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Post by **the mingo** » November 29th, 2009, 1:18 pm

Thx judih!

Post by **the mingo** » November 30th, 2009, 2:12 pm

Grey day last of November. Made it without any snow in the vicinity. Not even up on the plateau. Now everybody is going around prophets of great snow in the making. Like we deserve it. It is winter after all. I want to wake up some morning and look out the window at four feet of snow that came in the night and go O Shit! WOW!...my neighbor is praying for just such an occurrence. He's got himself one of those John Deere yard tractors. Bigger than a lawnmower smaller than a tractor. He just got a fully enclosed cab put on it with lights and a heater. All the toys. And he can't wait. So I don't think I'll be shoveling much this season. He'll be over here to show off and play by clearing my driveway too. God bless 'em. God Bless Neighbors with John Deere Yard Tractors! YES !

Post by **SadLuckDame** » November 30th, 2009, 11:16 pm

Preparing for when the snow does come
knowing it'll be a lot
and too much.
Planning to pack it all up
to send to mingo's neighbor.

Post by **sooZen** » December 1st, 2009, 9:44 am

Woke up to snow here in Phar Lepht this morning. A cold, wet, heavy snowfall. The kind that makes the tree branches weep. The desert is beautiful in the snow and so are our craggy mountains. It looks surreal.

No one knows how to drive here in this weather so venturing out is an adventure. Makes me wish I had a neighbor with a John Deere so I could take Mt to his doctor's appointment. At least we have a nice pot of homemade soup and some bread he made yesterday to come home to.

Post by **the mingo** » December 1st, 2009, 12:19 pm

Dame - He'd love that for sure. We had snow last night but not enough to say so. A dusting what I call it. First of the season though. A "Hello" from what is to come. Brrr.

Post by **the mingo** » December 1st, 2009, 12:34 pm

sooZen - Just tellin Dame that we also had our first snow yesterday. Came in the night & was still on the ground this morning. Yeeehaa. Here we go Here we go. Had a flock of turkeys pass through the yard this morning. They went to cross the road right in front of an oncoming pickup truck. I thought two of them were gonna buy it for sure but I didn't see any bodies when I went out to check. Sheesh.
Excitement right here at the lodge and I didn't hardly have to get out of the chair. Took a walk with the neighbor the other day over his property. Discovered while talking to him he don't like coyotes. He remarked & I quote, "I'd just as soon shoot a coyote as look at them." Which surprised me cuz he's somewhat of a nature lover otherwise.

Post by **the mingo** » December 1st, 2009, 11:15 pm

Just read that wolves are hot spots on the earth. Well they cause hot spots. Their kill sites. Big game. Moose and elk especially. Deer too but bigger the animal bigger the hot spot. From the carcass. Nutrients. Bacteria. Fungi. Plants love this shit. Alters what survives on the landscape too. And how healthy it gets. Wolves cause hot spots.

Something else too. Some report I read said lonely people can spread their loneliness to social networking sites. Not all reseachers agree with the findings though. Blah yada blah.

There is nothing so profound as our ignorance of our surround.

And the conclusions we immediately jump to in any given are almost always based on erroneous assumptions. About nature. About ourselves. About everything.

And that's where I'm gonna leave it cuz I can have entirely too much fun with this kind of thing.

Post by **stilltrucking** » December 2nd, 2009, 5:57 am

silent snow
autistic mountain
in colorado

Bury my heart on
Monarch Pass

Post by **the mingo** » December 2nd, 2009, 2:31 pm

Scavenger's Rules

Yesterday I was watching a flock of turkeys cross my yard. Then they got to the edge of the road and here comes a bright shiny red Chevy pickup doing 'bout 60 or so and the driver's mind wern't on turkeys. The leaders of the flock decided to make a break for it - was no way someone was not going to die. I didn't get to see the action because of my angle but I went out to see what I could see. Didn't see no body which surprised me. Looked up & down both sides of the road. No body. Huh. Thought for sure there had to be one. Last night getting home from work I backed into the driveway which caused the lights of the Jeep to sweep the opposite side of the road and I saw it. The body. I knew they all didn't make it. This morning I went over and sprinkled the carcass with tobacco. Then lifted several fine feathers from it. It might not of been my kill but it certainly fell under scavenger's rules.

