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Post by steev on Sept 29, 2020 23:57:03 GMT -5
There're fewer people older than me every day, that was an interesting realization, but that's not the problem; there's more younger than are aging out. The question is whether we can control ourselves before we cause irremediable damage to the ecosystem. Other critters, our cousins. also want to live, and we are poorer if they don't survive. Mind you, I don't really reject the idea of soylent green, but I think it's undesirable, if only because it implies collapse of the ecosystem, which would lead to soylent green. Frankly, I'll eat what there is.
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Post by steev on Sept 29, 2020 22:56:30 GMT -5
Well, we all want to be accepted, though it may be difficult to fit; I admit that I like to start with young-uns, as it's easier, but one must deal with what one has. I look forward to when I can deal with critters: I miss pets; haven't had any for a decade; damn, I need a cat.
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Post by steev on Sept 29, 2020 0:31:15 GMT -5
It is disappointing that people can think that this is a conspiracy, rather than the natural result of overpopulation and resultant intrusion into the environment. Honestly, if this reduces world population, I'm sure that's not bad; I think it has to happen, though I wish people would get their shit together, rather than waiting for Nature to do it for us, which it is doing, dispassionately. We can control ourselves or we WILL be controlled by Nature, to whom we are no more important than were the dinosaurs, nor today's non-human species.
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Post by steev on Sept 28, 2020 20:19:45 GMT -5
Once I'm OTF, I'll get a big white Lab mix and a small something, to be named "Spot" and "Puccini".
This year is odd; the Flame Tokay are ripening without bird or wasp predation (all the smoke?) and the only fruit is on a Mutsu apple and an inedible root-stock pear.
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Post by steev on Sept 28, 2020 19:56:01 GMT -5
Clearly an onion, perhaps a scallion-type; I'd dig it up and see how separable it is; re-plant the best-rooted to see what they do next year, if only to get seed of this oddity.
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Post by steev on Sept 24, 2020 21:02:27 GMT -5
"Don't put off until tomorrow what can be put off until next week."
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Post by steev on Sept 21, 2020 21:52:43 GMT -5
So long as nobody flips a cigarette-butt into the weeds along the road, I'm really only vulnerable on the south, which burned two years ago, so I'm good for 2-3 years at least; who knows, by then I may be able to get a tractor, to not only fireproof but to make the farm really productive.
Praises be that Global Warming is a Liberal hoax, or we'd be up Caca Creek without a paddle; just wait 'til the methane in Siberia starts thawing (oops, already happening) and the methane sea-ice starts thawing. Oh my, did I just Doom-shout?
On the hopeful side, temps are locally moderating; can't sit out at night OTF without a flannel over my T-shirt and rain is prolly only 5-6 weeks away.
Harvested some Flame Tokay grapes; might try to get some Black Prince and Ribier, (all seeded, so unpopular grapes, these days) the other grapes my great-grands grew in Woodbridge; my Cabernet Sauvignon and Black Monukkah produced not one cluster; I want to get some Muscats established; to me, they're the very taste of Summer sunshine. I need to work out how to prevent birds from destroying the crop without too much labor; I think I doped it out today, in a way that will also provide mobile chicken runs, keeping them out of what I don't want them eating, while funneling them back to a nesting area, so I can collect their eggs. My time, money, and stamina are all diminishing, but my head still works, albeit as unfocussed as ever.
Having found a helper OTF, I'm much more optimistic about getting it back to productivity; I'm thinking of seeing whether he's interested in also working in the East Bay, as he's far more apt for the work than my current helper and might be interested in buying the business when I bail.
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Post by steev on Sept 17, 2020 17:48:39 GMT -5
The last few days, the sky has been blue in the Bay Area, much better; 'sposed to get hot again, which will exasperate the remaining fires.
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Post by steev on Sept 10, 2020 23:01:15 GMT -5
True that, but are we better off eating more of less nutritious food? Could that not be part of why obesity is increasing? Are any of our simian cousins given to obesity? That might be a clue to what is right.
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Post by steev on Sept 10, 2020 22:42:41 GMT -5
Today was also a no-sun-to-be-seen day, but it was gray sky, not that appocalypto orange; lots of ash dropping; s'pose it's fertilizer; wonder whether this has reversed my stopping smoking thirty+ years ago.
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Post by steev on Sept 7, 2020 19:29:35 GMT -5
Four weeks smoky air, feh; most of this weekend, couldn't see the hills NMT a mile away; seeing PG&E conyoys off to do repairs.
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Post by steev on Aug 31, 2020 20:39:15 GMT -5
On a more hopeful note, I've found a good helper who lives near the farm; he's from Oakland, speaks English, is smart, curious, and eager to learn; couldn't be better unless he was a beautiful young woman with a thing for scrawny old men.
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Post by steev on Aug 25, 2020 0:11:08 GMT -5
Well, I think we just have to get our heads around the fact that this is how its gonna be; we're gonna prepare for shit to happen, or we're gonna be screwed; I think the present mis-adminsitration chose to shut down measures that would have saved thousands of lives. They're guilty of negligent homicide, if not willful, this being so obvious a danger.
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Post by steev on Aug 24, 2020 19:08:56 GMT -5
White air from wildfires; more lightning predicted.
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Post by steev on Aug 20, 2020 2:13:13 GMT -5
Well, honestly, I look forward to Winter; it's looking like a horrible Fall, the fire season already being in full charge; we've had 60 wildfires started by lightning this weekend; we need rain, not expected 'til late October. Ash falling in the East Bay all day from Marin or Contra Costa counties.
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