6:30 A.M. May 01, 2022 Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away... Did it ever occur to you that maybe the birds are NOT singing, that instead they are screaming in fear because they are scared of heights? And did you know one call of the Blue Jay sounds eerily like a rusted gate swinging in the wind? While #1 is certainly the after-effects of early morning toking, the second is absolutely true. I'd been trying to identify the sound for a few days and finally gave up yesterday…
6:15 A.M. CDT USA Monday May 2, 2022 Olney, Illinois Woke up to just a bit of a chill in the air this morning---or was awakened to one. I pulled the covers tighter about me and tried to ignore the large black being sitting on top of me and inquisitively poking a claw---just one single claw---into my side in an attempt to convince me to get out of bed and let him out. "Right MEOW, if you please." Knowing in my mind that it was an exercise in futility, I mumbled "Go back to…
5:25 A.M. CDT USA Tuesday May 3, 2022 Olney, Illinois Someone has been sneaking in my house and re-setting my clocks while I sleep, when I woke up they were several hours ahead of what they were when I went to bed. I just started the washing machine, I meant to do laundry yesterday but an unfortunate accident involving several hits on the bong made me forget. ☺ Attacked the jungle called the 'back yard' finally yesterday. The worst thing about having a bunch of 50 year old…
10:00 A.M. CDT USA Tuesday, May 3, 2022 Olney, Illinois A profusion of honeysuckle blooms begin to grace the back yard as the bushes do their springly 'thing'. While beautiful blossoms, the bushes are a nuisance that will quickly take over an area and crowd everything else out---which is why I need to do some serious pruning of it as well as the Rose-Of-Sharon bushes that spread faster than weeds if not attended. #flowers #photography #honeysuckle
7:25 A.M. CDT USA Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Olney, Illinois Dammit, looks like I have another infestation of Bushy-tailed Tree Rats. I thought that having cats would take care of it, but I think the tree rats might be paying off the cats to leave them alone or something. Of course, it might help if I stopped putting feed out for them... #squirrels #TreeRats #photography
5:30 A.M. CDT USA Thursday May 5, 2022 Olney, Illinois *WE INTERRUPT YOUR POOP TO BRING YOU THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT* "Can you pet me now? How about now? Now?" I'm just thankful they are not trying to force a look into the bowl while I am on the throne. At least they let me drink my coughee in (relative) peace.
12:20 P.M. CDT USA May 5, 2022 Olney, Illinois Male house finch in the rain this afternoon. I've been a bit surprised that it has been fairly busy out at the feeders, usually no one really comes in the rain, but today it must be a light enough rain that it doesn't bother them any. Also a pair of Downy woodpeckers (mated pair male and female) showed up to feed together on the seed block/suet feeder. Photos taken from the comfort of my living room, I'm not going out in the…
4:40 A.M. CDT USA May 6, 2022 Olney Illinois It still amazes me that many people claim to 'work' online at sites like Noise and myLot and a few others. Especially the pennies-per-day crowd at myLot that also fancy themselves to be 'writers' but can't seem to produce more than 3-4 sentences about what they had for lunch or breakfast. I quite often get the feeling many of these people would quit any real job that made them do real work. Maybe it just makes them feel important…
♫ Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me If I spring a leak, she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one ♫ The Band - Up On Cripple Creek Not every once in a while, but more like every now and again, I decide I need to listen to this album. It's not on any of my lists of favorites, but it is considered a classic of its time.
8:30 CDT USA May 7, 2022 Olney, Illinois So I was a bit concerned that it might be too early in the day to run the riding lawnmower and then the neighbor behind me started digging up his yard with a backhoe so I guess not. lol The repair guys only had the mower for one day this time and it appears they did get the problem fixed correctly now. UNFORTUNATELY I wasn't paying attention and I mowed down the high patch of weeds that Emoci loves to sit in and watch her…
My nephew Emmett getting ready to hear his Dad (my brother Steve) playing drums for Muddy Creek & Co yesterday. Emmett only stayed for 4-5 songs as it was getting late for him, so he and his Mom Danielle had to go back home. But I didn't. I stayed for the full 2-hour show. ☺ First live band I'd heard in a few years, I had a chance to go see them a few weeks ago but they were playing at a bar, and I'm just not comfortable around drunks these days.
8:35 A.M. CDT USA May 09, 2022 Olney, Illinois Scar said he was being schneaky and was going to attack 'moci when she came in so don't tell her where he is hiding. Emoci said "That damn Scar is inside being schneaky and I'm just gonna lay down outside." Today sucks. It was a year ago today that I found my father unconscious and unresponsive on the bathroom floor. Had to call an ambulance, and though he didn't die until 30 days later, this is the real anniversary of the day I…
3:45 P.M. CDT USA Monday May 09, 2022 Olney Illinois Thought I'd share a couple of shots I took of an Eastern Box Turtle that one of the cats (Scar) noticed passing across the front lawn this afternoon. I see a few of them each year just turtling about, not bothering anyone, and I don't bother them.
