Dandy chow last night – fresh mung bean sprouts – a broiled NY strip – and red wine. Today? Well, don’t worry – I will be working it off with the lawnmower. And the string trimmer. And the vinegar pumper to kill edges. About 10 seconds after this posts. Maybe 30 with more coffee.
What Expansion Plans?
I have to admit that I didn’t think anything could be as much fun as ham radio. But, truth be told, a few fresh sprouts and whatever else comes from the garden, is SO head and shoulders over “store bought” we wonder how stores even get along.
But – people are lazy – and there are a few people unwilling to take the time to learn gardening – well, it is what it is.
Still, you saw the drought map in the column Friday and since we have all the room in the world – and none of that big city balderdash (building code inspectors) we can actually “Live free and eat” out here in the woods.
We’ll go inside in a sec. but have a look at the outline we’re thinking of for the ultimate outdoor garden space for 2:
The black lines on the lawn are where I’ll be putting in a super-strong deer-proof fence. That said, there is no such thing as “deer-proof” except as a patent novelty, perhaps. This is a great thing to have when you’re older: Always another project, another experiment – in my case, another column, another book – and another turn around on the lawnmower. See, that’s the why behind getting out of bed. Ikigai.
The yellow line (through the solar panels for the 12V greenhouse system which has backup lights and runs the rainwater pump and air bubbler) is where the improved heat-resistant sidewalls will be when I get my schedule dialed back a bit.
This was driving me crazy for a while – because a standard (*cheaper to ship) twin wall panel is almost always 4-feet in length. So when Vevor came out with 5-foot-long twin wall panels, I shoved the widows and orphans out of the way and grabbed 20 of em.
Below about the yellow line will be T1-11 (not to be confused with an L-1011, unless you’re on short final) while above will be the 5-footers to the roofing. (Still arguing whether to twin wall that. Right now it’s thick Lexan and works dandy except for a bit too much heat gain in the summer.) Which then brings me to…what?
How Style Wrecked My Greenhouse
The older I’ve become (meaning now that I’m almost to one gestation period from 78) the more time I’ve spent asking myself non-stop: “Are you bullshitting yourself?”
Here’s why the question came up:
In the first pass, G2 and I laid up the framing with Penofin on it – but the Artiste in Chief said “No…has to go…too Orange…” In 2022 it was still a color, not a politic.
So here’s what I’ve come up with working with the Mind Amplifiers (my AI stack, without Grok which I already told you about)…
Those twelve vertical 2×4s in the greenhouse are not “just framing” once the Texas sun gets on them after 11 AM. At 7.8 feet average height, with two faces taking sun, they add up to about 39 square feet of little brown solar collectors. Left dark or raw, that can dump roughly 2,500–4,500 BTU/hr into the room — call it a small space heater running for free, except you’re paying to cool against it. A coat of white exterior paint should cut that absorbed heat by maybe 50–70%, meaning we may shed 1,500–3,000 BTU/hr of afternoon heat load. Cheap paint, cooler posts, happier plants, and the swamp cooler doesn’t have to work quite so hard.
So that paint will arrive this week – ensuring an absurd number of rainy days will follow.
Next Topic: Electroculture
The tomatoes continue to grow like mad since the Texas Tomato Saw Massacre earlier in the week to push out more fruiting nodes. Over 30 inches tall now… bottom of the grow light is 32:
You can barely see the electro-shocker sitting at 20V (either side of zero) square wave machine. Which gets me to the REAL problems of the week.
My buddy Mike W. sent me a book on Rife frequencies and now I don’t want to do anything but read that. Where I run into one of those “Are you BSing yourself?” moments is when I try to finagle a way to read it while lawn mowing.
We Are What We Eat
Today, I am a New York on the broiler with Benihana-style fried bean sprouts. That was a holding action while the monster Romaine is coming up to table from the music studio/grow room.
Front and center are the next round of sprouting seeds which started soaking a moment after they all posed for this view…
One Problem After Another
This one is a “plant discipline” issue. Yellow squash are being “cane trained” since the closest thing to BDSM Texas offers is it means Beefsteaks Delicious, Squash Maybe…
That about wraps up the ShopWork this week. Still more of it than there is me – shorter columns to come, But remember, UrbanSurvival is now not only a never-ending source of “yucks” but also Yucca’s!
Drop by later in the week, we’re almost ready to harvest the puns. Fresh and tangy, they make more sense than everything east of Gibraltar.
