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DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 14:4): ────────────────── Marijuana Policies Reveal the Nation’s Moral Confusion on Marijuana — and Ground Zero for the Confusion is the White House NEW YORK TIMES (KATIE ROGERS AND ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS) Five Who Used Marijuana in Past Will Exit White House, Calling New Guidelines Into Question PART 2 (14:5 - 19:13): ────────────────── Moral Confusion on the Marijuana Issue Is International — What We Learn by Looking at Recent Developments NEW YORK TIMES (OSCAR LOPEZ) Mexico Set to Legalize Marijuana, Becoming World’s Largest Market USA TODAY (JOHN BACON) Virginia set to be first Southern state to legalize recreational marijuana; critics say the bill falls short on racial justice WASHINGTON POST (THE EDITORIAL BOARD) If Virginia is going to legalize weed, it should do it right PART 3 (19:14 - 25:21): ────────────────── Better Not Give this Cross-Stitch Book to Grandma — Controversy Over Foul-Language Feminist Cross-Stitch Book at Major Retailer

Good morning, RVA! It’s 39 °F, and you can expect some fog or rain this morning followed by mid-day temperatures around 50 °F. We might could see a little snow overnight and into tomorrow, but don’t get your hopes up for anything major. However, NBC12’s Andrew Freiden says we could be in for more snow on Sunday.Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 4,707 new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealthand 93 new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 583 new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 230, Henrico: 249, and Richmond: 104). Since this pandemic began, 655 people have died in the Richmond region. Setting aside the typically brutal Tuesday death report and the worrisome level of new reported cases locally, today is all about the vaccine. The Washington Post reports that President Biden has ordered an additional 200 million doses of vaccine, giving the United States enough supply to fully vaccinate 300 million people “by this summer.” Those doses won’t show up until the end of June, so, unfortunately, they won’t do anything to alleviate our current national (which means local, too) vaccine shortage. However, on a call with governors this week, the Biden administration said the existing allocation to states would go up by about five percent for the next three weeks. If Virginia requested 300,000 a couple weeks back, received 105,000, then a 5% increase means we can expect about 5,000 more doses for the entire Commonwealth. I mean, it’s not nothing, but it’s also not even a single Siegel Center full of people. I expect we’ll hear more about this from Governor Northam today at his 2:00 PM press briefing to “provide an update on the Commonwealth’s response to COVID-19 and vaccination program,” which you can watch live on VPM’s YouTube channel. I’m hoping we’ll learn how the Governor intends to address the vaccine shortage, and what he’ll do after massively expanding Phase 1b only to immediately learn that there’s not nearly enough vaccine for the original, un-expanded Phase 1b let alone a group of people that includes almost half of Virginia. Locally, the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors sent this letter to the Governor about their county’s struggle with distributing the vaccine. To be frank and fully-disclosed, I’m not sure how to talk about this particular thing given my actual job at the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts. So, until I mentally untie that ethical knot, I will just say that everyone is working incredibly hard. You can find additional context to what’s going on in the rest of the region in this press release from January 5th and this Richmond Times-Dispatch story from January 15th.The RTD’s Michael Paul Williams writes about DGS’s new fence around Marcus-David Peters circle, saying: “With no removal date in sight, the state’s action Monday represents less the impending removal of Lee from his pedestal than the clearance of a popular circle informally renamed after Marcus-David Peters, who was killed by Richmond police in 2018. As quickly as that fence went up, it’s clear that the state could have waited until it had the court’s OK to remove the statue.” I guess I’m on a rollercoaster of emotions here. First I thought the large trucks and construction crews had rolled up to remove the statue, then I thought the fence went up because removal work was set to begin immediately, but now we’ve ended up in a worst-of-both-worlds place with both a racist statue and a huge, ugly fence designed just to keep people out?Related, Beth Almore, who you may recognize as the Black cellist frequently seen at MDP Circle, has written an open letter about what she’d like to see the space become moving forward. I especially love this part: “…we would like a community-approved Black curator appointed to ensure that the story of over-policing and disproportionate extrajudicial executions remains at the center of the narrative this space tells…Any efforts to remove signs and symbols which interrogate and speak out against extrajudicial executions from the center of the narrative are not acceptable. We feel—strongly—that the space has already been reimagined, by thousands of community members.”We’ll I’m surprised! Jonathan Spiers at Richmond BizSense reports that several councilmembers actually ended up submitting amendments to Richmond 300. At the time, I think I predicted Council would quietly move on from their complaints about the City’s new