DAMN!

This stinks.

I still want to know the political affiliations of the prosecution team. This miscarriage of justice seems to fit right in with the way the democrats have been doing business. If they cannot win by rigging elections they try to lock up the opposition...or harrass the dissenters in the airports.

I'm going to the village tomorrow...and I hope to purchase some more lead while I am there. This shit is gonna get serious before too much longer.

Just For Glee

All Police are not bad. Here is a great example:

Ft. Worth Police today reported finding a John Doe male body in the Trinity River. The victim apparently drowned due to excessive beer consumption.

He was wearing black fishnet stockings, a red garter belt, a strap-on dildo, and an Obama t-shirt. He also had a cucumber stuffed up his ass.

The police thoughtfully removed the Obama t-shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.



hat Tipped To Jeff W.

Obama Thugs In Action !!

And I believe we will see a lot more of this in the future as more and more people stand up to this socialist power hungry sumbitch! My hat is off and I applaud this courageous freedom fighter! He gives me some hope for the republic.

Bullies

What is the best solution when a bully is harassing your kid?

When I was a lad of seven a school ground bully a couple of years older than me was making my life miserable. I had been taught at home not to fight at school...and at that time fighting at school meant a board to the butt if you got caught and there was no damn way you could get into a fight there without getting caught!

It got to the point that I was playing sick to keep from going to school...and one afternoon my Dad finally got me to tell him what was going on. His solution? Hit the sumbitch in the mouth.

"But but but, Dad!" I told him, " he will just whip me bad!"

"Yeah," said Dad, "but if you don't stand up to him I'm gonna whip you worse!"

So the next day I went to school. And sure enough at the morning recess here comes the bully. I didn't say a word...just hauled off and hit him in the mouth as hard as I could swing. To my surprise he went down and started crying...so I proceeded to used my cowboy boots on him.

I was more surprised that I didn't get a board to my butt. I found later that my Father had called the grade school principle and told him that if he couldn't handle the situation he was sure that I could...and if he tried to punish me for standing up to a bully he would have to deal with my dad...and trust me...no one including me really wanted to see that cowboy pissed.

I learned a valuable lesson from my Dad over that incident. Bullies prey on the ones that will not fight back or on the ones they know they can whip. There have been times since that I have used some kind of equalizer...a tire iron comes to mind. But I have refused to be bullied. Yeah, I have had my eyes blacked more than once...but not by the same bully. It doesn't pay to get mad...but it does pay to defend yourself...and maybe to get even.

I suspect most of you have had some experience with bullies...what did you do...if anything.

Good Morning Blog World

I was watching/listening to some of the Emperor's speech to the Turks. And it appears that the NY Time, as usual, omits some important things said...I heard it very plainly...Obama allowed that the United States is NOT a Christian nation. Hmmm, now as most of you know I do not subscribe to Christianity nor any other organized religion. However, when some 80 plus percent of the population of a country claims to be Christian one would think that the nation could be called a Christian nation, huh? Why didn't Obama put it differently...why didn't he say that although the majority of Americans are Christians our government is secular and FREEDOM of and FROM religion is guaranteed by our constitution? Yeah, I know why...Obama was sucking up to the Muslims. The more I hear from this man the more I despise him. He is not content with turning the USA into Europe light..he is dead set on dragging the USA down to the level of Turkey and the rest of the third world shit holes.

Even the NY Slimes now reports that the economy is in deep shit and it will be years before we can pull out of it. It took a war again Hitler and the Japanese to pull us out of the great depression...will it take a war against Obama to pull us out of this depression?

WTF ??? Damn. I reckon that old Soviet dictator was right...we are crumbling from within.
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It is a chilly morning here on sweetthing's half acre. HEY! This is April in central Florida...it ain't supposed to be cold! And the wind is blowing about 20mph drying out the soil around my flora and I gotta go out in the cold air and get them some water. Well, my Pop always said that a farmer's life wuz a tough one...heh. But, I got a coat and an extra mug of jumpstart...y'all come back, heah?

Brrrrrr

Somebody wanna slap the dawg shit out of Al Gore for me?



