gods and godesses

When making love, I think Gods/Godesses must have given us this gift, and thank you very much, but otherwise, I don't know, but I'm thankful for this opportunity.

been awhile

Yep, just got back from over 2 months of looking for shade in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.    Sure was nice- the shade and the people- beautiful countries.  Started out in Bangkok- Khosan Road and yummy orange juice from the smiling orange juice ladies on the police station corner, and then across town to see my dentist-2 visits and $540 included a cap and 3 fillings and a cleaning.  Well a couple of days later Bob and Kevin showed up and we visited Michael K. and generally had a couple of nights on the town before they headed off south and I took the train to Chiang Mai and bus to Pai, where we all got rooms in the same guesthouse as our friend Gypsie.  Pai is a nice valley town with an expat population that supports a music scene, and there was a raegae festival while we were there that attracted a lot of people.  Gypsie continued to go daily  to the beautiful hotsprings until we all left for Labong Prabang.

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Nope, none in my garden this year. Been getting a lot of basil and making lots of pesto. Yummy with zuccini, onions, and prawns on whole wheat fetechini. Cukes are doing well. I like the early gypsie sweet peppers. Like candy. Waiting for the sweet corn to come down in price . Starting to get some nice apples and the blackberries are prolific. I hear they are even better for us than blueberries

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I just got back from a family visit to S F Bay area-happy to be back . Lots of green veggies popping out of the ground. Do not have my corn patch tilled up yet. Still have not found a brush hog and tiller for my tractor. My chicken shit guy can't get me any for at least a month. Next year all of that shit is going to go perfectly. Great weather. Expecting early tomatoes will be early. Several years ago I put some out on a nice warm 31st and they caught a frost the next morning. Looks like I got away with putting out a few tomatoes and a hot pepper before my safe date of June 1st. Going to busy with those warm weather vegie starts for several days.

My blog got all messed up and good news

Woopee. Julia is carrying my second grandchild. We are expecting her/him to be coming out some time in November and in June we will find out whether Felix will be having a brother or a sister. The blog folks have been trying to fix my blog and are saying in my profile that I am 1966 years old. Actually, I am 66- born in 1940. A lot of editing to do.

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choclo Good morning. I think so. This is the morning I have been waiting for- warmer and they say it will rain. I expect the mushrooms to grow and I will go for a look later. Been a bad year for the professional picker- 1/8th the money. The mushroom buyer's shop was mostly closed during those weeks of freezing nights

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makes one think of shit and politics, and the Bushits are catching it- about time we woke up- but how do we get out? Can the Iraqi's get it together? I have only been finding a few baby hedge hogs and yellow foots at this late date- been getting a frost each night for awhile- need some more normal rain to wash the cold away and grow the mushrooms. Going to go raking for truffles. Wish me luck.

Gramps having fun with Felix's trucks

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That's what they call me on Felix's blog http://www.felixsarreal.blogspot.com/ Great pictures! Felix is showing sure signs of hybrid vigor, don't you think?

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Blogger Indonesia A. Fatih Syuhud Weblog: Denmark Cartoon Controversy Ever since this uproar ocurred, I have wanted to talk with a Moslem about it, since I see a clear misunderstanding here about Western traditions regarding freedom of speech Most Americans learn the childhood reframe "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me". Well parented children are also taught to be kind and polite.

I'm butting in on Steve's two cents here. I have a racist joke for you......what is red, white, blue, and black and floats down a river going backwards? A dumb white person telling nigger jokes in a black neighborhood. Well thank you Venis, that's right pretty much around the world. In the west it is legal to be stupid and rude, but not al
ways safe, and it does not win you friends, and God is not impressed either, I am sure. I work on being a peaceful person, and I do not wish such stupid people any more harm than they are already suffering, but I would like to encourage them to be a bit more thoughtful for their own well being. Our legal limits on freedom of speach are that one cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theatre when there is no fire. Choclosteve

ELECTIONS

Starting out interesting. Daniel Ortega. Are we going to have some positive changes here?VERY wet here- been some slides and flooding along the coast- mostly north of here. For sure, the chantrelles are on their way now.

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choclo Got some colorful choclo/corn. Fall is in the air and I'm anticipating the long overdue fall of support for the Bushits. Discusted with their type of corn. Their incompetence has been scary. I've already voted- how about you?

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choclo Hi there. Sure is fall, and today seems like the lull before the storm, it is very warm and calm, with no rain, although we had a good soaking for a few days after that freeze and I have been out looking for chantrelles in likely places I know, but no luck so far. I keep getting visions of orange chantrelles poking out of the duff as I think of what would go better with them. Speaking of fall color, I have some beautiful seed corn hanging, as well as a large jar of bright red skinny peppers dryed for the winter over the wood stove, over which I now have some walnuts that I got to before the squirrels. Been eating some greeat apples- seems these late ones that have been frosted are more intence. Hope to get more orange pippen and to get my first taste of the gala that I planted this spring.

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chocloDivide and conquer- the Shrub fell for that one- we had Bin Laden out of his cave and on the run and the Shrub and friends split our forces and sent them after Bin Ladin's sworn enemy, Sadam, clear off in Iraq. GOOD thinking. Your daddy knew better than to go into Baghdad, as did Clinton. Bin Laden is laughing in his cave. Couple of fundamentalist simpletons. Now that other one, the preident of Iran, Amadehad, the guy who thinks that the Holocaust did not happen, wants to have a debate with our president. They should hold it in Kansas. I sure will be glad to see the Shrub go. How about a great big stout tree? What kind of tree would you like?

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chocloAnother morning done and the sun is out again. Caught and ate a 15" er and a 16" er last night and shared them with Venis, Christian and Kelsa. Zapped them for 7 munites covered with chard leaves and with some basil and garlic in their bellies. Skinned and deboned them and squeezed a lime on them. Yummy in the tummy. Made some pesto this morning. Splurged on some pine nuts at $15.00 / lb. More yummy in the tummy. You could say that again- I just did. Started drying some bright red skinny cayane peppers for the winter- I simply leave them on the window sill. Later I will have things drying over the wood stove. Going to be a lot of apples to process- I think to dry. I love to operate that green machine that you clamp onto a table and when you turn the crank it cores, peels and cuts into one long thin spiral, the apple that has been speared onto the prongs that both hold and spin the apple as it is preeped for drying or made into luscious apple pies that are in the same league as blackberry pies. Yummy in the tummy. I'm going to go do something with my pesto and my stomach. This morning I drove the 7 miles into town to get some parmesan cheese for my pesto. Also got another sack of trout feed with larger pellets (1/4"). I expect the fish to like these larger pellets. Yep, they do. Groing things has gotten me thinking about chicken shit and chicken hauks in the white house- incompetents. Fundamentalists. Hamadayad of Iran wants to debate the Shrub- the guy who doesnot think the Holocaust happened- two (2) FUNDAMENTALIST idiots competing for top idiotude. But they do not have to do a debate- we all ready know that they are competing for the bottom possition of fundamentally most dangerous to world peace