home grown squee.

damn do i love having little chicks around.

pics at link.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.937639236257756.1073741870.410796658942019&type=3&uploaded=9

eta- darn you fb. wont let me imbed a pic.

i'm just tired. sick and tired.

stbex is dragging his feet on disclosures, and running up the tab w atty fees. not that thrilled w counsel. she is thorough, but seems to be looking for a trial.
broke down and hired a forensic accountant. hoping they are worth the money, dollar-wise. peace of mind-wise, i expect they will be worth it.

but every nasty email from him puts a cloud over another day.

please god just lets get this thing done before the next court date. july 9.

anybody have a treadmill for their dog?

looking at options for a dog w bad hips. tho surgeons agree that they are awful, they are not sure how good a candidate he is for the surgery.
mostly due to him being a hard charging dog who would be likely to injure himself even after he is fully recovered.

at any rate, they would like to see him lose some weight. he seems pretty well formed to me, has a waist, has a tucked tummy, but...
they would also like to see him get some physical therapy first. he is honestly not that fit. we dont encourage him to be very active, he does enough of that on his own. hard exercise, even for a short period, leaves him in pain.
so he needs more low impact toning. they recommend leash walking, which my daughter does w him a couple days a week. since i have 3 other dogs, and a big property, walks are just not something i have in my regular schedule. hard for me to take just one dog, tho i could do him and his brother.
at any rate i am sure i do not have the stamina myself to really get him in shape.

so i am looking into a treadmill.
not entirely sure i need one made for dogs. mostly just look like a regular treadmill w some side rails. i could pick up a human one cheap or even free. i see them in the alley occasionally, and in the metal pickers' trucks all the time.
common in the thrift stores, too.

anybody have any insight on any of this?

planted 4 fruit trees today.

dont get much chance to dig around in my hugelpile. no till, just dig a little hole and stick a seedling in.
but trees require actual hole digging.
omg. the soil. after only 3 years, it is just glorious. simply lousy w worms. brown w organic matter. wanted to sprinkle it on a bowl of ice cream and eat it.

it is working better than i dared to dream. last year was only the second year and raised 200 lbs of the most beautiful heirloom tomatoes with ZERO watering. ZERO.
it was a mild summer, cool, fairly rainy. but with the crappy sandy soil elsewhere on the plot i had to water almost daily.
and talk about beautiful fruits. big as babies heads. lb, lb and a half. no watering faults. no blossom end rot. no fungus.

gonna do mostly sweet peppers there this year.
will probably put tomatoes on the second pile, where the chicken tractor has been for the past year. 4" of sweet organic matter. lots of leaves. some straw. and plenty of nice aged chicken poop.
and shrooms. put in wine caps last year and the little buggers overran the place. in fact, i missed a bunch of them. they were hiding under the potato vines. hope they are going to bloom again.


damn, i have a great job.

does anybody know how long it took to get medical care for freddie gray?

how long did this man suffer from these horrific injuries w no care at all?

macbook air charger

does anyone else have this problem?
the charger cord on my air is so unstable. it just doesnt want to stick. since i have both a macbook and an air, i have one of those little adapters, and that sticks a little better than just the regular cord.

i am forever picking it up after i thought i had left it charging only to find the cord had either fallen all the way off, or detached just enough to stop the charge.

petty, but so very annoying.

a hypothetical question.

so, take off the table, for now, the idea of continuing w no trade treaties w china and japan. we know they can and will roil the american economy from time to time no matter what we do. steel dumping, polluting industries, we really need to have some agreement on fair trade.
so the answer "no trade deal at all" is not relevant to this hypothetical discussion.

what would a fair and useful trade deal with china and japan look like?
what environmental and labor provisions would you propose, exactly?
what would intellectual property rights look like?
what imports would you crack down on?
how would it be enforced?

feel free to add your "if i had a magic wand" side agreements.

anybody ever leave a hospital against medical advice?

not going into detail here. but there seems to be a belief out there that patients who "elope" get stuck with the bill.
anyone have any experience with that?

cross posting

could use some love.


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