Seconded. -22C (-7.6F) the other day. When you spit it lands with a "plink". Dogs do their business then curl up on a pile of skins from elk and rheindeer in front of the stove. All the little tweety-birds come to windows, going peck-peck-peck on the window putty - meaning "Give us bits of lard with seeds in or we'll steal your putty and let the wind in your house!".
Chickens going outside, feeling the cold, giving you the stink-eye the way only a rooster can - as if the Fimbulwinter is my fault - and then disappearing beneath the hay inside the coop. Foxes fighting over the compostheap. A wolverine trying to break into the outdoor larder. A neighbour being accosted by a lynx when going to fetch firewood.
And at night when it gets real cold the trees popping and cracking while the Aurora Borealis dances high in the sky.
And yet people freely choose to live in cities. Oh well, to each their own.
Beautifully written! Well, you live in a MUCH more interesting place than we do. We don't live in the city, but I'd much prefer the closest neighbors to be 1/2 mile away! We have to be content with our usual bird species which we feed and provide H2O and peanut butter for and the deer that have started traipsing through our yard. We haven't seen evidence of them since this big snow though. They were eating my daylilies last summer though and I introduced them to cayenne pepper!
My husband is insanely jealous of your Aurora Borealis! He and our son went to Iceland in January 2019 (one of those cheap deals he found) and they saw it there, but not the intensity they hoped for.
Aurora borealis is quite a treat. It is difficult to forecast (there are some online 'aurora weather' sites though), and tends to happen in places where it is overcast much of the winter which is often the best time of year to see it, because the sky is so dark. I was raised in mid-Michigan and spent ~20 years in BC and Alberta, all places where aurora is seen. Nothing can prepare you for the majesty of a bright aurora display in a dark, moonless, crystal-clear sky on a bitter cold night at 3 in the morning. I once saw one (in Crowsnest Pass, AB) which stretched across the entire sky, shimmering curtains of green light. Almost like cosmic curtains. I was on a trip when my wife was returning home to Crowsnest with friends, around midnight, when they were treated to a multi-color display -- the usual green, but with some reds, purples and blues. Incredibly beautiful, she said. I've never seen anything but the green ones.
Bottom line, the best way to see aurora is to live somewhere where they occur with some regularity, a long way from any large cities, and just wait (and watch) for that amazing moment when the sky is afire with God's miracle.
My husband follows aurorasaurus https://www.aurorasaurus.org/ And you probably do too. We saw a faint one when we first moved here (N. Indiana) 25 years ago. My husband also gets Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) and auroras are regular photos there. There are some things I know I won't see until the Kingdom and I'm okay with that!
Thank you and right back at you (if that is the proper phrase?).
The deer's don't dare come up to the house due to the dogs, but the foxes do. They sometimes even leave a little "something" on the porch, the smarmy b*stards. So does the bears living among the hills and bogs around here.
However, due to us having picked up the american tradition of carving pumpkins for All Hallows, we discovered that the elks simply love pumpkin - including the rinds. One male trashed the open air compost in a feeding frenzy year before last.
I live in a rural, heavily forested part of Sweden. Fewer than 1 person/square kilometer. Biggest village is 20+ kilometers away (I guess that's what, 60 miles?) and has about 300 inhabitants.
One thing I've learned about the small birds is that they are quite tough. I've seen blue tits and great tits gang up to mob squirrels, and several different secies seem to cooperate nicely - the Euraisan jay stands guard against crows and the tits throw them seeds. A direct translation of the swedish name for Eurasian jay, blue tit and great tit is in order (snigger, drumroll) "nutscreamer", "blue wimp" and "tallow ox". Hilarious if one's sense of humour got stuck in kindergarten, like mine did according to the wife.
Only real drawback to the rich wildlife are the horse-flies and the deer keds. Gotta have something to complain about, I guess. :)
Yes, that's the right phrase. ๐บ I read your response to my husband and we laughed at your animal stories. We loved the elk/pumpkin story! 20 km is 12 miles says the chemist (husband) who does math in his head.
