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Title: Hey Horse!
Source: Esso
URL Source: http://freedom4um.com
Published: Aug 2, 2025
Author: Esso/Pacman/Cap'n Brandon
Post Date: 2025-08-02 17:43:54 by Esso
Keywords: None
Views: 19076
Comments: 57

Can you tell me what's going on with my jalapeno plant out front?

For the second year, my plant in front of my house, with a southern exposure (Full sun) is producing small fruit and almost all of them are red.

The plant is healthy, probably three foot tall. I get my start from a gypsy joint in New Haven every year and I don't remember this problem before. I still use them to cook with, but can they be getting too much sun or something?

They're in a planter about a foot deep and may get pretty hot with the weather lately. I'm pretty good about watering them and fertilizing with Miracle-Gro and 12-12-12 when I transplant them.

My 'Big Boy' tomato plant on the north corner of my garage towards the east is doing great, but is in the ground. It's as tall as Kimmy now and has a ton of fruit on it. The first two 'maters were small (between a golf ball and tennis ball), but the start had two blossoms on it when I got it around Mother's Day.

I'm really curious as to what's going on. Give a brother a hand if you can.

I used to do a big garden when I was married before the accident, but I can't do that anymore, I'm too banged up, man.

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#1. To: Esso (#0)

The nitrogen you are using seems excessive, if you are using the same pot and soil year to year all your fertilizer levels are probably very high. Is the planter mobile? What color are the leaves?

Looks like one of the chickens that hatched in March is laying; a tiny 36-gram olive colored egg.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-02   20:28:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: ghostrider, 4um (#1)

The nitrogen you are using seems excessive...

Not likely, the farmer that taught me that was a swingin' dick. It might 10-10-10, but that's just from the git.

Is the planter mobile?

Negative. There's a 3 x 3 staircase on the front of my house. The planters start at the edges and end at the outer end of the stairs, a foot deep.

What color are the leaves?

Nominal green.

Looks like one of the chickens that hatched in March is laying...

I want wolves and sheep on my .375 acre. The city of Fort Wayne has something else to say about that.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-02   20:41:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Esso (#2)

I think I would look at replacing the soil in the planter unless you can sweet talk one of the ag students at the college to test it with recommended corrections. I keep my birds at an airport that was an air taxi service, only one plane fling/hangered there now, though yesterday there was a plane I'd never seen before doing touch and goes while we were putting the chickens up for the night. The place is literally crawling with cayote, bob cat, fox (gray) racoons etc. Not as many hawks this year and there was no black buzzard migration last fall. One of the deer had a fawn, got a bunch of pictures of her when she was pregnant and her with the fawn.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-02   21:15:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Esso (#0)

I have a theoretical knowledge of gardening which is why when I start a homesteading collective I will be recruiting experienced gardeners at least half my age.

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2025-08-02   21:52:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Horse, Esso (#4) (Edited)

I have a theoretical knowledge of gardening which is why when I start a homesteading collective I will be recruiting experienced gardeners at least half my age.

How many 30- to 40-year-olds have any practical experience at growing a garden or even how to sprout seeds?

Those single line of green beans will barely produce enough for a few meals in most locations. I was using a Troy-Bilt tiller and recommended wide rows which would produce much more veggies.

It takes a lot of planning to grow a garden. I had tomato trellises that form a triangle and you would place it around the plant. The tendrils of the plant would grab onto the wires and grow up inside the trellis. This way the tomatoes would not lie on the ground and rot.

I offered soil testing back in the 70s when I was doing custom garden tilling. One customer when I told them they needed blood and bone meal for Nitrogen and Phosphorus, they refused to allow me to add those amenities because they were vegetarians.

I told them they were not eating the blood and bone and that it broke down to release Nitrogen and Phosphorus. But they would not listen. I had to make substitutions.

I used Sphagnum Peat for Nitrogen. I told them they needed to wait two weeks to plant seeds since the peat robs Nitrogen when it starts to decay and then releases it back later. No telling how that affected their seed bed if the rain shower matted down the seed bed before they got to plant seeds. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-03   19:44:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: BTP Holdings (#5)

It takes a lot of planning to grow a garden. I had tomato trellises that form a triangle and you would place it around the plant. The tendrils of the plant would grab onto the wires and grow up inside the trellis. This way the tomatoes would not lie on the ground and rot.

