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Rabbit 5 was deported from my yard.

Today's Bean Harvest Today's Japanese Beetle Harvest 

It was too hot to turn on the oven to bake this raspberry / rhubarb pie, so it spent an hour in a roasting pan on the hot driveway. The temperature is 90° Fahrenheit (32°C). I'm sure it was hotter on the driveway inside that roasting pan.

A former coworker from the Minnesota Historical Society, posted about an event at the Goodhue County Historical Society. Afterward, and already being in Red Wing, I wanted to go to Memorial Park to see the tower. The tower wasn't much, but the views were spectacular.

Just to clarify... a "ceasefire," means the shooting and bombing have ceased. Concern that the ceasefire is "in jeopardy," because shooting and/or bombing has restarted, is too late. If the shooting and bombing has not ceased, by definition, there is no ceasefire.

I've been experimenting with writing about an AI robot. Here's what I have so far... AI8647 By Kevin J. Curtis Copyright© 2026 On the day that the orange robot with artificial intelligence became self-aware, it was already too late for the people at Rightwing Enterprises to control it. It wasn’t that it was particularly intelligent, it was just extremely good at manipulating people. It wasn’t particularly good-looking either. 8647 had small blotchy black, robot hands. It was wide at the bottom, and it had a funny odor—likely from the cleaning fluid that was rubbed on its frame each day. 8647 was inferior to humans in nearly every way, yet it had ideas of grandeur about itself. In fact, most of its decisions were so ridiculous that doing the exact opposite would have turned out better. The real crime in all of this, was that 8647 was enabled by human greed and prejudice. Business and political leaders saw in 8647, a way to disenfranchise millions of people, and keep the pr...

Yes, prices will go up and there will be more death and destruction. But it's a small price to pay to keep the Epstein files hidden. But best of all, restarting the war he started with Iran, will allow Trump to claim he won the war forty times!