Down by the riverside......

Ain’t this transitional weather a kick in the old patootie..
Mark Twain described the weather in northern California as ‘year-round’ summer ‘n I s’poze compared to the weather back in what was then referred to as ‘the States’...it surely was.
The transition from summer to winter, like the transition from winter to summer, what other climes refer to as Spring ‘n Fall, is subtle here in the Sackamenna Valley....Spring moves northward at about twenty miles a day which means that the duration here is about five hours or so...’n the way to recognize Autumn here on the banks of the American River is the gov’t mandated time change when almost ev’rybody turns their clocks backward an hour on a designated Sunday thereby signalling the PC among us to put away their white clothing ‘n sandals.....’course, no one in California ever puts away their sunglasses ‘n the very cautious still use sunblock ev’ry day....at least until the rain ‘n fog appears ‘n that’s usually around Christmas-time (I don’t know how other religions mark the coming of winter ‘n frankly I don’t care)....My teenage grandson recently remarked on FB that he was no longer a Christian ‘n I’m wondering if we still have to give him a Christmas present....’course, maybe he’ll still embrace Christianity for a couple weeks in December but I may be cynical (comes with dotage, don’cha know).....
Anyways.....the sun is shining, there’s a coolish breeze ‘n the leaves on the liquidamber trees have all gone red....’n I need t’make a run to Costco so’s they won’t go bellyup in this recovering economy...well, that’s what the administration dogs say...trouble is, I’m old enuff to remember all the jokes from the last depression about prosperity being just around the corner ‘n I ain’t gonna hold my breath for it....

Sumtimes current events just get t'be too much.....

Fire and Ice
R.Frost

“Some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”

To steal or not to steal, that is the question...

It ain’t considered stealing s’long as you give credit to the guy what said it. Over the years, there’ve been a lot of people who said things I wished I’d said....one of ‘em was Art Buchwald who said a lot of things that I wouldn’t have minded saying first.....His comment on LBJ ‘n the Great Society seems as apt t’day as it was then......
In my ‘way back when time, Lyndon Johnson was President of the US ‘n Art Buchwald wrote:
“As soon as the President finished his State of the Union speech, I was ordered to get some public reaction. I immediately called my father in Forest Hills, NY and asked him what he thought of all the things the President wanted to do (The Great Society).”
“If he’s got the money,” my father said, “let him go ahead.”
“I don’t think he has the money, Pop.”
“I knew there was a catch to it.”

FOR THE RECORD....

I don’t believe in the ‘Big Bang Theory’ of creation....
and as for the argument over Creationism versus Evolution....I no longer believe in either one of those theories.....I’m pretty sure that there was no ‘God’ who got bored one day and slapped together the world as we know it and as far as evolution goes.....it don’t. I know they’ve (the ubiquitous ones) have been teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as substantiated fact for a number of years now but they’re wrong. Evolution has never been proven and...s’prize-s’prize....it ain’t gonna be...what is a fact and what the enlightened ‘they’ have mistaken for evolution is merely mutation. And mutation is a proven. We can do it in laboratories. We do it in laboratories all the time. In plants and animals. And there is no reason to suspect that humans haven’t mutated as well. I’m just sayin’......

Musings before coffee.....

