Four days left till the end of the world. I guess I’ll eat that cheeseburger. The news is still all about the Sandy Hook murders. I mean absolutely no other news. Makes me think the corporate media is turning a blind eye2 something. It’s all about gun control now. Bigwigs who4 years have fought underhandedly against gun control, belittled gun control activists now spout ancient axioms like they just invented them. 4 instance, “I don’t know any one who needs a fifty round clip4 hunting.” Charleton Heston insisted he needed a light anti tank weapon4 squirrel hunting, he held a massive rally@ in the Sandy Hook parking lot. “And God said,” he spoke in flowing Hebrew robe, “thou shalt own a fifty caliber.” He slammed his wooden staff2 the ground, “and thou shalt use it!”

            Long day clearing a lot. It’s getting pretty though. I finished the day strong with piddling and maintenance. I have a spacious, roomy shop after a year or two of not being able2 move in it. I have spares tires and working headlights. I can move around efficient and quick, tools in order, canoe stuff ready.

December 15 2012

Six days till Armageddon. How will it happen? Did the Mayans 4c a comet coming round the bend that modern day equipment doesn’t know about? Do they know of a wobble about2 happen in the earth’s axis causing it2 tilt and make us all fall down? Did they predict Danny Bonaduce as the Anti Christ? Can they somehow predict an earthquake, tidal wave, superstorm, disease, or solar flares? Did they c the looming fiscal cliff and predict John Boner as the asshole of the millennium? Or maybe the guy chiseling the calendar into stone dropped his hammer and never got back @ it.

Dogs bark. Gloomy Saturday morning. I am well rested, I put on my raspberry poet’s shirt and vanilla bell bottoms last night, hitting the town. I dropped by Creekside Loft2 make the scene, hit a cool little kids party. I’m good with kids. Until I get a head ache.

            I may miss BAD BRAD 2nite. I am going 2 c my Willow. That will be one of the best parties of the year though I’ll wager.

            I was really tired after trimming almost a dozen trees yesterday on the steep ass Lake Thunderbird slope. But that’s all good. Eddy was really beat. The clean up man always has2 make more trips than the climber. It was rough. @ least it was coldish, summer can be brutal in that situation. We’re  not as young as we used 2 b lol.

            F we get warmish winter weather I plan2 hit the Current and Black Rivers for many days. Soak it in. Dig it. I invented a new system where u drive 4 poles into the sand or dirt and hang your canoe on it upside down. Throw a tarp over and you got a strong, compact shelter. No worries from frost and dew, rain, sleet, hail, etc. Just four light weight poles and some Vienna sausage cans. You do need a hammer or rock2 drive the posts, and actually that can be a problem, I don’t carry a hammer, and on the sandier streams large stones may not be readily available.

            So life rocks. Control the adrenalin. Release it in small gasps. Look people in the eye. Shake their hands firmly. Shoot straight and hit hard. Go2 Wal Mart.

 December 14 2012

Weird day. Twenty grade school kids dead, shot @ school. Many others and adults shot also.

         I am just gripped in this strange sudden adrenalin. I mean I was up n2 eight or nine large trees this morning on Lake Thunderbird. Proper pruning all around. Most other tree services r straight up posers.

        The steep hillside proved a rough cleanup, we were slightly soft, like this was a Monday or something. But the jobs went well. L8 lunch @ Lakeview got us pepped up again. My mother demanding, my Willow evasive. Bonny overbearing. Twenty dead. @ least.

        2 nite it’s GRAY blues@ Creekside Loft. Then Saturday it’s BAD BRAD @ Copper Freather. Samantha’s birthday. Celebrating six years of partying @ Copper Feather. 2moro is her 21^st birthday. Yo yo Sammy Jo.

        I heard they may put up a stripper pole. This’ll b like when Cuba ousted Batista. In some ways I bet they want2 open up2 America, But I can c why not, I‘m sure we won’t lift the embargo unless we get hefty corporate profit @ the expense of our and Cuba’s poor.

        I may scrap the old van. I had it weighed. It’s worth five hundred in scrap. I love the old girl, she still runs down the road like a top, worthy of many a camp and good time. I would rather a salvage buddy take it, use the good transmission and rear end. But I got2 make some moves. Cut back, Cut down. Cut quicker. Cut harder. Like in football, u don’t run a banana pattern, U drive hard, cut hard.     

Wrapped up in knots. Need a beer yo. Lol.

