A couple days ago I whipped up this shepherds bread in the dutch oven, and we finally finished off the last of it today. I think I'm going to do it again next weekend. The smell alone is worth the effort.

"Let's get this straight. We're going to be 'gifted' with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?"

From the Gartman letter.

Some Sunday color from the homestead.

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It looks like at least a foot of new snow fell from that last storm that just blew through. Here at our house in the valley it rained so hard that the dogs got scared by the sound and hid themselves in the closet.

The below picture was taken on the 24th.

Here is the view this morning. Check out how much more of Half Dome was obscured by the new snow.

If you only read one hunting story this month, read this one. It's the tale of a nine day hunt down by Douglas, Arizona. Also, note that the hunt was made with a Ruger no. 1 single shot chambered in .357 magnum, a true sportsman's choice.

Look at the size of the paw on that cat. I'd hate to have that big boy scratching at the back door at night.

Also, note how the color of the lion's fur perfectly matches the desert environment. Great camouflage from mother nature.

Here is the lion's lair. High desert rim rock country is bleak but beautiful.

A dog loving young cowboy.

Simply cool picture of a waterspout at sea.

Saturday porch pictures.

St Louis has lost 8% of it's population over the past decade. I wonder why? Could it be that it is another Democrat run hell hole? Why yes, it is.

Let's turn the whole US in to the same thing, shall we? Let's keep Obamacare, high taxes, huge public employee unions feeding at the expense of a declining number of taxpayers, large illegal immigration of people hostile to our values, and who can be trusted to vote Democratic. Let's belittle and marginalize those who have traditional values, and let's have a media that will cover up all the mistakes of this crazy ideology, and lie about everyone who challenges it. Yeah, all of that.

Will we ever learn?

While Teddy kills Sasquatch and Khadafi kills his country; while the Middle East burns, and while the Iranians deliver missiles to Hezbollah, President O and the Mrs. will host a party and concert at the White House to celebrate the music of Motown.

Priorities!!

Hope and Change .... that you can believe in!

Meanwhile, Obama's ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, chooses to miss an urgent Security Council meeting on the chaos in Libya and the general unrest in the Middle East. I guess that it isn't so important what is happening in that part of the world, even considering the number one export from this region that is absolutely essential to the economies of the developed world!

Party on!

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! To bad we don't have a president like Teddy now, instead of the neutered metrosexual occupant seat warmer Obama. If TR was in charge, you could forget about problems with pirates, Arabs, oil sheiks, Venezuelan grandees, or the like. You know that TR eats what he kills, and that forest fire ... to TR that's just exactly what he needs for a barbeque.

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The comments to a post on an SEIU site goes terribly wrong. Maybe it had something to do with the violent music they were promoting? It must be that new civility thing.

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The original Right Stuff on display right here!

Back on February 20th, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to circle the Earth in the Friendship 7 spacecraft, as part of NASA's Mercury program.

Here are the boys going through survival training in the Nevada desert, wearing clothing they made out of their parachutes. You might recognize from the movie the names, from left to right, of Gordo Cooper, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, and Deke Slayton.

This shows John Glenn climbing into the capsule. The duct tape on the window must have given him confidence, along with the ten prior canceled flights! Notice as well the tiny, claustrophobic door. Not much room to escape if necessary.

Glenn made three successful orbits at 17,500 miles per hour, and was the third human (two Russians beat us to it) to circle the Earth in space. If any of you have kids, did their school mention any of this? Probably not, and too bad for that.

After his successful flight, the crew got together in this picture for a bit of celebration.

Left to right, Carpenter, Slayton, Glenn, Grissom, Shepard and Schirra.

It's springlike here in the country, although I can't imagine we will go long before another storm sweeps through.

While the sun is shining, the dog decides it's time to roll in the sweet green grass.

If it's not too wet that is.

The 15 year old decided that it was time to wear his hairy leggings ... otherwise known as the ghillie suit he got for Christmas.

This rose hip looked about as much like an apple as it could.