"How much easier it is to be..."

 one of seven deer in a herd that strolled down the hill to have a look...this one looked pretty scruffy and may have chronic wasting disease which is becoming more common across the country

I don't think the drones are such a bad idea...putin better get a good umbrella...been enjoying the nice weather and have had the great good fortune to have some nice neighbors visit ...two days ago as i sat on a bucket next to the solar panels i looked up and 30 yards away there stood a female pronghorn looking over her shoulder at me...i was pretty surprised....i try to not do things near the camp that animals find threatening...such as throwing rocks and being too loud...a Kaibab squirrel came around to have sip of water at the snow pile which was pretty big when i got there but by this morning was only three feet across and ten feet long...i scooped up some snow for the ice chest and imagine the pile  will all be gone by tomorrow... the chipmunks are still around but fewer...the stellers jays like to make a ruckus when they think they can get me to put out some food...which i usually do...i read in my bio-book about Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca (1758-1799) who was lady in waiting to Queen Maria Carolina...that is until ms Fonseca made a remark about the queens "intimacy" with Acton (probably lord Acton)...then the Queen had ms. fonseca hanged....damn! yeah better not to attend too closely to other peoples intimacy...

i picked up a trilogy of movies by Robert Rodriguez ($2) but i watched them in the opposite order of when they were made... the last one i watched is called "El Mariachi" 81 min. (1993) which is the first one that he made...i watched it again with his commentary and was amazed at how he made the film for $7000 dollars....and most of that was for film...he said he spent about $600 on stuff for the set and other costs...none of the "actors" were paid...he was so cheap he would not even buy a can of black spray paint to make the two guitar cases match...included in the "extras" was a film he made with his wife and three kids called "BEDHEAD" which is pretty funny....when i used to go to the N.O. film festival every year i used to only attend the "experimental shorts" because you could see 7 full days of films for $30 bucks...mr Rodriguez got some attention after "El Mariachi" and his films had big stars and not killings but carnage...i think he is creative but the violence and blood lust seems to take up too much of the film.

"How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not just." Junius

i feel compelled to make an additional statement about the theft of my writing and photography which has been going on for a lot of years...i intend to incorporate and copywrite my images and writing and seek funds for the work that i have done over the years....i, like Diogenes may like to have some nice pastries as i grow older...