Yes, birds ARE really tough. We've seen cooperative feeding with waders and mergansers. I love birdwatching because there is always something new to learn and experience watching them.
In 2015, we did a cruise in Norway that left from Harwich but we spent 3 days in London (never again) because my husband and son had never been there. We asked Brits who had come over here for Spring Migration where to go birding in London and they looked at me like I was insane. They suggested the Royal Parks, which in my opinion was the best part of London. That's where we saw Eurasian Jay, Great Tit and Blue Tit. Would you believe that our grocery chain shows tits in their ads for bird seed?! It makes me crazy - these are EUROPEAN birds you morons! The translation of "tallow ox" baffles me. Nutscreamer fits though! Our Blue Jays say, "thief, thief" and they are in the Corvidae family just like yours.
Ked is (according to wikipedia at least) the english name for a flying louse. Formal name is given as Lipoptema Cervi. About 5-7mm, a fifth of an inch or so I guess?
Lice with wings. They live by sucking blood from deer and elk. In October, the female ked burrows into the skin of the host and rips off its own wings. They can't feed from humans but that doesn't stop them from trying, and they generally go for your eyes, hair, beards, ear holes and such.
Bites can give hard pimple-like skin blisters sometimes lasting months if you are sensitive. They'e difficult to kill too, since they have the hard yet flexible shell of lice so whacking them does nothing. You have to pinch them between your nails to pop them.
Thankfully, they are only active for about two weeks, the rest of the year they spend either on the host or as larva in the host animals lay.
Norway is as beautiful as the norwegians themselves are good people. Stand up, honest decent and hard working, no BS culture. Used to be, swedes danes nowegians and finns didn't need passports for travel in Scandinavia, what with us all being "cousins" of sorts, culturally and ethnically. Nowadays with the EU and Covid and whatnot it's a right mess. If you ever happen to visit Norway I'd recommed a cruise with Hurtigruten.
Very interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like it's a blessing they only last 2 weeks!! https://extension.psu.edu/deer-keds Apparently it is an introduced species here and we know them as Deer Flies.
Yes, we saw Hurtigruten ships when we were there. We were on Holland America which is our favorite cruise line of the American ones. Cruising may be over for us though. We will not wear face diapers, we will not allow the crew to be made into a servant class and have to wear them even if we don't and we refuse to put an experimental biological agent in our bodies. So if those are the stipulations for cruising, we are done. It was fun while it lasted.
I love snow and ice in pictures ! They also make beautiful christmas cards. On Christmas day it was too warm to wear my new sweater... I had to put on a Tshirt.
I always tell my friends that "I know it looks beautiful, but if you want the full effect, you need to go sit in an industrial freezer with a cool air mister and two fans blowing on you; and them look at it." Suddenly it doesn't seem so pretty anymore.
Excellent experiential perspective! We opened the door 3 inches to see the lovely lineaments of the crescent moon above the snow encrusted bare trees. Very beautiful if you don't get entranced and forget and go hypothermic . Ezra Pound worked for the fascists, but I'm with him on winter:
Indeed ! I come from a cold country and now live in the southern US. We still have our days of cold and freeze, but very seldom snow or ice. Little on the hot side in summer but I will take that any time over the cold !
I sleep in my van sometimes and the pitter patter sounds of the rain landing on my rooftop is very pleasing to my ears and calming, sleep like a rock! All people should accept the rain, embrace it, enjoy it, use it and stop getting so cat.astrophic-y about it!
Yes. Some years back, when the whole format of weather forecasting on TV news was changed to be more melodramatic, they began describing rain as โbadโ weather. And of course every โnormalโ storm, temperature change or whatever, is now an exaggerated โcatastropheโ. Itโs insulting. I no longer watch the weather forecast; itโs much too annoying. I just want the facts in a succinct and non-dramatic manner.
Raptor, I don't think it is lack of imagination. It is more likely the lack of nefarious intent. Decent people just can't imagine the likes of what is going on now.
