Good Monday morning!

Bawk! Henny should just lay eggs and not worry so much!

Was it a "chicken chuckle" or perhaps a "chicken cluckle?"

Yes she should!
I think I like cluckle better.

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It's not even daylight out there. 42 and clear

39° clear and crisp here this morning... a good day for taking down the Christmas lights of the town... oy

Yep. At least it's not snowing or pouring down rain!

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If only

The Penguins from Madagascar shipped him down there. Those Penguins can do anything.

or McCarthy as Speaker of the House

A boy, a duck, and a chicken..
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Awful cute DD. And it's so nice to see a kid out playing that way.

Yep. It's still happening out there..

very agreeable chicken

Totally Stockholmed.

I could handle some of my chickens. Willie, Billy and Jerry Don.

Ours all ran off like democrat commenters when they are debated with!

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The man, the myth, the legend: Wyatt Earp in 1923 age 75

I didn't realize that he had lived that long into the last century. My 6th grade little boy friend was his grandson or great grandson. I am not sure which. He was just a kid with a blond crew cut that I used to do pranks with.

He's the foundation for Hollywood Westerns. Starting with Silent Films, as he was around Hollywood then as a consultant.

I had no idea!

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Handsome guy!

Mhm! He has presence!

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Run, Henny, run!

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You know I loves dat one!

Still want to run!

That song does instill a sense of urgency.

Uhhh, mhm!

The weird organ part really makes it.

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Half Dome at sunset - Madhu Shesharam

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
~John Lennon
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I think he left out something.

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It's a dog's life Bucko!

US Farmers win right to repair John Deere equipment

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This is a seriously big deal here in farm country.

I know. I hope they let Quickdick McDick fix his up in Canada too.

The guy that made the video about why he runs a big spraying machine over food crop fields? Boo, hiss. I hope they let other people fix their tractors, but that fool sinks in a pit.

Obviously you don't have a clue about new farm tech IMHO

I wish I didn't.

Yes, as QDMcD says, it's possible to raise a lot of SOMEthing without having to cultivate and tend it if you buy GMO seed, spray the ground with chemicals that kill everything but the GMO plants, and just drive over the field drenching the ground with poison. But what you raise that way isn't food. Humans aren't GMO and the chemicals make people who eat the food sick. Meanwhile the chemical vapors damage other people's crop fields, kill wildlife, and also harm humans and animals. And you lose the capacity to go back to raising natural food crops when, as inevitably happens, the pest species build up resistance to the chemicals faster than humans do. It's a lose-lose-lose strategy for everybody but the corporation that pockets the money for the chemicals and the GMO seed.

I'm familiar with the arguments in favor of "Bayer Crop Science (TM)," but they just don't work. People have already died. We have to get back to more viable (and more labor-intensive, unfortunately) farm tech. Bending over, sweating, getting dirty.

In the same way, I believe we're about to learn the hard way, baby humans have to be conceived inside a woman and pushed out in a gush of blood in between dung and urine. We can try to invent alternatives to that primordial "curse" of humanity. I don't believe we'll ever really succeed.

In any case, the toxic waste QDMcD calls food has made me and other people I know sick for several years. Hence the Glyphosate Awareness movement. And no, even if someone does come up with a new poison that doesn't cause me to bloat and bleed, which is likely to have even uglier effects on someone else, the GMO-and-poison-spray method is never going to be a sustainable way to feed anything except, possibly, biomass-burning generators.

I bet. Talk about farmers being held hostage by JD, ridiculous.

I heard bits and pieces about this. Good for them.

I didn't even know they were not allowed to fix their own equipment. I should not be surprised though...

yep. A Deere tech would have to come out and put a proprietary USB stick in with Deere software on it that would enable them to make adjustments and add replacement parts. If all the stuff didn't match, the machine wouldn't work.

Damn! Boy does that suck! Surprised they have not done that with their lawn tractors yet! Mine needs a new engine which is almost too much for what the tractor itself is worth. My neighbor is getting tired of mowing this place! He won't take money, but it has been awhile so I don't blame him. Everyone wants $100 each time and I just can't afford that. Maybe I should get a sheep...

or a goat.

Sheep eat grass... goats eat bushes, trees, all your landscaping plants, your flower beds, and your garden too, if they get a chance! Believe me...

both eat down to the roots

Well, goats are destructive for sure, but they are not too bad about killing everything by eating down to the roots. Maybe if they were left in the same location long enough, though. We moved ours around a lot. I am sure glad they are gone though. They never saw a fence they wanted to stay behind! Grrrr...