Straight Up

 Winky has a bad case of hyperactivity.  She insisted we go on a hike up to an Indian site that was at the top of a very steep pinnacle.  Why in the hell did the warriors go up there in the first place? There can be only one reason, they were under attack by someone.  Up on that precipice there is no water, nowhere to farm, no nothing except cliffs all around.  That is where you go when someone is after you.   

This was only the second time we had been to the spot.  On our first trip we found very little, but the recent fire revealed a much bigger site.  On the first trip we found no pottery shards, but this time we found lots, and some very big pieces.  Also found a couple of unusual pieces.  

The opportunities to fall and get hurt were endless, but we both made it back unharmed.  Strangely we came back to camp to find out Rita fell and broke her wrist on a much milder hike.  Kadizzle thinks our whole gang needs to come to grip with our age.  We have been doing a lot of things old people should not.  Winky has had some spectacular bike crashes and it is amazing she remains unhurt. The helmet the other day saved her skull, also probably kept the rock from being hurt. 

Back at the Earth Module

 Here we sit back in the Earth Module.  The regular wake up, maybe a trip to the executive suite, to sit on a cold throne.  The moon was spectacular last night, so clear you could see astronauts walking around.  The heaters are running to take the chill off.  The fake fireplace is putting out lots of fake heat.  The Colorado gang made it back to Denver early enough to get Danny, their new dog.  They all are in love with the dog.  He is a Wheaten Terrier, or as Kadizzle says a Wolly Brumpus. 

What to do on a nice sunny day? Perhaps a spin on the ebike.  Brother in law Ned built himself two ebikes.  He made them from regular mountain bikes and they turned out well.  Sister Patty bought hers and the two of them are now full blooded ebike fans.  Ned mentioned to Kadizzle that age has transformed him into an ebike man from a motorcycle man.  Ned loves to tinker with motorcycles in his garage. 

The ebike trend will probably take over the country and Kadizzle's nephew may go into that business.  The Nephews, son in laws, and other young relatives are now wanting to move to the country and take jobs where they can be outside.  Kadizzle could never have made it in an office job.  Kadizzle has been very lucky and never had to work in an office all day.  Kadizzle considers himself very fortunate since he was his own boss most of his life.  Although Kadizzle worked for coal and power companies he generally made up his own schedule and did what he wanted when he wanted.  It was a good life. Coal mining was the best.  Most of the year Kadizzle could make the daily schedule whatever he wanted.  Driving around the 10,000 acre mine took up as much of the day as you wanted.  Kadizzle often took wildlife tours with the mine superintendent while we checked the mining activities out.  As a safety person Kadizzle's work very much involved watching other people work.  Not a bad way to spend a day.  Kadizzle wandered around watching people.  It was sort of like a policeman, but the criminals were easy to deal with. 

Turkey day.

Dear Leader will pardon all the white meat today, but don't forget Black Lives Matter.  Hope everyone has a great Turkey Day.  The Kadizzle gang is awakening to another wonderful day.  It is chilly out, but that is giving the hot air balloons a great ride in the perfect sunshine.  Winky and Kadizzle explored yesterday and did not see how the other half lives, we saw how the one percent lives.  Huge houses empty so much of the time in a wonderful location.  

Sylvie insisted grandpa play monopoly for the first time in forty years.  We can all be happy many of the billionaires are now trillionairs as a result of the virus, and just plain greed.  Sylvie is off to a good start charging Grandpa outrageous rents.  

Entertaining the gang in the time of plague is not easy.  We manage usually to get in one good hike and bike ride a day.  Kadizzle's little sister from Cottonwood may come for a visit today.  It will be a sit outside mask conference.  Patty's husband Ned has become an ebike enthusiast and has built two of his own. 

Once again Kadizzle wants everyone to have a great day with what family they can.  Thankful?  Can we all be anymore thankful than getting the worst possible turkey out of the White House? Stoupini asked Kadizzle what his new obsession will be now that the con man is gone.  Who knows?  There are two or maybe three rats in North Dakota that need to be driven from office. 

Homes in my hometown

 

Old Kadizzle was always amazed by the number of mansions in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Wheeling was the most wealthy city in the United States in 1894 according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.  Dozens, and dozens of incredible homes were in the wealthy section of town.  Wheeling was the origianl jumping off point to the West.  As a result a lot of people made a lot of money.  Many of the countries large companies started in Wheeling.  Steel, and coal also contributed to the wealth. 