Ha. Nice and charitable. I'll say that starting with the base assumption that all people are evil has helped to tamp down the shock of the depravity lately. But sometimes I am shocked by the unabashed nature of it. And how foolish they are! Whew.
Agree. I realize that they need the eyeballs, but hyping any weather event is now getting over the top and silly. It's amusing when there is nothing much going on and the weather person has to note a small wave coming from 6,000 miles away as something they "will be watching closely".
I tried to donate to the truckers, and upped my donation too, but the new site is so slow it is jammed I guess. I will try later. Yes itโs raining but water cleanses too.
DDOS: "A distributed denial-of-service attack is one of the most powerful weapons on the internet. A DDoS attack is a cyberattack on a server, service, website, or network that floods it with Internet traffic. The aim is to overwhelm the website or service with more traffic than the server or network can accommodate."
-- from Norton
Somebody(ies) really don't want those truckers to succeed. They see the freedom convoy for what it is: the lead galleon, coming up over the horizon, in a flotilla of hundreds or perhaps thousands of ships, still a distance away -- but that distance is closing. Sails whipping cleanly and proudly in the wind, inexorable in its progress.
And all of those (us) who are supporting them, not only give them aid and comfort -- our mere existence sends chills down the spines of the wannabe puppet-masters. With convoys starting all over Canada and the world (Helsinki today, apparently), that flotilla looms large over their dream of a totalitarian, fascist world with them the elites. With every donation, every person donating food, fuel and encouragement, their ramparts look weaker and smaller, their defenses wholly inadequate to the task.
That is why 'they' are doing this. Don't let them win.
When I see everything that is happening in the world today, I see Satan's fingerprints all over. But I also see that God has been preparing for this time, and perhaps more importantly He has been preparing us. Why else would there be an alternative to GFM, sitting there ready?
โYou are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." -- Matthew 5:14-16 (NRSV)
What I've heard is that so many people are trying to donate, the website is going into conniption. My husband and I have tried few times today without success. Keep on trying. As they used to say on TV commercials, "Operators are standing by. If you can't get through, please call again."
I gave last night and it was very slow. But I got confirmation of my donation so I know it will help someone. Iโm not worried about who gets it. If I could go up to Canada and hand out cash I would but I knew I wasnโt going to use GFM. This is the best I know to do.
I always suffer from doubts about the execution of these types of fundraisers... are they credible and do they know how to do it effectively and efficiently?
Yes, still need to do vetting though. Look at the liberals with BLM. Grifters spring up quickly since time immemorial. Not saying that this is the case here, but we need to be careful.
At the same time, it's quite the tactic to divide the population and make both sides believe that everyone who they "may agree with" is "controlled opposition". It dampens the response in the end.
I'm about to send an etransfer directly to the organizer's email: tbofconvoy2022@protonmai.com. Will send a small amount and then later send to GiveSendGo when it is not jammed.
Forget GoF@@%me, sounds like they are trying to hijack the truckers account($10M Canadian)and distribute to THEIR chosen favorite non profits (ANTIFA?)
They did exactly the same thing to Panquake, the new censorship-free Twitter. Collected a bunch of money for them and then kept it. None of us got our money back. Pure theft.
Your view and your gatito bueno are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing and for all the awesome content. Yours are the first posts I check every day because you make me laugh and fill me with hope. โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ
Eastern Shorebilly here. Rare to see a mask and everythingโs open. Total of 60 โwith COVIDโ deaths in Caroline County in two years (most of those in nursing home) but boy are our suicides and drug overdoses through the roof.
Shorebilly, now thatโs a new one! The easternmost and westernmost parts of the state are habitable for freedom-lovers. Iโm sad for people stuck anywhere in the middle.
So lucky! I'm in the People's Republic of Anne Arundel County. . . desperately hoping to unseat our idiot county executive, Steuart Pittman (former "community organizer.")
I am desperately allergic to cats and wish I were not, because they are beyond awesome. However, I do lay claim to a neighbor's Maine Coon who saunters his territory daily. Yes, saunters, strolls or prowls, because naturally, the territory is all his. Our neighbor has a tracker on him; she says he sometimes puts in five miles of sauntering a day. Legend.
