Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

I really should read my own blog.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

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On The Road – UncleEbeneezer – Golden Sierra 2023: Aspendell (Part 4 of 4)

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On our last full day, while Kelly was chilling by the creek, I decided to do a little solo hike to Aspendell and Cardinal Village, which are both just north of Bishop Park Campground.

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Aspendell, CAOctober 13, 2023

At the top end of the Bishop Park Campground road there is a lovely grove of aspens.  This is where the Camp Host is located.  There’s also a creekside trail and a fire road.  The fire road leads to Aspendell, a small community of houses in Bishop Creek.

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On The Road – UncleEbeneezer – Golden Sierra 2023: Long Lake (Part 3 of 4)

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We wanted to do one fairly challenging day hike during our trip.  So we decided to do the hike to Long Lake that starts out of the South Lake area of Bishop Creek.  The hike is only about 5.5 miles round trip with 1,800 foot elevation gain.  Not crazy-hard, but at that altitude a significant workout for us.

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South Lake, Bishop, CAOctober 9, 2023

On the way up to Convict Lake, we detoured into Bishop Creek and finally got a chance to do the drive to South Lake, for the first time.  The Fall Foliage was really great and the view at the South Lake was spectacular.

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On The Road – UncleEbeneezer – Golden Sierra 2023: Bishop Park (Part 2 of 4)

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One of our goals for the trip this year, was to camp in the aspens!

–Detail on planning you may want to skip—

We knew that after two nights at Convict Lake we were going to try our chances at one of the numerous campgrounds in the Eastern Sierra.  So I did a bunch of research on the areas that we were considering based on when the Fall Color typically peaks, each year and then scoured the pictures at CampsitePhotos to figure out the best sites that featured aspens on/in/around the site.  We decided that Bishop Creek would be the area we would likely target and narrowed it down to three campgrounds: Four Jeffrey, Intake 2 and Bishop Park.  On Monday, on the drive up to Convict Lake we did a detour up into Bishop Creek and checked out all three campgrounds, in person.  We decided that Bishop Park would be our first choice, then Four Jeffrey.  Intake 2 has some cool spots but the a lot of the color was already on the ground due to the snow and wind a few days earlier.  And, it looked like you get a lot of fishing people walking through your campsite, which would annoy us.

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Bishop Park Campground, CAOctober 11, 2023

Many of the sites at Bishop Park are right on top of each other, but there are a couple that have decent privacy.  We really scored by getting #6.  It is huge and has lots of aspens and access to the creek.  It is also a walk-in but it’s a very short walk.  It does have a neighbor #7, nearby that you can see, but all in all we still feel like it had plenty of privacy and was, in our opinion, the best site at Bishop Park.

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On The Road – UncleEbeneezer – Golden Sierra 2023- Convict Lake (Part 1 of 4)

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Last year we really enjoyed strolling around Convict Lake during our Fall Color trip to the Eastern Sierra.  So after a really hard year, with my wife Kelly losing both her Mom and her Dad, in addition to several other health and $ challenges, we decided to treat ourselves by returning to Convict Lake and staying at the cute cabins of Convict Lake Resort for a couple nights before grabbing a campsite somewhere else in the Sierra.  Here are some of our pics.

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Convict Lake, CAOctober 10, 2023

Great view of the mountains and some fall color, at the beginning of our hike around the CL Loop Trail.

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