I dunno. I think I gotta go. Peace.

December 3 2012

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November 21 2012

Quiet night. Serenity rules. That is the important thing. Serenity now. Serenity 4ever. The riverbank. Serenity is found on the river bank. Except @ Howard’s on Saturdays. Fish don’t get thirsty. But u gotta feed the dog. The black dog.

            So Obama get’s the win, WrongKnee Jerk Reaction blamed on people wanting free stuff from the government. “Only Billionaires get free gifts from the government. Sure we give the Oil Industry trillions in incentives, but they don’t want anything from the government. We just happen2 give them huge cash payments and keep hemp illegal. I intend2 keep right on running4 president just as I have4 sixteen years. I won’t stop until every horse has an elevator, the price of condoms triples, and abortion is forced back into the basement where it belongs. Monopoly and inequity r a way of life4 the upper class, and that’s the way it ought2 b. I am pro family, in fact I’m set2 marry three teenage cousins next month in a secret ceremony. But the sun will come up soon, I must get into my casket now. I’ll tweet yo.”

            Glenn Beck preached of the apocalypse coming. His one listener in a western state called up and told him2 get a different spiel. Repoblicans lamented the huge turnout of voters, one calling it, “lines of idiots wanting free stuff.”

            This weather has a river sighing my name. When MIKE and LALA get back from their tour of the coast I may take off a while. Put in @ Doniphan Missouri on the Current river,  put out @ Elgin Arkansas on the Black River one week later.

            I’m pretty 2 gether right now. My shop orderly, my house fairly clean, areas freshly painted. I need2 finish out some stuff4 my mother, bear down on the grounds, hide stuff away out back, weed eat and arrange. Prepare. Maintain. I have flats and lights2 fix, firewood2 cut and stack. I don’t burn leaves on principle, I believe it is bad4 the earth and trees2 do so. Stripping the root zone of leaves and burning them is a disruption of the natural process. Disruption of natural processes can cause stress and strain on biological systems of trees. Scoffers go2 hell.

November 19 2012

Sweet late day in Highland. Leyla on the radio. I’ve been painting and remodeling. Getting ready4 a Panadox party of some sort. And I want2 go fishing without thinking I should be doing some chore or this or that. I’m so close2 getting it 2gether. A paint job and orgasmizing is important. I get mine. Not very often. But I do claim a piece every now and then.

            I want2 smash cupcakes. With a paddle. Heres the setup. I have a friend who watches nonstop sports interview me, implying that I am over rated, that all of my opponents are cupcakes. We will argue the point quite a while in a dark room, until finally, cut2 bright sunshine a pretty cupcake sits on a log. Smash. Attack of the long hair paddler man.

            Creeks are back down. We are still in drought. That’s’ why I want2 do lower Current, all the way2 Elgin Arkansas. Officially it’s Black River from Pocahontas area on down, but it’s still the Current I’ll wager. Doniphan2 Elgin. I’m sure it’s been done, but not often by canoe.

            The ten day forecast shows it warm4 late fall. Above freezing @ night. Clear. No mosquitos I figure this late in the year. They may pop up on a warm day. We’ll c. I have foodstuffs4 close2 a week, barring catastrophe. I think another person may go, 2bad it’s not a chick. If I could teach Bonny2 fetch firewood that would rock. Or drag brush on a tree job. That would get her a steak every now and then.

            Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the upper Atlantic seaboard. Some are still without Power. Donald Trump claimed he suffered hardship, filled out forms requesting government aid. He claimed it would take over one thousand dollars2 repair his hair.

November 13 2012

            I went4 a mountain bike ride 2 day. A short1. Hoping2 get back in shape this winter. Gearing up4 a multi day canoe trip, just don’t know yet, watching the weather, monitoring and weighing options and circumstances. I need a woman2 go. That would be nice. In some ways. Others maybe not. Better than a man in almost every way. Lighter. Can b used4 sex. U can share body warmth. They always have cigarettes. Always have a bobby pin. Tampons can be used 4 serious injury.

Take a close look@ this smallish example of honey locust we dealt with last week. Poor Christ. The Cherokee used this tree 4 the sweet sap.

November 11 2012

Rain. Rolling thunder boomers. Dog in the house day. This weekend was a couple of sweet nights of Rock with my boys BADD MOJO. But the Juju was right all the long two nights. I danced with many women, many songs. I shot decent pool, made the scene with all the posers. I had to pull rank some, I don’t suffer geeking braggarts long. I am old, this is my home town, I sense disrespect in tone and manner and confront it. That is all it takes usually.

