So far, Black mountain has my favorite view. At least in early summer.
Things are pretty simple this week: MERCURY RETROGRADE. It’ll be at it’s maximum silliness until Wednesday, with a particularly… whimsical day on Monday as something literally goes sideways. Check your shoelaces.
It’s getting hot. Mud helps.
This is not a good week for Taurus, or anyone engaging in bull-like activities (pulling oxcarts/plows, chasing people out of fields, impregnating females, becoming hamburger). There’s always a drop off when the sun leaves your sign for the next one, but in this rare and unfortunate instance you have MERCURY RETROGRADE entering (backwards) at the same time the sun is leaving. So extremely bad luck for you. Your loss is Gemini’s gain however which, considering they’re completely lacking in anything else auspicious, they kind of need. Also this week, there is particular risk of damage from/by/in water.
Water is better than mud. It’s so hot that Dakota’s even willing to take a dip.
Taurus: 6 of Swords – Journey by water, bringing problems with you, family trip.
Gemini: 8 of Cups – Giving joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence
Cancer: 4 of Cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
Leo: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Virgo: 5 of Wands – Imitation, competition, gay orgy, struggle, gain, opulence, establishing hierarchy.
Libra: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.
Scorpio: The Hermit reversed- Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Capricorn: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, ROI.
Aquarius: Queen of Coins reversed – Evil, suspicion, suspense, fear, mistrust.
Pisces: 3 of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing, sorority party.
Aries: 6 of Coins reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Who’s the bitch NOW, huh?
It occurs to me that in this last month and a half of hiking mountains, I never posted one of the jewels of ’80 alt-rock.
Mountain Song (2006 Remaster) – YouTube
She’s so cute. I love the weekly puppy pics
*Nods*
Unfortunately, not many opportunities for good pics this week, I’ll see what I can find before next Friday. I will probably have to resort to old unused ones during the weekends I’m out of town.
….or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence
Ding Ding Ding!
Capricorn: ROI?
My beanie babies are finally gonna part off!
Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Hah, not likely.
Ha! I sing that every time I’m out hiking.
Great pupper pics. So happy!
Leo: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Cool! I love Malice!
Last weekend I was taking her to a place for her to swim when I met a lady and her kid on the trail The woman practically squeed saying “OMG she so fluffy, like a movie dog! I can’t believe she’s real!”
She’s not actually that fluffy. I’m wondering if the lady was on some sort of mother’s little helper.
Dude, she was hitting on you!
Oh, and to answer your question from last week, these are the Adirondacks. They’re my local range. All of these past two months have been around Lake George. The “high peaks” region is further north, and after hiking the easiest two of those, I don’t really feel inclined to attempt the other 40.
I’m looking to try a couple of hikes in the Cooperstown/Otsego Lake/Ommegang brewery region.
Nice!
I’ve never been to that part of the world, but those mountains are gorgeous!
They are very different than the mountains I had been familiar with — the Rockies and the Sangre de Christos. Those were not boggy at all, even if it rained daily, it quickly drained off. The trails in the high peaks regions are muddy year-round. Also these were hiked and blazed a long time before modern ideas of trail placement/erosion control so most of the trails are straight up the side of the mountain. Which means for the more popular routes, they’re worn down to the bedrock. Cascade mountain is basically two miles of a staircase with a stream flowing down it.
I really ought to get all my photos from Overlook Mountain and do a post on it.
imitation, competition, gay orgy, struggle, gain, opulence, establishing hierarchy.
Wait gay what?!?!
Right? I think the heat got to him.
Have you seen the card?
Five guys in short skirts and tights beating each other with big sticks.
Fam stop looking at me like that.
You’re gonna git monkeypox!
