Horses

The Horses are getting smart and coming to the corner of the field every day so Winky can give them some apples. Yesterday we had a crumbling party.  A bunch of us old people got together at Cliff's for a feed and a lot of chatter. Ralph came on his three wheeler. Ralph talks like an old mafia guy and just hearing him talk is a treat. Ralph is Italian and has that mannerism. Kadizzle quizzed Ralf on his life. Somehow Ralph made it from New York to Arizona where he leaned to lay 88's.  What in the hell are 88's?  Ralph calls cinder blocks 88's. Ralph is like Winky he has a high energy level and used to work 12 hours a day. Now he is still very active hiking and taking care of the church. Ralph is a Catholic, and a strong one at that. Listening to someone relate their life is interesting. Kadizzle gets to feel like an interviewer. Everyone has a story, you just have to dig it out of them.

 

Green, green, the grass is green

Awakened to a picture perfect day. Went to the executive suite at Cliff's, and then sat on his porch to reflect on the upcoming day. The birds are chirping and the humming birds are having their usual battle over who gets to drink the sugar water. Those little buzzers will fly within inches of your head. It has rained almost every day for three weeks. Kadizzle cannot get over the color green so vibrant in the early morning sun. 

Winky says she is going for a bike ride. She will probably go up to the Sipes Wildlife Area. Kadizzle may go a little later and try to catch up. Yesterday the UPS guy came and we got into a discussion about the ebike. Mr. UPS says he wants to ride an ebike from Show Low to Phoenix.  Today he said he would come back and Kadizzle is going to let him try the ebike. If he takes some back roads it would be a fun adventure. Kadizzle has given so many people the chance to try the ebike. Seems like about half of them have bought one.  A bill has been introduced on the federal level to give a 30% tax break to ebikes. If they become widely used the environmental benefit would be tremendous. 

Monsoons

Kadizzle has never lived in a area that has monsoons before. The phenomenon is interesting. Every day starts out with clear skies and plenty of sunshine. By mid afternoon the skies become cloudy and the rain falls in sporadic places. Some of the rain can be a torrential downfall, and on other days it is a light sprinkle. The pattern is so consistent, and it has been going on for about three weeks. 

Boredom set in and Kadizzle made a call to Senator Cramer's office in Washington. It is the usual run around. You cannot get any answers out of the Trump lickspittles. If you are lucky you can get a form letter sent to you explaining why reality does not exist. 

Yesterday Kadizzle took the ebike up one side of a mountain and down the other. The trail was very rocky, and it was the arms not the legs that took the beating. Everything has turned a wonderful green. The rain has soaked in and the plantlife and animals must be in heaven. 

The Three stooges

 North Dakota is represented by three stooges. Kevin Cramer, Kelly Armstrong, and John Hoeven are the worst lickspittles imaginable for Trump. Kadizzle was enraged yesterday listening to the hearings on the Trump insurrection. Kadizzle called the editors of both the Bismarck Tribune, and the Fargo Forum to ask why the stooges were not held accountable for their role. The stooges should be forced by they news media to hold a public news conference and answer questions about their position on the Trump riots. Below is the letter Kadizzle wrote to the papers. 

Newspapers complain about the decline of their media. The newspapers themselves are their own worst enemy. In past times people relied on newspapers to dig out the truth and investigate stories. It used to be the job of newspapers to hold politicians accountable, but that day is gone. Kevin Cramer, John Hoeven, and Kelly Armstrong have never been held accountable for their part in the rise of Donald Trump, a the disaster Donald Trump created on January 6th. Why haven’t the newspapers insisted the elected representatives hold a public news conference and explain their lack of action investigating the insurrection Trump inspired? The North Dakota delegation have been accessories in the cover up of what Trump incited, yet they remain immune to the public scrutiny the press in North Dakota should demand. Yes, newspapers are failing, and they deserve to fail when they cannot perform the basic civic duty they are entrusted with. 

Off to Payson

Up early the Kadizzles will head to Payson to see how the new house is progressing. Kadizzle found a house with almost the exact floor plan for sale in Payson on Zillo. The house we are building has some nicer aspects. The good news is they price they are asking for the listed house is higher than what our building cost are.  Of course we are looking at cost overruns, but that is to be expected. Winky has been very busy picking our colors and fixtures. Building a house is a hassle and people our age are just to old for the game, but with luck we will move in by early September.  We have no furniture to speak of, most of it we sold. 

