Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 4:00AM. A good deal of sunshine. High 79F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Looking to the south yesterday afternoon I noticed a large dark cloud dumping rain, but it passed on to the east and left me high and dry. Just as well as I still have one last steep part of the upper meadow to cut along the driveway today.
Good news on the rain, Ted, and that you're learning to get along with your knee. I also worry about large hail, as my pickup still sits outside and would get nailed by anything approaching marble sized hail. Fingers crossed luck holds for everyone here this year. Spent a lot of time in Albuquerque and always wondered what the name of those pretty trees was. Thanks for telling us, but I probably won't remember for long as I don't ever seem out here..:laughing:
Glad to hear you're busy again at work, Kyle. Makes the day go faster, plus leaves you with a nice feeling of accomplishment.
My sympathies on the loss of your buddy, PJ. It really hits home how precious life is when you lose someone near your own age, or even younger.
That's very nice work from scrap, Cajun! I bet you do some very nice things with fresh lumber... :thumbsup:
Looks like the birds will have a bumper crop of Hawthorne berries this year, Eric!
Hope the pain in your leg lets up soon, Buppies. Your post reminded me that Highway 395 going south out of Reno was closed in both directions due to mud slides yesterday. Heavy afternoon thunderstorms dropped a ton of rain on burned out areas and the channeled water left more than two feet of the stuff in places. No real easy detour around it, and 395 is a major connector for that area to the south.
When my dad used to drag the family up to Canada, I always got nailed by the black flies. Never felt 'em bite until they left, then boy did it sting and I'd get a golf ball sized welt everywhere they got me. Prolly why I'm not much of a fisherman even to this day.:laughing:
Does Brogen get tick meds, Jay? The ones we used to use were a once a month kind of deal, but they were very effective.
One refinement I've picked up over the years for my spaghetti sauce is to sauté the onions and garlic in olive oil before adding them to the tomato puree and other herbs. Did I understand correctly that in Don's recipe, the sauté is done with vegetable broth? That would be a good way to eliminate another oil if that's right. Last night I just used balsamic vinegar and a bit of grated parmesan/ramano blend on my salad and didn't miss the oil at all.
After another three hours of steep mowing yesterday, I got the steel tubing pieces cut for the fender mounts on the neighbor's trailer. I should have cut a short piece off the 10' stick first, as it was darn near impossible to get the piece level and get a square cut. That meant truing each piece up in the mill, pleasant but time consuming work, but relaxing after a stressful tractor session.
Found an ad yesterday on Craig's List for an old BMW with a sidecar, very reasonably priced. Nearby, too, so I contacted the seller for more info. Got back a well worded reply, but something just didn't seem right. Googled "Senior Medic Sgt. Michelle Williams". This is what came up:
Michelle Williams Scammer 2 3 Acura TL Type-S Just goes to show that if a deal is too good to be true, it probably is.
I guess it's better that there are places like Friendly Politics where people can go and let off steam in a safe way, rather than do what a young man did here in Chico yesterday. Makes me wonder if perhaps we should have a Three Strikes law for judges.
5/22/2018: In 2013, Butte County Deputy DA Kurt Worley had a sick feeling about Adam Parsons and felt he was a risk to society ----
On August 23, 2013, Chico News and Review published an article titled 'Back at bat -- Third-strikers get a swing at sentence reduction' focusing on Proposition 36 passed in 2012 that allowed current prisoners whose third strike didn't qualify as serious or violent to retroactively appeal their sentencing.
This article discussed Adam Parsons, the Chico man who allegedly went on a rampage in Chico Monday night during which he allegedly forced a gas station clerk to give him $10.00 worth of gas while weilding an ax, broke into a home then tried to kill a man with a knife and hammer, stole a tow truck and rammed into a car causing injury to four people who were sent to the hospital via ambulance, fired shots towards police while leading them on a pursuit in the stolen tow truck, then foot-bailed and broke into a second occupied home where he was quickly detained.
The article reads --- regarding Parsons:
Though the DA’s office has successfully stopped reduced sentences for two out of three third-strike challenges, Deputy District Attorney Kurt Worley said he felt Judge Stephen E. Benson’s May 30 decision to let Parsons walk was a serious mistake.
Worley explained in a Tuesday (Aug. 20) phone interview that Parson’s past criminal convictions included assaults and armed robbery of a gas station in 1994 and 1995. His final felony—which does not meet the new Three Strikes criteria—was for escaping from the Butte County Jail prior to being sent to prison for other convictions.
Parsons’ prison record included 22 rules violations, eight of them major, with serious incidents occurring in 2011 and 2012. His initial sentence was for 13 years, plus 25-to-life for the third-strike escape.
After resentencing, he’d accrued so much credit on his new sentence of 14 years and four months that he walked free in mid-July with no probation or other oversight.
“I have a sick feeling we’ll be seeing him in court again very soon,” Worley said. “I feel he’s still a risk to society.”
“He was basically a poster child for why we had Three Strikes in the first place,” Butte County DA Ramsey added, also by phone, on Aug. 20. “He had a very violent and nasty record, and we feel the judge made a big mistake in releasing him.”
Read more:
https://www.newsreview.com/chico/back-at-bat/content…
Butte County Fires, Accidents, Crimes (BCFAC) incident post regarding Parsons Monday night rampage:
Josey Bones - 
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Listen to Chico PD dispatch talk with Chico PD officers during Parsons' Monday night rampage:
5/21/2 18: Chico, CA: Listen to the... - Butte County Fires, Accidents, Crimes BCFAC
May 11, 1994 Gridley Herald Butte County Crime Stoppers ad for Parsons after he escaped from Butte County Jail:
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