Sunday Morning

Yesterday the Kadizzles went to town for provisions. Town in this case was Globe Arizona.  Globe is a copper mining town. Kadizzle has been in a lot of mining towns, none of them were bueaty contest winners.  Most mine towns either go through multiple booms and bust or one big one.  Globe ebs and flows with the price of copper.  It would be nice if there were a polite way to say it, but there is not, Globe is a mess.  The streets were laid our by having an ant crawl over a map with ink on it's feet.  Most yards are decorated with found art, like the car I found in high school. There is the mother of all fribble stores in Globe.  It is called The Pickle Barrel.  It does have an excellent and unusual fribble collection. You know what fribbles are? Those silly useless items you put all over your house to remind you that it doesn't take much to buy fine art.

The town looks shot up and so do the people.  A hard scrabble life seems like the preferred way of life.  Main street has withered on the vine.  Like most towns Walmart has captured the market for those who need shampoo and Chinese junk.  There are some good Mexican food places.

Globe is surrounded by some very nice country.  The gun totters can be out in the woods and shoot holes in their old televisions in no time.  Farther from town things are pristine, but in the first few outlying areas the hills are torn to pieces by pickup trucks, ATVs, and whatever is needed to destroy the planet.  Apparently the people think the rest of the world should look like their town.  Their town is unique with huge piles of mine rubble right in the middle of town.  Since Kadizzle was a miner most of his life he has a soft spot for the miners.  They seem content enough and friendly enough.  The real sad thing about the human beings that extract the coal, the cooper, the iron ore, and the minerals we all need to live well is that they often end up holding an empty bag.  You can see it in Montana, West Virginia, Arizona, and on the Great Lakes.  The people who created the wealth are left with little or nothing.  The money migrates to the hubs of wealth, and the locals have run down schools and towns.