Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Welcome Sign Restored

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This is the newly-erected replacement for the “Welcome to Historic Wickenburg” sign at the west end of the south traffic circle just before entering the old historic section of town. It was knocked down several months ago by a dump truck with faulty hydraulics. The dump bed deployed suddenly just before the truck went under the sign. Nobody was hurt but it messed up traffic on US 93 and US 60 until crews cleaned up the mess.

We found out after the fact that the same dump truck that delivered the rocks for our landscape project was the one involved in the sign mishap. The contractor described to us how the driver was unaware of the problem until the sign came crashing down after a great thud.

Damsel took this photo as we exited the traffic circle after our trip to the range today. Click on the image to enlarge.

23 Dec 2011 by Arizona

Rat Poison Follow-Up

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You may recall that our two Min-Pins got into some rat poison on November 16th during our visit to the California House. We immediately took them to the California vet for treatment. The vet gave us a regimen to follow and sent treatment history and recommendations for our Arizona vet. Since then, we have been following the dosage of vitamin K-1 until last week when the medication stopped.

Today, we took them to the Arizona vet for their last visit and blood tests (we hope). After the exams, the vet told us that everything looked good and she would call us with the results from this last coagulation test. I’m sure that the little dogs will be much happier with fewer visits to the vet.

22 Dec 2011 by Critters

Christmas Flowers

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We’re still decorating for Christmas. Here is a close-up of a Christmas Bouquet currently showing in our office on my desk. We have our desks, computers, a little fridge, and a small entertainment center (radio, DVD player, small TV). We spend a lot of time in our office. Click on the image to enlarge.

21 Dec 2011 by Culture Holidays

Decorating the House for Christmas

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We bought several strings of Christmas lights when we moved to Arizona early this year. The novelty is that these are made from used shotgun shells. Sort of like recycling in a gun-friendly sort of way. I took a close-up of one of the shells and inset it in the image. Click to enlarge.

16 Dec 2011 by Arizona Culture Home & Garden

Football Playoff Season

football.gifOver the next several weeks, we will be enjoying football. The last three weeks of the NFL regular season is upon us with the playoff season after that. Additionally, college football bowl season is here with three games coming up on Saturday.

Most games will be played on television during prime time. Prime time is when we usually write our blog posts, so you can expect that we will be posting sporadically until after the Superbowl in February. That will be true on the other site as well.

15 Dec 2011 by Blogosphere Sports

Navy Forced to “Go Green” – Another O-Scam

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Editorial excerpt from IBD.

Jet Fuel-Gate Is Obama’s New Solyndra

Ecofanaticism: SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending. The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous $16 per gallon.

The massive Obama stimulus was supposed to generate millions of jobs, but the $535 million loan guarantee it gave to solar panel maker Solyndra on the eve of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy illustrated the fundamental incompetence of Obama’s neo-Keynesian economic ideology.

Now we find the Navy partnering with the Agriculture Department to purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of alternative biofuel in place of standard JP-5 fuel for Navy aircraft — the biggest federal purchase of biofuel ever.

It’s part of the White House’s “we can’t wait for Congress” strategy as the 2012 election year looms. But JP-5 typically costs less than $4 a gallon. If a family on a budget started filling up with $16-a-gallon gas, it might want to adopt the motto, “we can’t wait to go broke.”

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The biofuel will be used next summer by — we’re not making this up — “the Great Green Fleet Carrier Strike Force” in exercises near Hawaii. Mabus painted the picture of America’s great naval force advancing from sails to coal to diesel to nuclear, and now finally to biofuels. But if we keep starving the Navy, it may soon not have enough loose change to repair the sails on Old Ironsides.

Read the entire editorial.

14 Dec 2011 by Beltway Kabuki Degenerates Greenbats Whacko Politics

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