The grass has brought out the wildlife. Kadizzle saw a herd of about forty antelope up on the mesa. Elk are everywhere, but the big horn sheep have been scarce. 

The rain has not slowed the loggers down, the trucks keep rolling out of the forest. 

Daughter Erin swears Kadizzle is dyslexic. Maybe that explains a lot of things. Maybe that is why he is an agnostic and thinks the is no dog. 

Good Morning

The sun popped up and today is off to a good start. All the rain has the area looking brand new. The grass is growing so fast if you stand still it will lift you a couple inches in no time. Made some pancakes this morning. Used an old trick lazy people use. Kadizzle put popcorn in the pancakes and they flip themselves. Lazy is an art. Once back in Hillbilly country Kadizzle walked by a hillbilly guy on the porch. Kadizzle asked him " Why don't you get married and have some children?".  The lazy fellow said " I can't find a pregnant woman that will marry me".  Now, that is lazy. 

Strangely in this part of Arizona the weather has been better than North Dakota. Winky is off for a hike early today with a local group of hiking women. Kadizzle will be unsupervised today.  

My end of the boat is still floating

 Kadizzle is 72 years old. There cannot be that much of the game left. Perhaps that is good. Collectively the planet has lost it't bearings. Climate change is real, and the planet is melting. If your bedroom is on fire, but you are watching TV in the living room no problem, just shut the door to the bedroom. Republicans are worse than termites, flies, mosquitoes, and the ignorance they spread is the worst disease ever to affect mankind. Turn on the news, floods in China of record proportion, same in Germany, the Midwest is either burning or flooding, but we are just fine and about to have breakfast, why worry? Humans have become a petulance that is eliminating itself. For older people we can only hope to check out before the hotel burns to the ground. 

We are close to Phoenix. The old Donald showed up with his Big Lie show. Of course the Hoopleheads flocked to be reassured their mental illness was the rapture. Still no ammunition on the shelves at the drug store in Springerville. What if the liberals attack? What about the revolution when Trump is put back in office in August? So many problems. 

About the Angels trail video below

Winky, Kadizzle, and our daughter Megan have hiked this trail. Winky and Kadizzle have done it several times. It is amazing the stupid people on the hike. People should be able to do it, you never forget the hike, but it should be limited to people over the age of 12 who have been told how dangerous it is. We gave Megan a pin after she did it, but Erin wisely did not go because she was scared. You should not take the hike if you are not confident. Once Kadizzle went up there when it was snowing. Kadizzle would not go out that day. However, there were idiots going out there. It was suicide in the making. As the video mentions there are other extremely dangerous hikes in Zion. We have also done some of them, but most people do not know about them, and they are longer hikes. 

FOX 13 Investigates: Hikers pay deadly price on Zion's Angels Landing trail

An Ark went by

 It rained, then it rained some more, and still it rained. The sun is trying to peek out, but it is a different wet world here. It poured rain all night and the plants are drunk on water. The color of this universe has turned to bright green. 

Kadizzle's jihad today is about taxes. The IRS could collect up to a trillion dollars in taxes due if the Republicans would support the funding of the IRS, but not. The greed dogs are dupes for the rich. It is so obvious, yet the cult is clueless. Pathetic Republican woman from my home state of West Virginia was on CNN saying making the rich pay taxes is an invasion of privacy. Wow, can people be that stupid? Yes. You can feed the cult any line. 

Through the Wilderness

Looking down the valley there is a sheet of rain. It seems to be crawling up to us, but at the pace of a crippled snail. Rain has been a daily occurrence and the pattern is steady. What was a problem with blowing powdery soil is now a potential muddy mess. Today in the morning the sun was out bright as usual. Cliff, Kadizzle, and Winky set out for a long tour in the car. The extent of wilderness here is mind boggling. After about twenty miles going down into the Black River Canyon we wormed our way out on a gravel road for about thirty miles. As we drove out the scenery was spectacular but a storm threatened. Prior to out drive out we took a little hike down to the canyon of the Black River. The lack of human intervention is the amazing  aspect of the journey. To drive fifty miles without seeing a house, a barn, or any sign of habitation is a rare experience. Now that rain seems closer and the sky is extremely dark. The mountain has disappeared and everything is pointing to a torrent of rain. It has been so dry here that inches of rain have not made the streams run. On our trip today we could see a stream that must have suddenly risen six feet and then quickly went down. That stream had a beaver dam that was still intact. The engineering ability of Beavers is amazing. As old Kadizzle types that apocalyptic mess is inching closer.If you hear from me in the morning it means we survived. 