The Quest for the most stupid

Tony Bender's column today goes into the stupidity epidemic in North Dakota.  It far surpasses the virus.  A good read put it on your google. Yesterday Honest Omar called to tip Kadizzle off that Kevin Cramer would be on MSNBC.  Cramer lived up to expectations.  Imagine Senator Cramer on the Titanic.  A reporter ask Cramer if the ship is sinking.  Cramer answers " Sure we hit an iceberg, but all the evidence is not in yet". " There is still plenty of ship sticking out of the water, no need to panic" " We will not know the results until the entire ship is under water, then the courts will have to decide if the ship sank".  " Just let the process work itself out"

Ebike madness

Winky and Kadizzle took off into the Sedona wilderness near our vacation rental on the ebikes.  Two people pushing 71 were about to be on trails ment for teenagers.  It did not take too long before Winky had a pretty good crash.  Fortunately nothing but pride was hurt.  Parts of the trail were a lot of fun, and parts were from mountain bike hell.  Gradually Kadizzle began to realize ebikes were not supposed to be on these trails.  The way we entered there were no signs restricting the trail, but the little stickers showed up too late. 

Now this brings us to the question, why does the Forest Serviced want to keep ebikes off these trails?  The ebikes enable old goats to do what they could do twenty years ago.  It is good exercise.  In every sport you have the purist.  The peddlers are so proud of their physical ability they want exclusive access to the wilderness.  There is a bit of a dilemma here.  Very few people want noisy motorbikes, or four wheel buggies in a nice forest.  In general the Forest Service has done a good job of regulation.  Anything can tear up the natural setting when used with abuse.  Horses can ruin a trail, as can the jeeps, and four wheel gang.  However, Kadizzle would argue ebikes are no harder on a trail than regular bikes.  The bottom line is people need exercise.  Kadizzle is a bit of a lumper.  You do get a good workout on an ebike when you are 71.  Remember these bikes are called peddle assist.  That means you do have to peddle, and sometimes very hard.  Secondly, you can adjust the amount of assist.  So if you want the battery to last, you better peddle to the best of your ability.  At the top of an incline Kadizzle is breathing hard and the heart is pounding.  That means some work was done.  

Last, but not least the ebike enables people with heart conditions, or other physical limitations to get out and have fun.  Kadizzle read of a family that had one son with heart problems.  He could ride with the family on an ebike.  Why not?

We do need to protect our environment, and if you have seen the damage done by dingers with four wheelers you know what the Forest Service is up against.  There are people who will not wear mask, drive loud noisy trucks, and have no respect for the rest of us.  We all live on this one piece of rock circling the sun, and we all need to respect each other and the rock. 

Army of ignorant

 Imagine 70 million people willing to suck up lies, and oblivious to science and math.  Indeed this is a scary picture.  These are the people the Republicans aim to keep, the dolts, the Rush Limbaugh fools, the KFYR souls drunk on delusion. 

Can Dear Leader keep the cult without the presidency? Trump's ability to make trouble if they get him out of the White House may be diminished, but he will still be there to wreck what he can.  The cult members love the idea of someone as idiotic as they are.  It makes them feel normal. 

What will be fun is if Trump starts his own TV empire trying to out lie Fox News.  To see Fox and Trump battle to win the hearts of idiots will be like a game show.  Dare to be stupid will be the name of the show.  

Awakening

 Well here we sit in the lap of luxery.  With Snoocher Bear, Sylvie, and Fran the Kadizzles made it to Sedona.  Sylvie wasted no time jumping in the pool and insisted Grandpa join her.  Kadizzle highly recommends the video below.  Honest Omar you will enjoy it because it compares the Trump cult to the Seventh Day Adventist. 

Although this luxury home has some years behind it the views are what runs the price up.  Erin is sitting here like an old lady making some kind of craft project.  Sylvie has been doing some neat animation with a computer program. 

Kadizzle seems to have lost hearing in his right ear.  It seems like the sensation you get when you have water in your ear.  Kadizzle made about a two mile trek on the ebike to get some equipment to flush the ear.  After about five tries no luck.  Hope the hearing is not gone forever.  

Winky is getting the itch to hike.  There is some incredible hiking here, but the place crawls with tourist.  Somehow the Pink Jeep thing gets on the wires.  Seems like every person who has never been in the west before takes a bumpy jeep ride.  It just don't seem right.  People should get out and walk to really understand this country. 

