The Hadley mountain pics/vids were taken before I left, which is why there are leaves still on trees.
The weekend begins with warnings about military disasters and the spillover effects getting into one’s domestic life (Mars retrograde, waning moon, Earth). Midweek is eventful, with crossovers and a pair of (unrelated?) alignments involving domestic turmoil (Jupiter retrograde, waning moon, earth) and the very definition of “get lucky” (Mercury, Venus, Sun). Hmmm. Scorpio’s fortune begins to pass on to Sagittarius, with Venus crossing over on Wednesday and Mercury following it on Thursday. The back half of the week is astrally unimportant.
Scorpio: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
Sagittarius: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation.
Capricorn: Queen of Wands reversed – Opposition, jealousy, deceit and infidelity.
Aquarius: 4 of Wands – Country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of these.
Pisces: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honors.
Aries: Wheel of Fortune reversed – Increase, abundance, superfluity.
Taurus: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury.
Gemini: 8 of Swords reversed – Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen.
Cancer: The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope and bright prospects.
Leo: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred.
Virgo: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Libra: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation; also placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Sagittarius: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation.
Worse reading for a libertarian ever.
Sagittarius: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation.
*peers around suspiciously*
I feel the same way.
Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred.
Potentially shitty.
Just don’t force anything.
*Insert STEVE SMITH joke here
I see what you did there.
#metoo
So… all my loansharking is going to pay off finally.
Gemini: 8 of Swords reversed – Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen.
That fits my current mood.
Are you still with your MIL?
Got home Friday.
Continued political decline/work stress/sick and bitchy spouse just got me under a black cloud.
Aquarius: 4 of Wands – Country life
I aim to move from the ‘burbs of Richmond to the Shenandoah valley region.
Be careful if you have a party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av659aawOsE
Of course, I DO miss this aspect of country life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l3ukWqRU4s
Now’s a good time. Land prices here are cratering. I’ve been monitoring a piece of property after having my offer laughed at. Since then, the seller has halved their asking price. Still needs to come down another 75%.
So, if my math is right, they were asking $200K for a parcel you think is worth $25K?
Yes. They were asking around $8k/acre just a few months ago. Now they’ve dropped down closer to $4k/acre.
It’s hard to find comps for acreage without improvements, but I’m seeing actual sales closer to $900/acre across several properties.
Suitably vague.
Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Not vague. Sounds like I got that going for me.
Sounds like a description of government.
Ruin does not sound like the present government, future certainly.
My name is Ruin.
https://youtu.be/lHomCiPFknY
Aren’t horoscopes supposed to predict the future?
It’s a fair cop
What’s the catch?
You’re reading the woke column? Gender sensitive?
Back from a lovely hike in Moreau State Park. I’m really hoping it will hurry up and snow so I don’t have to keep dealing with ticks.
I’m so not ready for snow.
It’s a very practical ground cover — don’t need to mow it, Lily doesn’t get all dirty when she’s out paying in it.
Hey, NA, I just emailed you for help with a WordPress issue.
Yup. Just replied.
Long story short — I do the sidebar/summary/featured illustration before switching to block.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/0M7IJ650Rq-vJZrsknzStA.qcaf6ZMY1cBmM5rEjNrmvV
Strips on sale this week. Steak time!
Nice. Still my favorite cut.
Blue cheese burgers and a tri tip for the week. Beef. 😉
I’ve been getting cheap roasts and sous viding them for a couple of days @ 130F. Then they go in the freezer or refrigerator. Then I cut them into steaks as needed.
Good idea. How do you prep?
For the sous vide? I don’t actually. I’ll do any kind of seasoning on the piece that I’m cooking to eat.
No salt?
Nah. I’m treating the sous vide as a pre-cooking step to make the meat chewable. Even that weird fat lightning bolt in an eye of round becomes edible.
Coffee rub is fantastic on tri tip.
Husband made a coffee/brown sugar rub on a ribeye and grilled it yesterday. Yum.
But too rare for me. I mean, RARE. Of course I can’t dare tell him that.
How can steak be too rare?
🙂
Beautiful! How many days salting?
24 hours for those.
Awesome. Cigar and cognac here. Then back to folding laundry. Man it is nice outside today!
Rain moving through the area here. Kinda chilly. Snow up north.
After I finish this Irish coffee I plan to get some work done around the house.
Great videos! That Bernese is gorgeous!
Leo: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, triumph of force. It is a card of great force, in love as well as in hatred.
