Even though they grow here (at least at our neighbor's place), I have never seen them in a store here either.
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Strange, probably one of the tastiest apples around, and naturally their not for sale ...
The morning started with thick freezing fog. The weather guessers said it would be gone by 7 AM but it was 1 PM when it finally went away. High temp only made 35. Lannie and I went over to Pine Creek Ranch to pick up our now pregnant (we hope) cow and bring her home. Then I did way too many heavy chores and this old body hurts like hell at the moment.
You ever try the kratom?....I would think that would help considerably
Seems like you never run out of things to keep you busy.Gonna have a busy week ahead, landed a 640,000 sf building to inspect.......
But....
.... I'm not working this weekend, gonna be in full prospecting mode, and don't give two shits if I find anything............Love being in the mountains....so quiet, serene...etc.
Right after I tried it once, I discovered kratom and hydrocodone cancel each other out, so I would have to stop the hydrocodone completely, and simple economics says "no." I am spending about $90 a month for Lannie to take it, and at my pain level, I'd probably have to take twice what she takes. Because I am a disabled vet, the VA gives me hydrocodone for only $8 a month. Let's see... $8 a month or $180 a month? Sorry, I cannot afford it.
Me too. Wish I could still do that.
G'nite amigo. Have lots of fun this weekend. Yak more tomorrow.
Avoid Supporting These Companies if You Value Your Gun Rights
Corporate gun control is a very real danger. David French, writing recently in National Review, declared it “…a threat that can choke off financing for the gun industry, stifle speech about guns, and lock the gun-rights community into offline (and small online) ghettos that restrict their ability to communicate.”
You can read the following list and decide for yourself whether or not their policies affect you enough to stop doing business with them. The links on each entry will take you to a more detailed article (e.g., Gunpowder Magazine, etc.).
Amazon Web Services
Amazon restricted user access to codeisfreespeech.com,, where users could access blueprints for making guns with a 3D printer.
Avis and Budget Car Rentals
Avis and Budget ended its participation in the NRA rewards program in March 2018.
Bank of America
Bank of America said in April it would stop financing manufacturers that make military-inspired firearms for civilians, such as AR-15s.
Buffalo Wild Wings
“In 2009, [Buffalo Wild Wings] announced a blanket no-gun policy at all of its locations,” ConservativeReview.com reports.
Citi Bank
Citi Bank told its retail business partners to prohibit the sale of firearms to customers younger than 21 and to those who have not passed a background check.
Chipotle
In 2014, Chipotle asked that customers not bring guns into its restaurants because “the display of firearms in our restaurants has now created an environment that is potentially intimidating or uncomfortable for many of our customers.”
Craigslist
Craiglist’s user policy prohibits weapons; firearms/guns and components; BB/pellet, stun, and spear guns; etc., ammunition, clips, cartridges, reloading materials, gunpowder, fireworks, and explosives.
Delta Airlines
Delta tweeted in February 2018 that it was ending the NRA’s contract for discounted rates and “requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website.”
Dick’s Sporting Goods/Field & Stream
The chain store enacted a new policy in 2018 that halted the sale of so-called “assault-style weapons” in their Field & Stream stores. The company announced it would destroy all the weapons pulled from its shelves. Dick’s CEO has since announced sales are down, and they may have to close the Field & Stream line of stores.
Enterprise Holdings (Alamo, Enterprise, and National)
Enterprise ended its discount program with the NRA amid the #BoycottNRA movement of 2018.
Facebook
Facebook prohibits ads that “promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, or explosives. This includes ads for weapon modification accessories.”
FedEx
FedEx ended the discount it offered NRA members shipping firearms after Gays Against Guns staged protests.
Hertz
Hertz ended its discount program with the NRA amid pressure from gun control groups.
Instagram
Instagram’s user policy says it prohibits buying or selling firearms.
Kroger
Kroger owns Fred Meyer stores, which no longer sell firearms to people under the age of 21.
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss’s CEO announced in 2018 the iconic American denim company will be donating $1 million to Michael Bloomberg and gun control groups.
L.L. Bean
L.L. Bean no longer sells guns or ammo to people under the age of 21.
Reddit
Reddit updated its policies to forbid “[soliciting] or [facilitating]” transactions involving firearms, including “gun sales, drug sales, prostitution, stolen goods, personal information, and counterfeit official documents.”
REI
“The Seattle-based outdoor retailer said March 1 [2018] that it was halting future orders of some popular brands — including CamelBak water carriers, Giro helmets and Camp Chef stoves — whose parent company, Vista Outdoor, also makes assault-style rifles,” The Los Angeles Times reported.
Salesforce
Salesforce, a giant tech company, announced it won’t work with companies that sell “semi-automatic weapons, 3D-printed guns, and a range of accessories, including large-capacity magazines, and devices that make semi-automatic guns fully automatic,” The Verge reports.
Shopify
Shopify changed its user policy to prohibit the sale of certain firearms and accessories. Retailers who use the platform say this move will likely cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Starbucks
Starbucks published an open letter in 2013 from its CEO asking patrons not to bring firearms into Starbucks stores or seating areas.
