Veterans Day

 

It was 20 years ago this past September since 9-11-01 and it will be 70 years next month since Pearl Harbor. Veterans have been defending our country and our freedoms since the Revolutionary War. Some of us may not have been veterans by choice. but we served honorably. So I salute all veterans on this day.

Time Changes

I totally dislike the twice annual time changes. There is enough confusion and dissension in the world without adding to it artificially. MAYBE (and that is a big maybe), at one time in an agricultural period it might have made a little sense, but in today's 24/7 society it has no relevance. It's bad enough having different time zones without adding DST.  

 

Hard to believe that its been over 2 years since my last post. I guess the COVID virus and other life activities have taken precedence. In the meantime our little astronaut and his alien mommy have grown up.

Classic Remembered

Woodstock

Woodstock was a music festival held 50 years ago between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm 43 miles southwest of Woodstock, New York. Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history and provided an exclamation mark to the 60's - a decade of turmoil, the vietnam war, assassinations of major leaders, protests, civil rights legislation-marches-riots, drugs and change on so many fronts that the world would never be the same again ...!!!!

First Step on the Moon

50 years ago on 20 July humans stepped on the moon. In retrospect it was a much more significant achievement than we even imagined then. After the Apollo missions no human has stepped on another celestial body since then.

Trees

Twenty seven years ago a lady I worked with brought me a couple of acorns that had sprouted roots in her gutter. I planted them without much expectations, and didn't realize they would grow as fast and big as they did.

The acorns quickly became mighty oak trees hanging over the house. They also became a nuisance dropping leaves and acorns all winter long in the gutters and basement steps and a potential hazard with limbs breaking in storms. So we cut them down. 

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It took us three days to deliver 4 pickup loads and 4 trailer loads of firewood to a friend and to pile up a mountain of limbs and leaves in the sinkhole. The whole experience has been bittersweet watching them grow for 27 years and enjoying their shade. They had worn treefaces and halloween decorations. They had housed birds and squirrels. They had played games of tag and hide and seek. Now they are stumps to hold lawn ornaments. There are no leaves or falling limbs or shade. And such is 27 years of our lifes (us and the trees).