The ham radio build of the Hermes Lite 2 and pairing it with an intermediate amplifier and then an SB-230 will have to wait for the A/C bubble to close in on us. Bubbles are a thing now, it would appear.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Grow room looks good and productive. Diana and I take our afternoon break in the front part of Greenhouse 1. During winter it’s usually a balmy 65 or 70 and a nice place to sit and chat. Only thing is the view is the innards of a commercial greenhouse and you must be mindful of the vent fan schedule which also sits at the same end or you will find yourself and whatever else not nailed down blown back to the other end. Yesterday, Diana said she missed our sunroom we had back at El Rancho de Chaos. So tea time ended abruptly and was replaced by us walking around the house with a tape measure. Over dinner she reminded me of our retirement pact made after her recent heart scare. So maybe a smaller attached structure off the large south facing picture window in the den which houses what the corporate director of design and decoration calls my “mad scientist laboratory”. Lets see what’s left of the budget………
Stay safe. 73
Don’t put in a bigger grow room thjan your wife can take care of… tell her we’re all glad she’s better now.
Thanks. Will do.
Jim in MO : “mad scientist laboratory”
pictures or it didn’t happen.
small is the way,
Egor ~ ~ ~
I kept all of the boys pinewood cars and rocket projects, crystal radios, slingshots, rubber band powered stuff, a couple Sterling steam engines and electric motors I made with the boys and my favorite, a Jacobs Ladder I made in high school that earned me a week of after school detention because I made fun of a math teacher who couldn’t do the math to figure the spark gap. I know its time to clean up in there when I find the vacuum in the middle of the room.
Shop talk Sunday has brought the tbs to his knees this week, Mr G-reenjens.
Had to investigate the the new used 4 runner vibration issues from last weeks road trip. Not sure why I didnt do this first thing, but alas it would not have mattered, as price was non-negotiable to begin with. Anywhos stuck my big noose Under the vehicle and took a good look at everything.
Do my eyes deceive ? Nerp, them there front tires inner treads were GONE, BALD, like over half an inch of Rubber – MISSING! WTF, over ?
Think I m lucky nothing went sideways on road trip with those beat ass tires on the front. I would not have drove that rd trip had I known…duh-ooh!
So in a pretty thankful place right now, thankful my shit didnt get wrecked on road trip last week, and thankful the 76ers covered the Spread, the Over and the Series. Can you say KACHING!
Didnt hit shit on the Derby – though SHOUT OUT THE LADIES ! That was the first Female TRAINER to Win the Derby, Ever – You Go Girl!
* ConsumerReports rated Pirelli’s top notch (top 3) for SUV all season/terrain, Mavis discount tires had a good, not great, deal… new rubbers Monday. Yowza.
Alignment first – then new paws
No, no…. new paws FIRST, and then align THEM. You don’t want to align for old, pre-slanted tires! Actually, a good tire shop will do the alignment with the purchase of new tires installed.
George Ure
May 3, 2026 at 10:39
Alignment first – then new paws
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Yes. Alignment first. Leave the old, worn out bad tires on the front when ‘ya take it to the alignment shop.
This is a picture that will save a thousand words when the mechanic can use the actual wear pattern to gauge the condition of the vehicle and whether it needs work before new tires.
And, quit hopping curbs….
Yep … don’t forget the alignment.
Loved my Pirelli Scorpions, that is what I have been running on my daily drivers for years (run Michelins on the suburban) … but alas when I went to put 4 new ones on late last fall their price had more than doubled!! Actually up 130%. OMG! I was looking for new tires not a new vehicle.
Since what they were going on a high milage vehicle I didn’t want to invest that much in something I maybe wasn’t going to keep for even 1/2 of the real tread life, maybe only a year, my tire shop cut me a super deal on some Generals at less than 1/2 the price of the Pirellis. Sure they were probably made in China but they did have a good American Brand behind them with the same warranty as the Pirellis. I wasn’t expecting much except a great price … but was pleasantly surprised. A bit noisier, but not much, and a bit harder ride if fully aired, but not much, but great handling and did well in the winter (the Scorpions were fabulous all season tires and super quiet – they put that special layer inside the tire to deaden it’s noise).
Still love the Scorpions but at $400/tire installed plus another $30/tire for sales tax I don’t like them that much when I could put on a very decent tire with the same warranty for $140/tire installed (with sales tax) (I need an odd ball large size tire which for most brands raises the price a fair amount)
Don’t know what you are driving but Tire Rack is showing multiple S c orpian variants for less than $200 a tire. Shop around.
Don’t know what to say. Got quotes from 3 shops and all were basically within a few dollars of each other.
I do know that over the years they have come out with various “models” of Scorpions, forget which I had on my vehicles for years, but I do know it was the most expensive version when I was shopping for new tires.
Add in my odd ball size, I found out they are not available in most tire lines. Not sure if the shops checked all the Scorpion lines when quoting me but I did just ask for Scorpions and that is the pricing they came back with.
