It’s musta been/ musta be the ol Skool catholic upraising. The ol Skool, three-generations-under-one-roof, sorta thing… I’m over 60 and still raising teen-angers. In fact, I still have toddlers under feet. Well, not really, in the common sense of “toddler” as a descriptive… My “toddlers” are more like feral cats. or, perhaps I’m giving feral cats a bad name here… maybe more like articulate wild rodents?
I had a 5yrold attempt to ride my Segway 4×4 death machine off a 2’high retaining wall. She’s very good at controlling the Segway, normally… but today she came undone. The Segway is a big, heavy machine. And it can scoot well. It is dangerous. Can be dangerous.
Its difficult to get little kids on the machines safely… they can go fast but they cant figger out the stopping side of things very easily. The term “whiskey throttle” comes to mind.
Had a group of two-wheeled novices around yesterday, and we roared and scooted and vroomed and growled all afternoon. It was great fun.
Had one great case of whiskey throttle when Miller took off too hot for his first ever two wheeled vroom run. He did not come undone, but was a classic damn-near-dead run that left us all laughing.
I very much enjoy the “visitors”. Enjoy the hell outta getting moms and kids and dads and aunties on the bikes and on the Segway and out in the back40 tempting the gods of injury and death…
Well, not really injury and death.
I had 3yr+10 month old, Nova, on the Segway with me, scooting across the yard as a couple other machines wizzed and whined along… Nova is hollering “faster, go faster” …
I had to laugh when I was trying to teach Jemma Ferris, 15yrsold, to control the clutch on the 150cc Honda. She’s a good learner but struggling to “ride” the bike… she couldn’t maintain balance enough to get a good run going. So I asked her, “can you ride a bicycle?”, and she answers, “not real well.”… which means to me, “NO”. Means I’m taking a kid who does not ride a standard bicycle, putting her on a 25hp dirt bike, and expecting a hapi ending…
Makes sense to me!
Some pictures of the past few weeks of fun and trials and tribulations… kids go back to Skool in the morn…
Hugh, Angelo, Mendozza 
Jemma
So, as Monday here grows warm. As the teens all sleep their all-night movie festival off. The skies are blue, the air is clean, a light breeze shakes the orchids outside the door… The newz… the blewz…. Monday morn so Sunday afternoon/ eve US-time… Only a few weeks before the next test of the system that is the USofA…
I’m getting a bit tired of the stupid double standards we see in the world-wide media… It’s ok, fine, acceptable, even commendable… to wish the POTUS a miserable and pain filled death due to Kung Flu… But you cant say a single word about Mohammad liking camels. Witch-from-hell Pelosi and Chuckles Schumer can play politics with the citizens of the state’s well being, eat boutique ice cream and act like impotent people, as Cali burns. The Republicans are to blame for no getting the recent “bailout-bill” voted on, because they don’t agree with about 1trillion in good ol fashioned pork-barrel-politics.
Quite franking I think that California/ the west coast as a whole, is preparing to take-on third-world status. No power, no water, no law and order… but heaps of good ganja… sound familiar?
I also enjoy/ am perturbed by (speaking of double standards) the spin and negativity the loony liberal left are taking more and more often… I speak of the tendency for the LLLeft accuse everyone and all on their shit-list of doing the heinous and despicable things they do/ have done… TRUMP WILL REFUSE TO ADMIT DEFEAT… Sounds like the Dems in 2016 to me… TRUMP AND FAMILY ARE ONLY THERE TO LINE THEIR POCKETS… duh!… “YOU’RE A LIAR, MAN”… duh, again…
Make no doubt about it… all politicians are cut from the same cloth.
It is policies/ POLICIES… that are important. Sadly though, it is the personality’s, PERSONALITY’S that become the sugar for the flies.
Side thoughts without hard facts… Two things Ive been looking at in a soft kinda way… 1) Deaths overall 2020 to 2019 – and 2) New registrations of voters by party 2020…
And the beat goes on…
More later
The Native Iowan 
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