Weekend for hire

Wade was from Weaverville, NC. One of the forefathers of bluegrass. He passed away this week at the tender age of 104. He was 97 when he recorded this interview.

Saw a bunch of birds flying down into a huge chimney tonight. It was sunset and they were heading in for the evening. Swallows maybe, not sure.

Going to work at the Tate Street Fest tomorrow with "World Can't Wait". Will be cool, better than being 90 and humid. local music, art, food and politics. Sounds good to me

Statehood for the Palestinians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No War!!!!!!!!!!

Freedom

This is one of my favorite Gordon Lightfoot songs. Listening to this while twisting and turning up and down the hairpin turns in the mountains. Love it.

So the Palestinians are heading to the UN next week to seek statehood. Of course the United States and Israel will vote no on statehood. If we really are a nation about people being free then we vote yes for statehood for the Palestinians. Do you think all the backing of Israel has anything to do with the Bible? Are we afraid of God's wrath if we do not bow to Israel?

The American Taliban, the Republicans, are going to try and get North Carolinian's to vote for a ban on gay marriage in North Carolina. This would be an amendment to the constitution. Why should this have anything to do with the constitution of a state. Time to rally proper thinking Americans to put this amendment down in flames.

There was a dying dove in the backyard the other day. I gave him/her some sunflowers so there was a chance for a last supper.

Peace mi amigos.

Goof Morning

Well Summer will end temp wise this week. Highs at the end of the week in the 60's.
Time to get a fire pit.

Well of all the weird things. My bell peppers have decided to grow. Yup I have bell peppers coming in now. Very odd.

I already have a couple trees with leaves falling and turning.

Look into Rick Perry and you will find he is a big sleaze.

I think my washing machine is on its way out. The spin cycle is not working so well and everything is much to wet at the end of the wash. Yeah.

Coffee and Summer walk.

United States of Spying

Glenn Greenwald is one of my favorite people in the world. He thinks so clearly.
I wish I had teachers like this when I was young.

We become the United States of Stasi more and more every day.

The true legacy of 9/11 is still being written in our continued lose of civil liberties, the ongoing illegal war in Iraq, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, drone attacks in Pakistan, drone attacks in Yemen, prisons run overseas by the CIA so THEY can avoid U.S. laws, more than 100,000 civilians killed Iraq, Guantanamo, the list goes on..................

We have spent at least 1.2 TRILLION dollars on wartime activities since 9/11.

We have 31 million children living in poverty. How many of them did not eat a real meal on this 9/11?

What is our legacy?

Doobie Doobie Do

When I received this album for Christmas as a 14 year old rock and roll took control and I never looked back. Great way for introduction to tasty guitar licks.

Yard sales buys today. A hand truck for $10, closet maid shelving system for $10, two oil original oil paintings, one of a cardinal and one a blue jay, .50 each. Five albums, International Submarine Band, Gerry and The Pacemakers, and three James Brown albums. All original in excellent shape. $1 each. They will be going on ebay.

Painted the table, finally. Stripped the painted off the legs and they will be painted chrome in the morning.

Took Summer for a long walk. Lovely weather today. House is wide open.

Good day.

3 day work week :)

I think work weeks should be three days. It is much better for the brain.

Did you watch the speech?

Firefox is much faster but keeps giving me issues with Adobe flash.

Lee Roy Selmon passed away this week. He is the only Tampa Bay Buc to be in the NFL Hall of Fame. For the 20 years I was in Tampa Lee Roy was very involved in the community and was a great asset to the Tampa Bay area. Seemed to be what one hopes your community leaders to be like. He was 56. You will be missed.

Yard sale Saturday morning before working in the yard. Trim bushes and trees. Rake and rake and nap.

Goodnight.

Nonsense

I like this odd little song.

The republican debate was a joke. No substance as usual.

My mom is in Florida for an undetermined period of time. My grandmother is very weak and mom needed to get a better picture of the situation for herself.

NFL starts tonight. Packers vs. Saints. Should be a good game.

Rick Perry says Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. What a douche. Talk about not knowing how the other half lives. Fuck off dude.

Time for a shower, feed Summer and trim my beard.

The Grind

Uggh. Back to work today. Short uneventful vacation.
Really need a career change. A new American picker?????????

Barely ant rain from Lee hit Gibsonville. A quick downpour Monday and a decent, but short, downpour yesterday. That is it. Did not have to to far west to find more rain.

Temps nice for dog walking this morning.

Foggy out today.

Have some pictures to post. I'll start putting them up tomorrow.

Have a nice hump.

Power to the working man

The people are the power. Rise up and make corporate America take notice.

The oven is on!!!!!!!

Holy crap. Mother nature turned the oven on yesterday and she left it on. The last few days have been brutally hot. UGGH.

Went to the flea market in Hillsville, Va. yesterday. I spent a total of $17.00.
Bought two soda bottles, 2 old regular pictures, one tin type and two old cameras.
One camera was a Polaroid. i bought because it is white. Then I bought a Brownie
six -20 because it had the flash system with a bulb. I see the cameras all the time. Never see the flash system.

It was too damm hot and I left after about an hour and a half.

Today I vac'd. Took Summer for a car ride and a walk. Really did not do much else except fart around.

Tomorrow I am heading to Asheville for the day. There is a street fest going on which I will attend with my camera. Buy me some art, listen to music, feed my fat ass and then head back home.

Looks like rain on Monday and Tuesday so I'll work around the house and shop for a rug for the living room.

NO WAR!!!