Happy New Year

“New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” - Mark Twain

File this under things I will never see again. Yes, it really looked like that at my house.

Good evening all, and welcome to the year of the snake.

It has been a really long 10 days. Like “two birthdays, Christmas, the start of Hanukkah, and new years” long. I don’t know about y’all (all southern and shit), but I could use a drink. Or two.

Oh yeah, that reminds me…. here is your Hanukkah video.

And this one is really the only Hanukkah film worth watching.

This movie is freaking hilarious.

Any who…birthdays.

As you can see, The Boy is thrilled at the idea of yet another birthday. I reminded him that it’s certainly better than the alternative.

The Youngest is much more enthused in the pictures.

So….now we need to talk about my daughter. As some of you all know, she is like super smart. She also enjoys messing with people and in general “stirring the poo” for lack of a better word. Why do I bring this up? Well, I’ll tell you. She has started a new tradition this past birthday season. You see…. she really likes to wrap presents. Very securely. Like “open ten layers of wrapping intermixed with delaying layers of zip ties, rope, chains (yes chains), and other barriers requiring the use of tools” wrapped. You doubt me. You shouldn’t.

I told you.

Anyway, that’s the birthdays. The Wife is hard at work expanding her textile empire.

A few years back I bought a tarp kit on sale from a online fabric place. This kit came pre-cut and with all the hardware. She is shamelessly copying the cuts on the fabric onto a piece of plastic to make a pattern.

The Boy is still trying to clearcut the property.

this is the time of year when dropping trees is easiest, so we are going to get the rest of the garden bed areas cleared out in the next few weeks. At this rate we will have winter of 2025s wood cut soon. Cut, split, and stacked. Winning.

If everything goes according to plan, we should have more of the garden beds online this upcoming season. I’m also planning a couple of hydroponic growing systems for the property. And lets be honest, with the way things are looking out there, having more of our own food production up and running is a good thing.

Its looking kinda world war three out there right now…

If only the soft handed politicians and draft dodging boomers out there who can’t shut up about Ukraine, Iran, Syria , or wherever the hell else CNN and Fox News tells them we need to secure “our democracy” actually had to ruck up and secure the last 300 meters of American foreign policy themselves, maybe we could have a nice summer.….am I right? Your damn right I am. This is why we can’t have nice things.

What’s old is new again…. But I digress..

Here’s a picture of FarmDog©

See how I changed the subject there?

Well, that’s about all I got for this week. Welcome to the new year. I hope it is a prosperous and peaceful one for all of you. Keep your calm and don’t let the man get you down. Due to the current state of clownworld, I am forced to continue with three salty ass memes for the foreseeable future. We wouldn’t want to get backed up again now would we?