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Nice ol Wyoming stuff --lessn 30 minutes from Cheyenne

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scold
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a little chocolate is good for you!!! The Darker the better!! and shame on the M&M people for introducing the lovely dark chocolate bits and then discontinue! Yes, I am one of THOSE people. Gimmee my DARK chocolate.

For all you who try to sell me something in comments, or get me interested in what you got going on commercially, you HAD BETTER at least give me a short review on my blogs!! (BIG SMILE) Gotta draw that, and put it in my picture file, huh.

Oh! My friends brother, his apartment in Southern Texas near the gulf. Last news on it, untouched. Power on, water on. His, and my take on the whole thing --two hurricanes, that while awful in many places, was exaggerated. Some parts barely got any lasting damage at all. While this isn't making light of the many deaths, injuries and property damage, still some media will exaggerate beyond fact. The yellow kid* strikes again!

*For those who aren't a certain age, look up 'yellow journalism' in newspaper history)

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Boo!!! Do have fun, and for all you fathers among you, and those mothers who are guilty --don't help your kids divvy up their candy and help yourself to the best ones!!! HA! This year I think I will go as a mysterious Knock -- open the door and no one is there...Boo! I will look before I open my door. I do not want to invite my doppelganger inside! Happy Halloween and Smashing Pumpkin day!

October Meanderings

Like leaves, crunching and falling, all sorts of organic colors -- I do like the season with its apple-crisp air, but I don't like what comes after. I do not like snow because I cannot walk in snow. I can drive on snow and ice better than I can walk on it. My problem. I love the new white blanket, the non-smell, the big doilies falling from the sky, but once it's on the ground... HELP!

Born and raised here, I have noticed Global Warming. Here it isn't too bad once you realize it's going to be DRY! Tough on farmers and aranchers and gardeners but at least I can get out without falling on my non-padded rear end! I"m a fluffy person, weigh far more than I should, but I got an old-man non-existant butt. (Nice picture, huh.) Gotta protect those hip bones! Gotta learn to flip in the air and land on my generous tummy!

Well anyway -- More on quantum stuff -- all the Murphy's Laws do address the phenonemon. Also why we cannot prove Psychic ability. It relies on probability and is by nature random, but with a high predicability if you know how to measure it. Like trying to catch a greasy cat. Psychic ability does exist. The trick is: Prove it. Well, prove it isn't. If we want to travel someday like STARTREK, in transporters, we had better consider quantum theory.

Good stuff to ponder upon near Halloween.

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wintry stuff in Wyoming starts in October -- sometimes it can be awfully lovely.


Hey, Been watching story of Einstein, and how he had trouble with the Quantum Mechanics, well actually I think I've discovered proof of Quantum mechanics. Life. The experience of life is full of probabilities. String theory, Just because everything happens identically, it doesn't mean the outcome will be identical. Life, the process, is proof that quantum mechanics is part of Physics, even though it appears not to adhere to laws in physics. It has to do with the random particles that caroom around in space, playing havoc with DNA chains causing mutations. Life. It's all organic, and being organic, you are dealing with probabilities not absolutes. It's like being a snake. Some of this stuff you have to unhinge your jaw to swallow.

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There's my old garden varieties. Had some doubles, with fuzzy middles, and you see a Cosmo pink in back. Got a lotta those. Gotta get me more next year!!!

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Here they go. Had to go back to "Flicker" to get em on. I dunno what's with the Blogger picture machine. Anyway...yep. My black sunnies.

Sunflower (song)

Ummm I am having trouble with the pictures. My computer likes 'em fine but the blogger portal for them won't load up. hmmm. I was bringing in sunflowers. The pretty dark ones. Ever seen? They are a real dark mahogany brown with tips of yellow.
rats. Okay, we have comments!!!! Real Comments and I am so wildly happy and pleased. Good good good. Atta-girls on my shoulder. Keep forging onward! Thank you thank you thank you. Really made my day. I am being read. Kvelling!! Dance of Joy!! ok, enough.

Glad for all the good news in the media. Rita didn't do as much damage but a friend of mine has no idea how his apartment fared. He guesses it's underwater. stay tuned on that lil tidbit. He's coming to visit his sister Friday. He has lived in South America for quite a few years and the culture shock is getting to him. He's furious with our government. Oh well!!!! Do you guys know the old joke about the black man who pulled a snake out of his pants and said, I knew you were big, I knew you were black but where'd you get those baby blue eyes???? Our snake in grass government has to learn they can't fool us people as much as they used to.

Baby blue eyes.

Didya see the pictures they got back from Mars about the same space of land, several years (months) apart, and lo there is in the latest one, a channel looking suspiciously like a water rivulet where there hadn't been before? Hmmm. It's alive...

