Mother Nature 'n logistics.....

It's kind'a Christmasy around the manor house this time of year…I'm havin' coffee in a Christmas cup 'n I ate my breakfast off a Christmas plate that has the twelve days of Christmas printed around the edge….'n I got to thinkin' about the logistics of it…y 'know what I mean, the whole twelve drummers drumming thing….that's a lot of noise, 'specially if they're doing it at the same time as eleven pipers piping…'n ten Lords a-leaping, miGawd, even one Lord a-leaping 'ud be a major distraction at breakfast time, not to mention those nine Ladies dancing around the breakfast table 'n you just gotta wonder a bit at what they're wearing at that time of day…one maid milking brings a whole 'nother aspect to the picture but if you got eight of 'em, that means that somewhere you got eight milk cows 'n if you've ever in your lifetime mucked out a cow barn…well, the logistics of the thing c'd set your head swimming 'n there you'd be bothered a bit, I imagine, with those seven darn swans…by the time you get past the half dozen geese laying eggs 'n playing with five gold rings while being pestered by four calling birds 'n three French hens (gabbling in French, no doubt) I expect you wudn't pay a lot of attention to two turtle doves cooing at the Partridge nesting in your pear tree…

It's all about logistics…I learned from my limited foray into the military not to question the power of our weapons or the efficiency of our logistics…can't say I took the same delite in 'em as the 'big shots' but that ain't t'say I wudn't impressed by it all…..

Kind'a chilly t'day…we got ourselves a bit of a north wind…I ain't felt any urgency to turn on the telly 'n check the weather but I'd almost be money that we got a little bit of serious snow up in the Sierra…if we get enuff snow in the mountains, we don't need all that rain down here…'course, Mother Nature don't pay any attention to my tho'ts on the subject anyway…She don't do rewards or punishments, She just does consequences...