This is likely only the beginning. Popcorn? Hell, I’m ready for pizza and beer!

My best to you and yours, Lew

LEW HERE: Here’s some interesting information I found on the web about HAMAR in a 2018 Military & Aerospace Electronics article. Humm, is this another play on words by the Dems? HAMMER doesn’t exist (but Hamar does? lol)

HAMAR chooses Kontron computer board to qualify secure information gateway

Trusted computing experts at RECAB Embedded Computers AB in Hamar, Norway, needed a single-board computer to qualify the company’s secure information gateway using VPX technology. They found their solution from Kontron in Augsburg, Germany.

Trusted computing experts at RECAB Embedded Computers AB in Hamar, Norway, needed a single-board computer to qualify the company’s secure information gateway using VPX technology. They found their solution from Kontron in Augsburg, Germany.

HAMAR designers chose the Kontron VX3052 single-board computer to qualify the data gateway. The Kontron VX3052 computer board, designed on a multilayer computer architecture of three-slot single board computers interfaced to each other by an independent data link.

The 3U VPX architecture supporting 10-Giga­bit Ethernet brings performance to the gateway, and supports the maintenance capability that RECAB needs for the integrated secure information gateway.

RECAB has been in charge of the 3U VPX secure information gateway system architecture, and overall system design, including the 3U VPX backplane and of the integration of the computer boards and removable drives.

The VX3052 is a two-core and four-thread Intel D-1508 single-board computer with on-board soldered DDR4 SDRAM which features two 10-Gigabit Ethernet Base-KR as well as two 1-Gigabit Ethernet Base T interfaces.

Kontron answers digital security requirements at board level with hardware-enforced root of trust with a dual secure elements, and software-only techniques such as secure boot.

“The certification of secure information gateway systems using Kontron 3U VPX has motivated our customers to adopt such a versatile technology,” says Bjørn Espen Aase, managing director at RECAB. “The Kontron VX3052 features the right balance of processing and communication for secure embedded systems.” For more information, contact Kontron online at www.kontron.com, or RECAB Embedded Computers at http://recab.com.

link to JUNE 2018 ARTICLE ABOVE:

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16707191/hamar-chooses-kontron-computer-board-to-qualify-secure-information-gateway

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START WATCHING OANN (ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK) MOST OF THE LAME STEAM MEDIA IS WORKING WITH THOSE AGAINST AMERICA AND YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WITHOUT THE TRUTH WHICH HAS BEEN CONCEALED FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC! YOU CAN’T TRUST FORMER NEWS SOURCES TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION! YOU MUST RESEARCH FOR YOURSELF AND A GOOD PLACE TO START IS OANN. GET THE BASIC INFORMATION THEN CHASE IT DOWN FOR THE TRUTH AND HOW DEMOCRATS HAVE MISREPRESENTED INFORMATION.

So if this is the same “Hammer” and “Scorecard” (HAMAR & SCORECARD) some say has been used to manipulate votes in our election in favor of Left Socialist Dem Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, doesn’t that mean we’ve essentially turned our 2020 Presidential Election over to advanced “qualifying” computer equipment produced by Norway and Germany?

Sounds a lot like the Chinese Communist Party having their PRIOR control over USA medicines and medical supplies before OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP TOOK ACTION yeah? (CCP controlled not only the bio-weapon (COVID-19) released upon the world but the needed medical supplies as well)

Some say Norway is essentially a socialist country.

Some say Germany is also essentially a socialist country.

WHAT THE HELL HAVE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR ELITIST HIGH TECH AMERICAN SUPPORTERS BEEN UP TO WITH THIS “GLOBAL MARKET”?

This is going to be very illuminating as to what Democrat leadership in America actually is. Trump’s comments about treason months ago were absolutely correct!

You know, all this reminds me of the LDPCSD and why no one seems to care that Peter Kampa and the LDPCSD Board of Directors secretly (with the help of Deep State Activists within the CA State Water Board and other State Agencies/Departments/Divisions, etc, and other benefiting private conspirators) attempted [AND ALMOST SUCCEEDED] in REPLACING the AUTHENTIC 1978 WATER LICENSE 11395 PLACE OF USE MAP for Merced River Water on file with the CA STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD WITH KAMPA’S digital FAKE POU MAP which was illegally expanding water service while legal customers of the district paid for this betrayal with misused PUBLIC FUNDS! (Don’t forget the misappropriation of GOVERNMENT GRANT FUNDS to develop those extremely expensive groundwater wells to provide water service for annexations Kampa set up 20 years earlier before being caught and resigning for operating outside the scope and performance of this duties back then! Then Danny Johnson and Emery Ross brought Kampa back in 2014 to finish the fraud by developing the infrastructure to supply the water – and MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCO amended maps to assist in this deception! Kampa simply resigns again leaving the legal ratepayers with malfunctioning expensive groundwater wells and a legal boundary mess to pursue the next CSD to exploit without ANY ACCOUNTABILITY! But no one cares…..why? Because those charged with regulating and enforcing the laws were directly involved with the fraud! Just like Democrats and this national election!