Dear Guy,
It is very windy this morning. You will want to keep both hands on the wheel! It will stay cool all day with highs only in the low to mid 60s. That is 15 degrees below average! Occasional low clouds and light rain may develop as cold air spreads in from the Gulf. A High Surf Advisory and a Small Craft Advisory are posted for area waters.

Tonight will be very chilly. Lows will range from the low to mid 40s for most of us to the 30s north of the Bay. We warm up to 70 degrees Wednesday afternoon! more...

Sincerely,
Meteorologist Leigh Spann

Sad

so sad to see such an outstanding old company need government help...

Couple of Good Reads!

You guys gotta check out this place for crying out loud!

BAWAHAHAHAHAHA

Now look, back in my drinkin' days I have done some stupid things...but never drunk enough to buy a gotdam pasta burner nor so fucked up that i would call 9-11 because there was a train about to hit it....with me in it!





Hat tipped to my Okie Bro

Global Warming My Crusty Butt !!

The weather quacks are predicting a record low temperature on sweetthing's half acre within a couple of days. 35F in April? Somebody slap the shit out of Al Gore.

Hell, folks, it could well be another one of those years with no summer. Volcanoes are erupting in South American and Alaska and earthquakes shaking up Italy. Sounds like Mother Nature might be getting ready to show Al Gore and the junk scientists that it is she that controls the weather...not measly humankind...

Congratulations!

It is blog posts such as this that give me hope that there is still a chance for the republic. This father has a right to be proud of his son...completing basic training is not easy. As the adage goes...'if it was easy anyone could do it!'

For you that have never had the pleasure of completing basic training let me explain how it works...the military takes a human being, destroys that human's ego, and then rebuild it stronger and with more self discipline than that human ever dreamed of having.

It has been said that one cannot change another person's attitude...that attitude has to be changed from within. But, in military basic training it it not the attitude that is targeted...it is the behavior. Behavior can be changed (usually with a procedure sometimes called extrinsic motivation...you know? Lots of yelling!) and to the amazement of recruits that changed behavior becomes habit and with that habit comes a change in attitude.

And for all of you who have taken basic training...can you ever walk past a mirror without checking your gig line? Naaa, me neither.

Quote of the Day

If General Motors goes under, there will still be cars. And if the New York Times disappears, there will still be news.

Yep. I reckon so.

Good Morning Blog World

Here it is a Monday morning already, huh? Damn. Don't time just fly? Seems like just yesterday it was Sunday. And here it is April already! Spring is in the air and summer just around the corner. And I have a case of the summer time lazy bones already. Lots of projects in mind that I wanna work on but doubt I'll do much except think about them today...besides, it might rain and everyone knows that an old man ain't supposed to be outside working when it is raining...might get wet, track wet sand into the house and get my butt chewed...

I'm in no mood for a rant this morning although I could get started on one easy enough. Yeah, I read the NY Slimes and the Washington Post and even looked at the front page on yahoo...depressing at best. So I think instead of adding to depression I'll try to lighten up the mood today...

Where to Live After Retirement:


You can live in Phoenix , Arizona where.....
1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2. You've experienced condensation on your back side from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that 'dry heat' is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. The 4 seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!

You can Live in California where...
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought.

You can Live in New York City where...
1. You say 'the city' and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan .
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is 'nature.'
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn. (ed note: if you have a car)
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

You can Live in Maine where...
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco .
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.

You can Live in the Deep South where...
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. 'Y'all' is singular and 'all y'all' is plural.
3. 'He needed killin'' is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.
5. Everything is either 'in yonder,' 'over yonder' or 'out yonder.' It's important to know the difference, too.

You can live in Colorado where...
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car .
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

You can live in the Midwest where...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: 'Where's my coat at?'
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, 'It was different!'

OR You can live in Florida where..
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.


OR You can live in Florida where..
1. There are more sonny beaches than sunnybeaches
2. Cock roaches look like they are on steroids
3. more doublewides are lost to hurricanes than to redneck divorces
4. you can grow anything in your garden provided it is weeds
5. there are as many human snowbirds as feathered ones

And with that I am gonna holler at sweetthing for another mug up jumpstart and take it for a hobble around sweetthing's half acre before that rain I am wishin' for starts. Y'all come back, heah?

