Monthly Archives: September 2025

cannabis, homegrown, pictures

& c, & c…

so, naturally, last night we had the first real hard rain — which makes me REALLY glad i put up the canopy last week! seriously… phew! — and so i decided not to wait until “tomorrow” (which is now today) to harvest the two that i had finished manicuring yesterday, so, at 22:00 i was out, with my headlamp, harvesting plants and moving the rest of them around, under the canopy, so that they were less likely to get wet if the corners failed… and getting thoroughly wet in the process of clearing water from the edges of the canopy so that the canopy would be less LIKELY to fail…

and then, today, i finished manicuring the remaining plant that did NOT come from bellingham, and decided that it was ready to harvest, so i harvested it, which now means that 5 of the 9 outside plants are in the bag. the remaining 4 plants are ones that came from bellingham — they are the plants you can actually see in the photo, the two paper markers in the photo are the two space queen plants that i harvested last week… it strikes me a little strange that the plants that i started from seed are already harvested, and the plants that were starts at the same time that i was starting the others from seed, are now the plants that i figure could use another month, more-or-less, before they’re even ready for harvest.

250924 -- a ten-foot-tall cannabis plant
250924 — a ten-foot-tall cannabis plant
actually, it’s not that strange: the space queen seeds were one of the most vigorous plants i have EVER seen — i have an 11″x17″ fan leaf from one of the space queen plants, laminated on my wall — and so it’s not surprising that they’re eager to flower, as well… 🤷

also, there’s the start which i got from darol, that i gave to tracy, my next-door neighbour, who planted it outside and, basically, ignored it… and it grew, and grew, and grew, AND GREW, AND GREW!! 😲 that is a six-foot security fence, and the plant TOWERS over it! i don’t know what he’s planning on doing with it, especially now that the rains have started, but it is, literally, the cannabis plant that ate chicago!! 🤣👹

forward into the past, hats, homegrown, nursery, TIMMAH!, weird

nursery update &c…

of my “outside” plants, i now have two harvested plants — the two space queen plants, which were started from seed in april — plus two plants that will most likely be harvested tomorrow, one plant that is currently being manicured and will probably be harvested within the next couple of weeks, and four plants from darol, which still have a month, more or less, to go before they’re ready for harvest. i also have two plants in the nursery which just started flowering in the past week, and three baby clones in the light booth (the fourth one didn’t make it). the plants in the nursery and the light booth are all clones of the most vigourous of the space queen plants which are the first two harvested plants. this is the primary reason i want to keep this strain going: space queen is one of my favourite strains, and it hit-or-miss whether any of the local dispensaries carry it… plus, then i would have to pay for it, whereas growing it at home means free weed!

😉

the electrical SNAFU in the shed is still there, and i still don’t know what i’m going to do about it.

😒

in other news, recently i received a text message from my mother-in-law, asking if i knew of a way to produce fire from your fingertips. back when i was a stage magician (in other words, 50+ years ago), i learned about this stage effect where you point at a lit candle and a 3-to-4-foot-long tongue of flame leaps out of your fingertips. this is produced by a special powder called “dragons’ breath” (technically, it is “lycopodium powder” which is the dried spores of “clubmoss“) which, at the time, was ONLY available from magic shops, places that specialised in stage effects, and specialised chemical supply places… of course, NOW you can buy it wholesale from amazon… 😮 it is delivered from “MiniScience”, which is one of the aforementioned “specialised chemical supply places”, but they advertise on amazon, and if you know what to look for, it’s there… i told my mother-in-law about it, but she wasn’t interested, because she was looking for “safe” fire from your fingertips. 🙄 my take on her desires are that it’s either “safe” or it’s “fire-from-your-fingertips”, but it probably is NOT both. so, naturally, i bought some, and soon i will have a little foofer that blows dragons’ breath… and, i will be one step closer to re-creating the character of Tim The Magician, from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. 😈

along the same lines, i have been playing around with needle-felting cat fur, and my hat, because, while i ABSOLUTELY LOVE my hat, it has never been EXACTLY what i wanted, because it is one colour, and i wanted there to be lighter coloured patches and spots… and, what do you know, timmy’s fur is IDEAL for needle-felting, and he’s already got a WHOLE BUNCH of it that has already fallen out, or been brushed off. i’ve designated a special box for wads of cat fur, for future needle-felting projects. 😉

articles, i am a terrorist, political, politics

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five ‘Aryan’ Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

BERLIN, Feb. 3, 1939 — Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five “Aryan” actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich’s Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless” and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the “society rabble that followed them with thundering applause — parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence.”