Always seems the “regular citizen, customer, taxpayer” always gets stuck with the bills for blatant corruption and misuse of funds while perpetrators walk away without any semblance of accountability.

My best to you and yours, Lew

GOOD DAY PATRIOTS!

Let’s start this beautiful morning (where ever you are it is a beautiful morning in the USA because the TRUTH IS SLOWLY COMING OUT about our 2020 Presidential Election) with some material I received from a highly trusted and respected source. An individual with an objective, ethical, common sense approach to such things. One who has militarily served his country for almost three decades with professional dedication and unwavering devotion. His honesty regarding the source of the material, as well as his personal opinion, are clearly expressed in the introductory sentence. But you’re not going to “get away” that easy.

LEW’s blah blah blah:

Make no mistake, America is at war with a malicious cancer of internal deceit and corruption which is far more difficult to combat than open aggression by a declared enemy state with the typical military weapons bloodshed and carnage. This enemy is truly the “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” who stealthily pursues its prey waiting for the perfect time to engage. Democrat wolves incorrectly believed the 2020 Election was the time.

These Socialist Left Democrats have pretended to be a part of our wonderfully diverse group of people called American Citizens for decades while actually attempting to destroy the United States of America which provides that HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER “American citizen” designation.

Think about it. The particular individual differences of our citizens are really irrelevant in this discussion because we are all united as citizens of this great country first. Race, religion, culture, sexual identity, etc. all is secondary to being an American. Our individual differences (which make us stronger as a people anyway) are of subordinate importance when compared to the political environment which PERMITS SUCH INDIVIDUALISM TO EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE. (Simple example: Would gay activists prefer to live in one of the many countries where they are actively discriminated against, persecuted and outright murdered because of their sexual identity? This is not to say everything in America is perfect for anyone – but our country does provide an umbrella of protection for many different beliefs, activities, relationships, etc. which are strenuously prohibited elsewhere.

That umbrella of protection is the US CONSTITUTION and Rule of Law. Something Socialist-Left-Democrats actively praise and wrongfully use while clothed in the comfort of “Sheep’s clothing” while simultaneously preparing to viciously devour the essence of America (Constitutional Rights-Rule of Law) through yet another extremely complicated hoax, sham, fraud – call it what you wish, of a US presidential election.

These “Democrats” (please do not confuse THESE UNEQUIVOCAL TRAITORS TO OUR COUNTRY with regular citizen Patriots who have been betrayed by their own corrupted political party and vote “democrat”) are one of the most dangerous enemies (if not THE MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY) this country has ever faced.

Without a full-on assault of our land and people with airplanes, tanks and guns by soldiers wearing uniforms, they have surreptitiously devised a plan where they think they will fool the American public and QUICKLY APPOINT THEIR OWN PRESIDENT (one with UNDENIABLY CLEAR UNETHICAL TIES TO THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY which brought us COVID-19 in perfect time for the election to further disrupt, confuse, frustrate AND CONTROL OUR LEGAL CITIZENS) in complete violation of the US Constitution and our Country’s Rule of Law.

Although these LEFTIST ENEMIES have the former trusted news sources in their LEFT POCKET, social media censors actively concealing the truth and pushing the Left Propaganda, high tech Left billionaires funding and executing election fraud with highly advanced computing hardware/software programs,…. HAVE FAITH! Truth and justice will inevitably rule supreme because American Patriots (representing every diverse group imaginable) will not allow America and her freedoms to be extinguished – IF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN SURVIVAL.

Think about it, whoever, whatever you know, think, believe you are or want to be as an American Citizen in this freedom loving country you have “skin in this game” and if this “GAME FOR AMERICA” is lost through a fraud of a national election ignoring CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF LAW – so are you, along with your beliefs and dreams.

STAND UP! DEMAND THIS ELECTION BE INVESTIGATED AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

OK, I’m done. It’s a tough verbal day anyway.