Sylvie just appeared in her swim suite and is begging grandpa to participate.  Too early.  

Back to the ear.  Put enough water in the ear to put out a fire. May try one more time.  Deaf in one ear can cannot hear out of the other. 

New Rule: The Great Disappointment | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Can you rent happiness?

 A few times a year the Kadizzles get to live like the one percent.  Today we will be moving into the world of the one percent in Sedona.  We will rent a home to meet Sylvie, Erin, and Fran.   We have taken all the precautions for the virus with people tested and masked. 

Can money really bring happiness?  Test say once you have an income of seventy thousand dollars you don't get any happier.  One friend has had a nice home with a pool for about seven years.  They used the pool once.  Can you watch television in a multi million dollar home and have a better experience than in your RV?  The scenery right here in. our mobile shack is about as good as it gets.  What do you get for a million or two?  You might get a hot tub, a view, a fancy kitchen, a nice outdoor space and so on.  The question is how long will the buzz last?  Old Trumpster has it all and he is a mean miserable man trying to make everyone else miserable.  How many people reeking with wealth  you know who are not happy?  One reason they are not happy is they never have enough.  Would one or two more bathrooms make you happy?  Seems like health and activity make people happy.  We know so many people who are simply delighted just by hiking through the mountains.  How can you be happy when you know you took more than your share?  Who gets to decide what the shares should be?

The light at the end of the tunnel

 Ah, what a wonderful day.  Kadizzle went down to the Men's office and decided to have a musical experience.  Then back to camp to sit in the chair outside and soak in some sun shine.  What to write about? Thankful we are rid of Trump, Kadizzle came up with the idea the light at the end of the tunnel. Long ago and far away Kadizzle was an underground coal miner.  Most of the time we rode in and out of the mine in some sort of mechanical conveyance.  However, there were times when we walked out at the end of the day.  Kadizzle actually walked toward the light at the end of the tunnel. The image is still in the mind.  As one would imagine the light was small.  When you first saw it the light only looked like a flashlight, but you walked and walked and the light gradually got bigger.  Finally you were outside in a different world.  When Trump walks out of the White House he will be in a different world.  Hopefully they will handcuff him.  We will be in a different world that might resemble normalcy.  Hope will return, the engine can go forward.  Thanks to every person that fought the Republican evil Trump represented. 

Niggifiddle Madness

 Everyone see the world differently.   The bane of Kadizzle's existance are the extreme niggifiddles.  Let's review, a niggifiddle is someone obsessesed with little things that really don't matter.  Everyone knows about OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder.  Winky is a niggifiddle. This morning's first discussion was " What is dirt?".  Niggifiddles see dirt everywhere, just like germs are everywhere.  This brings us to weeds.  Kadizzle pointed out to Winky there is no such thing as a weed.  A weed is something that someone has decided bothers them.  A dandelion is a classic case.  Some people eat dandelions, some people hate them in the yard.  So to some people it is a weed and to some people it is part of a salad.  As Kadizzle walked to the men's office today he noticed some sandy dirt on the sidewalk.  It occured to Kadizzle that bricks are just sandy dirt compressed and glued together.  We do not call bricks dirt, but we call them bricks even though they are " dirt ".  In the end it is perception.  For some reason people love order.  Order and cleanliness are fine, but when do you stop.  Kadizzle knows a niggifiddle that loved to constantly clean the windows.  Look at motorcycle riders.  Many of them look like scruffy bums, but they must have a super shiny motorcycle.  You can see the same thing with the simple minded pickup and car people. They look like a bum mauled by a mountain lion, but their vehicle is spotless.  Kadizzle has no problem with order and clean, but a sensible limit must be imposed.  At some point you cannot get anything done if you are obsessed with order.  A classic is a garage.  Some mechanics have spotless garages where everything is in place, others look like the laws of physics do not apply.  All this brings us to the worst obsession of the niggifiddles and that is imaginary dirt.  Imaginary dirt is everywhere.  It is on your hands, your shoes, under your arms in your underwear, your beard, your ears, it is everywhere.  You cannot see it, but it is there.  The problem is you can never clean enough to get rid of imaginary dirt. 

The universe is not orderly. The universe operates very much on random events. For the niggifiddle this is a disaster.  Trying to make a universe orderly that is not, can bring a lot of frustration. 