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 2nd, 2009, 11:09 pm

I caught me
I caught me
a turkey
right down the side of the road.

Post by **the mingo** » December 3rd, 2009, 1:04 am

Good riffing D.

Post by **the mingo** » December 3rd, 2009, 1:11 am

Why is it called a "troop surge"? It's a blood surge. Just wanted to clear the air due to the fact all & sundry from our elected officials to every day citizens are pampering their egos & wringing their hands over and over again with the mealymouthed & soft & super feminine "troop surge."

My ass. Who invents this kind of talk and who is so disrespectful of those who will do the bleeding as to use it, in public no less, again & again, without the least sense of shame?

Lets SEE it for what it IS & FACE IT and get IT done.

We can cool our sorry asses with the Charmin' afterwards.

War is not war. It's blood.

Signed,
Stephen, firstborn son of James, son of Leslie, son of John
firstborn son also of Evelyn, daughter of Mima, daughter of Clara
Born to the Wolf Clan of my mother & grandmothers
Citizen, United States of America
Son, Father, Grandfather, Brother, Friend, Enemy, Neighbor.
Taxpayer, Jobholder, Gun owner.
Vietnam Veteran.

Post by **stilltrucking** » December 3rd, 2009, 4:17 am

You think that people on other side of the world need to be killed on the strength of voices coming out of a box...Who in you are those voices talking to. Who is really answering and why. I hear those voices I have those feelings the violence is in me too.

Post by **the mingo** » December 3rd, 2009, 12:32 pm

Nothing at all foolish about you Jack except for the usual dose we all get. But the "jobholder, taxpayer, registered democrat, retired chicken choking chicken hauling latent suicidal homicidal maniac" thing had me cracked up bad. So bad that I knocked my ashtray off the table. Then I had to go get the vacuum cleaner to take care of the mess. When I was done I wheeled the vacuum over to the corner and instead of sitting it upright I just let go of it. It rocked into an upright position then fell back against the aquarium where Nancy keeps a small catfish. When the vacuum hit the the aquarium it freaked the catfish out and he shot out of his hiding place at warp speed to the top of the water breaking through the surface and continuing on 'til he WHACKED! into the glass cover. Then he fell back into the water and lay on the surface not moving at all. He's either knocked himself clean out or in Dr. McCoy's famous words, "He's dead, Jim." Not the way he planned to spend his day I think.

Post by **the mingo** » December 3rd, 2009, 12:36 pm

It's 52 degrees. I'd say that's weird for this time of year in this location but what the hell do I know about any of that? It could be, given the time of year, 20 degrees by midnight. I see Tiger Woods is suffering from the post-hots & telling everybody sorry so sorry I let you down. But he wasn't holding me up in the first place so how in hell could he possibly let me down? Ego is not a good place live I think. Not proof against the weather in any event.
My sister calls me out of the blue this morning to rant about Turning Stone which is an Indian casino run by the Oneida tribe here in the great state of Yew Nork. She compared it unfavorably with the casino run by the Senecas which is her current favorite place to blow money. She said the Senecas give her a room with a view of Niagara Falls with a flat panel TV AND a jacuzzi. All the Oneidas give her is a ration of shit about how many packets of catsup she wants to go with her cheeseburger. I ask so why is she at the Oneida's place and she answers because they offered her a free GPS system if she would come stay the night but it had to be today or she would lose out. Uh-huh. I have given my sister an Indian name. I call her DANGER HYDROGEN NO SMOKING!! But I think I've said this before.

It's 51.6 degrees.
It was raining but

now it's not.

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