April Flowers and Strawberries

I do like April..just hope those April showers come pretty soon. If I posted these right you should be able to click on them for a full screen of color.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Just Rambling

My Mother was an intelligent woman with a heart of gold who would give one the coat off her back....but most of the time she would be holding onto it with a string...if you know what I mean. She was a product of the great depression and as such was one of millions who had to help the family in the cotton fields rather than go to school. Maybe that was one of the reasons that she prized education and insisted that all of her children finish high school.

Mom was not what one would call politically active unless it concerned her family. But cross her and it was a fight. She had no problems taking on the school principles if need be and the need be seemed to come about every year...sometimes because of me and sometimes because of siblings. But she never in my memory asked someone to vote for a particular school board candidate. She would just register her displeasure with a candidate if the name came up with a hrmphhh...and change the subject. She believed that if she couldn't say something good about someone then it was best to say nothing at all.

In Mom's latter years...probably the last twenty...she seldom watched any news except the weather. She said it was ALL bad news and there was nothing she could do about it anyway so why fret about it. At the time I could not understand her logic. I do now because I am beginning to feel the same way.

Yes. I read the news this morning and once again it is mostly bad unless one is an Obama Kool Ade drinker and swoons to the words of the emperor. At times I do kind of wish that I had my Mother's ability to just block out the parts of the world she was uncomfortable with and just live in her own little world. But I can't. You see, my Mother valued education and insisted that I get some...and I did. Enough to understand how little I know of what is known but still enough to understand what is going on in the politics. Enough to make me wish sometimes that my Mother had not insisted that I "get some learnin'" and that I could bury my head in the sand and just be oblivious of what is happening to my country.

But I cannot. I am too old to fight with anything but words and I know that 99.9 percent of the time my words are read by those of you who have read them over and over for the past nearly four years. I just keep preaching to the choir in hopes that there will be a new member in the bass section...one that maybe..just maybe I can convert.

Yeah, I loved my Mother dearly and I learned a lot from her. But one thing I learned was that I think she was wrong in her ideas about not saying anything at all if one couldn't say something good about a person. That is the kind of philosophy that got us a commie in the White House and has put the country closer to revolution than at any time since 1859. So, I will continue to talk bad about the emperor until I can find something about him that I can laud...and thus far I ain't found nothin' about him that I like.

The jump start was especially good this morning as was a bowl of horse food smothered with melted margarine, some Splenda, and a teaspoon full of cinnamon...I ain't never been to crazy about oats...but I can eat 'em if that is all sweetthing will fix me. I'm wired now to take my morning hobble around sweetthing's half acre. I saw late yesterday that the Confederate Jasmine is blooming...I'll take my trusty Kodak with me. Y'all come, heah?

Good Morning Blog World

These are not the best of times or are they the worst of times...but try telling that to the five million people who have lost their jobs since the democrats took over congress just a bit over two years ago! It is hard to blame Bush now, huh? Especially when there doesn't seem to be and end of this economic recession in sight. Maybe those of you who have lost your jobs would like to enlarge this picture of the primary culprit...pin it on a piece of plywood and make it your dart board...or maybe just take it to the target range....

I do want to take this opportunity to thank each of you who is still working and those of you who are actively seeking employment. It is the hard working men and women of this country who have made us the most powerful economic engine on this earth even during this time of economic turn down...something that Obama and his cult can't seem to understand. He says we are arrogant and that we should model ourselves after the failed socialist countries of Europe...countries that remind me of the beggar on the street that will take your dollar and then give you the finger when you turn your back. You see, the Europeans despise the USA because we have been successful...in spite of government and in spite of the Europeans.

There are only a couple of the European leaders who seem to get it...German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy have rejected Obama's call for Europe to try to spend their way to prosperity even though both countries are more socialist than they are capitalist. In any event both leaders appear to understand that just printing more money is not the solution to the economic problems. The rest of Europe appears to rather place blame on the USA for their plight...typical of socialists who figure that the producers should produce and support the looters. Fuck 'em. Break their plates and see if they can survive on their own!The Russians would take them in 24 hours if not for the USA protection...

Enough of this rant...the sun is shining and it is a beautiful morning on sweetthing's half acre. I have had two half liter mugs of jumpstart and two dips of Skoal and I'm wired and ready to do something other than set behind this monitor. I think I'll go get my hands dirty. Y'all come back, heah?

