tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post507229964513544415..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Recommended ReadingAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-67272828220932584872015-07-06T22:06:18.821-05:002015-07-06T22:06:18.821-05:00If not for the government's preference for pac...If not for the government's preference for packs of wild coyotes to run free around here (hey we're back on topic hehehe) I would consider bringing in some goats. My parents had goats on their 17 acres until the coyotes got them. Dad barely had to cut the grass, ever.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-63215420206955857322015-07-06T20:15:50.859-05:002015-07-06T20:15:50.859-05:00Beamish,
Definitely a lot of work!
The place wher...Beamish,<br />Definitely a lot of work!<br /><br />The place where I grew up consisted of 6 acres: one acre of house and yard and mechanical garage with a pit (no lift), one acre of garden, 4 acres of alfalfa. Regular mowing (Dad) and baling (contracted out to someone who had horses). We had a compost pile, too, for a while. <br /><br />Once Dad was pushing age 70, the extensive outside work was too much for him. Furthermore, drifting pollen from Lady Bird Johnson's Beautify America Program caused weird woody bushes to sprout up all over the place, thus ruining the alfalfa fields. The mower we attached to the tractor couldn't handle those bushes, so Dad let the fields grow up. Hiring someone with a bush hog was too expensive. In a few years, a developer came along. Not a good price, but because of age and real-estate taxes, my parents had to get out of there. They hated leaving -- Dad had built the house with his own two hands back in the 1940s.<br /><br />Having acreage is a job for a younger person than I! I can barely keep up here with .50 acres of yard to tend -- and I contract out the mowing. There's a lot more to do out there besides mowing. **sigh** That runaway wisteria vine is a plague! **sigh again**Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-70598827246751308362015-07-06T18:31:43.406-05:002015-07-06T18:31:43.406-05:00In total, the whole lot is 6 acres, but 4 of that ...In total, the whole lot is 6 acres, but 4 of that is trees and a fishing pond ;)<br /><br />I'm mostly increasing the size of the backyard / pushing back the treeline a bit to put in a smokehouse and compost pile. Work work work!(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-58332575378906504812015-07-06T14:54:01.017-05:002015-07-06T14:54:01.017-05:00Gardening is a lot of work. When I was growing up...Gardening is a lot of work. When I was growing up, we had a full acre for the vegetable garden. Every summer we canned enoug vegetables to get us through the winter and beyond. We had chickens for a while, too, but gave them up after two miserable winters back to back. Shoveling out to that chicken coop every day for months was too much work!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-658454118265180902015-07-06T14:51:01.164-05:002015-07-06T14:51:01.164-05:00Beamish,
How much land?Beamish,<br />How much land?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-42495530365203880902015-07-06T11:05:55.594-05:002015-07-06T11:05:55.594-05:00@ AOW,
Not so much a "farm" as a piece ...@ AOW,<br /><br />Not so much a "farm" as a piece of property with a 4 br house and 4 car garage I've turned into a "prepper" mansion ;) I have just enough land to maintain a garden that makes going to the grocery store for staple veggies virtually unnecessary, and the solar shingles have just about paid for themselves because I don't use a lot of electricity anyway. I'd say I'm about 75% "off the grid" and getting better. <br /><br />I had a major turnaround in my life Around 3 years ago that has made me quite a driven individual individualist... I have damned good job I'm growing with, and I've replaced a parasitic organism with the most incredible woman a guy could be blessed with. No more feeling cut off at the knees for me. I am putting my various survival skills into thriving. And it's working. :)(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-25283504654742384992015-07-06T10:42:57.555-05:002015-07-06T10:42:57.555-05:00Try pureeing your dead horse. ;)
Try pureeing your dead horse. ;)<br />(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-15385877283858801462015-07-06T10:31:53.892-05:002015-07-06T10:31:53.892-05:00aRonniemous,
You're really taking your trounc...aRonniemous,<br /><br />You're really taking your trouncing way too hard. Just because I would unplug your life support to charge my phone doesn't mean everybody hates you. <br /><br />While I don't claim any metaphysical intuitive powers to see "silent nodding" or imaginary validations of your entire argument - to wit that you can't read my argument, can't understand my argument, can't challenge my argument, can't insult or mischaracterize my argument, or try to run to escape my argument - because now that you're shot yourself full of holes you can't even get your hot air balloon to support you.<br /><br />There is no conspiracy of so-called conservatives keeping you down, chump. You're just a blithering idiot. (((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-28038587169623907732015-07-06T09:32:08.744-05:002015-07-06T09:32:08.744-05:00You know Beamish, in your rambling word salad on n...You know Beamish, in your rambling word salad on nonsensical utterance, there's an undeniable reality that your rubber/glue game omits.<br /><br />You advocacy of ending this undefined yet nonexclusive scope of government is simply nonworkable on any level. The very fact that you run from your argument while doubling down on it at the same time further exposes how detatched from reality it is.<br /><br />It's additionally telling that the regular loyalist here silently nod to you dispite the fact that you make no sense, consistent with the snake oil salesmanship of today's so-called conservatives and validates my entire argument throughout this forum. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-30012680189597398192015-07-06T04:23:11.708-05:002015-07-06T04:23:11.708-05:00Beamish,
Indeed!Beamish,<br />Indeed!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-1473336165904561592015-07-06T04:22:09.996-05:002015-07-06T04:22:09.996-05:00Beamish,
Literally a farm?