Here’s what I received:

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Don’t know the validity of this info, but if any of it can be proved this election is far from over. 

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Subject: MAKES SENSE ?…… Omg, every Trump supporter take the time to read this! Seriously, this was sent to me.. idk who originally wrote it..

10 days of darkness. We’ve read about this on the cue boards for years. There have been many times where many, including myself, have thought we were in it.

But all of us were wrong. Trump won the election. And then overnight, he had it stolen from him. We’ve had to watch the trolls dance on Trump’s metaphorical grave and celebrate the fall of America and the rise of socialism.

4 days later, plenty of proof of cheating, and they announce Joe Biden as the President Elect…projected, of course. I get messages every day from hurt Trump supporters who think what’s the use? We can’t win without cheating and we can’t stop them. And in the end, we still lost.

And where again is Bill Barr? Why hasn’t he gotten involved yet? Valid questions. What if I told you Trump wanted to lose? What if I told you that losing by way of cheating from the other side was the plan? It’s about exposure and optics.

Trump HAD to win in a landslide, and he did. So that the amount of cheating required for the Dems to win was so vast that it was impossible to hide it. Had Trump overcame like he did in 2016, there would have been no legal battle over it.

The lower courts would have thrown them out, like they are right now (except for PA). The Supreme Court wouldn’t have heard it since it was both left leaning and there wasn’t an emergency situation that involved national security.

But losing with a conservative lean in the courts, with mounds of evidence, was the play. Evidence that is impossible to deny. Now by the constitution, if the race is close, then Congress can decide the winner. This is why they cheated just enough to edge out a win for Biden so that if Trump challenged and couldn’t get a supreme court case, they could just decide in favor of Biden.

Stay with me…I know this is a long one. I’m going to clean it up for you in a bit. The Dems think they have the optics on this one by declaring Biden the winner. But here’s the thing…this race isn’t even over. Here’s why…

Patriot Joe M had his tweeter account suspended over this comment:

“Patriots, be warned. President Trump has legally ‘claimed’ the states he knows he won fairly. The counting going on is now just a formality because the intent is to settle in court, not at the counting stations. If he loses this count, it means nothing, because this election will be Amy Coney Barrett’s to decide. I promise ad guarantee you, Biden will never be sworn in as President.”

Twitter took him down hours later. Not the post, the entire account. What is he talking about? He used the key words “legally claimed” when referring to Trumps victory. In other words Trump will lose the election optically, but the court will say he won.

I know that sounds crazy to you but let me tell you why this is true. Biden won the count. Cheating or not he won the count. That’s a fact. But the states that kept accepting and counting ballots after the day of the election are in violation of their own state laws.

What? What am I talking about? PA…they have laws on the books that states that they cannot accept any new ballots that arrive AFTER the day of the election. Anything coming in afterward is invalid. Well, you’re thinking, “well the supreme court of PA overrode that law in a court ruling and gave them 3 more days to collect.”

And you would be right. But according to how the governmental system is set up, the courts can’t create law, they can only ENFORCE the law that is already on the books. In order for the state to follow the direction of the Supreme court of their state, they need to actually go back and rewrite the laws to REFLECT the courts decision.

People…every day is an IQ test because these bright souls didn’t do that. They NEVER rewrote the laws to make the states supreme court ruling legally binding. Well, what OTHER states were this careless and lazy with the legal process?

30 states. Over 30 states did the same thing and are violating their own laws by counting new votes after the day of the election. In other words, all these trucks coming in at 2 and 3 in the morning on the morning of November 4th and beyond are invalid.

Biden WON the count, but only because they kept counting invalid votes for days after the election ended. The Surpreme Court of the United States will not count those votes. And since Trump was in the lead when the election ended, he is the legitimate legal president.

This is why I kept telling you all that ACB was the Trump card. The NUCLEAR card would be martial law and mass arrests…but that’s a very dangerous call for the country. To win, legally in the court system, was the Trump card, people.

And while in the court they can unload all the evidence to show mass cheating. In Michigan. They discovered a glitch in the vote tally system. After votes were cast in one county, over 6000 votes for Trump “glitched” over into Biden votes. Glitched.

Well, this software was used in 47 other counties in Michigan…and used all over the COUNTRY. If they all averged the same number of vote glitches, that’s well into the MILLIONS of votes that were altered after cast.

