Yard in Progress

I posted some info about how the yard used to look on Facebook (the link is the title.) It's only about 80% done here. I will add a pic of the water feature after it's installed.


I just realized this will limit my travel for June. I need to tend to the seeds and flowers, and bit of sod that can't be watered via the ditch irrigation. By July, awfully hot. Maybe I will stay put over the summer and then go on an extended trip in the fall.

10 Days left?

When I posted that comment (question) on Facebook, I wondered what reaction I would get. I thought if a lot of folks knew about this, I'd get some response. I got NONE. Just WTF, basically.

I realize a lot of people just roll their eyes at apocalyptic talk, but if you read my novel you know it begins and ends with Doomsday thoughts. I've always been fascinated with End Times, cryptic Nostradamus prophecy, the Mayan calendar that ends at 2012, and even Revelations. But even I find it incredulous to pinpoint a precise DAY using biblical references. Which version or translation of the bible? and how can two thousand year old material correlate to our Gregorian calendar, adopted around 500 years ago?

Even so I must point out a few weird things: 1) I've been planning a trip to California (for May), but recently (before I heard of this Rapture date), I developed extreme anxiety about earthquakes. I mean waking up in a cold sweat from nightmares involving "the big one." Today I learned this group claims a major earthquake will start the Rapture, which they say occurs on May 21st. Yes, a few days from now. 2) Back in 1988 I received strange messages -- Cosmic "Transmissions" about End Times. I recalled the date being 2012, but when I checked (this morning), the time frame began in 2011 culminating in 2012. Sorry, but that's downright creepy to me.

OBL assassination

I stayed up into the wee hours last night watching throngs of US citizens, mostly college kids, celebrating our assassination of Osama bin Laden. I posted (a response) over on Facebook: I'm a little uneasy about all the US victory/happy dancing over OBL's assassination. I understand the vengeance motive and the feeling of justice being done, but from a Buddhist/karma perspective celebrating death is really begging for more trouble, as are all vendettas. After all, OBL was on his own vendetta (jihad) for previous perceived crimes by the US. Where does it end? Revenge and vendettas?

Yes, bible thumpers will point to an eye-for-eye and bin Laden was literally shot in the eye, so I guess that makes the murder really rewarding. Is that enough now? No, there are many who are saddened we didn't get to put the head on a stick out on the White House lawn, or serve it up like Herod did St. John's head (on a platter.) Can we just bring the friggin' troops home and and save those Trillions of dollars for people still suffering here in the United States. Do we have to prop up Afghanistan and/or Iraq, even if they don't want us?

AND, if this assassination was done with just a handful of Special Forces guys, why on earth did we spend TEN YEARS, thousand of US lives (more than killed originally in 9/11), and all those trillions anyway? okay, done now. Revel if you must.