Michael Heggen 💯🐸 ❌👑

Same, Karl.

Aside from the environmental issues, this proposal makes no sense. The timber industry has re-tooled for smaller trees, from logging equipment to transportation to the sawmills themselves. This is folly on so many levels.

I’m on my way over!

It will take me <checks watch> forever days to get there at my current swimming level.

Thank you! Good luck on your project!

And because it would be a rational thing to do, that rules out Trump doing it.

He has done little this go-round that could be termed rational unless one has also drunk deeply from the same fount of delusion.

This thread. Do check for misogyny, but yeah.

Thank you! Still a long way to go, but we’re getting there!

TIL that scorpions fluoresce.

How, I wonder, did the Red Queen determine that this was an evolutionary advantage??

They what?! (No scorpions west of the Cascade Mountains, so color me clueless. All we have around here are tiny little pseudo-scorpions… I wonder if they fluoresce? Hmm!)

Ya learn something new every day!

Yeah. Cows weren’t getting a square meal. <rim shot>

No, unfortunately it’s not.

Hay and forest products at the moment.

You’re also funny.

Beauty fades, joints creak, flesh sags, and hairlines recede (or vanish), but humor endures.

Your what flashlight??

I’ve already acknowledged that I may have been having an off day and/or read more into your comments than you intended.

But “seeking offense” implies intent.

n = 1, so 🤷‍♂️

They’re pretty cool critters. :-)

Elf is a 18.2 hand gelding (6’ 2” at the shoulder).

Shasta is a 16.2 hand mare (5’ 8” at the shoulder). She was born at Anheuser-Busch’s Warm Springs Ranch in Missouri. They sold her out of their herd when she was two because she was too small. :-)

I’m 6’ 3”, for perspective. :-)

That’s Elf on the right, and Shasta on the left.

Me on Elf that one time when he was actually clean.

Me on Shasta when she was younger and cleaner. Hmm…. I was also younger then.

Mayyybe….

That is stunning.

View of the south side of our new wood-framed barn, showing three oversized doors (one for each oversized stall) and an accompanying window opening.

Outside view of one of the stall doors, showing hinges and a horse-proof latch attached to a wood framed 48” x 60” door framed with 2x8 Douglas-fir.

Looking out through the same door, with slats of light showing through the gaps in the wall sheathing.

I built and installed three doors for the stalls in the new barn that we are building for our Clydesdale horses.

#SmallFarmLife

Still true.

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

Kudos to my ancestral homeland for this. 🇳🇴

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue appears on the scene as Green is glaring at a failed crafts project, which has been utterly mangled beyond recognition. Blue: What's wrong? Green: The jute rope basket I've been trying to weave fell apart. Blue sits down opposite of Green, also looking at the mangled basket attempt. Blue: The one that was shedding needly fibers everywhere? Green: Yep. Blue continues looking at the failed basket as Green raises his head to look at Blue incredulously. Blue: Aw, sorry to hear that. Green: Why? You hated that thing. Blue looks back up, and both foxes look at each other calmly. Blue: Just because I'm glad that it's gone doesn't mean I can't be sorry that you lost it.

“A great deal for the world.”
—Trump, referring to loss of American lives in his attack on Iran

What a piece of shit of a human being.

#Resist #NoFascism

Ya pretty much nailed it, Mishell. :-/

That’s a pretty good joke.

Also, War Powers resolution, Congress! Have a spine!

For Trump, the Iran Attack Is the Ultimate War of Choice

1. This is a war of choice.

2. This is a *preventive* strike, not a pre-emptive strike. Israel is framing it as pre-emptive; Trump isn’t even bothering.

Mr. Sanger explains why both of these things matter.

#Resist #NoFascism

Gift article

I’d like to see the Iranian regime gone, too, but this is an aggressive war of choice initiated by one man who says he doesn’t give a shit about international law.

#Resist #NoFascism #NoKings

I love the kestrels on our place here in western Oregon. Tiny little raptors with attitudes fit for an eagle-sized bird.

Every time I see them reading the Riot Act to a red-tailed hawk, I crack up. Hawk be like, “Aw, c’mon! Dude, I was just walking by! I didn’t do anything! Ow! Hey!”