Suddenly you can sense that people are rushing to get their bit of summer before it’s gone.\u00a0 Folks are streaming onto the roads to reach the beach and up to the lakes and mountains.\u00a0 But this year we aren’t doing much travelling.\u00a0 Just a few day trips.\u00a0 So I’ll enjoy the quiet for the next week or so.\u00a0 I’ll start putting together my fall maintenance list.\u00a0 There’s always plenty to get repaired before winter sets in.\u00a0 In fact I never get everything done.\u00a0 I’m much too lazy for that.<\/p>\n
I’m seeing the early growing plants begin to die and the goldenrod is taking over from them.\u00a0 The trees have more and more yellow leaves on their branches and the bugs are going through their last stages.\u00a0 The butterflies are starting to look very tattered, the dragonflies are wearing out too.\u00a0 A difference from most years, there aren’t as many bees as there should be.\u00a0 Maybe all that rain took its toll somehow.<\/p>\n
I packed up the Sony rental gear; the A7R IV A camera and the LA-EA5 adapter.\u00a0 I’ll put out a final long report with all of my observations and conclusions.\u00a0 It turned out I learned a lot of important stuff.\u00a0 And some of it wasn’t things I was looking for.\u00a0 I’ll start using the continuous autofocus a lot more than I used to.\u00a0 It comes in very handy for things I didn’t expect.\u00a0 And I have new found respect for the 200-600mm Sony lens.\u00a0 It is much sharper for close-up stuff than I expected.<\/p>\n
The political world is a shambles.\u00a0 But that’s not news.\u00a0 What will be interesting is how Ron DeSantis uses his current high visibility and growing popularity.\u00a0 What goes on with the schools will be very important.\u00a0 If they can tame the teachers’ unions in Florida that will bode well for ending the COVID scam once and for all.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan is an object lesson on what happens when the United States abuses its armed forces and indulges in political theater.\u00a0 Short of nuking the Pashtun areas of Pakistan we were never going to control the Taliban.\u00a0 Why we’re there ten years after bin Laden was executed is just another indication that the people in charge don’t know what they’re doing.\u00a0 But let this be a lesson for all of us.\u00a0 Never trust anyone named Bush or Cheney.<\/p>\n
Well, gotta go cut the grass.\u00a0 stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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