As regards the details of the “crimes” of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler’s monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most — although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it — is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders—sometimes with bon mots that made the rounds of the country.

Dr. Goebbels says that the National Socialists proved during their struggle for power that they had a keen sense of humor that could kill opponents with ridicule. But as National Socialism proposes to remain in power 2,000 years it has neither the time nor the patience to apply that method to the “miserable literati.”

If the anti-German press of Paris, London and New York, Dr. Goebbels says, or the democratic governments in Western Europe, should now again complain about the lack of freedom of opinion in Germany it does not matter, “for after all during the last year the Fuehrer reconquered 10,000,000 Germans for the Reich.”

nursery, pictures

approaching another decision point, and others

so i THINK i’ve got the spider mites under control, and i’m pretty sure that three out of the four clones that i started are actually going to take, but there are problems that keep creeping into the equation and i’m not sure whether it would be better to deal with them now, or put them off for another season or two…

basically, my big problem is that i need to re-wire the shed, so that i can install at least two new outlet boxes, one inside the nursery, and one outside. then — actually, at the same time — i need to install some sort of ventilation with a fan that is on the same timer as the lights.

problems arise when “we” can’t afford a “proper” electrician, because we’re still figuring out how to deal with the heat-pump that is too small for the size of the space. which means that, if we want to pay for it, it will have to be out of the “hybrid elephant” account, and i’m not sure i can classify re-wiring my nursery as a “business expense”.

fortunately, there’s another option. apparently thaddeus has a fair amount of experience re-wiring houses, and so he’s going to come by and see if he can advise me what to do.

there were at least three other subjects i wanted to talk about, but i can’t remember what they were, at this point, so, instead, i will post pictures of a walk i took today to sdukʷalbixʷ falls. maybe i’ll remember what the other stuff was later on.

250916 - henry under the bridge
250916 – henry under the bridge

this guy is a friend of a number of friends of mine, but i’ve yet to meet him. his artwork is all signed “henry”, and he has a project going, where he’s painting 1000 sasquatch heads in various places… i’ve seen a bunch of them, but i’d be willing to bet that not very many people have seen this one, because it’s UNDER a bridge in a VERY REMOTE area… i.e. an ideal place for a graffiti artist to place his work (and there were quite a few other graffiti artists who had worked under the same bridge) and have it last for decades.

250916 - sdukʷalbixʷ falls from the east, looking west
250916 – sdukʷalbixʷ falls from the east, looking west
250916 - DANGER! Sdukʷalbixʷ Falls Ahead 1200 Feet
250916 – DANGER! Sdukʷalbixʷ Falls Ahead 1200 Feet
250916 - sdukʷalbixʷ falls from the west, looking east
250916 – sdukʷalbixʷ falls from the west, looking east

i actually went to the sdukʷalbixʷ falls lodge — a TREMENDOUSLY upper-crust place which has changed its name to the somewhat-more-politically-correct “salish” lodge, these days — for breakfast, when i was a kid — probably before we moved to new york, so some time before 1968 — my recollection is that it may have been to celebrate my 8th birthday, which was also the one where my cub scout troop was on the J.P. Patches’ show. all i remember of it was that it was in a huge, fancy dining hall with towering roof beams and a view of the falls, which was just a trickle, because it was july, when the river was low. back then it was a fairly long drive from wherever it was that we were living in seattle to this REMOTE place. today it’s about 20 minutes from my house, and it’s a place that i can go whenever i want… AS LONG AS i don’t want to eat at the lodge, because, today, it’s PROHIBITIVELY expensive, and you have to make a reservation six months in advance.

nursery, ron zeising

the nursery… 😒

well, i moved four plants into the nursery on sunday and they didn’t even last a week before i moved them outside, again, this afternoon. 😒

there are two major problems. one is that the two clones have developed spider-mites, and the other is that i REALLY need to put some ventilation into the nursery, because with six plants and two grow-lights, it is developing a MAJOR moisture problem which, without proper ventilation, WILL develop into a MAJOR MOLD problem.

