Reminds me of the Instagram feed PoolBearLife. A California couple have given their really really nice pool and cabana over to a bunch of bears. They buy pool floaties for them to float around on and eventually pop with their claws.
They added captchas a few years ago to cut down on spam voting, but I think they now have new and better ways (that they are not making public, for obvious reasons) to catch ballot box stuffing.
At the risk of irritating MG and receiving a thunderbolt from that goddess, allow me to say that ALL BEARS give me the willies and that I used to hint bears with just a club.
There were twenty of us in that club, now only three left.
My soul mate died in June of 2017 and thankfully missed all of the new President's arson of our republic. She missed it all because she had no time for it what with the dying of cancer, the lobbying of Colorado state legislators to oppose anti-vaxxer efforts to eliminate vaccine mandates in schools, her artwork and her absolute devotion to the Brooks Falls BearCam website. No day went by without her laughing out loud at one or another (or sometimes all of them ) bear or bear cub doing something to make my soul mate happy. She always kept me informed about the front runners in the Fat Bear tournament and she definitely had a favorite for the last 3 years of her life. I speak of the Zen fisher of salmon dubbed Otis (Bear #480). I understand Otis (Bear #480) stopped showing up a few years back to make room for the younger bears and bear cubs.
RIP Otis (Bear #480).
RIP Beloved Soul Mate, Maureen.
I visualize Otis (Bear #480) crossing the Rainbow Bridge to meet Maureen. They make a pact to protect each other on the road to the Western Lands.
Oh, just laying in the stream relaxing, the wife and kids won't stop bothering me never leaving me alone for a moment to myself to gather my thoughts and really contemplate the world and all it's wonder including nature just like this here stream.
The Völkischer Post fires Karen Attiah for her Substack commentary about race and gun violence. They should be on the DO NOT READ list here and with every left leaning author.
“The way I see it is, our job is to cover the world with tremendous curiosity. And with a desire to understand the people who voted for Donald Trump and why they voted for Donald Trump. I think some of our readers want us to dismiss some of those people. I think that’s not empathetic coverage.”
Dean Baquet, executive editor of the NYT
Does Mr. Baquet have no curiosity about the rise of fascism? I suppose he knows all about it. And thinks his readers don’t need to know more.
While Stephen Miller vows to avenge the death of Charlie Kirk by killing all liberal agencies, let's not dismiss the fact that he actually is responsible for the death/murder of a Guatemalan woman today. Nori's mother. Nori, an Honor's student, asylum seeker living in LA, who with her mother was recently illegally deported to Guatemala. Her mother died unexpectedly today, perhaps out of desperation and/or fear.
The blood is on his Fascist lily-white hands as Mrs. Miller might say we'd say.
NYT: "President Trump said that he would be “100 percent” willing to designate “antifa” a domestic terrorist organization — though no such formal organization exists. Trump has often tried to brand loosely affiliated activists as something of an organized criminal group made up of “radical left” agitators that he has often blamed for protests and civil unrest. In 2020, he also blamed antifa for protests after George Floyd and threatened to label it a “terrorist group.”
President Trump then gave the spotlight during his Oval Office remarks to Stephen Miller. Miller used his speech to amplify broad and unsubstantiated claims about Trump’s political opponents, equating anti-fascist activists, loosely referred to as “antifa,” with organized crime groups and domestic terrorists.
“Whether you are antifa, whether you’re a domestic terrorist, whether you are a violent gang member, a drug trafficker,” Miller said, Trump would use the military and federal law enforcement agencies “to wipe you out, to put you behind bars.”"
“ Yikes, the US State Department and USAID have destroyed $10 million of birth control pills and implants, claiming they are abortifacients, though they are not.”
Why are the people constantly complaining about government waste not outraged by this?
Trump was asked on Sunday about allegations that the attack on the Caribbean boat was illegal.
“What’s illegal are the drugs that were on the boat, and the drugs that are being sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs, that’s what’s illegal,” Trump said."
Donald Trump has threatened to call a national emergency and federalize Washington DC after the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said its police would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), whose agents have been taking suspects into custody and have been accused of racially profiling people in doing so.
Me-
This is a preface to invoking the Insurrection Act. Next step in the takeover.
