small gardens & small government

The morning is mellow, Cooper's at my side expecting more than the bite of my breakfast he just had. The music is a bit of a cheat with a Youtube link to Reina del Sid.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqq9yXmgils I was listening to her this morning courtesy of her Sunday morning connection she sends out to her Youtube subscribers.  Youtube morphed that over to a young Emmylou Harris and a beautiful Cajun riff and then on to a duet between Emmylou and Dwight Yoakam.  Country music should be required (Department of Country Music - DoCM anyone!) to have either a peddle steel guitar, a fiddle, or a distinctive voice like Dwight's.  The path Youtube lead me down was so pleasant I had a hard time breaking away to walk the dogs. I'm glad I did as the quiet of the morning was even better than the music. I even stopped myself from whistling to enjoy it. I don't know if the quiet was a real thing with our cold snap causing my neighbors to stay snuggled under the covers on this

 The Very Best of Harry Belafonte  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O98x7Zpjx4M is actually striking a good note to plink a few notes on the keyboard. We'll have to see if the rest of my choices for music blend or are distractions.   Last week's sinuses weeping from the smoke devolved quickly into an ugly little cold. Besides making the owners of Kleenex and NyQuil wealthy I've accomplished very little. I can best describe it without getting gross as feeling like someone shoved a large pizza up my nose. Oddly, there are moments within a cold when you feel wildly manic and think "jeez let's just get caught up right now".  Two minutes later your swaying and thinking "ooow going down". Certainly not conducive to running that heavy equipment they always warn you about - but that wasn't really on the agenda anyway so.   The garden has kindly provided this week without demanding too much.  The recently planted arugula is going great guns and gave Deb

    I'm up early this morning so the music is to be dictated by Youtube with a modicum of direction by me. The blue tooth speaker (connected to the stereo) I have is just that a speaker with no connection for headphones. With Deb still sleeping headphones are .. well just a good way to stay married. OK how 'bout a gentle start to the day Alison Krauss  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOLCLrqBn8 .    The early start on the day really has to be blamed on wildfires.  Thankfully the fires are not real close but spread all over the West.  The closest is in northwestern Colorado Steamboat Springs. I've heard one in Montana is over a million acres. A million is one of those numbers that sticks in your head, but honestly I can't visualize it nor do I have any clue how many millions of acres are in Montana. I've been to Montana tho' so I'm guessing it's not quite the whole state burning.  That all said it's the smoke. The smoke from most of the forest fire