"Most humans have an almost infinite capacity..."

 one of the many obsidian edged tools i have found at indian camp...

i see where there is a new head of the coconino forest...another woman...hopefully she will commandeer some workers to get the forest trimmed...a lot of rain this year and not enough grazers to keep the grass down...heard an "expert" say they would like to stop domestic animal grazing on a lot of the national forest...in some circles the "experts" say that the "silva grazing" is a good thing as it helps keep the burnable stuff from growing too much...i think the less fire the better...but i was in Kissimee prairie once in florida and they told me they had to burn every 18 months to keep the fires from burning up the gopher tortoises and such as that...forest management needs to be a priority or the damage will be catastrophic...feeling a little fatigued today as i was up in the middle of the night for the last two nights doing battle with the "RODENTS"...it sounded like maybe a cow had gotten under the truck it was so noisy...but when i shined my light into the engine compartment there was a rat sitting on the air filter...it was smaller than a capybara but bigger then a nutria...or so it seemed...to me.., durn their scurvy butts! i need to get several rat traps because the mouse traps ain't happening...

been keeping notes about whats in the news...while i was awake at one this morning i tuned in the BBC news and heard that yvon chouinard has bequeathed his 3 billion dollar business to the earth...or some such thing...this guy was a real mountain climber way back when...he built climbing gear with a forge he kept in his car...a volkswagon i think...and ate canned cat food they were so short of money...he probably does not eat cat food any more...also there was big news in australia...first human to be killed by a kangaroo since the 1930's...they did not say whether it was a great grey or a giant red but i have stood next to these large macropods and they sure seem like they can kick the stuffing out of you...plus they are pretty ugly up close...now the people locked up in jails and prisons in new york cannot be called inmates or prisoners but must be called "incarcerated individuals"...makes sense...nobody wants to be degraded in society...and it is obvious that this country has way too many people locked up...

i watched a DVD i picked up a while back called "Albino Alligator"...spoiler alert...there is no alligator albino or otherwise in this movie...it was supposed to be taking place in new orleans...but early in the movie they walk down some stairs into a bar which is in a basement...i don't think so...they dont even bury people underground in new orleans so a basement bar is not very likely...this story is about a crime that goes wrong...much as the movie goes wrong...the acting is as good as the script allows...which is not very good...there was a whiff of "Dog Day Afternoon"...actually more than a whiff...it reeked...also i had watched "Chinatown" just few days before so Ms Dunaway had a lot to live up too...i think when she introduced her "boy" to matt dillon he should have slapped her and she could have said "my son...my brother...my son...my brother..." it would have been a good nod to her other film...i will say that william fitchner was by far the best actor on the set and the most entertaining scene was when ATF agent Browning was being interviewed by the tv reporter Ferguson...that was quite funny...i did not like the ending too much either...

"Most humans have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."  Aldous Huxley

"The butterfly counts not the months..."

                                 times have changed and our wildlife co-earthlings are endangered

4 more Galapagos tortoises found dead...that makes 18...being killed for the meat! i worked with Galapagos tortoises and Aldabra tortoises...very intriguing animals...been hearing about the people in mississippi not having any water to drink after the floods there...think CISTERN...the old cajun houses in the country used to have them...not many folks bother to secure their own water supply now...that is likely to change...there are companies that make devices that can suck up to 7 gallons of water a day out of the air...if it is pretty humid...yeah....ya gotta change your way of thinking to be much more self sufficient...start with some solar panels and work from there...no moving parts and no fuel needed...the "MAN IN THE HOLE" was found dead...this guy who lived in the amazon rain forest  in a hole died at about 60 years of age...completely self sufficient...they think he had prepared for his death as he was dressed in a lot of colorful feathers...i guess some birds died too...been hearing about the forest management that needs to get done before the fires burn everything up...now is seems to me that the chances of disaster and destruction is much more likely by way of forest fires than say...china dropping bombs on us...sooooo....maybe we could slide some of the department of de-fence money over to forest management and maybe water pipelines being built...just an idea...another Arabian woman imprisoned for bad mouthing the government...this one got about 45 years...what a crock...i read where martha stewart had 6 of her peacocks eaten by coyotes...in broad daylight...well yeah! coyotes are much smarter than peacocks...or peahens either...i heard a guy being interviewed about a book he wrote called "denial" about pursuing "CARBON CRIMINALS"...damn! what about those of us that spent years working in the petro-chemical industry so as to pay our bills...balderdash!...the oil industry is not responsible for the destruction of the world...if every internal combustion engine were to be eliminated tomorrow there would still be plenty of need for oil...why not bust the clothing industry that thrives on the ''FASHION PUMP" to suck the suckers into buying this years model...also i hear a mr amos brown talking about the "REPARATIONS" agenda which will pay some sort of guilt money to Blacks for them not being on a level playing field in the U.S.of A...what will we do for the Japanese, and Chinese (Chinese exclusion act), and the Sicilians and the Native Americans...."The other slavery: the uncovered story of indian enslavement in America" (2016) and lastly but of even more importance when will females be paid for the child rearing and cooking and cleaning that seems to be their duty to do for free...no reparations aint on my short list for coughing up dough...i heard that one hundred billion dollars was paid out to false claims in the covid business support scheme...thats a lot of tuition money! i am not an economist and i dont play one on television...but it seems to me that if you pay for someone to get a college degree they will make more money and therefor they will pay more income tax...some countries actually pay people to go to university...what a concept!

"The butterfly counts not the months, but moments/ And has time enough." Rabindranth Tagore