One wild turkey hen and 7 poults today. They're not keen on my brushy yard, preferring to graze and forage in groomed lawns. Definitely urban turkeys.
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One wild turkey hen and 7 poults today. They're not keen on my brushy yard, preferring to graze and forage in groomed lawns. Definitely urban turkeys.
Champagne & fireworks 🎇🥂🍾🎇
Can we all file a class action suit against the federal government for the increased prices we've had to pay on things from groceries to home improvements to vehicles due to Trump's illegal tariffs?
All while making sure he got more federal contracts.
At least he hasn't told them to shoot people ...that we know of.
Cleaned the gutters in between huge downpours, now it's time for a giant mug of hot chocolate. #Boise
A Sachem Skipper (Atalopedes campestris) dining on Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) in my pollinator garden. Pearly Everlasting is a drought tolerant native Idaho plant. #Boise #insects #plants #pollinators
Is it common evening primrose? I just found this great article on culinary uses. commonsensehome.com/common-eveni...
Post pictures of your primrose.👍
Normally, a Rocky Mountain Bee Plant gets to be around 4 feet tall. Mine is over 7 feet. It resembles a small flowering tree, although it's an herbaceous annual. I'm 5'2", and can't reach the top of it. It's native to the Midwest Prairie and Western US. Humming birds love it! Super drought tolerant.
I think the pie is better chilled than warmed up. Great for breakfast with a coffee.
Mix all ingredients, then put dabs of butter in pie (I put the butter in dabs on top of custard mixture, not in the custard mixture) Bake at 400 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes.
Recipe Page: Rhubarb Custard Pie Ingredients - 3 eggs beaten 3 Tbsp. milk 2 c. sugar 1/4 c. flour 3/4 tsp. nutmeg 4 c. Rhubarb cut up (quarter to half-inch pieces) 1 Tbsp. Butter 1 crust
Here's a dessert for you. Rhubarb Custard pie. Really good, tangy and sweet. I love rhubarb. A friend sent it to me. I didn't peel the rhubarb, just cut it & mixed it into the custard. Gonna make it again this week & see how it works as Peach Custard pie. Going to arrange peaches on top of custard.
Got it from Pottery Barn. It's made by Campania International.
The cement has good texture for little bird feet to grip, and bowl edges are about an inch thick.
Make that about an inch and a half deep. Doesn't go up to my second knuckle on my index finger.
Top and middle basins are only 2" deep. I've got a shallow birdbath as well.
Took a while to find a smallish fountain that still held some water, kept some up top for birds, didn't cost my life savings, was sturdy, and didn't sound like a toilet that won't stop running. So many of the echo bowl fountains sounded like someone needed to hire a plumber, or jiggle the handle.
My new little fountain in the pollinator garden is up and running. Sounds great. Hope the birds like it.
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It was a turkey conveyor belt out front today. #Boise
Doing my everyday best to make sure I never add to the Cyber truck bottom line.
Testing the seal on my new little garden fountain. Looking forward to seeing if the birds like it.
Wow! Trump must REALLY be in the #EpsteinFiles. www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-...
Be careful, or Trump may find a swimming pool to drain into the Smithsonian.
Those were so cool!
one guy even tried to give us a sandwich
How is it that everybody in the line can hold still for a picture but Trump is turning left and right?
Keep in mind that National Guard members, that are leaving their families and jobs to go stand around in D.C. and California for Trump, are likely getting less pay as active deployment than at their regular jobs, so they and their families are losing money.
High-rise orb-weaver spider, web is about 5 feet wide, and 3 floors up, catching a pretty big breeze. #Boise Idaho high wire acts.
Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.
The ICE agent may well have a gluten allergy, having a sandwich thrown at him is hazardous to his health.
Kinda surprised Trump's NSF form considers Italian as being white. Figured he'd have limited it to northern European ancestry only.
Arrest Putin.
Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) nectaring on my Narrowleaf Milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis), w/a Furrow Bee (Halictus spp.) flying in for a meal in 2nd picture. These 👍wasps are non-aggressive, digging tunnels & placing paralyzed insects in the holes, laying a wasp egg on them. #idaho
Those eyes❤️
Bought a print by David Oravez, a prof I had in college. It was his estate sale, he died in 2020. It's a woodblock of farmworkers titled "Migrants". He was one of the kindest professors. He felt everyone had value & was a lifeline, listening & helping when I was an exhausted student at a low point.
27th anniversary today. Looking forward to many adventures ahead.
The Viceroy has a solid black line across the lower middle of the hindwing. Monarchs don't have that single black line, instead having a discal cell shaped like an elongated mitten on the hindwing.
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom
A good friend to have.
It's probably the same guys in the Penske truck, just stopped to change uniforms first.
Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points: •Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus •Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus. web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
Ya don't see this in every airport.
Our doctor recommended the fall Covid booster.
Ratibida Columnifera - Prairie Coneflower, by the Pathfinder Dam on the North Platt River, elevation 5,846 ft in Carbon County, Wyoming, south of Casper, Aug. 2, 2025. It's an arid area, higher elevation.
The Bureau of Prisons waved Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender registry charge that makes her ineligible for minimum security in order to transfer her to a minimum security prison in Texas.
A male cat-faced spiders (Araneus gemmoides) joined me on the patio this morning for coffee. His abdomen has 2 cat-ear like points. The male's abdomen is considerably smaller than the female's & his pedipalps have a distinctive bulb shape. They're great spiders, found outdoors, often in a round web.
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
He may or may not have gone to the island, but he certainly frequented Epstein's Manhattan townhouse & office, & they got together at Mar-a-Lago and likely at Epstein's Palm Beach townhouse. He also flew on Epstein's plane with girls & Epstein visited Trump's office, & likely flew on Trump's plane.
The writer says this study noted an impact the moon has on nighttime temp. Granted, I just brushed through quickly, but couldn't find anything, let me know if you do. I've never read anything that would substantiate that a full moon increases nighttime temp. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
4,725 suspicious wires totaling over $1.5 billion to just one of Epstein's many bank accounts must be investigated. Congress must follow the money to find the answers behind Epstein's child trafficking. Thank you @wyden.senate.gov, please keep fighting for transparency.
Trump administration is touting the 100 people that were discussed with Maxwell. What about the one specific person they would make sure she won't discuss, who happens to be mentioned in the Epstein files, and Epstein took the 5th when asked if he'd partied with this individual and females under 18?
By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.
White-lined Sphinx Moth, (Hyles lineata) bouncing around the giant soapwort (Saponaria x lempergii 'Max Frei') that's blooming prolifically around the border of my flowerbeds. My phone had trouble catching the picture, so I resortsed to using the flash. It just kept eating, not minding the light.
The Forest Service claims it has reached 99% of its firefighting hiring goal. Internal data obtained by ProPublica shows that characterization is dangerously misleading. By @abestreep.bsky.social
A little bit of good news! This spring, Montana became the first state in the country to establish a continuous source for wildlife crossings. 🥳 By: Sophie Tsairis montanafreepress.org/2025/07/22/m...
Waiting for the resurrection of the birth certificate smokescreen.
Don't put water on them or they multiply.
25 poults and three hens in this flock of turkeys hanging out on Dewey and 18th in Boise. The poults are strewn out, and relaxing across the width of the paved driveway and down the gravel alley on their lazy summer morning.
This is when Bondi's minions tell Maxwell that if she talks, they'll make things harder on her, and if she keeps quiet they'll get her a pardon on Trump's way out. Look away people. Nothing to see here.
They are so amazing 💙
Check out Errementari, also known as The Blacksmith and the Devil. Great movie.
It's nauseating.
Rum Raisin ice cream is the only acceptable culinary use for raisins.
