Well, thereya’ go… November shot in the arse. Where’d it all go? The Month? The Year? The past Decade? or two?
Time sure flies when you are having fun.
70mm of rain over night. The streams are streaming, the ground is soggy, the dogs smell like very wet k9s. Don’t let the puppies jump on you. They are very muddy. The beautiful, fluffy, white maremma’s are matted and grey. Nothing I can do about any of it until it dries up a bit.
Its been raining now for a week or so. Consistent, daily, persistent. I have not recorded daily rain fall amounts but its over 300mm/ 1foot of precipitation in a week. The next week looks to be similar.
Do not think I am complaining. The pastures are lush. The cattle are plump and content. There have been no “Storms” yet so the trees and power lines and fences and roads and infrastructure have not been compromised. Not like some places not far from here…
Its one of the things that I really, really dig about the Land of Aus… it’s extremes. A decade long drought is followed by huge rain and flooding. Flooding is followed by beautiful conditions that last half a decade. Its only A or B here. No real copacetic in-between bullshit for the Land of Aus.
The Land Down Under takes no prisoners. You gotta be tough to be an Aussie. Pussies need not apply.
Speaking of which – Gracie and I have been granted Aus Citizenship. Makes me smile.
I shall not complain about the weather.
Folks hoot on about “Global Warming” and “Climate Change”. I simply call it “Weather”.
I believe that anyone that claims they can see change, spot cycles, take note of warming or cooling- I state that anyone who thinks they can see a difference from year to year to year is patently full of soggy cowshit. I believe the modern trends to “Go Green” is nothing more than an Elitist ploy to redistribute wealth and disenfranchise those that have attained a moderate to high middle class status.
Thats what I think.
I hear the peanut gallery hollering “Follow the Science”… and I do. The last guy I had this discussion with (A friend of over 30 years, a high level medical doctor, a smart guy) said exactly this to me. We were chatting. Having a beer. Catching up. Being friends. We hit on Climate Change and I stated my simple view and he said, “Yes, but you’re not following the science”. I asked him “what science”, he replied, “All of it”…
This is when I get a bit specific. Show me yours and I’ll show you mine, sorta gig…
I told by old buddy, my old peer, that I’d show him what I was reading. And indeed, I had on my phone a webpage I’d been studying. It was discussing the trends of ice-melt over the past thousand years or so. Measuring past melts and expansions. Bringing into the review the rise of global sea levels, and ensuing land mass degradation.
My buddy faltered.
This brought on one of my pet topics, the Sinking of the Pacific Islands. My bud and I had met in the early 80s in the Solomons. We both feel that we are somewhat authorities on the pacific Islands. So we opened another beer and got stuck into it.
Being a bright guy, my bud had a look, got my site addresses and eventually did, indeed, start to follow the science.
Previous to this his science consisted of left-leaning newz headlines and sensationalistic reporting predicting doom and gloom.
I admit, my bud is not your average arm chair pundit. He understands the facts are “out there” if one chooses to pursue.
Most folks don’t. Or don’t want to?
The rains are persistent here.
I have a number of chores to do outside but I shall choose to be a bit lazy. Like I have been for the past few days. No much needed fence repairs, no weed spraying or building maintenance. I’ll spend the morning doing some running and shopping I need. I’ll cook another big pot of dog food. I’ll reheat my several day old pot of red beans.
My family laughs at both my big pots of dog food, and my big pots of red beans.
Most of my clan believe my pots of dog food are more appetising than my red beans.
As an olfart, I find I do best on a simple diet. I do at times join the clan for pizza or burgers and usually regret my transgression. I cook-up a pot of red beans and add in heaps of veggies and garlic and onion and a bit of chilli and tomato paste. And eat it for days on end. Changing it daily. Adding rice or pasta. Turn into an oven bake with cheese or thin it out into a rich, healthy soup.
Had beans and rice last night.
My dogs get a kilo or so of meat and bones (beef or chicken) with pumpkin and carrots and what ever left overs survive. I cook about 8kilos/ 16pounds at a time. 4 dogs = 2kgs or more a day. I belie=ve the dogs need bones but I like to give them cooked bones. Unless its a leg or a big knuckle bone, I cook them up so they can chew and digest them. Raw bones can be dangerous.
I like cooking.
I like dogs.
I like rain.
I like being an Aussie.
And the beat goez on… As the Authorities lock us down harder. They invented Omicron (should be Xi) to maintain their grasp on our throats. I believe it is all becoming quite the farce.
Smiles
More later
The Native Iowan 
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