Anyway … I did shop it hard once I got the first quote and the others were within about $40 for the 4 which is what drove me to looking at different options.
Sumpin’s bad wrong. Somebody’s got some really f’ed up camber…
-Get an alignment.
For one that bad, BYOV (Bring Your Own Vaseline.) You may need new brake and suspension bits. One year (’bout 15 years ago — prices have doubled since then and parts are now Chinese junk) I had to do mine and my daughter’s cars, AND my old Ford pickemup (didn’t even know those I-Beams were removable, let alone that Michigan-to-New York roads could destroy their bushings & bearings.) $4800 worth of alignments for the three, (both front and rear suspension bits for the Jetta’s IRS fix…)
-Get tires.
-Get the alignment re-checked.
Bought a Nissan Titan that had been driven from east coast across country with two .mil base assignments along the way & shipped home to Hawaii with 90k miles. Seemed in good shape. Took it to the dealer for the 105k miles check of ‘everything’. Glad I did. Replaced all fluids. Pinhole leak in radiator got it replaced. Multiple problems ‘ready to bust’ were found, but what drove the mechanic ‘technician’ nutz was after replacing all the brake pads, rotors, calipers… one still didn’t work right. They wanted to charge me full diagnostics on the brakes AGAIN, but what he found was that the brand new calipers he had just installed were defective out of the factory box. No charge for that one. It was a $6k total bill but glad I did it. Got a ‘like new’ truck good for another 100k miles, and safe for monthly trips to Costco over our 6800ft elevation mountain saddle road. The ‘car killer’.
Yeah I hear ya..during covid shutdown.. all the trained mechanics had to find employment to pay bills..
they hired some kid from Google school of mechanics.. it started with me needing a power steering hose and ended up me never driving the car again..
dealerships don’t have access to parts on cars ten years old or older..I just had steering go out on the buggy… because its over ten years old and its a wheelchair accessible.. they couldn’t buy the bolts..they had to be machined.. do I dump it..still owed money at the bank so I had to get it fixed..the 1500.00 repair turned to six grand plus…
Deer Proof Fence? HA – Dream On!
Been fighting the varmints for years. Nothing has worked. Latest effort was fishing line (40# Clear Test) strung around the fruit and nut trees. Yesterday found some nibbles on a pear and an apple tree. Nothing serious yet.
Also had the varmints eat most of the sweet potatoes in the raised bed.
So maybe this fall we have Garden Fed Venison on the grill? Blackened, Garlic with cracked black pepper and the possibilities go on.
Any suggestions on a wine pairing?
Cheers and keep trying.
I have found the pairing that works is a 9 mm and a 7.62×39. If you’re in a hurry? Mossberg instant hamburger works.
Have something with a scope, that can take an add-on night vision device for more difficult issues. If you must resort to a weapon, don’t miss.
that’s why I stack 30 round mags back tro back. If I do miss on round 1 #58 is a dead certainty
for sure a shotgun prescription is in order.
Dr. Kevorkian all round.
Boom … E
I’d suggest a .44 magnum rifle or .308/.30-06 and a scope like mine:
https://www.atncorp.com/thermal-scope-thor-hd
Not sure a 7.62×39 has enough horsepower (it should, a .30-30 does, but I don’t know that for a fact), I guarantee a 9mm doesn’t, and you’d never get close enough for a shotgun. Deer are NOT BAMBI! They are unbelievably quick and really, really dangerous. They prefer to run, but if you have one wounded and cornered, or fuck with a young fawn, and you’re within 40 feet, the (adult) deer will kill you before you can chamber another round.
Thing is..there’s a limit to bullets..
when I was contemplating..how did they get black powder in the wilderness.. a realities said..they used air rifles..
so I asked did anyone have great great grandpas old gun stuffed in a closet somewhere.. nope the NRA museum in saint Louis has it..
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/lewis-and-clarks-girandoni-air-rifle/
I wanted to shoot it just to say I did….
so really you have to consider the ammo side of a nug…
“how did they get black powder in the wilderness”
They made it.
Any kind of excrement, liquid or solid, can be buried and as it “cures,” will precipitate potassium nitrate to the surface of the Earth.
Sulfur is found as mineral deposits at any volcano, hot springs, or mineral springs, or may be easily extracted from iron pyrite.
You burn wood to get ash to purify the KNO3. Once you have sufficient ash to fix the saltpetre, you crumble the remainder of the charred wood to get charcoal.
Settlers of the “Old West” got their gunpowder in canvas bags. The mountain men who came a generation or two before them, made their own powder and cast their own bullets…
(““how did they get black powder in the wilderness”
They made it.”)
Yes..you can make it… but it wasn’t exactly a five minute chore and supplies were scarce…That’s also why he was hated up until my mothers generation..