AMEN to that. I lived out on the OlyPen for a decade or so and it rained mid Sept thru to May. I loved the rain thankfully. But I dislike tyranny and zombified drug addicts loping around the streets screaming at the sky so... I had to go.
Yep that's exactly correct. I too love the rain and it's the only place I've ever lived where the grass is green in the winter time. Haha. The only thing that I dislike is the solid sheet of clouds that we get. I love clouds when they have some texture. ๐
Yeah the nice thing is the city I live in I really don't have to deal with that. I mean there are some transients here and there but it's not bad at all.
Sometimes, in non-paradise, it snows, then melts to slush, then rains, then sleets, then freezing rain coats everything in a layer of ice and then it all freezes over and then the temp drops to single digits to solidify everything. But my kitty is a snow kitty and doesn't mind it too much, as long as there is a warm fire to come back to.
Never mind the rain and beautiful view. How do you keep the Kontempative Kitten's fur off the couch? I have looked. I don't see one hair. My house: Doghairtumbleweeds roll gently across the floor in any poof of wind.
Sunny and 51 here today. No snow. Yay. No ocean. Grr.
I've got one who doesn't seem to mind at all. (Of course he pretty much hates being inside at all when he's not asleep!) And our other one really doesn't like it. She doesn't even like wet ground, carefully choosing her steps to try to avoid the wettest spots.
Too bad I can't attach photos of our more than 12" of snow on the ground and the beauty of it gracing the trees on a sparkly, sunny day!
Seconded. -22C (-7.6F) the other day. When you spit it lands with a "plink". Dogs do their business then curl up on a pile of skins from elk and rheindeer in front of the stove. All the little tweety-birds come to windows, going peck-peck-peck on the window putty - meaning "Give us bits of lard with seeds in or we'll steal your putty and let the wind in your house!".
Chickens going outside, feeling the cold, giving you the stink-eye the way only a rooster can - as if the Fimbulwinter is my fault - and then disappearing beneath the hay inside the coop. Foxes fighting over the compostheap. A wolverine trying to break into the outdoor larder. A neighbour being accosted by a lynx when going to fetch firewood.
And at night when it gets real cold the trees popping and cracking while the Aurora Borealis dances high in the sky.
And yet people freely choose to live in cities. Oh well, to each their own.
Beautifully written! Well, you live in a MUCH more interesting place than we do. We don't live in the city, but I'd much prefer the closest neighbors to be 1/2 mile away! We have to be content with our usual bird species which we feed and provide H2O and peanut butter for and the deer that have started traipsing through our yard. We haven't seen evidence of them since this big snow though. They were eating my daylilies last summer though and I introduced them to cayenne pepper!
My husband is insanely jealous of your Aurora Borealis! He and our son went to Iceland in January 2019 (one of those cheap deals he found) and they saw it there, but not the intensity they hoped for.
Aurora borealis is quite a treat. It is difficult to forecast (there are some online 'aurora weather' sites though), and tends to happen in places where it is overcast much of the winter which is often the best time of year to see it, because the sky is so dark. I was raised in mid-Michigan and spent ~20 years in BC and Alberta, all places where aurora is seen. Nothing can prepare you for the majesty of a bright aurora display in a dark, moonless, crystal-clear sky on a bitter cold night at 3 in the morning. I once saw one (in Crowsnest Pass, AB) which stretched across the entire sky, shimmering curtains of green light. Almost like cosmic curtains. I was on a trip when my wife was returning home to Crowsnest with friends, around midnight, when they were treated to a multi-color display -- the usual green, but with some reds, purples and blues. Incredibly beautiful, she said. I've never seen anything but the green ones.
Bottom line, the best way to see aurora is to live somewhere where they occur with some regularity, a long way from any large cities, and just wait (and watch) for that amazing moment when the sky is afire with God's miracle.
My husband follows aurorasaurus https://www.aurorasaurus.org/ And you probably do too. We saw a faint one when we first moved here (N. Indiana) 25 years ago. My husband also gets Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) and auroras are regular photos there. There are some things I know I won't see until the Kingdom and I'm okay with that!
