Friday was warm and in the 70’s. Yesterday was cool and in the 40’s. This morning it was 31ºF here at The Gulch, the first morning below freezing since this past spring and it will reach the mid 40’s in the afternoon.
It was breezy over the past three days so we saw a lot of leaf fall. Most of the trees have shed their leaves and they are piled up all around The Gulch and the neighborhood. Now that the winds have died down raking will be taking place.
One thing I have done to help with leaf removal, at least from the front rain gutters on The Gulch and a neighbor’s home is purchase a set of ‘leaf grabbers’ that makes it easy to clean out those gutters from the ground, no ladder required. While not perfect for the job, they should suffice for those days when ‘old’ leaves (mostly oak leaves) have clogged the gutters during mid-fall and early/mid spring.
I have also been moving Sterilite containers from my rental storage unit into my garage attic, a few at a time, all in an effort to make the rental unit unnecessary. Hopefully I will have it emptied out before the end of the year. I am expecting to make a big dent in this effort over the Thanksgiving holiday.
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We have left Daylight Savings Time and ‘fallen back’ to Standard Time, something I have come to dislike intensely. Living on the eastern extreme of the Eastern Time Zone means there are days during winter when I start and finish work in the dark. I would prefer to stay on Daylight Savings Time as it works better for us up here in New Hampshire and Maine.
It’s ironic that Standard Time lasts for a little more than 4 months while Daylight Savings lasts 8 months, so why not just stay on DST year round?
Of course there is one group that cares nothing for time zones or time changes, that group being the feline contingent here at The Gulch and elsewhere. They know breakfast time, dinner time, and snack time, none of which have anything to with the time on the clock. I have no doubt the same is true of those with canine members in their households.
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After all the back and forth with people claiming Trump was saying Liz Cheney should be executed, there’s this from someone who doesn’t like Trump at all:
Folks, Trump didn't threaten to execute Liz Cheney. He actually was calling her a chickenhawk, something liberals said about her for ages.That’s quite a bit different from what the MSM, the DNC, and the rest of The Usual Suspects have been trying to sell to the electorate. But then what’s new about that?
Look at the context — Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren't armed.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained in her face.”
“They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right in the mouth of the enemy,’” he added.
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This is a comment I posted to this Instapundit post about missing mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania:
As best I have been able to determine, we are one of the only nations using mail-in voting. Other countries used it and abandoned it because there was too much fraud. Why anyone thought this was a good idea baffles me...unless of course that what The Powers That Be in the DNC wanted and are using it to generate massive distrust of the voting system so they can get rid of voting altogether.One of the other commenters added this:
France banned mail-in voting in 1975 – due to fraud.So why is the US using mail-in voting when we know it’s biggest ‘plus’ is that it makes it easier to commit voting fraud? It makes no sense to me...unless one of the major political parties wants it so they can commit voter fraud as needed in order to ensure they remain in power.
Mexico banned mail-in voting in 1992 – due to fraud.
Belgium banned mail-in voting in 2018 – due to fraud.
Sweden does not permit mail-in voting.
Italy does not permit mail-in voting.
Ukraine does not permit mail-in voting.
Russia does not permit mail-in voting.
Japan does not permit mail-in voting.
No Middle Eastern country permits mail-in voting.
No Latin country permits mail-in voting.
Mail-in voting isn’t legal in my home state. It was used once, illegally, when the New Hampshire Secretary of State ‘allowed’ it during Covid even though he had no such power to do so. Only our legislature, with the consent of the governor, can do so and that isn’t likely to happen any time soon.
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Yeah, I’d say this is a sure bet.
If Trump wins the popular vote watch the Left suddenly sour on the National Popular Vote Compact.
I have been arguing for an awful lot of years that the National Popular Vote Compact is an attempt to disenfranchises votes of individual states so that elections can be fixed on a national level.If it doesn’t work for them then why would they want to keep pushing it. The Founders understood about the dangers of democracy, of the tyranny of the majority, and set up Congress and the Electoral College to keep the big states from dominating the small states.
The left has pooh poohed this and deep blue states like California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, New York, Illinois, Vermont, Connecticut and yes disgracefully my state of Massachusetts went along and signed this idiocy sure and secure in the knowledge that no Republican would every be popular enough and no Democrat so unpalatable enough that it would bite them in the ass.
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Now I still maintain that this disenfranchises individual states but I have a feeling if the Kamala collapse continues I will suddenly find a lot of leftists from an awful lot of blue states and a ton of media will suddenly have my back and rush to the Supreme Court to have all of these laws stuck down. The irony of course is that I expect all three liberal judges will be with me on this one at the very least.
Now with Kamala collapsing so badly that the Washington Post and LA Times won’t endorse her it might be moot so I don’t know if this will be the result but if it is, it will be glorious!
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From the “Just When I Thought They Couldn’t Get Any More Desperate” Department comes this gem from New York Governor Kathy Hochul (Clueless – NY):
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently appeared on MSNBC and said that if you vote Republican, you’re anti-woman and anti-American.This from someone who believes in lawfare, doesn’t believe in the Constitution, and thinks that if we don’t vote for someone based purely on their race or sex that we’re racists and/or sexists...and anti-American?
It has been amazing in this election cycle, how Democrats have become so comfortable insulting and degrading their fellow Americans for the crime of disagreeing with them.
Their deranged rhetoric makes them look very desperate, like they know they’re losing.
What an idjit…
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where boats are still being pulled out of the water, and where I’ll be spending all day Tuesday working at the polls.