Love the dog pics. But another Ray of Sunshine wouldn’t hurt
We keep a water bowl in the backyard for the neighborhood cats with a blink camera to watch the visitors. A regular customer was an orange tabby. One night he showed up with what looked like leaves and sticks stuck to his mouth. He’d try to drink but couldn’t. This lasted for a few days and I went out to try and help but he kept running away. One night it became so bad the cat just sat there for hours looking sadly at the water bowl. This time when the wife went out he just meowed piteously and wanted to be petted. We put him in the cat carrier and took him to the vet in the morning.
The vet cleaned him up trimming the dead flesh around the mouth (he’d gotten into something sticky and caustic). They weren’t sure he’d even survive the anesthetic or the night. We took him home in two days with antibiotics, saline solution and syringes. He picked right up eating, drinking and soaking up petting and chin scratching.
He spent a week in isolation in the spare bathroom (not sure about parasites, etc and we already had a cat inside). He got better every day. He took up residence in the sink.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HD9wm7QXJSqkzUT3A
After the week of quarantine back to the vet for final check and shots. They were amazed at how good he looked.
Ten minutes after bringing him home and giving him the run of the house.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pB4UaPuRTpv1P5ow9
Awwww! Happy kitty! ?
That’s wonderful!
Aw, you’re a mensch. What did you name him?
Marmalade. He’s a total huggy bear.
Awwww.
Anyone else having a problem with the Google Photo links force-opening Chrome on mobile devices?
You kick ass.
awwwww. Poor kitty. Glad he got well and found a new home!
Mercury seems to be in retrograde an awful lot of the time…. (just planetary physics?)
Fastest orbit as closest planet to sun, so goes retrograde relative to Earth most frequently?/lousy public school science education
Probably…just seems weird that it would have more impact on everything else as a result. But then again, I don’t pay attention to astrology anyhoo, I just like the Sturgill Simpson tune.
Not to be out-puppered since we have an 11 week old running around….finally decided her name is Pfalzgräfin Liesl von Ticksundfleaz.
https://postimg.cc/NKvSDTMH
https://postimg.cc/v13KGNvr
..thats supposed to be Prinzessin….von Ticksundfleaz
Big name for a little puppy. I’m guessing Pfalzgrafin is pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove?
Its actually Forty Foot Yacht this time.
But not Jethro Q. Walrus Titty.
https://youtu.be/666OKm08fRA?t=61
Little now, but she’s eating everything that cant outrun her. Her vet speculates that she’s gonna be a big girl. Jugsy saw both of the parents and said they were every bit of 100 lbs.
Adorable!
She looks just like you!
Are you saying she has my lips?
Both bathrooms cleaned, tomato cages in, vacuuming done. Floors not mopped, and I’m done for the day. It’s supposed to rain later so not the end of the world.
Power continues to be on/off. Since I brought home cold beer this morning, Im trying to drink it all before it gets warm.
Goals.
Read the Morning Links and had eggs with hash for bfast. Now I’ll read a paired bio of Antony and Cleopatra while watching the Mariners at the Red Sox for a bit. Later today is a cruise. Because of Tulip’s excellent example I will seriously think about making the bed.
Chicken thighs and pork tenderloins cooked as well as a dozen eggs half of which are pickling, the other half waiting to be added to soon to be made chicken/tuna salad. No mopping for me either. The sun finally came out. I am going to grill more meat.
I just grilled two porterhouses for lunch and some blue cheese burgers for the week.
Filets for dinner.
Nice. I had a filet soaked in butter for dinner last weekend. I wish those were on sale more often. They are an “OMG this is good” dinner.
I am grilling cut up chunks of a deboned picnic roast to then crock for pulled pork. I deboned it to make bone broth.
Saturday in store special at the fresh market had been 2 for $20 for quite a while. Two weeks ago it went to two for $25. ?
I wish Fresh Market was around here. The meat quality and pricing locally is inversely disproportionate to much of the country.
I’m going to broil a flat roast/thick steak that I sous vided and froze. If it’s good, I’m going to pre sous vide all my on-sale beef roasts before freeing them.
Be free little roast, be free!
………….opens gate, slaps thigh and whistles.