            BADD MOJO is an exciting band. Each song is  screaming guitar. They joined EROSION twice4 after show parties.

            This rain is quiet and soothing. I must unlax now, look2 next week, I have a job4 2moro but this rain may push that back a little. Big oak by a house. Yadda Yadda.

            MIKE and LALA have big doings  going on. They r back from Hollyweird I think, and preparing4 a tour of the Gulf Coast in Florida. I believe she has signed a contract I hear, and some other stuff concerning upcoming sweet gigs. Go GRAY, my friends, Go GRAY.

            So much inside me. I must b strong, disciplined. I must channel the whirlwind inside, contain it in a bottle deep my gut, slowly untightening a little 2 seethe and breathe, listen, cultivate serenity. There is no substitute: sex, status, power, chocolate, sloth, all pale2 strength, stamina, endurance…

            I am close2 getting my home remodeling done. And my shop will be cleaned up finally soon.

            I saw an awesome shooting star Saturday night. Big and thick as my car alarm flashed2. Uh oh. The end of the Mayan calendar is begun. Flee now children, run those cards2 the limit. Get that hooker u always wanted.

            Sometimes I think the whole sulfur thing in the bible is Oil industry related. And the many headed beast. Eisenhower warned of Military Industrial Complex taking over us all. In one draft of the speech it was the Congressional Military Industrial Complex. Fascism 101, put all pot smokers in jail, make sure Hemp is never used, grown, sold, or spoken of ever again. The big dogs. The minimum wage job creators.

            Hemp based diesel fuel uses no sulfur, far less pollutants. Paper made from Hemp needs no bleach or glue, highly toxic and questionable industries needed only because our paper is made from wood fiber which needs these heavily polluting substances2 bind4 paper. Hemp also cleans the air through photosynthesis its entire growing season. And needs no chemical herbicide or pesticide like cotton. Does not deplete the soil like cotton, actually the roots break up the soil 4 future crops. Hemp needs little water unlike most industrial crops. Hemp growing in rows adjacent rivers in fields now used4 hay or cattle would replace a heavily polluting situation with a buffering impact, each field of hemp would filter run off,

            But huge banks were not about2 let “the savior of the family farm,” save family farms. Foreclosure fees alone would deal drastic cuts2 a bank, Proper distribution of wealth would have resulted had hemp not been made a federal crime. But the corporate raiders took all the family farms. The savior was now a feared memory, loathed by any God fearing American. Drive your big car smoking in a white shirt. Mow your lawn. Squares and posers, pretenders and fakers, we are bullies and bloody dung covered drunks, and here comes the rest of the world.

    We are a force4 good profits@ any and all tactics. We are Americans first, Christian second, human last. We will have orgasms in fancy polluting carriages on cobble stone streets made of skulls. Fat and fierce we will trample skinny protestors with our loads of pork barrels. Hunger must wait, the party is now.

September 8 2012

Bright sunshine this morning as I plan2 conquer. Life is grand knowing I will not b facing honey locust this morning. Instead of Here Comes Honey Booboo I will do a reality show called Here Comes Honey Locust. Or a surreal fantasy/nightmare segment where u are trapped In an impenetrable thicket of  huge thorns and u have2 squirm ur way out like those contortionist sequences where they go under and around the laser beams2 steal a jewel or something. Instead of triggering the alarm u get stabbed.

            Blue Jays sound. They are getting stupid. Time4 mister thunder shick2 bark fire.

            I must bear down on piddling. I must piddle with vehemence. So I can kick it better. LALA and MIKE r off2 Hollyweird2 shoot a video. Then they tour the Gulf coast many days. Exciting.

            I have home improvement projects2 do, that’s putting it mildly. I have laundry and vehicle maintenance2 do. Errands2 run. Soon I will do all these things.

November 6 2012

Quiet night in Highland. Hard ride over4 now. A long day 2day. Removing honey locust. It was meticulous2 say the least. We got a big fire burning hot, and I would drag pieces n2 the ring, this worked4 a while, we got rid of a lot. I can’t understate the hazard, and I’ll try2 remember2 get u a pic, I mean this is called the Jesus Christ tree, thorns range in size up2 ten inches long. Clusters of them all up and down the tree. Scary. Dangerous. But a tiny prick is all I got. It takes a real man2 say that.

