What time is it?

Kadizzle got drawn into an article about how the virus will affect the expensive watch industry.  Who cares? What kind of world do we live in where people live in shacks and other people wear $220,000 watches.  What in the hell is going on when you are willing to pay that kind of money to know what time it is?  There are very few problems in the world that are simply not distribution problems.  When $200, 000,000 yachts flourish and people do without we have a problem.  When so many have three homes and so many more don't even have one, we have a problem.  What in the hell is wrong with people? When we have a surplus of labor we build war planes, pyramids, walls, but not homes, schools, and hospitals. What in the hell is wrong?  It is unleashed greed, and it is destroying the planet. Hope Kadizzle cheered everyone up today.

Ah the Badlands

The bike trip to the Badlands turned out well. Riding the ebike was great.  The trail was just about the right amount of challenge.  The Badlands are certainly a treasure for North Dakota.  North Dakota does have some wonderful outdoor places, however the people hear do not believe in recreation.  Work, work, work and grow something is all they think.  So many of the nice places are not made usable. Tourism here is giant cows, and other fiberglass and steel cafribles.  In other words junk.  Spending money to improve access to the nice parts of the state is strictly forbidden by the Republicans.  No place is quiet like the badlands.  The Kadizzles have traveled around a bit, and have seem a few places similar, but not exactly the same.

Ebike the badlands

Winky and Kadizzle may set off for the North Dakota Badlands today.  The goal is to go on the Ma de Hey Trail with bikes.  Kadizzle will take the ebike and Winky can struggle with the old fashioned bike.  Snakes and ticks may be a problem, but such is life.  If we can live through Republicans snakes and ticks are a minor problem.

We need some rain.  It is as dry as a popcorn fart and the fertilizer will burn the grass if we do not get some rain soon. 

The Garden

Winky always has a wonderful garden.  Yesterday she enlisted Kadizzle as an assistant.  In went the tators, the carrots, the peas.  Out will come some good eating.  We planted three kinds of tators, fries, hash browns, and bakers.  The birds were happy to go after the worms when the garden got watered.  This brings Kadizzle to a new war.  The birds have a right to live, but the cats don't respect that.  Too many birds are needlessly killed by cats.  It is the cats nature.  Kadizzle got a CO2 BB gun from Stroupini.  Cats will be shot without a trial.  Shooting anything is not a good idea.  We are all God's creatures,  even though Kadizzle is an agnostic.  Hopefully the cat will just get stung and realize the need to leave the birds alone.  In reality the chance of having the gun when needed is slim.  The next problem is the gun is a pistol.  Hitting anything smaller than a truck will be difficult. 

Long Ago and Far Away

Long ago and far away Kadizzle climbed under the wing of a small plane about 2,500 feet in the air. Kadizzle let go, the parachute opened. It was like the hand of god when that parachute jerked Kadizzle from horizontal to vertical.  To be suddenly stood at attention by gravity, air and faith.   It was early in the evening and the drift to the ground was slow and wonderful.  It was a cargo parachute. It was in Blacksburg,  Virginia.   What if that parachute had not opened.  That would have been the end of he game, but that is how life works.  Every little incidence in the end writes the story.

It would tickle me

With the new TV Kadizzle has started watching the series Outlander.  The series is set mostly in ancient Scottish times.  At any rate Kadizzle was viewing this morning when the Scottish leader of the rebels said to the British woman " It would tickle me to grind your corn".  You can decide for yourself the meaning the phrase, but it did sort of hit the funny bone.

At this point of the Trump insanity the poor cult members are twisting and churning to stay faithful to the idiot cult. Seeing some of the rationalizing for Pence failing to wear a mask is truly educational in regard to how hard people will try to support the idiot leaders.

Well it looks like an overcast day.  Winky wants to clean the house.  As Winky grows older she becomes more of a niggyfiddle.  Imaginary dirt is like imaginary virus, it is everywhere.  Even though old Kadizzle vacuumed the joint not to long ago he will be tasked with sucking up the invisible dirt once more.

John Prine -- That's the Way the World goes Round

Learning lessons over again

" I am going to sit right down and write myself a letter".   A lot has gone through Kadizzles mind.  One has to look inward once in awhile.  This brings us to today's lesson.  You made your nest now lie in it.  Those were the words of an ex boss in Ohio.  Long ago and far away Kadizzle was just married and needed a job.  Kadizzle called up his old employer the second largest coal company in the U.S. and asked if they had any jobs.  Kadizzle was shocked, they said can you come to work in two weeks.  It was a good job and Kadizzle could not refuse.  At first they said the job would be in Alberta or Denver.  Kadizzle liked both spots.  Well that ain't the way it turned out.  Kadizzle was sent to North Dakota. When the new bride arrived in North Dakota she said " You get us out of here as fast as you can".  Kadizzle went to his old boss in Ohio and begged for his old job in Ohio back.  Old Boss said " You made your nest, now lie in it".  Kadizzle returned to North Dakota and his new nest.  44 years later Kadizzle is still in North Dakota.  The new nest did not work out that badly.  There is a lesson in this.  At some point you have to lie in the nest you make.  Apparently you have to make your nest livable.  The big lesson is you built your nest, no one else did.

