77\u00a0 bar falls 30.01 1mph SW\u00a0 dew-point 50\u00a0 Summer, pleasant<\/p>\n
Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
Sometimes coincidence says things that would have not occurred to me:<\/p>\n
Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83.<\/p>\n
Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at age 86.<\/p>\n
Mulch goes down today.\u00a0 Old leaves and grass clippings from last year stored in plastic bags.\u00a0 Straw baled on a farm.\u00a0 Organic matter that will blend into the soil, enrich it and give it better composition.\u00a0 Before it does that, it will suppress weeds and keep the soil beneath it cooler, helping plants fight the extremes of summer heat.\u00a0 An all purpose good deal, mulch.<\/p>\n
A columnist referred to the 4th as the happiest of holidays.\u00a0 It has sparklers, band music, cookouts, fireworks and family gatherings.\u00a0 As for me, a solid northern European intellectually, I find it a sober holiday.\u00a0 Our government, at its least competent level in decades, has not made tiny, forgivable, do over mistakes; no, they have blundered on the world stage as well as the domestic.\u00a0 They have tanked the economy, made citizens suspicious of Washington, politicized the judiciary and made WC Fields and Mark Twain look like optimistic boosters.\u00a0 On the foreign affairs we have reversed and three upped Teddy Roosevelt.\u00a0 Now we speak loudly and shoulder nuclear RPG’s.<\/p>\n
In light of this July 4th is, for me, a time to redouble my own efforts to bring down these clowns (apologies to Larry Harmon, mentioned earlier) and to change policy at the national, state and local levels.\u00a0 My own focus now is the natural world, the world that can go along on its own without human interference, if it does not have human interference, that is.\u00a0 In times past issues of war and peace, civil rights and economic justice were stage front in my political world.\u00a0 They remain critically important, but I choose to pass that torch to another generation of activists.<\/p>\n
On a lighter note I look forward to charcoaled hamburgers, potato salad, corn on the cob and cold watermelon when Kate comes home.\u00a0 We also have a cache of sparklers to set out in the yard and light.\u00a0 Star spangledness will live on in our Andover backyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
77\u00a0 bar falls 30.01 1mph SW\u00a0 dew-point 50\u00a0 Summer, pleasant Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon Sometimes coincidence says things that would have not occurred to me: Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83. Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at age 86. Mulch goes down today.\u00a0 Old leaves and grass clippings from last … Continue reading Bozo the Clown and Jesse Helms Die<\/span>