master plan after it passed. Shows what I know! If we’re going to take planning seriously, though, we should run serious engagement and outreach efforts for each of these amendments—just like we did for the Master Plan as a whole.Today, City Council’s Governmental Operations committee will meet and discuss RES. 2020-R056, which asks for a study on the cost savings from having a bunch of City employees work remotely. I really like the intent behind this resolution, although the Mayor’s administration opposes it because they don’t love how the resolution is written and don’t track (or have the staff to track) some of the things requested. I’m not smart enough to know how to better write this resolution, but a thoughtful look at how continued work-from-home policies might make the City more efficient seems like a good idea?This morning’s longreadThe Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming WorldI thought this long piece in ProPublica was fascinating. I never think about how things like “food production” turn out to be national security issues.A great transformation is underway in the eastern half of Russia. For centuries the vast majority of the land has been impossible to farm; only the southernmost stretches along the Chinese and Mongolian borders, including around Dimitrovo, have been temperate enough to offer workable soil. But as the climate has begun to warm, the land — and the prospect for cultivating it — has begun to improve. Twenty years ago, Dima says, the spring thaw came in May, but now the ground is bare by April; rainstorms now come stronger and wetter. Across Eastern Russia, wild forests, swamps and grasslands are slowly being transformed into orderly grids of soybeans, corn and wheat. It’s a process that is likely to accelerate: Russia hopes to seize on the warming temperatures and longer growing seasons brought by climate change to refashion itself as one of the planet’s largest producers of food.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

Pecking order and Quail are in the news again today. There is always something new with these little guys. I have so much fun with them. They are very entertaining. However, quail, and all birds and fowl, have a dark side. The “pecking order” occurs in many species of animal. It’s done to establish the dominant animal then the next most dominant, and the next and the next, all the way down to the “low man on the totem pole”. However, the very words “pecking order” have to do with birds pecking each other to establish dominance. Not only the quail, but the cow pecking order is in the podcast today. Before I get into all of that, I want to take a minute and say welcome to all the new listeners. Thank you for joining me. And a hearty welcome back to the veteran homestead-loving regulars. Thank you for stopping by the FarmCast for every episode. I appreciate you all so much. Let’s get to it.   Our Virginia Homestead Life Updates Garden The garden is done. I still have some perennial herbs going strong out there, but everything else is done. We need to do lots of cleanup of old, dead plants. The ground cover we used to keep the weeds down will remain in place through the winter. Yes, weeds will survive through the winter and even grow if not kept in check. After the cleanup, the next details on the garden will be talking about what we plan for next year. Creamery Scott has made so much progress with the creamery. All of the open cracks between the blocks have been filled. Additionally, he put a beautiful finish on the concrete blocks. As I mentioned in a previous podcast, it looks a bit like stucco now. That took a lot of extra time and effort. Scott is really good at working on these small touches to add beauty to the building. I say small touches. The idea is small, but the work to make it happen was large, really large. Today Scott is out there making final measurements for roofing materials. He also has a list of odds and ends kinds of tasks to get the building in tip-top shape. A week or so ago he moved all of the winter hay under the roof of the loafing area. That’s going to save some money on hay. He got it done just before the latest remnant of a hurricane came through and dropped another three or so inches of rain on us. Animal Husbandry Donkeys The donkeys are getting ready for their hoof trimming appointment. I was talking with Scott about this just this morning. He let me know that in a previous podcast I had said that Johnny was getting better about standing still for his trimming – and he did not see that as a true statement. According to Scott, Johnny is just as stubborn today as he has been since the first day he arrived on the homestead. Then he told me a story about a neighbor and friend who as a couple of donkeys. His hoof trimming story made Scott’s dealings with Johnny look like a walk in the park. It seems there is always someone, somewhere who has a bigger problem. These stories can help with perspective on our challenges. I’ll put in a little bit about pecking order for all of the animals. Daisy is definitely the matriarch ruler of the donkeys. I don’t know the order beyond that. They tend to hang out in pairs. Daisy and Cocoa are one pair. Johnny and Sweet Pea are the other pair. They are in separate pastures right now so they have no choice but to pair that way. However, when they are together, they still pair up that way. I think Sweet Pea rules in the Sweet Pea/Johnny pairing. Sheep There are still two flocks of sheep, but now configured differently. A small flock of five was originally all boys. Now the small flock of