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 fires in the Western US is somehow swirling down into Colorado. A week of haze has left my poor sinuses weeping. A night of clearing my throat and getting up to flush them out with saline solution was mercifully ended with a lick on my foot by Callie who wanted to go out.
Turning on the computer to start peeling off the emails while I sipped coffee brought up Seeking Alpha's breakfast news. Like most news it shouldn't be the first thing you put in your brain in the morning. I would add I've seen studies to suggest it's also unwise to make it what you stick in their before going to bed. (perhaps 2:30 pm on alternating Thursdays!) Sometimes the absurdity of "the news cycle" just slaps me in the face. I'm a news junkie but this morning all I could think of was a very old sitcoms theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocra_xWHnlg (generation check did you know the words?!) I tried to start this mornings blog with that song but honestly there is just no where to go from there, better Alison.
The smoke guided my efforts in the garden yesterday. It was one of those days where gently caressing a late summer's worn and beat up garden into it's best possible self wasn't an option. Sometimes you just want to hack and pull. Oddly, that was pretty good medicine a few hours of pulling sunflowers and weeds left me with some positive thoughts and plans for today. We'll see if today actually builds on that or ....
Part of the pulling had to be some of the tomato plants. Two were entirely wiped out and a couple might have some hope and a little fruit left in them before the frost arrives. The funny thing is I realized earlier this year that I had crowded the basil too close in to the tomatoes. I was resigned to getting very little basil this year as the garden queens shaded it out. My biggest use of basil, beyond salads, is making pesto. Some years I make and freeze so much that come spring Deb and I think nothing of using a bucket of it to dip pretzels in. The garlic 'crop' was poor this year so seeing the basil likely to end up the same I was resigned to little if any pesto this winter. I'm not saying with the tomato plants that died I'm going to have a bumper crop of basil but I might be scratching around for some extra garlic to whip up a little pesto. They say when God closes a door he opens a window. Gardens clearly listen to the old guy. The hard part is listening close enough to the garden to hear what I'm s'possed to. Perhaps if my garden could send out an email alert to Seeking Alpha.
The butternut squash will generously get me through the winter. (wasn't that a Country song!) Not by much but a couple of plants even as battered and broken as they are produce enough for just us two. That might be the theme of this years garden - You can't always get what you want (but you get what you need). Perhaps a Country version of that with a duet between Willie and Mick Jagger. (Hell he's done one with everyone else!).
I'm wandering a bit as Youtube has nudged me over to Waylon Jennings. Good music but no matter it's roots much less gospel than Alison. I need gentle this morning thus forgive me if I switch over to Reina del Sid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnaLUMHN7Nw I caught her version of Johnny B Goode a couple of days ago and I hope you can also. It's not better than the original just, well Goode. Perhaps Youtube will guide me there later.
I wanted to touch on one piece of non weather related news I caught before running screaming away from all things in the 'real world'. Amazon is planning to open a 2nd headquarters. Once upon a time businesses would just open. Oh sometimes you'd get a Grand Opening with balloons, sale items and perhaps a speech by the local Mayor. Ah, but the market has matured. Now there is a reverse debutante's ball with Mayors and Governors all gussied up and hoping to maybe just maybe catch the eye of that special someone. Amazon might not know how to a make profit selling crap but they sure know how to get a handout from a bunch of horny politicians. The $500 bottles of Chianti and expensive dinners will certainly leave the upper echelon of Amazon along with legions of Community's 'Economic Development' experts (in house and hired guns!) knowing that they are doing important work. As this game of The Bachelor plays out and more cities are tossed to the side the stakes will no doubt swirl to heights we can't imagine. Wise politicians will opine that merely to be considered in the top 10 is an honor for them and their contestant. The final deal will no doubt take my Libertarian breathe away. It's a whorish game and and kudos to those who choose not to play!
Principles aside since we're all going to be watching this show unfold over the next year (It will follow the Uncle Kim & Trump show updates on the news.) of course I have my favorite contestant. Detroit! Yep good old beaten up Detroit she's an up and comer I tell you. Oh the package will have something for everyone. Paul Ryan will wander out of his home state to announce with the President jobs, jobs, damn it good jobs. Al Gore will join with Bono to laud the re-purposing of contaminated old auto sites. A couple (say 10 or 12) billion of tax breaks should get the job done. No one will even care that Hiliary and Bill have secretly with their Saudi partners bought up all the tax lien properties in Detroit. (the real unknown deal will be her book is kept at number one on Amazon!)
Reina is singing Boogie shoes, Deb just headed off to work, and I should probably take a clue from the universe and start the day. I hope whatever is burning, blowing, or shaking where you're at leaves you time to get out in the garden. Doug A.