Ed T. You are out there somewhere

 Winky and Kadizzle are sitting in the Earth Module. Some good old fashioned jazz came on the radio.  Kadizzle said to Winky " Who does that song make you think of?"  To his surprize she said " Ed".  Wow, you read my mind.  Ed let me know if you read this. Ed is our oldest traveling friend we met a thousand years ago in Tucson. Ed has an electric piano in his Casita.  Sitting by the key board he cranks out some excellent music. 

The right to be stupid

We live in a wonderful country where we have the right to be stupid guaranteed by the constitution. You can be as dumb as you want. Although there is free public education, you can be home schooled or got to a religious school and be filled with the most simple minded idiocy imaginable. It is your right. You can work in a hospital and infect everyone in there, it is your right. You can invade the Capitol and claim it was just a tourist trip. What other country allows you to go broke giving money to a church or TV preacher? Now if you really want to exercise your right to be stupid vote. Vote for a Republican that will shovel money to the rich while they rape the poor. Vote for a Republican who will not fund the IRS so the IRS can collect the 500 billion the rich tax cheats will not pay. If you do not exercise you right to be stupid you could lose it. Then what? Without the right to be stupid we might have good health care like so many other countries, we might have gun laws like Canada, we might have income equality. Who wants all that socialist stuff? Far better to live in a run down trailer and carry a gun. Far better to live under a bridge with your dog and your friends while Bezos goes on a ten minute space ride. Use it or lose it. 

Good Morning

For some reason the day is starting with an overcast sky. The weather here has been amazingly consistent. Mornings start with crystal clear skies. On schedule the clouds appear shortly afternoon. By three the rain is here. Kadizzle has never lived in the land of monsoons before. 

Politics takes too many of Kadizzle's brain calories, but it is an addiction. North Dakota is such an embarrassment. An old friend in North Dakota said North Dakota is as bad as Mississippi for dunderheads that will not get vaccinated. Kelly Armstrong who is in Congress for North Dakota is a piece of work.  The little Trump suck up was to be on the committee to investigate Trumps riot. Cramer, Hoeven, and Armstrong are pathetic lickspittles. Why does the Trump cult thrive in North Dakota? A lot of older people fall for the silliness of right wing lies.  North Dakota does have some sad right wing commentators that seem to have a following. The little lairs take their lead from Fox News.  Scott Hennen lies to the farmers on their tractors, and you got a few right wing opinion guys and a fundamentalist woman writing for the Fargo Forum.  The Fargo Forum is at least rounded.  The Bismarck Tribune is so bashful and fears it may offend a Republican.  Now, we are living, and moving to Arizona. Arizona is shaking off some of the insanity, but it is also as bad as North Dakota. There is no shortage of Hoopleheads here. Gun toting Hoopleheads. 

Worn out old man

Winky the world's most hyperactive hiker, or maybe it is Cliff, forced Kadizzle into New Mexico for a hike yesterday.  We hiked down a mountain valley that was full of brush. Supposedly we were going to a waterfall. When we got there the waterfall was very disappointing.  It was a hot day and the humidity was high. Coming out of the canyon was a death march. Kadizzle paid dearly for the lard around his middle. Little Joey took a lot of effort to get up the brushy trail. The thorns tore Kadizzles arms to shreds. It looked like he had been attacked by a bear.  The energy just was not there.  About every tenth of a mile a rest was required. A storm chased us out, and we made it just in a nick of time.  Today is recovery day. The old body is sore and needs rest.  Some serious porch sitting is in order. Did have fun with the bloody arms. Kadizzle posted a picture of his torn up arms on facebook.  In reality it was nothing but minor scratches, but the blood running out of the scratches made it look much worse.  After a shower all the damage disappeared. The vastness of the forest in New Mexico, and Arizona never cease to amaze Kadizzle.  Anyone who thinks these two states are barren desert is sadly mistaken. Miles and miles of road with nothing but trees and no one living anywhere.  Our live have made a 180 degree change from the prairie.  