five is one boy, Lambert, and his four female companions. The other four boys are with the rest of last year’s lambs and a couple of other ewes that we decided not to breed this year. There are twelve members in that flock. All are doing well, no issues. The sheep have been the easiest of our animals for quite some time now. I don’t know if we have worked out most of the kinks or they are just easier to deal with in general. Pecking order in the sheep is much harder to see and perhaps they are one of the few animals that do not have one. Sheep hang together as a group better than any of the other animals. They instinctively know that there is power in numbers. If a coyote can get one animal separate, that animal is a goner. So they really huddle together while grazing. The only time I see them jockeying for position is when we have them huddled together. They will butt heads and push each other a little bit there. Watching them move in the field, you can see who the leaders are, the ones that everyone else follows. Again, they tend to stick very close together. One will lead and the rest follow – like sheep. Haha.   Goats The goats are the next easiest animal to deal with on our homestead. We have the internal parasites under control. There is only one real issue with them and that is their hooves needing to be trimmed. They tend to become lame from time to time. I’ve said it before. We are going to gradually phase out our current herd of cashmere goats and replace them with a hardier meat breed. One that is known for low parasite loads and low hoof maintenance. Kiko goats and Spanish goats are the breeds we are considering. Both of these breeds have closer ties to their original, wild state than some of the most popular breeds of goats which have been bred to bring out specific characteristics. Usually either meat or milk. Just like breeding any animal, as you make your genetic choices, some things improve and others get worse. Animals living in the wild are always going to be hardier. Without humans making genetic selections, wild species develop characteristics around one goal. The goal is to survive. In the case of goats, wild species do not have humans there to trim their hooves and treat internal parasites. They must evolve to be resilient, resourceful and efficient in their genetics. Among the goat girls, I don’t see much pecking order. If pressed, they will huddle together like the sheep. However, if they feel threatened, one or more of them will break away from the herd in different directions. I think they rely on their speed and agility to get away from predators. Coyotes hunt in packs and work best when they separate one animal from the rest. But the goats are fast enough to get away, I think. Anyway, one or more will break away as I said. Then the rest of the herd scatters. Goats are significantly harder to herd than sheep if they get excited. If you keep them calm and gently move them a little at a time, they are not so hard to move. So I think the goat girls have a much subtler pecking order. If we were working them closely like we do the cows, we might see it more. We don’t have goat boys anymore, but there was definitely a pecking order there. Appomattox was king and Roanoke was prince. Everybody else was down from there. Sometimes I miss the boys. They were all so regal with their long, curled horns. Cows The calves are completely weaned from milk. They are out there grazing on grass full time now. The preg checks on the girls are done and we have five of six that are pregnant. It is as we expected. Buttercup is not pregnant. We were pretty sure that was the case but it is nice to know for sure. Our newest heifer, Rosie, is pregnant. She was bred at a very young age so I got some really good advice from the vet about how to help her through the process. The central bit of advice is that she needs to grow. Rosie will get extra feed all winter. She was getting just a taste to get her trained to put her head in the milking stanchion. However, the vet recommended she gets lots of extra feed with at least 14% protein, as much as she wants without getting fat. We don’t want her to get fat because that would complicate the birth as well, but she needs to grow. She needs to get bigger. The extra feed will help her with that. We give her the best feed available. It is non-soy, non-gmo organic dairy feed, 15% protein. Scott and I had this long discussion on how to feed Rosie while not feeding the rest of the herd. We are a grass-fed operation for the most part. The big girls get a little supplement while they are producing milk. Other than that, it is grass year-round with supplemental hay in the winter. That’s it. In order to get Rosie the extra feed she needs a separate pasture area is required. We need to keep her close to be able to get feed to her efficiently. Now who to put with her as a companion? The calves are too small. She has already shown she will bully them so we can’t put Rosie with the calves. The calves will get merged into the big girl herd as soon as those big girls stop producing milk. Moving the calves frees up that pasture area. It’s close. We can easily keep an eye on Rosie. Should we put the two Jerseys together? Butter is high in the pecking order and Rosie is low man on the totem pole being the youngest and latest addition to the herd. Rosie will not bully Butter. Could Butter be the one to be a companion for Rosie? Naw. Butter would simply bowl her over and grab her feed. After some little discussion, we decided that Buttercup is the perfect choice as companion for Rosie. Unlike Butter, who