So, I got every father\u2019s Father’s Day dream come true.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to go anywhere or do anything at all today!\u00a0 I slept an hour late and I ate a leisurely breakfast and I went outside to breath in the Summer Solstice air and stare at the sky and enjoy the experience of time standing still at the top of the solar roller coaster ride before it comes crashing down in the Winter Solstice and Christmas.\u00a0 And it occurred to me that I would only be getting a handful more of these.\u00a0 How many exactly, was a secret that the big guy upstairs plays relatively close to the vest but a dozen or two is an optimistic range.\u00a0 From the point of view of probabilities even zero more summers isn\u2019t that very unlikely.\u00a0 So, I decided I should treat this occasion with the proper respect and commune with the spirit of the day.<\/p>\n
So, I saw something I\u2019d never seen before.\u00a0 Two rabbits were standing outside of the living room window and almost nose to nose facing each other.\u00a0 And suddenly one of them jumped vertically in the air and landed in the same exact spot.\u00a0 And a few moments later it did the exact same thing.\u00a0 I was very curious about this ritual.\u00a0 Was it a male and female in some strange mating dance or was it two males trying to decide who was the bull goose rabbit of the area.\u00a0 But I never found out because just then they must have seen me moving behind the window and took off (like rabbits).\u00a0 I thought it was interesting how an animal with such a lopsided set of limbs could manage to launch itself so precisely square.\u00a0 Its entire back remained parallel with the ground throughout its rise and fall.\u00a0 Or at least that is how it appeared to me.\u00a0 Well, you live and you learn.<\/p>\n
Today the neighbors began delving into their Fourth of July stash of high explosives.\u00a0 For the most part it seemed to be some kind of a series of about ten detonations in a row that seemed larger than fire crackers but smaller than M-80s.If I were going to guess I\u2019d say it was some kind of a small mat of interconnected charges that branch off from a common fuse.\u00a0 And this moderate sized munition doesn\u2019t have a bad effect on the dogs so far.\u00a0 They haven\u2019t gotten worked up or frightened or even seemed to notice them so far.\u00a0 But that is a temporary situation.\u00a0 My neighborhood is sort of the Yucca Flats of fireworks testing.\u00a0 One of the close neighbors (although because of vegetation cover I\u2019ve never been able to determine exactly which one) must have access to fairly large thermonuclear devices.\u00a0 The seismic events are somewhere around eight on the Richter Scale.\u00a0 The fact that the recoil of the ground has shifted the orientation of my house by forty degrees over the course of the last few years is a testament to the quality of his firework merchant.\u00a0 But Dunwich doesn\u2019t have a noise ordinance or an atmospheric test ban.\u00a0 So, I expect the show will be spirited this year.\u00a0 Let the games begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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