Earth

I believe you will find my presentation about as stylish as road kill.

At given times prior to today we have had earthqaukes, the ice ages, melting ice caps, rising ocean levels, wild jet streams, tornados, hurricanes, floods, droughts, hot and dry, wet and cold,
high ocean temperatures, volcanos, forest fires.

We are destroying wet lands, cutting trees, killing the rain forest, intoxicating the atmosphere,
intoxicating the water ways and water sources, intoxicating the soil. Forty two million were
displaced by natural disasters in 2010. These numbers will rise as human induced climate change comes to full force. We will likely experience more than displacement. Is Mother Earth
pissed off? We are having record tornados, forest fires, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, and volcanos.

Is Mother Earth trying to tell us something? Could we eventually become the dinosaurs? Is the next thing to come a massive loss of life from the abuse we cause to the eco balance of the world? As Mother Earth takes its own course will it start eliminating the source of problem.

The earth is the jewel of the universe. I truly believe she will save herself but may destroy a good bit of civilization.

If you worry about something it usually doesn't happen. Maybe we should all start to worry.

Myself, I would like to go back to Bountiful for more than just a visit. Maybe I will in time.
Each of us should pause and remember how the world once looked and smelled and felt.

Word Game

Make one sentence which includes the following words.

defeat deduct defence detail

Work of Art

This is work of art drawn by Kim and Jill when they were still in grade school. It was posted in my work shop and it says, "Quiet, genius at work!" I think I will have Jill recreate it on canvas
just like it is.

Trip

Made a trip to Illinois again last week. Stopped in Chatham at the disaster relief depot operated by a Methodist church organization so Ellen could have her sewing results reviewed and approved. She past with flying colors. This took place on Friday.

On Saturday Kermit, my nephew, and I went to visit his sister, Eleanor, and her husband where I acquired a picture of my father and his sibs when they were very young. Top picture. Dad is front row right. Also got a picture of the first five of their children of this group. Dad's first two are Wendell, second from the right and Carol, third from the right.

Watched the corn and beans grow. Got to see the run down farm where I use to help farm and milk 50 cows twice a day. Worked for my brother in law, Charley, Kermit and Eleanor's dad.

Kermit and I took a couple of four wheelers and toured a 40 acre patch of ground he had just purchased. Through mud and shoulder high grass, black berries and black rasberries.

Went to the Vermont, IL high school reunion represented by classes from 1936 to 1947, the life of the high school in Vermont. The reunion was at the Christian Church. The addition to the church was built over the spot where I use to live. I welcomed everyone to my home but I didn't

mention any thing about the possibilty of ghost.

From there on to Normal to visit daughter Kim, the home of rhubarb pie.

Catfish dinner on Friday. Fried chicken dinner on Saturday. Barbaque ribs by Kim, a salad by Sierra, and a rhubarb by Kim, Sierra, and Jeramia on Sunday.

Sorry everyone. I took the rhubarb pie home.