Target
Target issued a statement in 2014 saying, “Bringing firearms to Target creates an environment that is at odds with the family-friendly shopping and work experience we strive to create. Starting today we will also respectfully request that guests not bring firearms to Target – even in communities where it is permitted by law.”
Toms Shoes
Toms announced it will use $5 million to advance universal background checks.
Twitter
Twitter’s user policy says it “prohibits the promotion of weapons and weapon accessories globally.”
United Airlines
United has ended its partnership with the NRA.
Walmart
Walmart raised the age for purchase of firearms and ammunition from 18 to 21 years old and removed “online items resembling assault-style rifles.”
Waffle House
ConcealedCarry.com reports: "Unfortunately Waffle House has a history of being an anti-gun company. In an interview with Second Amendment Check, a member of Waffle House's corporate office said to them that the company did not agree with citizen's second amendment rights within their restaurants. She told us they ban firearms in every location, except for law enforcement. She believes all locations are posted as gun free zones.'"
Wyndham Hotel Group
Wyndham ended its affiliation with the NRA amidst pressure from the gun control lobby.
YouTube
YouTube curtailed content intending to sell firearms or provide instructions on firearm manufacturing.
Corporate gun control is a very real danger. David French, writing recently in National Review, declared it “…a threat that can choke off financing for the gun industry, stifle speech about guns, and lock the gun-rights community into offline (and small online) ghettos that restrict their ability to communicate.”
You can read the following list and decide for yourself whether or not their policies affect you enough to stop doing business with them. The links on each entry will take you to a more detailed article (e.g., Gunpowder Magazine, etc.).
Amazon Web Services
Amazon restricted user access to codeisfreespeech.com,, where users could access blueprints for making guns with a 3D printer.
Avis and Budget Car Rentals
Avis and Budget ended its participation in the NRA rewards program in March 2018.
Bank of America
Bank of America said in April it would stop financing manufacturers that make military-inspired firearms for civilians, such as AR-15s.
Buffalo Wild Wings
“In 2009, [Buffalo Wild Wings] announced a blanket no-gun policy at all of its locations,” ConservativeReview.com reports.
Citi Bank
Citi Bank told its retail business partners to prohibit the sale of firearms to customers younger than 21 and to those who have not passed a background check.
Chipotle
In 2014, Chipotle asked that customers not bring guns into its restaurants because “the display of firearms in our restaurants has now created an environment that is potentially intimidating or uncomfortable for many of our customers.”
Craigslist
Craiglist’s user policy prohibits weapons; firearms/guns and components; BB/pellet, stun, and spear guns; etc., ammunition, clips, cartridges, reloading materials, gunpowder, fireworks, and explosives.
Delta Airlines
Delta tweeted in February 2018 that it was ending the NRA’s contract for discounted rates and “requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website.”
Dick’s Sporting Goods/Field & Stream
The chain store enacted a new policy in 2018 that halted the sale of so-called “assault-style weapons” in their Field & Stream stores. The company announced it would destroy all the weapons pulled from its shelves. Dick’s CEO has since announced sales are down, and they may have to close the Field & Stream line of stores.
Enterprise Holdings (Alamo, Enterprise, and National)
Enterprise ended its discount program with the NRA amid the #BoycottNRA movement of 2018.
Facebook prohibits ads that “promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, or explosives. This includes ads for weapon modification accessories.”
FedEx
FedEx ended the discount it offered NRA members shipping firearms after Gays Against Guns staged protests.
Hertz
Hertz ended its discount program with the NRA amid pressure from gun control groups.
Instagram’s user policy says it prohibits buying or selling firearms.
Kroger
Kroger owns Fred Meyer stores, which no longer sell firearms to people under the age of 21.
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss’s CEO announced in 2018 the iconic American denim company will be donating $1 million to Michael Bloomberg and gun control groups.
L.L. Bean
L.L. Bean no longer sells guns or ammo to people under the age of 21.
Reddit updated its policies to forbid “[soliciting] or [facilitating]” transactions involving firearms, including “gun sales, drug sales, prostitution, stolen goods, personal information, and counterfeit official documents.”
REI
“The Seattle-based outdoor retailer said March 1 [2018] that it was halting future orders of some popular brands — including CamelBak water carriers, Giro helmets and Camp Chef stoves — whose parent company, Vista Outdoor, also makes assault-style rifles,” The Los Angeles Times reported.
Salesforce
Salesforce, a giant tech company, announced it won’t work with companies that sell “semi-automatic weapons, 3D-printed guns, and a range of accessories, including large-capacity magazines, and devices that make semi-automatic guns fully automatic,” The Verge reports.
Shopify
Shopify changed its user policy to prohibit the sale of certain firearms and accessories. Retailers who use the platform say this move will likely cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Starbucks
Starbucks published an open letter in 2013 from its CEO asking patrons not to bring firearms into Starbucks stores or seating areas.
Target
Target issued a statement in 2014 saying, “Bringing firearms to Target creates an environment that is at odds with the family-friendly shopping and work experience we strive to create. Starting today we will also respectfully request that guests not bring firearms to Target – even in communities where it is permitted by law.”
