Nashville Cats

play clean as country water

when I think of Nashville, I think of music...not this: Six Dead including three children. A 28-year-old Nashville white woman with two "assault-style" rifles and a pistol was killed by police at The Covenant School, a private Christian school.

I'm sorry to the kids for the morons in America who are too busy chasing drag queens, Tik Tok, and Mickey Mouse to figure out how to protect the lives of students in school.

I am deeply sorry

Percy's Song

oh, how cruel, the wind and the rain

I'm a big fan of the wind and rain but enough is enough.. I want to see some sunshiny days and calm breezes where I can watch the birds, flowers and butterflies without being assaulted by pelting coldness on my brain all the time..

the house Republicans are going after Big Tech mainly because they can't figure out how the internet works and TIK TOK is the latest bogeyman...these people are just dumb and it's no wonder they want to abolish the Dept of Education, a major threat to their ignorance! geez

Just down the road, the Sandpiper Moblie home Park got hit by a twister during the storms, a whirling dirvish if you will...I wonder if the Sound Walls actually directed some of that energy into the park?? somehow...I'll have to think on that

There's some dirt roads up in the hills and they turned into rivers, very pretty!

The infernal 8-million-dollar bike/dog path continues to annoy me while the potholes on Via Real are as big as swimming pools!

I'm not much affected by the Carpinteria pot farm smells, but the folks who live in the hills are and they deserve a reprieve...Melinda Burns, who Wendy fired for being too good a journalist, has the stories and holds the pulse of the cannabis wars in our little town...Das Williams has got to go!

and finally, I see a peregrine falcon by the marsh which signals a most bountiful and beautiful Spring...then again, it could be a lousy hawk, which is a bad omen

Before the Deluge

let the music keep our spirits high

Dear Greta,

have you noticed the snails? they're huge! washed down through millennia...do you think it's the climate...maybe I'll grab a couple for dinner tonight before the rains come...at least they're grass fed! escargot cooked avec du pain et du beurre and du vin...c'est bon!!

hey, how about a new slogan "Ask Not What the Climate Can Do for You, Ask What You Can Do for the Climate" haha

but Greta, there's a couple things bothering me...poisoning in the name of bionativism...check this out from Arizona: LEES FERRY – The National Park Service will poison a Colorado River side channel below Glen Canyon Dam to remove fish that threaten native species, the agency announced. Can you believe that??

and people are afraid of eucalyptus trees because they fall sometimes...have they ever seen a redwood, I wonder??

and shooting animals from helicopters...the feds (Forest Service) and non-profits are killing 150 black cows in the New Mexico Gila National Forest wilderness..they cooked up a story about the dangers posed by hoofed animals trampling creeks and scaring hikers, yet in Santa Barbara, they're using sheep to eat invasive weeds on the San Marcos Preserve, the same sheep they killed on the Channel Islands for being non-native!

Greta, I think someone is trying to pull the wool over our eyes!