The Remeadigus

Kadizzle took off on the Remeadigus yesterday.  What is a Remeadigus? Well it is a trip you take to talk to people. It is like a paper route, you talk to the same people.  The people on the trip are interesting to talk to and they all have unique and interesting views on life.  On the Remeadigus you exchange ideas, knowledge, and include a good dose of gossip, and political bullshit.

A couple people on the Remeadigus are car buff's.  They like nothing better than to tinker with an old car. Take it apart put it together and start all over.  Hazen is plagued with old car people. Their life goal is to go back in time by restoring a car and reliving their teenage years.  The first stop on the Remeadigus was a long chat with a piston head.  Now this guy is sort of self educated man of the garage. Kadizzle got into a long right wing, left wing debate with Piston head and his wife.  The mystery was where did they get their ideas.  They confessed to Fox News, but you could feel a lot of Rush coming through.

Always the Remeadigus includes the library.  At the library Kadizzle told a story.  Judy was not there and the new girl that just started does not seem to have much fire. After the library Kadizzle tried to check on Ezra.  Ezra is a liberal in a world of right wing farmers. Ezra works for the cooperative that sells the farm fertilizer.  Ezra was tied up so Kadizzle could not get his spin.

Mrs Kadizzle came home and said The Old Wood Chopper was depressed.  The poor Old Wood Chopper lost his wife a few years back and has had a hard time getting over it. The Wood Chopper comes to our house and does any chain saw or stump work we need.  The Wood Chopper comes at Christmas and cuts the wood for Festivus.  Every day the Wood Chopper sits in his garage and smokes, and drinks an occasional beer.  For all practical purposes he has moved into the garage.  People like Kadizzle stop by and visit him.  Wood Chopper's salvation has been his dog, and his son's dogs.  Wood Chopper and the dog watch television all day in the garage.  Kadizzle did what he could to cheer up Wood Chopper then went on.

Usually Kadizzle does not make the long treck into the country to check on the country Remedigus people, but the warm winds inspired Kadizzle to see the hermit. The hermit reads, and then reads someone. The hermit is extremely well read like his father.   In fact the hermit's father was a hermit.  Besides reading the hermit is a tinkerer.  Tinkering with guns, motorcycles, old cars, tractors, and once in awhile farm animals.  The hermit is a good liberal, so the conversation has an entirely different spin when you have a beer on the porch with the hermit.

Down the road from the hermit live an even more genuine hermit.  Kadizzle considered visiting that guy, but he is about as crazy as you can be and run around loose.  Let's call him Pharmaceutical.  Pharmaceutical has burnt out his brain cells to the extreme.  On the last visit to Pharmaceutical Kadizzle got a tour of his artifacts.  Pharmaceutical took Kadizzle to the grain bin that had been converted to a sauna.  There Kadizzle was shown what appeared to be ordinary rocks ( and they were), but Pharmaceutical convinced himself they were right handed and left handed Indian stones.  Kadizzle has seen a lot of artifacts, and these were nothing but stones picked from the creek, but Mr. Pharmacy was sure each rock had some special use.

The day finally came to an end of visiting and Kadizzle got a good cross section of humanity.  As some song writer said " It takes all kinds to make the world go around, but it only takes one to shoot you down".    And that is the way it is.