            Don’t know the election results. Won’t I guess until the morning. Looked like a dead heat. But leave my sex life out of this. The fascists will rule, rest assured. Or troubled.

            Spring river sparkled and murmured nearby.

November 5 2012

Rain. Soft and true. Like a lover wandering the forest, shrouded in complexity, complicated, moody, inexplicable…Consistent and steady like the love of an arborist2 a smoothly limbed willow, a willow blindly searching, reaching, flowing….

            2moro is dday4 the election. End this crap hopefully. Just yesterday I saw where ninety percent of oil and gas money in Arkansas flows2 Repoblcans. And alternative energy like wind and solar goes2 Dumocrats. Telling. And then on the front page it said that Exxon reaped something like nine billion profit 4 a quarter. Good thing the Repoblicans voted2 keep those subsidies coming. We give the oil companies money they don’t need. We could keep those subsidies and help medicare. Duh. One missile could feed Darfur. Or kill it.

            I am the only registered Green Party voter in Sharp County. I proudly cast my vote4 any Green candidate I saw on the ballot, particularly that one lady that mentioned hemp.

            Now the rain dies. I must check the radar. I have a job taking out honey locust. The tree with big vicious thorns. I have been waiting4 rain so I can burn it safely. This could be the day.

            Now more rain. Strong and sure. Sweet. OoOsh it must b cold out there. I’m snug. I had a fire going all night but I think it’s out now. Maybe the creeks will come up a little. The water spiders dance.

            I like these political ads that really don’t explain anything. Like Save America. Vote republican. Every vote 4 a democrat helps Obama. I’m like yeah, as a good patriot I like the idea of helping my president. Then u got some that don’t acknowledge a party. Like He voted 4 taxes. Save medicare. Vote blah blah. Then u got Linda Collins. That effn bitch gets elected as a democrat from a traditional democrat district, then turn coats over2 repoblican. The ultimate bait and swtch. She found out there is more money on the right, and went wth money. It’s the American way. Her corporate greed masters own her soul now. Featured prominently on the biggest billboard in the county her pretty blonde face says whore2 me now. I thought about putting a Hitler mustache on her…but the secret service would probably do a colonoscopy on me f they found out.

            I don’t watch tv much so I’m not overly agitated by all this. I figure the dumocrats will gain power and millions of Tea Party whackos will bcome disillusioned and buy lots of ammo b4 the neegra takes their guns.

            `The Chamber of Commerce will continue2 launder money4 big pollution. Even if Medical Marijuana passes, without a prescription u will still get gay raped by troopers and your life will  crash down around u, ur family disgraced if u get caught with a shred of pot. If alcohol sales pass the county will have more money, but more problems. Although we will have more DWI and domestic violence, we will have less sheltered closet cases and a well rounded social education. Drinking is mandatory in college. So are electives. It’s breaking the ice 101. It’s called coming out of your shell country ass freshman. Get drunk and be somebody.

            Still the rain comes down. Now it’ll be wet4 sure in the morning, I won’t have2 worry about the fire getting out. Locust burns hot if II remember correct. The Jesus Christ Tree. Those thorns r not2 b trifled with. I have a system using a pole hook so a man can separate the limbs and get them out4 burning or chipping. I may chip some. Cherokee liked honey locust4 the sugar and syrup they got from it. 4 such a sweet sounding name it is a vicious tree though. It will be a long day on Spring River 2moro.

    One last note: 'job creators" own all the empty buildings. All rent, residential and commercial, should be cut in half. Across the board. Muff said

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This is Bonny. Look closely. That's right. the bitch has 2 different color eyes yo.

October 31 2012

Boo. Yah. The little demons r out. I used2 hit it hard on this night. Uh oh. I said Hard on. I used2 make out a will on Halloween, cos when KILL the rock star hit the streets no body was safe. But I’ve matured, don’t dress up anymore. I was bad immature back when I did that stuff last year.

            2day we met the power company two drop a couple of lines4 us. The big red oak by a river cabin was hollow, but huge up top and leaning. When I cut the notch I kind of freaked, the walls were paper thin. But it came down safe enough. Then it was way up a hickory by the house, major reductions@ sixty feet or so. Up above a rapid on Spring River, nice. Then another hickory needed major reduction, soon that one was done. We got a late start, but turned in a nice Rebel Tree Care day.

