Funny old show Bear did here, if you knew where he was geographically while he was “lost” he went through or across roads, several towns and even islands haha. I honestly don’t know if anybody has ever been hungry enough to eat a Weta! Huhu grubs (another wild delicacy here) are suppose to taste like peanut butter but don’t believe that either hahaThanks, Fish! You're the bestest!
Bear Grylls eats weta and wishes he hadn't! ""It tasted literally like you'd imagine poo would taste."
Are they really that bad, Fish?
Longball
i love your stories ! not rubbish.... aptly describes my rubbish bin i missed the trash collection today too busy getting high AFThanks, Ken Abbis!
"In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the word 'truck' means junk or rubbish. It is ..." - aptly describes my writing style!
Longball
Fall Fest, AI Fails, and a Glut of Weed
Having pictures of a party is great for bringing back awesome, fun, memories. The person running the party and the bands is not the right person for this. Maybe a photographer or someone less involved. I have a digital camera that can be set for ‘Manual,’ not quite DSLR manual but you can set the Big Three of Photography – Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO. If I was reading the manual right then there was a setting that did auto-focus and I could change the Big Three if needed. As I would be shooting in daylight, night, and stage lights, I would need some flexibility but autofocus would be very helpful as there was as good chance that I’d get too fucked up to see let alone focus a camera.
When the camera first came out it was called ‘computer-assisted’ as it makes decisions automatically for you. But the truth is, like search engines, it is really AI. For some reason, many companies will use almost any word but AI. Scary, that AI. I noticed the next day that of 150 pictures that I had taken, 140 were out of focus. I gotta call big AI fail here. Of course, the 10 picture in focus were WTF did I take this picture?
Bronson getting ready to introduce ‘Glass Pony’ but first he is announcing that we are holding a raffle. In the last update he is holding a roll of raffle tickets. He had some and thought that we should hold a raffle to raise some money for the bands and to offset party expenses. Great idea, Bronson. I had a better idea. Let’s fix the raffle so that one of us wins it and we save money on the prizes plus get all the raffle money. I wasn’t a Pirate for nothing! I was voted down. The raffle would be fair and square. Dang it! There were 3 prizes and 1st winner got 1st pick of any prize, etc. The prizes were, 1) a framed picture of one of the bands logos, someone had done with needlepoint stitching on velvet and had the band sign it. Very nice. 2) a merch package which included your choice of a t-shirt from each band and a CD from each band. 3) The final prize was a Glass Bong that a local smoke shop donated and I donated an ounce of OG Kush I grew last year to test the bong out.
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Glass Pony - "psychedelic groove circus". It is looking a bit like a real stage in the yard. I work most Glass Pony shows and as the drummer lives very close to me, she picks me up and drives me home from each show. For that, I am her personal roadie, security, whatever she needs, I’m there. Such a great job!View attachment 78454
Brian Mangini sitting in with Glass Pony. He is in the next band and many other bands. I work many shows with Brian as he lives very close by. Same deal, personal roadie, keyboard players have a lot of heavy equipment so generally an assistant is very helpful. Been working with Brian since 1992. Brian also gets flown around the country to play in tribute ‘Elvis’ and ‘Doors’ bands when a good fill-in in needed. Sadly, they don’t fly me. Brian Mangini
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Our friend in the grey sweatshirt grew this. It was ‘Orange something’? Like most people, I only took 2 hits. Shortly after that, I was so high I thought the ground was shaking, like an earthquake. He has been growing outrageous stuff since high school – late 60’s, early 70’s for us! Lol I went to listen to the music and asked a friend; “Is the ground shaking?”. He said, yes, the band is loud and their sub-woofer is shaking your yard! The next day I was told they could hear the music in town, 2 miles away! Sometimes it is hard to tell exactly what is happening when doing mushrooms so it is good to have someone you trust around to explain things lol
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Ground shaking? Pot? Mushrooms? AI? Getting following thru's in my vision!
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In the meantime, the plants don’t give a hoot about any of this, they got their own party going on. The plants are pretty much done growing and now just waiting for the buds to fatten up. I did a decent job keeping them small but I like bigger better. We’ll see if I can get them a little bigger next year.
Baby Fugly – These G13xAfghan Skunk F2’s have been great. Trying to bend the plant and keep it small, well, it got kinda mutilated, hopefully I will be a bit better next year at shaping plants.
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Star Dawg #1 X G13xAfSk - looks like one of the plants I tried to manifold but I started too late and had never done it so I gave up. Not sure what this shape is – a row of buds up top and a row of buds halfway down – what is this? I think I will get more yield than if I did nothing?
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CBD Girl Scout Cookie #1 – something about this picture I like a lot. Just waiting for her to fatten up. Oh yeah, no bugs or eggs on the undersides of leaves is something I like!
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ASH – all plants are doing great – just need to fatten up. Hi @Ptree!
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There is just a glut of weed around here. You can’t give it away. If you give someone a jar – they give you two back. Give them a gummy, get two back. I have a Medical License so I am allowed to possess 5 pounds but with a harvest coming in, I am near the limit, I can’t give it away, and of course I won’t break the law, sooo, I’ll burn a few bags in the twin fireplaces tonight when we start the fires. Should make the neighborhood smell like…..Victory!