I got some sort of vine that started drilling into the exterior brickwork of my house so I kicked at them until they fell away, then I kicked at them a little more until they were coiled safely away in the rocks.

I think it's some sort of Holly, but I am negative on anything that burrows, be it mortar or mud.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-03   19:53:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Dakmar (#6)

some sort of Holly

According to Wiki, Holly can be an invasive species. ;)

Holly

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-03   20:12:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: BTP Holdings (#7)

Damn, almost every shrub on the property has thorny leaves like that. The vine thingy has very distinctive five leaf per node, which made me think of like Christmas holly.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-03   20:22:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Dakmar (#6)

Those vines are very common here, they get into any openings, mortar and windows and the associated screenage. Much holly in Virginia makes a natural blind from whence to waylay turkeys, they have thorns at the end of the leaf tips. Used as an ornamental in these parts but not very common I've only seen it on the south side of Corpus. Lot of chinaberry trees and live oaks, they have green leaves year-round and drop leaves year-round. Waste of time raking leaves until after the mast.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-03   20:56:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Dakmar (#8)

five leaf per node

That sounds a lot like Virginia creeper. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-05   17:26:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: BTP Holdings (#10)

I got a gander at Queen Anne's lace, she could use a shave.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-05   18:59:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: BTP Holdings, ghostrider, Esso (#10)

It is this, just no berries yet. I am sure they will appear soon. I am just going to cut/kill it, it grows really fast despite my token efforts, but mostly it sends little tendrils into masonry, I can't have that.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-05   19:18:05 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Dakmar (#12)

Cutting won't kill it, compare the price of wood seal and concentrate weed killer. Spray on at full strength, a cheapy hand pump sprayer will work for either, throw the pump away when finished. Only other thing is dig down until you can pull out the root system be thankful it's not kudzu any root pieces left in the ground become new plants.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-05   21:43:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: ghostrider (#13)

Plan is to use big pruners to cut vines and slather Bonide Vine & Stump Killer on the freshly cut holly stemstumps still open amputations.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-05   21:51:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: ghostrider, Esso, BTP Holdings (#13)

Something similar to this has been flying around my back yard all afternoon. I think it's what was hanging out on the step yesterday, except the one out here had a fatter all white abdomen and the lifting surfaces of the wings were small squares, so overall the thing looked like a cross between a checkered flag and a box kite.

The one today is fascinating, it is in complete control of its movements but will sometimes just float on the air seemingly out of the pure joy of being able to do so.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-06   17:54:18 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Dakmar, 4um (#15)

I used to call them dragon flies as a kid. I have some around once in awhile.

For the last couple years, not this year, I had a monarch butterfly that would keep me company when I was in the garage smoking.

I don't open the garage much anymore since the feds told me not to give Satan behind me any free shots.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   18:30:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Esso (#16)

I got plenty of the smaller blue dragonflies, I'm telling you this thing is the size of a baby hummingbird, I can sight track it all the way out to the trees.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-06   18:48:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Esso (#16)

I had a monarch butterfly that would keep me company when I was in the garage smoking.

Better than a bluejay battering you because that wasn't their brand.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-06   18:50:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Dakmar (#18)

Better than a bluejay battering you because that wasn't their brand.

Me and Marla saw a bluejay on top of the fence chowing down a sparrow or something several years ago.

I didn't know they were carnivores.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   18:59:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Esso (#19)

Bluejays are mean, I've seen them attack cats. Years ago there was a nest of them nearby, they would perch on the chain link fence and say awful things to me. :)

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-06   19:07:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Dakmar (#15)

They eat mosquitoes good bugs to have around.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-06   19:11:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: ghostrider (#21) (Edited)

I had a bunch of baby birds about a month ago, tiny little things, I think they were either bluebirds or some sort of sparrow, but there were 2 to 3 dozen of them in view during their visit. It was like watching a WWI dogfight scene on acid, all of them learning to hunt. Then they were gone.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-06   19:20:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Esso, Dakmar (#19)

I've seen hummingbirds take turns picking off gnats that are clustered, they would rotate in and out between five of them. Saw a sea gull make a cat do a midair 360 dive bombing it.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-06   19:20:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: ghostrider (#23) (Edited)

They sit on the utility lines, will take off to a very small perimeter (a few feet, they do this several times a minute) and land right back where they were. Enough gnats alone back there for them to get fat on.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-06   19:24:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Dakmar (#24)

This has my PTSD acting up.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   19:50:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: All (#25)

I'm in the middle of a deal about four metal roofs.