Here is the interesting part. The ballot machines…were ALL connected to the internet. Yes, they are supposed to be to linked to inTRAnet…meaning internal computer networks of that one facility But they’re not supposed to be linked to the world wide web. Sydney Powell, General Flynn’s attorney, said that they discovered an algorithm that calculated how many votes Biden needed to win.

She said they found out the machines were transferring just enough votes from Trump to Biden so that he could win. That’s why they were doing “recounts” and we kept seeing Trumps numbers go down and Biden’s go up in various states.

Now here is the “you can’t make this stuff up” part. The software that the machines are using to tally up the votes is owned and controlled by Paul Pelosi. Yes…Nancy Pelosi’s husband. He not only sits ON the board of the software company that tallies the votes, he majority OWNER of it.

So these “glitches” that only “glitch” in one direction isn’t a glitch, it’s a computer program designed to do all of this without any of us knowing it. It does it so fast that we can’t even detect it during the actual counting.

This is how they were able to call states 10 minutes after the elections closed. The algorithm calculated a Biden win based on information they entered into the system. Patriots…if Sydney Powell has this information, you KNOW the DOJ does. And they probably have more that will come out in the Supreme Court hearings.

The DOJ. Where are they? They have the goods. They don’t need the courts to tell them to arrest, just the command from POTUS. Why are they so quiet?

10 days of darkness.

It wasn’t what we thought, people. It wasn’t 10 days of media blackout, 10 days of social media blackout…10 days of darkness to a period of time where cue went dark, the President lost the election, and it looks like were headed to a socialist government.

The DOJ…by constitutional law they can’t get involved with the election until…..10 days after election day. 10 days. The election was on November 3rd, by law they have to wait until the 14th to get involved.

It doesn’t mean they can’t make arrests. They can arrest some small time players that were involved with the plot. I’m told from a reliable source last night that a few of these arrests will happen next week sometime. But after 10 days, Barr can arrest anyone from the intern in the Biden break room to Biden himself.

Cue said the first big arrest will shock you. I can’t see another shocking thing that the “President-Elect” of the United States getting arrested for treason, ballot fraud and crimes against humanity.

Sit back, grab your popcorn and watch the movie. The Patriots are in control. We are in the storm.

American elections are for United States of America citizens ONLY.

Have another presidential election utilizing LEGITIMATE VOTER IDENTIFICATION.

End of post.

My best to you and yours, Lew

Seems to me the ballot envelope containing our most precious right in the United States of America (to vote for our elected representatives) should be the same for every voter regardless of the diversity of the particular American citizen.

One ballot – one vote. But how do you insure your vote counts? My ballot envelope contained a message on the back:

Large print: “WHERE’S MY BALLOT?

Haven’t signed up for ballot tracking? It’s not too late – Sign up at wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov

WARNING: VOTING MORE THAN ONCE IN THE SAME ELECTION IS A CRIME IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA”

I can tell you for a fact that not all ballot envelopes had this printed on the back because I observed another ballot envelope without the message. Plus I know someone, who with some of their co-workers, availed themselves to the service (just as I had) but unfortunately they never received confirmation of their vote arriving at their county election’s office whereas I did. How can this be considered equal vote processing?

How can this be fair when some voters receive such confirmation of receipt and others do not? (Apparently in some areas these envelopes are separated from the actual ballot and destroyed.)

Also consider how the government could use such a “specialized tracking system” for evil purposes.

Make no mistake, our country is under assault by an organized criminal element concealed within a lofty good sounding name: the Democrat Party.

(NOTE: This does not mean all Democrats are criminal – however, their top leadership most certainly is. Now do you understand why the Democrats have consistently refused any effort at voter identification to insure ONE VOTE FOR ONE LEGAL US CITIZEN? They claim such verification is voter suppression yet look what they themselves are doing with the LAME STREAM MEDIA and corruption of the voting process!

GOD please continue to bless the United States of America and provide our legitimate representatives and their supporters the courage, strength and determination to fight this highly organized criminal element within the Democrat Party.

I honestly never thought I would live long enough to see such blatant political corruption and perversion of our voting rights in this country.

You were absolutely correct Dad. I’ll see you soon.

My best to you and yours, Lew

Nevada became the 36th state 156 years ago today – October 31, 1864!

later.

