Thanks - larger market wanted money and insurance certificate with application, I emailed them asking if they would hold my check until they guaranteed the space (since this is nonprofit run by volunteers I wanted to make sure 1 person didn't cash the check while another collected names & decided who to give space to!). Also asked if I could wait and have certificate sent to them after I was approved since it will cost me $50 to get certificate. I hope this didn't come across too much as PITA, but they also wanted "specific items to be sold" - so I started typing out a list of all my seeds for them, said in email "Some are guaranteed spots in the beds, but others I am not sure would be good sellers based on sales at X market last year, though they might be in yours. If you have any "must haves" please indicate those in your reply and I will be sure to plant those. Of course, I cannot guarantee that everything I plant will make it to market due to weather, pests, or disease losses." I also found last year that I didn't quite have enough of some things to support 2 markets, but I had enough of others (esp. tomatoes) to sell wholesale and to sell to people at DH's work, either the next day (leftovers) or midweek (with 3-4 days to go til next market!). So online orders, in addition to the Thurs/Fri deliveries at work and weekend farmstand, might work out well with a Wed night market. Last year was tough with Fri AM orders going to work and Fri night market. Of course I can do "preorders" to deliver at market too, that might work out esp. well with things in short supply, or eggs that need to be kept cool (if they pick up at the beginning of market). Oh, I just got email from town Ag commission - they're updating the farm map and want $25 to add (or keep) a farm, to go towards printing costs. I don't think I can get on the online map without being on print, though I MAY be able to get listed on website without being on the map (they haven't updated the listings yet). Think it's worth it since I'm on the outskirts of town? They'd have to redraw the map since they don't go far enough west to show the main road that I have frontage on (in another town). I don't want them to add a circle with a vague location on my "official" address where I don't have frontage. Everyone would get confused like the tax assessor did when they came out to see the house after we built!

When I first saw those tracks last winter I did send the photos to every big cat website I could think of, with no results. Apparently, there aren't any track forums, and jaguars are now officially "extinct" in North America. This forum is full of nature experts, so I posted the track photos here next, but in the meantime I did my own research and got a game cam, but its been too wary to get in front of them. For old timers, remember how the webmaster, Spike, would censor any post that was "off subject?" Didn't mean to upset those who haven't been following my jaguar saga. For the purists, there were wild turkey photos on the cam also. Since I also post photos to my blog and on Twitter, where the subjects aren't strictly segmented, I sometimes assume all people who are interested in birds are also interested in other creatures in the same environment. But if the animal finally gets on camera, that would be the only wild jaguar in North America (at least, officially). I did question the neighbor and he described the black kitten as having a "large, square" head, and short legs, and the tracks for jaguars are larger and shaped differently from both cougar and leopard tracks. The sounds we heard were nothing like a cougar, which I have heard. They were like the sounds on the National Geographic clip I already posted, and the tracks, seen clearly in the mud, next to a ruler, are in the link I already posted as well. The jaguar is the largest North American cat, with 4 1/4" wide front tracks and a metapad that fills most of the track. The game cam photo with the whiskers doesn't show what animal it is, just that something with long whiskers was messing with the camera the same night we heard the strange calls right outside our tent. I found tracks everywhere afterward, but none of them were clear, or in mud.

Well, next time you guys get a phone call from someone claiming to be from IRS and asking for money, here's what you should do: 1. If you think you might owe taxes, call the IRS. They can help you set up a payment arrangement. 2. If you get a call and you know it's a scam, refer the call to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. 3. File a complaint with the FTC through their website. 4. Expose the phone scam by reporting it to Callercenter.com. Submit a complaint and warn others. Remember that the IRS does not initiate contact with taxpayers to discuss tax issue and demand immediate payment.

This is really not a partisan thing. I recognize that politicians I don't like, like Obama (who I think was damaging to the country), are basically good people and not unbelievably corrupt. Ironically, though, from my perspective, I would prefer to have Clinton as President than Obama b/c she's Machiavellian and corrupt and won't do anything to jeopardize her ability to hold on to power as long as possible, so she's more likely not to push the envelope with far left propositions like Obama, who I think actually has political convictions (unlike Clinton who stands for nothing). The Clintons, unlike leftists who actually have ideological belief systems they care about, care about benefiting and enriching the Clintons. That's the entirety of their value system and any contributions they may happen to make to the world are secondary to enriching the Clintons and expanding their power. Th foundation is just an extension of that... With all of the facts about the foundation, it is hard for me to picture anyone defending it, to be honest. From their own tax returns, the foundation raised over $500 million from 2009-2012. More than $25 million went for travel expenses; almost $110 million for employee salaries and benefits; and $290 million for 'other expenses. Very odd that if these "other expenses" were actually going primarily to legitimate and honest charitable purposes, that there wouldn't be more detailed disclosures. If you are running a charity, you don't pay millions for private jet travel or thousands of dollars a month to Clinton cronies like Sid Blumenthal ($10K a month for Sid b/c Clinton couldn't get him in at the state department and had to put her old family friend on the payroll somewhere). When you look at even their own lists of what they actually DID, it amounts to very, very little. No way do these "initiatives" and "programs" they describe add up to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of charitable donations. And even their supposed "charitable initiatives" are rife with controversy. Take Haiti- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c2oBh1yDhc In January 2015, there were protests outside of the Clinton Foundation for wasting billions and awarding contracts to non-Haitian companies.The activists also said Haiti as a cover for foreign governments to funnel kickbacks of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation Potesters at the Foundation's Harlem offices say the money was wildly mismanaged and did not provide the relief Haitians desperately needed. "Only 900 homes were built, and they were not even built in the area where the earthquake took place," said Ricot Dupuy of Radio Soleil. "So much inconsistency, so much irregularity." This is not even getting into the sketchy donations from foreign governments and people with business before the state department and the accusations of pay-for-play. Millions from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with HORRIBLE records on women's rights as Clinton proclaims herself to be for women and children. The there was the uranium deal.... In 2010 the State Department approved a move by the Russian state-owned company Rosatom to purchase a Canadian mining company with uranium mineral rights on US soil after a bank with ties to the Russian company paid Mr Clinton $500,000 for a speaking engagement in Moscow. The Canadian company in question was founded by million-dollar foundation donor Frank Giustra. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32441222  Or how about when Clinton's State Department approved of "$165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation," including "Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar," according to International Business Times- http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187 Or when the Clinton Foundation admits breaking ethical rules by taking money from Algeria. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/11437994/Clinton-Foundation-admits-breaking-ethical-rules-by-taking-money-from-Algeria.html  Or reports that: "More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president." http://bigstory.ap.org/article/82df550e1ec646098b434f7d5771f625/many-donors-clinton-foundation-met-her-state