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Another bank cuts ties with Trump as the ex-president's unraveling continues

While I won’t be entirely happy until Donald Trump is exiled to the isle of Elba or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (my top choice, naturally), his ineluctable slide into social and business pariah status is heartening. When people say “your money’s no good here,” it’s usually a gesture of familiarity...

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  • January 23, 2021
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The Daily Bucket–Forgive My Trespasses

For starters, this  “No Trespassing” sign isn’t on private property.  It’s on Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation Lands that are open to the public as the Rock Creek Greenway, west of Portland Oregon. Fortunately there are many anglers who are simply crazed about catching fish and who would wade through Hell fire for...

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  • December 5, 2020
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Daily Bucket– Purple Haze

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But even bold purply flowers, like this welcome offering from my hacked-down artichokes, seem washed out, as if horror author  Stephen King’s Tommyknockers are draining colors from view. I’ve offered some purple, now for the Haze. In some ways this is scarier than a Nebraska tornado cloud. No where to...

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  • September 12, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–Low Water Flushes Tall birds.

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The skies have not yield a moment of rain for months.  But I knew how to make it rain. I hung clothes outdoors on our new fancy clothesline.  It’s passive solar at its best.  Except the Rain Gods, laughing, then made it rain twice.  But not much, just enough to...

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  • August 23, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–Frog Court Confidential

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I’m Red Woodman, Senior Investigator for what we call the “Frog Court.”  If I can just get through today, I can retire with a pension.  But a whole bunch of new cases just hit my in-basket and I came to work to find a guy sobbing over a couple of baby...

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  • August 14, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–She Comes in Colors Everywhere.

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The World is colors everywhere here and there And the sky’s blinding blue is right in front of you. The burgeoning flowers send new blossoms out for hours. I admire the colors of each different lily, Or the Dragon’s Tongue; a little silly. My Dragon’s Tongue managed to survive all these...

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  • July 31, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–Did Feng Shui Save the Fledglings?

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My prodigal son and his advanced science teaching degree came home awhile ago.  While schools are closed, He’d been hiking in the Rockies.  His discoveries included a pocket full of cool sparkly rocks and crystals, and some Eastern philosophy. “Hang up these chimes here, “he said when we were out...

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  • July 3, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–Let all the Little Creatures Come Forth

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Multiple robins have occupied my yard for months now.  Somehow their presence seemed to make the Spring come a few days sooner. I cannot tell the boys from the girls.  I thought the female were supposed to be drab,  but they all look alike to me.  They seemed more like...

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  • June 6, 2020
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The Daily Bucket–Twisted!

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Many edible plants grow in Oregon, including nut trees such as filbert or hazelnut. Our overlords, the squirrels, have commanded us to plant a variety of filbert nut trees in our suburban yard in NW Oregon.  These versions of filberts are rated “invasive.”   This means they are so tough that...

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  • March 8, 2020
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Daily Bucket–Beware the Vamp Squirrels

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During this Kattywampus year, my latest garden oddity is the tasty, and a two-week-early Bartlett Pear harvest.  The trick is to harvest them immediately before, or just after they fall.  Refrigerate them for a few days,  and they will finish ripening nicely. I’m especially happy because the pear tree had...

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  • August 25, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Pretty

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A single water bead, as pretty as a jewel, perhaps a moonstone. Now it’s your turn. You’ve been reading The Daily Bucket, a nature refuge. We amicably discuss frogs, animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters,  and life’s patterns.  Phenology is how we take earth’s pulse. We discuss what we see...

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  • August 14, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Photobombed!!

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I have 5 hummingbird feeders, and my neighbors have feeders also.  I have at least 3 hummingbirds patronizing my yard.  However they appear to simply chase each other from feeder to feeder all day. It’s too much fun to sit outside and watch them all day.  But I’m getting nothing...

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  • August 10, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–There's a thousand stories in Frog Court.

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The ”Frog Court” originated as result of a sealed court settlement over an unfortunate incident regarding Nixon EPA Administrator Anne Gorsche, prescription drugs, a government limo, and a lost weekend in the early 1970s. The quiet settlement established the Frog Environmental Regulatory Commission, or FERC.  FERC’s mandate is the protection...

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  • February 2, 2019
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Sure there’s lots of exciting hard news, but let’s take a moment to laugh at the fkkers a bit…. x Fox News: stoking castration anxiety since forever pic.twitter.com/AZIkTLf8pO — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 17, 2019 x pic.twitter.com/h8XSqNha0K — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 17, 2019 x https://t.co/Ft3T1qr01Z — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy)...

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  • January 18, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Like a Bird on a Wire

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We’ve taken to walks along Springerville Creek, west of Portland Oregon.  At some points it’s a quarter mile wide expanse of tall grasses between neighborhoods, with a narrow creek wending its way between larger ponds. The fence posts are from an old farm.  And at the larger ponds, that lovely...

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  • January 5, 2019
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Trump's '60 Minutes' interview was a ratings disaster

In March, when 60 Minutes interviewed Trump bête noire Stormy Daniels, the show drew 22 million viewers. By comparison, Trump’s Sunday interview with the news magazine garnered a little more than half that — 11.3 million. Given that he’s the president of the United States, you’d think his viewership would, well,...

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