            My four wheel drive is back in action. This eases a lot of stuff like hauling chips and accessing steep or soft areas. Everybody is like “hey, good2 c u working again,” but I’m like I’ve been working all along, just out of a van. No matter what I work in, I deliver top quality tree work. I’m the man. In the tree.

Don’t know the latest buzz on the election. I’m sure Obama will squeeze out a one percent victory, if the repos don't out and out steal it again. The one percent won’t vote4 him. Well, maybe. Maybe they will consider that their grandchildren may go swimming. If the Republicans win big 4get about the EPA. Water quality will plummet. First Amphibians will disappear, then there will be no swimming in, or smoking near, water ways. Water ways are over journal veterans.

It started when they drained the swamps on the Atlantic Seaboard/ New Jersey. The Delaware's must have seen the devastation, the disruption from their river flowing through Pennsylvania and Delaware. Swamps and Wetlands disappeared 4ever. The Delaware came 2 this area, 2 Eleven Point river just north of Spring River. They left sign no one knows about but me and Willow. It’s a depiction of a famous pictograph, an etching on stone sitting upright in a creek bed. There is  a photo @ Rebel River Adventures[stone art I have found.

I think I could find that one again. Willow could. She found it originally. She is quite the hiker. Long limbs, fluid movement. She stirs me. I better stop now. Rub myself. I’m in pain. I must love it, I don’t just get cheery4 this journal. I really am irrepressible.

            So it’s flat tire day 2moro. Get spares in order, get some fixed. Check wiring and lights. Headlamp and fuses. Feet on the ground2 moro. Well, that’s wat I thought 2day was, suddenly the Power Company is like, meet us there in one hour. So I’m rushing around2 get lunch and anything else, I don’t like being rushed on an iffy removal. Things calmed down when it hit the ground, everything else, the pruning, climbing, was more safe in some ways, more stable… I guess I’m more tired than I thought. Peace.

October 29 2012

Hard ride winds down. Quiet afternoon. LALA sings so pretty across the way, rehearsing a new song sounds like. Sounds like an angel. With a soulsy voice.

            Early this morning found me in Western Cherokee country. Out by the South golf course. Two red declining red oaks with cracks and shaky bases. @ stake was two houses and a fence. And telephone communications box.

            My truck is back in action, that was nice, we brought a load of chips back, and dropped off the wood@ as a favor.

            Numerous errands and projects are keeping me busy. Free time I grab my detailed map and plan a conquest of a river.

            I hope2 get a jam in this week. EROSION is restless.

            I want2 hit a river, get lost. Take beer. Fish. I have a NOAH weather radio now! I mean I already had one, I got it out and cleaned it up. I will take my time this time. No upstream finishes4 me any more. I mean Hardy Beach2 Griffin’s Park I might pull off if it feels good. That’s Elgin on the Black River as opposed2 Saffel on Strawberry, More gas, further from home each day. The Black River runs west until Black Rock than more south, but it must have flowed toward the sun, Cherokee must have plyed it’s waters @ night, that may indeed be the origin of the name of Black. Or maybe it was the runoff from forest fires in the Ozarks. Or maybe escaped slaves, black slaves, had a community.

            Cary Arkansas is just east of Etowah, which sets near the junction of the Saint Francis River, and the Little Saint Francis River. Etowah means two towers or high tower, there is a town called drag over, caraway means carry way I’ll wager, Bay and Lake City have no water. Carry and Drag would have been what u did in the area, traveling by canoe you would slide into Crow Lee’s Ridge,   A very thin area of the Ridge is extreme southern Craighead County, Cary Arkansas. That would have been a shorter portage most likely. Or least extreme as far as lifting or dragging canoes. Maybe a mule pulled many canoes a couple hundred yards. I’m thinking less than that.

            Boydsville has interesting topography, Directly east of Spring River, over near Paragould. Those wrinkles on the topo mean pretty creek enclaves there deep in Crow Lee’s Ridge. Those might have survived the Earthquakes @ first @ least. Close2 the epicenter, but those Quakes lasted over a year. That’s mind boggling. I understate the duration of the New Madred earthquakes drastically in my novel Water Spider. That's why it’s free. It takes years2 perfect this stuff, and I’m basically evolving on line,

October 26 2012

Cold windy dawn. Fall is here. This will strip leaves from trees, maybe the creeks will come up, we got quite a bit of rain last night. I have2 go2 the court house, get my truck licensed, assess, pay up, This is worse than Russia.

