55 Replies to “How was your day?”

    1. You’d only need a couple of Jack Russell Terriers. They would turn it up to 11, two shakes and a toss, on to the next one. It is eye opening the amount of violence these dogs can bring when necessary.

  2. Where is a Pied Piper when you need one. Maybe we could send Justin down there and he could lead them all down the Rabbit Hole just as he’s doing with Canadians.

      1. Nah. It has to be either Trump’s or Harper’s fault.

    1. Bulk grain as I understand it is basically remove it from the plants and then sell it/shift it as quickly as possible so it is someone else’s problem.
      So if you are a farmer you are storing it from a couple of days total out of the entire year, so piling it up in a covered shed is – normally – perfectly fine.
      I understand stowing it in a bunker like this also drastically reduces the risk of a grain dust explosion.
      I did some VERY limited (read – Two shifts) ‘unskilled labour’ work with bulk grain at the docks earlier this century (hey, $$ is $$) and piling the grain in massive mountains and then covering with an equally massive tarp until the grain was ready for export seemed to be standard practice.

  9. So how was your day?
    We have a gas situation on the American East Coast.
    We have a civil war unfolding in Israel.
    We have a rising mutiny within the armed forces an France.
    We have a breakdown of law and order in Washington and Oregon.
    We have a border crisis on America’s southern border.
    We have an upcoming fuel crisis in Ontario.
    Let’s not forget about the pandemic and globull warming.

    Annddd to top that list off there is not one leader in the Western world that has the ability to recognize the danger we’re in much less offer a solution to any of the above problems.

    2. But, but, but.

      They are all hard at work to solve the Global Climate Catastrophe. ™

      Net zero, baby – 2050 or bust.

    4. Reminds me of the late 1970s.
      Line-ups for gas.
      Hopeless, gormless Democrat President in office.
      Inflation just starting to rear its ugly head.
      Hated Liberals destroying western Canada.
      We need Reagan, not Trump.

      1. You use what you have, while you try to get whatever better what you can get. Reagan is dead.

  10. Closer to home, a local 31 year old police officer answered a domestic violence call in a sh***ole neighborhood in my city and was shot to death by the man of the house. Who was then tackled by a neighbor and shot dead by another officer. There’s a Best Buy and a Target nearby so just at twilight we await developments

  14. I hate meeces to pieces

    To a Mouse,

    Robert Burns – 1759-1796

    On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785.

    Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
    O’ what a panic’s in thy breastie!
    Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
    Wi’ bickering brattle!
    I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
    Wi’ murdering pattle.

    I’m truly sorry man’s dominion
    Has broken Nature’s social union,
    An’ justifies that ill opinion,
    Which maks thee startle
    At me, thy poor, earth-born companion
    An’ fellow mortal!

    I doubt na’ whyles, but thou may thieve;
    What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
    A daimen icker in a thrave
    ‘S a sma’ request:
    I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
    And never miss’t!

    Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
    It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
    An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
    O’ foggage green!
    An’ bleak December’s win’s ensuin,
    Baith snell and keen!

    Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
    An’ weary winter comin fast,
    An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
    Thou thought to dwell,
    Till crash! the cruel coulter past
    Out thro’ thy cell.

    That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
    Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
    Now thou’s turned out, for a’ thy trouble,
    But house or hald,
    To thole the winter’s sleety dribble,
    An’ cranreuch cauld.

    But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
    In proving foresight may be vain:
    The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men,
    Gang aft a-gley,
    An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
    For promis’d joy.

    Still thou are blest, compared wi’ me!
    The present only toucheth thee:
    But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
    On prospects drear!
    An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
    I guess an’ fear!

  15. So how does one correct a problem of that magnitude? Poison everywhere? Torch it to the ground??

    2. I’m thinking “flamethrowers”, but for the potential of explosions. A slower solution would be sacrificing the crop by poisoning the fuck out of it. And then leaving rat poison out in a broad [probably unsuccessful] attempt at controlling the population at large, until sufficient predators can be brought in to take care of it.

    1. “Where are snakes when you need them?”

      Saw a documentary a few years back about this. There were so many mice in Australia that year that they were invading the underground lairs of the snakes in the winter and actually *eating them* as they hibernated..which of course only made the situation worse in following years.

      Australia. Cane toads, rabbits, wild dogs, mice…living proof that you just don’t want to mess with Mother Nature.

      1. Australia is the anti-humanest of the continents. It hates everyone with a deadly resolve.

  18. I remember when we were kids scooping up a few mice in the granaries and throwing them outside for the hungry cats crunch crunch crunch. But this is enough to leave even the most ardent mouser with ptsd.

  19. I wonder if they have tried ultra-sonics around the granary. Any farmers know if that might work?

    1. I think you’re looking at a Terminator armed with frickin’ lasers here, or a phased plasma rifle in the forty watt range.

      Maybe a really big microwave to cook the little bastiges all at once. That’s a hell of a pile of rodents right there.

      2. Actually, the microwave (or similar) idea might actually work. Don’t know what the collateral damage might be though.

  20. Reminds me of moving or re-basing grain elevators when I worked for the wheat pool in college. When you jacked them up, thousands of mice would pour out of them from underneath, it would look like the ground was liquid. Most had red eyes and I don’t think had ever seen daylight.

    Stuff of nightmares.

  22. Dump the grain and the rats into bags and ship it to the Commie Chinese. They will think they screwed us out of a lot of rat protein and commie fur coats. Hopefully the rats are carrying the Bubonic bacillus.

  23. What eats mice here? Coyotes, wolves, foxes, dogs, cats, various birds (crows, magpies, butcher birds, hawks, falcons, …), weasels, various snakes, … . Basically, anything and everything higher in the food chain.

    What did they get rid of that is no longer clearing out their food chain? Did their wind power really do that to all of their birds? Did they really do that?

    1. The worst thing about poison, is that goes up the food chain. So you are killing all the predators before their numbers can explode to take care of the problem for you. It’s why dad and I always preferred to shoot ground squirrels rather than poison.

  24. *
    “How was your day?”

    it’s all relative… isn’t it?

    “IDF kills 4 Islamic Jihad, Hamas commanders
    in targeted strikes in Gaza.”

    TIMES OF ISRAEL:

    ‘Kristallnacht in Lod’

    Eruptions of Arab violence across Israel; Lod mayor
    describes ‘civil war’ in Jewish-Arab city, army sent
    in as police chief calls situation unprecedented.

    *

  25. I don’t know what grain that is, but I wonder how many hundreds/thousands of mice get caught up in it when it’s hauled to wherever it gets handled and turned into flour, feed or ?? Hopefully they screen it first.

    1. Screening mice out of grain wouldn’t be the problem. Mouse droppings from grain is another problem altogether.

      Of course, one might consider the little black bits to be “processed grain”, which is accurate, and label appropriately. End of problem.

      My mother wouldn’t let us eat uncooked flour, dough, batter, etc. At the time, we didn’t think to ask why. Thanks Mom.

  26. Fora moment I thought this was footage from Emergent BioSolutions.
    Then I realized that these were much much smaller than the 17″ Norway rats Baltimore is famous for.
    Now there is a bunch of unusable vaccine coming from there. I imagine it would kill this population in no time.
    Oops! My bad. That’s going to Canada.

  27. I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit, its the only way to be sure…

  29. They’re going to have to change the warning on the Beyond Meat packaging. “May contain nuts, soy, or mouse.”

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