The Kadizzles have escaped the arctic
cold of North Dakota and are back in the land of the old and retired.
Where to go with the Earth Module is the question. Do we stay
another day in the lap of luxury with a water connection and
electricity or do we move down on the Salt River to the land of the
frugal and poor? The camp host at Usery Park are saying the plan is
to raise the daily rate next year to $35. That will turn Usery Park
in to a resort for the rich and drive the plain folk out.
Asked what she wanted for Christmas The
Commander said she wanted a solar panel, so soon the Kadizzles will
be reaping a crop of electrons directly from the sun. Hopefully
that will get us through our new life with thousands of electronic
gadgets.
The humful migration took place while
we were home for Christmas. What in the hell is a humful? A humful
is a breed of large motorhome that is shinny and self propelled,
usually by a large diesel. Humful owners usually have the best of
everything and stay close to electricity and water. When we left
for North Dakota there was scarcely a humful in site, but now the
park is full to the brim with the giant shinny bread boxes.
Apparently all the humful owners stayed home until Christmas was
over. The cold weather may have driven the humfuls south.
Humfuls were given that name because
they resembled heffalumps. As near as anyone can tell a heffalump
looks something like an elephant and they were first sited in the
Winnie-the- Pooh adventures.
In the fifth chapter of
Winnie-the-Pooh,
Pooh and Piglet
attempt bravely to capture a heffalump in a trap. However, no
heffalumps are ever caught in their trap, and indeed they never meet
a heffalump in the course of the books. The sole actual appearance of
heffalumps in the books come as Pooh tries to put himself to sleep:
"[H]e tried counting Heffalumps [but] every Heffalump that he
counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey ... [and] when
the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws,
and saying to itself, 'Very good honey this, I don't know when I've
tasted better', Pooh could bear it no longer." We learn nothing
more about the nature of the beasts in the writings, unless by
"nature" we refer to the "nature" of absences.
The plane trip to Mesa from North Dakota was delayed in part because of a heffalump. At the gate in Bismarck people were lined up to board the plane, but the line was not moving. The attendants had gone down the ramp to plane with a wheelchair to get a passenger off the plane. Soon they came back with an empty wheel chair and declared they needed a bigger wheelchair. Kadizzle told The Commander " I bet they got a heffalump on there". After searching the airport for a wider wheel chair they finnally came down the ramp with a hefflalump. The plane then had a mechanical problem and had to be deiced.
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