Camera Girl with her hawk eye spotted a group of turkeys walking through the forest. So, I took my trusty Sony A7 IV and my Minolta 200mm f/4 macro lens with Sony LA-EA5 adapter and flashed off fifty shots of the uncouth looking modern dinosaurs. I’ll work on them later but here’s a representative jpg.
I guessing the turkeys are looking for food before the big freeze down happens tomorrow. We’ll be dropping thirty degrees down into negative single digits tomorrow night. This should be a good test of the supposedly repaired heating system we live with. A really annoying aspect of the “repair” is that the suction fan has a vibration that is very audible in the living room. I’ll have to become an acoustical engineer and figure out where some fireproof acoustical insulation will solve that problem. Oh, the joys of owning a very unorthodox house.
I looked up the name for a group of turkeys. It’s called either a gang or a rafter. A rafter sounds like an architectural term whereas gang captures some of the disreputable and disorganized facets of the behavior of a bunch of dopey birds. And that immediately got me thinking of the Republican lawmakers. They’re a gang of fat, stupid and disorganized bird-brained followers who couldn’t shoot fish in a barrel. I think of them because things are going so horribly for the Democrats and Biden that it must be about time for those losers that are supposedly on our side of the fence to help the Democrats out by missing some opportunity to kick them while they’re down. Already that dope Cruz was yapping about how the January 6th farce was a terrorist attack. I used to like him but what is wrong with him if he says something stupid like that. It’s the unforced errors that drive me crazy with these “friends” of ours.
The biggest surprise of 2021 was Joe Manchin stabbing the Dems in the back. It was wholly unforeseen and miraculously potent. Combined with the COVID revolt, it has poleaxed Biden’s presidency good and proper. But I’m waiting for our Manchin. I’m assuming it will be Romney. He’s a sniveling coward who loves to play the principled man of honor when he knows it will get him the spot light. But with the disarray on the left maybe we’ll be spared until the midterms when with any luck they’ll lose the Senate along with the House.
I wonder how long it will take the Supreme Court to make up their minds about the vaccine mandates. I confess I’m pretty excited about a win there. That also means I’ll be very disappointed if they fink on us and throw in with the Fauci fascists. But things seem to be going our way on this in the public opinion field. People are waking up to the fact that these vaccines are at best useless and at worst a very dangerous thing to do to young and healthy people. Anyone with children and grandchildren should be paying close attention to the information on both efficacy and safety. These drugs would never have been approved on a normal testing basis by the FDA.
So, stay warm this week. The Polar Express will be coming through and providing a good excuse to stay warm and watch some old movies or read a good book. I’ve been managing to put the time to good use writing. I produced about five thousand words of prose in the last two or three days. Not bad. Of course, I’ve still got seventy or eighty thousand words to go. But Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Watch out for those turkeys, winged or otherwise.