Month: August 2022

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Ah… Rain

As most of the nation knows by now, the South West is in a bad drought.

That’s led to high temperatures and nasty wildfire conditions throughout the area.

On a more personal level, it’s led to me losing a baby tree that I sprouted from a twig. We’re under water restrictions. Our community is only allowed to water our plants twice a week. My little dogwood never had a chance.

It was a baby and needed a little more water. I tried, I dumped any partially full water bottles or glasses around the little guy in the front yard. It wasn’t enough.

My well established apple tree is feeling the pain too. By the time the watering day comes around the leaves are curling a bit. I’d break the rules and water more, but the water company “excessive water use” rates make it far too expensive.

Over the past few days, it’s been overcast and cooler. Sunday we got some real rain. Accompanied by the occasional rumble of thunder. It was wonderful and welcome.

Sunday night, early Monday morning, there was a bit of rain. The sound of rain on the roof didn’t wake me up, but the smell of rain scenting the breeze wafting through the windows did.

The dog has mixed feelings about it. On the one hand he likes the cooler temps. On the other hand he’s not thrilled about the thunder, or the water falling on him from the sky.

I find this amusing since he absolutely loves the snow.

He’s been a little subdued. Like a child on a rainy day. I’d put out finger paints for him but I think the ensuing mess would be expensive and time consuming to clean up.

On the other hand, perhaps I could have him generate some artwork for sale to pay for his kibble.

More rain is possible. I’ll be happy if it comes in gentle waves. More soaks into the ground and it means I won’t have to water the trees.

The down side is that the desert plants will go nuts requiring me to weed whack and trim them back.

Eh, I’ll take the trimming in trade for the water and cool breezes.

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Alright, I’m late to the party.

I literally stumbled across this video from Jordan Peterson.

For more information on Jordan Peterson, Here is the link to his Website

Unfortunately, I cannot embed the video link directly in this page.

I assume this limitation is due to copyright and most probably the potential misrepresentation that could/would occur should the video end up in some kind of editable format residing on the computer of one of Dr. Peterson’s enemies.

It is unfortunate that the world we live in is such that a Man’s words cannot simply stand on their own merit and be presented in context without the possibility of fabrications being added, or context being removed.

The background is that Jordan Peterson had his Twitter account suspended over a tweet he made describing a fact. Ellen Page did have a mastectomy to become Elliot Page.

This made small headlines several weeks ago. I noticed the waves but thought little of it at the time. Conservative voices are always being censored on Twitter.

Jordan Peterson commented and Twitter chose to suspend his account.

I urge you to go to The Daily Wire and view Jordan Peterson’s video wherein he discusses the matter. When you land on the page click the “Watch Now” button in the banner labeled Twitter Ban

It’s worth your time. Peterson eloquently and succinctly discusses the problems of dealing with the woke mob, arbitrary pronoun usage, and gender issues.

I have spent thousands of words discussing and describing my personal thoughts on this phenomena.

Nothing I have written comes close to Jordan Peterson’s evisceration of the subject.