"Nature never became..."

spines

                                                               

                                                           thorns

christmas in the desert was calm...spent the day in the truck/home out of the wind watching DVDs and You Tube and reading...and eating... i watched one of the chapters in Bart Ehrmans lectures on the new testament 0f the christian bible...a very interesting account of the life and teachings of jesus of nazareth written by a fellow named Luke who was an educated greek and never met jesus ,,,about 50 years after jesus death luke used existing information to document what he found out...professor ehrman is quite knowledgable about writings about "christanity"...another chapter in this collection is about early judaism and he mentions the pharisees, the sadducees, the essenes and what he calls the "fourth philosophy" which is the important link to what is happening in israel/palistine today...well it seems the "fouth philosophy" folks were radical real estate cult folks and thought the romans had no right to rule "judea" since somewhere in their religious "book" (like the moslems and the christians the jews are called "people of the book") anyhow they constantly harassed the romans and anyone who did not adhere to the jewish right to rule the real estate in question...the romans eventually kicked their ass and took their sacred loot from the temple...so today this real estate cult has decided that from here to there (i think from the "river to the sea" is the term they use) is once again to be theirs exclusively...i expect it will only get messier in that part of the world....

i watch the thick smoke regularly coming from the mexican side of the border and  might write a letter to the new mexican president who has a doctorate in environmental science stuff and ask her to find a better solution to garbage disposal...it stinks!...i

 heard that jeff bezos plans a $600 million dollar wedding...does the term "compensate" seem relevant...the 300 foot yacht seems a good place to honeymoon...

listened to some good philosophy lectures also..."How quantum physics affects your everyday life" by max planck was very stimulating as was jean baudrillards "Radical disenchantment"...pretty heavy thinking going on here so i have had to listen several times...but worth it...

went to mexico yesterday to have my teeth cleaned and yet another tooth pulled...one hundred bucks...my whole jaw hurt most of yesterday but it is much better today...

got up about 5am this morning and watched the farm report which everyone should watch every now and then...100% of people eat but a very small percentage of people have any idea of what effects food prices...it is amazing how global weather conditions effect food prices here...

 

"Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit"... Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"And all your money..."

spider webs across what appears to be an ant hole...

 the black marauder ants invaded and attacked the "big head red" and colony...overwhelmed but not defeated

i watched a good youtube presentation  this week by peter watts who did hid Ph.D. work on the ecology of harbor seals...then he wrote science fiction then he investigated consciousness...his presentation was entitled "Conscious ants and human hives"...he talked about ants looking at themselves in a mirror and seeming to recognize themselves...among other things...

the reality of the "big head red" ants being attacked stems from my sprinkling pollen and cracker crumbs on the entrance hole to their colony which "unbalanced" the ecosystem...i read a good story in the scifi anthology called "The Proving Ground" by Alec Nevala-Lee...whoa buddy people have been upsetting the environmental balance for a long long time!

picked up a collection of story's on DVD called "Carnivalle"...which is pronounced car-na-val-eh...which i suppose makes their little mud show sound like a better circus than it is...this story takes place back in the  1930's during the so called "great depression"...everything was scarce apparently water especially so ...everyone needsa bath and their clothes stitched up...this is one of the most depressing shows i have ever seen...the only person who is always clean is the preacher and he is in cahoots with the devil...i can only watch about one of these segments a week... then i have to watch "Cuddle Buddies" to renew my faith in the human race...

on Amazon Music Unlimited (ad)

"Dust In The Wind"

I close my eyes
Only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Now don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
(All we are is dust in the wind)
Dust in the wind
(Everything is dust in the wind)
Everything is dust in the wind
(In the wind)

 

 

"This is becoming ..."

never have to go far to see the gun goobers work

more ancient metal in the desert

upsidedown tree

this mornings moon setting in the west

had to move from the ant farm campsite as there was a van scrunched down in the bushes 50 yards away...way too close for comfort...went to a place i had not been in a couple of years which has a lot of good hiking...and some energetic mountains also...the foxes came around and  yipped  vociferously for quite a while a few nights ago...probably appreciated the water bowl...very sparse youtube action in this spot unless i climb a nearby hill...which i do once a day...i did manage to pick up ralph nader radio hour for last week...mr nader has some alarming predictions about the results of the current conflicts...i hear where mr daniel penny was found not guilty in the death of the man he restrained on a subway...i wrote about this fellow in a past blog...he was a bad egg...what mr magioni hoped to accomplish by gunning down a health care executive i cannot imagine...but he will end up like mr vanzetti with a noose around his neck for his efforts...risk to reward judgments must be considered...read a great scifi story in my anthology called "Whending my way back home" by bill johnson (who is 6 feet eight inches tall) also watched "zero dark 30"...(2013...157 min.)... i guess my consumption of way too much chocolate this morning did not do any permanent damage...maybe...whatever...