I am just here to celebrate the fact that the magnesium supplement I took last night worked, or the extra water I drank, and I did not wake up in the night with leg cramps, and I slept all night long.
On the agenda for today, I am renting a big ass tiller and I am putting in the raspberry bed that I have been yearning to do for many years here. Today! Well, today is just tilling up the ground. And then I have to go dig up raspberry plants from a bed I put in many years ago, and transplant them. My other choice would be to buy the plants at a walloping $26 each, which I am not inclined to do, but I guess I will if I have to?
Yes I also would like to get some raspberries going. Only I prefer to grow them in the back woods. There is plenty of disturbed sandy soil that is perfect! I tried to find some sort of seeds for this. Found out it is possible though putzy! So our avian denizens can do their part! It's all good!
That’s what I’m doing, just tilling up some of the forest floor here. There’s a tangle of little roots I need to get through, but under that the soil is so rich you can practically dig it up with your hands. Darkand crumbly.
I’ve never heard of starting raspberries from seeds, which doesn’t mean it can’t be done. I just have done it from roots or plants. If you find a bed that you like the berries from, dig up some roots, or go to a greenhouse and buy some starts.
I love raspberries. Also blackberries. I've tried to grow them here, to no avail. Grapes do well, as do black currants. Stone fruits are sketchy, as are apples, but I have the trees just in case they decide to cooperate.
We had another late freeze, after the trees had bloomed and fruit set. That happens too often, but it’s the way it goes now. My trees are actually cultivars of some very old apples from Manzanar. One is a Winesap, the other a Spitzenburg. Winesaps are the most delicious apple I’ve ever eaten. Before the war relocation camp was there, it was an abandoned orchard. Miraculously, some of them survived the dewatering of the valley by the LADWP.
Have you ever heard of honeyberries? People have been telling me about them, how good they are, and they’re supposed to do well here. I think I’m gonna give them a try.
Interesting, I might have to look into them. It routinely gets much colder than 20F here, with no snow to insulate the ground. Also, summers can be brutally hot and dry. It’s hard to raise up anything out of the dirt, but I keep trying!
Have you ever seen the semi subterranean growing chambers people build?
Dig a long hole into a hillside, and plant in the ground there. It’s earth, sheltered on the bottom and two side sides and the back, and the front is covered with something that will let the sun shine in. Pretty amazing I’ll see if I can find anything on it.
Bear belly (and Fat Bear Week info)! Your hed gif link: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/fat-bear-bares-belly
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/7a57f6cf-66ee-4eea-80a4-6434df92851a
Peel me a grape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cME6MpkCUA
That is the biggest otter I have ever seen!
You otter say that with respect!
Reminds me of the Instagram feed PoolBearLife. A California couple have given their really really nice pool and cabana over to a bunch of bears. They buy pool floaties for them to float around on and eventually pop with their claws.
Have they figured out how to prevent cheating in the Fat Bear Week contest?
They added captchas a few years ago to cut down on spam voting, but I think they now have new and better ways (that they are not making public, for obvious reasons) to catch ballot box stuffing.
He's a bookie.
21 - 52
Yup.
He took a bath.
Baloo, is that you?
All he needs is a scrub brush and a rubber ducky.
At the risk of irritating MG and receiving a thunderbolt from that goddess, allow me to say that ALL BEARS give me the willies and that I used to hint bears with just a club.
There were twenty of us in that club, now only three left.
It does sound somewhat more sporting than bullets or arrows. No spears, then?
My soul mate died in June of 2017 and thankfully missed all of the new President's arson of our republic. She missed it all because she had no time for it what with the dying of cancer, the lobbying of Colorado state legislators to oppose anti-vaxxer efforts to eliminate vaccine mandates in schools, her artwork and her absolute devotion to the Brooks Falls BearCam website. No day went by without her laughing out loud at one or another (or sometimes all of them ) bear or bear cub doing something to make my soul mate happy. She always kept me informed about the front runners in the Fat Bear tournament and she definitely had a favorite for the last 3 years of her life. I speak of the Zen fisher of salmon dubbed Otis (Bear #480). I understand Otis (Bear #480) stopped showing up a few years back to make room for the younger bears and bear cubs.
RIP Otis (Bear #480).
RIP Beloved Soul Mate, Maureen.
