The Yard and the Pardon

Not much happening here.  Ride, work in the back yard, pick up rocks that are too heavy.  Stuff like that.  The previous owner had some hideous plants in pots, stacked on each other, with the plant in the lower pot being deader than a door nail.  So, we dragged one pot over to the other planting area and are in the process of breaking up the terracotta pots for disposal.  I think one pot per week will be going out until it's all gone.  There's also a pile of ugly pots behind the air conditioner that will have to be banished.  It looks much better out there.

This is the plant we dragged over to planting area one.  It's the best looking of the lot.  There are two plants in there, I don't know what either one of them are.

Maybe tomorrow I'll remember to take a picture of all of it.  That pot bottom left in the photo was one I wanted gone, but it's concrete and too heavy to get out to the curb.

This makes me sad.  The agave was planted too close to the Golden Barrels.  The barrels will get very large over time.  Some of them are just massive.  Agaves pup.  You can't see them all, but there are five pups under the smaller agave, which is a pup of the biggest one.  The entire side yard is full of pups.  Anyway, someone is going to have to go.  Either the barrels or the agaves that are adjacent because they will run into each other.  I'm deferring, maybe one of them will die voluntarily.

A bougainvillea.

This is in one of the neighborhood cul de sacs.  It took some doing to construct this.  Look at the house in the back ground.  An extension is being built to it.  My theory is that they need structure to which they can attach sun shades.  The backs of those houses face due west, and I believe they suffer a lot in the summer.

The other day I came across an article about who is the best science fiction character.  Oddly enough, it was Murder Bot.  Murder Bot is a series written by Martha Wells, and has a permanent place in my Kindle library.  There is a substack on the subject, which I enjoyed reading, and you might, too, even if you don't read science fiction.

Now I will discuss President Biden's pardon of Hunter.  I am glad he did it.  Kash Patel, who has been nominated to be director of the FBI has been on record as saying he wanted to investigate Hunter for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.  Basically, the new administration planned to pick up the investigations of Hunter that Rep. Comer has carried out with zero results.  It's an interesting pardon.  WAPO had this to say about it.

Biden didn’t just pardon his son for his convictions on tax and gun charges, but for any “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024.”

That’s a nearly 11-year period during which any federal crime Hunter Biden might have committed — and there are none we are aware of beyond what has already been adjudicated — can’t be prosecuted. It notably covers when he was appointed to the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014 all the way through Sunday, well after the crimes for which he was prosecuted.

The republicans, of course, are all up in their hair about this.  Many democrats are, too, claiming this will embolden the orange menace to start pardoning people.  Hello?  What did he do on the way out of the White House, he was pardoning everybody.  So, yes, President Biden originally said he wouldn't, but with these nutbags coming into power, I'm very glad he did it.

It you would like to know more about Hegseth, the nominee for Secretary of Defense play the Youtube.

Every single appointment he has announced is of an unqualified person.  I saw a number published that the net worth of the people named is around $9 billion (with a b).  These people are there to get richer, screw the public.

This is an interesting photo.  It compares where a cold travels to in a rat's body, vs Covid.  They are not the same.

Other than this, I have not too much to say.