Hi Dan, Every three months a local group, in my little town, put together a coffee house event. All volunteer, except for a featured, performer. It's mostly original songs and music, and wonderful. Last night the starring performer was a young woman from Boston who sang a mean Blues, but all the singer/musicians were great! A local restaurant donates food that we sell to raise additional money for the next event, and homemade desserts help add dollars to the coffers. My job is to collect the money at the door and sell raffle tickets. It is such a pleasure to participate.
Stay well Dan and keep in touch. You are one of the really good patterns in my life. I miss you when you are away too long. Marsha p.s. I feel the loss of the little honey bees too. There are new different bees out and about, but I haven't seen a little honey bee in a long time. When I move to the next place, I'm hoping to try to set up a couple of hives, but we'll see. States are providing free classes on 'how to get started.' On Apr 24, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Dan Glover 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!" 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