Hmmm

Having a hard time trying to understand how the left wing thinks? Well, first of all I am not all that sure that the majority of the Obama Kool ade drinking cult thinks at all.

DAMN!

Looks like Obama and his Kool Ade drinkers are getting what they wanted...the USA is more and more like Europe where 10 percent unemployment is the norm.

If I was a young man I would just pack up and leave this country....except there ain't no place to go! The whole earth has lost its mind! The people everywhere are willing to sacrifice their freedom for what they think is economic security...and free bread and a circus.

Good Morning Blog World

I am sitting here half way listening to Fox Cable news...the Emperor is serving kool ade to the French who are apparently lapping it up like the good little socialist pussies that they are. I am about to the point where I am buying into the one world government conspiracy theory! Seems that all of the evidence is pointing that way. The left wing has used junk science to convince the world that the ice caps are melting and that "we all are gonna die" and now Obama is telling the world that he doesn't want the USA to be the economic power of the past...and more and more I am thinking tar and feathers is appropriate.

But I am not gonna let the sumbitch get me down today. I have always been an optimist...I believe in the words of one of my favorite philosophers...

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein

And that is why I continue to buy lead when I can find it.
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We finally got a shower of rain last night...and that was all...if I had soaped up I would have had to have got the water hose to rinse off. I put off watering the flora for a couple of days because the weather quacks kept sayin' we wuz gonna get rain. hell, about every hour I got an e-mail saying that storms wuz a comin'. Well, the wind blew like Monica Lewinski but it definitely was a dry blow. So I reckon me and sweetthing will be draggin' water hoses today.

I am looking forward to lunch today...fried blue catfish fillets! And a side of boiled new potatoes salted and buttered. And maybe some steamed broccoli smothered in melted cheese...

As you have read if you got this far I ain't got nothing much to say this morning. So I'll just quit right here and get me another mug of jumpstart and wish I could eat cackleberries...damn a bunch of high tri-glycerides or whatever that stuff in my blood be...y'all come, heah?

Okra and Blackeyed Peas

Sweetthing and I have had a busy day...again. We hauled a load of old landscape timbers to the land fill and then came back by Home Depot where I picked up a load of corral boards to finish this bed as well as build some more. When we got home we spaded this bed up and then I added another yard of cow manure compost to it. It is now planted with three 16 foot long rows of okra and four 16' long rows of blackeyed peas...more than I will eat of they all make and sweetthing would rather eat worms than blackeyed peas for some reason...she turns her nose up at okra also. Just means more for me, huh?

And just in case you was a wonderin' about the wire? It keeps the varmits out of the bed until the plants get big enough to fend for themselves.

Just For Glee

Heh, and you thought that it was Coke what was the pause what was refreshing! BAWAHAHAHAHAHA

Heh

The emperor is right about one thing... "The "voracious" U.S. economy can no longer be the sole engine of global growth." We could be but we cannot be under Obama's leadership which is designed to make the USA another third world shit hole at worst or a European type socialist democracy at best. One thing for certain...he is doing his best to destroy capitalism and the American dream of getting rich.

And of course there is another reason the USA can no longer be the engine of global growth...we don't grow anything but welfare babies! Economic growth depends on production of something the consumer will purchase. You see, all wealth originates from the earth's natural resources that is taken and improved and sold. It might be from iron ore that is made into steel and steel that is made into automobiles and profit taken at each stage of the production...but the profit taken originated from the earth and the profit was based on production...the improvements on the natural resource.

The USA economy has become a service economy with less than 30 percent of the economic growth coming from production. Over half of the country depends on a government paycheck of some sort for their livelihood (me included) and with the government bail outs of so many banks as well as the auto industry the number is even higher now. The largest unions are the government employees unions. The point is that without increased production there is no grounds for increased wealth...and any such increased wealth is an illusion created by government spending of dollars they don't have to spend.

Although I don't agree with the Germany and France idea of more regulation I do concur that more government spending is not the answer. In fact government spending is what caused this economic crises and more spending will not help end it...if anything it will prolong it. The Germans remember when they tried to spend their way to prosperity in the 1920s...it did not work then and it will not work now.

