Drying String Beans start of new project

Green beans are starting to produce. So lets do a project of stringing them up, let them dry for a few months and see what happens.

Planting fig trees

My wife, nephew, nephews wife, their son and my grandkids planted three fig trees.

The trees were bought at Lowes here in Jasper Texas. One of the trees was wilted so we got it for 1/2 price.

Around each tree we spread a bag of cow manure / compost mixture that was also bought from Lowes. One fig tree was a Kadota fig, the other two trees are Brown Turkey fog trees.

Now it is just a matter of keeping the trees watered until they get established.

Received a warning from google on my blog

I received an email from google saying part of my blog was in violation of their adsense policy.  The link the report contained was to the urban survival section, and not to an exact article.

The warning stated,

Violation explanation

HATE/ANTI: Publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on sites with content advocating against any individual, group, or organization. More information about this policy can be found in our help center ( https://www.google.com/adsense/support/as/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105947 ).

VIOLENCE: As stated in our program policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with violent content. This includes sites with content related to breaking bones, getting hit by trains or cars, or people receiving serious injuries. More information about this policy can be found in our help center ( https://www.google.com/adsense/support/as/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105954 ).

The only thing I could find in the urban survival section was a post on the beheading  in London.

This makes me wonder if google is pushing a policy of suppressing opinions on radical islam?

Are we not allowed to express our opinions on radical islam without google threatening revenue?  Its eitehr do as we say or we cut your sites source of income.

Plans for memorial day

Memorial day is next weekend.  After talking about it my wife and I decided to help a friend move saturday, then spend the rest of the weekend relaxing.

Instead of launching the boat at bevil port, we might launch at Martin Dies park, walnut run side.  I would like to throw out some noodles and do some bass fishing while on Dam B.

Summer is here

The weather is starting to warm up, trees have finished blooming, it feels good getting outside and doing something,

A couple of weeks ago my daughter and I made up some noodles for catfishing.  I will probably make up some more in the next couple of weeks.

Walmart only has the pool noodles in for a few months.  So I have to buy the noodles while they are in stock.

Rabbit Update - raising rabbits for SHTF

Update to my rabbit project.

Buying an expired domain name

Back around 2001, 2002 I was visiting a video game site. I changed jobs, moved, and during all of that I stopped visiting the site for a couple of years.

About 3 or 4 years ago I went back to the site (2008), only to find out the name had expired.

I bought the domain name as fast as I could.

After I bought the domain name I started looking for backlinks, and through archive.org.

Come to find out, a couple of college guys had opened the site all the way back in 1999. They kept it alive from 1999 to around 2004, when they lost interest in the game and let the domain name expire.

One of parked domain companies bought the name, and parked it for around 3 years.

I bought the name in something like 2008, after the parking company let the name expire.

When I installed wordpress, the site recovered its decade old ranking in a matter of days. Looking through google webmaster tools I found links that were almost decade old that the college kids had posted back in 1999, 2000, and 2001.

How would I have know in 2008 that the domain name had been used before? Unless I did some research, or visited the site before.

If you go to godaddy or namecheap and buy a domain name, does not mean it has not been used before.