You know how it is when that new song gets stuck in your head and you keep going back to it to listen to it again and again? Yeah, I have one of those. I recorded 11 songs to video when I went out to see my youngest brother's band this past Saturday (May 07) and one of them was the first public performance of a new song they had written called 'Southland'. I was at the practice/rehearsal when the lead guitarist showed the singer and drummer a new riff he had been working on,…
The other day I saw someone bragging they got money for selling their vote. When I questioned the practice, they said they weren't going to vote for that person but just took the money. Today the same person mentioned Marcos probably won because of vote-buying, and can't seem to understand why I think they don't have any right to complain about it after legitimizing the practice by accepting money for her vote (even if she ended up voting for someone else). She accepted…
Nothing quite like waking up, getting online, and the first thing you have to do it take care of 7 spam accounts and remove 190 spam discussions from a site. I want a raise. ☺
"Please Mr Sir do not flash that light at me I did not do anything wrong!" The raccoon seemed a little worried about me today, but only for a few moments, then it went right back to filling its belly. I'm of two minds about the floodlights I put in the front yard - they do make photography easier at night, but I haven't seen any deer since I put the lights up. 5:00 A.M. CDT USA May 12, 2022 Olney Illinois
Getting the mating plumage showing, the male Cardinals begin to be VERY red. The females (as with most birds) don't attain the coloration shown by the males, but are still a striking bird on their own. #birds #photography
9:50 A.M. CDT USA May 13, 2022 Olney, Illinois HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH Really stupid laws that say even though God wants our grass to grow tall we get fined if we don't keep our lawns mowed. "Hey, f--- off with your law, it'll stop growing when God wills it to be so!" __________________________________________________________________________________________________ In other news today, after a two-day battle I finally got my weed whacker to start and took care of all that tall…
Moment of panic there, cleared my cookies and cache and browsing history etc and when I logged back in here it said I didn't have a wallet and I was not sure I had saved the seed when I had to make a new one - but I did. However, I do need to make a hard-copy of the seed phrase in case my computer crashes (I have a file with all my wallet seed phrases.) In fact, I better do it RIGHT NOW before I forget - again. *click* *click* *click* *printer whirrs* Done. 4:30 of the A.M.…
Moonset outside the town. I'll likely miss the 'blood moon'/eclipse tonight, but it was showing some colors early this morning (5 AM Central USA).
11:45 A.M. CST USA May 16, 2022 Olney Illinois ♫ Master! Master! Where's the dreams that I've been after? ♫ Yes, I'm still a headbanger at heart, and probably will be until I one day snap my neck too hard and my head flies across the room and lands in a corner. Until that day, however... *pauses* *reaches down to scratch Emoci's belly* *pulls back bloody stump* I should know better than to do that by now.
5:10 A.M. CDT USA May 17, 2022 Olney Illinois So yesterday was going to be Laundry Day but I kept forgetting to get it started so TODAY is now Laundry Day instead. Today should also be the day I finish Season 5 of the series Van Helsing, which is the final season, which means I'l need to find something else to watch. That, in itself, usually takes almost a full day to decide. Trains (or rather A train) are being noisy at the end of the yard but it is too dark to photograph…
♫ Long ago in days untold Were ruled by lords of greed Maidens fared with gold they dared To bare their wombs that bleed ♫ Aerosmith - 'Kings and Queens' Considered by many to be the beginning of the downward spiral Aerosmith went through for several years from the late-70's until the mid-80's, Aerosmith's 1977 release 'Draw The Line' was (and still is) a good look at a Boston hard-rock band. Which, depending on your point of view, was the best version of Aerosmith. I'm not…
Absolutely the most surprising unexpected thing that has happened to me this year.
#MorningThoughts May 19, 2022 5:35 AM Central Time USA Being an adult means having all this money that you'd REALLY like to spend on stuff you really don't need but saving it anyway. But being an adult also means I have an excellent credit rating because I don't spend a bunch of money on things I don't really need. Even though I still want to...
Some idiot over on myLot.com tried to accuse me of stealing a photo from the Internet. As proof, he posted a link to where I allegedly stole the photo from. The link he posted shows the photo there was taken 18 hours AFTER I posted my photo and discussion at myLot. And really the photos don't even look that much alike. Freaking trolls...
4:00 A.M. CDT/USA Caturday Morning May 21, 2022 Olney, Illinois Emoci showing her 'classic' pear-shaped butt. I keep telling her she needs to get a 'wide load' sign to announce she is coming through. One of her favorite places to nap lately is on top of a set of P.A. speakers, it puts her at an elevation of about 65 inches/160 cm so she can see everything happening.
So I'm not online for the point of earning anything from anywhere, but I don't turn my nose in the air when money (or its likeness) gets offered to me. With this in mind, why I am online is to see what everyone else in the world is doing. And the end result of that is dropping in off and on on various 'chat' sites or discussion boards or what have you. And I started off this statement heading somewhere and forgot where I was going. And THAT, my friends, is what they refer to…
So I hope whomever keeps an eye on this site (if anyone actually does these days) corrects the error with 'pending' tips not going to the wallet when the payout amount is reached. I know, it has happened before, and I realize it will likely happen again, but it can be a bit irritating when things don't work properly.
