Sunday Reading - Mid June Mundanity

 

Been a so/so week. I actually managed to get quite a bit done and there was a good amount of collapse and economic type news that came down this week that I went over in daily posts. Thursday was a bit slower work-wise, so I took the day off,  but was made up for Friday and Yesterday with another Microsoft update that once again killed my computer or the proprietary software that never works after an update anyway. Would be an easy fix if my companies' IT guy was either local or would allow someone on location to have an admin password or even allow me to shut off updates. But this guy acts like those are  something akin to National Security mass weapons information and then turns his phone and email off after ever mandatory update for a week.

The end result is quite a few extra hours of work for me. Which I don't even mind anymore with all this inflation :)

Then of course the one day I can always count on with no work unless I want to go in and open up a closed and locked building and use my codes which is Sunday we actually get rain. Not just rain but they are saying rain all day off and on and of course every time I go out the on cycles start again. All pretty frustrating really.

I stood on the porch and watched a new pair of Bluebirds began making a new nest right in my garden so far this morning. I love Bluebirds but the last couple years the number of drop off cats I take care of has kept the Bluebirds away but now I have managed to find homes for a few and some of the old ones have either passed on or become so lazy now that don't hunt anymore so the Bluebirds are moving back. No mockingbirds yet though and I used to have a bunch of them. Anyway I found a bluebird house I had bought from some kid at the local farmers market almost three years ago and never put up. Back then the Bluebird pairs never stayed due to the cats but now they are guarding my garden diligently again. 

The work on the new subdivision and so called industrial building has still not started back up either and someone even planted soybean everywhere over the area that had been leveled out for new house construction in the subdivision part. There is still one new foundation over there but it hasn't been touched in weeks now. South of me too the corn has now enveloped the subdivision roads they cut over the Winter and Spring out there and all of the heavy earth moving equipment is gone as well.

Let's hope it is another 15 or 20 years until they get back to those like during Obummer's reign.

Of course about 2 or 3 miles as the crow flies there is an old horse ranch that sprawls over a few 100 acres that once belonged to a NewsPaper mogul that at one time owned every Democrat rag in Missouri and Arkansas plus most of the early television stations. His window turned it into a horse ranch to revival the old Walton (Wal-Mart) endeavors and then left it as a trust after she died. I am guessing the trustees decided last year to sell the place off as now there are for sale signs everywhere. 

I remember as a kid there were 50+ or more Mennonite grounds keepers taking care of that place and hundreds of horses and colts in every pasture but now it is nothing more than for sale signs and new power line construction cutting through massive Jinson weed patches everywhere. A 1000 or more acres of new cheap homes ought to really clamp a lid down on new home prices around these parts for a few years I rekon, 

Regardless it's pretty obvious the last few years for the Small-Hold are going to be much different than the previous 30 have been.

I hope I never see it get that far!!!

 

Well it has finally stopped raining a bit so I am going to go walk around the old homestead a bit and see how things are doing.

 

Keep Prepping Everyone!!!