One of the best

 Tony Bender lives in a little town in North Dakota.  He writes opinion pieces for the Fargo Forum.  He is one of the best and should be writing for the New York Times or some major paper.  Today he commented on how the greed of the Republicans works.  Highly recommended by Kadizzle.  Bendery has a great sense of humor.  In North Dakota were stupidity thrives more than the virus Bender is our only hope for a vaccine. 

So here we sit.  It will be our first official day of work for the Forest Service.  Winky, Rita, and Ken will start to rebuild a little bridge.  Kadizzle will start up the weed wacker and do some local trail work.  Looks like another hot day. 

Someone ripped Kadizzle a new one in the Bismarck Tribune.  A simple minded Republican said Kadizzle was destroying unity.  Yep the Republicans were all for unity in the Obama years. 

There he was

Hiking toward the Four Peaks Kadizzle sat down to lunch with the rest of the crew when Ken said look a coatimundi.  To everyone's amazement there it was at the bottom of an old burnt out tree.  It looked like a racoon with a two foot long monkey tail. This is only the second coatimundi Kadizzle has ever seen in his 71 years and thousands of miles hiking.  Kadizzle could not get to his phone camera quick enough. Rita did manage to get a poor picture.  The animal was fairly close and was curious about as as we were about him.  After a short time he took off into the wild. 

It has been many years since Kadizzle got to the base of the Four Peaks.  It was a spectacular hike where you could see for a hundred miles in every direction.  Earlier in the hike Kadizzle got a glimpse of something Winky scared up.  It might have been a mountain lion.  It did not run like a deer, and was a big animal.  This has happened before you just don't get a clear view. 

The burned areas on the mountain are reminiscent of those battlefield scenes you see from World War one when an area was shelled mercilessly.  The fires last summer were huge.  What is interesting is how the fires did not burn everything.  A hundred acres is burnt here, and another area right beside it is still green. The fire seems to have skipped and burned.  Seeing the raw ground is a new experience and old trails, and Indian ruins are easier to spot.  Kadizzle rode the motorcycle up into and area that was burnt about two years ago.  It is amazing how quickly it recovers.  Rain will be a disastor.  With nothing to hold the water flash floods and washouts will be immense. 

Flat tire in the wilderness

 Yesterday was about perfect except for the flat tire on the ebike.  It was a strange flat tire, the tire stem came loose because the little round nut came off. We were up in the mountains on the most spectacular cliffs and canyons.  On a smaller scale these canyons are just a nice as the grand canyon.  The bikes took us along the top.  Once Kadizzle put his bike down and it about got away and fell eight hundred feet into the canyon.  If it had someone would be greatly puzzled when they came across an electric bike at the bottom of that canyon. 

A few years ago Kadizzle was watching a reality show on television.  The show supposedly featured two men lost on a trip in the same area we were in.  Since Kadizzle had been there before he knew there was no way you could actually get lost.  However, the tv show dramatized these men and it was obvious how these reality shows are faked.  The two men were amazed when they found civilization.  There is no way they could have descended into the canyon without knowing there was a lake and small town within site. 

As luck would have it the flat tire occurred 2.4 miles into the ride, which meant the bike had to be pushed 2.4 miles back to the truck.  It was a pleasant walk and the slower pace just made the scenery better. 

Today we are going up on Four Peaks.  Since Kadizzle is with some severe covid nuts, we will take two people in each truck just for protection.  The Four Peaks area was burned and it will be interesting to see the damage.  From the Four Peaks you can see Phoenix about thirty or forty miles away. 

Porkchop reunited with his mom

A wonderful day unfolded and Winky and Kadizzle decided to ride our ebikes up by Peter Bigfoot's compound.  After a truck ride about five miles up Campaign Creek we parked the truck and mounted the bikes.  In the spectacular mountain valley we peddled about two miles up to Bigfoot's nirvana in the valley.  Last year Peter said he would like to see Kadizzle's ebike.  We found Peter working in his garden.  As usual he has a couple of interns on the property helping him.  The garden was the garden of Eden.  After many years of hauling cow manure he has created a vegetable paradice.  As Winky pointed out what she wanted from the garden Kadizzle slowly pedaled down the trail. On the trail was the dark haired bearded tall skinny guy from Texan who was living with Peter for the winter.  Engaging in conversation the young Texan told Kadizzle about Pork Chop.  Pork Chop was a baby javalenia he adopted.  It seemed the javelina pack had gone through and somehow Pork Chop got left behind.  Tex got in the habit of sleeping with Pork Chop and briefly made a pet of him.  Then one day the pack of javelinas came back through. Tex said that since he had been sleeping with Pork Chop he must have smelled like a javelina.  Since he had the right odor the pack was not afraid to come to him. When the pack approached Pork Chop's mom recognized him and the family was reunited.  So now Pork Chop is in the wild again. 