Funny how things work out for the best sometimes despite a host of unintended negative consequences that can, and do, often spew out from an oversight, accident or mistake in judgment – rather like how water in a pressurized pipe will spray from an open orifice whether release is intended or not.   Irrigating landscaping as intended is no problem but a “oh, look at the beautiful Sun created rainbows shifting in the swaying wind pushed sprinkler spray” of wasted irrigation water (which has obviously passed its maximum beneficial use) and is trickling down an embankment, then downhill in a roadway ditch for no other purpose than waste – certainly that is something to be avoided and stopped at all costs in a drought prone area like Lake Don Pedro.    Don’t you think?     

THANK YOU to the two LDPCSD employees driving by my residence in the white LDPCSD district pickup on  Monday, October 19^th 2020 @ 1419hrs who because of their initial action in stopping their southbound journey on Villarreal Drive, then slowly backing all the way up (northbound in southbound lane) to the next intersection (apparently following the trickling wasted water), and then very slowly again resuming their downhill path (apparently following the trickling creek) – alerted me to the continuing expensive accidental loss.  

OVER 30 YEARS 

This incident will likely be the worst accidental water loss I’ve experienced in the last 30 years but it is totally my fault and I accept RESPONSIBILITY without qualification, but that is not the issue I am addressing with this post.  I would like viewers to understand my concern about this incident in terms other than a simple accidental and wasted loss of irrigation water that will only cost me a few extra dollars and a few sleepless nights as I attempt to explain the situation and my concern.

It’s actually more about what has been happening across this entire country in regards to legitimate public services corrupted with the special interest motivations of the Socialist Left and their “cancel culture” enforcement which corrupts far more than our local Lake Don Pedro Community Services District – which itself was apparently specifically designed and formed as a special interest water benefit operation expertly concealed for decades from the thousands of subdivision property owners who were saddled with the increasing extra expenses for a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION SCAM for LAFCO ANNEXATIONS into the district for perpetuity.  Public service (for some employees) has become an active playground for political discrimination, failure to perform assigned duties, and orchestrating “paybacks” against those who stand in opposition to such mediocre performance only to maintain secured employment.  That’s what this is about, not just a couple of hundred dollars in wasted water.  That’s the easy part to solve and accept.

POINT OF ALL THE EXTRA WORK AND MONEY

 Yes, thirty years of landscaping and working this property.  Thirty years of Vole damage to water lines and vegetation growth, drought, Bark Beetles, installing/maintaining/replacing Sch 40 PVC, fittings, hose bibs (somewhere around 20-25 locations – saves a fortune in rubber watering hoses),  automatic sprinkler valves, drip irrigation hose, emitters, timers, transformers, wires, batteries, blah blah blah –  and all of that effort, equipment, time and expense intended to reduce water consumption, utilize it to the maximum benefit for the trees and bushes, and of course make irrigation of such extensive landscaping a little bit easier for an aging loud mouth WHO FAILED TO TURN A F*&^ing BLEED SCREW OFF AGAIN!  But I digress.  lol

SPLIT SECOND DISTRACTION TO ANOTHER ISSUE

The sad reality is all that effort can be lost (well, for a period of time at least as in  a F*&^ing billing cycle …ahh, excuse me) …… due to a moment of neglect/distraction/irresponsibility call it what you wish – all the previous savings can be lost.   NOTE: this is all on me, my fault no question about it,  (Already said that huh?  Lol  Perhaps I should say I “Didn’t properly screw myself?”  Didn’t close bleed screw on the valve???? …lol?)  So with that said again – (RESPONSIBILITY IS ALL MINE AND I ACCEPT IT WITHOUT QUALIFICATION) please allow me to explain why I am even bothering with posting the story. 

Sure it is ANOTHER LESSON about bleeder screws that will cost me some extra money for water this month (fortunately much of it flowed by trees and bushes on its way off my residential property to the unimproved lot.  That’s the waste that bothers me, (unimproved lot) but what the heck, once this post is done I figure I can start hauling some of that moist sand/dirt back uphill for some other projects I wasn’t ready for yet, but maybe this was meant to be….get’s me off my decaying ass and back to work outdoors (within reason of course with the dental pain – hurts more when I bend over and such) because the wet material will compact much easier.  Heck, I paid for that wet earth I should use it to my best advantage right?

