The cattle are moved to the new paddock

The great news is that Southern Belle accepted the assignment of finding a stock trailer and a butcher shop to process our steer. That is a huge monkey off my back.

Paddocks

I got the fencing around the new paddock "good enough" and moved the three beef animals. They seem very content to be there.

High society

By an accident of birth, I was invited to a wedding that I could not say "No" to.

I will be hobnobbing with toffs, swells, punters, sports and dandies. " 'Tis better to keep one's mouth shut and let people think you are a boob than to open it and remove all doubt."

I feel a bit like a stage extra or a NPC. Blogging will be light this weekend.

A few pictures from around the property

Deadon cabbage in the foreground, zinnias in the mid-ground and corn in extreme background. Weeds everywhere. I was given the assignment to grow flowers for the wedding.

Bunching onions (Allium fistulosum) seedlings

First flight of Romaine Lettuce

Branch of a hazelnut bush. The squirrels are starting to cut the nuts suggesting that they are probably ripe enough to harvest for seed. So I need to get hopping and pick the ones I want to propagate.

Trailman crabs, a zinnia and one of the books that Mrs ERJ is reading. Trailman crab is an edible crab that survived the Flats of Fairbanks and -65F temperatures. That is one very tough apple tree.

Trust in news media

According to a survey of 1500 adults

Thirty-eight media outlets are regarded as more trustworthy by Democrats than by Republicans while five media outlets are regarded as more reliable by Republicans than by Democrats.

The reason I find this interesting is because Progressives insist that the news media is firmly in the hands of the Right Wing. If this were so, wouldn't those numbers 38:5 be reversed?