Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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There is a tree beside my driveway that drops a shit-ton of annoying-as-fuck leaves this time of year, just before it moves onto dropping a shit-ton of annoying-as-fuck fuzzy/fluffy flowery type things. It doesn't know it yet but tonight is the last time that fucker gets to enjoy a night without a mess of chainsaw scars all over it.
I'm going to cut down as many limbs as I can with the gear I have and then call in a tree-pro to remove whatever's left. I am so looking forward to having that bastard tree out of my life.
Last weekend I got rid of a mandarin tree that the previous owner's had planted down the side of our house. Got sick of constantly getting stabbed by the huge spikes on the thing. And it never produced any actual edible mandarins either.
Some friends are moving and since this is their last weekend in the house they’re having a party tonight. They’ve hosted all kinds of get togethers over the past few years and has become a prime go to spot for socializing. They are not moving far and I am sure their next place will become just as popular but it’s an end of an era.
Last night was fun; I am definitely not used to getting home at 3am these days.
Potential pool time this afternoon. No real plans for this evening but a bartender friend is having his bar birthday tonight so that could be a good stop by.
dr. appointment this afternoon
early dinner with friends at 5
get a 9 pound pork shoulder ready for tomorrow
get up at 3:30 am to light the fire and get the pork on the egg by 4am or so along with the traditional drink
watch golf
Wife is leaving tomorrow for Europe for 5 weeks. I'm not joining her until weeks 4 and 5. This weekend will be my lounge around and not do anything weekend, then I have a list of shit to do around the house over the next 3 weeks before I leave.
i hate the 4th weekends...the beaches are too crowded..drunks on the street trying to find parking..non stop dogs barking..
order food tonight, probably mexican..watch stranger things..lock ourselves in the house all weekend thru monday
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