NOT BACK TO NORMAL YET

As viewers may be aware, my normal routine of physical activity around here has been reduced a bit due to 1) some down time caring for my dog after her surgery for a Foxtail abscess on her side, and 2) a very painful molar of mine which is pending a root canal – both atypical monthly expenses but necessary.   (Never thought I would one day actually be counting down the days and looking forward to a root canal, however, pain is a powerful and effective motivator for all sorts of stuff.  Strange, a root canal is generally considered something painful to be avoided yet in reality it is far less painful (and dangerous) than allowing a bad tooth to get worse which only expands the potential for other negative outcomes.   I never had a tooth that was so painful with the pain going away almost as suddenly as it started.  After the third return surprise attack of blinding pain I was off to the dentist.  Good decision, though perhaps a bit late but it was too soon after Liz’s surgery so I waited a bit.

Speaking of which, according to the Vet the situation with Liz is down to a simple but persistent case of a “hot spot”.   The surgery and removal of that Lemon sized abscess was a complete success but some more E-collar time is necessary.  Still think it a bit humorous, an E-Collar for a dog named Liz?  Lol  (The “E” in “E Collar” stands for Elizabethan due to the similarity with women’s fashions long ago which sported those big ruffled collars around the neck – but many pet owners are more familiar with the slang term “the cone of shame”.  Basically a pliable sheet of plastic that fits around the animal’s neck and rolled into a cone by twisting then locking in to place with turning lock tabs – which prevents the animal from licking the wound.) 

Unfortunately, despite the use of anti itch “hot spot spray” and such, Liz discovered the wound was in the perfect location for using the E-collar rim as a tool to rub and scratch the area which is probably worse than licking, so sedation and covering of the area with bandages also plays a part in the recovery.   She’s fooled me before, with the “new skin area” looking great I WILL MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING HER INTEREST IN THE AREA IS OVER and give her a break from the collar (like to eat or drink) but at the first unsupervised opportunity she sneaks off and the licking starts again.   How do you know when the animal will leave it alone?   Wear the collar until all the hair and fur grows back?  Anyway, she’s doing great and I’m waiting for the needed root canal – both of which have interfered with our normal routine.  Just like everyone else – we deal with things the best we can on a priority basis.

GOT TO GET OUTSIDE FOR A WHILE

Sunday afternoon we were doing some light chores outside (yes she was wearing her satellite dish) some pruning and hedge trimming, raking, picking up and loading the cart for the eventual transport to the burn pile downhill.   Inspected the CA Golden Poppy project along Villarreal Drive (had observed some deer out there eating earlier) which generally (so far) has been a failure with more weeds than poppies, but some of those “weeds” might be growth from a wild flower mix.  I had turned the water off to that line days earlier believing it had received too much in the past but decided to give it a quick watering by turning the bled screw on the automatic valve so the sprinklers would activate – I was right there trimming and raking.   (Should have walked around to the front and activated the line from the timer station instead, but noooooo – I was right there so I used the bleed screw on the auto valve.)   Anyway, Liz started chasing after something while wearing her “cone of shame”.  Have you ever watched an animal with that cone on try to navigate?   So she’s running and that cone is snagging on rocks, plants, trees branches everything in her path which obviously slowed her down considerably which was good because SHE WASN’T LISTENING!  I’m hollering at her to stop – don’t know what the hell she’s chasing……OH PLEASE!  NOT ANOTHER SKUNK!  Not that again!  Regardless she sure would be at an extreme disadvantage if tangling with anything while that cone was on. 

 If you’ve ever had an animal wearing one of these things you know they bump and walk into anything and everything due to the obstructed view.  (Of course any sedation will make things worse too.)  Their hearing is understandably affected as well.  Think about it, noises in front will be amplified a bit due to the conical shape and focusing of the sound waves to the ears shrouded inside the cone, yet noises to the rear and side will be blocked by the plastic cone which surrounds the head and ears.  (I was initially concerned she had started to completely ignore verbal commands until I realized what was going on.)   

Their antics can be a bit humorous as well.  The other evening Liz was walking through the great room in route to the deck but looked and sounded more like a “bull in a China shop” because that cone acted as a plastic table dozer ….lol   as she walked by the chess table the extending plastic cone in front snagged the phone & charger, scooped them up with some other items and pushed everything off to the wood floor.   CRASH!  The noise of that startled her into a quick unplanned turn to look back at what just happened, but then the cone hit the guitar in the floor stand which I caught just before it crashed down.  (I had put the tripods/recorders up but forgot the guitar….besides it was out of the way until the noise prompted the quick turn.)   OK, a little rearranging of stuff for safe “cone passage” through the great room.   No problem.  lol.

