Last Week of Oct

here the birds are...

Nov 1st is closing day at Bear Island Wildlife Management Area so if Im going to see any wintering ducks I best go now...so I've got a couple sandwiches made and ready to toss in the cooler along with some fizzy waters and a couple other food items and plan to leave bright and early in the morning.  No later than 7.  

It's about a 3 hr drive each way...I will take I-95 but there is a lot of secondary roads to drive on each end of that...about an hr on my end and another hour on the other end...it's beyond Charleston in a little dip called Green Pond..and it's really not even in Green Pond it's beyond it. If I didn't have the dogs to come home to feed, I'd stay.  There is a primitive campground at Santee Coastal another great birding spot about 12 miles north.. I would take the dogs but there's a couple problems with that..they would have to be in the van all day except when I could walk them on leash and at Coastal it's a park and walk so they would have to stay in the car alone and that will not work.  

Both of these places have BIG gators...so dogs not going.  I've often tried to think of a way to do auto feeding for one meal...lol...recall the one in Back to the Future?  I know there are some on the market but expensive and I have 2 dogs and they don't share!! 

Today I did very little.  It was cloudy as heck when I got up now it's gorgeous.  I went to town and got a few items I needed, stopped to visit the cemetery, and then back home I did a little wood sawing, pitched a few fallen limbs into the yard from the woods and cut those up some I've had my eye on.  

The NY Times today in this last week before the election showed this graph on economic/job growth...Trump is running on his "strong" economy..but is it Strong? The fact is he is below every President since 1993. 

FROM NY TIMES

Now with many states in a decline due to the virus this slight recovery you see here is in jeopardy...He is doing NOTHING to grow the economy...it's bouncing on it's own accord.  He had given no incentives, he just keeps saying we have to open back up...but he did not pass the stimulus to help businesses open Safely as Joe Biden keeps saying...Trump keeps saying Biden will shut the country down..but Biden says NO...open safely...

2 different ball games folks, Biden wants to help businesses, put safe practices in place, help them buy disinfectants, help them provide masks, and PPE, help them hire more workers so they can add second shifts to make social distancing easier to accomplish...to hire workers for external delivery options.   Trump is not helping the businesses...the one stimulus was created in the House, passed by Senate and Signed by him.  

He can barely take credit for the early growth as Obama had a very good economy going on...Trump bashed the steel market and the Ag Market to the ground! He had to pass out a hand out to farmers just so they will vote for him.  40% of the AG income came out of our pockets.  So that hardly counts as growth that us taking a loss...

We took a loss on steel, on corn and soybean, on job growth, on lives...etc etc etc...

All those coal jobs? Well we all know coal is OUT...and soon OIL will be too...maybe not in our life time but this century for sure.  They will NOT be running on Oil in 2100.  80 yrs from now..

Tomorrow night I want to get back early enough to watch This Is Us the show returns with a 2 hrs special premiere.   It begins at 9 pm.  I've been watching it for the past couple seasons so I hope it keeps my attention, it's going to be a long dark winter I predict in my case.  I don't enjoy doing puzzles, or reading books, I do enjoy a good movie or TV show cause I can nap through it if I chose to.  Of course I will be feeding the fireplace so I will hardly get to sit still for 5 mins let alone get interested in something...
I used to read fiction like crazy.  Then when I had to get bifocal lenses it made that hobby not very enjoyable.  I have to hold the book just at the right angle or I can't see it, and my arms get tired so I finally gave up on reading as an evening activity.  

So I hope to see lots of birds, Bear Island is good for ducks, wading birds, shore birds  and passerines too...so wish me luck may not get an early post out depends on  how tired I am when I get back.  

So many things are wrapping up this week...the end of a week, the end of a Month, the end of Day Lights Savings, Halloween,  the end of an Election Year, and the end of the Summer Birding.