Happy Martin Luther King Day!

 

It was never a law

 

Biden's mandate was never a law.  It could not be enforced since the the executive does not make law...Congress does.  Basic civics 101...something that a lot of elected buffoons seem to forget.  Listening to these idiots is what gives them the power they think they have.

 OSHA, with its 200 inspectors, said it could not enforce it anyway, so clearly the idiots in the White House thought people would just go along with it as long as some idiot with a tie and a clipboard showed up and said they had to do it.

I once threw the health inspector out, so no dice, Joe.  

Unfortunately SCOTUS said that nurse still had to labor under this idiocy but many idiot states like New York are suddenly waving nurse back in that test positive...The moron governor of New York should have thought about that before firing them.

Your...yes, YOUR government is not a god.  They WORK for YOU! You have to yank the chain occasionally to remind them.

Don't listen and don't comply.  

Think about that as Martin Luther King Day dawns tomorrow. 

Live your life, be happy, and let the wannabe dictators join their idol Adolph in the basement c.April 1945.

Have a great day!

Better view of the shark teeth!

 

Here is a pic of the actual shark teeth we found!

Starting from the top going across is #4, a deer tooth, and second row, number 5 is an alligator tooth.  The cone looking thing on the bottom is from a squid and oldest fossil, at least 70 million years old. The shark teeth are at least 30 million years old along with the alligator tooth.  The deer tooth has got to be the most recent though I am not sure exactly old.  I do know that deer started appearing around 40 million years ago, so maybe it is as old as the shark teeth.  How it got there, I don;t know...washed into the creek from somewhere else or maybe it got dragged into the water by an alligator?

Heading back up there soon!

Happy New Year!

 

Into the New Year, we charge!!!

2021 In The Rearview Mirror

 

It was a fun year!

I succeeded in 2.5 out of 3 resolutions.

I resisted tyranny successfully and went on a successful fossil hunt.  #3 was "getting back in shape"  Made some progress, but still long way to go! :-) 

Michelle and I went on 4 trips in 2021, twice to Arizona and twice to Florida and a couple of days ago, we went on a fossil hunt!

We did out research, found the site, and plunged in.  I was worried at first, navigating a steep slope down, wondering if it was even legal to be there, and hoping I did not sink up to my ankles in creek mud.

The gravel was so thick, it was like walking on solid ground.  We found nearly 20 shark teeth!  

There were two major experiences this year that jumped out at me....marching out, step by step out of the Superstition Mountains while suffering from borderline heatstroke (stay calm and patient) and daring to overcome obstacles to get our fossils.....long trip, down the slope, stepping into the water, and finding what we came to find!

Good lessons to take into the New Year!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

 

Dimetrodon is not a dinosaur!

 

The Nazis apparently seem to have returned to Europe and there seems to be a chapter here in the US.  You see enough of that, so let's talk about something else.  It does not matter what the "public health" dictators say, I am still ignoring them.

I had a debate with another patron (no mask either...) over Dimetrodon.  He said it was a meat eating dinosaur.  I corrected him, telling my new friend that it was indeed a carnivore, but it was not a dinosaur.  It was a synapsid and closer to mammals than dinosaurs.  After he looked it up on his phone, he agreed and offered to by me some cookies.

I took an apple instead.

Lots of what we do know is usually speculative.  Nonetheless, we have complete skeletons of this animal and the two things you notice are the sail and the teeth!

My friend said Dimetrodon was the state fossil of Texas, where he was from.

And he was a Cowboy fan.

What did you expect? :-)