Rolling Down to old Maui

How I wish I was in Sharbrook now.

The Watermelon song

Lord Kadizzle searched long and hard for the lyrics to the watermelon song. It used to be a camp song we sang as kids. Kadizzle found two different sets of lyrics. The first is the one Kadizzle remembers.

You can talk about your apples
your peaches and your pears
Your simmons hangin' on that simmon tree
But bet your heart my honey
Of all the fruit that grows
That watermelon am the fruit for me

Oh! Hambone am good!
Chicken 'em sweet!
Possum meat am very very fine!
Yes Lord!
But give me, oh give me
I really wish you would
That watermelon hangin' on that vine

But when I went to futch it
Was on a rainy night
The moon it had not yet begun to shine
And oh that white man saw me
And he shot me through the fence
But I never left that melon on that vine

Now this would be a second version that must have been sung by Tennessee Earnie Ford

Back in West Virginia I used to sit upon the fence
A-wonderin’about the lack of people’s common sense

What I didn’t then keep concealed
Was one great big fat watermelon layin in the field

See that watermelon hangin’ on the vine
I wish that watermelon could be mine

The farmer must be careless
Without lack of sense
Or he wouldn’t have leave it hangin’
On the vine

Cornbread is sweet
Pork chops are good
Black eyed peas are mighty, mighty fine
But give me oh give me
I really wish you would
That watermelon hangin’ on the vine

Got a gal who loves me
She always treats me fine
She lets me hug and kiss her all the time
I wish that all her kisses
Could taste half as sweet
As that watermelon hangin’ on the vine

Oh kissin’ is sweet
Huggin is good
Cissie’s lips taste mighty, mighty, fine
But give me, oh give me
That watermelon hangin on the vine

Well I see that watermelon
So thick, so fat, so fine
What a shame to go leavin’ it behind

I know my baby’s waitn’
She won’t be waitin long
Now that I got that watermelon off the vine

Hambone is sweet um
Chicken is good
Blackeyed peas are mighty, mighty fine
But I ought to tell you
I really think I should
Eat a watermelon hangin’ on the vine.

Jasper Littlebottom attacks snow drift

The Parting Glass Christmas wishes from the Quinns

O, all the money e'er I had,
I spent it in good company.
And all the harm that ever I've done,
alas it was to none but me.
And all I've done for want of wit
to mem'ry now I can't recall;
So fill to me the parting glass,
Good night and joy be with you all.

O, all the comrades e'er I had,
They're sorry for my going away.
And all the sweethearts e'er I had,
They'd wished me one more day to stay.
But since it falls unto my lot,
That I should rise and you should not,
I gently rise and softly call,
Goodnight and joy be with you all.

My Hero has something to say about the Greed Dogs

Sell your followers fake gold

Glenn Beck is an amazing rat without an ounce of truth or morality. Glenn scares and stirs up the Hoopleheads who follow him, then his sponsor sells them gold coins. Only one minor problem the gold coins don't have the gold content the poor suckers expect. The company that sells the gold scares the Hooples by telling them Obama can confiscate gold, but cannot confiscate antique gold coins. So the best thing to do is buy the antique gold coins. The only part the scammers leave out is that the antique gold coins are not pure gold. Now Glenn's sponsor is in court trying to stay out of jail. You just have to love Fox, and Glenn. Any respectable person would warn people, but not Glenn, not Fox.

John Stewart comments on Tax breaks for the Rich

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Temptation Resisted

Lord Kadizzle has never been so pissed in a long time politically. Obama caving in to the greedy Republicans is just unacceptable. The fact that the greedy bastards want us to borrow 700 billion from China to give them tax breaks is just plain beyond comprehension. What in the hell is wrong with any thinking person that they would even consider giving each of the richest Americans another 3 million per year, when people are losing their homes, when people don't have jobs. Kadizzle got so pissed he called Mitch McConnell's office in Kentucky just to let that worthless lick-spittle have a piece of his mind. This is the biggest robbery in history. The resisted temptation was the desire to email everyone Kadizzle has an email address for and beg them to call the sorrowful representatives that would partake in the Republican hold up.

