Ok, I just looked up bannock recipes, and found a post by someone who said it’s often (traditionally) cooked over a campfire on a stick. Now I want to try that…

@wtg said in Ticks: Free tick identification https://www.ticklab.org/identify-my-tick Thanks!! Not sure your photo is of sufficiently good quality, It may not be, I think I took four photos and all of them are a bit on the blurry side. It was small enough that it was very hard to get a good photo and we didn’t want to let it get away, so I eventually gave up! I will try sending it in though!

Seems a good thing to do. But I have never lived there so what do I know about it? I have a feeling (based on the number of products I've purchased that come with warnings specific to CA) that the state probably went overboard with its restrictions. Matt Lewis, spokesman for California YIMBY, which supports the new legislation, said a law that had initially been intended to prevent projects like new freeways from plowing through neighborhoods had over the years been “Frankensteined” into a tool to block housing development. And the act, ultimately, has harmed the environment by limiting denser housing, which reduces pollution, he said. Isn't ironic that the original legislation was signed into law by a Republican governor, and it's being rolled back by a Democratic governor.

May it be their undoing.

A really good piece at TMP (it may be behind a paywall, I'm not sure)... Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming

President Donald Trump threatened to sic the Department of Government Efficiency on Elon Musk's businesses, saying in a Truth Social post shortly after midnight that there was "big money to be saved." "Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa," Trump said in the post. "No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE." "Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this?" the president added. Neither Musk nor a spokesperson for the super PAC he created, America PAC, immediately responded to a request for comment. In the hours after Trump's post, Musk reposted several graphics on X depicting a climbing national debt, which currently sits at more than $36 trillion, according to government data. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-threatens-re-examine-government-support-elon-musks-companies-tra-rcna216156

@wtg said in I want his job: chief gelato officer CGO! That's quite the job title!

"No tyrant shall defeat us ... " Link to video

I use Dawn because I'd rather economize than buy what I'd rather have-- something without harsh chemicals. It makes too many suds, and it's difficult and time consuming to rinse anything you wash with it, imho.

Isn’t she the one that kills puppies?

A buddy of mine has joined some of the storm-chasers on a ride-along...

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The Washington family fell on hard times once and the Spencer family rented them house. This one looks too grand to be the same one. Beautiful pictures! Thanks, Andy.