so, i moved the four formerly outdoor plants back outdoors, under the canopy, and trimmed off all the cruft, dead leaves, moldy bits, and too-tiny not-quite buds, so now they LOOK a lot more appetizing, and i treated the indoor clones to a healthy dusting of diatomaceous earth, and now i’ve got to hope for the best, because the weather-guessers are saying that it’s going to rain within the next few days. inside the nursery, i hung up a curtain, left the door open, and put in another fan, but the fan is a temporary stop-gap, because it’s over the rating for the junction-box on the end of an extension cord that runs from a ground-fault-interrupt circuit from the back of the house (thanks to the former owner of the house 😒) and is not on its own circuit, as it should be… and before ANY more modification is made to the wiring, INCLUDING adding ventilation, i HAVE TO re-wire the entire shed, so that it is on its own circuit… and re-wiring the shed is PROBABLY going to have to wait until AFTER we deal with the heat pump in the house — which, when we bought the house, was sold to us as the “latest-and-greatest” HVAC available, but, it turns out, is TOO SMALL for the size of house we have… THANKS TO THE FORMER OWNER OF THE HOUSE 😠 (who never used it, and ONLY installed it because it was the “latest-and-greatest”, which meant that he could sell the house for more money) 😠🙄

when my father-in-law was still alive, he was someone i could have counted on to help me re-wire the shed, because he was a certified electrician, but… it’s possible that my next door neighbour may have a clue — he’s a “certified handy-man”, and a certified plumber — but i don’t know…

cannabis, homegrown, nursery, pictures

the nursery

so, i have 9 outdoor plants, including two space queen seedlings from april, that have been flowering since june 21st, and two space queen clones which have been vegetating since june 21st — which is a little too long, but i only realised that yesterday… 😐

so, i put the new nursery into full effect today: i moved the light-proof booth out of the nursery, put the two clones under flowering lights, and (at the same time) created four NEW clones, which are now in the light-proof booth, under vegetative lights.

and, since the weather-guessers were significantly WRONG yesterday (they guessed that there wouldn’t be any precipitation at all, in reality, there was a thunder-storm that lasted most of the night), i also moved four outdoor plants (which were complaining about the rain) into the nursery, so now i have two DIFFERENT crops under flowering lights. fortunately, the light-cycle for flowering is the same for everyone: 12 hours of light, and 12 hours of complete darkness.

the schedule for flowering is a little different for indoor plants compared to outdoor plants: exclusively outdoor plants take about 6 months from seedling to harvest, whereas exclusively indoor plants take 4 to 5 months… which means that there is, by necessity, going to be some wrangling and confusion while i move from outdoor growing to indoor growing. but, as i mentioned to moe, yesterday, the difference will be doing more work on the outdoor plants, for a relatively short period of time, followed by doing no work at all for half the year, whereas indoor plants take less work, but it’s stretched out throughout the year, producing more consistent crops, more regularly.

250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis flowers
250906 cannabis consumer
250906 cannabis consumer

this is to help me remember what the schedule is, more than anything else. the reason why i let the two clones go as long as i did was because i wasn’t sure how long they should be under vegetative lights. hopefully i’ll do better the next time around. 😉

anxiety, depression, frustration, noose, pictures, the beach

noose

250902 - copalis beach paraidolia
250902 – copalis beach paraidolia
the news has not been good for so long. 😢 the country is getting more and more fascist, there is nothing i, as an individual, can do about it, and there is, essentially, nothing that i, as a part of a group, can do about it that will make a significant difference, in what is left of my lifetime.

which has NOT been good for my mental health. 😒

i have, once again, “given up” on the news. i’ve taken all of my news-related RSS feeds (what passes for the newspaper, these days), and put them in a folder called “noose”.

actually, i did this earlier in the year, because when i went to OCF, and had NO RSS feeds, i came home and the “noose” folder didn’t even get opened for a couple weeks.

moe and i went to the beach, recently. our friends ross and leanna have an air-bnb house south of moclips, at copalis beach, and we spent two and a half days there: i flew my kite, moe flew her kite, we ran dogs until they were so worn out that TODAY — a day later — they STILL have their speed-knobs turned down by AT LEAST 50%, and, significantly, there was NO “noose”.

it wasn’t long enough to get me into the same head-space that i was in after OCF, but it was enough to make me realise that “noose” is going to be the death of me, in a very real sense, if i don’t do something to change it.

so, i have, once again, “given up” on the “noose”.

250904 - yellow-legged meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum
250904 – yellow-legged meadowhawk Sympetrum vicinum