Gross motorcycle stupidity

 A couple weeks ago Kadizzle found a mountain road that took him out onto a high point where he could get a good view of the valley where he now resides.  Since then Kadizzle has been trying to refind the same road with nothing but failure.  Today Kadizzle took off on the mission to find the missing route. During the quest sixteen miles into the forest Kadizzle saw an interesting road or the simulation of a road, or more like a goat trail called Little Creek.  The game of dare to be stupid began. Kadizzle started up little creek and the little guy in his head kept saying you can make it farther. Like a well groomed idiot Kadizzle kept going up and up a very bad road nobody uses.  However, it was clear someone had been up this goat trail. This made Kadizzle think yes you could get to the top.  Gradually the trail got worse and worse and another little voice in the head said " you better turn around you idiot".  Of course " you idiot" kept going.  Then the bell started to clang. What if something goes wrong, nobody will ever find you. Kadizzle called Winky and and left a message on her phone giving the approximate location to look for the body.  Now he was damn near what seemed like the top of the mountain with no idea where he really was.  About two or three hundred yards and he would be at the top. The poor old Yamaha had been hauling his lard ass up a very steep grade. The Yamaha overheated and said I quit. Now what? This was a real mess. Turn around and go back the terrible three miles he had just come up or try to make it to the top.  After pouring or spitting two bottles of water on the cycle it seemed like it cooled down. Praise be unto Jeeesus it started. Kadizzle used the clutch and first gear. He walked beside the motorcycle and got it to the top of the mountain where it was flat.  The blessing was there was somewhat of a real road there.  Following the road he came to a meadow. He could see a decent gravel road in the distance. After he managed to get to the decent road he began to realize he was on the Escadilla mountain road. This was a blessing and he started home. At this point he had to switch to the reserve tank. As usual he did not start the trip expecting to get involved in an adventure. He did not take the satellite communicator. Also he lacked a couple other necessities such as a decent jacket. In the end he was lucky or shrewd.  The stupid feeling lingered for awhile, but no doubt Kadizzle learned nothing. 

The World is Crumbling

 Floods in Europe, Drought in the western U.S. ,  idiots springing up like mushrooms everywhere, people are oblivious to reality. Trump made the Hoopleheads proud to be losers. Kadizzle will leave the planet in not that many years, whew.  However, our kids will be stuck here as the place melts. Our biggest enemy is ignorance. When Kasdizzle was a kid being a dolt was considered embarrassing, now you put a Trump flag on your noisy truck and parade through town to let everyone know your education failed. Your busted flat, but you have tattoos all over your body, shiny wheels on your goofmobile, and you are vaping clouds of chemicals. Jobs are abundant, but you cannot get ahead flipping burgers. The rich bought the government and are having fun going to space. You wander around in a cloud looking for a shopping cart to push to your house under the bridge. The Sackler family makes billions selling opioids, and the guy on the street who sells one joint is in jail. Bridges and building fall down, but the stock market goes up. 

Anti-Vaxxers, Conspiracy Theories, & Epistemic Responsibility: Crash Cou... This one's for you Omar

Republican Hate and insanity.

Winky and Kadizzle are having a home built in Payson, Arizona. So called Mexicans laid the foundation, framed the house, put on the drywall, and roofed the house. Builders cannot find workers other than the Mexicans. If not for Mexicans the housing industry in Arizona would collapse. Now who wants to fight to keep Mexicans out? The very same people who benefit immensely from the work of the immigrants. These people building our home work hard, they do good work, and Kadizzle has a lot of fun joking with them while they work. The idiots we call Republicans cannot comprehend that there is a labor shortage in this county. If businesses had the labor they needed the economy would do well. 

Now remember the Mexicans are supposed to be the lazy welfare cheats. Yesterday while the Mexicans were busy putting up the drywall two nice young white boys were doing the cleanup. Now think about this, the Mexicans had a skill, the white boys were only capable of pushing a broom. Did the Mexicans take a job from the white guys? Hell no. The white guys could have made a little effort and learned to do drywall installation, but no they wanted to get by sweeping up the mess.  The Republican distortion of reality to further their interest is sickening. Our entire country has become a victim of Republican fantasy. 

Listen to the words.

Posted below is the song A rainy night in Soho.  Sometimes someone writes a song with the perfect words. Listen carefully play it once or twice. The routine here at the Earth Module is to get up and play a nice song or two.  Of course Winky starts shouting put on NPR.  

Our old friend Ruth is here.  She came yesterday. Winky and Ruth took off immediately to the Sipes Wildlife refuge.  Then the rain came in torrents. They got back with no problem. Today they are going to buzz around and see the sights. Kadizzle may inspect the results of the downpour on they cycle. The sun is up and the day has started very nicely, but the pattern has been rain in the afternoon.