Those odd noises in the night...

The original of the event I will relate in this post is a rare piece of work to own. It is amongst my special treasures..the author's original manuscript, the tale is written in pencil, in the authors hand. It dates back to the late 70's and is some of the earliest literary works of a great writer. Enjoy...

Quite strange really, and you would think so too, if you awakened in the night to find a ghastly war raging in the midst of your kitchen. I don't know how it happened really but the french fries, left over from the big mac I had partially eaten, were making a gallant stand against a ghastly arrayed group of cockroaches.

Although surrounded by the cockroaches, the french fries were by no means defenseless, standing end to end the french fries made a shaky line perpendicular to the table. The top french fries would then jump off on a flabbergasted cockroach, squashing the poor devil into the table, then quickly running back to the line and ascending to the top, which i deemed impossible if it were not for the ridges.

The small container of ketchup was playing no idle part in this conspiracy. While the cockroaches were thoroughly occupied it had succeeded in edging behind one of the cockroaches, a singular brave french frie then charged the cockroach and sent him retreating into the crimson mulch, of which he never returned.

The cockroaches then began a hasty retreat but then a huge chunk of animated baking soda rolled off the counter and onto the table. The french fries seemed to understand immediately and a group of them followed the lifelike chunk toward a partially drunken bottle of pop. The baking soda was then hoisted upward on the backs of 3 french fries, meanwhile the cockroaches were scurrying across the ceiling to their hidden refuge behind the light socket.

The baking soda plopped into the bottle as the three french fries wedged themselves into the opening. The timing was superb for as the frantic cockroaches were directly over the bottle the french fries departed upward with a resounding kamikaze pop and stuck to the ceiling were the cockroaches and 3 of the bravest french fries I've seen.

The big mac was convulsing in involuntary sobs and the remaining french fries paraded slowly, heads bowed, towards their respectful saucer.
(by C.K. Cearley approx. 1975)

While most of us would have rolled over and listened for a moment, thinking we had heard something in the kitchen, then drifting back to sleep, I'm grateful that the writer of that tale was in a position to have witnessed what happened in the middle of the night that most of us would have never known anything about.

And while he is a published author now, but not by that name, I wanted to share this before the pencil lead became too faded...but "the rest of the story"...what name is his works today published in?...you would have to ask Paul Harvey to reveal.

Stretching

Would the daily regime of maybe 10 minutes of stretching each morning and each evening be of measurable worth in diminishing the pain in joints and inflamed nerves? Has research been done on this? Sure it makes sense that it "could" or even "should"...but what are the facts? This is just a remedy idea I conjured up as a potential cure for that getting old feeling when I hurts in me bones. The more I think about it...the more it makes sense. Might have to learn some effective stretching moves that don't carry a risk of pulling something out of whack. First I'd like to research this and see if there is any documented enlightenments already available.

Wow it is cold. That drizzle stuff last night froze into a layer of ice on the ground.
Wasn't expecting that, the step off the porch almost helped me get started on that "stretch" stuff. Went down to the storage container that is very slowly being converted into a guest house about 530am to turn off a propane heater that was left on as a test. Leaving it on low or medium it had just knocked the chill off, definitely going to need some insulation overhead. It has rings already welded at consistent intervals through out the 40ft...cable and turnbuckles may be the quickest most efficient way to support some R30. A shiny vapor barrier would be nice for reflecting lamp light. Lots to think about.

Looks like our trip this week may just miss the main snow but it is going to be so very cold. By early Friday a storm they don't even know about yet could wake up Chicago!

The grass is starting to grow though it seems...definitely need to finish mowing the pasture down this year..give it a fresh start. Better do that soon. Yeah it would be better if it were burned off, maybe I can get the volunteer fire department to do that...seems like thats been done in some place or another before.

Ahhh next weekend is Grace Kelly's weekend ! Maybe she will read to me from a more exciting book than the one she brought last time...she didn't even like that book. She picked it because she liked the cover. He he he, a new one to begin with the basic phrase "can't judge a book by its cover"...the beginning of the journey that will eventually lead her to understand that as a constant revelation in deeper and deeper ways all the way through the journey.

The new year just keeps rolling right on picking up speed as it goes....

Free Health Care and Free Housing

"Vote for me...I promise to get all the lost jobs back but with gigantic raises, I will have government subsidize income and make sure you have health insurance. I will mandate by law that everybody have health insurance. What do you want or need? No matter, whatever it is, I will have government give it to you." ...extrapolation of most of the candidates promises.

Translation. Want Higher Taxes? Want MORE laws? Want more national debt? More government as usual? Thats what is actually being offered.

Thus far I'm only hearing ONE candidate mention "the constitution". But what is spooky is that some of the youngsters I talk to these days either do not know what the constitution says/does or why we need it. And the news media is trying its HARDEST to avoid any mention of the candidate Ron Paul.

Moderation Bowl of Buffet

Buffet, Smorgasborg (?), wonderful stuff!!

But our culture or belief that we need to try to get our moneys worth is really at conflict with our health when we go to a buffet...where our desire to get our moneys worth is combined with our desire to continue the joy of tasting until our stomach says it is stuffed (which, the stomach by the way is actually shy by nature...and it doesn't speak up to yell enough until it is swollen out to the very peak of what it can hold except for the spout...kind of like the way we fill up our cars sometimes.

Wish buffet owners would offer "the moderation bowl" at half the buffet price. You are allowed one pass, the bowl will contain about a liter, you get the variety of the buffet...you get the "moneys worth" side of you satisfied..and the "feel good afterward" health side of you met at the same time.

If you were really feeling hungry..buy one for there, one to go. You eat about what the stomach could comfortably hold while there...the other bowl is sealed and ready for working on an hour or two from now....

Not so much at once. If I write a dictionary definition for "moderation" ..."not so much at once".

That is enough to think on for now.