Normally when we visit Peter Bigfoot there is usually just one large Turkey roaming about, but today there were thirteen in a cage.  Never thought of it before but usually we visit after Thanksgiving.  Peter explained the Turkey population was about to be hit by his version of Covid, an axe on the neck.  So back down the road we went where Kadizzl rode his bike up a canyon. 

An idiots convention

Amazing times we live in. Isn't it wonderful when the simple minded self identify?  The simple minded are going to have an idiot's convention in Washington, DC.  In the old days you had to sort of guess how stupid someone was.  Of course there were clues, but now the seriously stupid put on a red hat, or fly a flag with Trump on it to let you know they did not do well in high school.  The saddest part of the new nation is how the politicians pick on the ignorant.  Republicans harvest the ignorant like squirrels gathering acorns.  How do you bait the mentally challenged? Just use some key words like guns, religion, and make up a lot of silly conspiracy theories. The simple will flock to you.  Drive down the highway in foggy conditions, there is a guy with no headlights on.  That is the guy under the red hat.  He is proud to go against logic and common sense. 

Just a nice day

Cliff and Kadizzle finished up a pleasant sail in his new trimaran. Winds were very light, but it was a nice sail on a nice day.  Kadizzle has been reading Laso the Wind, the first book in a long time.  The book chronicles the development and rape of the west. For the  last twenty years Winky and Kadizzle have visited just about every spot mentioned in the book, so it is a lot of fun to read someone else's perspective. 

Just finished up a quick bike ride to show some campers the nice bike trails Kadizzle has been working on.  What good are trails if no one uses them.  Still we are living in isolation waiti

The defeat of stupidity

Yesterday was ride the motorcycle up the mountain day.  Winky warned Kadizzle not to try to go clear to the top.  The day was perfect and the ride was a nice outing.  When Kadizzle got close to the top he dismounted the cycle and took a little walk up the last terrible part of the road.  If he could make it to the peak the view would be rewarding, but he might make it he might not.  About fifty percent of the time there is a crash.  Fortunately the brain worked.  It was not a good idea to crash alone in the mountains. Maybe some other rider would show up at the campground and we could go back and crash together.  It is so nice to have someone help when you crash.  The brain won, Kadizzle turned around.  After the mountain Kadizzle decided to ride up towards Peter Bigfoots.   Sand is the problem on that ride.  Motorcycles do not like dry loose sand.  The cycle begged Kadizzle to crash in the sand, but he made it up the wash until he came to a side road he liked.  Up the side road was a nice ride to a very productive spring.  To see that spring still putting out water in this amazingly dry period was a pleasant site. 

If you would like to donate Kadizzle is collecting money to hire twenty U-Haul trucks to park in front of the White House. 

If you read this blog you know Kadizzle had a problem with the little sailboat Stroupini brought to AZ for him. Yesterday the little band took the boat to Rusty to see if he could repair it.  Rusty could out talk Kadizzle and spent about thirty minutes recounting his hunting trip. Somewhere in the conversation Rusty explained he was Rusty 1 and there was a Rusty two. Rusty two was his assistant and went on the hunting trip. 

There is a subspecies of humans that lives on the edge of the Earth.  The fruit of their life is social security.  If you are just barely making it a warm climate is a must, and that is plentiful in rural Arizona, and New Mexico.  If you are on the edge at least you can be warm.  Here is a place you can live in a tent for months on end. 

So our truck pulled off the good road and down the bumpy gravel road to a nest of deplorables.  Trump signs were too plentiful.  For some reason every deplorable thinks they have stuff someone wants to steal. Every yard has a broken down busted chainlink fence.  At the very end of the road was Rusty 1's business.  Junk was scattered everywhere.  The most amazing edifice was a dump truck load of beer cans that seemed like it had been dumped in the yard.  Old broken down boats and half finished projects were scattered about.  The main office was an old mobile home.  Like so many mobile homes he roof must have leaked so the common solution in the southwest is to build a shed over the mobile home.  