Thank you and right back at you (if that is the proper phrase?).
The deer's don't dare come up to the house due to the dogs, but the foxes do. They sometimes even leave a little "something" on the porch, the smarmy b*stards. So does the bears living among the hills and bogs around here.
However, due to us having picked up the american tradition of carving pumpkins for All Hallows, we discovered that the elks simply love pumpkin - including the rinds. One male trashed the open air compost in a feeding frenzy year before last.
I live in a rural, heavily forested part of Sweden. Fewer than 1 person/square kilometer. Biggest village is 20+ kilometers away (I guess that's what, 60 miles?) and has about 300 inhabitants.
One thing I've learned about the small birds is that they are quite tough. I've seen blue tits and great tits gang up to mob squirrels, and several different secies seem to cooperate nicely - the Euraisan jay stands guard against crows and the tits throw them seeds. A direct translation of the swedish name for Eurasian jay, blue tit and great tit is in order (snigger, drumroll) "nutscreamer", "blue wimp" and "tallow ox". Hilarious if one's sense of humour got stuck in kindergarten, like mine did according to the wife.
Only real drawback to the rich wildlife are the horse-flies and the deer keds. Gotta have something to complain about, I guess. :)
Yes, that's the right phrase. ๐บ I read your response to my husband and we laughed at your animal stories. We loved the elk/pumpkin story! 20 km is 12 miles says the chemist (husband) who does math in his head.
Yes, birds ARE really tough. We've seen cooperative feeding with waders and mergansers. I love birdwatching because there is always something new to learn and experience watching them.
In 2015, we did a cruise in Norway that left from Harwich but we spent 3 days in London (never again) because my husband and son had never been there. We asked Brits who had come over here for Spring Migration where to go birding in London and they looked at me like I was insane. They suggested the Royal Parks, which in my opinion was the best part of London. That's where we saw Eurasian Jay, Great Tit and Blue Tit. Would you believe that our grocery chain shows tits in their ads for bird seed?! It makes me crazy - these are EUROPEAN birds you morons! The translation of "tallow ox" baffles me. Nutscreamer fits though! Our Blue Jays say, "thief, thief" and they are in the Corvidae family just like yours.
What are "keds"? Ticks?
Ked is (according to wikipedia at least) the english name for a flying louse. Formal name is given as Lipoptema Cervi. About 5-7mm, a fifth of an inch or so I guess?
Lice with wings. They live by sucking blood from deer and elk. In October, the female ked burrows into the skin of the host and rips off its own wings. They can't feed from humans but that doesn't stop them from trying, and they generally go for your eyes, hair, beards, ear holes and such.
Bites can give hard pimple-like skin blisters sometimes lasting months if you are sensitive. They'e difficult to kill too, since they have the hard yet flexible shell of lice so whacking them does nothing. You have to pinch them between your nails to pop them.
Thankfully, they are only active for about two weeks, the rest of the year they spend either on the host or as larva in the host animals lay.
Norway is as beautiful as the norwegians themselves are good people. Stand up, honest decent and hard working, no BS culture. Used to be, swedes danes nowegians and finns didn't need passports for travel in Scandinavia, what with us all being "cousins" of sorts, culturally and ethnically. Nowadays with the EU and Covid and whatnot it's a right mess. If you ever happen to visit Norway I'd recommed a cruise with Hurtigruten.
Very interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like it's a blessing they only last 2 weeks!! https://extension.psu.edu/deer-keds Apparently it is an introduced species here and we know them as Deer Flies.
Yes, we saw Hurtigruten ships when we were there. We were on Holland America which is our favorite cruise line of the American ones. Cruising may be over for us though. We will not wear face diapers, we will not allow the crew to be made into a servant class and have to wear them even if we don't and we refuse to put an experimental biological agent in our bodies. So if those are the stipulations for cruising, we are done. It was fun while it lasted.