Outside work gets aw...Beamish,<br />Literally a farm? <br /><br />Outside work gets away from a person, inside work can wait. Something I read in <i>Cold Sassy Tree</i> years ago when I first read that little gem, which I'm rereading now.<br /><br />A lot of bloggers closed up shop after the 2012 National Election. Occasionally, yet another blog which I frequent stops offering postings or disappears entirely. Morale has been ground down, and the grinding continues apace.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-86604511383510875302015-07-05T22:03:09.298-05:002015-07-05T22:03:09.298-05:00"A Whiff of Grapeshot" would make a fine..."A Whiff of Grapeshot" would make a fine name for a blog...(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-26905819764689188882015-07-05T21:50:55.403-05:002015-07-05T21:50:55.403-05:00AOW,
Blogging provided an "escape" from...AOW,<br /><br />Blogging provided an "escape" from a life that I no longer need (the escape, that is)... But sunny life aside, I think I could channel some ragey rage if I needed to. Plinkin' at Ronnie above was fun, after all. <br /><br />My hat is off to everyone that has slogged through blogging the last 3 years. I just don't foresee me having time to do even a weekly roundup. Pretty soon, I have got to roll up my sleeves and get the farm ready for winter between a 40 hour office job and keepin my better half from taking half ;) <br /><br />*If* I return to blogging, I may borrow a page from FJ's book and return under a different name, different mask, and different set of subject matter. ;) (((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-33120107046834616892015-07-05T15:46:21.040-05:002015-07-05T15:46:21.040-05:00I suspect that he's a photographer because he&...I suspect that he's a photographer because he's a well read and creative "culture creature." ;)Joe Cameltoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18189167962738394522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-75480783088591780402015-07-05T15:26:49.804-05:002015-07-05T15:26:49.804-05:00Ronnie,
Here's a solution for you. Take a few...Ronnie,<br /><br />Here's a solution for you. Take a few days off from your government <a href="http://youtu.be/6pbPyX_UGzI" rel="nofollow">Ritalin</a> and see if your mind can concoct a mildly amusing irredentist claim upon the moral high ground.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-79593037171178034502015-07-05T15:03:02.581-05:002015-07-05T15:03:02.581-05:00Ronnie,
You've spent a lot of time wagging yo...Ronnie,<br /><br />You've spent a lot of time wagging your finger at your obvious befters with all that "It's too much to read / I can't read / there's too much to read / I don't understand / you're crazy" noise.<br /><br />Instead of having to be painstakingly vivisected by the professionals here, wouldn't it be more efficient and honest if you just up front admitted that you're an easily dismembered blithering idiot mindless pro-government zombie? (((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-76488593913108521972015-07-05T14:52:36.219-05:002015-07-05T14:52:36.219-05:00FJ,
Zizek tackled They Live?!!!
I used that movi...FJ,<br /><br />Zizek tackled They Live?!!!<br /><br />I used that movie in one of my favorite now-derezzed blog posts long ago lol.<br /><br />(I swear I don't wear a gas mask to keep my hands off my nose...)(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-60803771471961649792015-07-05T14:42:41.440-05:002015-07-05T14:42:41.440-05:00I'm crazy? When I went to your schools? I went...<i>I'm crazy?</i> When I went to your schools? I went to your churches? I went to <a href="http://youtu.be/TE4Fvjhz2sE" rel="nofollow">your institutional learning facilities?!</a>(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-87535593231702769182015-07-05T13:26:58.344-05:002015-07-05T13:26:58.344-05:00Brian,
Love your avatar!
It does figure that Duck...Brian,<br />Love your avatar!<br /><br />It does figure that Duck would find that kind of detail. He's good at doing that kind of thing. Because he's a photographer?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-18896525218277371172015-07-05T13:25:20.530-05:002015-07-05T13:25:20.530-05:00Zizek!Zizek!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-79831076498325309682015-07-05T12:29:27.987-05:002015-07-05T12:29:27.987-05:00...because he obviously doesn't see his ideolo......because he obviously doesn't see his <a href="http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=zizek+they+live&qpvt=zizek+they+live&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=3EE9B499FD50DC6562DC3EE9B499FD50DC6562DC" rel="nofollow">ideological reflection</a>.Joe Cameltoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18189167962738394522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-58969064405625898032015-07-05T12:26:59.453-05:002015-07-05T12:26:59.453-05:00Ronnie must be looking through a one-way mirror.Ronnie must be looking through a one-way mirror.Joe Cameltoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18189167962738394522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-10600220330230350402015-07-05T12:22:08.957-05:002015-07-05T12:22:08.957-05:00I think that it was the Duck who first called mine...I think that it was the Duck who first called mine to it. :)Joe Cameltoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18189167962738394522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-79510029490471316742015-07-05T09:51:43.955-05:002015-07-05T09:51:43.955-05:00@ Beamish,
I miss The Crank Files. Remember the K...@ Beamish,<br />I miss <i>The Crank Files</i>. Remember the Koran and Renoir postings? The good ol' days of blogging.<br /><br />Don't start blogging if it will interfere with your family. But remember that blogging doesn't have to be <i>full on</i> (if I understand what you mean by that term).<br /><br />For me, blogging is a respite from caregiving and teaching Composition. Know what I mean?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-76039055911972048662015-07-05T09:00:14.307-05:002015-07-05T09:00:14.307-05:00Beamish, you are a batshit crazy howl-at-the-moon ...Beamish, you are a batshit crazy howl-at-the-moon lunitic, obviously incapable , or to be charitable, unwilling of any reasonable dialog. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07525593137537484379noreply@blogger.com