This was the kind of place where nothing ever got thrown away.  It was a mechanic hoarders paradise.  Inside the junk strewn office the Wizzer immediately catches one's eye.  A Wizzer is an old moterbike made from a bicycle.  As a kid everyone wanted a Wizzer motor for their bike.  However, this was not a motor, it was a unique bike made by the Wizzer company.  Kadizzle saw the bike and figured it was worth ten grand easy.  It was dusty, but in good shape.  Rusty 1 confirmed the bike was worth a lot. 

Now for the puzzle.  What do the deplorables see in Trump?  Perhaps they see a person like themself.  A person with a delusional view of life, a fuzzy view of reality, and willing to give the finger to the world.  Trump is like them, he never read anything. He uses foul language, and has no sense of taste.  Trump is a cheeseburger deplorable.  

After awhile we discussed the boat repair.  Rusty 1 said he would have his dad and Rusty 2 take a look at the damage and they would come up with a price. 

All of a sudden it has occured to Kadizzle what these people are.  They are desert hillbillies. This thought raced into the mind of Kadizzle when he recalled that Rusty 1 told him the deplorables relied on hunting deer for meat. Recently the Forest Service closed all the roads in the forest because they feared floods from the recent fires.  After the deplorables explained they would starve the Forest Service relented and opened the roads.  One result of the fires is the wildlife has been forced into closer contact with humans and Rusty 1 said the old mountain lions are down here in the valley living on the house cats that have gone wild.  Duane did see a big old mountian lion here a couple days ago. 

A cooked landscape

The day looks like perfection.  The sun is peeking over the Eastern mountains.  Yesterday Kadizzle and Winky jumped on the ebikes up the desert valley about three miles.  The entire area was burned from the summer fires.  However, this is not one hundred percent bad.  Now you can see what you have never seen before.  You can see the ground and the homes of the ancients.  Right away on the bike ride we found a big Indian site.  It was right beside the road and we had driven by it many times.  It was a big site with an amazing amount of pottery shards.  The ancients always liked being near streams, and here they had a steep drop down to the stream.  Farther up the same stream we found some more small sites.  This winter will be one of discovery.  The fire did in days what takes us months.  The trails have been cleared by fire. 

Good Morning

It seems like the Earth is stalled. Biden won, but we cannot move on.  Trump will not slink out of the White House.  We live in such a strange world.  The Earth Module sits in one of the largest campgrounds in the United States.  Kadizzle looks out the window on this chilly morning and sees what were once very well kept, nice places to park campers falling apart and being overgrown by weeds.  What is wrong?  How does a country let itself just crumble? Like so many failed countries we allow all the money to go to the military and the rich.  The days of building dams, interstates, colleges, and housing are gone.  Republicans have developed a cult of " I got mine, the hell with you".  Republicans hate the concept of everyone prospering.  All they want is more for themselves.  Can Biden cure this, who knows.  

Waiting for stupid.

 Today's topic is stupid.  Insight first.  Kadizzle is fat, but does not see himself as fat.  The revelation came this morning that stupid works the same way.  Stupid people do not realize they are simple minded. 

Trump is bound to do something stupid soon.  Kadizzle can't wait to see what it is.  You can count on it.  A major disappointment are friends who are in the cult even now.  How can anyone still maintain the delusion?

Cloudy day here in the desert where we had a light rain all night.  The desert always smells so good when it rains.  Cliff came over this morning and was nice to have a chat with him.  The trail crew so far this year will be Cliff, Rita, Ken, Cissie, and Mike.   We will miss David beyond belief.  The Forest Service has been very slow in getting us going. 

The mind of old men is foggy.  Kadizzle went up to Cliff's in Springerville to pull the little sailboat Chuck brought us back.  Like a demented old man Kadizzle forgot Chuck took the straps the boat to the trailer.  A gust of wind hit the boat going down the road about sixty and the back of the boat drug on the pavement.  There is a hole in the transom and Kadizzle now has to find a fiberglass man to fix it. 

The Whistler

 Not sure if this is bragging, but Kadizzle is an excellent whistler.  Kadizzle loves to be in a room with good acoustics and whistle.  Around Christmas last year Kadizzle was at the courthouse in Globe.  Christmas music was playing in the background and Kadizzle started whistling.  As has happened many times a woman came up to Kadizzle and complimented him on his whistling.  Kadizzle told her the lie he tells everyone who gives him such a compliment.  Kadizzle said " I used to whistle of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.  It is fun to see how many people believe this lie.  Sometimes lying like Trump is fun.  Kadizzle usually tells people the truth in the end.  Now the Youtube posted below features some whistling.  It sounds exactly like Kadizzle and Kadizzle loves to whistle along.  If you want to hear Kadizzle whistle, listen to the video.  Kadizzle was going to lie and say he did the whistling, but lying can be a nasty habit, Trump proved that. 

