salsify at sunset

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Dog Fun...or When the Walk-ee Becomes the Walk-er

I Moved to Wyoming ~author unknown

August 14 
Moved to my new home in Wyoming. It's so beautiful here, the mountains are so serene and picturesque. Can hardly wait to see them with a covering of snow. GOD'S COUNTRY! I love it here!


October 14 
Wyoming is the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves are turning all different colors. I love the many shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through the beautiful mountains and spotted some deer. They are so graceful, certainly they are the most peaceful creatures on earth. This must be paradise. I love it here.

November 11  
Deer season will start soon I can't imagine anyone wanted to kill such elegant creatures. They are the very symbols of peace and tranquility. I hope it will snow soon. I love it here.


December 2 
It snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed in white. It looks like a postcard. We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight (I won)  and when the snowplow came by we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. Mother Nature in perfect harmony. I love Wyoming.


December 12 
More snow last night. I love it here. The snowplow did his trick again (that little rascal). A winter wonderland...I love it here. 



December 15
More snow last night. I love it here. Couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work this time. I'm exhausted from shoveling. I need a snow plow.


December 19 
More of the white crap fell last night. I've got blisters on my hands from shoveling. I think the snowplow hides around the curve and waits until I'm done shoveling the driveway. Asshole. They should use more salt to melt the fucking ice. 



December 25 
MERRY CHRISTMAS my busted ass!!! More friggin' snow. If I ever get my hands on the son of a bitch who drives the snow plow, I swear I'll castrate the dumb bastard. Don't know why they didn't use more salt to melt the fucking ice. 


December 28 
More white shit last night. Been inside since Christmas Day except for shoveling out the driveway after "Snowplow Harry" comes by every time. Can't go anywhere; the car is buried in a mountain of white. The weatherman says to expect another 10 inches of the crap tonight. Do you know how many shovelfuls that is? 

January 1 
Happy Fuckin' New Year! The weatherman was wrong again! We got 31 inches of the white shit this time. At this rate, it won't melt till the 4th of July. The snowplow got stuck and the shithead driver had the guts to come to the door to borrow my shovel. I told him that I've broken six shovels already from shoveling the shit he's pushed into my driveway. I broke the last one over his head.

January 4 
Finally got out of the house today. I went to the store to get some food and on the way back a damned deer ran in front of my car and totaled it. Those fucking beasts are a menace. Wish the hunters had killed them all last November.

May 3 
Took the car to the garage in town. Would you believe the thing is rotting out from all the salt they keep dumping all over the road? Car looks like a piece of shit.

June 1 
Picked up and moved to Arizona. I can't imagine anyone in his right mind wanting to actually live in Wyoming.


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Me: For the record I love it here! Love the deer, Love the landscape, Love the solitude, and most year's the snow is okay too. :)

i fell asleep this afternoon

while reading a book about Darwin and awoke with a dead bird on top of me (yes, really!). It's possible to divine a cosmic message from such a moment although it's probably nothing more than that I live with too many cats! 

:)

poppies

Happy Birthday Sandie!!!

It's hard to believe that was 38 years ago isn't it???

The worst part is that I don't think either one of us is any better dressed even after all of this time. :)

i am God disappointed in himself

On the drive to Fetterman this morning while my mind flitted about undisciplined as always, it occurred to me that every particle of my being could be accounted for genetically.

I'm not a “religious” person. Quite the opposite really; I loathe organizations who manipulate their beliefs as truths, or worse yet, for monetary or political gain. That being said I have always believed in God (a higher power, universal consciousness, or whatever you want to label the larger unknowable reality that we are all a part of). Feeling for even a moment that I was nothing more than the sum of biology was really quite devastating. I mean, where are my soul bits? Dear God, why can't I find any identifiable particle of myself independent of ancestry, conditioning, or hormones?! As we drove through the rolling green hills I wondered how, if all that I am is corporeal, can I be a part of God (a belief which has comforted me my entire life)? Passing cows (oh distant mammalian relations) I considered that maybe we are merely vessels through which God/Consciousness experiences itself? That would certainly account for a lot of self loathing. Having mistaken ourselves for a part of the divine would definitely confuse any ego into being forever discontent with the reality of itself. Maybe we aren't even vessels. I don't know, but if we are, I wonder if God is happier with himself embodied in me, or a cow? I'm guessing the cow. Anyways, I'm sure it's more complicated than that but it doesn't really matter since this is probably just my pms talking! :)

impossible stasis