            Russia sux, u have2 wait in line 4 moldy bread, and their assassins can’t shoot. Hundreds of them can’t kill Rambo or even Rocky, Arny, Archie or Reggie. They could have a clear shot@ Chris Rock on stage and would miss. Probably the vodka.

            I like it cold. I hope my mom is warm. It is time2  get my Willow stocked up with good wood. I have her many months piled around her property, but splitting and stacking will take some doing.

            I have a real good start on next week as far as Rebel Tree Care goes.

            EROSION: I have a drummer and we know my set. Big news: LALA is set2 make a video in Los Angeles California! And then her and I assume MIKE do a tour of the gulf coast! Go GRAY my friends, go GRAY.

            Panadox. Nothing in the works right now, however as it cools down I will have giant screen showings of video in my shop.

            Rebel Word. I research the history of the Arkansas colony, territory, and state2 tweak my story of the Arkansas Cherokee.

            Rebel River adventures: I study maps of Black River each day, planning multi day canoe trip4 Bonny and I.

            I figure THE MIKE GRAY BAND plays Copper Feather this weekend. It’s time2 bust loose 2moro night. But 2nite I have a hot date w/ Willow. I am focused on this fact. I will get2 her. I will hold her. I will love her. That’s life.

October 25 2012

Sweet hard rain this early evening. It started up just @ dark as we were leaving a good job. Early on I was high in a white oak over a house with a new roof. Major reduction cuts, tricky rigging and lowering over wires and the house. On 2 a large gnarly post oak, another major reduction way over the house, deck, gas tank, air conditioner, etc. Oh yeah, first thing was a red oak next2 the house, a removal, turns out it had a rotten base. On2 another post oak over the house, and a large dead hickory over a shed. A blackjack got a tuck2. Nice long hard Rebel Tree Care job, the kind I like, the kind the others can’t do. Don’t do. Will never do. ANSI standard. The savior of this sorry industry.

            I turned some friends on2 firewood, that worked out better4 everyone.

            The clients watched in amazement all day. They were appreciative and enthusiastic about my work. I don’t mind working under a microscope, then u c all the little things I do as a competent residential arborist, like using a pole saw, the others don’t even carry them usually. Chumps working down the street, cheesy pruning, root zone disruption, routine mal practice. Bait and switch. BulL**** walks.

October 24 2012

As I research the Old Settler Cherokee I’m struck by how yellow journalism played a large part in splintering and destruction of Native Nations. The Quapaw were most obvious victims of the practice here in Arkansas. Though the state lagged far behind as far as number of slaves and money holdings of white European descendants, schools and farms, etc., we did have newspapers and real towns in Little Rock and Hot Springs, even Fort Smith. But whites were killed if venturing into the Ozarks without Native sanction. The northern half of Arkansas was Native controlled until after the earthquake. The Osage held strong claim. Cherokee in Northeast Arkansas slowly encroached, there existed precarious balance between tribe and magistrate, warrior and merchant. The Quapaw had assimilated French, Spanish, and American as weakened tribe.

            But the trend in slave lusting states was2 belittle native Americans and whet hatred through Newspapers. New Orleans used the tactics2 drive Jews out. German colonies established slave free farming communities and did well. But the Yellow Journalism thing, it’s been used many times against blacks and Mexicans also, then Hemp and Marijuana, communists, Muslims, swift boating of John kerry by Fox2 help Draft Dodger Bush. Fox continues the tradition of division and false witness, stirring the melting pot unwisely.

            Larry King held this big third party debate I caught some of.  Everybody was like hell yeah, Legalize pot, it’s not near as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco. This Green Party chick was like, “release non violent pot offenders now.” Then she volunteered the word hemp, @ last I’ve now heard a politician say it, 2 bad she’ll get less than one percent of the vote, and that’s in California.

            But she was like, “Let’s get rid of vested interests controlling congress by legalizing Hemp. Basically all but one of these five or so third party candidates had a compelling reason they would legalize weed and hemp. Amazing.

`           Northeast Arkansas was a swamp. Major swamp drainage took place in a few years, notably the red river was cleared of a blockage, similar happenings took place on the white, black and St francis water ways. This dropped the water levels down similar present day after decades, even centuries of wetland. Plus the earthquake changed the topography drastically, Epicentered almost exactly @ the Western Cherokee Capital, this killed many Cherokee and destroyed settlements, disrupted migration of Cherokee n2 Arkansas. Cherokee and Osage would war over White River, and the Three Forks area @ the Arkansas/Oklahoma line many years after.