"This is becoming a land of propaganda..." jim engster
 

"Mein fhre heisst treue"

these were in a free bag of rags...now i guess i will be charged with socks trafficking

this spider built a web across the "big red head" ants hole...it was gone in two days

i saw this hole surrounded by flower fuzz stuck together with web...probably a spider hole

this was a sunset last week and the above image is the front yard view daily...80 degrees today...too hot

i watched the movie "Alice's Restaurant" on thanksgiving day...never seen it before...rather depressing to remember the sustained naivety and downright stupidity of some of the people of that era...the ending was fitting...heard where a 1500 year old carved tablet of the 10 commandments is going up for sale...only 9 of them are on this tablet...LEBENSTRAUM is the german term that the nazis used to describe their land grab during WW2...they needed the room for the german people to stretch out...the Israelis have the same notion today...i am glad Biden pardoned his son...can't leave him in the clutches of the "VENDETA" administration...now all sex workers have full civil rights in Belgium...great...some of the folks nominated for the new government are "problematic"...head of intelligence named "gabby"...probably not...watched the 8 minute advert for the new electric jaguar...they come in pink or blue, have a range of 430 miles and are called type 00...whatever...don't have to worry about getting the trains to run on time...we ain't got no passenger trains to speak of...damned few busses left also...we are all going to have to drive a tesla i guess...were screwed...they made a 2 ton bust of fentanyl in mexico last week...fentanyl deaths down by 14%,,,deaths of people over 60 up by 4 times...i figure they are suicides...read a good Scifi story in my anthology "An evening with Severyn Grimes" by Rich Lawson...also was wondering why so much information about donald trump was omitted in the news...he apparently lost 30 pounds before the election and his so called crazy dance to the "YMCA" song was due to two medical emergencies in the crowd...we need to look at the current political situation without blinking...the latest Sabbatical tommy post finishes when the KGB scoops him up and throws him in jail in Russia...well yeah!...a very good youtube presentation is by dr andrew huberman "Erasing fears and traumas based on modern neuro science of fear" 2hours and 14 minutes but worth the time...the time is late and i need to wind down the night...

mein fhre heisst treu= my honor is loyalty,,,the motto of the german SS in ww2 (check spelling)

"No sane man..."

 so i have not reviewed these videos yet but i think they are from from last week and were captured at my present campsite which is about a mile south/south west from where a few years ago i got some videos with the CUDDY game camera of a canid with a bad leg...as this animal seems to have...i assumed the canine was shot dead as i heard gunshots shortly after the animal left...there seems to be two individuals in these 3 videos...i think these animals are not coyotes or at least not pure coyotes but there are people who have much more experience than myself in identifying canids...as this is a very few miles from mexico (less than 10) this may be a mexican gray wolf...

i have heard buzz today about these videos in the grocery and as i already know the extent to which some folks have gone to steal my game camera videos i am not surprised...i need to buy a few locks and lock up the access to my cameras...also i need to drag myself into the 21st century and get a VPN app...my life is being stolen at an increasing rate...i see where there is a FACEBOOK account now with my first name and my last name and a period in between....HOLY MOLY...i hope no one has responded to this account thinking that person is the writer of this blog...since my readership is now skyrocketed to nearly 12 people again and i am still trying to get it up to 15 people i hope the facebook account dies a natural death and if whoever has started this account tries to appear to be me i will go to the feds...(i doubt if the FBI is going to be shot down by mr Kash) to appropriate a persons identity is a felony...

also i saw a video simply labeled "canada geese Mp4" this is a video i took on the western side of eugene oregon some years ago at a spot i used to go every morning before dawn...as a matter of fact this road is listed as my address on my oregon drivers license...the drivers license people know a lot of people live in their vehicles and just ask where you park at night...no muss no fuss...the very sad story about this wonderful sight of a lot of canada geese flying is that i asked if these geese still come to this supposed to be protected spot and i was told they do not...i suspect that the fact that a fellow decided to open a Frisbee course nearby and the nearby residents decided they should be able to walk their dog right across this property has something to do with the geese not returning to this spot...

i suspect the fact that it took 3 hours to do the 45 minute job of installing my new tires is a result of a bunch of outlaws combing my truck for anything they could steal...such as nearly a terabyte  of photography...yeah i better post my photos so anyone can download them who wants to use them or print them...

i watched some good movies and youtube recently..."The Fast and the Furious" (1954) 76 minutes directed by the male co-star John Ireland...photography by Floyd Crosby (Davids Daddy) and the jazz music by the chet baker quartet...the real star is the Jaguar automobile which appears to be a 1954 Jaguar XK120...this is featured in a Jay leno car segment...he loves this car and gushes over this model the second auto he ever owned,,,a man who indulges his pleasures

"No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane."  A. J.Liebling