What will work is the USA recall congress and elect some new faces...faces that understand that the problem is not that there is not enough money but that there has been too damn much spending. There are tough times ahead for most of us...I hope you are getting prepared to ride it out.

I like this guy!

"...Israel’s new foreign minister, the hawkish nationalist Avigdor Lieberman declared Wednesday that “those who wish for peace should prepare for war”...

Lieberman understands that the ragheads do not want peace...they want Israel.

“Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong,” Mr. Lieberman said during a transfer ceremony at the Foreign Ministry. “It is the other way around; it will lead to more wars.”

Yep. I seldom say the 'history has proved' because history does not prove anything. However, we can learn from history and the one thing for certain that we can learn from history is that the ragheads see any attempt to negotiate a peace a weakness that has always been exploited. There has not been one...not one peace accord that was not broken by the Palestinians before the ink was dry. And as the old adage goes...the more one gives the more they want. Hamas has been explicit in their ideas of a peaceful settlement...the Israelis leave and give them Israel. They have said repeatedly that they will accept no less than that. Lieberman is not going to be a popular man among the Politically correct crowd in Europe and the USA. But I bet the ragheads are worried. Good, they should be.

Have you ever eaten a GOAT? I have. It ain't bad...especially prepared in dishes that one would normally use for venison. Grind it up with some beef suet and it makes a decent hamburger. Starve the goat for a few days and the last few hours keep it thirsty...then give it a bucket of salt water to drink and immediately all the garlic seasoned rice it can eat. After it loads up on the rice knock it in the head and skin it out. Roast the goat, entrails and all over an open fire until the meat is cooked...then butcher the goat saving the rice that cooked in the stomach as a side dish. Yeah, I ate it...but didn't know what I was eating at the time. I tried to toss it a few days later when I was told what I ate..but it was too late...lost a half a fifth of good scotch instead. Damn.
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I have a busy day planned if I can generate the energy for it. I have the plans and enthusiasm but a lot of times plans and enthusiasm don't coincide with my energy level...and when I darvocet and jumpstart up to get the energy I pay for it the next day...if not later on the same day. Anyway, I plan to get black eyed peas and okra planted today as well as some more potatoes. Sweetthing and I do like new potatoes and we have gone through about half of what I have planted..gotta get some more growing. Planting the peas and okra won't take long...but preparing the raised bed will take some time and probably more get up and go than I got. I hope sweetthing is in good shape today...

It has been raining everywhere but sweetthing's half acre! If it doesn't start soon I am gonna have to do some research on my Choctaw ancestors and find how they did their rain dances...or even if they did. Funny thing is that I did some extensive research many year ago on the Choctaws but can't remember any rain dances. Well, if they had lived on sweetthing's half acre I betcha they would have invented one. If you see a fat bearded old fool in bib overall doing the Texas Two step while giving a war whoop under a grove of Live Oaks...well, it will probably be me asking the creator for rain. And the way things are going I could probably get the same results if not better by drinking an extra pot of jumpstart and watering those plants with the overflow....y'all come back, heah?

hmmm

Folks, something weird is happening in the web. My blogroll will not load up when I use Firefox but does with Internet Explorer...what gives, huh?

Hmmm

Now THIS brings about some questions in my head. For instance, I wonder what political party the prosecution team belongs to? And I wonder if they were being pressured or else paid off by the democrats? Did Stevens actually take the bribes/gift? Or was this whole gotdam thing a political power play by the dim-a-crits...they won the battle...but this is the kind of actions that is gonna cost them the war.

And what I really want to know is why the justice department wants to just drop everything now. Why not a new trial? The whole thing stinks and the stink smells of left wing politics.

Hmmm

I scanned some oped pages this morning and they all seemed to read about the same...lauding the Emperor and blasting Germany and France because Germany and France will not buy into Obama's ideas about spending our way to prosperity.

I reckon that governments everywhere forever have tried to regulate economies. And the primary reason is so governments can get their cut right off the top of the production of others. The USA with our constitution was the first government ever to actually recognize (though not implicitly mentioned in the constitution) the economic laws of supply and demand. Although the constitution does give congress the authority....which has been often misused and abused...to regulate interstate commerce for the most part congress has been content to just tax production as much as they think they can get by with. It has only been since the 1930's that congress has passed laws that have made it so tough to do business in the USA.