The pumpkins

These are Grandpa's newest prizes.  Cheech is holed up in a vacation retreat with her two favorite toys. Evie and Quinn keep Cheech busy.  Quinn has been accused of looking like Grandpa Kadizzle, particularly the belly.  So far all the grandchildren are proving to be stable geniuses.  Someday maybe they can replace Trump.

The bike ride

Confinement drove Kadizzle to the edge. The solution seemed to be getting some exercise. Kadizzle enlisted Stroupini to go to Harmon lake for a bike ride. Someone did a wonderful job designing this recreation spot.  The bike trail was laid out exquisitely. Kadizzle has done a lot of trail riding, but old Stroupini was not up to the difficulty of the trail.  The trail winds bends and goes along some cliff edges.  Kadizzle buzzed along, but old Stroupini had to get off several times and walk his bike.  In the end we made it around the eight mile circuit.  Kadizzle told Stroupini there was one last treat.  Earlier Kadizzle had noticed a very steep path that led back to where the truck was parked. It was on a 45 degree angle.  Kadizzle told Stoupine for a final treat we could go over this cliff.  Wisely Stroupini declined.  In a mental fit of dare to be stupid Kadizzle took off down the steep slope.  The brakes barely were able to hold back the weight of Kadizzle and the bike, but old Kadizzle made it to the bottom.  All in all it was a great day and a nice ride.  Stroupini built up his confidence and said he learned a few new tricks.  Forgot to mention the old farts made the trip on ebikes.

As a preventative Kadizzle drank a D.C. Trumpet cocktail last night to make sure he does not get the virus.  Two parts Lysol, to one part bleach.  Add ice, shake vigorously.  For a garnish add a little poison ivy.  Seems to work.  Has a nice side effect the farts don't smell.  Also seems to whiten the teeth.

The Kadizzle Home

This was the house where Kadizzle and his two brothers, and six sisters grew up.  This picture popped up on Facebook today.  This brought back memories.  This is where the insanity spread like the virus. See the right side of that porch roof.  Kadizzle remembers as a kid when we were going to jump off that roof with a blanket for a parachute.  Up on the very top roof there was a slate roof.  Kadizzle can remember sitting on the very top.  The slate he was on came lose and he slide clear down to the wide gutter thinking his life would shortly end.  Had it not been for the wideness of the gutter Kadizzle would now be dead or crippled. The most important part of that house is the porch and the steps.  People sat on those steps and that porch and talked for hours.  On the left side of that porch was a swing.  That swing will be put in the Kadizzle presidential library.  That swing was where is all started. Kadizzle was napping on that swing one sunny day. George Mattison walked by on the sidewalk below.  He shouted up to Kadizzle and asked if Kadizzle wanted to ride down the Ohio River with him. George was going to apply for a summer job at a coal mine.  Kadizzle went along. The next thing Kadizzle knew his career in coal mining started.  Coal took Kadizzle to Ohio, southern West Virginia, and ultimately to North Dakota.  It all started on one sunny day on that porch swing on 26 Poplar Ave in Wheeling, West Virginia.  Now, so many years later Colin, Louise, and Kathleen are dead.  Tom and Suzie are in West Virginia.  Melissa is in Portland. Amy is in Maryland, and Patty is in Arizona.  We were spread like leaves.  That house could write a book.  It would be an amazing tail. 

Don't Trust your lying eyes

People are buzzing this morning after the Trumpster suggested injecting a little lysol might clear up the virus.  Too many people seem to forget he is a stable genius.

My old neighbor was a stable genius, and incidentally a Republican.  My neighbor went on to the Trump cult in the sky, but Kadizzle misses him.  We were good friends and many times Kadizzle helped him.  Once we built his sun room together.  During construction of the sun room Kadizzle got to see the mind of a Republican in action.  Neighbor cut off a 2 x 4 too short.  Kadizzle was sent to the lumbar yard to get another piece of wood.  When Kadizzle returned neighbor said he solved the problem of the short wood,  he glued a piece back on.  This is the same neighbor that painted his truck with cans of spray paint.  You can imagine it looked terrible, but he thought it was great.  When Kadizzle first met the guy he took great pride in the bookshelf he built over the fireplace.  Looking at the book shelf Kadizzle noticed the trim sealed the books in.   If you wanted to take a book from the shelf you could not because the trim kept them in.  Pointing this out to the good Republican Kadizzle got this reply.  " Oh I don't need to get those books out, I already read them".  You can bet Trump does not have any books he has already read.  Whenever Republican neighbor and Kadizzle would get in an argument, neighbor would say " I am a genius, and I have a card to prove it".  Then from his wallet he would pull his Reader's Digest Mensa card.   It surprised Kadizzle he could pass any test, but Kadizzle later found out he had taken the test five times before he passed.  He was of course a stable genius just like Trump.  Kadizzle has always loved neighbors best quote " Education just confuses people".   Republicans believe that is the case.  College, science books, or just talking to a liberal can confuse a cult member.  The answer is simple just keep the TV on Fox News.