            But4 a time I believe Cherokee village, well back from the White River watershed, Well south of the white mans line between Missouri and Arkansas, with cliffs perfect4 defending against horse mounted warriors, this land of rock shelf and laughing water, was, 4 short times @ least, a place where Cherokees knew peace.

     WrongKnee and Obama had a "debate." They agreed on everything, kissing and hugging all night. Obama actually said aloud that he wished Mittens could b his running mate. Michelle and Ann got drunk @ the press junket and shared a lesbian kiss4 the cameras.

October 23 2012

Hot afternoon. We got2 a job in Cherokee Village this morning and just as we pulled up rain started splattering on the windshield and roof. 4 about 5 seconds. Then it was time2 get2 work. A huge red oak had me worried, it leaned and had hollow spots, I was loathe2 rig and lower the heavy top, I hemmed and hawed, examining from different angles, and decided2 remove just a few branches, and take my chances from the ground. @ stake was a nice paved driveway, a dogwood, primary and secondary electric wires and a little bitty hickory. Nothing was damaged, except some dead knocked out of the dogwood, Perfect drop after some rigging and lowering of some branches. The wires missed by inches. The chips graced a construction project in Highland.

            I’ve been busy, building my mothers roof. I did trim a post oak and hickory over a roof last week. Life is good. My four wheel drive is ready, I will be @ full strength again. Just in time4 winter.

October 17 2012

Soft ride easing down. Now will come the awakening. The realization. The fourth great awakening. Strength in numbers is incorrect in motto. The one percent rules. No rules4 the one percent. Ninety nine people in a room. One tells them all2 heal or fetch as ordered2 whim. It’s barely legal slavery.

            There was a great awakening here just prior2 the Earthquakes of 1811-1812. Tecumseh, a great Shawnee, barn stormed the country preaching of Tribal Unity. Shawnees key ally of Cherokee, shared many favors and much knowledge. True, Shawnee had profited from slave wars with or against Cherokee, Deleware turncoated at times but shared much knowledge, Unaffiliated whites in the Ozarks killed upon trespass. All knew of a secret strength.

`           Chickasaw thwarted, English fort sheltered cunning swamp sailors. French and Spanish natives of the region married into tribes, Mingo came2. The Osages held strong @ this point. Progressives and accomodationists back east rejected Tecumseh4 the most part, Red Stick Creeks must have come to Arkansas, also many Choctaws assimilated into Quapaw remnants and French or Spanish natives. Or dutch, and there is a good chance Germans were in the state then. They were alcohol and slave free. Prohibitions on rum and liquors were frequently attempted with the blessings of local magistrates in colonial Arkansas, and most times with support of Native leaders of any tribe.

            Yes, native  coalition, I believe based here in Cherokee Village Arkansas was poised2 hold a huge territory, repel or control any white homesteaders, establish sovereign native government, enter and enforce treaty and border. Then bam, the worst earthquakes ever begin2 hit and continue2 do so4 over a year. They were not epicentered here in Sharp County, but two counties away, about one hundred miles directly east, the heart of Western Cherokee country.

            @this point Cherokee  in the Sharp County area was in trouble. There was no home ground2 retreat2. All semblance of grand trading post and thriving native village on Saint Francis River destroyed, any trek2 family on the Tennessee river now strewn with unfamiliar landmarks, whole new lake and sunKlands, and strewN catastrophe wreckage many years. Prophecy had cursed Cherokee again, again most moved away, this time2 texas and Oklahoma. Sure, Cherokee and Osage would “war” over White River, but the writing was on the wall, between the lines of the talking leaves.

            So Cherokee here might have made it a go4 a while after the Earthquake. There was report of the old Spanish road being blocked from an avalanche after the earthquake. I think Cherokee who built dams here would have little trouble faking an avalanche. Cherokees would move through continually prolly until after the trail of tears twenty five years l8r.

            Story goes a beautiful Cherokee girl fell ill on the trail of tears @ Salem. A white man from Chicago or Texas fell in love with her. He was very rich, and bought most of Spring River between Mammoth Spring and Hardy. He died soon after I believe it went, and she out lived a couple more husbands, mothering many strong sons. These men became owners of huge tracts of land at birth, adult pioneers in the eyes of the federal government.

