The Boys, The Tar Spots, The Moon

I heard this morning that the very first Porsche is going on sale for $20 million - well  Laa Dee Daa   wake me up when the expensive cars hit the market.  Nick Mason's (Pink Floyd) Ferrari 250 GTO is worth $40 million and he has a couple.  AND drives them to the grocery store  LOL  No really he does.  He said why own a car if you never drive it.

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Meanwhile on the Kestrel Ridge Golf Course the 16th fairway is flooded as drunks golfing drove over the exposed sprinkler head (on purpose) and now this morning the fairway is underwater.  The head has been exposed for a few weeks and this is the first time the fairway has seen water all year. Maybe the dead grass will grow back?

I contacted Kestrel and they said irrigation has been an issue all year and they are in the process of fixing it.  Yet another thing the previous owner failed to fix.

Speaking of previous owners - The old Sentry and hardware store are getting cleaned up with mowing and so forth.  This has to be a good sign for MAYBE? things to come?  The bank (I think) owns them as the buildings were foreclosed.

No need to clean up if nobody is looking . . . right?

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A lot of crop dusters in the area spraying lately.  Reason is Tar Spot on corn.  Tar Spots on corn is something Mexico deals with but not the Midwest . . until 2015 when a hurricane from the Gulf brought up spore's (or whatever) into Illinois and now it's spread to Wisconsin. 

Tar Spots stop sugar production in the ears that will lead to small and malformed kernels.

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I was skimming a majority of the first few paragraphs of an article about Jupiter's Red Spot dissolving and ran up stairs to take some photos with Big Boy - my new lens.

WELL - Jupiter was right next to the moon and was being blasted with light so I took a photo of the moon instead . . since I was there.

Some of you might recognize this ancient object that seems to have been there forever.

I read the REST OF THE STORY and no - nothing is happening to the Res Spot.

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While you are looking into the sky you might notice more military aircraft from Volk Field as the Northern Lightning exercise begins Aug 12 through the 23rd.  I love it.  I miss the sound of planes.  Too quiet around here LOL 

I grew up with railroad tracks across the street in Fort Atkinson and for a year I lived in the closest apartment  (on Oak street) to the longest runway - RIGHT in line with the runway.  They landing lights would light up the room.  Exciting!

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Speaking of the economy which Obama started and Trump threw gas on it and is claiming he started the fire. 

There is a recession coming. How do I know that?  Listen to the NFL owners who are, for the most part, all Republicans.  There is a labor issue coming next year and negotiations are in the preliminary stages but from what I have heard from a couple of sources the negotiations will not take long as the owners really want this to be over BEFORE the recession hits (not IF but when)

They are saying January.   

So my feeling is that the Republicans NFL team owners who are ACTUAL Republicans and not the nitwits calling themselves Republicans (The Moscow Mitch clan, who have no problems borrowing money and no real financial plans except what helps us NOW) know what is really happening with the economy.

Real Republicans are saying recession - end of the year, beginning of next year. 

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Sadly I lost a reader when I mentioned that I believe Trump is Making America Angry Again (MAAA).

My mom and dad leaned left AND right which made me have to actually think for myself and choose when way I would lean.  I chose the "human rights" side as opposed to the "make more money" side even though my family moved a lot because we could not afford rents.

WELL, this person lives in a divided relationship and is/was distraught and canceled the email subscription.   One side of the relationship continually insults me and makes insulting comments on my business page and the other is wonderful and uplifting and friendly.  I feel sad and hope this individuals marriage transforms into something good again.

Trump is tearing apart families with his rhetoric and is dividing the country.

Nuff said

BTW - right side -

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Couple flower photos - this is of our Humming Bird Mint that had some birds plant Black Eyed Susan's among them. 

       And this is of Elweeds garden

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The Boys!  GREAT show on Amazon

OK OK - only watched the first episode but on IMDB it gets higher ratings they Stranger Things (which we watched Season One and is OUTSTANDING).

NOT for children - full frontal nudity (male) and graphic-ish violence (as seen in the trailer but that is the worse) that DJ is OK with so far.

https://youtu.be/tcrNsIaQkb4


OK - that does not show the whole concept of the show.  try this one on


SO - NOW - we have the rest of GOT season 7, Season 2 of Stranger Things and Season 1 (already Season 2 was ordered) of The Boys AND Season two of Black Sails.

DANG this is the Golden Age of Television.   No more reruns of Murder She Wrote.

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Watch out for storms this afternoon.