I could share the Berry basket story that my great uncle told me when I was a little boy while he was showing me around the homestead, about how Daniel Boone and George rogers became the family hero’s … I had one of the baskets for over sixty years..gave it to the daughter last fall..she wanted it and it was just sitting in the shed..
we read about their journey and sacrifices.. nothing is told about the families struggles because of their walk about..
Deer-proof fence IS possible. I recommend 6ga chain link, 12 feet high, tethered to pipe (not tubing or T-post.) That’s what the folks in Michigan and Pennsylvania seem to like. There’s Amish in Michiana who breed deer (one prize stag = many thousands of $$$) and I believe they use 10′ chain link. I have seen a panicked doe take down a 9½ga (that’s the heavy commercial-grade) chain link fence as efficiently as a drunk sheriff’s kid in a stolen pickup truck. The deer never slowed down, and was gone out of sight in less than 12 seconds.
Tinkerer : “Deer Proof Fence” same reaction here … good luck with that. I have watched an enormous buck leap an 8′ farm barrier without breaking stride. 2′ 4′ 8′ doesn’t make much dif. They are leapers and if wanting what you are growing there’s always a new planting. Or the deer slug think. Use put-down load and have a plan for the dressing out (nuhmm, venison steaks and sausage please). Folks around here are more spooked about fewer spottings. I have pretty good woodcraft but the snow pack made things difficult this year. Good hunting! E
Fine point of Texas game law here, but if a deer jumps your fence adjacent to the house, does that constitute burglary? He’s try9ing to take your food, right? So, you can (insert castle law?) shoot? Thinking this out ahead of time…
Prices on storage foods are going up. MH ran 50% off sales on #10 cans most of the winter, and they have cut off the sales.
Several of the perennial favorite emergency good suppliers have finished up sales as well.
Rainy Day foods has a sale on case lot #10 and smaller cans. Their prices on FD green peas, super sweet corn and green beans is attractive. Several varieties of grains and legumes are also on sale.
If you are interested in topping off bulk staples, now is the time. By the end of summer, I expect sales to be a nostalgic memory, with large price increases. Shortages will probably not show up until mid-winter, and all my sources are confirming rumors of dizeable acerage being held back in drought areas. Price increases in fertilizer are now MSM fare.
Failing to anticipate the double whammy of drought and fertilizer prices was a major military planning omission. Unless, of course, cutting off foreign customers was the plan, and I currently refuse to believe we have stooped that low. I’m seeing tunnel vision in all this. Had farmers had six months to work atound this, they might have done a better job on the whole. Dumping this load of manure on the row croppers this late in the planting season was inept.
Personally, I already use low intensity agriculture, and I rely on clover and veatch for nitrogen. Row croppers planting green revolution seed don’t have that option. It takes special equipment and bulk sources to fertilize with manure, and expecting commercial farmers to make a transition like that in a few short weeks is not particularly s-m-a-r-t.
Make that sizeable, not “dizeable”. And I might note that the farmers who aren’t planting are the ones who are doing economic analysis based on current pricing and projected drought yields. and there just isn’t a way to make money, unless they have some special advantage like a manure source, and access to spreading equipment. The Midwest has a lot of feed lots, in other areas, not so much.
GU : “… shorter columns to come …”
We shall watch this Matey. It’s a journey.
ATL : attended a YC manly re-build the deck party.
I _so_ enjoy rough carpentry. Left my tools in the bag …
It was tool-slut heaven … serious laker builds as a job. RamRod.
I retreated and cut wood on radial arm saw before surrendering.
A Dad expression [tits on a boar] came to mind.
My knowhow no longer can.
Sigh, have a fine Sunday.
Egor ~ __\_ ~~
A friend has a large garden every year. She is trying to train her squash to grow up a trellis but is worried that the weight of the squash will topple the vines. Any advice for her?
She also removes the bottom branches of her tomatoes like you did for larger tomatoes.
Good Luck with your fence. My varmits tend to be opossums, rats, and birds, plus my yard guy’s lawn mower.
1/ But more land 2. Buy fruit netting – see CA warning labels. My varmints tend toward lead poisoning
I’ve complained about the feral cats snarling under my bedroom window, but I’ll let it go now that I’ve discovered the number of dead rats they leave behind. The prolific mountain apple tree (“water apples” some call them) is dropping them like rain. “Grounders” sometimes have one rat bite out of them… right next to the headless rat corpse the cat left behind. Mountain apples are a rare local delicacy and I bring bagfuls when visiting friends and family. I don’t need a greenhouse. The entire yard is one!
got the shit scared out of me..I was making the lunch for everyone..the window was opened and a cat howled outside the window.. lol lol
Eleanor – you need get yoself a Jack Russel terrier, they are super fantastic at varmiting, solid companions, are very good with kids. Yappy ? You betcha, once you get em going, Khaos!