The guy thinks he's going to pressure me by showing up on Friday.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   20:12:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Dakmar (#20)

The ones I was familiar with said awful things about me.

ghostrider  posted on  2025-08-06   20:32:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Dakmar, 4um (#26)

I'm in the middle of a deal about four metal roofs.

Chris across the street may be about to get get the full lowdown about what I used to do between 1980-1995, other than working for an 'international engineering company'.

My wife, my mother and my step-dad and Chris and the late-Angie never knew the truth.

You want cash, check, bullion what? You got to carry weapons because you always cash.

Believe what you want about me, the less the better. I never did anything not sanctioned by The Company.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   20:45:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: All (#28)

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   20:55:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: All (#26)

The guy thinks he's going to pressure me by showing up on Friday.

I'm gonna have so much fun Friday except the 0830 thing.

I hope it's a young punk, I'll have him shitting himself.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   21:09:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: All (#30)

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   21:15:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: All (#31) (Edited)

This reminds me of being in London with Punk. I'm the translucent guy in the background. That was a long time ago...

The east end of a west end girl.

Due to prostate problems, my new Smurf code-name is now "Blue Trickle."

I'm a grower, not a shower.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   21:21:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Esso (#2)

wolves and sheep

The sheep herders in SW Missouri are having problems with Coyotes. Several gang up on a sheep and bring it down. I think they are we offering a bounty on Coyote pelts. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-06   21:36:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: BTP Holdings, Horse (#33)

My older sister that worked at the US Steel Gary Works moving hot coils plant-to-plant told me about coyotes in the parking lot. That cracked me up I envisioned Wile E. Coyete.

She was an owner-operator at the start, OTR, with an old Autocar rig. I think she's 68 or 69 now with health problems that she wants Dr. Kimmy to fix long distance.

I told her to DM Horse, he knows more than any physician would know inc. Kimmy.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   21:57:00 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: All (#34) (Edited)

Kimmy and me have a deal when we get together, she's in the killing zone with hospital group protocols, I'm retired.

We don't talk much.

It took us 47 years to get our shit squared away. We don't talk too much.

(Edit) We get to see each other for about 16 waking hours per week. Clot-shots and Vladimir Putin don't get much time in the mix. She loves me for my cooking. And Dakmar.

I can appreciate Kim liking Dak for his intellect, but race mixing is BS.

Dak's as black as my old S-10. j/k, I've never seen him, he's camera shy.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   22:11:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Dakmar (#35)

Badmouth ping.

I'm kidding, Dak says he's white, I believe him.

Kimmy's the problem, she's actually Jasmine Crockett.

I only got mixed up with her because of her last name, like Sonny Crockett on "Miami Vice".

I hope I don't have to do that with Kim.

Dak, you pondered about me having enough friends to know 22 that clot- shotted out.

Angie had 260+ lines on her funeral (Celebration-of-Life) guest register. I thought Chris was overreacting when he said parking was gonna be a problem.

I'm glad my ex-wife came and got me and held my hand for that deal. Thar was the hardest "celebration of life" since my father's in 1976 on my 15th birthday.

I'm a pussy now, but a rich one.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-06   23:18:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: All (#36)

Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-07   0:23:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: All (#37) (Edited)

My girls...

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-07   4:56:42 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Kimmy, 4um (#38)

Poor sad little gal...

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-07   5:08:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Dakmar, 4um (#39)

$100 seemed excessive for a BJ at the flying J truckstop in NH.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-07   5:27:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Esso (#35)

I had a chance to see Marty Robbins before he passed away and I didn't get to go. :-/

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-08   19:48:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Esso (#32) (Edited)

a long time ago

You are very lucky to have those memories. ,)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-14   21:12:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Dakmar (#15)

Dragonflies are good to have around since they eat mosquito larvae. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-26   16:34:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: BTP Holdings (#43)

I am still trying to figure out which variety of dragonfly set me off in this quest. I've seen thousands upon dragonflies even in my life, but this thing had wings like a box kite with apparently clear membranes constituting the remaining lift required by laws of fluid dynamics to navigate without direct regard to Earth's gravity.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-26   19:01:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Dakmar (#44) (Edited)

dragonflies

You could say the same about hummingbirds. Their metabolism is so high they ne we d to feed every few minutes.