Well, thank the girls Katrina and Rita for putting a kbosh on NASA funding. I think many things will now go on back burners as the expen$$$$es mount. The way they talk about money, it sure doesn't seem real, does it? I predict a skinny scrawny Christmas season. And a verrrry interesting 2006! I know, I know. But all the retailers are jumping the season, I gotta do something to top the trend! Then when people ask me, "Can you believe it's (such and such date) already???" I can say, yes, heck I've been ready for weeks.

I'm off to talk to the picture wizard.

Way down yonder in New Orleans ---

Okay, we agree. This is a full-blown disaster. EVERYONE is going to feel this one. Bush was cought flat-footed on vacation, but lets lay the blame where it begins, FEMA and Brown. HE should have called BUSH immediately, but then Bush had to call him!! He-llooo! This is not a simulation. This is not a dry-run. It's a disaster, involving many many thousands of people and consequently, the whole nation. FEMA is a federal agency, sposed to field the emergency, get rolling and fix it. The governor of Louisiana needs to step aside and let the nation roll in there and do stuff. She wants the 'control' of this to stay in Louisiana. uh, he-lloo again, what control??? It's out of control! Disease is gonna have a field day! No sanitation, no water, --won't be long folks until various epidemics are going to check in, decimating all those who stayed, either by choice or by circumstance. Does anyone care that the busses supposed to ship people out of the area were left in a shopping center, to be drowned to the rooftops with water??? And water! Being drained into reservoirs via 4 " pipes. Okay. Can a body transverse through those pipes? Small ones, loaded with bacteria and other delights? It's time to roll, people. Never mind the finger pointing. Just do what needs to be done. ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! i HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH DENIAL ! FEMA shame! Shame! What part of Emergency do you not understand?

And oh by the way. Check out Richard Hoagland. He's got some theories on ol Katrinka. What if. Dare we suggest? That Katrinka was an engineered storm? That Mother Nature got an assist from some really nasty if brilliant people? Follow the evidence, follow the events. Sure looks rather odd. If you slot in the (impossible!!) possibility that Katrinka was an artifically enhanced hurricane, then that explains all the footdragging, and stupidity that's been going on. oh well, I find it hard to swallow myself, but ----!!

*click!* Know what???

Hokay we have a buncha stuff -- for example "Yes dear, I paint."

I been thinking, which I do, all the time, (unfortunately) and I realize the older I get, the more conventional wisdom makes sense. What your mommy and daddy told you is true, unless they are natural jokers. God DOES have a sense of humor, and we are at the brunt of it. Remedy?? Laugh.

UFO's. My what a subject. Lets tackle UFO's, extraterrestrial type; never mind how they got here. They do not let us know what they are because we aren't ready to know. We are almost ready, thus they are sending us puzzles to figure out. They are not dwelling on the same sensory/reality plane as we do. Nor will we, once we die.
No, I have not tossed out the possibility that they are angels.

It's silly to be afraid of them, in any case.

The older I get the more I realize (sadly!!!) that being an expert or a doctor in any field does not mean that person is all-wise. Geniuses have the same ability to really pull a duh-doofus-boner as the rest of us. 'Caveat!!!'

I wanna go to Mars. I can't. Damnnit. Love to go, sink my fingers into the sand, explore the caverns and caves and ice fields. Can't. Body won't let us, yet. Send on the drones!!!! All those wonderful rovers and cameras. Dare we guess that the 'little green men' types are nothing but machinery?

I wonder if Venus, the planet, is only in a phase, and will eventually cool off, and change climate and become habitable??? Earth has done similiar things dozens of times. Ice Planet, Hot planet, No-life planet -- earth has been there, done that, and still the lil microbes keep on ticking.

And there's a lot still out on the other solar system balls.

Politics is an old ploy. It is a means of survival, that your genes will be passed on. In the name of politics, one cheats, lies, connives, plots, maneuvers, collects markers and grooms others. To render us worth saving as a species we are going to have to jettison some of these behaviors. Don't ask me which. It's a giant Gordian Knot, and one written about since the age of written language.

Will we panic when the "martians" come?? Or the Andorians, or the Romulans or the whatever CP3O arrives?? I don't think we'll do the "War of the worlds" thing but then I remain still the pie-eyed optimist I have been for decades.

Chow, Baby!!

paper or plastic

The latest from the smart fellas in the world of NASA and affiliates... plastic may be the skin of future spaceships. Hmmm Why do I think of Ziplock??

Travel

The latest from my buddy who took a plane to the East coast --- We should do these now. Airplane travel these days is slightly better than a livestock trailer haul. No food. Forgotten drinks, frisking and unpacking ... Let's do amtrack!
ALL ABOARD!!!!

now try this

Hey is that water I see??? Ice??? Good ol Mars. Keep us guessing.

