Looks like it will be a perfect day. Down below our mountain home in the wonderful park will be a fiddler's convention. The usual farmers market will be going until noon. Kadizzle has come to realize from life in Hazen how boring life there was. Payson does a good job of entertaining. Payson is a pass through town for travelers and tries to get them to stop and empty their pockets. To some degree it works. The Casino is always busy cleaning pockets. There always seems to be something going on somewhere. Hazen on the other hand lived up to its reputation. You could shoot down mainstreet and not hit anyone.
Even the politics here are more fun. What other town has the leftover remnants of the Tea Party to juice things up. Hazen didn't have gun slingers in the grocery store. To top it off Payson even has a cadre of homeless people. Does it get any better? Yes, there are plenty of people with loose bolts running around with crazy right wing ideas, and Trump fantasies. Dogs outnumber people in Payson and dog walking is wearing out the sidewalks, but there are people moving about. Back in Hazen the sidewalks only keep weeds from growing.
Payson is the big city to the Kadizzle's. There are dozens of eating places, a Home Depot, Walmart, and two grocery stores. Phoenix is not that far away.
One great benefit are all the new friends we have made. Lots of nice people here. Even the lunatics are nice.
After another cup of coffee Kadizzle will make the first of many bike rides down to the park to see the set up for the fiddle convention.
Yesterday every neighbor went to the golf course to fight a housing project they wish to put in our shangri la. People are worried degenerates might move in. It is a real danger, it happened in Hazen. The degenerates moved into the house on the corner and filled the yard with junked cars. That was nine years ago, Bob still has to put up with the mess.
How do you deal with urban blight. Payson has some areas where the slummers have gone wild making a mess with all the usual hoarding slummers do. Kadizzle would like the city to build the slummers nice housing and remove the rats nests. Some of the trailer parks in this town look like hobo camps. If Payson wants to become the destination town for Phoenix some work needs to be done. Like all of our great country Payson lacks affordable housing for the people who actually do the work. Since the rich don't like to pay a living wage, unless you are living under a bridge, the workforce is forced to live in substandard housing, which might even mean a tent.
A couple of bums move their mobile bum nest about town. As mentioned before in this blog the bums with campers can get by moving from place to place. There is a bum wagon down on McClain that takes the cake. The bum wagon is an old Class A motor home hooked to a trailer. Guess what the trailer is loaded with? This bum has a portable mess he takes with him. The trailer is stacked with junk. Of course you also have the car bums that live in their cars. Kadizzle met one strange bicycle bum. That particular bike bum has a trailer on his bike. He told Kadizzle he was going to flagstaff. However, he hasn't made it out of town for the last two months. The guys who do the begging at the intersections and Safeway must work in shifts. Kadizzle saw bum A moving out and bum B took over.
Kadizzle has been searching for the guy on the orange bike. Remember the Tea Party gang falsely accused Kadizzle of riding an orange bike through their Trump Dance on highway 87. Well Kadizzle has constantly searched for someone riding an orange bike. The other day while Kashuntz and Kadizzle were protesting, sure enough a guy went by on an orange bike. Kadizzle got his attention to find out if he was the culprit that yelled " Fuck You" at the Republicans. Turned out the guy did not speak English. Maybe he said something in Spanish the Trump Cult thought was the obscenity. It doesn't take much in this town to twist something. The guy might have yelled in Spanish " Tacos for sale". The Cult is easily confused. There was another problem. The guy must have weighed fifty pounds less than Kadizzle and he really didn't resemble Kadizzle at all. Would have been very laughable if the police had arrested him. The eyewitnesses from the cult would surely have identified the poor guy as Kadizzle in the lineup.
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