"The boy stood on the burning deck..."

 this video is of a kangaroo rat...it was taken near peach springs arizona at 4200 feet  I am not sure of the species...but they prefer raw peanuts to raisins...

i was staggering around in the heat after the temps reached 98 degrees so it was so long yuma...hello Flagstaff....arose at 3 in the morning and packed up the truck went into town and paid the bills for the month and headed north...got as far as the BLM camping north of Quartzite and thought it would be a good idea to park in the shade of a small tree and wait until midnight to continue north...the next day was supposed to be record heat 100 degrees plus...i sat in the shade and read for an hour then just before dark i decided it would be a good idea to turn the truck around so all i had to do was crank it up and drive out...BUT! fate had a different idea...as i turned the truck around i suddenly began to spin the tires...and I WAS STUCK...after only three hours of me laying on my belly and shoving my shovel under the cinder block (where the hell did that come from!) and digging my tires out i managed to drive out of the two holes i had dug...i was on my way again by 10pm and just about exhausted...but at around 12:30  pulled into the rest area east of lake-have-a-shoot city and passed out in the drivers seat until 6 am... a little later i pulled into a terrible gas store got gas and the elixir of  tiredness a free cup of coffee with gas purchase...by the time i got to the BLM/wildlife and fisheries legal camp spot i was ready for more snoozing...except i had to unpack the truck..

i watched a DVD a few nights ago called "LOLA"  from 1970 the original title was " Twinky" on the DVD cover charles bronson is named but not the female lead a miss susan george was every bit as talented as mr bronson despite being cast as a 16 year old lover/wife of the 39 year old Scott (bronson) there were only two memorable lines in the movie which was shot in london and new york...ms lola is a young 16 and mr scott os an old 39...when the english family meet their daughters new husband the father says there are 4 things he does not like about lolas new husband...he is old and he is ugly...i forget the other two...and when the couple move from london to new york and the fire is begining to dim somewhat in the relationship ms lola tells scott about something she and her girlfriends are going to do and scott says...."THATS ADOLESENT!....and she says...I AM AN ADOLESENT!"

this movie was interesting but not very entertaining...bronson goes on to more movies and ms susan george continues i would presume as a talented actress...my apologies for the previous mistakes about the identity of "lola" it would have  been easy for me to have fact checked it....sorry

.the poem below is by a woman named Felicia Dorthea Hemans...it is about a battle at sea (the battle of the Nile) which was on august 1, 1798...the french naval officer louis casabianca was mortally wounded but his 10 year old son would not leave his side and they were both killed when the ships powder magazine exploded...who knew!

The boy stood on the burning deck

Whence all but he had fled;

The flame that lit the battle's wreck

Shone round him o'er the dead.