For what its worth,,,,

Technically a Freeday Friday for your faithful blogger,,,

DID go in, DID get some work in, not much mind you,  Had to pull the Ground and Hot cables from one of our wayward Mules (work truck)   Been giving me fits,   first a whacked out Alternator, then started doing this funky cold medina thing and leaving me stranded in places: that one sorted out to a bad battery (warranty as the supplier was having issues on many batteries at that time) and then I put a new starter in it.  Whuddent dat,,,

so, when Dio hits the ‘I dunno’ point, he hits the books,,, in this case, Internet crawls looking for thing.  Four different forums had one “Ah-HA!” highlight for me: battery cable. 

and this morning, took one of my jumper cables from my battery bank here at the house (extra, I am running a slightly smaller pack than I did 8 years back) and ran it between the battery and the (new) starter.  She fired up three times in a row, with no chance for the alternator to kick in and recharge the battery.   Seeing how yesterday eve, FULL battery, and all you could hear was that selenoid kicking and occasional groan as the starter tried pushing the crank over.

Pull the cables, both hot and ground since we are going to have new ones made up, and then

Dio done,,,,

And Local Net is down,,,,

Go pay the car insurance, get my mop of a head trimmed down to reasonable and acceptable appearances (thanks Kilgore, you do damned fine work,,, ) and then spent the first part of the afternoon reflecthing old arrows.   I’ve been putting in practice a bit lately while out walking the poop factory: the stumps are showing it too.   And so were my fletchings.    I run real turkey feather fletchings, and they were looking a bit wore and shaggy (about like my head today before the barbers,)

And I am gonna have to get a mess more of them,,,,    Down to a half dozen left,,, don’t need them often but when I do, I don’t want to wait for turkey season to beg wing feathers from the hunters.   (though they do give them up with little, if any, hesitation.)   Not much on turkey hunting meself, but those wing feathers are gold for a bowhunter (traditional long/recurve/asiatic etc)  

The only downside to hunting stumps in the eves,,, Grizz does NOT like the bow,,, That ‘fwhippp!’ and sudden thunk totally destroys that boys good vibes,,,,,  So he has stopped going with Voo and I if I have ‘that stick’ in hand.  No bow, heres the Grizz,,, bow, no Grizz.  He’s no dummie,,, he knows that noise means something is getting hurt,,,  May only be a stump, but that something could be whatever,,,    And he is gonna make sure that he is as far from that scene as possible.

As for the fun and games of (S)election cycle 2024,,,,  Read my comment to Spud in the last post,,,   We are being played and its so damned obvious,,, I don’t trust NONE OF THEM,,,, 

I’m gonna cast my vote, hope it holds, and hope that the Cheat is taking a break for the nonce,,, I know better than thinking ‘this is over’, those that run this KlownKar won’t be out of power, not by a long shot and I don’t think ANYONE could oust them at this stage.  Only full on collapse of the economy and Infrastructure would ‘set things right’ IMO.   Take away ALL POWER, the power of money, the electric, the information controls,,,,, all of it, and those that are in power will starve and die.  

Unfortunately, so will a lot of others,,,  

I dunno,,, I could be wrong, but don’t think I am,,,,,

Not that I am begging for that sort of FALL,,,   Not really, just that I wish there were a way out of this mess that we have created/allowed to happen; one that doesn’t involve a shit ton of dyin’ and blood,,,   

Maybe that how its supposed to be,, again, dunno,,,,    Way above my paygrade so to say,,,   Me, I’m more inclined to immediate events that I can control,,, like building a house, hunting for the meats I eat, or raising them, the farming side if I were any good at that sort of thing, whereas I have mad skills in other areas that make up for that lack SO LONG AS there is community,,,, Funny that coming from a hermit on a hill that much prefers his own company and that of his furries,,,,

It’s goin’ on 1800hrs,,, still no net,  lots of smoke in the air from some burn going on in the area,,, don’t know if its a controlled burn or raging brush fire.  We have been under a burn ban for a week, despite the recent rains.  Humidity has been hovering in the 20-30% range for a week and shit is DRY,,, BONE DRY,,, slowing down our springing Sprung spring a touch,,, The redbuds are abloomin’ and I noted that the Dogwood at the end of my drive will be in full bloom for Easter,,, (imagine that, if you know the myth behind the dogwood, it will mean something.  If ya don’t, tell me in comments and I will post it up here.  It’s kinda cool.)   I’ll post this up as soon as I have a signal, but I think I have said enough tonight.  Tomorrow is kayaky day,, taking Bluejean out and just gonna get some miles in, not pushing speed, just a ‘Mindwork’ paddle: get me head on straight.  Much easier now that I can see the alignment pegs with all that daggum hair out of the way,,, LOL