Jack-A-Roe

Out damned spot, out

 Faith restored.  America is great again.  Let the rat golf while we celebrate. So refreshing to be back in the real world.  To see the deplorables fenced in.  Hope is back, so much wreckage to repair.  

The desert is refreshed and Winky is plotting something to do.  Looks like she is going to make French toast.  How is it we have French Fries, and French toast? Kadizzle likes them both.  

Kadizzle saw the video of the Trump rally at the capitol in Bismarck.  How sad to see the deplorables still in the cult on a different planet.  Amazing what North Dakota has become.  Cult leaders Kelly Armstrong, Kevin Cramer, and John Hoeven are despicable.  Kadizzle would like to tell them in person what low lifes they are. 

The relief is amazing.  Recently Kadizzle and her lordship Winky drove across much of the United States.  The Trump signs were like a rash on the country.  Watching the celebrations yesterday felt so good. Republican selfishness is ruthless. So many people in our country suffer from the unrestrained greed of the Republicans.  To see people worship a rodent like Trump is heart breaking. 

Morning in America

 Up early as usual.  The morning is cool and the sky is hiding the sun. Kadizzle jumped on the ebike and toured the trails he has been clearing at Windy Hill.  So nice to glide though the desert underbrush effortlessly.  Hoping to see some wildlife the wish was fulfilled.  Of course there were quail, but the coyote was a nice surprise when he ran out in front of the old man.  Last night maybe it was the same guy right withing one hundred feet of our camper howling.  Record high temp was yesterday, and today will be warm.  In Globe yesterday we replenished out stockpile of food.  The tattooed deplorable were out in force.  Don't mean to use deplorable in a bad fashion, but it is even a moniker they have adopted.  Kadizzle will never get over tattoo people busted flat and spending thousands on ink.  Winky overheard a couple deplorables  talking about the ink art.  One said he figured it cost 100 dollars an hour. Imagine spending one hundred dollars and hour for ink when you are making minimum wage and cannot afford gas for your car.  What is wrong with this picture?

So we are pretty snug here in our Earth Module.  After fighting the leak in the shower for days it looks like we finally got it secure.  Still sad to sit here about one hundred yards from Dave's trailer.  Dave's death has hit us hard.  Dave was such a key member of our trail crew.  The Forest Service is really going to miss him.  Dave was a very good mechanic and he kept a lot of stuff running.  It cost the Forest Service nothing for Dave's volunteer work.  If all the right wing selfish people would just take a moment and think about what good people like Dave do for free.  Kadizzle has a lot of admiration for people who volunteer.  Our old friend Ray always comes to mind. Ray did so much for the community he lived in, and few people know it. Old Colonel Klink is another one.  Klink is still alive, and a nut case if ever one existed, but he always chipped in to get projects done.  Even the old Wease deserves a lot of credit.  His wife whipped him into action, but Kadizzle must give him credit.  Kadizzle butted heads many times with The Wease.  The people at the plant called him the Weasel.  His wife was a real hero.  She made things happen in Hazen.

Winky got a hell of a good deal on mushrooms yesterday.  A great big box of wonderful ones for $1.15.  She is over there by the stove making us a good breakfast right now.  The clouds will lift, the heavens will part, and the sun will shine when they announce we are rid of Trump.

Staggering

The Level of ignorance in the United States is staggering.  Basic logic, truth, and science are totally lacking from almost half the population.  The simple fact that a con man can so easily con the simple minded in this country is a scary prospect.  People believe total nonsense. In the state where Trump is winning his supporters say stop the count, in the state where he is losing they say count the vote.  Trump can look his people in the eye tell them he is going to lie, then lie, and they believe him. 

Kadizzle has more respect for the mental capacity of a dog than a Trump voter.  Even if Biden wins we are in for a bad time trying to overcome the gravity of stupidity.  People should have known including Kadizzle how bad stupidity is. Casinos were the thermometer for stupidity.  People go to a casino and slowly give away their money.  Does that tell you something?  It tells you people do not understand basic math.  North Dakota has been a massive disappointment.  First, the state cannot comprehend it is a welfare state.  North Dakota prospers from Federal handouts.  Yet, the people of North Dakota fear socialism.  Nothing is more socialist than the coops that cover North Dakota.  Religion takes the cake.  Religious people supporting Trump.  Someone explain that one. 

