Categories Politics, Rants

Clyde NY man arrested for protecting home from vandals

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Found over at Marooned.

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So this guy is helping renovate his FIL’s house, which is directly next door to his.  Late at night he hears noises consistent with vandals.  Has his wife call 911 and goes over to confront them.  Finds 4 children, who he recognized, ages 8-10 with hammers and spray paint (estimates are $50k in damages), grabs the hammers and orders the kids into a closet till the police get there.  Honestly at this point I don’t really care if he DID threaten the kids with a hammer (though he says he didn’t) or if he grabbed one or more and forced them into the closet.  8yrs old or not.  These kids just did a HUGE amount of aggressive damage to the house, if all 4 had turned on him with the hammers they had in their hands he’d have been hard-pressed to defend himself empty handed

And then the parents have a complete COW because he “threatened” their children, and forced them into the closet instead of just walking them home…….

The GOOD news in the story is that apparently all charges against Mr Daniels are expected to be dropped AND that the DA is expecting to charge the PARENTS with endangerment and possibly other charges…..

Categories Apollo, Artemis, Birds, Dog

Photo dump

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Great Crested Flycatcher

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Hummingbirds

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Mopey puppy after he snatched (yet another) sparrow out of mid-air and we wouldn’t let him bring his new friend into the house

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Apollo and Arty enjoying one of our (rare) sunny days

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The moon a couple days ago

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The Squirrel that Apollo decided was EVIL!!!!!  Damn thing just sat there and stared at the giant slavering dog going ballistic behind the glass less than 10ft away….

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And a butterfly that caught my eye

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Categories Apollo, Dog

Tibetan Mastiffs in rescue

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The national Tibetan Mastiff rescue has ended up in a bit of a bind.  They already have 11 adult Tibetan Mastiffs (here-after refered to as TMs) in rescue in need of homes.  And just this week they were handed custody of 10 adult TMs (Chinese bred) and 8 twelve week old pups, with the information that there were more dogs coming.  This info is not yet on their webpage, but pictures and what data they’re giving out publicly on the dogs is on their Facebook page.  They’ve got homes for the original 8 pups (pups after all are easy to find homes for), but report that there are another 18 coming.  According to what information they’re giving these dogs were basically in a puppy mill.  A Chinese national imported them to Southern Cali to breed so he could sell the pups.  The person in question is no longer able to care for the dogs, so a family member is trying to get rid of them.  Despite that the rescue is reporting that many of the adult dogs have very sweet temperments.

I know I have talked alot about Apollo, but not much about his breed.  They certinally aren’t a dog for everyone, not even every dog owner.  They’re nothing like the Labs and Goldens and other the herding or retrieving breeds and crosses that most folks are used to.  They’re highly stubborn and independant.  They think for themselves and problem solve.  Many of them open doors (with ROUND door knobs), I know of one who knows numbers 1 through 5, and another who can work a TV remote without any instruction.  They’re a guardian breed, their goal in life is to guard their master and their masters family and property, and they cannot be swayed from that.

If you think you might be interested in one please read more here.  I’m also more than willing to answer any questions I can.

Categories Nothing Much

Rain Rain Go Away…..

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….I’m sure there’s areas of the country that need this rain, but we sure don’t!  Sunday we didn’t actually get any rain during the day, but things were still way to wet to do any mowing or similer work.  And of course it rained again on Monday, and Tuesday, and there’s a 20% chance of rain today, and it’s going to rain on Thursday…..

I mean sure, its nice to not have to worry about watering the garden, but I’m starting to worry about the garden drowning!  I pulled the plugs from the garden containers last week so they’d not fill up and drown everything.  But the corn and sunflowers are planted in the ground, and they’re VERY WET……

More and more reports of trees going over, and the winds haven’t been that bad either…..

Categories Nothing Much, Rants

It was the power supply

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Which is the good news. 

The bad news is that the install took and wiped everything.  Yes I had fairly recent backups of the important stuff, but I’m still finding all sorts of odds and ends I’d not updated the backups off, like my internet bookmarks.  Annoying, and I have to re-install everything, really annoying.

The 2nd piece of bad news is that apparently my Windows 7 disks and product code were only supposed to be used for UPGRADES, not for clean installs.  The fact that there was an option in the boot menu for the disk for a clean install, with no warning about needing to purchase a new product code is apparently immaterial to Microsoft.  As is the fact that not one of the other options was working at the time.

This was bad news all right.  But for the Microsoft tech-support idiot not me.  I don’t think I’ve lost my temper like that in a LOOOONG time…..

No, I didn’t pay for a new product code. 

Yes, my computer is up and running and fully legal.

I don’t normally advocate screaming at the idiot doing phone support (I’ve been there, its not their fault their company is stupid), but in this case it solved the problem…..

Anyway, I know the blog-header is screwed up, I’ll be fixing it shortly……

Categories Nothing Much

Computers suck

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My desktop has tried to commit suicide.  We’re currently waiting on an ordered power supply in hopes that thats the problem.  Otherwise we’re likely looking at getting a new computer and hoping that a professional can extract my files from the hard drive.  So posting will be even more slow than usual till thats figured out.  I CAN post from my ipad, but its a pain….

Categories Food

Donuts

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I was skimming the GunBlogBlackList and someone had linked to this recipe.  Wasn’t smart enough to make note of who, sorry.  I think the virtual sugar high killed my brain.  I might have to give them a try…..

Categories Birds

Something killed the Bluebirds

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Or at least momma and baby Bluebirds.  They were dead in their birdhouse this week.  I’m assuming House Sparrows, though I didn’t see it happen.  There’s not much that’ll go after mom and chicks INSIDE the house and not try to remove them.