"We have a word for difficult..."

 return of the horned lizards after a two year absence...perhaps not the same individual...hunting ants

"DAM!" the russian military seems to have paid a high price to wash away their incompetence...listening to the reasons why the USA has a lower credit rating...the rating agency said it was due to "A STEADY DETERIORATON IN GOVERNANCE OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS." quoted by professor Kai 5/2/23 twice... i was noticing some poor governance also...

 so the wildlife in the neighborhood seems to be somewhat scarcer than in years past but the i did see the horned lizards, two species of chipmunk, a coyote, a kaibab squirrel, and the cattle returned and the grass is pretty tall and there is still water in the stock pond...

i can empathize with the east coast smoke breathers  since the fires around this area are being left to burn to eliminate some fuel...but the smoke is still pretty bad...

picked up a Budd Boetticher/ Randolph Scott collection of 5 westerns a while back...one of the DVDs has a documentary about the director Boetticher who went to mexico in his yellow Lasalle automobile during a break from college...he got interested in bull fighting and ended up studying the "sport"...there is some commentary by a Mr. Q. Tarantino, who is a big fan of this director...i wish he would do more movie commentaries...i picked up a copy of the movie "Pulp Fiction" last week for a buck and thought i had seen it but i was mistaken...I was pleasantly surprised at how much i enjoyed the flick...i think the dialogue was superb...i read some other comments about the movie and i was not alone in my appreciation for the movie...i especially related to the character Jimmie and his need for gormet coffee... all of the actors were at the top of their form and the movie excelled for it...back to Boetticher...there is a movie he directed called "Decision at Sundown" which i think illustrates the fact that as movies age the moral and ethical world that they were created in evolves...i will not spoil the ending for others but the "revenge" motive is made moot and the suicide seems highly un-needed when viewed in the light of todays different world view...

"We have a word for difficult, and a word for easy, but we need a word for something about which it is difficult to understand that it is easy." Jordan Ellenberg (mathematician/writer)