Raging Insanity

Trump daily stirs up the idiots.  Did you ever in your adult life think there could be a time when we had a raging lunatic for president and a major portion of the population would treat it as normal?  Did you ever think a mentally ill man would stand in front of a crowd and Americans would cheer for him? This is what we wake up to.  The idiot's conventions are becoming more prevalent. People are protesting to make sure they have the right to get sick. The virus nonsense happened pretty suddenly and this is how the dolts act.  Now think about a more subtle problem like climate change. Imagine trying to get the dolts to understand that. The Bismarck Tribune featured a letter from a dolt today that says there is no climate problem.  The dolt  says if there were the oceans would rise and glaciers would melt.  The ocean is rising, and the glaciers are melting, but the dolt has not found out yet. Dolts and science just don't mix.

Kadizzle is going stir crazy.  The idea has entered his head to take a trip up the inner passage to Alaska on the BC ferry.   To that end Kadizzle looked at the BC ferry site on the Google.  Somehow when you try to plan a trip they only ask where you are going.  No mention of where you start from. Seems like it might be fun  to get on a ferry with a car or motorcycle, then get off and on at various places.  You could explore the mountains then move along on the ferry.  Winky thinks they will never open up travel again. So who knows.

Last night we watched the Frontline show on the virus.  Trump made sure that situation was made worse.  It was like standing on the train track denying a train might come.

Alan Price - To Ramona

Manicure the yard

Winky says were going to work on the yard today.  Wow,  so far Kadizzle has hauled about four loads of yard rakings to the dump.  The yard is already so clean the birds are taking their shoes off before they land. Today Winky wants to scratch up the yard with the riding mower so we can have more stuff to pick up.  Our yard is about a foot lower since we have been hauling it away.  To save gas we may just put carpet down.

Unfortunately This is True

The guy with the microphone is Vince McMahon.  Trump appointed him to the committee for reopening the economy. Nothing but the best for Trump.

The Groundhogs are coming out.

Bismarck is supposed to have an idiots convention today. The Red Hats will show solidarity for stupidity.  One good thing about this virus is it should spread best among the Trump crowd.  Winky has been very strict about our sequester.  According to God and Winky we must quarantine for two weeks since we got back to North Dakota.  In Hazen you can see the social distancing breaking down. The fundamentalist carry on like normal.  The grocery store is doing a good job, but it seemed like one of the bars was open, at least there were a lot of cars there.  Doubt they are making face mask.  Out of boredom we have been raking the yard.  The yard is in tip top shape to get hit by spring.  Well here we go another day in homemade prison.

The next governor

Kadizzle wants change in the worst way, and this is not about an underwear problem.  Yesterday Kadizzle had a long conversation with Shelley Lenz.  Shelly is the woman running for governor in North Dakota. Kadizzle wants to see the greed dogs thrown from office in North Dakota.  The rich now own North Dakota. The current governor made some big cheese in the digital game and bought himself the job.  All three congressional representatives in ND are stooges for the rich.  John Hoeven's dad gave him a bank, Little Kelly Armstrong's daddy gave him some oil wells, and poor old Kevin Cramer was adopted by Harold Hamm the oil billionaire.  So North Dakota is in the hands of those who never want to pay taxes.

Creativity is the only way you can overthrow the rich.  You cannot out spend them. Kadizzle discussed ways Shelly could get some publicity and get her message across.  The elections in November will indicate how close to a dictatorship we are. Pay attention.

Good Morning Kadizzilites

Good morning.  North Korea and South Korea set off nuclear weapons last nigh.  Not really, what happened was Winky was watching television when the screen went blank.  Kadizzle was commanded by Trump's second in command to fix the television.  As Kadizzle tried to diagnose the problem Winky fired missiles, and some small arms.  Unless a cease fire was declared Kadizzle threatened to walk off the battlefield.  After trying everything in the book we decided the old TV was dead.  This meant the TV from the basement hat to quickly be brought upstairs to replace the wounded TV.  Now we heat our  house with the television and also use it to cook our brains so you can see time was short.  Finally we got the basement Television going and carefully placed Winky back in her chair.  Birds sang, a heavenly light came from the television and Kadizzle retired to some nice sleep music in his ward room in the asylum. What if we had not had a spare? It would be like no defibrillator during a heart attack.  The two engine plane is now flying on one engine.  There is a small tv in the kitchen, but it does not have the power to make us as stupid as we need to be.  A close call, but thanks to the concept of mutual destruction we are still alive.

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