Sixish here! In the AM ‘n still dark tho’ the sky is a lighter shade of dark.....well, wot the hell, t’is November after all ‘n even in northern California.....ah no, here in the land of pretty much year-round summer, I just can’t bring m’self to call our present weather ‘winter’....well, it ain’t. It’s what passes for Autumn here....longer, cooler nites, shorter, cooler days....the chickens are giving the world their morning shout-out....the chickens of Ol Fair Oaks are a diverse lot unlike the monotone bunch they have in Key West....one living next door is black ‘n kind of furry with long feathers on his legs that make him look like he’s wearing chaps.....Ralph Lauren’ud love him...
What happens this time o’ day is that the person (or persons) who deliver the morning paper drives down the street, wakes up the chickens who then scream for the sun to come up ‘n start the day.....Y’can’t blame ‘em for feeling like it’s their responsibility any more than you can blame people for feeling like they actually ‘rule’ the world.....
I woke up this morning thinking about all the clever people running things in this world of ours.....y’know the ones I’m talking about....people like Chris Dodd ‘n Nancy Pelosi ‘n Harry Reid....’n not just them alone, of course, but also their mirror images on the distaff side of the aisle.....’n here in sunny California where we have a legislature approaching a single digit approval rating.....
talk about fiddling while Rome burns.....these people have not only killed the ‘Golden Goose’.....they’re jumping up ‘n down on its corpse trying to squeeze out any sediment that might remain.....
Recently someone who shall remain nameless called me a ‘ballcap intellectual’....T’ain’t true, y’know....I ain’t stupid but I’m a long way from smart....what I also ain’t is clever....’n I thank God ‘n circumstance for that....Clever actually means being intelligent enuff to learn quickly but over the years it has come t’be a synonym for someone who is quick to spot the opportunity for personal profit at the expense of others....’n that seems to describe the people who choose politics as a means of gaining their daily bread.....pretty much at the expense of all the rest of us.....

Where did it go????.....

‘Way back when me ‘n the world were young....well, you know ‘n so do I that the world has been around far longer than me ‘n it’s gonna be around long after I’m dead, gone ‘n forgotten.....prob’ly long after humanity is dead, gone ‘n forgotten....after all, the world survived the loss of the dinosaurs, didn’t it?......Well, the really big dinosaurs anyway.....the small ones survive to this very day.....They (the ubiquitous ones) say the shark has survived for millenia in the self-same incarnation as today....all the climate change the world has gone through over the millenia hasn’t done much to change it..
Man, though, is changing that, at least for the shark...Oh not thru climate change, no,no...we're just killing them...shark fin soup 'n magic potions.....if we keep going, we’ll kill off a creature that is so perfectly formed for survival that it has resisted all effort to evolve.....of course, it could be that evolution, like so many of our proud achievements ‘n discoveries, is a scientific dead-end and Darwin was (gasp) wrong. Now, that is a very un PC statement ‘n spurs immediate argument ‘n criticism from all the politically correct Liberal-thinkers....which is odd, when ‘n if you think about stuff like that, becuz they are the very ones that should be challenging everything....’n I have to wonder why they ain’t....
Back in the halycon days of the hippies, those wondrous magical golden days of the ‘sixties, the liberal youth challenged the belief system of their elders... Youngthink! “Damnation, Charles, it’s downright blasphemous ‘n shouldn’t be allowed.” “Never trust anyone over thirty.” “Out with the old, in with the new.”
“Tune in, turn on, ‘n drop out!”.....Ahhhh, where have all the flowers gone?
Walmart has a line of products called, “Faded Glory”...most of which seems to have been made in China ’n the US of A seems t’be heading that same direction, sinking in a morass of our own making with over half of our diverse and wonderfully self-sufficient population clamoring for the right to be put on the dole.....about sixty percent of the population at this time wants the other forty percent to support them.....redistribute the wealth, pay for my medical marijuana, make my house payments for me and give me a big-screen teevee.....but, y’gotta wonder how long the forty percent is gonna work to do that....when it drops to thirty percent or twenty percent....or less....
“gone to graveyards, every one...”

O, Dem Golden Dem's.....

O, dem dems....California is a dem state f'sure, f'sure....'n our dem legislators just levied a 10% increase on the withholding of every worker in this golden state...they need the money cuz the state is broke (as in bankrupt, can't pay the bills, etc) 'n that fav'rite son, the exemplary dem President Pro Tem Daryl (sissy spelling) Sternberg tried to sneak a ten million dollar pat on the back to himself in the form of a...are you ready? A Cultural Tolerance Center here in good ol Sackatomato (wot the heck, a million here 'n there ain't so much, chump change for our esteemed legislature) 'n all for the glory of...I dunno.....himself...ah wot the hell.....California is truly a microcosm of what the whole damn country is gonna look like when all the 'social engineers' get thru with us....