Anyway, the trimming, raking and cart loading started to make the dental pain worse so I figured it a good time to stop the work and continue it the next day.  Ate, read the LDPCSD monthly agenda packet, watched the news, a few recorded Gunsmoke episodes, blah blah blah.   Liz’s wound looked good and so I continued with the “anti-itch” medication until turning in for the night.  YES!  Cone must be left on at all times – or a little sneaky licking will quietly occur during “down time”.

In the morning after other routine activities I went over the agenda packet again and decided to post my frustration with how the replacement water report is always barely legible in the agenda packet.  (IS THIS WILD OR WHAT?  I’M POUNDING OUT FRUSTRATIONS ON THE KEYBOARD ABOUT THE LOST WATER REPORT IN THE AGENDA PACKET WHILE LOSING WATER!)  Difficult to read the blurry print – was that a 13% 16% or 18% water loss? (or something different?)  Finishing the post I eventually planted myself in the recliner to watch Matt Dillon clean up Dodge City Kansas.   So I’m stuffing my face and Liz brokers another treat with a look that says “what have I done to deserve “the cone of shame?”.  (She also receives frequent head and facial massages due to “the cone”.)  Having my fill of Dodge for a while it was time to let the hens out and return to trimming bushes in the front of the house and loading the cart for the burn pile later in the fall.   Then another break and some more Dodge City with Matt, Kitty, Doc and the gang.

So I’m watching TV with the glass slider open to the deck (other than the smoke some beautiful weather lately yeah?) and I hear a vehicle making a stop in the southbound lane of Villarreal Drive down past my house.  A fairly steep slow sweeping curve downhill.   I’m still sitting in the recliner but can see over the deck that a white pickup has stopped dead in the road.   Very unusual for that particular location.  

WHY STOP THERE – IT’S VERY DANGEROUS

So I’m asking myself, what’s in the roadway?  Dog, turkeys, passing rattlesnake, what?   I can’t see any animal from my recliner view which is good because that portion of the road has been a kill zone for a number of animals in the last 30 years that I know of, at least four deer, a number of raccoons, possums, dogs, cats, turkeys, snakes, birds, etc.   Usually you can hear the “thud” and skidding of vehicle tires with the larger animals, but sometimes just the “thud” when the driver continues on their journey without checking to see what they hit.  Sometimes the next day you can follow a blood trail to where the animal wandered off in shock to expire.  Asked for a Deer sign years ago but apparently the request was denied. 

So I’m wondering what was in the road to make the truck stop when it starts slowly backing up (northbound in the southbound lane – {lanes are separated by double yellow lines on a curve} in a “blind portion of the roadway”!   In other words, the hump in the roadway above restricts visual appreciation of further oncoming downhill traffic in that same lane that would be headed towards the CSD truck.  This rise in elevation apparently also “disrupts” the sound of approaching southbound traffic so animals in the “kill zone” hear something, look up, and WHAM!   Contact with a vehicle speeding downhill where the driver couldn’t see the animal until over the “hump” in the road – often when it’s too late. I know this area quite well from weed eating the west shoulder of the roadway every year from the intersection down to the next telephone pole past the curve. 

OK then, if not stopped because of an animal in the road they must have missed my neighbor’s driveway across the street and decided to just back up to it rather than make a safer “turn around” at the next intersection.   Seemed the most logical explanation so I stood up from the recliner and took a couple of steps towards the slider for a better look at the road to confirm my suspicion but the truck remained in the southbound lane and continued to slowly back up northbound in the southbound lane towards the my intersection corner.   GOOD GRIEF!  – if a vehicle was southbound at the same time it could have been a very ugly accident because even if impact was avoided either way off the road would likely end up being a vehicle rollover due to the steep terrain on both sides – it’s happened before.   (Downhill trips are usually faster than the uphill climb as well.)

FESTUS AND THE “HANGY DOWN PART OF HIS EAR” (LOBE) WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT!  LOL

(Episode where an old family feud required a relative to shoot off Festus’ ear lobe for “pay back”)

Even Liz took an interest in the truck because typically the only vehicles that do stop are off the roadway on the shoulder – not still in the lane of travel and then slowly backing up to a swell blind spot in that same lane.  What the heck is going on? 

CCTV HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) property monitoring can be quite beneficial in many ways.  Take this particular case.  If not for a video recording of this incident I would have had absolutely no idea what was going on with that white truck other than:  

1) Observed a white pickup stop in a dangerous area of the roadway,

2) watched it slowly back up for unknown reason, and

3) a short time later saw same truck continuing downhill in the same direction out of the neighborhood.    End of story.