Peter Bigfoot

 

This is a nice picture of Peter Bigfoot.  Peter lives up a mountain valley near here off the grid.  Peter has a wonderful garden and teaches classes on survival in the desert wilderness.  Peter did Kadizzle a great favor when he helped rehabilitate a hiker suffering from mental problems.  Bigfoot's little reserve way up Campaign Creek is a very interesting place to visit, and if you get the chance you should.  To be a good visitor be sure to buy some of his wonderful produce. 

The Poor are comfortable

 Down at the boat ramp the nice pickup trucks back nice fishing boats into the water.  As long as you have a fishing boat and a pickup life is good.  Add a six pack of beer and why would you ever need to vote against Donald Trump? Until the poor are cold and hungry, and there is no gas for the fishing boat ignorance will reign supreme.  Revolutions need pain for fuel.  Nothing changes until poverty reigns supreme.  The last time people awakened was the depression.  Things changed.  Look back in history.  All change that matters comes only from great pain.  When the Vietnam war raged people went to the streets.  For young people the prospect of getting killed in a senseless war awakened them.  I got my gun, my boat, and my truck.  We now live in a world of poor fat people in comfortable clothes they bought at Walmart.  Everything is OK, of course evil socialist roam the land trying to get our guns,  running child sex rings, and promoting sharing, but we have God and Donald Trump. 

Stalking dinner

On the bike ride today Kadizzle encountered Duane.  Duane is an old camp host and has been a volunteer for years.  Duane informed Kadizzle a mountain lion crossed the road near our encampment in front of him today.  The fires have been hard on all the wildlife and the mountain lions have been driven towards the lake to survive.  It would be fun to see one.  Duane said there were six around here.  Also he said professional hunters killed three.  Leave them alone is my plan. 

So the country is waiting tonight for the Trump enema.  Just took a nice bike ride in the dark. The air is wonderful and hopefully that is foreboding for the evening. 

The shower on our new RV is driving us nuts. It is leaking somehow to an outside wall. Kadizzle has tried everything to stop the leak.  Tomorrow a professionail may give it a try. 

Will the country get the enema it needs?

 Today the toxicity of Trump may be flushed from our system.  It will be a glorious day for the country.  The sun will shine, the heavens will open up. Dead brains will come alive. There will be hope.  Old Kadizzle is 71 years old, and never has there been a mental plague on our country like the years of Trump.  A tidal wave of stupidity swept our country in 2016.  Kadizzle had a strange dream last night about huge ocean tides.  Hopefully this dream has good implications. 

All is quiet in the desert and if a civil war breaks out we should be safe for awhile.  However,  we are surrounded by an incredible number of deplorables.  Gun toting deplorables with brain weevils.  Brain weevils enter the ear and chew into the brain.  The weevils love the tender brains of Republicans.  You can spot a brain weevil nest because the weevils usually signal the other weevils by putting a red hat on top of the nest. 

I Pity the Country (You do not have a choice, you must listen to this0

Shocking news.

Our existence is fragile.  We just got a call our good friend Dave fell from a ladder yesterday and died.  Dave has been an outstanding member of our trail crew.  His generosity is surpassed by no one.  People abused Dave by asking him to do favors. He always complied with a smile.  He helped Bill do a water pump on his truck last year.  He spent weeks welding on the dumpsters here at the park for free.  No doubt he will get an Easy Pass to heaven.  This will be a big blow to our trail crew.  Dave was a worker and loved to exert himself clearing the trails.  Among other things Dave was a good mechanic.  He could fix diesel, outboard boats, small engines.  It was just a day ago he sat here with us at our evening BS session. Dave loved to play cards.  Impossible to imagine the winter without Dave. 

Hot in AZ

 Windy and hot in the desert.  Today is laundry day.  Rode the ebike all over hell's half acre.  Kadizzle is promoting an idea.  The New York Times had some dramatic pictures of idled cruise ships being scrapped. Why not move these ships to big cities and house the homeless.  Kadizzle is thinking of starting a Go Fund Me fund raiser.  What a waste to tear these ships apart for scrap steel when so many are homeless.