"So what's your point, GUYK,?" you ask.

Just this. The laws of supply and demand work! That is provided they are not regulated by government. Does this create some dramatic ups and downs? Damn right...it takes the ups and downs to keep supply and demand in balance as well as to reward the good producers and weed out the marginal performers. But see, when allowed to work the laws of supply and demand offer the opportunity to succeed and succeed beyond your wildest dreams if you have the idea, the discipline, and willingness to put in the 100 hour work weeks needed to make an idea fruitful. Conversely, the law of supply and demand does not guarantee success even if you do have the idea and discipline and willingness to put in the hard long hours. If your idea doesn't fulfill a demand you are gonna go bust...or if your idea oversupplies a demand you might go bust. And that is what governments are trying to do...balance supply and demand...but by doing so they also restrict your opportunity...your freedom to pursue success...or failure. ( And I can attest to having done both)

The laws of supply and demand have been for all practical purposes been nullified in the USA by Obama and congress. The administration is propping up marginal companies saying to the public that these companies are too big to let them fail. It is nothing but a power grab by the administration...a grab that they know that the public would never approve if explained and brought to a vote.

Who is to blame for this economic chaos? Well, there is a lot of finger pointing...big business greed? Sure...but if not for business wanting to "be all you can be" business cannot succeed. Greedy labor unions? See the above...labor has a right to try to get as big of a piece of the pie as they can get. Banks? Hell yeah...nobody trusts a banker...the only difference between lawyers and bankers is that lawyers feed on bankers leftovers. Yeah, we can place some blame on each of these but keep in mind that if the laws of supply and demand had not been manipulated by congress over the years the laws would have balanced out any of the problems. And the point is? The government is to blame for ALL of the economic problems.

And how to fix the problem....the same way the people of California thought they were fixing a problem a few years ago...RECALL the sumbitches and elect a new batch of thieves. And bring back and tradition from the past that punished wrongdoers in government...tar and feathers and a rail.

My apologies for typos and the somewhat incoherent rant. Sweetthing is rushing me to go to Wally World...we gotta help keep those laws of supply and demand in balance...

Good Morning Blog World

It has been a dry winter. Well, ALL winters in this part of Florida are usually somewhat dry but we do get the occasional shower every couple of weeks that keep the packed sand soil from turning to powder. Not this year. And then to add to the problem we had a record cold winter...some hard freezes that killed a lot of grass that just will not take prolonged cold weather. When the March winds hit it just blew away some dead grass...roots pulled up and they went south...or east...or west...or whichever. I tink mostly south...they are piled up against the south fence. Anyway the results were extra large patches of white sand on sweetthing's half acre. I reckon I will just give up and start buying centipede grass sod and try to get the sand covered. I have resisted doing this...not only is it a lot of work but a lot of money that I could be spending on guns and ammo...and the centipede grass doesn't even grow fast enough or tall enough to make good goat hay. But all in all it has been a decent winter...

Most of my flora made it through...even most of the grass. The roses in the picture I transplanted from a friend in Bell...Thanks Sandy and Bob...and they have thrived! They are blooming and covered with new buds. There is also another bed of roses with buds and a trellis of Confederate Jasmine budding out and should be in full bloom soon. This will be the first year of flowers on the Jasmine and I am looking forward to the sweet smell.

The victory garden is growing and I am adding to it! Tomorrow I plant black eyed peas and okra and some more potatoes. Later this month I will build a BIG bed..about 12'X24'X1' and transplant the strawberries I have in pots to it. Building the bed frame is easy...but it will take a lot of dirt...those bags of soil hold 2 cubic feet...do the math! 144 bags. Makes my butt hurt to think about it but it also makes my mouth water to think about all the strawberries I want to eat. Seems my mouth has always managed to overload my butt.

Sweetthing wants to do some shopping again today so I reckon I should close down and get around. I think I'll do some man toy shopping at Lowes while sweetthing is buying out Wally World. I might as well start buying chain saws and storing gasoline...no sense in buying guns if I can't find the ammo. And I do want to keep some weapons handy...I betcha a screamin' 18" chainsaw in each hand would be a crowd disperser, huh? Heh...gotta protect the victory garden.

Y'all come back, heah?