"Among the sons of men..."

lots of excitement last week at the meadow site...of course the gun goober showed up to blast the large bore rifle and the handguns...these folks seem to be unable to organize themselves enough to have good shooting ranges made available to responsible participants in the shooting sports...there are golf courses, basketball courts, even skating rinks paid for by taxpayer dollars so certinly shooting ranges are not a luxury...but i have determined that the 'OUTLAW" lable is sought afte byr too many gun goobers as it makes them feel empowered and turgid...ah yes guns and turgidity...made for one another...right this minute i am watching a man who hates donald trump (MSNBC) and is blaming him for everything wrong in the world from expensive dolls to poor security in e-mails...i heard time and again that the presidents "approval rating" is the lowest of any president...well for a long time...i always remember watching the "pundits" saying that h. clinton had a 87% chance of beating mr trump...so much for accurate polls eh...anyhow, i read that rewarding people for exposing inefficiency at work produced good results...where can i get hold of elon and get him to review the BLM (department of interior) and National forest (department of agriculture) contracts to thin forests and sell the timber...we be gitten robbed!...well so much for efficiency...my raven friends at the meadow remembered me and flew fast and low vocalizing when they saw me...they are nesting in the same large tree they were in two years ago raising a family...after a couple of days i put down a mouse trap around my grocery boxes at night and caught a mouse and gave it to them which really made their day... the nightime temps got down to 14 degrees which is why my fingers got numb while making breakfast i suppose...i picked up some excellent books which i read all week...steinbecks "log of the sea of cortez" (1951) which is part science and part philosophical speculation...excellent read...also i picked up a book called "empire of the summer moon" mostly about the comanche indians in texas...not a pretty sight...also "the history of beauty" by uberto eco...i watched "to have and to have not" with lauren bacall and humphrey bogart as well as hoagland carmichael (no relation) i could not figure out why bogarts name was harry but bacall called him steve...anyhow better to re-watch good stuff than watch bad stuff...i try to end the day watching music and as usual i obsess on some presentations until i get my fill...this week i watched pink martini with storm large every day...still thrills me...i heard that due to beyonce knowels "county" album the genre is now a happening thing...hats and boots and all that goes with...i had a cowboy outfit once for busness purposes since i was asked to show up in cowboy garb for a job as a movie extra ($100 a day and a meal) i got rid of all that stuff and now i mainly wear clothes from the marked down rack at the thrift store...lots of 50 cent shirts and two dollar pants...works for me...the harassment continues and it is time for me to write about it in detail...later "Among the sons of men how few are known, who dare be just to merit not their own." Charles Churchill (1731-64) ;