* Vines thicken/strengthen as Vegetable in question ripens, she will have time to support em further as they ripen..or grow em on the other side/Sun side of the trellis..
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However, Ure reminds: The “bite” is word from a Glock and you don’t have to feed ’em and no vet bills…
Renee’s seeds has a climbing zuccini this year. I started some about a month ago , I’ll see how they grow.
Get fruit or bird netting. Bird netting is probably more durable, but I’ve seen it cut into a muskmelon rind, so it’d probably do bad things to a squash or gourd. I think the pumpkin growers use some kind of cloth as padding between the net and the fruit. She needs to make sure the trellis is strong enough to support all the weight it is called on to support. The netting is formed into a bag that’s more than big enough to hold the largest conceivable fruit, and then clipped to the trellis with split rings, cinch rings, upholsters clips, Biner’s clips, or whatever’s handy. I’m using these:
https://www.temu.com/-g-605740240610213.html
cheap carabiners, mated to 3/8″ bird netting, with this as padding:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZFNNT2J
but just started this year, so I’ve nothing to report, yet, except I’ve grown really tired of feeding my melons to the bunnies and my figs & grapes to the birdies…
Air venturi Bullpup in .177, mated with air venturi Nano air compressor = very entertaining Varmit Control. Great for “winging” crows as well.
“Winging” Crows, what for sooth does he ramble on about? “Winging” a Crow entails shooting the murderous birds in a Wing – to injure and cause bird to hop around making a god awful racket. That a racket attracts lots more Crows ! BINGO! Got Yoself a shooting gallery, noisey,, but hay back yard bird wars are hell.
Speaking of which – this Spring I found a bluebird box with a nest full of Sparrows. All the baby Sparrows were dead, they had been Murdered by some revengeful and industrious Blue Birds. We have 5 blue Bird boxes mounted on back 9 (3/4 acre) . Usually get 2 Blue Bird families, A Wren Family and a high speed Swallow family..usually. Anyway returned home from roadtrip, and saw all this shit sticking of rd hole front of one of Blue Bird boxes. Took a day or so before I went out to investigate..they (BlueBirds) had stuffed the entrance hole closed with baby sparrows inside, then I guess I stood guard outside until the lil invasive bastards were dead.
Filthy Sparrows have even tried nesting in the Purple Martin house. Last year I just lowered the house and removed offending nests.
This year – just ordered a new Air Venturi BullPup in .177 with seriously good optics for a PCP air gun, and Nano compressor pump. Note to Plinkers, Enthusiasts , and Varmeter’s- get a compressor to fill Ure PCP with – hand pumps SUCK! She comes in case, sighted and tested 20 shots prepackaging = outta the box ready to rock.
To all the the dirty lil english bastards – Sparrows, “say HELLO to my little friend” -https://youtu.be/ysVsMQGfzN4?
“Stoners, M60’s and 203’s, ripping thru heads and tearing knees..”
My dad built a purple martin ‘condo’ and every late autumn took it down, disassembled, and cleaned it out. He waited until early spring to put it back up before the flock arrived. Amazing entertainment to watch dozens of birds, many from nearby ‘colonies’ line the power wires in our back alley. Watching these aerial acrobats swooping thru clouds of mosquitos was incredible, and kept the biting bug count down to almost nothing. Damn good natural insecticide.
when you lose yourself, you find the keys to paradise.
Meow!
I Win with God within ~
PARADISE, HAWAIIAN STYLE (1966, Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh)
Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Jki9T1O14
“PARADISE, HAWAIIAN STYLE”: I’ve got mine! ;-). Lots of scenes from the ‘Polynesian Cultural Center’ run by the Mormons next to the Brigham Young University campus here… still in business today.
re: Suzanna Leigh
feat: a crash
Elvis co-star Suzanna Leigh in the 1966 “Paradise, Hawaiian Style” film allegedly took her acting surname from a childhood neighbor Vivien Leigh of “Gone With the Wind” fame. Post-Hollywood Suzanna Leigh also appears in a 2014 edition of “Chicken Soup for the Soul”. She recounted a plane crash premonition about a 1960’s(?) London to Rome flight she was booked on. She successfully took a later departure as described in the following “Orange Observer” newspaper weblink report:
https://www.orangeobserver.com/news/2014/dec/05/wg-author-tells-story-angels-guidance-new-chicken-soup-book/
The media outlet’s parent company is situated in Winter Garden, Fl. whose city motto is “Where good things grow”.
Present searching does not point to a London to Rome flight crashing at Rome. According to ChatGPT, the nearest comparable Rome airport crash event took place on November 23, 1964 when a departure to Athens operating as TWA800 rejected takeoff.
