Back where I was:

I am back where I was prior to my being seduced by face book.

Flying Along In An Old Frazer with Steppenwolf Singing In My Head

Flying Along In An Old Frazer with Steppenwolf Singing In My Head.

The Frazer automobiles in the late 1940's, had sort of a deep shelf behind the back seat. As a six year old, I fit neatly in that space, stretch out and looking out the back window as we traveled, and up at the stars when it was dark. I think about that magic place sometimes as I drive long distances. It was a magic carpet.

When I travel, the travel is the point. The going and doing is the thing. The destinations are just interruptions.

"Well you don't know what we can find..."

"I like to dream yes,

yes, right between my sound machine

On a cloud of sound I drift in the night

Any place it goes is right

Goes far,

flies near,

to the stars away from here"

Even the four lane concrete of the Ike Interstate System holds magic.

The real pleasures often come on the two lane blacktop, far and away from the peoples.

"Well, you don't know what we can find

Why don't you come with me little girl

On a magic carpet ride

You don't know what we can see

Why don't you tell your dreams to me

Fantasy will set you free

Close your eyes girl

Look inside girl

Let the sound take you away"

Drive the speed limit and God and his dog will pass you.

But watch out for the small towns.

"Well, you don't know what we can find

Why don't you come with me little girl

On a magic carpet ride"

"Well, you don't know what we can see

Why don't you tell your dreams to me..."

Once men sat here and fished this lake, ate well, loved well, and lived well.

They left 6,000 years of their history here.

"Fantasy will set you free"

The Frazer is long gone just like that six year old boy. Sometimes I summon the little boy back to his magic carpet ride. These days he flies along in a 2007 Merc with CD sound singing.

The little girl that flies along with him is North of 60, and mostly sleeps through the trips.

"Close your eyes girl

Look inside girl

Let the sound take you away"

"Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here..."

"Let the sound take you away." Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride Lyrics Songwriters: Kay, John; Moreve, Rushton John

Down the porcupine hole in the Tswalu Kalahari , South Africa

 Exploring the age old den of the porcupine at sunset. Screen shots from Wild Earth Safari.

leaving before they come out for the night.

Baraboo Circus

Baraboo Wisconsin Circus Museum welcomed Junior Bear

PROJECT BUTTERFLY

http://monarchjointventure.org/images/uploads/documents/MilkweedFactSheetFINAL.pdf

http://www.fws.gov/midwest/news/MonarchPopulation2016.html

http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/news/mowing-best-practices-for-monarchs-new-mjv-handout

http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/list/category/migration

http://monarchjointventure.org/threats/

Seining The Pond....

My father had what he called a minnow seine we used to catch bait fish from small lakes. So I was very familiar with the process.  

In the Summer of 1963 I hauled water to the Concrete Batch Maker as the H.E. Bailey Turnpike was being built.  We filled our water trucks up at ponds or lakes on private land.  On one occasion the farmer who owned the pond asked us to pump it dry. 

He wanted to enlarge the pond and need it dry in order to get the bulldozer in it to do the job.

When the pond had about a foot of water left in it the concrete crew helped the farmer and his family seine the remaining fish out of the pond.

It was full of fish. Catfish and carp mostly. It also had a fair share of snapping turtles and water moccasin snakes.  Dad took three cat fish out of the nets, and we ate them that evening.

Project Eldest Son

In Nam...when I went to the Special Security Officer of the Battle Field Intelligence Command to claim the SIGINT items captured and also I trade PX cards and MPC for the captured weapons, the Sgt. who was in my language school told me me not to take any of American made ammo that had be re-captured. to use in the AK's. It seems that a certain percentage of the ammo was left to be captured and a percentage of that was stuffed with HE not "gun powder". It not only scored kills, but discouraged the enemy from using ammo captured.
Latter I found it was named "Project Eldest Son". I always remembered this tactic, worked often very well.