Toms Shoes
Toms announced it will use $5 million to advance universal background checks.
Twitter’s user policy says it “prohibits the promotion of weapons and weapon accessories globally.”
United Airlines
United has ended its partnership with the NRA.
Walmart
Walmart raised the age for purchase of firearms and ammunition from 18 to 21 years old and removed “online items resembling assault-style rifles.”
Waffle House
ConcealedCarry.com reports: "Unfortunately Waffle House has a history of being an anti-gun company. In an interview with Second Amendment Check, a member of Waffle House's corporate office said to them that the company did not agree with citizen's second amendment rights within their restaurants. She told us they ban firearms in every location, except for law enforcement. She believes all locations are posted as gun free zones.'"
Wyndham Hotel Group
Wyndham ended its affiliation with the NRA amidst pressure from the gun control lobby.
YouTube
YouTube curtailed content intending to sell firearms or provide instructions on firearm manufacturing.
Must have been a natural instinct, I'm not affiliated in any shape of form with 98% listed...I'll shitcan the rest tomorrow.
I am sure that me withholding a few dollars a year from those companies will not put them out of business, but the more gun owners who refuse to shop there, perhaps those companies will see a dent in their bottom lines.
I think one of those days is sub-zero for the low. I hope not, but... well, we will deal with it.
Here's a couple picture from Dale (I guess I am the unofficial picture poster).
This first one is another beautiful Arizona sunset (yesterday) near Four Peaks a little northeast of Scottsdale.
And this one is Dale playing his part in cleaning up the litter from a creek bed. You know... all those nasty little yellowish rocks that just shouldn't be there and someone needs to remove them......
This first one is another beautiful Arizona sunset (yesterday) near Four Peaks a little northeast of Scottsdale.
And this one is Dale playing his part in cleaning up the litter from a creek bed. You know... all those nasty little yellowish rocks that just shouldn't be there and someone needs to remove them......
Hhahahaa
I think it is time for this tired old phart to hit the sack. Yak more tomorrow. 
Same here, have a good oneI think it is time for this tired old phart to hit the sack. Yak more tomorrow.
Let's see... the high today was 29 ºF and it is currently (9:30 PM) 6 ºF with a 30 mph wind (gusts to 40) and horizontal snow. The chill factor at the moment is approximately -20 ºF.
Hate to be a party pooper, but the aches and pains and for some unknown reason I am running a fever, I have to go lie down in my bed and see if some sleep will make this shit go away.
Hate to be a party pooper, but the aches and pains and for some unknown reason I am running a fever, I have to go lie down in my bed and see if some sleep will make this shit go away.
Unreal, sorry to hear you feel like shit... I didn't know it was snowing too.
Yup, it is, though the expected accumulation should be small (<1 inch? we'll see how accurate that is tomorrow morning).
Anyway, good night Dale. Catch ya later.
I suppose I should say "yes" because the fever is gone, but all the aches and pains persist. Oh wait! I am really really old, so maybe that's why this fucked up body hurts all the time. Oh well, such is life. Get on with it.
Yeah, I hear that one. Yesterday's snow was indeed less than an inch (thank gawd) (1/4" here, 1/2" there, a 3" drift over there) and the low early this morning was 5 ºF (4.7) and today's high was 24 ºF. It is currently 11 ºF and snowing very lightly (no significant accumulation expected). Getting tired of hearing this shit yet?
Glad your feeling better, and it's just the beginning of the REAL shitty weather......I suppose I should say "yes" because the fever is gone, but all the aches and pains persist. Oh wait! I am really really old, so maybe that's why this fucked up body hurts all the time. Oh well, such is life. Get on with it.
Getting tired of hearing this shit yet?
Somehow I feel like I just said this, but... sleep well. Yak more tomorrow.
Well, of course you shouldn't use anything if I tell you it is bad because, after all, the FDA is god and the rest of you are just mindless peons... (tongue planted firmly in cheek).
Sorry I am late getting here. I just woke up. I laid over sideways to watch a movie on TV and just realized it has been over for over an hour and I don't even remember seeing more than the first 10 minutes. Guess I must have been tired, and having that kitten snuggle me probably didn't help...
Sorry I am late getting here. I just woke up. I laid over sideways to watch a movie on TV and just realized it has been over for over an hour and I don't even remember seeing more than the first 10 minutes. Guess I must have been tired, and having that kitten snuggle me probably didn't help...
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Guess you're already gone, huh? Well, then, hopefully see ya tomorrow...
You found a movie worth watching?.....must have been made 20-30 years ago, but I doubt you missed much...........
Seldom is there ever anything on the boob tube "worth watching," but there occasionally is something I consider the lesser of 120 evils.
In this case, it was Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest (mostly funny stupidity).
In this case, it was Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest (mostly funny stupidity).
Still way too tired and achy. High temp today was 17 ºF (16.7) and yesterday's low was -3.4 ºF and it's been pretty windy, so not much getting done.
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When January and February get here, -3 will seem tropical.
Take it easy, amigo. See ya later...
My guess at the moment is 15-20... we made it all the way up to 30F (29.9) today with a little bit of sunshine and bob pushed around a shitload more snow.