As chance would separately have it, a model and former Miss Poland, Agnieszka Kotlarska, chose not to take TW800 destined to Paris and onwards to Rome on July 17, 1996. Instead the plane went down off Long Island, N.Y.
800 = DCCC numeri Romani
UFO’s Interdimensional beings?
For anyone that cares and has the time, UAPCon 2 is live and online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foS8uJ_14Sc
You can start from the beginning if you choose to.
The truth is out there – somewhere.
Been digging out flower beds from a heavy grass intrusion over winter. I welcomed it because it took care of the plethora of volunteers gift by the California poppy and the bachelor buttons. Grass is easier to clear! This year I will not be fooled by planting this early, even if we do have 80 degree temps. I just know this is a sucker ploy to wast seeds. But have been enjoying the harvest of lettuce, Swiss chard, carrots that grew all winter and now we feast!
Re the Rife wavelengths – our community had a practitioner very adept at using the Rife machine to help with just about everything from internal organ diagnostics, water testing, parasites testing etc. she even was brave for brief moments to use some of the highest frequencies that, she claimed, would bring Fort Lewis down upon her. Didn’t ask but I do know that I very much benefited from her abilities to read, interpret and understand how to help with this tool. You will love the book!
“This year I will not be fooled by planting this early, even if we do have 80 degree temps.”
Good thinking. I had 80° temps last week. Friday night it snowed.
I bought a small, turnkey hydroponics rig that I’m using to start seedlings. I can’t fix Mother Nature, but I’m trying to find a way to not give in to her neurotic behavior…
re: Dutch Greenhouse
feat: stones & glass houses
I don’t think we’ve seen this sort of thing since Ed Sullivan slammed the doors on Jim Morrison. #47 has declared that Dutch band Along Came Jones apparently from the “island” of the Netherlands will not be welcome to play at the Trump Ballroom due to alleged leftist leanings. Virtual unknowns until the presidential shout-out, the band may offer sometimes free gigs at coffeehouses around The Hague (nl:”hedge, enclosure, hunting ground”). Their vocalist bears a popular first name of Saskia (nl,de:”Woman of the Saxons[people of the knife]”). The name came to prominence in the Dutch Golden Age with the wife of Rembrandt in whose painting ‘Self-Portrait with Saskia’ she modeled. Apparently the work also goes by the title ‘The Prodigal Son in the Tavern’.
Those lacking deep pockets necessary to build a genuine full-scale Ballroom should not despair. A Lego model package and accompanying music video surely will be along.
Ray Stevens – “Along Came Jones” (Live on Andy Williams Show, 1969)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ippnMH2WwE&pp=ygUZQWxvbmcgY2FtZSBKb25lcyBzb25nIDE5Ng%3D%3D
re: The Andy Williams Show, S1 E4, Oct. 11, 1969
Black R&B group The Coasters apparently had their 1959 hit “Along Came Jones” as a homage to the 1945 Gary Cooper-Loretta Young film of the same name. The movie, an only Western in the Cooper filmography, derives from Alan LeMays’ novel “Useless Cowboy”. As chance would have it, the birthplace of Mr. LeMays is Indianapolis, In. on June 3, 1899.
Good for you George.
ya know,
at the same time i have atleast 30 elderly women and more than a few fellas in my life that tell me regularly,
“For The Love of God! Marry that one Andy! You Won the Jackpot Lottery!”
hahaha.
we been together one year on star wars day. its starwars day here. May the 4th be with you.
it is trip living in the future. the future is now.
well best get busy. its 95 degrees in the propulsion room. i been 7000 + callories a day and still dropped down from 238 to 225lbs.
enjoy that garden Mister Ure, keep the deer around. that is good eating if the shit hits the fan.
Good catching up,
I Win with God within.
Safe trav els, following seas and 4th be to thee.
*bows
Namaste
(“My buddy Mike W. sent me a book on Rife frequencies and now I don’t want to do anything but read that. “)
The idea is that each organism vibrates at a unique frequency, and applying that frequency could theoretically disrupt or destroy it.
Hmm….who would have ever thought tgat…lol lol lol…I’ve been over here for years saying everything runs on frequency, resonance, and low energy systems… kind of like making a a hydrogen fuel cell using less energy and frequency… except without any of those flash back explosions. But then people have always thought I was a tad bit nuts — now they’re writing books on this theory and nodding like it’s as good as sliced bread. I guess I was just a little bit early to the party. Or maybe everyone else was tuned into the wrong frequency lol lol lol..
Water from the air is around. Grow things started in a HDepot bucket, started full of soil, right side up, a couple of holes in the top. When growth of sprout is solid, hang it upside down and water through holes drilled in the bottom. Gravity is your friend.
