An interesting past night and morn…

I go to bed early because I normally wake early. I like a good long sleep. I can easily snooze for 8-10 hours uninterrupted. Unless I gotta pee.

Last night, to bed as usual. Read a bit. Go to sleep. Weather is warm so the house is open. Sliding doors and sash window all open wide.

About 2am I woke as a frigid Sou-easterly made a racket. It made the old farm house howl and moan. The curtains flapped like a flag in the wind.

It was cold. Too cold. So I close the house a bit, as much as a drowsy old dude does at 2am. Go back to bed, and regret that I'd put my big winter's blanket away. My lighter granny-blanket, and sheets didnt cut it. But I'm sleepy and lazy so I layer the pillows around me and curl up in the blankets I have, and listen to the howling night.

I didnt sleep as well as I normally do. I laid there in a semi-dream state both listening to the night and wandering the avenues of my mind. I love hitchhiking the roads of my memory. Wandering the avenues of life and fantasy.

The morning was clean and fresh. Still chilly and breezy, but the air was crisp and sweet. My morning chores led to a run up the range to buy a couple bales of hay. I brought coffee back for Gracie, then played farmer for a few hours. Needed another run into town, a little bit of mowing, a couple one-man jobs… Plenty to-do every day if you're a farmer. And its all good.

By about 1pm I'm pretty ready for a break. I admit to the fact that I'm getting old. I'm not as strong nor as stupid as I once was. I don't eat during "the day", and haven't really drank much more than a glass a water and a cup of coffee. I'm an old camel, and dont need much in my belly to function. But once I eat or drink anything I tend to get tired and lazy. So I'm OK with "quitting-early". For a guy my age, maybe 5 hours of nonstop work/ activity is enough? My pedometer tells me I walked 5ks/ 3miles.

As I putter about, my thoughts are chewing on something… ruminating upon, the idea that the general public is eating the horse-shit being fed to them and agreeing with The Masters that they are eating caviar… "It's Not Inflation"… "CRT is not being taught in our schools"… "The economy is doing fine"… "Coal is nasty"… "Green is Green"…

There is so much that is patently false that is agreed upon as deTruth… Black kids stand 90% higher chance of death by-cop than white kids. Guns are the cause for all our urban woes. Police are all white supremacy-dudes and all are bad. Defund the Police!

And folks know that its not all right but they nod and agree and say "ain't that nice" as they join the herd…

I was talking to my buddy, Big-G., a while back. We were discussing the lack of Critical Thought… the lack of Honesty… the lack of Leadership…

And insanity rules… stupidity is the norm… Illegal Immigrants get offered big bucks for the damages and ills they have experienced at the hands of the USofA. While Veterans of Foreign Wars, the brave souls who served and protected, go totally unrecognised. As daily, law breakers crossing our borders, are treated with respect and courtesy. While local constabulary are defiled, reviled and exiled.

I know, I know… my words dont count. I'm a self-made, privileged, fat-cat, capitalist-pig. Oik, Oik!

There I beat some of you to it.

And I smile.

It's a beautiful day. And the world around is regressing, getting dumber as I type.

More later

Big smiles

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