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I did what I never do,as we fished down to the wire and sent him away with my SD card. I'll get it back,at work. Nothing huge yet,best fish thus far is only 38". Hint.

The weather remains more than favorable,despite my frantic Rain Dance. Hint.



To be continued. Hint.....................

We start ours in individual peat cubes in our greenhouse. Nothing goes out to the main dirt until plants are about 8” tall. Keep 400w metal halide 4ft about seed arrays. Small oscillator fan to build stem hardiness.

However, in the last couple years, we just buy 1ft tall plants 4 pack for $1.75 from the Amish greenhouse plantation. None of that foucking around with spindly bullshît seedlings 1” tall.

I saw a story on this on the American Greed show yesterday. They said this is a way of life in Jamaica, and thousands of Jamaicans participate in scamming Americans. Some people have lost a hundred thousand dollars to these Jamaicans.

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U.S. NEWS AUG. 4, 2023 / 11:28 AM
Jamaican man pleads guilty to defrauding U.S. elderly people in fake lottery scam
By Doug Cunningham


Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A Jamaican national pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to defraud elderly victims in the United States using a fake lottery scheme.

Antony Linton Stewart, 39, of St. James Parish, Jamaica, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, the Justice Department said in a news release.

Conspiracy to commit wire fraud carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

"Stewart is the latest example in the department's ongoing efforts to root out and deter fraud from foreign locations that targets our most vulnerable consumers," Justice Department Civil Division head Brian M. Boynton said in a statement.

Stewart admitted in court documents that he used the phone to contact elderly victims and lied to them about winning lottery money. The scam worked by telling the victims they had to pay taxes on the "winnings."

At Stewart's direction the victims wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to people in both the United States and Jamaica. Those people served as intermediaries who then transmitted the money to Stewart.

"Each year, millions of older Americans suffer heavy financial losses in the hands of scammers operating in the United States and abroad," said U.S. Attorney Dena J. King for the Western District of North Carolina said in a statement. "Today's guilty plea underscores our efforts to investigate and bring to justice perpetrators of elder fraud schemes no matter where they originate."

It smells like cancer.

How does 97% compare to other crimes? Seems like a revolving door for other criminals too.

My solution is more medieval.

I catch the majority of my eater size freezer stocking catfish with nightcrawlers.

The habitual users around here know the risks of cartel grown pot...they either grow their own or buy from the old school hippy growers who smoke their own and produce a quality product.

Interesting. So you get multiple sprouts in one spot, leave them alone, and still get a full crop of zucchini?

If he wasn't his spirit couldn't be save at the coming of Christ. If a believer refuses to live holy and godly life then he is presently useless to God, he is still a child of God but gone astray. He will be dealt with by the Lord but he will be saved as through fire as mentioned in 1 Cor 3. He will also not reign with Christ in His kingdom as Paul warns Corinthians in chapter 6.

In Luke 15 the prodigal is a child of the father, he is a son before he departs into the world and he is a son after he repents. This is not a parable of unbeliever becoming saved but a believer who goes into the world for a time and lives a life of sin but then repents and confessed his sin and is welcomed by the father.