will bowl over anyone who gets between her and feed, Buttercup is the opposite and pretty ambivalent towards anything but grass. Oh, she will eat her supplements, but she is not eager. Rosie will get her feed and Buttercup will just keep grazing and may not even notice. Any of the other cows would immediately come up and start competing for that feed. Hopefully, it will work out as we have envisioned it. If not, we will come up with another plan. One other note on pecking order amongst the cows. Once the calves get added to the main herd, Rosie will no longer be low man. At least until the calves are full grown. If Virginia and Luna get bigger than Rosie – and they will – Rosie may end up back at the bottom again. We shall see. Butter is smaller than Violet and also a fairly recent addition to the herd, but I’m pretty sure Violet is only one step higher than Rosie. Butter pushes Violet around at will. Claire will always be matriarch and Buttercup right behind her, or maybe Cloud. Those two are close in dominance. Violet, Butter and Rosie are down the line. I don’t know all of their criteria for order of dominance, but it is quite educational to watch it all happen. Milking We have three more days of milking and then we are done for this year. There is always a sigh of relief as the final day of milking is complete. The constant, every day, no breaks schedule of milking is not for the faint of heart. Some people do it year-round. Twice a day, every day, 365 days a year. That’s not for us. We love our cows. And we love our milk and dairy products. But we don’t love it so much that we give up our entire lives for it. Nope. We have a plan for making a living and milking seasonally. Maybe some time in the far future we will sell our little dairy and someone else will come in and want to a milk a larger herd of cows, every day, 7 day-a-week, 365-days a year. They will have the setup to do that as well. We have created a creamery with lots of flexibility to scale up as needed. We could scale it up if the need arose. Right now, the business plan is seasonal milking. We have three more days of milking and then we are done for this year. Skim Milk and Yogurt Over the past couple of weeks, I have been freezing skim milk. Scott will drink it after we run out of fresh whole milk and I now have enough to see him through the winter. The final six gallons went into the freezer this morning. Whole milk does not freeze well. The cream separates and get lumpy. It doesn’t incorporate back into the milk very well. I’ve heard stories of people making it work, but I never have been able to do it. Even thawing it very slowly and shaking it up a lot. The cream is just changed by the freezing process and there is no going back. I will still be making yogurt for a few more days. There are seven quarts in each batch stored in 14 pint containers with tight lids. The yogurt is an experiment to see how long it will last in the refrigerator. I’m making enough for three or four months. Will it be edible three of four months from now? I don’t know. We’ll keep you up-to-date on that as we progress through the winter. In the end, we will know exactly how long we can keep yogurt and that’s useful information. Quail Now on to the quail and their pecking order. I don’t know if there is another animal that is as vicious as birds when it comes to pecking order. Sure, they are cute and fun to watch. But turn your back and the next thing you know they are pecking so much they actually injure one another. We had just that scenario recently. There is only one white bird among all of the other shades of brown birds. A little over a week ago, she got injured. Her head was bleeding just a bit. The next day I went out there and the other birds had severely injured her, literally scalping her. Once they had the taste of blood in their mouth, they just kept going and going. I quickly got her out of there and into private lodging. She is healing up but it is going to take a long time. Especially when there was quite a set-back. One of the birds was obviously in distress with mites. So we were cleaning out all of the cages, disinfecting them and treating the birds and cages for parasites. We moved all of the birds out of the cages and into the various plastic boxes we use as brooders for young birds. I put the white one back in with her original group just to see how it would go. Not a good idea. After only a couple of hours, she was bloodied again. Naturally, she is back in her private domain once again. The other bird that was showing signs of parasite infestation has been removed from her group as well. It was a few days before we got the permethrin we needed to treat the birds and cages, so I moved her away from the others. While cleaning the cages, we put her back in with her former cage companions. Same couple of hours and she had a small bit of blood on top of her beak. I decided immediately that she needed to be separated until that healed. The blood is just too tempting for these guys. Again, birds are vicious. And remember, even though you can buy chicken eggs in the grocery store that say “vegetarian fed”, birds are NOT vegetarians. They are very carnivorous, though they will eat veggies as well. You will recall the stories of the early bird getting the worm while you were growing up. That story meant to teach promptness to children. However, it also illustrates that birds like worms. They also like bugs. Birds are not vegetarian. Anyway, I really love my quail. They are a joy to watch. But they are still animals. They exhibit animalistic tendencies. Make no mistake, they have a pecking order and only the strong survive. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep my one white hen. She may be too different from the others. She may be low man on the totem pole because of her color. I don’t know. I’ll still make the effort to get her healed and back with her group. But if it happens again, I’ll have to make a different choice for her. It would be cruel to continue to let her be pecked so badly. Sometimes the only choices are tough ones.   Final Thoughts That’s it for today’s Peaceful Heart Farmcast. As usual, there is a lot going on at the homestead. Always something new, something different. Life is filled with wonder and awe at nature and God’s creation. The hierarchy of the animal kingdom is alive and well. It has worked for thousands of years to bring us and our animal friends to this point in time. We fully expect the pecking order to ensure that life continues to the end of time. Sometimes it’s ugly. Just as our lives can be tough. But we all do the best we can with what we have. We cry and pray and hope to live to see another day.   If you enjoyed this podcast, please hop over to Apple Podcasts or whatever podcasting service you use, SUBSCRIBE and give me a 5-star rating and review. If you like this content and want to help out the show, the absolute best way you can do that is to share it with any friends or family who might be interested in this type of content. Let them know about the Peaceful Heart Farmcast. Thank you so much for stopping by the homestead and until next time, may God fill your life with grace and peace. 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Why do we think that Virginia is an underrated state for RV travel? A lot of its awesomeness gets overshadowed by the neighboring states. And yet, there are so many Virginia camping destinations that should be on your list! Virginia serves up mountains, beaches, charming small towns, and one really cool city to explore (we're cheating and counting Washington D.C.). If Virginia has flown under your radar, check out our list of great destinations to explore. The post Underrated Camping Destinations: Virginia appeared first on RV Family Travel Atlas.

JJ, JP, and Christian team up to talk about Virginia elections--namely, how a gun violence majority got elected in Virginia for the first time on record. If Virginia is now a state for gun violence prevention lovers, what does that mean?Today in this Minisode, we cover:what a gun violence prevention majority means;why the Virginia election matters so much; why do people keep saying "if we can do it here we can do it anywhere;" andhow survivors and politicians really made this issue their own. JJ, JP, and Christian also discuss what it's like to do grassroots organizing, how to run a campaign in 2019, and what Virginia signals to the rest of America. Some of the links mentioned in this episode :"2019 Elections and Endorsements"“Brady Celebrates Virginia Election Results.”For more information on Brady, follow us on social @Bradybuzz, or via our website at bradyunited.org. Full transcripts and bibliography available at bradyunited.org/podcast.National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255. Music provided by: David “Drumcrazie” CurbySpecial thanks to Hogan Lovells, for their longstanding legal support ℗&©2019 Red, Blue, and BradyYour hosts:In this episode of "Red, Blue and Brady," the podcast all about gun violence prevention, JJ is joined by JP and also by Christian! JP is Senior Manager of field operations and grassroots organizing at Brady. Despite being super busy, he enjoys taking time for the podcast. Christian is the Vice President of Policy at Brady, leading all legislative efforts at the federal and state level. He began advocating for stronger gun laws after a man with a history of violence shot his parents on Memorial Day 2005. His father survived multiple gunshots, but his mother was killed. Today, Christian works tirelessly to build consensus both in the states and in Congress. JJ, meanwhile, is the podcast producer and co-host at Brady. She spends her days yelling into a microphone. All of them can be reached @bradybuzz. Support the show (https://www.bradyunited.org/donate)

If Virginia and Taylor are experts on anything, it’s this: Dumb Bitch Syndrome. It’s a serious condition, often contracted due to becoming dickmatized or pussessed. This week the duo give you a breakdown of this made-up language, the side effects of having great sex with a not so great person, and how to SNAP OUT OF IT. You can share your own Dumb Bitch Syndrome stories to unratedunruly@gmail.com! Love us? Hate us? Either way, follow us! @UnratedUnruly Wanna follow the hosts?Virginia: @LovelyVirginiaTaylor: @Taybionda--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unratedunruly/message

If Virginia is for lovers... why is there so much hate? Bekah and Tony cover the politics of love in week six. One candidate experiences a come from behind lead...while the other demands a recount.  Grab your podium and cast your vote in #Beccalection 2018! The drama continues as usual. Take a listen and hear our thoughts! The "Bachelor After-Party with Bekah and Tony" is a Bachelor Nation podcast from a couple who is here "for the right reasons!" Tune in after each epsiode to hear our thoughts, quips, and comments about all the drama that will unfold each week leading up to a possible proposal.  Don't forget to subscribe, share and comment! We can also be found on iTunes! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bachelorafterparty/support