But with a video documented record of factual events further research into the missing elements of the story proved to be rather interesting and distressing at the same time because I now knew: 

1) Whatever these CSD employees initially observed when first passing by the location was important enough to temporarily, but immediately, discontinue their original journey by stopping in the middle of the southbound lane below, and then slowly – but dangerously, backing up the roadway northbound to the next intersection above,

 2) It was a LDPCSD truck with an affixed yellow caution light (never saw it activated and doubt it was because I’ve seen them in use before in daylight conditions and they are pretty bright.)  This of course might be an issue in any possible future civil action against the district for property damage, injuries, or death resulting from the negligent operation of a district vehicle in violation of California Vehicle Code Sections……blah blah blah, you know what I mean?   

What are rotating/flashing yellow caution lights designed and installed to be used for?

Why would employees NOT want to draw attention to such activities?

3) The CSD truck slowly backed up northbound in the southbound lane in a very dangerous blind spot (due to a swell in the road above) apparently tracing the path of the flowing water in the roadway west drainage ditch.  If not focused on the obvious flowing water, what else could they have been doing?   Tracking turtle migration in a new spontaneous foothill creek?  lol

4) the CSD vehicle stopped at the intersection near my property

5) two yellow-green reflective clad employees were in the truck and communicating with each other

6) the passenger gestured towards either my house or the elevated corner of the intersection,

7) after the gesture towards my property the pickup renewed the southbound travel downhill very slowly (apparently still following the trickling water in the ditch on the passenger’s side – or turtles – lol)

8) the CSD vehicle then continued out of the area in the southbound lane

9) the entire incident took 1 minute and 33 seconds, from the initial drive by, the first stop downhill, the backing up, second stop at my intersection, then continuing their journey passing the original stop location and leaving the area.

YOU ALREADY KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING RIGHT?

The CCTV information only increased my curiosity so I go outside and walk over towards the corner and look through the privacy material on the chain link fence gate….. the F^*&ing SPRINKLERS HAVE BEEN ON SINCE THE NIGHT BEFORE WHEN I OPENED THE BLED SCREW THEN CHASED AFTER LIZ!

YES INDEED if not for my CCTV and those two employees initially stopping and confirming there was excessive water loss occurring, it could have continued for a much longer period of time than it did as the work outside increased the dental pain.  

Yup, a BIG THANK YOU for the two CSD employee’s initial investigative actions on Monday afternoon to CONFIRM AN OBVIOUS and SUBSTANTIAL WASTE OF IRRIGATION WATER WAS OCCURING by suddenly stopping a district work truck in the middle of the roadway on a double yellow curved blind spot and then slowly backing up all the way to the next intersection to observe the source of the flow and discuss it before resuming their downhill journey.   Imagine, all of that fine in-field “water loss investigative work” while simultaneously subjecting the district to extreme liability loss for any potential accident that might have occurred with such extremely negligent operation of a district vehicle.  Had that school bus come downhill a little later that day there could have been substantial damage, injury and/or death.   

But for what? 

Should legitimate attempts at water conservation be practiced by employees of a water district?

One might think so.

(Especially a district in a drought prone foothill area with a 40 year history of unethical and contradictory special interest policies that continue to harm the far majority of bill paying legal customers of the water entitled subdivision to this day.)

What prompted that sudden and dangerous stop in the middle of the road?

THE WATER WASTE WAS OBVIOUS!

Did those employees take an extra 30 seconds to a minute to advise, notify, warn the property owner of the obvious continuing waste of water trickling down the ditch?

No.

Pull into the driveway and honk the horn of that CSD truck?

No.

Place a telephone call to the owner from the office to notify of the water loss?

No.

Why not?

Why bother to confirm the waste if there WAS NOT ONE SINGLE ATTEMPT TO STOP OR MITIGATE THE LOSS?

Just another example of the unethical laugh & giggles they receive in permitting an expensive loss to continue for a customer due to his outspoken condemnation of the corruption and lack of sincere service of employees, managers, and directors?

ie, “That’ll teach him to bad mouth our special interest/benefit district corruption!”  ha ha ha – all the way downhill and out of the area!

These are the same type of people destroying our country right now because they will go out of their way to instigate trouble where none exists yet when presented with the perfect opportunity to prevent or stop something wrong and perhaps actually impress upon the public their sincere service and dedication – they show their true color and refuse to take simple appropriate corrective action. 

Well, think I’ll try to harvest and beneficially use some of my wet soil.

My best to you and yours, Lew