I'm so jealous. ๐ข
It's only beautiful until the shoveling starts!
I loved shoveling snow when I was young. Great workout. Now, not so much. So I just rely on my 4W drive and don't shovel. :-)
Careful it causes heart attacks in 2022
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/
Especially after third jab of mRNA
will have to subscribe for free already spent too much money LOL
I love snow and ice in pictures ! They also make beautiful christmas cards. On Christmas day it was too warm to wear my new sweater... I had to put on a Tshirt.
I always tell my friends that "I know it looks beautiful, but if you want the full effect, you need to go sit in an industrial freezer with a cool air mister and two fans blowing on you; and them look at it." Suddenly it doesn't seem so pretty anymore.
Excellent experiential perspective! We opened the door 3 inches to see the lovely lineaments of the crescent moon above the snow encrusted bare trees. Very beautiful if you don't get entranced and forget and go hypothermic . Ezra Pound worked for the fascists, but I'm with him on winter:
Winter is icumen in
Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, โtis why I am, Goddamm,
So โgainst the winterโs balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
โ Ezra Pound
Indeed ! I come from a cold country and now live in the southern US. We still have our days of cold and freeze, but very seldom snow or ice. Little on the hot side in summer but I will take that any time over the cold !
Yeah, Christmas day in the mid 60s sucks!
Love shoveling
You should be a press secretary.
๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Screw shoveling! Call in sick and stay home for a nice mental health day.
It's blinding me with science!
Wouldnโt be paradise without the rain.
can only have these lush greens with rain !
Exactly what I was about to type!
Rainy days are perfect for curling up on the couch for a cat nap :)
Iโll take the -20c, non stop truck horns with tens of thousands of my fellow CDN freedom fighters! Whooooooooo๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ
(Just taking a break in the hotel ๐) heading back out soon. I am doing a little posting on gettr @Mikey38SC
Thanks for the link, great footage!
Loved the video with the truck transformer and pic of Gato. Hang in there! Great footage.
I sleep in my van sometimes and the pitter patter sounds of the rain landing on my rooftop is very pleasing to my ears and calming, sleep like a rock! All people should accept the rain, embrace it, enjoy it, use it and stop getting so cat.astrophic-y about it!
Yes. Some years back, when the whole format of weather forecasting on TV news was changed to be more melodramatic, they began describing rain as โbadโ weather. And of course every โnormalโ storm, temperature change or whatever, is now an exaggerated โcatastropheโ. Itโs insulting. I no longer watch the weather forecast; itโs much too annoying. I just want the facts in a succinct and non-dramatic manner.
Yep. I used to think weather, sports and stocks they can't muck with them. I clearly lack imagination.
Raptor, I don't think it is lack of imagination. It is more likely the lack of nefarious intent. Decent people just can't imagine the likes of what is going on now.
Ha. Nice and charitable. I'll say that starting with the base assumption that all people are evil has helped to tamp down the shock of the depravity lately. But sometimes I am shocked by the unabashed nature of it. And how foolish they are! Whew.
Agree. I realize that they need the eyeballs, but hyping any weather event is now getting over the top and silly. It's amusing when there is nothing much going on and the weather person has to note a small wave coming from 6,000 miles away as something they "will be watching closely".
๐ I try and ignore the drama, so I can hear the temps and what, how much, and where precipitation. Then turn it off.
I feel like this is very not nice of you to torture us frozen tundra people this way.
I tried to donate to the truckers, and upped my donation too, but the new site is so slow it is jammed I guess. I will try later. Yes itโs raining but water cleanses too.
Apparently they're getting ddos'd
What do you mean? It is impossible to get on - and wondering if it is my ISP?
DDOS: "A distributed denial-of-service attack is one of the most powerful weapons on the internet. A DDoS attack is a cyberattack on a server, service, website, or network that floods it with Internet traffic. The aim is to overwhelm the website or service with more traffic than the server or network can accommodate."
-- from Norton
Somebody(ies) really don't want those truckers to succeed. They see the freedom convoy for what it is: the lead galleon, coming up over the horizon, in a flotilla of hundreds or perhaps thousands of ships, still a distance away -- but that distance is closing. Sails whipping cleanly and proudly in the wind, inexorable in its progress.
