Happy Monday, everyone! I am sore all over. But in a good way. We had our work/reskilling ‘party’ this weekend, and it was a supreme joy to meet new people and get to work side-by-side with them. I’ll do a more complete write-up once the pictures from everyone roll in.
40 chickens went into the freezers (we sent about 30 of them off with participants), and 15 cords of wood were split, with two of them now safely tucked and stacked under cover, ready to be wheelbarrowed into our basement wood-fired furnace area when needed…so winter is covered.
Of course, I intend to use as much wood heat as possible this year, because our back-up is oil heat, and you know how I feel about that this year.
Also, happy anniversary to Evie and me. It’s been two years:
The Safe and Effective Re-Opening of the Strait
Last week there was a huge push to declare that “more oil than before the war” was now flowing out of the Persian Gulf region. Every major news outlet ran with it, and the X-feeds were overflowing with bots and MAGA-associated accounts to cheer on that ‘victory.’
But many were dubious of these claims, myself among them, because there was no real data given. Sure, fancy charts alleging such flows, but no pictures. If the U.S. were somehow safely escorting 50-70 tankers per day, then the pictures would be there. The U.S. would not still
by larrythelogger 