October 16 2012

Step it up a notch. Take it2 another level. Tree service. Non standard pruning is wrecking our Urban Forest. And root zone disruption. Protecting the tree. Preventing injury, disruption, decline, death. Stress becomes strain. And nonstandard pruning does more harm than u know. Spikes. Stubs. Flush cuts. Not2 mention lesser violations of ANSI standard. Long term damage.

            And u have people who insist on non standard work. An arbortist should connect with people as part of the essence of urban tree care. On that account, Alan Williams of Rebel Tree Care. Pause4 dramatic effect. Failed.

            As America and the world dumb it down standards will fail. Government deregulation will allow cowboys and harley riders2 butcher trees and multiconglomorates2 pour raw pollution n2 streams. Job Creators. Don’t worry. They will have2 dredge it all out of the creek someday, strip mining the funky colored clay4 a new play doh strain. Until the Governor’s grandchild plays with it AND get’s sick. Or goes swimming and dissolves.

            Cherokees can barely swim in the Illinois river because of the heavy chicken litter on fields adjacent2 the river upstream from Cherokee homes and reservation. Fertilizer detrimental2 the river as it washes in during rain storms. Fertilizer for growing hay. 2feed cows. Who eat special growth hormone feed, or not, and when they crap unnatural enzymes and proteins wreak havoc in ways we cannot understand. And will not, if the beef industry has their way. They will confuse and descredit2 keep gray masses @ bay. I’ve seen it. Grass roots level. Even Oprah had trouble bitching about beef.

             A little known law from ancient Texas forbids food disparagement. So when Oprah says something like, or not like, “boycott beef, the planet needs it, grow hemp instead,” she gets sued under the Texas Food Disparagement act and can’t speak her mind. Freedom of speech indeed. @ least blogging is still sacred.

            We won’t have any buffer zones by rivers and lakes because then u can’t c the water, and no one will no u are sipping wine on a million dollar deck. If ur flipping the real estate cut everything off it. Every stitch of vegetation. That’s how the game is played by shakers and movers. Cut it. Burn it. Act important.

October 15 2012

Quiet dusk in Rebel country. Tired. Installing a roof4 my mother. Hopefully I can get it done in the next few days. And then maybe hit a river many days. Chillax, in some ways, but survival becomes paramount. I’m not taking much food. I plan on fishing a lot, taking my time, making my way, the only way I know how. And that’s just a little bit more, than the law will allow…

            Violence escalating. Turkey, Syria, Africa, Russia… Lindsey Lohan’s.

            WrongKnee blamed Obama and Bill Clinton, he called4 stricter sanctions on organically grown vegetables, more prisons and harsher penalties4 non violent recreational pot smokers in states where it was still illegal, more pollution, and greater inequality of income. He smugly called4 real balance in media, claiming Fox news sets the standard for equality and fairness in reporting. He hired Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, Oliver North, and H.R. Haldeman of Watergate fame, anticipating many scandals and indictments should he be elected. “I’m still fairly young, “ he ruminated on Facebook, “should my administration be riddled with graft, illegal espionage, misleading or false intelligence, and bungled drug or weapon operations, I might still be on the hook after two terms. I won’t benefit from Alzheimer’s like Reagan when they were thinking about popping him4 Iran/Contra. And Bob Dole was gonna be dead when they figured out he set up 9/11. "

            Darryl Issa, head of a huge drug running operation and recipient of numerous conflicts of interest, tweeted, “Republicans  go2 church. Democrats r godless heathenS intent on destroying civilization. We must elct Romney and save America4 the upper class. I am the solution man. And the solution2 every single problem? Get rid of Obama.”

            Ann Coulter, mega cunt, claimed democrats were stupid and lazy, that liberals would have us all healthy and prosperous, and that citizens of the United States loyal2 a black president were racist.”

            Paul Ryan laughed when asked if he expected thousands of poor people2 die if his plan was implemented. “U have no idea,” he grinned impishly, “Remember AIDS? That was mine." He held a syringe high in the spotlight,  “I have invented a virus that kills only the poor and uninsured. They refuse2 work4 minimum wage, and as Vice President I will c that Four ninety five be reinstated as the mandatory national minimum wage. And six dollars will be instated as the maximum wage a grunt can make. Sure, they’ll trample a few roses in protest, but we must weather the coming storm, stand tall in our bay windows, shout out from our escalades, we will over drive, good God almighty above, we will overdrive.”