It was hard to choose which photo to use as my 'debut' in this channel, but I settled on this one. I live in Olney Illinois USA and we are home to a rather large colony of white squirrels, which are actually an albino variation of regular eastern gray squirrels. I have a couple that feed here occasionally (I put out squirrel and bird feed daily at a 55 year old tree in the front yard) but hadn't seen either recently until this morning (8:30 AM right now at my house) when I…
"I see you seeing me" Albino bushy-tailed tree rat (also known as a 'squirrel') looking at me standing in the front yard this morning. 8:30 A.M. Olney Illinois USA
I wish my father had planted this in front of the house instead of in the far corner of the back yard, I hadn't been back there lately to notice the roses were blooming. I really should transplant them later this year.
I have a 'coon in the front yard that is a bit lost or something, keeps wandering around out by the front ditch near the driveway and Emoci is keeping an eye on it through the open front door. Meanwhile, Scar is feeling a bit spaztastical this morning, this photo is right before he took off chasing ghosts throughout the house. #cats #felines
3rd day? 4th day? I've lost track. I do know I still receive wallet tips directly to my wallet---only free tips add up in your 'pending' tips. But yeah---those pending tips have been pending for several days now. And there is always that possibility that they will remain pending until the site closes. After all, this site + 'free tips' are privately funded. No advertising, so the persons funding it are not receiving anything back. $4000.00 worth of BCH daily for how long…
Petey keeps an eye on a squirrel feeding this morning to make sure it behaves. All three of my cats enjoy watching them, but it is Emoci (my female) that will s-l-o-w-l-y creep up on them feeding on the ground and then stop a few feet away and just stare... #cats
Second day lily bloom of the year. These particular blooms only last for one day and next day they are closed and begin to shrivel. The past two-three years I have been keeping track of how many I get total, last year there were 275 blooms over a one-month period. And thank you @photography for letting me now post un-moderated
This stupid spammy crap. She has dropped this same post on a LOT of people (I counted 28 times). She dropped it on a flower photo I made. Why? I have no clue. I have no interest in her smartBCH logo design either and have no idea why she would think I did, and there's a good possibility all the people she spammed with her link have no interest either. https://noise.cash/post/668q675tgzxr
Shot from the living room couch through the front doorway after I caught motion from the corner of my eye. It is usually Scar's Throne, but Emoci decided she wanted to see how things looked from up there.
Scar (left) and Emoci (right) take a nap on top of the speakers stacked in the living room this morning. For reference, the speaker stacks are 63 in./160 cm high. Must be nice to just curl up and nap anytime you feel like it. ☺
Gots dem taters cookin' in dat broth 'n after a piece I be smooshing them up and adding bacon bits and green ungyuns and sour cream and shredder cheese 'n den beatin' it with my beater-upper and at the end I'll have tater soop.
So they fixed it (pending) and that completed my second BCH from here. I am now part of the 2 BCH club. That's almost enough to buy a ½ tank of gasoline... An explanation from TPTB would still be nice, but I ain't gonna hold my breath waiting on one. Merry Weekend everyone.
Female red-bellied woodpecker on the seed block this morning. I have a pair of these that used to live in a tree hollow next to the house for 3-4 years until a windstorm destroyed their 'home' last year. Luckily both survived and took up residence in a hollow just across the street so I still get to see them daily. 8:00 A.M. CDT USA Olney, Illinois May 28, 2022
#Caturday afternoon, Emoci gives her opinion of me trying to sneak a photo, and Scar awaits the unwary trespasser...
Some days, I wake up hopeful. But it only takes a few hours on the InnerWebz to realize nope, humanity as a whole is still fucked. But I never wake up hopeless, because maybe SOME day... However, since today is NOT that day, I'll go spin some vinyl and carry on as usual...
South view of the lawn on Memorial Day (USA) morning just after sunrise. Scar and Emoci are both down in the treeline doing Important Cat Schtuff™ (or some such thing) and Petey has yet to put in his first appearance of the day (not unusual, he stays out all night.)
Sitting there enjoying the hell out of this album and suddenly realized it turns 50 this year---as do many of my favorite releases. I've always said 1972 was just a fantastic year for rock 'n' roll, so many albums that later became classics. I was 12 years old and getting introduced to music from Steppenwolf and Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Mountain and Grand Funk Railroad and I was in LOVE with hard rock music. And Alice Cooper was my hero. Full stop.…
We all know those people that try to change the narrative of a story around so they are not the one at fault in a situation, even if it only concerned two people, and you were the other person there. And sometimes, it is simply time to stop wasting YOUR time with it. 47 years I've listened to someone constantly altering facts to make them 'look good'. Been best friends/worst enemies since the mid-70's. I'm simply too old to be bothered by it anymore, so today I told them I…
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