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 fires in the Western US is somehow swirling down into Colorado. A week of haze has left my poor sinuses weeping. A night of clearing my throat and getting up to flush them out with saline solution was mercifully ended with a lick on my foot by Callie who wanted to go out.
Turning on the computer to start peeling off the emails while I sipped coffee brought up Seeking Alpha's breakfast news. Like most news it shouldn't be the first thing you put in your brain in the morning. I would add I've seen studies to suggest it's also unwise to make it what you stick in their before going to bed. (perhaps 2:30 pm on alternating Thursdays!) Sometimes the absurdity of "the news cycle" just slaps me in the face. I'm a news junkie but this morning all I could think of was a very old sitcoms theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocra_xWHnlg (generation check did you know the words?!) I tried to start this mornings blog with that song but honestly there is just no where to go from there, better Alison.
The smoke guided my efforts in the garden yesterday. It was one of those days where gently caressing a late summer's worn and beat up garden into it's best possible self wasn't an option. Sometimes you just want to hack and pull. Oddly, that was pretty good medicine a few hours of pulling sunflowers and weeds left me with some positive thoughts and plans for today. We'll see if today actually builds on that or ....
Part of the pulling had to be some of the tomato plants. Two were entirely wiped out and a couple might have some hope and a little fruit left in them before the frost arrives. The funny thing is I realized earlier this year that I had crowded the basil too close in to the tomatoes. I was resigned to getting very little basil this year as the garden queens shaded it out. My biggest use of basil, beyond salads, is making pesto. Some years I make and freeze so much that come spring Deb and I think nothing of using a bucket of it to dip pretzels in. The garlic 'crop' was poor this year so seeing the basil likely to end up the same I was resigned to little if any pesto this winter. I'm not saying with the tomato plants that died I'm going to have a bumper crop of basil but I might be scratching around for some extra garlic to whip up a little pesto. They say when God closes a door he opens a window. Gardens clearly listen to the old guy. The hard part is listening close enough to the garden to hear what I'm s'possed to. Perhaps if my garden could send out an email alert to Seeking Alpha.
The butternut squash will generously get me through the winter. (wasn't that a Country song!) Not by much but a couple of plants even as battered and broken as they are produce enough for just us two. That might be the theme of this years garden - You can't always get what you want (but you get what you need). Perhaps a Country version of that with a duet between Willie and Mick Jagger. (Hell he's done one with everyone else!).
I'm wandering a bit as Youtube has nudged me over to Waylon Jennings. Good music but no matter it's roots much less gospel than Alison. I need gentle this morning thus forgive me if I switch over to Reina del Sid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnaLUMHN7Nw I caught her version of Johnny B Goode a couple of days ago and I hope you can also. It's not better than the original just, well Goode. Perhaps Youtube will guide me there later.
I wanted to touch on one piece of non weather related news I caught before running screaming away from all things in the 'real world'. Amazon is planning to open a 2nd headquarters. Once upon a time businesses would just open. Oh sometimes you'd get a Grand Opening with balloons, sale items and perhaps a speech by the local Mayor. Ah, but the market has matured. Now there is a reverse debutante's ball with Mayors and Governors all gussied up and hoping to maybe just maybe catch the eye of that special someone. Amazon might not know how to a make profit selling crap but they sure know how to get a handout from a bunch of horny politicians. The $500 bottles of Chianti and expensive dinners will certainly leave the upper echelon of Amazon along with legions of Community's 'Economic Development' experts (in house and hired guns!) knowing that they are doing important work. As this game of The Bachelor plays out and more cities are tossed to the side the stakes will no doubt swirl to heights we can't imagine. Wise politicians will opine that merely to be considered in the top 10 is an honor for them and their contestant. The final deal will no doubt take my Libertarian breathe away. It's a whorish game and and kudos to those who choose not to play!
Principles aside since we're all going to be watching this show unfold over the next year (It will follow the Uncle Kim & Trump show updates on the news.) of course I have my favorite contestant. Detroit! Yep good old beaten up Detroit she's an up and comer I tell you. Oh the package will have something for everyone. Paul Ryan will wander out of his home state to announce with the President jobs, jobs, damn it good jobs. Al Gore will join with Bono to laud the re-purposing of contaminated old auto sites. A couple (say 10 or 12) billion of tax breaks should get the job done. No one will even care that Hiliary and Bill have secretly with their Saudi partners bought up all the tax lien properties in Detroit. (the real unknown deal will be her book is kept at number one on Amazon!)
Reina is singing Boogie shoes, Deb just headed off to work, and I should probably take a clue from the universe and start the day. I hope whatever is burning, blowing, or shaking where you're at leaves you time to get out in the garden. Doug A.
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