Grandpa, 56 years on the 52 acres, hay, corn, beets, milk cows, beef… never used a sack of fertilizer. We had a manure pond behind the barn and yours truly learned how to muck the stalls into a wheelbarrow then walk out the three 2×12 wide elevated ‘walkway to dump the load. Never fell in once, but definitely feared that. The manure would crust hard and could be loaded into the tractor drawn (horse until 1936) manure spreader and then that went all over, days of driving the old Farmall for me. Shit flying everywhere. Had big hay crops, great corn to silage, and high butterfat milk. Not a damn dime on anything in a sack.
I’m glad I fell in the ocean though. Dairy farming is not for the fun of it.
Sun is now more North every day. That weird South thing was just for the quake day apparently.
Stiks
It would probably make a nice coffee table book : *Honey-wagons of America*
There are (3) rotting away nearby (which I always point out to my Carmel, IN bud (now a gentleman farmer, raising Angus hybrids and chickens on ground away from the house.
Country engineers to the front. These guys have enormous rigs to distribute slurry (full size semi tank) drug behind tracked tractors. They spray a 200′ swath so make quick work of it.
I think one of every ten built the rigs. Then there’s farmer bud trades to get everyone done. The guy truly making bank used to pay for effluent pond management and, now sells poo.
Stinks, for a day, but like my Pop used to opine : the smell of money.
Big guys burning diesel between wet WX here.
Got water? We are awash.
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Life after death? Another dimension?
I was told a true story this morning – been thinking about it ever since.
This 30 yr old was sitting in a quiet bar – slowly sipping a drink – feeling really down. His father had just died a week ago – they were very close – great friends – his father raised him alone when his mom walked out when he was one.
His father told him a couple of days before he died of cancer that if there was an after-life he would trying to contact him., maybe with an odd sentence.., like “My leg hurts.” They both repeated it., to remember it. The guy thought of what Houdini had told his wife.
He is now sitting in the bar, one week later when three people walk in – two girls and guy – mid-twenties. They sit and one of the girls starts starring at him. He has never seen her before. It was starting to make him very uneasy – she seemed locked-on to him. Suddenly she stands up, walks across the bar and stands next to him.
“I don’t know you. Never seen you before.., but I have this very strong urge to tell you my leg hurts. It doesn’t hurt., but I am supposed to tell you that.”
He nearly freaked-out. When he explained what that meant – she nearly freaked out.
Over the next hour he explained and they talked about it. She didn’t like that fact that someone had used her to relay a message from “the other side”.,[ if that’s what really happened?] But was getting over it as they talked.
He has her number and email. She lives in another city.
He remains slightly freaked, never believed in an ‘afterlife’ before and now wonders how he can contact his dad and tell him he got the message – and – will his dad send someone else again with that message?
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The guy who told me that story…., was the 30-year-old that had just lost his father. I have known him for a few years – seems pretty levelheaded to me. Not quite sure why he told me this. Maybe he simply had to tell “someone”. He hasn’t had any further messages from his dad. Been over a year now.
The funny part? My left knee is acting up this morning. My leg hurts, too.
I could tell you stories about this..working in senior care centers or on hospital floors..after a while everyone believes..the exercise bike..lol or hearing people talking from a room storing the belongings of residents..
for those that didn’t believe we would let them be the desk anchor while we did rounds..then come back and listen to them explain what they heard..activity is louder during an electrical storm
One Step Beyond (TV-1960) GOODBYE GRANDPA S2E38
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1FmxJGY1o
3-Pc : maybe you needed to know being receptive to the vibe? ~E~
One week after my mother died, I went back to work. I started reading the emails without first looking at who they were from. Then came the one that started with, “Hi Honey. I’m fine. How are you?” Then a few more sentences, and then it ended with “Love, Mom.” I was stunned! Everything sounded exactly like something my mother would have said. I finally checked and found it had been sent by a friend who lived in another state, supposedly to her daughter. She was clueless as to how I received it instead. BUT, it had been sent on the day my mother died, and at the exact early morning minute that she died. So I knew what had happened. As my mother lay dying in a coma in the hospital bed, I asked her to send me a sign that she was OK. So she hijacked my friend’s email to her daughter and rerouted it to me.
It looks like we may be more powerful in the afterlife than we are in this life. I hope that I can do something similarly spectacular for my kids when I die!
(“My buddy Mike W. sent me a book on Rife frequencies and now I don’t want to do anything but read that. “)
I’ve been talking about frequency for years — resonance, vibration, low?energy systems, the whole bit. People used to look at me like I was one bad day away from wearing a tinfoil hat.
vonsider…the ..TASER… police have them on their belts…a protective device like a taser works by scrambling the body’s electrical signals — basically hijacking the frequency the nerves use to talk to each other……
Lol lol lol…everything runs on frequency, and people acted like I was
broadcasting from the Twilight Zone….everything..similar to light..