I visualize Otis (Bear #480) crossing the Rainbow Bridge to meet Maureen. They make a pact to protect each other on the road to the Western Lands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Lands
May Maureen and Otis be sharing delicious salmon on the other side.
That was beautiful. I was Team Otis too.
His bear belly dragged on the ground.
Ouch!
This is a beautiful tribute and I’m sorry for your loss.
Thanks. I am getting better. The grief ain't gone but there is love. :>)
I have morning mourning tears. Please keep getting better.
Thank you 👍 😊
She sounds like a wonderful partner.
Also, as always, fuck cancer.
"You're soaking in it."
Oh you meant *that* kind of bear......well, I think I'll just get rid of this calendar.
I prefer this sort of bear claws...
https://www.twoofakindcooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cinnamon-Roll-Bear-Claw.png
Yes, but that kind will *definitely* kill you, just a lot slower.
I bet if you offered such to Bear 602, he would eat. Gotta fatten up for hibernation.
He might just bite the hand that feeds him.
I hear "Bear Necessities", from The Jungle Book cartoon.
PHIL HARRIS!!!
Forget about your worries and your strife, my friend!
Yup.
I just came to post that. Gonna be in my head ALL day :)
It's a bear's life! Jealousy is so ugly, but sometimes I just can't help myself...
A carefree soak in the warm sun is the remedy...
It’s also the only way to escape the biting insects up there this time of year; the mosquitoes are dying back, but the flies are at their peak.
I’d like to hibernate for 3 years and 4 months
What's going on Mr. Bear?
Oh, just laying in the stream relaxing, the wife and kids won't stop bothering me never leaving me alone for a moment to myself to gather my thoughts and really contemplate the world and all it's wonder including nature just like this here stream.
OK, but what's with the BIG CLAUSE?
This stream of words is most pleasing.
Bear just chillin'!
Chillin' like a villain.
The Völkischer Post fires Karen Attiah for her Substack commentary about race and gun violence. They should be on the DO NOT READ list here and with every left leaning author.
“The way I see it is, our job is to cover the world with tremendous curiosity. And with a desire to understand the people who voted for Donald Trump and why they voted for Donald Trump. I think some of our readers want us to dismiss some of those people. I think that’s not empathetic coverage.”
Dean Baquet, executive editor of the NYT
Does Mr. Baquet have no curiosity about the rise of fascism? I suppose he knows all about it. And thinks his readers don’t need to know more.
How did the title end up with the right day of the week, but a date *8* days earlier?? Inquiring minds want to know!
Fabulous Bear is Fabulous!!!!!
While Stephen Miller vows to avenge the death of Charlie Kirk by killing all liberal agencies, let's not dismiss the fact that he actually is responsible for the death/murder of a Guatemalan woman today. Nori's mother. Nori, an Honor's student, asylum seeker living in LA, who with her mother was recently illegally deported to Guatemala. Her mother died unexpectedly today, perhaps out of desperation and/or fear.
The blood is on his Fascist lily-white hands as Mrs. Miller might say we'd say.
NYT: "President Trump said that he would be “100 percent” willing to designate “antifa” a domestic terrorist organization — though no such formal organization exists. Trump has often tried to brand loosely affiliated activists as something of an organized criminal group made up of “radical left” agitators that he has often blamed for protests and civil unrest. In 2020, he also blamed antifa for protests after George Floyd and threatened to label it a “terrorist group.”
President Trump then gave the spotlight during his Oval Office remarks to Stephen Miller. Miller used his speech to amplify broad and unsubstantiated claims about Trump’s political opponents, equating anti-fascist activists, loosely referred to as “antifa,” with organized crime groups and domestic terrorists.
“Whether you are antifa, whether you’re a domestic terrorist, whether you are a violent gang member, a drug trafficker,” Miller said, Trump would use the military and federal law enforcement agencies “to wipe you out, to put you behind bars.”"
“And Trump has surrendered in the war on cancer.”
Professional courtesy.
It's a sad day when you can get fired just for quoting Charlie Kirk accurately.
Meanwhile a Fox mouthpiece can get away with calling for the murder of a whole class of people.
“ Yikes, the US State Department and USAID have destroyed $10 million of birth control pills and implants, claiming they are abortifacients, though they are not.”
Why are the people constantly complaining about government waste not outraged by this?
