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July 15th<\/sup> is peak summer; top dead center.\u00a0 And this year it\u2019s living up to the hype.\u00a0 Lots of heat, lots of humidity, a pretty good amount of sunshine.\u00a0 As opposed to 2023, I am satisfied with the ration of summer being provided.\u00a0 I am watching countless hours of old movies and wandering the fields looking for pictures of bugs and listening to political talking heads panicking or laughing at the latest exploits of the Joe Biden Flying Circus and Freak Show Emporium.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had to stop watching anything that has James Carville on it.\u00a0 The Ragin\u2019 Cajun is so distraught that I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll bust a gut laughing at his apoplexy.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be shocked if he survives.<\/p>\n

Now I will pay for all this joy. \u00a0The karmic wheel never stops turning and eventually it will pay me back with pain.\u00a0 But what the hell.\u00a0 Let\u2019s let this thing play out.\u00a0 Sometime in September Trump and Biden are supposed to have their second debate.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure by then the Dems and the Media will have adjusted their depression meds and decided to stop their Biden freakout and concentrate on destroying Trump by any means necessary.\u00a0 And ANY<\/u><\/em><\/strong> is the operative word there.\u00a0 I won\u2019t be surprised by anything but I may be dismayed anyway.\u00a0 After all these are desperate and delusional people who control resources that have almost no limits.\u00a0 Four years ago, they shut down the whole world\u2019s economy for a year and a half just to get Donald Trump.\u00a0 What might they consider out of bounds?<\/p>\n

But I digress.\u00a0 I read that Shelley Duvall died yesterday.\u00a0 In honor of her passing I plan to watch \u201cThe Shining\u201d this week.\u00a0 There is a certain contrarian logic in watching that most wintry of horror movies at this most sultry time of the rolling year.\u00a0 Watching Jack Torrance succumb to the poison that the Overlook Hotel has served up to him is a cautionary tale for every frustrated fiction writer that ever lived.\u00a0 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.<\/p>\n

And just to give equal time to a less disturbed ghost story I think I\u2019ll watch the George C Scott version of \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d\u00a0 I think Christmas in the middle of July is something that should not be left to only the Hallmark Channel.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I got a burst of energy and took out my pruning saw, bow saw and extra heavy-duty pruning shears and went primitive on some small trees that have gotten out of control in one area of the property.\u00a0 And while I was at it, I searched out some Virginia Creeper vines that had gotten completely out of hand in the woods.\u00a0 Some of these vines were three inches in diameter.\u00a0 The trees they were climbing on were almost overwhelmed by the parasite that had wrapped around and choked them.\u00a0 Looking out at those trees I now see broad swaths of dead leaves up in the canopy where these vines have been cut off at the roots.<\/p>\n

Camera Girl mocked me for all this effort for little tangible result.\u00a0 But self-satisfaction is its own reward.\u00a0 Vines, especially poison ivy aggravate me.\u00a0 In August I have a plan to wreak havoc on a patch that\u2019s growing by the road.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to soak them down with vinegar and cover them with plastic or paper to let them stew in that low pH brew.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to use herbicides because of ground water contamination.\u00a0 But acetic acid passes muster as an organic substitute.\u00a0 In my book the highest good that bio-engineering could be put to would be building a virus that would drive poison ivy to extinction.\u00a0 The man who did that would rise to the level of a saint in my opinion as having removed one of the great scourges in this world.<\/p>\n

Well anyway, time to get back to peak summer.\u00a0 At play in the fields of the Lord.<\/p>\n

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