And all of those (us) who are supporting them, not only give them aid and comfort -- our mere existence sends chills down the spines of the wannabe puppet-masters. With convoys starting all over Canada and the world (Helsinki today, apparently), that flotilla looms large over their dream of a totalitarian, fascist world with them the elites. With every donation, every person donating food, fuel and encouragement, their ramparts look weaker and smaller, their defenses wholly inadequate to the task.
That is why 'they' are doing this. Don't let them win.
Amen! Beautifully stated.
When I see everything that is happening in the world today, I see Satan's fingerprints all over. But I also see that God has been preparing for this time, and perhaps more importantly He has been preparing us. Why else would there be an alternative to GFM, sitting there ready?
โYou are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." -- Matthew 5:14-16 (NRSV)
Agree completely. But I'm lost on the GFM part - like I had to look it up! More explanation please!
What I've heard is that so many people are trying to donate, the website is going into conniption. My husband and I have tried few times today without success. Keep on trying. As they used to say on TV commercials, "Operators are standing by. If you can't get through, please call again."
I gave last night and it was very slow. But I got confirmation of my donation so I know it will help someone. Iโm not worried about who gets it. If I could go up to Canada and hand out cash I would but I knew I wasnโt going to use GFM. This is the best I know to do.
I always suffer from doubts about the execution of these types of fundraisers... are they credible and do they know how to do it effectively and efficiently?
They're a bunch of grass roots freedom fighters up against a global fascist oligarchy. We should be walking to them with bags of cash if we have to.
Yes, still need to do vetting though. Look at the liberals with BLM. Grifters spring up quickly since time immemorial. Not saying that this is the case here, but we need to be careful.
Yes, you can bet that's being tried.
At the same time, it's quite the tactic to divide the population and make both sides believe that everyone who they "may agree with" is "controlled opposition". It dampens the response in the end.
I'm about to send an etransfer directly to the organizer's email: tbofconvoy2022@protonmai.com. Will send a small amount and then later send to GiveSendGo when it is not jammed.
I am in Ontario -- might not work for those not in Canada
It only works in Canada
Forget GoF@@%me, sounds like they are trying to hijack the truckers account($10M Canadian)and distribute to THEIR chosen favorite non profits (ANTIFA?)
They did exactly the same thing to Panquake, the new censorship-free Twitter. Collected a bunch of money for them and then kept it. None of us got our money back. Pure theft.
Yes, but not they are recommending GiveSendGo but site seems to be overwhelmed
Yep..Heard that...best to give direct if you can
Your view and your gatito bueno are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing and for all the awesome content. Yours are the first posts I check every day because you make me laugh and fill me with hope. โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ
Ok, whatevs. Its 28 degrees (windchill in the teens) in Maryland. . ."buT at LeAst it'S suNny"
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Whoa! A heat wave! Teens in Maine, wind chill below zero. Tonight will be below zero, wind chill belower below zero!
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Hey! Iโm in Maryland too! Washington County, a free county๐
Eastern Shorebilly here. Rare to see a mask and everythingโs open. Total of 60 โwith COVIDโ deaths in Caroline County in two years (most of those in nursing home) but boy are our suicides and drug overdoses through the roof.
Shorebilly, now thatโs a new one! The easternmost and westernmost parts of the state are habitable for freedom-lovers. Iโm sad for people stuck anywhere in the middle.
So lucky! I'm in the People's Republic of Anne Arundel County. . . desperately hoping to unseat our idiot county executive, Steuart Pittman (former "community organizer.")
Montgomery County here. Two years of overreacting to C19. Sigh.
Ugh. I know it. Most/all of my inlaws live there. Total covidians.
My favorite kind of day.
I am desperately allergic to cats and wish I were not, because they are beyond awesome. However, I do lay claim to a neighbor's Maine Coon who saunters his territory daily. Yes, saunters, strolls or prowls, because naturally, the territory is all his. Our neighbor has a tracker on him; she says he sometimes puts in five miles of sauntering a day. Legend.
