Election day and attempting to make hay

Two things that are depressing in life...

Watching the election cycle and making hay when you know it is going to probably rain in five days...

The election is predictable doom and so is rain at hay season.

I cut 25 acres of meadow foxtail and timothy hay yesterday. Some of it was so heavy I cut at 3.5 mph with a 150hp tractor. CaseIH DC103 mower which is 10 foot cut.

I added up the acres left and realized we have over 200 acres of grass hay to do. I probably should say "I" as the nephew has other things to do. Like welding stuff in the shop and combining and driving truck and delivering hay.  Its not like I can just send him off to cut and then fart around the shop anymore. 

I can't do 20 acres and then wait a week for a good weather forecast, I need to cut 20 acres every day so  there is always material to bale. 

The elections always go badly. I voted for Trump because I despised the alternatives. I voted for local candidates not because I liked their ideas or claimed policies but because I despised the alternatives.

So you just get further behind in politics and the hay will be crappy.

I have been listing to the radio. This is a mistake. I started "Dune," on Audible and I should stick with that. I was also listening to a Carl Jung book about repressed memories and how the mind manipulates itself to cover trauma. That was too depressing... I do not want to remember my alien abduction. (Or do I???)

But, I digress...

I find the Trump/Conservative Police State attack on Thomas Massie and their promotion of Ed Gallrein pretty depressing. They are lying about Massie who has consistently voted for conservative issues but has stood against big bills with sketchy things hidden in them, and Trump's troubling promotion of spending, surveillance/secrecy and bone headed foreign policy moves.

Honesty, Donald Trump campaigned on opposition to the CIA and the "deepstate," and the CIA and the "DeepState" got him into an unwinnable war with the most insane people on the planet. Of course it could be true that Iran almost had the bomb and "was weeks away..." But looking at the totally fabricated reasons we got into nearly every conflict since World War Eleven, I am going to be a bit skeptical. 

It is interesting to see Gun Owners of America and the NRA are not supporting Gallrein. Gallrein is establishment security state Republican, typical big farmer douche, and he will tow the line for the donations.

Interesting that Massie is getting a lot of support from young conservatives. But the Republican party has never known what to do with young conservatives and that goes all the way back to the Rush Limbaugh on talk radio days and the royal screwing the Bush clan gave us. 

Now I will say this is all open for debate. What really angers me is the character assassination directed at Massie. It is fine to attack if you are pro Big Government, tax and spend, War Hawk, Security State, and so on. But, don't say he is the worst guy ever or make up crap about his girlfriends or lie about his voting record which according to the scorecard put out by the Heritage Action center for this session, he is at a 92 percent while the average House Republican is at 85. They have his lifetime score at 83 percent but I have to go work on hay so no more commentary.

Looking forward to local elections, will two more lunatics join the Yamhill County board of Commissioners or will it just one crazy vs two sort of conservative people with big ideas that will never fly?

Either way we are getting a bicycle trail... 

I am applying hay preservative. I should have done it when I cut as the stems have probably closed by now and I am only getting it on top of the windrow. But it makes me feel better. I am using a preservative that is lactobacillus in a molasses base so I just dumped in a lot more molasses and declared my program a success. Perception is reality!