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I've settled into a daily routine of whining about how hot it is.

7/9/2020

Clicking pics is good exercise

I've still got a few things to do before I'm ready to camp in the little Bronco. If It hadn't been so hot, I had been more ambitious, I didn't put things off till the last minute, and I wasn't so lazy I would've finished it already.

It's getting so describing my days are pretty straightforward. I do a few things to the little Bronco camper early in the morning before it gets too hot. Then I sit around trying to stay cool till late afternoon when it cools down enough to do a few more things to the little Bronco. That pretty much describes my day.

This morning was particularly frustrating. Late yesterday afternoon, I got my rear-view camera on the little Bronco hooked up, so it was working correctly. Then this morning I hopped in the truck.... Okay, I didn't exactly hop. I sort of slowly pulled myself into the truck accompanied by numerous grunts, groans, and my joints sounding like a castanet solo....But when I turned on my rear-view camera that's mounted on the back of the little Bronco, it didn't work.

I spent the entire cool part of this morning checking everything imaginable before finding a loose ground where the monitor grounds to the truck. It wasn't disconnected, which would've been easy to find it was just loose enough to work or not work, depending on which way the wire was wiggled. I think I spend more time re-fixing things I've fixed than I did fixing them to start with.

NEWSFLASH!!!

Just this morning I saw on the Internet that the Supreme Court just gave all of the eastern part of Oklahoma including Tulsa to a Native American tribe and all that land is now reservation. It ought to be interesting to watch how all that shakes out. Will Tulsa become the new Las Vegas? This has set what lawyers call a precedent. Will the United States have to give back land we took from Mexico? WIll the Mexicans have to give back land they took from the Spanish? Where does it end?

Is it just me or does anybody else feel like our country is falling apart right before our eyes?

theboondork

My Grandkids.

8 Comments

OFM

7/9/2020 04:21:55 pm

Not falling, past tense HAS FALLEN

Tom

7/9/2020 04:48:28 pm

I agree. I just hate to sound like an old geezer that's always talking about "the good old days" and how America is going down the tubes. I remember my mom and dad seeing the Beatles in the early 60s and thought it was the end of the world.

But what's going on now is different, and there doesn't even seem like there's very many people trying to fix it, or even admit that something is wrong. If our leaders wait too long they may not be able to turn this mess around.

Tom

Larry Worsham

7/10/2020 05:37:12 am

I just read a couple of articles on Eastern Okla. It seems that the court ruled that the old reservation land is under federal jurisdiction for serious crimes committed by tribal members. For lessor crimes they would be prosecuted by tribal law. Similar to what goes on in reservations now. A issue that this ruling creates is potential appeals for those Indians convicted in State Court previously. The land itself is not ceded to the tribe but who knows where things will go next.

7/10/2020 08:52:31 am

I hope you're right Larry, and all it amounts to is a paper shuffle. I think what concerns me the most is attorneys are attracted to precedents like this and they could start finding loopholes in different 1800s treaties that may very well create serious financial and logistical problems in the future especially when things done over 100 years ago are judged with our modern feelings, principles, and emotions.

The guiding principle from way back in the day seemed to be... You owned whatever you had the power to take and hold onto. And for the most part that is still practiced today. I fear that if we ever get involved in the insanity of trying to unravel the history of who took what from whom and should they get it back. It will be the end of us all

Tom

7/12/2020 04:45:38 am

I am afraid you are right. Give and inch and take a mile seems to be the approach today. Righting wrongs of yesterday with today's standards always injures some party. Individual property ownership will be a forthcoming attack after history, religion and belief in the family are destroyed.........the education system has already been taken over. Said to say.

Have a good summer. I've about had the heat here in Texas. If I didn't have grandkids I'd been moving your direction for the summer........

7/12/2020 07:51:56 am

Normally when someone makes a comment here about most any subject I can write a paragraph or four about what they've said. But in this case I can't express my sentiments about the subject any better, or more succinctly, than you just did.

Grandkids are a magnet aren't they. It has been a hot one, even Colorados in the 90s every day, at least in the flatlands. I need to get up in the mountains, and that should be happening soon.

Tom

Eddie

7/10/2020 02:43:33 pm

I still enjoy reading about your great life. I guess I am a little jealous sometimes. I was camping up in the mountains for a few days with no cell service and I missed my daily reading. I love your pictures and I don't have to tell you that you have beautiful grandchildren because you already know.

7/10/2020 03:47:39 pm

Thank you so much Eddie. Camping in the mountains sounds really good to me right now, and hopefully I'll be doing that myself real soon. It sounds strange having someone call my life "great." I don't think of it as great, I think of it as normal except for living in a house that moves.

But maybe I should think of it as great. I believe a lot of folks have lives that are a lot better than they realize. But I think a lot of us tend to concentrate on the problems in our lifes and not on the good things that were blessed with, such as beautiful grandchildren.... And you're right, I know it.

Tom

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