Canned Spinach and the lack thereof

 To say yesterday was a good photographic day for me would be an understatement.  

After getting coffee started and feeding the cats and Gus I looked outside to see the bird feeder empty and it was REALLY frosty out.   I go out and fill the feeder and then go get my camera as the frost on the Gold Dew Grass and the Karl Foerster Grass was outstanding. 

I take a few photos and post them here and there and BAM - this one was featured on Channel 27 morning news/weather this morning and was purchased by another person.  Max the morning meteorologist on CH27 follows Gus the Weather Dog on Facebook.  and BTW - Gus was exactly correct 3 days another the storm.  

Personally I liked this one more 

But then I get a text asking about the hawk that makes visits every so often and what kind of hawk it is.  I reply it's a Cooper's Hawk. 

SO - a few hours later I'm watching football in the basement and I have a view of our feeder which has been busy (A White Breasted Nuthatch is a new bird last week) and then I notice - NO BIRDS!  

Upon further review  . . . a Cooper's hawk looking for lunch.

I posted this on Wild Birds Wisconsin and have over 200+ likes and 6 shares and a lot of comments.

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Canned Spinach and the lack thereof 

I grew up with Popeye and for some reason my mom thought she could get vegetables in my life because of Popeye and spinach.  I love that green mush with butter and salt but since Covid hit - it's totally disappeared off shelves.    Every so often there is some generic crap but not the good stuff by an actual cannery.  

Seems just like canned corn which is a special corn grown by a very very few farmers and spinach, because of  Covid was hit by the perfect storm.  Wet weather, shipping issues, lack of cans and lack of undocumented immigrants for harvesting and it's GONE!   TRUMP TOOK AWAY MY SPINACH.   

Did you know canned spinach is MUCH better for you then fresh spinach?  Spinach is a super food - It's almost a steroid for muscles and there is actual science behind Popeye and spinach.  A huge muscle builder.      

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Back a few decades ago when I was a semi pro online poker player (island vacations, road trips across America, $250 sunglasses, and so forth) I kept looking at affiliate programs.  I became a part owner of an online poker site during its heyday, got paid once and then the GOP (4 senators actually) decided to make all cash transactions to banks illegal and froze all of our cash overseas on the Isle of Man. (right when I was buying our house in Columbus).

I had about $15K frozen and could not get it to America but the REALLY irritating thing was I lost access to "my" poker site right when it was REALLY taking off.

At that time I was writing for Full Tilt magazine  and also selling  a really cool mouse pad that looked like poker tables as an affiliate.  WELL -  with online poker sort of dying Full Tilt went belly up and so did my affiliate programs.  

Sidenote - all for GOP senators lost their next election - do NOT piss off poker players! 

WELL - in a few days I have a new affiliate program in the works!  So exciting. Nothing to do with poker but VERY useful.     

Stay tuned! 

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What a day today - the Vaccine starts to arrive to a needle near you and the Electoral College (of which I know one of the voters) . . votes today!  

I can't wait for that sweet sting of the needle - no wait - that is for tattoos - I can't wait for the freakish pain of that big ass needle.  I hope it's as fun as my shingle shot!  That was a joy and I have heard it's pretty much the same. 

Flu shot - ting - no pain
pneumonia shot - OUCH!

Shingle shot - HOLY MOTHER F**KER! I almost slapped the nurse by accident. 

BUT - I would rather have a shot that lasts 3 days then covid that lasts until the END OF DAYS. 

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DJ and I have started binging SEAL TEAM - yup - you read that right.  It's like The A Team for grown-ups. 

    NUFF SAID for today!!  Cheers