My obsession with frequency didn’t just pop out of thin air though — it actually started back in photography school…. We spent entire chapters on the frequency and tge electromagnetic spectrum , the frequency of visible light the rest we can’t see , wavelengths ( although it did have me wondering if it was actually frequency or was it a wave of particles such as atoms which is a whole new second thought…), color frequency temperatures… the whole buffet of frequencies..Back in photography school, the light spectrum is what really scrambled my brain in the best way….One minute they’re telling you light is a frequency, the next minute it’s a wave of particles and atoms, and suddenly you’re wondering if the universe is a cosmic disco ball or a bag of marbles….Once you realize that even the colors we see are just different frequency vibrations, it’s hard for me not to start noticing frequency is everywhere and everything… People thought I was nuts for talking about it, but honestly, I was just applying the same logic we used to explain why a sunset looks orange. Turns out the universe is basically one big radio station — most folks just haven’t learned how to tune the dial….My thought was..we know Light behaves like a wave and a particle and Matter behaves like a wave and a particle…..Electrons, atoms, photons — they all have a frequency.
Once I accepted that, the whole universe started to look like a giant vibrating blueprint….
what I seen at nineteen and pouring over light spectrums was…light as frequency…color as wavelength frequency, and matter as vibration of a frequency.. and energy as structure as a frequency dependent…like the microwave oven..A microwave doesn’t “heat food” in the traditional sense that we assume…It targets a specific frequency that water molecules naturally resonate at…Water vibrates at a certain frequency…Microwaves emit that frequency where the vibration increases and becomes heat…energy as structure, the structure as a frequency?dependent wave..
Once I wrapped my head around the Stupid idea that energy is actually a structure and structure is frequency dependent — like how a microwave oven bullies water molecules into dancing — the whole universe started looking like one big vibration chart…. I didn’t have the budget to split atoms that shit takes numbers on a piece of paper like most of my ideas, but I had enough curiosity to split my own brain trying to figure out whether matter is vibrating or vibration is matter pretending to be solid…..
Consider the rail?gun analogy to frequency..A particle accelerators literally hurls particles using electromagnetic fields — basically giant frequency machines…When particles smash together at high speeds, the energy of the collision overcomes the forces holding the nucleus together….To me those forces are related to frequency — because every particle has a wave like nature…When you pump enough energy into a system, the vibrational structure changes….That change can release huge amounts of energy, which shows up as heat, radiation, and new particles….
dam you got me on a roll of my thoughts of frequencies.. I get on a roll thinking about frequencies, structures, particles, rail gun accelerators,and the whole cosmic dance… and then reality taps me on the shoulder like, ‘Hey genius, you still have a water bill.’ So there goes my dream of building a particle accelerator in the garage….lol ….. But honestly, who needs a billion?dollar lab when your brain is already running experiments at 3 a.m. in my dreams for free…lol lol lol
Got a monster garden for greens and they need no tending or purchase dollars. Entire Garlic Mustard is edible, high in VitAand C. Invasive species roundabouts most trails hedgelines. Great pesto and roots for horseradish or dried for coffee. Medicinal tea if not picked where bug-drugs get sprayed.
Correction. Mustard Garlic. My raging dyslexia on demand again.
Cali video of the day…
https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/2050834682171032025?s=20
People usually laugh when I start talking about solar towers, air wells, CO? filters on street lamps, greening concrete jungles, and yes — a passionate favorite …frequencies. I feel like that guy in the diner scene from Independence Day, ranting while everyone rolled their eyes and chuckling behind my back. my ‘crazy ideas’ I’m not trying to rant in the wastelands. And i know …why didnt i do better for myself if i was so f#$king smart…I was just broadcasting on my beliefs about frequency that very few haven’t tuned into yet..Usually my thoughts have people laughing at me like the restaurant scene in the movie independendance day..lol lol..
https://youtu.be/QFmVSjNvM78?si=qKArJruQ_SiI5cau
so I am curious ..I hope you didn’t just bring frequencies out to get OLD OTIS to make a fool out of himself ranting in the wastelands on another subject he’s passionate about…
This year, I had to net my strawberries that I planted with coneflowers at my back porch herb garden. Had a little opossum mooching the ripe ones. He was brazenly doing this in the afternoon!! Thankfully, the netting worked. Now I have to wait for more berries to ripen, but the harvest isn’t going to be much. I’m going to have to locate a u pick if I want to freeze some for later. If opossum weren’t so useful, I’d have run it off permanently.