, she looks like the mummified corpse of a young woman left out in the sun.
I won’t say it’s only Democrat women who do this, but they’re the ones that come to mind: Hillary, Barbara Walters, Nancy (except not blonde).
Maloney is 76. That’s about the median age of my group of friends (why am I always the youngest in my social circle?). A couple of them color their hair. There are some smart dressers and some more casual, but they all look age-appropriate like the tasteful old ladies they are.
Why would a woman seeking power aspire to look like a bimbo, anyway? If I wanted to rule the world, I’d go to my stylist and say, “make me look mean. Like, BIG mean.” Like, pull my gray hair back in a mean ol’ bun and give me a mean ol’ Hugo Boss greatcoat and a riding crop. I want to look like a Bond villain.
I’d vote for that in an old woman.
August 16, 2022 — 7:42 pm
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I made a thing!
Flushed with the success of my terrarium (yes, thank you – it’s looking really good) I decided to try my hand at a moss garden.
I really love moss. We have a lot of it (this being England) and I tried to start a moss garden when we first moved here, but it turned out to be an unusually dry year and I was thwarted before I really began.
I had some moss left over from the terrarium project that I’ve been spritzing on the daily, so I thought I’d give it another shot.
Yes, you’re looking at a fern, a clump of moss and some rocks. It’s art, dammit!
It’s in a nice vintage 3-legged French terra cotta pot I snagged off Etsy, though, so if the garden fails, I have a nifty fruit bowl.
August 15, 2022 — 7:04 pm
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HOW many canada geese?
No, not that many canada geese. THIS many canada geese. And more. That field is about a mile long and it was geese the whole way.
Yeah, I know, these things don’t translate well to snapshots. The original picture was nearly twice this size, but WordPress automatically scaled it down and it doesn’t appear I can stop it from doing that.
ExpressoBold Dissent555 takes the dick with Clu Galager. I barely remember the name, but he was in a thousand programs, so…fair pick. But I deemed it too late to queue up another Dead Pool. I like for y’all to simmer in your own juices for a few days.
I know…everyone wanted Anne Heche, but that’s going to be a tough one. She has already been declared brain dead, but they’re keeping her on life support for her organs. As if.
So, new Dead Pool next Friday and have a great weekend!
August 12, 2022 — 7:10 pm
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‘Merica!
Also from this weekend’s village fete, this little slice of Americana. I’ve never understood why the front forks don’t just snap. I guess all the weight is at the back.
I’ve been stuck in a Zoom meeting all evening. Yes, we still do those. Everybody’s decided they’d rather debate in their skivvies of an evening than drag themselves to the office for a morning meeting. And who can blame them?
So, anything happen in the United Banana Republic of America today?
p.s. I feel honor bound to state for the record that Uncle B did *not* inherit the cross-dressing gene.
August 9, 2022 — 7:44 pm
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I got all excited :(
We saw this logo on a van on the way into a village fair this weekend. Turns out, it had nothing to do with mustelids.
It was two young men dressed as cleaning ladies who made a campy fuss dusting off the tea area. Don’t ask me, I just live here.
I don’t think it was any kind of progressive gender bending, just an English thing. The English have the cross-dressing gene bad.
August 8, 2022 — 7:08 pm
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Oh, that’s nice
It turns out the Classic Editor is a plugin. Download it, install it and…screen goes blank and error message above appears.
Swell.
It’s funny – nothing actually seemed to be broken. I did get an email, and it said the WordPress Automatic Updater was the culprit. Weird this flaw presented itself the exact moment I enabled Classic Editor.
Eh. I disabled Automatic Updater on spec. I’m not in a huge hurry to update anything else. And I got my Classic Editor back! Thank you, commenters.
I ain’t touching anything else today. Enjoy the vintage comments in the sidebar and have a good weekend, all!
August 5, 2022 — 6:18 pm
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