Now about NASA and shuttles and repairs. Poor NASA is a political thing. The whole shebang is run by the goverment "committee". That means there will be grandstanding by people who don't really do anything except listen to lobbyists. Also the 'nervous nellies' in any program are going to continue to piss and moan about everything. Until private enterprise gets itself into space, this will continue-- with veiled threats to scrub the whole mission etc. Perhaps we need to repair --to the moon! Again. There is lots there to make useful, water (again with that!) god-awful many minerals -- a frontier strange and wonderful. An extended space station as we have now is crippled by the fact that human beings can only go so long without gravity. We are going to have to deal with that if we expect to get anywhere. Mars needs much exploration, by robots and man. For that matter robots on the moon too, doing the job of mining, exploration, pictures ---

And don't forget, we need to learn how to make nanotubes and buckyballs to utilize in space.

Hooray for the brave crew who patched up the Discovery! In spite of hand-wringing by publicity-minded nay-sayers, to save their little CYA campaign, the whole thing still can be successful. All the pessimism by such Cassandras are often blown out of proportion

It's okay, people. It's okay. Don't sweat it. We are going to have more casualties. We are going to have more accidents. Steady as she goes!

Party's Over

Well, the last day of our Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, last full week in JULY. Bunting comes down, people go home, over for another year --yippy skippy but as usual, a good rodeo party. Ridem Cowboy! Come back Next year!

And our astronauts are upstairs. Godspeed, guys

Another planet??? Depends on it's orbit, I think. Got a lot of rocks in our solar system. Me, I still wanna bum around Mars.

Flowers are blooming! Tomatoes are getting red! At least some things are alive in the garden. Oh by the way, a thought -- there is no such thing as a real cold call. The caller has to have SOME information handy.

Short story: it was late and dark, we were watching tv. a cat jumped up into the kitchen window and looked in on us from kitchen to living room. We have no cats, that we acknowledge anyway. Nothin but occasional wild cats --- I said, oh! kitty in the window! and Dave says, "Is he a peeping Tom?"

Play taps. Play Amazing Grace. Our lovely buddy, Jimmy is gone. To the enterprise in the other side. Bones was waiting for him, as well as all his past peoples -- we send our love and thank him for his life.

My Stars!

Circle October 30th of this year on your calendars. Mars visits us again darned near as close as it did 2 years ago. Umm! Saw it that time, nice and red and purdy in the sky -- Those of you with telescopes will have a little treat if it's not cloudy.

Discovery is still Earth-bound. Well, let's check it out, gang. I personally think the shuttles are a tad old. They need new models with new wiring and all that good stuff. In the meantime, lets not kill astronauts just to fire 'em off the Earth!! Go, by all means, but go safely. Gee yes, let's have a hand for that idea.

Off and Running

Tomorrow the Discovery goes off. I'm crossing my fingers and praying. We need this mission. Here's a little known fact. Sure you need this. It will be indelible in your mind forever. Sumi wrestlers never wash their loin cloths. The reasoning is: it would diminish their strength.

Okay-ee

Watched a crow this weekend while I was fishing. It was raining and we were waiting in the car for it to blow over. A crow hopped up to a picnic table and picked up something in it's beak -- then dropped it. Picked up. Dropped. Flew away; came back, picked up, and took it to the lake edge and dropped it in. Then it ate it. Flew up, got another. This is repeated 4 times. I went to investigate. Dog kibble! Way to go, Mother Nature!

Dogs don't think they are human. They think we are dogs. Funny weird dogs that act very stupid sometimes but they love us anyway.

Here's looking at you, Kid ---

Okay, in the field, we started a flower garden. Virgin field. I picked up a cactus, plunked it in, and several days later ---Bloom! Must have been holding my mouth right or something ---

Wet Birds Don't Fly At Night

Surveyor is a weird looking word. In fact so is Survey. The longer you look at it, the less it looks like it means. We are in the middle of June. IN Wyoming, the gardens are just barely going. Dang, just a short three months in clay soil 'tis tough coming up with anything. We try tho. That's what I've been doing, and healing a knee. Takes longer than you think. A major joint. Growl! Getting up and down off the ground or floor is harder than you think without knees.

Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens probably did get very chummy chummy. It depends on the situation and and the opportunity. The DNA stuff is still out on that score. Oh by the way, DNA!!! Did you know that chimeras can have two sets of DNA and depending on which organ or body parts are checked?? It's a result of very early twinning and then doubling up. If two sexes are involved, you get hemoprodites. One person, one body, two makeups. So, DNA is NOT infallible beyond all!