Monday's with Tab's and Coffee in the Morning ☕💯🌄
For the love of dog, will somebody please feed the substack gerbils? It's usually only this slow when something really blows up in the news.
Dunno if anybody else noticed, but Tori Branum already has Mar-A-Lago Face even more extreme than Kristi Noem's.
And Michelle Fiore's fake tits.
And Michelle Fiore's fake tits.
Noticed that, didja?
How could you miss them. They could be used as a tray table!
Very strong resemblance to Michele Fiore, another of their darlings
Trump was asked on Sunday about allegations that the attack on the Caribbean boat was illegal.
“What’s illegal are the drugs that were on the boat, and the drugs that are being sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs, that’s what’s illegal,” Trump said."
Show us the drugs, Donnie. What's that? You blew up the evidence? Well, THAT'S convenient!
“All you have to do is look at the cargo that was scattered all over the ocean,” the president told reporters during Oval Office remarks.
Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.
Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.
Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.
Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.
Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.
So damn near all of us died last year? I only began to feel it after the election. Slow process, dying of imaginary drugs.
Per the Guardian:
Donald Trump has threatened to call a national emergency and federalize Washington DC after the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said its police would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), whose agents have been taking suspects into custody and have been accused of racially profiling people in doing so.
Me-
This is a preface to invoking the Insurrection Act. Next step in the takeover.
I am just here to celebrate the fact that the magnesium supplement I took last night worked, or the extra water I drank, and I did not wake up in the night with leg cramps, and I slept all night long.
On the agenda for today, I am renting a big ass tiller and I am putting in the raspberry bed that I have been yearning to do for many years here. Today! Well, today is just tilling up the ground. And then I have to go dig up raspberry plants from a bed I put in many years ago, and transplant them. My other choice would be to buy the plants at a walloping $26 each, which I am not inclined to do, but I guess I will if I have to?
Yes I also would like to get some raspberries going. Only I prefer to grow them in the back woods. There is plenty of disturbed sandy soil that is perfect! I tried to find some sort of seeds for this. Found out it is possible though putzy! So our avian denizens can do their part! It's all good!
That’s what I’m doing, just tilling up some of the forest floor here. There’s a tangle of little roots I need to get through, but under that the soil is so rich you can practically dig it up with your hands. Darkand crumbly.
I’ve never heard of starting raspberries from seeds, which doesn’t mean it can’t be done. I just have done it from roots or plants. If you find a bed that you like the berries from, dig up some roots, or go to a greenhouse and buy some starts.
YaY! No cramps is the best cramps.
I love raspberries. Also blackberries. I've tried to grow them here, to no avail. Grapes do well, as do black currants. Stone fruits are sketchy, as are apples, but I have the trees just in case they decide to cooperate.
My apples (2 courtland 1 macintosh) are producing well. The maples are turning into their glory. Another week and should be at peak!
We had another late freeze, after the trees had bloomed and fruit set. That happens too often, but it’s the way it goes now. My trees are actually cultivars of some very old apples from Manzanar. One is a Winesap, the other a Spitzenburg. Winesaps are the most delicious apple I’ve ever eaten. Before the war relocation camp was there, it was an abandoned orchard. Miraculously, some of them survived the dewatering of the valley by the LADWP.
Have you ever heard of honeyberries? People have been telling me about them, how good they are, and they’re supposed to do well here. I think I’m gonna give them a try.
https://cropsandsoils.extension.wisc.edu/honeyberries/#:~:text=Honeyberries%20are%20an%20irregular-shaped%2C%20elongated%2C%20blue%20berry%20that%20grow%20on%20bushes.
Interesting, I might have to look into them. It routinely gets much colder than 20F here, with no snow to insulate the ground. Also, summers can be brutally hot and dry. It’s hard to raise up anything out of the dirt, but I keep trying!
Have you ever seen the semi subterranean growing chambers people build?
Dig a long hole into a hillside, and plant in the ground there. It’s earth, sheltered on the bottom and two side sides and the back, and the front is covered with something that will let the sun shine in. Pretty amazing I’ll see if I can find anything on it.
Far more work than my advanced decrepitude will allow. The max effort I’m willing to put into it would be a hoop “greenhouse” made with visqueen.
Yeah, it does look like a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. https://www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/how-to-build-earth-sheltered-greenhouse-zbcz1312/