Wow. Gotta bring the A game this week!
For RC Dean from the ded thread
https://mobile.twitter.com/marthamarco_/status/1578644981299826688
She does look like a tweaked.
Tweaker
Autocorrect wins again
She’s the definition of someone who worked her whole life to move up the political chain so she could exert her power over other people. Accomplished nothing outside the world of public policy.
Thank you, ma’am. That video looks like somebody sped it up. Yikes.
Came home from Lowes to a very poopy smell in my house. Looked everywhere and couldn’t find a thing. Called my dad. He suggested a possible backup down the system, unrelated to me. So I closed the vales. No more shit smell!
I’m going to test out the tank heaters tonight.
*valves
+1 Dad for the win
When fermenting certain things, the aroma is described as “elephant farts”.
I baked cod yesterday, an aroma I described as “trichomoniasis”. When I got home this morning It still lingered here in the Palatial 2X-Wide™.
One of my first times doing a half gallon jar of sauerkraut, I thought there was a sewer line break in my basement. Cabbage has a lot of sulfer.
Same with collards, which is a cabbage cousin. Really stinks the crib up when I toss them in a pressure cooker.
Is that accurate? Elephant digestion is so inefficient it would not surprise me if they fart with little smell.
I once had paper made with elephant dung. Bought it at the zoo.
Yup, the fibers got through almost entirely unchanged.
Winter fashion update:
Oversize Down Cape Coat
OFFS
That’s tarded.
Just another example of our society having more wealth than wisdom.
Without those things hanging down, that’s a beautiful coat
Those things hanging down conveniently transform it into a straight jacket the second the idiot who bought it puts it on.
Perfect for my Human-Lobster Hybrid Wife!
“The Fastest High-Speed Train in the World”
Fuxing WHO ?
Me:
Husband:
Stepson getting married Saturday:
Hmm. Interesting week.
Apparently the ADKs got their first snow today. I was a few dozen miles south (and a few thousand feet lower) so nada.
I got snow and sleet today, for about 20 min.
OT: Learning to love an abusive employee
For several years, our long-time housekeeper has been embezzling money, breaking our things, siphoning our gas, and sharing pornography with our impressionable kids.
One day, this uppity servant stole our keys and locked us inside. She’d let us out periodically, but only to go to specific places for certain things.
To preserve our health, she demanded we keep our distance, cover our faces, and take a new medication a friend of hers cooked up. Unless we did, we might never be allowed to leave.
That’s weird.
Almost sounds familiar!
Excellent.
Well, I don’t like her but all the neighbors seem to
This tea is tricky. It goes from “boring” to “way too tannic” in under a minute. But when you get it right it’s fantastic, especially for the cost.
Little cold-drunk hornets are staggering around my garden table
Haiku version:
The cold-drunk hornets
Staggering around my table
They can’t sting me now/
Shot.
Should be
The cold-drunk hornets
Stagger around my table
They can’t sting me now/
Yes. My daughter is still afraid and won’t come outside. I would haiku that but the cognac is taking effect.
Well, the deer fence is up around the orchard. Now to go move about 20 or 30 bales of peat moss from the trailer to where it needs to be. That’s my early glib fit report.
Or I could just move it to the appropriate post
Good deal, Kinnath, 6 feet or higher?
No
Just a 5 foot fence.
It’s temporary. Seems to be enough to keep the deer from chewing on the trees in the middle of winter.
I need to put a permanent fence in some day.
In comparison I am a lazy bum. I did laundry, then the wife left to go see her friends. So all work stopped and I had a drink and cigar.
Seems fair to me. If she left to recreate, no reason why you can’t.
That was my thought.
It’s too cold for the young kitties. They won’t come outside. Guess I must go back in and get to work.
With the 1st snow yesterday, Liesl (das Über Hund von Scheisskoph) got her initial taste of it. At 1st she was puzzled, then loved playing in it to the point she wouldn’t come inside.
Since she refuses to eat leftovers, and learned Friday she is getting promoted up (her) corporate ladder (with substantial compensation), Jugsy ordered from Fricker’s.
Its not going to be a low-carb day even if I did pass on potato skins.
Haha! The nearest Frickers is in Ohio. None for me!
Yeah, its regional. It was more of a shout-out to GT if she got her ears on.
We just ate there en route to a high school football playoff game.
Wow. The stories from Musk’s takeover of Twitter are almost as heartbreaking as the tales of woe from the last government shutdown.
LOL
LOL I thought that was satire until I read the bio.