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-- to be continued --
What are scents for your ASH ?
I really loved the way it got smoked up and left you in very very upper high !
She never smoked it again!
ASH is unforgetfull to meI have not smoked any but it smells very much like paint thinner/turpentine. One of my favorite weed smells. I like gasoline/racing fuel the most. Maybe it reminds of driving my race car? I once had some 'gasoline' weed. It didn't smell or taste like gasoline. Only after you smoked it. I turned on a friend and his wife. After we went back into the venue to watch the band I noticed she had a funny look on her face and kept swallowing. I asked what's up? She said the back of her throat felt oily like she had just siphoned gasoline from her car's gas tank. I was so happy because then I knew I had the real deal!
I hope my ASH smokes like your description!
Longball
ASH is unforgetfull to me
We were at party, all longshot smnokers
Hmm, Indica smokers, their faces turned into, oh, what is happening and literally only thing in their face left was smile
Great smoke for sure !
ASH is the real deal. It was one of the first to be smoked up.
edit; oh yeah, thanks for reminding me to burn all that blueberry crap I grew a few back. Blueberry you say? ha really... mids at best.
Make room for more Mr. Nice, the faux blueberry is burning today.
Keeping the crowd tranced. To the far left is Bronson running the light show. A little lower right of center is my beer I set down to take the picture. The beer can is under a camera tripod. There is another camera on the other side of the stage. At least 2 camera's record every show and sometimes the shows are live streamed - around the world if you have the link. Left of center of pic is Taper Jon's setup. You can see part of his microphone pole shining. He records all shows. His setup goes something like this:
Fall Fest And A Unwanted Bong
Looks like maybe a sign for my Fall Fest party? No. I did like the sign. It made me feel like I was coming home. A place where I would be welcomed, and wanted, and loved. Like Home!
A bit before this song the raffle winners were announced. The first pick chose....the ounce of OG Kush and the Bong. They didn't want the bong. I told them they had to take it anyway. Throw it a away, give it away, just you and that bong get the fuck off the stage. They took it.
The next day when cleaning up I found the bong. Someone sure used it!
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This post made me dreaming so intensely that I was there at your party .Fall Fest And A Unwanted Bong
Looks like maybe a sign for my Fall Fest party? No. I did like the sign. It made me feel like I was coming home. A place where I would be welcomed, and wanted, and loved. Like Home!
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It turned out that building a little stage with a white cover was a great idea. Unless it was the mushrooms, things just seemed to look, sound, and feel better.
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Looks legit!
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Yup, that's a stage!
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Twin firepits smelling like...Victory. And weed
recording info
4 channel AUD matrix
source 1 (channels 1 and 2): Tascam PE-120 (Card caps,DIN,7' high)> Tascam DR-680mkII@2448
source 2 (channels 3 and 4): Nakamichi CM-300 (CP-3,AB,spaced 2',7' high)> Tascam DR-680mkII@2448
transfer: Tascam DR-680mkII@2448> USB> PC> Audacity v2.3.3wav> CDWAve> Trader's Little Helper> flac24/48
taped and transferred by Jon Weir
tracked and edited by Rich Lemire
The Audio is put up on Archive.Org as a FLAC24/48 file. What is FLAC24/48? FLAC-HD is a high resolution audio format for audiophiles to enjoy more than three times the fidelity of a standard audio CD. Typically live shows in FLAC-HD are recorded at 24 bit / 48 KHz for maximum fidelity. FLAC is ideal for preserving high-resolution audio files, such as studio recordings, vinyl rips, or digital downloads. Its lossless compression ensures no audio data is lost, maintaining the highest possible quality. The video is recorded in 4K HD but not released to the public.
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A bit before this song the raffle winners were announced. The first pick chose....the ounce of OG Kush and the Bong. They didn't want the bong. I told them they had to take it anyway. Throw it a away, give it away, just you and that bong get the fuck off the stage. They took it. Both bands played a couple songs together. Here we are with 4 guitar players(Guitar Army) and 2 bass players on stage. Playing something labeled 'Trance Mix' on the recording. At one point one of the bass players put down the bass and picked up a 6 string guitar(he is a jazz guitarist when not playing bass in Glass Pony) and after a bit, him and the other bass player swapped guitar and bass. Was everyone doing mushrooms? Have not listened to this song yet lol
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The bands taking a 'Final Bow'. Looks like everyone had a great time! I sure did!
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The next day when cleaning up I found the bong. Someone sure used it!
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Now time to get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Don't forget - I have a crop growing this year.
CBD Crew Girl Scout Cookie #2
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Dizzy Whizz (Jack Herer x LaNina #2)
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Longball
'Off the top of my head' only @quinxstar seems to bring home the bacon each harvest. He is a bad-ass grower(means grower who has earned respect!). I needed to keep the plants smaller this year so I started them 59 days(8+ weeks) later than usual. These pics are from September 21st. The plants are 118 days since soaking. If I had started at the normal time I'd be at 177 days. 25+ weeks. Takes a long time to grow indica hybrids out here. Forget about sativas. This is about 56 days of flowering(8 weeks) and not close yet. It is kinda hard to tell what day one of flowering is. There is no magical flip to 12/12. It comes on slowly, a little different for each plant. I think it would be quicker for me to grow a 14 week flowering sativa indoors!
