@Alfred, I think you're plumb tuckered out, go put your feet up, have a drink, maybe take a nap for a microsecond - we'll still be here, worrying about you. 😟

How to persuade a wall to get back where it's supposed to be. An 8 ton and a 5 ton bottle jack. Each day I shove it just a little farther into place.

Then I'll grout the crack shut and walk away. I'll be dead before it moves again.

Good morning 🌅 all! Such a pleasure to be here with you and review the all hands-on deck defense of trans 🌈 folks yesterday evening. You're quite a crowd. Proud to be here with you. There isn't another place like it. Thanks @th3j35t3r for creating and maintaining this space. 🖖 Nice to share ☕ time with you all.

Good morning all 🌅. Breakfast at the local public golf course. I've never golfed here but I've had food and drink at happy hour. It's a lovely place. Not quite the country club vibe. More proletariat, but still...

Good hot summer afternoon!

I know you 'nauts, I trust you won't mind me making this small ask.

My friend Rich started this Change petition to get Colorado to make the return envelopes for your vote postage free. He's just short of 500 signatures - over that it gets promoted better. Do me a favor, add your signature.

42% of first-time voters don’t have a stamp in their home, yet returned ballots jumped from 43% to 74% when postage free. #voting #politics

TKS 💙

https://chng.it/SKJfLTVfX6

5 hours tackling the garden today - front and backyard. The weeds have been conquered, so have I, and I am out. 💤

Sleep well my friends, and carry on ,night crew.✌️

Call it Bidenomics. Call it luck, but the overall American economic situation is strong and getting stronger by a long shot. Not everyone feels this and certainly the media doesn't reflect this. Negativity drives clicks. I'm a Bernie socialist, but I think Biden has done an amazing job. Or call it luck.

#politics #economics

https://fortune.com/2023/07/22/is-bear-market-over-stocks-sp-500-recession-economy/

From my friend Douglas Sharp, who offers up well-written and well thought out missives from time to time. It is always enjoyable to share a whiskey and conversation with him.

"Most Voters are Ignorant, Irrational, and Incompetent"

Democracy is a pathetic belief
in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
~ H. L. Mencken

https://academyforthecommongood.blogspot.com/2023/07/most-voters-are-ignorant-irrational-and.html

The best way to get it to rain in 10 minutes is to spray your weeds. I used 1 gal vinegar, 3 oz. Dawn dish soap and half a box of baking soda in a garden sprayer. It's cool, it volcanoes up until you can get the top on it and then it self pressurizes. 😆🌋

The now defunct Arecibo Observatory after all the collapsed cabling and receiver has been removed. Generations of Puerto Ricans were inspired to pursue astronomy/science because of this place. It cannot be repaired. What else could be done with it? Swimming pool? 🏊‍♀️

Peanut butter in a smoothie

#PeanutButterWars

My co-captain and his first mate; me enjoying a bit of shaded sun on my Irish skin. I don't "tan", I "maroon". And even a floppy hat won't keep my big nose out of the sun. #CoSoSailing

Good morning sailors!
Snoopy on watch yesterday.
Good day of lake sailing on a leaky old boat.
Mishaps; I lost a chanckla overboard. My co-captain slipped and had a hard fall - banged up arm and shin, but not (likely) broken.
Still a good day. ⛵

Good morning 🌞 my friends and welcome to all you new folks. Grab a #coffee, check out the help.countersocial.com guide, and come participate in the wars here. (Very good natured, but often passionate, sometimes enlightening.)

Not to stir the jar but...what are your favorites? natural, refrigerated, with chocolate, used in what recipes?

#PeanutButterWars

Today has been roto-rooty day. I maintain my 120 year old sewer 2-4 times a year. It's not in great shape, but if I pay attention to roots, it's not bad.

But - I have guests. I pulled 12 'napkins' from it last year. I think it was a younger daughter of a guest. Today I have a plug so tight I can't get it with my 1/2" Ryobi router - even with my custom SawZall bit I fashion for roots - but I did pull back a fragment of "flushable" wipe.

Flushable as are toy soldiers.

Stop! Don't flush 'em.