thanks Dan, any update from you makes MY day better anyway. I wouldn't declaw a cat neither.
Lately I've been starting late in the morning and taking a two hour lunch. It's my writing time and I like it. There's an apartment next to the shop where I'm cranking out henhouses, slowly, but more arfully than I've ever done in my life. The shop has a lot of old feelings for me, since I built it an all, at the start of my contracting career. Like I know now that I've come full circle and can rest. And these people are really into co-housing and permaculture and like me and have permission to house five different families on the land, with no county interference ( some sorta ag thing) and thus I can see retiring here, building a cottage, settling down with my wife, just down the road from the kids, and needing no car or salary or anything forever. Something I wanted and yearned for my whole life, but all my plans and schemes and efforts fell short. And then it all just fell in my lap. I can't say it was "without striving" because the striving had it's causative relations. It just happened different than I thought. Like you the motorcycle maintainer. How perfect is that? Please get a little wrench symbol over you door, some sorta nod to the cognizant, make it your only sign. Since I wrecked it and myself on my last one, I'm gonna have wait till Josh is eighteen before I'll be able to get another and NO MORE CROTCH ROCKETRY. I promised Lu. Prolly an old farts bike. Goldwing, mebbe. but without the faring. I don't plan on getting THAT old. I can see your "floney" idea really taking hold. unfortunately. John the chicken farmer's friend On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > New Dogs, Old Tricks > > I don’t see many honey bees this year. I’ve read where domesticated > colonies are continuing to collapse from some mystery illness > researchers have yet to pinpoint... combination of things most likely. > I wonder if the sickness has invaded the wild colonies too. Maybe > though it is all simply a honey bee conspiracy and this so-called hive > collapse is just the natural order of things. Still, I do miss > watching the bees bumble from one flower to another and another. And I > wonder where I will get honey should all the bees disappear. I have a > sweet tooth for honey, don't'cha know. > > I have flower gardens dotting my yard since they mean less mowing. I > am sitting in the midst of a garden while I write this missive. I see > lots of flys flitting about from flower to flower reminding me of > honey bees. It appears to me (the uneducated observer) that the flys > are doing the same things as honey bees have done in the past. Perhaps > they are evolving to fill the niche left void by the absent bees. > > In the not too distant future some intrepid individual will > (doubtlessly) manipulate the fly genome to incorporate the honey > making mechanism and floney (fly vomit secretion we see specked on our > walls, windows and ceilings) will become a world renowned delicacy. > Instead of hauling large bee hives brimming with honey bees from field > to field like bee keepers used to do, floneyfly-keepers will haul from > field to field huge covered wagons full of stinking steamy slimy > bullshit teeming with hundreds of billions of floney maggots and > floney flys that will pollinate the farmers’ harvests. > > Of course some of the floneyflys would escape into the wild and set up > fly keeping there. Hey. Maybe that’s what’s happening, even now… > > On a different note... it appears I have developed a bit of a name as > a motorcycle mechanic who knows what he’s doing. There aren’t enough > hours in the day to fix all the bikes sitting in my shop at the > moment. And it is all word of mouth. I don’t do any advertising. It > seems that I have been egregored into the motorcycle riders’ sphere of > influence; I am the Giant; ku ku ka chu. > > No longer do I have to ride a bike to tell what’s wrong with it. No > longer do I have to ask someone. All I have to do is look at it. > Listen to the tapping of the motor. Smell the exhaust. Caress the > manifolds. Especially a Harley. I don’t remember it happening but it > appears this new dog has learned some old tricks that make his > services valuable to others who haven’t the touch or the know how to > do what I do. Like the floneyflys I fill a niche that is otherwise > void. Stuff has got to be done. And someone (or something) has got to > do it. > > I find myself rising at the unheard of hour of 4am to begin my day. > Anyone who knows me well would find that hard to believe as I have > always let it be known that 9 or 10am or even noon is a much more > decent hour to be getting up. But I have found something I enjoy doing > so getting up early to do it is a treat and not a hassle as it would > be if I had to get up. I like getting up. I like the world as it is at > 4am… quiet and cool and full of potential. And, luckily, my customers > have (so far) failed to realize that I would fix their motorcycles for > nothing. Getting paid to do it allows me to pay my own bills so it > works out good for everyone involved. Keeps the world turning, so to > speak. > > I see my old declawed tomcat Kovu has learned to jump the 6 foot > privacy fence around my backyard. He watched the other cats with claws > climbing over and sure enough, he followed suit. I myself would never > have a cat declawed. This particular cat showed up at my door some ten > years ago on one cold winter day so I let him in and he’s stayed on > ever since. I figured he must have belonged to one of the neighbors so > I ran an ad in the local paper but no one claimed him. He never goes > far so I don’t overly trouble myself with his fence climbing. I am > only surprised that it took him so long to figure out that he could do > it. > > Big puffy gray and white clouds are moving across the sky obscuring a > bright warm sun. The day is warm for late April and breezy and the > potato plants are pushing through the soil and I have taken green > onions, radishes, and garlic from my garden already this spring. I am > taking a rare day off. I haven’t been feeling a 100% for the last > couple weeks... perhaps I need some time to chill. The sunshine feels > very fine on my skin as I sit here plucking at the keys and I find > myself with enough audacity to hope the clouds will blow off soon and > the neighbor will finish mowing his rather large yard. The noise is > quite detracting from an otherwise quiet and serene day. > > May all of you have as fine a day… > > Dan > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:07 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm in a bad mood and need to vent. you guys can take it. I've seen > you. > > > > I'm in a bad mood because my little brother has gone off the rails > > completely. It's always nasty when narcisstic dyads come undone, but his > > divorce is taking it to absurd heights and has pissed of his whole family > > with his weirdness. > > > > And I'm done with him. A depressing thing, but happens often in the ole > > vale of tears, sob, effing sob. > > > > And then, what really makes me mad, is people mowing their lawns. > > > > I mean, here we have this amazing construction of biological > miraculousness, > > converting sun to sugar, heat to cool, rays to roots, food for myriad > life > > forms, and people come along with their machines, rendering it inorganic > and > > useless, chaff to blow away in the wind, soil to disperse to the breeze. > > Stupid behavior and yet they deem it moral and neighborly to keep their > > lawns under control. > > > > And don't get me started on Roundup. The "organic" herbicide. "It turns > > into Fertilizer!" I hear expressed with admiration. > > > > Meanwhile, it's starting to appear that the bees are dying from the > > chemicals we pour into our environment. > > > > oh well. > > > > At least we'll have nice lawns. > > > > around our friggin' graves. > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