@NA, re:USPSA
She has no extra time right now. And I’m a lil lazy. ?
Cancer: …new instruction, new relations.
I have to go to new members’ class on Thursday for the new shootin range.
Yesterday Palmetto State Armory pissed me off. Was ready to buy but store price was higher than internet prices. I’ll buy at Upstate instead.
Higher than their own website or internet prices in general?
Higher than their own website by $50.
I hate when stores do that. Walgreens does similar.
Yep. I didn’t buy on principle more the fifty bucks.
Ask them to match their own price.
Tried – the kid at the gun counter said he couldn’t.
https://www.kplctv.com/2022/05/19/marijuana-violations-have-taken-over-10000-truck-drivers-off-road-this-year-adding-more-supply-chain-disruptions/
This is evil.
Oh well, at least there’s the satisfaction of knowing that what goods do happen to appear on shelves were delivered by upstanding folks who have never touched the reefer.
As wrong and stupid as that law is, Marijuana is still a fedcrime and thus is susceptible to a random pull. As it has been for ever.
These drivers know this, and should know better. Just fucking stupid. I had a Jamaican who worked for me get pulled two weeks in a row. No issues. The Predator knew his business.
Exactly. Similarly, hold a CDL and you’ll get fucked on a DUI, even if off duty and in a non-DOT personal vehicle. They know the score, or should.
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Business as usual.
They are very different than the mountains I had been familiar with — the Rockies and the Sangre de Christos. Those were not boggy at all, even if it rained daily, it quickly drained off. The trails in the high peaks regions are muddy year-round.
Don’t forget the black flies.
How poisonous is sunscreen. I’m sweating like a Clinton at a paternity test. All of the stuff is dripping in my eyes and mouth.
Easily 90+ with 80% humidity. FU grass. Halfway done and water is my friend.
Can’t wait for the oncoming storm. No TARDIS involvement.
Probably less poisonous than the clot shots.
Since skin cancer cases spiked about the same time sunscreen was being heavily pushed as a skin cancer deterrent, I’m going to say very poisonous.
Maybe sunscreens make it possible for the melanin-deficient to spend too much time in the sun? My wife and kids would be burnt to a crisp in 15 minutes without sunscreen. Nature’s way of keeping you safe, overridden by modern chemistry.
I would get some good sun clothing instead. Seriously, the shit is nasty.
Wish I could talk Mrs. Patzer into this. She loves the sun, but it does not love her.
I’ve got a big boonie hat I wear anytime I’m out in the sun. I had skin cancer in my nose last year. I have to do something. Maybe zinka on the nose. I’m more worried about my cheeks and tip of the nose.
Leaving aside the recent ingredients scare, remember the SPF level of sun screen lotions were just thirty years ago? Not to mention suntan lotion.
I remember 30 was the max as a kid.
Now I use 100. I have to use one specific brand or it burns and irritates my skin. Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Water Resistant and Non-Greasy Sunscreen Lotion is what I use. If I apply it while I’m not sweating I’m good for a afternoon
? Bain de Soleil for that St. Tropez tannnn
Or use baby oil for that smells some bacon smell.
The freaks I listen to now via podcasts and what not claim. (and I can attest) that if you change your diet you will not burn easily. Sunscreen is poison.I am becoming a weirdo. I do not trust big Pharma, big ag, big chem, big………..
bird?
Lebowski?
Firster’s make their own luck.
First.
Finished the mowing. Showered and clean and cool. Now to set up some bookcases and start reorganizing a couple other rooms.
The wine is finally out of my system. Time to go mow the lawn.
I’m flying to the west coast on Thursday to renew some old acquaintances… and fundraise for my lawsuits. Will be attending a political fundraiser for a Senate candidate, as well.
Hmmmm…
“Giving joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence”
Could be a lot worse.
Daily Quordle 118
4️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Virgo: 5 of Wands – Imitation, competition, gay orgy, struggle, gain, opulence, establishing hierarchy.
Pass.