ta-ra-ra-BOOM-de-ay

As I write this I hear the fireworks in the distance. It's the Fourth of July, America's great big Day of Independence. But who can celebrate independence under the executive privilege of our present dictatortot? Incompetent? Moronic? I don't think so. Try calculated and cold-blooded. Then please, will someone light another firecracker - under my complacent countrymen.

Good Morning, July

Half way round the year. Are we better? Not that I know of, but what do I know. A hell of a lot actually.

dragonfly & company

I'm beginning to believe this dragonfly has the powers. It attracts wildlife. Mockingbirds perch on it all the time and, when our friend Thom was helping us build our porch steps, his pup hung out with it for two days. Then the other evening I discovered this little fellow stealing a few hours of refuge under its watchful care...

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