I find I am...

ISHING FOR SUMMER.

Thought I'd never say that but this cold rainy weather is worse than humidity by far.  I can get out and work like a mule in Summer,  but this ice cold rain? My hands and feet are numb inside with the heat on.  I've felt so sorry for the birds again today...I can't go out in it for more than a few minutes.

Well son texted me today he wants to "come see a movie" guess he realizes there is something worth continuing.  I am trying to come to the terms that he may never be who he was  3 year ago, is anyone?  Some of us are Better, some of us are worse and some of us never learn or change.  

I was reading about how the Southern Indian tribes used to keep African Slaves.  They had slaves with them when they made the march to Oklahoma the trail of tears.  This explains why so many of the Southern tribes have some African physical features...I often wondered about that.  No sharp features but more rounded faces, chins, cheek bones, noses.  These tribes were the Choctaw, the Cherokee, the Creek, the Chickasaw, the Seminoles, and probably others.  HOW did that piece of history escape US?   Pretty interesting stuff.  People are always trying to connect themselves with Native heritage, especially southern Whites, it would probably not sit too well to learn that one of those native ancestors could have been African.  

My sis had her DNA chart done, we are 97% European with 3% accounted for, like Middle Eastern or East African...so who knows...I would have liked more Mediterranean in me to have better hair and skin for sure!  My best friend on my last job was AA and she had the most beautiful skin ever.  

Soon we will all be turning pale as the weather here is creating another bitter cold place in winter and rain rain rain all summer.  I know there is some things we can do to help reverse this problem....I see so much trash on the ground it upsets me, it's Quadrupled what it was a couple years ago,.. I was imaging the other day if we had a device to make all trash resist gravity...and it floated up about face height where we humans had to walk with it in our faces, would that help?? 

It's disgusting....and I for one want manufactures to STOP making it! So back to the save and reuse of glass bottles...that worked. 

My hands are so cold I can barely type so I will close the gloom that was our day is turning from grey to black.  
I was married this day Feb 14th, back in 1974.  It was a rainy night then too.  We had a small simple  ceremony with only my family and a few friends.  Then we went to a Golf Club where we had catered a steak dinner for all of our wedding goers.   It was simple and all enjoyed it.  

My sister was my Maid of Honor and John's best friend Nick was his Best Man...

A minister we knew performed the ceremony...and we said simple vows that he had us repeat back to him and we exchanged rings. 

I was very happy that day.  

Ironic

rrittn's is mostly a way to decompress my thoughts...

I decided last minute to go back to Bear Island since it was closed for hunting when I went on Tuesday...it was a beautiful day tho a little windy, due to the remnants of Zeta.  I had expected a hug fallout of Warblers but that was not the case I saw NONE...however that's not what I went to see I wanted shorebirds and waterfowl...did see some of that but in much decreased numbers than previous years. 

On the way home I tried to get back before dark thirty because my headlights go out sometimes...pretty scary.  I think it's a short but who knows I replaced the headlamps with a lower amp thinking the ones I had in were creating more heat than the wiring could handle...but when I had to dim my lights it went off for a second but came back on so I think short.  Have  you ever inspected that bundle of wire?? It would take an electrical genius to find the short...however my Uncle said replace the dimmer switch.  Remember when it used to be on the floor? I sure do a big metal button you find with the ball of your foot on the left floor board area.  When you had to use one foot on the clutch and one on the brake, and then try to figure  out how to dim your lights things got a little out of hand.  

So they Blue Moon on the way home was Amazing!! It rose about 6:30 PM I saw it hanging over the cotton fields which are in the middle of being picked...Everytime I pass a huge field of cotton I can't help but wonder how many slaves used to work that land, and pick that cotton.  If you have never picked cotton, let me tell you how painful that was.  The first problem is the cotton bowl or bloom, when it flowers then dries the pod opens it peels back like a banana but the ends of the peels dont curl down they stick out..and on the end of each of those peels is a sharp spiney tip.  So reach in and It stabs you...so you had to take your time unless you want blood on your cotton. 

Then you had a bag to carry to put the cotton in, the cotton had seeds inside it so eventually it got heavy..and the heat of an open field and the bugs and snakes and the master on a horse with a rifle pointed your way...I can only imagine the hate I would have for that man..

Yet now here on the brink of an election where we Democrats need the black vote so much we beg "Please help us." I'm pretty sure even tho we are on the same side they ask "why should we?"

We now depend on an the ancestors of people our ancestors enslaved to help us preserve the very democracy that allowed people to become slaves....now you know the rest of the story.

I didn't get a post ready for early posting so this is a short post but I hope it was thought provoking...how all the gears of destiny work eventually are revealed.  Do I believe in destiny? Not exactly and yes.  So there. 

Speaking of gears turn your clock back one hour tonight if you Must..I have to wonder how down the road the destiny of this will become obvious..in fact in my life it already has...

The car wreck in 1997 would never  had happened if the clock had been left where it should of been. 

                                    The Halloween Blue Moon over a Cotton Field