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Like my sticks? They’re mine! All mine!<\/p>\nLike my sticks? They’re mine! All mine!<\/p>\n
Our sprinkler and drip irrigation system has given up. The timer doesn’t time, the master valves stick open, the underground tubes leak … the entire system has to be replaced, and the estimate is over 2,500 bucks.<\/p>\n
Of course it doesn’t have<\/em> to be replaced. I can always hand water. In fact I did that yesterday. Most of the plants, bushes, and cacti on our lot survive on what happens to fall from the sky. The irrigation system covers three small patches of grass in the back yard, a few rose bushes and other flowering plants, a couple of trees and shrubs out front, the bougainvillea on the far side of the back fence that’s there to soak up noise from\u00a0the highway. Still, that’s a lot of watering, and it takes time. If we can come up with the money, we’ll put in a new automatic system.<\/p>\n Donna’s doing a 5K tomorrow morning. She’s on her own, not running with friends. I’m thinking about driving her there and cheering her on, even though she has to be at the start by 7 AM. Maybe we can stop somewhere for breakfast afterward. When we get home I’ll start working on a pot of Uncle Art’s\u00a0chili beans con carne<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve been seeing a lot of Hillary hate on Facebook and Twitter, and am starting to think the people who post it are trolls. Not professional\u00a0campaign operatives,\u00a0more like Lenin’s useful idiots, unwitting volunteers in the service of\u00a0cynical masters, rather\u00a0like the amateur\u00a0trolls\u00a0who plaster social media with\u00a0pro-pit bull propaganda. Just sayin’.<\/p>\n Funny how quickly anti-Catholic sentiment<\/a>\u00a0reared its head after Trump got into it with the Pope<\/a>. Imagine the fetid ooze\u00a0that would bubble up\u00a0if some prominent rabbi ever insulted\u00a0His Yuugeness.\u00a0I\u00a0don’t want to talk about Trump, because fuck him, but the very next day he went after another sacred cow<\/a>.\u00a0What’s next, motherhood? And is there anything<\/em> he won’t say?<\/p>\n From a recent Washington Post article<\/a>: “The U.S. Air force\u2019s lumbering swing-wing bomber, the B-1B Lancer, is taking a back seat in the air campaign against the Islamic State.” Lumbering<\/a>? My god, what would they call the B-52?\u00a0Oh, right<\/a>. …<\/p>\n Tangentially related to the trolling I mentioned, here’s the late Gore Vidal on\u00a0Hillary’s pal\u00a0Kissinger:<\/p>\n Among the crude Titans was Henry Kissinger. In the next few days he and I attended a half-dozen functions together. I have no idea what he was doing memorializing the American Academy; but the people who give money for such causes have made something of a pet of him, rather as they had made one of Truman Capote in an earlier time. I could hear the ceaseless rumbling voice in every corner of the chapel. The German accent is more pronounced in Europe than on television at home. He has a brother who came to America when he did. Recently, the brother was asked why he had no German accent but Henry did. \u201cBecause,\u201d said the brother, \u201cHenry never listens.\u201d As I left him gazing thoughtfully at at the hell section of \u201cThe Last Judgement\u201d (as pretty and bright now as Tiepolo), I said to the lady with me, \u201cLook he\u2019s apartment hunting.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Okay, time I dropped a few of these sticks. But which ones? I love them all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like my sticks? They’re mine! All mine! Our sprinkler and drip irrigation system has given up. The timer doesn’t time, the master valves stick open, the underground tubes leak … the entire system has to be replaced, and the estimate is over 2,500 bucks. Of course it doesn’t have to be replaced. 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