An American Dream - White Picket Fences and Marijuana in the So Cal Sun

But he is the most popular president in a 100 years.
Don't you remember all the people that came out in support of the Biden-Harris campaign. Ohh wait they were all flag waving trump supporters.

I remember when the count was done by hand with both sides counting the ballots then exchanging the piles and counting again. Something, something about a double blind count.

Now...... Opps look the computer just wiped out 500,000 votes. Lets check the software.
OHH NO YOU DON"T.
That is proprietary software. No lookie no touchie.
HUH ??
It just has to count the numbers.
Dos 1 can do that.


If we really had any unbiased news reporting they would be all over the cost to fly the sitting president to campaign for a state Governor. Just what did this little junket cost every federal tax payer?

You'd think all the loyal people that voted for him would have come out in droves to show their unwavering support drowning out any possible noise the opposition could have rallied.
Crickets....... More Crickets......


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It's overcast again this morning but no fog and mist so I'll try and get my paddle around the island. Neighbors flags are hanging limp so no wind. Ahhhhhhhh.

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Left at 07.30 and it took about 2 hours to make the island circuit on the SUP. I'll leave earlier to beat the heat of that last leg. Or reverse my direction of travel. Hmmmm. Then I can't see who is overtaking me and the boat wave chop sneaks up from behind... Nawwwww not that stable yet.

Voted on the recall of our glorious state leader. Only 40 people running to replace him. Gotta love the Klown world politics in this state.


3 gallons dry measure of Decarbed bud scraps.
The industrial potato ricer.
160 micron mesh.

I started with Six full 1.75 ltr jugs of 190 proof. Used 4.5

I have 6 750ml bottles I cross fill to do my Tincture works.
A near full quart jar of scraps and a full 750ml of booze.
Shake 10 seconds and press out with the ricer and back into the bottle. Nets 500ml of tincture.

My Combined efforts @ 11 jars of scraps / bottles netted exactly Three full 1.75 jugs of Tincture and used up all the bud scraps.

The wet bud scraps with more then 3 ltrs of booze still locked up in it. I put the lid on this and I'll recover the 190proof another day.

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Did the full island loop again as well as the inner ring adding another mile to the paddle. Ouch the back of my calves are on fire. Got pain in muscles I didn't know I owned.

Started at first light. Hmmm might need to start even sooner and beat the rowing crews to the water.


Added enough water to float the alcohol soaked scraps.

Some agitation.

Cup by cup it all gets squeezed out.

Down to the last few drops.

I'll distill off and recover the Alcohol from this at the next Tincture reduction.

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Akk Daybreak and I've just been pissing away the morning on the stupid Computer.. BBL

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Takes me just about 90 minutes to circle the island, drag the SUP board out, wash it and finish futzing around.

Only took 3 days for the sea life to start attaching to the board past the point of just wiping off. Had to scrub hard to work the little buggers off so it'll need to be pulled from the ocean after every use.

I'd been leaving it in the empty slip 2 down from us but the marina office has a new dock warden who has a fresh book of red tag violations he just can't wait to stick on your boat for so much as a cleaning rag left on the dock OMFG !!.

I'll leave it propped up against the fire hydrant for now and see if it gets tagged.

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Garlic

No paddle this morning. Friday starts the idiot weekend and even this early the fisherman have chopped the bay up past where my newbee ass is happy. To rough and I'm dropping to my knees to stay on the board.

I'll tow the patchwork Pete board over to the rack first then get the red one out of the Van and do the same. We'll be heading out of town and I want the Van empty..

Edit:: As expected the Johnson engine was a bitch to start and needed a shot of ether to fire.
I need to figure something else out beside pulling the cover to prime the pig. Drill hole and a straw glued in place ??? Ahhhhh I think I have just the thing.

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Garlic cut from the branches and tossed in a bucket overnight.

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So a few days ago I put new shoes (Tires) on the TTS van. Filled her Radiator ( 1 gallon low on coolant ) Filled Her Crankcase (2 quarts low) Checked her Trans fluid (Perfect) Brake fluid (good) loaded up the couch from the neighbors across the street and drove it to the 35 miles to the halfway house at 50mph. Sheesh.

Geared low as can be she's revving hard at 55 and really wants to cruse at 45mph. Not so good on the 605 freeway at noon. Damn Semi trucks running 3 and 4 wide northbound @ 80mph. Where the hell is the CHP?? They should be writing HUGE tickets as having your big rig in the fast lane is a whopping massive ticket in this state.

That crap might be legal in Tennessee but it's not here.


Got the bloody couch unloaded and with the help of the neighbor got it wrasled into the house.

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The night shot really doesn't do this mega yacht justice as it's 5 stories tall and about 200 feet long. It dwarfs anything I've seen in here before.

The virtually new couch.
To quote the Neighbor. It's in the living room and I don't think it was sat on more then 5 or 6 times in the last 20 years. Nobody ever went in that room.

New shoes, Painted the rims. Clear coated the hubcaps to lock on the patina.
Now if it just stopped worth a damn and had some road feel in the steering. It's like delayed reaction. You give it a nudge and wait 2 sec to see if that was enough to keep it in the lane.

This old school hydraulic power ram assisted manual steering box was vague road feel new from the box and age hasn't improved it at all. New shocks couldn't hurt as they have the same amount of rust as everything else under there so original equipment no doubt.

Took 2 more caps to quiet my complaining back and toking some Kief I'll soon...
What ??
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I do my back more harm wrestling the damn boards off and on the dingy racks then I ever do actually paddling. Calves and front of my thighs are what burns the most about day 3 of SUPing but you can feel so many muscle sets at work just staying upright.

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With just 3 weeks left before these should go in the ground to flower this fall set looks like a fail.


I threw down some Ring beans before we left and they are all up and happy faces. I'll split them up tomorrow.

Patio

Garage

Between my being gone. The brutal heat, yard dirt intrusion of the sites reaching maximum entropy.

Every dead spot is Caterpillar damage. I've dug a few clean and didn't find any active live shitters but I won't know for sure till it's been harvested and hung a day or two but that is 3 weeks off still.

Fucking little bastards.
DEATH from ABOVE !!!



GRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I did get a fresh bottle of BT and hit them again last week.

BNW