The Haunting

No one lives any nearer than town.

No one will come any nearer than that.

In the night...in the dark.

I'm surprised anyone would want to stay at Bellosguardo, aka the Clark Estate in Santa Barbara what-with the stench of dead bodies wafting through the air from the Bird Refuge.....drag it or drain it and you will find corpses I bet from hundreds of years ago to recent unsolved murders...

some say Bellosguardo means 'Beautiful Lookout' in Italian but you and I know it means Hill House

I read the stories, first in the Independent then the always-spooked News-Press about the state of the estate..the whole shebang is interesting because the place is such a mystery...copper barons and uppity daughters and art and old money, scandal, murder, insanity, suicide..what more could you ask for?

perhaps it is haunted by the ghost of Huguette... Huguette Clark was a musician, an artist and preferred speaking French... et Je parle un peu francais aussi!

but I found out she decided to turn the marsh into a freshwater lake in cahoots with the City of Santa Barbara back in the 1920s...so I guess there's enough blame to go around...or meybe Huggie did it on purpose?? for her sister?? that needs to be investigated

but the Indie and New-Press were both griping about the goings-on at the mansion...parties, no accountability to the public being that it's a non-profit which is to say it's a scam...ex-mayor Helene's boyfriend is holed up there and it appears he's not leaving...

why should he? he's getting paid to live there and do nothing except throw parties for rich Democrats!!! if I was the caretaker I wouldn't want the public in there either, the ruddy-bummed bastards

but what I'd do for Thanksgiving at Bellosguardo after they drain the lake and build a cement pond, is invite all my family and friends and roast some ducks smothered with cherry sauce...boil some turnips and sweet potatoes and fresh creamery butter with goblets of red and white wine..and for dessert, pumpkin and blueberry pies with vanilla ice cream...then after dinner, brandy and cigars on the veranda as we watch the sunset in silence... 

against the wood and stone of Hill House

Moondance

Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance

nice storm last week!

and I am seeing more and more Monarch butterflies...last week a few, then hundreds by my window, dancing with the falling leaves, and more down by the marsh...it's wonderful to see

Did Columbus sail the ocean blue in 1492? how should I know

but once, I headed up to Pendola hot springs one warm windy night in my old VW, the full moon shining bright...an owl flew in my window and landed between the door and my seat...startled, I pulled over, got my little green military shovel and coaxed it out...the big yellow eyes looked at me and it flew away

"Nature spoke constantly to Native Americans and they lived by its pulse and power, its cadence and dominion. The moon—the full moon—was a lyrical beacon of the natural order of things, a marker of time, and of the seasons of the year during which the First People held their big hunts, speared sturgeon, picked wild fruit, harvested corn, cached for winter, and hoped for spring. The moon, the sun, the seasons, were their clocks, the keepers of time."

I've always loved the relationship between the moon and Indigenous People...

the Cree call the October moon the Migrating Moon...

and so shall I

Sky Pilot

how high can you fly??

the Sunday skies were full of surprises!

well, the News-Press is not known for its investigative reporting and this "analysis" is really silly as I've outlined in red...Wendy and Nipper are still waiting for Traitor Trump to be reinstated as president..well, maybe this piece by Errand-boy Eringer will help

code name: peregrine

NEWS-PRESS EXCLUSIVE/ANALYSIS: Digging deeper into Afghanistanby Robert Eringer October 3, 2021 0 comment (whoa, exclusive analysis)

Editor’s note: Department of Defense sources, who are deeply involved with continued efforts to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan, told the News-Press that the number of evacuated people is much lower than the official number released by the U.S. government. They talked exclusively to News-Press columnist Robert Eringer, but they can’t be identified because of their concerns about possible political retribution. (ie, Deep Throat)

This column contains an analysis expressed by Mr. Eringer, a longtime author with vast experience in investigative journalism. That analysis is in addition to the comments expressed by the authoritative sources. (authoritative sources like Bugs bunny?)

"The result, as we now know, was a failure of catastrophic proportions. (Excuse us if we do not use the word “non-success” — an Orwellian newspeak so fashionable among Biden administration spokespersons in the wake of a rash of policy failures.) (fake news)

“There was no orderly exit,” continued our source, “because it was all based on a fallacy along with massive political and policy miscalculations.” (huh??)

Which brings us to the real Big Lie: The U.S. government announcing that it evacuated 127,000 persons. (a take on the Big Lie by Traitor Trump)

The government did not. This was a big fat bold-faced lie, according to two authoritative military sources directly involved with evacuation efforts.

"big fat bold-faced lie"

whatever that means