Who hasn't thought about strutting about in a tank top and no pants. The ultimate summer comfort.
Visited the sarus crane (Antigone antigone) at Zoo Boise. She's gorgeous. They brought a male crane in from another zoo, but she wasn't impressed, so they sent him packing. Hope they finally find her a mate she likes, I'd love to see her in a courtship dance, throwing feathers and leaves in the air.
Trip to Zoo Boise yesterday. The Pied Crow, (Corvus albus) has always struck me from some angles as a black crow in a white tank top.
Sad that I instinctively knew who you were referring to before seeing the post you were responding to. Gabbard never changes.
Schumer lacks the spine necessary to push a shutdown for the Epstein files.
It’s a cover up.
Prairie Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus) is blooming in my backyard. It's a biannual; can seed prolifically. Debating letting it go to seed. Some consider it a weed. Think I'll let it go this yr. Contemplating turning a good portion of the backyard into a native plant area like I did w/the front yard.
Enigma is an anagram for gamine, a French word for young girl on the streets that is is alluring. I can completely see Epstein using that as a sly code for all of the young girls he was trafficking. Not hard to see that he could have shared that meaning with Trump.
🥬🫑🧅 600,000 kits and lots of love! Over three years into our response in Ukraine, our teams have distributed 600,000+ "borsch kits," with beets, cabbage, and other veggies that Ukrainian families love. These kits have become a tradition, and they have helped cook countless meals. #ChefsForUkraine
Bribery works every time😉
I'd assume from the umbrella, this isn't the mailman's first run-in with these three hooligans.
A local North End mailman has had to resort to an umbrella forcefield to fend off the fighter squadron of wild turkey jakes here in #Boise. These 3 jakes were not letting up on him, circling. If your mail is late, be understanding. The mailman has been through some things. I asked if he needed help.
You deserve to kick back and relax now.
Which was built better, this patio wall or the wall in the attic?
The freeze could threaten 16.5% of Idaho’s federal education funding, according to the Learning Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. Only four states and the District of Columbia face deeper funding cuts. #idleg #idaho www.idahoednews.org/top-news/fed...
Looks like Robie Creek area saw a lot of rain.
Be alert #Boise and Treasure Valley. Bad thunderstorm moving in from the south, with gusting winds between 50 mph and 55 mph, and lighting. Wildfire alert for the mountains. First pic is WeatherBug radar pic for 9 pm. Second is NWS Boise warning. Third is the sky above me now.
It looks like there's zero peripheral view out of it. Check extra well before crossing the street. Upside, might be good for foiling facial recognition.
Blinders
I clicked. The next ad I got was Neiman Marcus.
Does the hat come in tinfoil?
I just got an ad on Facebook for Saks Fifth Ave. This PRADA straw visor is $2,600. First of all, this is the stupidest thing I've seen, and is more than many people's monthly mortgage. Secondly, people that can already afford to waste money on it are getting a new massive Federal tax break.
He's still talking about adding a ballroom. Bet it'll go there.
what are the astrix on his statement regarding the supposed no taxes on Social Security benefits?
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Borrow pit along State Street, Idaho Highway 44, thick with Common Teasel, (Dipsacaceae, Teasel family), Cattail (Typha latifoliaand), some Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum). Cattail is the only native plant.
Hand them the raw ingredients to dinner and see what they do.
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
This is tons of fun, enviably well-written, and absolutely worth your precious time. Fun. Good. Worth it. So read it.
It's a journey, but you have a map. Thinking about you guys. Hugs.
Cloudy out tonight, July 3rd, 2025, in #Boise, Idaho. Can still see some stars peeking out as the breeze blows the clouds by, one after another.
GOP is going to gut #Medicaid, but pushed the date for cuts till after the midterms so impacts won't be felt till after people vote. Dems need to get messaging out to make sure they aren't blamed for impacts of #GOPMedicaidCuts if they manage to take back the House & Senate. GOP will shift blame.