I live in Washington you don't even know what rain is until you've spent a winter here! ๐
AMEN to that. I lived out on the OlyPen for a decade or so and it rained mid Sept thru to May. I loved the rain thankfully. But I dislike tyranny and zombified drug addicts loping around the streets screaming at the sky so... I had to go.
Yep that's exactly correct. I too love the rain and it's the only place I've ever lived where the grass is green in the winter time. Haha. The only thing that I dislike is the solid sheet of clouds that we get. I love clouds when they have some texture. ๐
Yeah the nice thing is the city I live in I really don't have to deal with that. I mean there are some transients here and there but it's not bad at all.
So relatable! A quiet, soft sort of day can be a lovely pause.
Have you ever seen this? It was made for cat lovers! Go Walter! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ta5Q3ITUc
Sooo funny! Thanks๐พ๐พ๐โโฌ
Man, thatโs da life right there!! ๐ป๐๐โโฌ๐
Gorgeous even with the rain! Love your relaxed and happy looking cat - so sweet!
Sometimes, in non-paradise, it snows, then melts to slush, then rains, then sleets, then freezing rain coats everything in a layer of ice and then it all freezes over and then the temp drops to single digits to solidify everything. But my kitty is a snow kitty and doesn't mind it too much, as long as there is a warm fire to come back to.
"Rainy day, dream away..."
Aww, Sweetie. She looks just like our Pippi. Tortoiseshells are BAD CATS! LOL.
And :lots of times rain comes with rainbows ๐
Fabulous photo.
Yeah. Nonstop and torrential. Pool in Guaynabo is now almost an indoor/outdoor pool.
At least you don't have to shovel it.
What breed of cat is this?
Looks like my Tortie. Tortoise shell cat. Look up on wiki.
I guess short hair Tortie with a bit of Tabby thrown in. A Torby.
Looks like my kitty.
Ok yes, I see what you mean. But it's still paradise, no? Sigh...oh, to be a cat. In my next life, I hope.
Beautiful kitty ๐
Your cushion game is tight.
Never mind the rain and beautiful view. How do you keep the Kontempative Kitten's fur off the couch? I have looked. I don't see one hair. My house: Doghairtumbleweeds roll gently across the floor in any poof of wind.
Sunny and 51 here today. No snow. Yay. No ocean. Grr.
But thatโs what makes La Isla del Encanto so green!
Reminds me: Prince had a melancholy song, Sometimes it Snows in April.
Prince lived in Minneapolis, where it snows Every Damn April and usually in May as well!
Youโre so handsome, gato!!!
Feels like Isla Verde ๐ด
Rain is good. Nothing wrong with rain.
All I can say is that it's SUNNY here.. but cold.
beautiful kitty! Nice view too, inside and out.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/yes-the-vaccines-were-supposed-to
Media (MSM) is the Virus......I guess that would make Fauci the spike protein
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/justin-trudeau-bragging-about-paying-off-the-mainstream-media_f6emTB9bwT3TsSU.html?fbclid=IwAR2knwxrpDXWyvaQIaGxSDbCKT--yTPHEht2sbfYRVgyatLQbG0MowjSj_g
When it rains...go out and smell that awesome asphalt smell...
Same thing right now in the Sunshine State El Gato.
I love rain! Do not cats love rain? Just to be differentโฆ
I've got one who doesn't seem to mind at all. (Of course he pretty much hates being inside at all when he's not asleep!) And our other one really doesn't like it. She doesn't even like wet ground, carefully choosing her steps to try to avoid the wettest spots.
Rain is good. Hope you find a good book to read that is about hope.
Gorgeous photo!!!! are you related to The CatTurd?
Seal Point Burmese ? Raining on Vieques as well. Off and on. Sometimes Heavy. Disfruta el Dia !
Wow, where is this paradise???
PR
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
oh, for a good book....maybe I will revisit House of Rain by Craig Childs.
Pensive cat.