What Cheered You Up Today? (6 Viewers)

[Greg Boeser]

Woo hoo! Property taxes only going up 11% this year. Last year it was 36%
Solid waste charge doubled.
Maybe they can afford to start filling in these potholes.

 

[SaparotRob]

Putin will admit he was wrong all along before that happens.

 

[Viking1066]

Course 4 is now closed and done. Only one more to go.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I will take and post pics of our current season as circumstances allow. The bluebonnets line the country lane leading me home ... when this time of year arrives, I think of it as the "Royal Road".

From the last two weeks.

One side of the Royal Road, with bluebonnets and nerve daisies:

A close-up of our state flower:

Nevada blue-eyed grass:

Ox-eye daisies and Indian paintbrush:

The ox-eye daisies have seized the high ground, while the bluebonnets guard a couple of sullen prisoners:

 

[Viking1066]

Words of wisdom and the pictures to portray it.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Those bluebonnets look very similar to a lupine but in miniature.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Those bluebonnets look very similar to a lupine but in miniature.

I had to look up lupines, thanks for the lead. They are all of the same genus, according to Wiki:

Bluebonnet is a name given to any of a number of purple-flowered or blue-flowered species of the genus Lupinus predominantly found in southwestern United States and is collectively the state flower of Texas. The shape of the petals on the flower resembles the bonnet worn by pioneer women to shield them from the sun.[1] Species often called bluebonnets include:

• Lupinus argenteus, silvery lupine
• Lupinus concinnus, Bajada lupine
• Lupinus havardii, Big Bend bluebonnet or Chisos bluebonnet
• Lupinus perennis, wild lupine or blue lupine
• Lupinus plattensis, Nebraska lupine
• Lupinus subcarnosus, sandyland bluebonnet or buffalo clover
• Lupinus texensis, Texas bluebonnet or Texas lupine

 

[N4521U]

The above pictures, and the fact I did wake up today!
Nuttin else!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

The above pictures, and the fact I did wake up today!
Nuttin else!

If you can get up out of bed under your own steam, that's half the goddamned battle.

 

[N4521U]

If you can get up out of bed under your own steam, that's half the goddamned battle.

yes, took a while

 

[DBII]

From the last two weeks.

One side of the Royal Road, with bluebonnets and nerve daisies:

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A close-up of our state flower:

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Nevada blue-eyed grass:

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Ox-eye daisies and Indian paintbrush:

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The ox-eye daisies have seized the high ground, while the bluebonnets guard a couple of sullen prisoners:

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We are the Bluebonnet state.

 

[DBII]

It has been many years since I was an Russian specialist with the army. Somewhere I have filed away a list of all the countries that has either attacked or invaded Russia and the territory. It is rather long and includes the US. Fast internet search shows 6 major invasions since the 13th century.

This list goes back further than the Russian Imperial government into ancient times. Interesting history. There was a saying, Scratch as Rus find a Tartar. Russia went through a period like the Anglos, Saxon, Normans and Vikings and kept fighting each other, stilling each other's land and interbreeding.

Like China, there is a long history of invasion and overthrown governments. This is one of the reasons Eastern Europe was need as a buffer zone from the west. Along with the economics of occupation.

This has lead to a paranoid population and a constant large standing military. The Russians are chess players and the US is poker players. The Russians use deception plans to hide what they are really doing. In this case, they tried to trick the world into thinking they were still a military power. Now they are the poker players and don't know what to do next.

Hope I have shared something new and not bored everyone with something they all ready know.

 

[DBII]

Looks like I posted on the wrong thread. Sorry guys.

 

[fubar57]

I liked it. Delete your words and add what I do when I mis-post

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

It has been many years since I was an Russian specialist with the army. Somewhere I have filed away a list of all the countries that has either attacked or invaded Russia and the territory. It is rather long and includes the US. Fast internet search shows 6 major invasions since the 13th century.

This list goes back further than the Russian Imperial government into ancient times. Interesting history. There was a saying, Scratch as Rus find a Tartar. Russia went through a period like the Anglos, Saxon, Normans and Vikings and kept fighting each other, stilling each other's land and interbreeding.

Like China, there is a long history of invasion and overthrown governments. This is one of the reasons Eastern Europe was need as a buffer zone from the west. Along with the economics of occupation.

This has lead to a paranoid population and a constant large standing military. The Russians are chess players and the US is poker players. The Russians use deception plans to hide what they are really doing. In this case, they tried to trick the world into thinking they were still a military power. Now they are the poker players and don't know what to do next.

Hope I have shared something new and not bored everyone with something they all ready know.

Damn, that was pretty cheerful!

ETA: yeah, probably the wrong thread, done that, no harm no foul.

 

[rochie]

re started my cardio routine today after many months of not keeping it up, i didnt die or even pass out !

 

[SaparotRob]

A bacon for cardio.

 

[Bucksnort101]

Woohoo.

 

[SaparotRob]

I just checked back on this thread. The crappy-a55ed Wi-Fi here didn't give the bacon that I thought I gave!

 

[at6]

The Wi-Fi ate it.