This says it all

Singing Sylvie does favorites

Girls Gone Wild

The Glory of digital children

Megan, is Lord Kadizzle's go to person for computer problems. This morning the little artist loaded the remote itunes app onto Kadizzles new itouch. Now old Lord Kadizzle can control his or anyone else's music selection from anywhere there is a wi fi connection. In theory Kadizzle could probably be in Colorado and change the songs on his computer in Hazen. Not sure why one would want to do this, but it should work. Being able to turn the volume up and down is great. Back in the old days when Black and white TV was about as technical as the world got it would have been hard to imagine the current state of knowledge. Yesterday Kadizzle took the GPS and went to each corner marker on Erin's lot. Kadizzle came back in to the house and entered the data onto Google Earth. Google Earth showed a satellite picture with the boundaries of Erin's lot and gave the approximate size of the lot. What will they think of next, I just got it, a wet diaper sensor. A little device you put in Sylvie's diaper that sets off an alarm when there has been a flood.

Moutain Elf Captured

Constant Train Wrecks

With the help of computers Kadizzle and family have now reached a new high in time wasting. Megan's boyfriend gave Lord Kadizzle an itouch. Of course Kadizzle had to get some apps. The only game Lord Kadizzle got was Train Conductor. Unfortunately Erin tried it and is addicted. Now two people can waste untold time on that, not to mention the countless other distractions. The idea is to route trains without wrecking them. Points are awarded and naturally competition has arisen. Megan loaded the game on her iphone, so not the battle for time wasting is really heated.

Back in the Mountains

The Grandparent wagon lumbered its way back to Evergreen. Many hours of listening to "The Help", on the Itouch. Made the trip shorter. It is an Amazing story about racism in the sixties in the south. Would do all good to remember the racial mess this country has. Sadly our current situation with Fox News and it's subtle racism is sad. Republicans promoting the Tea Party. No one wants to say it in the open, but many on the right just cannot come to grips with a black president. The determination to destroy Obama is the main agenda for the Republicans. They could not stand the idea of a successful black president, it would rattle their whole belief system. They will never admit it, so they have to change the story to socialism. Total nonsense. The Republicans could have taken a generous approach and helped Obama. What a contribution to the country the Republicans could have made. They could have shown Americans a black man can succeed, and in the process done a lot to suppress racism. Instead the right has decided to subtly promote racism by signing on to the agenda of Rush, Glenn, and Fox. As a grandparent is would be so nice to leave our children a better world, instead these people want to maintain the things that have made life difficult for so many.

The Crazy Club

When you are retired and live in Hazen, it is like being home on a school day. All of a sudden you realize everybody is gone. However, you soon find the other crazies that are not in school. People who all march in line, and buy the party line from religion to politics are not very interesting. The crazies go against the tide and actually have a point of view. Some of the crazies, have no point of view they are just so confused it is entertaining. One of the crazies is in his mid sixties. He is building a tree house. Almost everyday Kadizzle updates the battle against the Hoopleheads, or the "son a bitches" with another local eccentric. Another crazy has no use for religion and the ensuing nonsense that goes with it. It is fun to talk to her and hear her stories of how she has to try to control herself around the "saved". Another crazy is determined that he must spend all his money before he dies so his wife does not get it, so he keeps buying trucks he doesn't need. Besides the crazies there is an abundant supply of Hoopleheads worried someone will get their gun, the Kenyan president will confiscate their bullets, or the latest rumor at the coffee shop will come true. "An idle mind is the devils playground". In the case of the Hooples and idle mind is just that an idle mind. The crazies on the other hand have decided to take their minds on a trip and at least it is entertaining.

Life at Sandy's Hunting Campe

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We need to act

Alaska and North Dakota

Two of the biggest welfare states in the country are Alaska and North Dakota. Alaska usually wins, but North Dakota is always right up near the top. It is a wonderful system. As a state you send the federal government one dollar and they send you back two. Now for the strange part, both states love right wing politics and have just elected Republicans. Of course the Republicans are the stand on your own two feet bunch that should be the first to cut off the welfare cheats like North Dakota and Alaska. North Dakota soaks up farm subsides like a sponge. If the Republicans do as they claim and cut everything in sight these handouts should be some of the first to go. It will be fun to see how this plays out. Every old goat loves medicare and social security, but every old goat fears socialism, so how does that work? We have become a nation of crazy people that want to diametrically opposed things. Why can't we have tax breaks for the rich and lots of good safety nets like social security? Ronald Reagan started the fantasy. The gipper said you can cut taxes and you will have more money. It clearly doesn't work, but the delusion goes on.