I was sitting on a bench out front by a neighbor. There was Cardinal flower blooming next to the bench.

A female Roufous hummingbird swooped in to sip nectar from the flower.

It sure was not afraid of me. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-08-27   20:49:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: BTP Holdings, Dakmar, 4um (#45)

I was going to say something to you dorks, but I went out in the garage to have a smoke and forgot.

I had a Monarch butterfly that visited me for a couple summers, but the feds told me not to give the kook behind me that thinks he's Satan a free shot by keeping my garage door open. Guns & drugs, the FWPD is involved as a bad guys. My sister saw it a couple years ago, she couldn't believe it.

I only open the side door that's not in line-of-sight. There's a little wild bunny that sits between the house and the arborvitaes that keeps tabs on me now that Angie died. It might be her.

I should put out some lettuce or fruit or something.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-27   21:47:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Esso (#46)

Dorks? Let's get one thing straight, Esso, I am not a dork, I am a geek!

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-28   18:32:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Esso, BTP Holdings (#47) (Edited)

Actually, I am more of a dweeb, BTP seems to fill the geek genre better than I.

Just kidding BTP, trying to get another concert security story out of you. :)

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-28   20:10:46 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: Dakmar (#47)

I just found out I'm having company tonight. I forgot about Labor Day. I hope she's up for a ride to Kroger in the Clown Car tomorrow morning. Wow, two whole days together.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-29   16:31:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: Esso (#49)

I did a roadtrip to Michigan this morning, for provisions you understand. Had a nice time conversing with store clerk about how smart Michigan is with laissez-faire attitude toward boutique agricultural fare. He confirmed my suspicion that even though said products are legal in Illinois, the latter charges so much in taxes that anyone from that horrid cesspool within 100 miles of Michigan votes with their dollar and kicks into the Wolverine collection plate.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-08-30   16:43:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: Dakmar (#50) (Edited)

Also no penis...

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-08-30   18:39:27 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: Esso (#29)

My ex-partner in Chicago kept the $100s on the outside of the wad. I think he was a show off. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-09-06   20:51:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: Esso (#51)

Go to hell, Esso, I shouldn't have to unsee that mess, nigger.

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-09-06   21:04:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Dakmar (#48) (Edited)

We were working this Grunge show on the north side at Rosemont. This is the kind of show that guys wear black lipstick.

They didn't sell the seats behind the stage. When the band was gfoing off stage this guy jumped the rail in the corner behind Stage Left and starts running along the front row of the dead seats.

I paralleled him down below. He tried too jump thru the rail. I came around the corner and stucc my left arm up. When he hit my arm, the glasses he was wearing went to the tip of his nose and his cap went over his eyes.

My boss was standing on the opposite rear corner of the stage. When he saw thet he said, "That was an all-pro move."

Ho told the whole crew I clotheslined a guy that tried to jjump on top of the bannd.

That guy was so far thru the rail if I would have taken my arm away he would've fallen n his head.

We had a guy above the ramp by the black curtain which was back stage entry. He came down the stairs and grabbed the guy up and took him thru the curtain. He tld him, "This is as close as you're going to get to back stage. Show's over. Go home."

Or like they tell you at the bars, "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here." ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-09-06   21:50:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: BTP Holdings (#54)

An "All Pro" move, lol. Professional security is being paid for exactly that!

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2025-09-06   21:56:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Dakmar (#53)

Go to hell, Esso, I shouldn't have to unsee that mess, nigger.

Wait until your prostate flakes out, faggot.

“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy…
but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”

Esso  posted on  2025-09-08   2:54:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: Dakmar (#55)

Professional security is being paid

Those shows paid around $35 a night and it wasn't wroth letting anyone kick my ass, so I did not let them do it.

I was pretty tough. One of the guys I work with now told me he wouldn't have wanted to mess with me back in the day. )

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2025-09-10   18:26:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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