Garden Goodies

Weird Insect

Aromatheraphy

One Row Of My Garden

Gardening My Sanity

I haven't posted anything to my blog in a month. Too busy getting the vegetable garden ready and starting my seedlings inside the house. This year I'm planting a couple of new items: turnips and kolhrabi besides all the usual vegetables. While getting the garden ready to plant a couple of other things took priority. My ex-boss at the airport, where I used to work as a certified weather observer, killed himself. Blew his brains out a couple of weeks ago. It reminded me of the poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson entitled, Richard Cory. If you aren't familiar with the poem check it out at your nearest library. In life, or the vegetable garden, one never knows what the heck in going to happen next. Anyway...my wife and I are now taking care of two new members of the family, a parrot named Midnight and a cat that goes by the handle - Durango. The parrot has about a two hundred word vocabulary. She says entire phrases like: "Where are you going? and Woe is me." Very intelligent creature but not the neatest bird on the block. And my wife accuses me of making messes!!!
Although I've been out in the garden much of April (no, I don't sleep out there) I've kept track of what's happening in our little world. Bottom line...the stock market is going up as the financial situation of the middle class plummets. Houses are being repossed at a record pace. The rich continue to get richer and the poor poorer. The so called stimulus package is a joke. Why not be honest and hand out Monoply money?
Well, enough ranting for now. Back to the garden and sanity.

Chickens And Foxes

Isn't it a comfort to know that the Federal Reserve is going to be the head watchdog of the financial markets? That's like sending in an Air Force pilot to find out who dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. It's the feds who are mostly to blame for the financial market tanking in the first place. First they lowered interest rates to the level where any greedy person in the real estate game made out like a bandit and then they balked at raising the rate when cracks began appearing. Who the hell do they think they are kidding? I guess now they want to oversee the destruction to make sure that their rich buddies get out before the collapse. Can't anyone be honest enough to say that America is dead broke? The American bank is empty so now the thieves have created a global economy to make it easier to raid the coffers of other countries around the globe. What a racket!!! One question left in this whole mess is: Where the hell is all that gold we once had stored in Fort Knox, huh? Maybe someone should start asking.

Lights Out

Attention,
On March 29th, the citizens of this planet are getting together and showing their governments that we want something meaningful done about global warming and the destruction of our environment. So on this date every person is encouraged to turn off their lights, television sets, computers, etc from 8 to 9 PM. Show the governments what our future might look like if we continue on our path of destruction and perhaps they will understand that the future belongs to all people, not just greedy corporations.
Think about it and then act. Now is your chance to get involved. No excuses!