lion in Summer

The Lion has been activated for the season. I will be harvesting duck weed regularly.

Pearl Rebio;t

Dust Up

There was a big Dust-Up on the back side of Pumpkin Hill yesterday as this guy pulling a double harrow gang seemed to be having too much fun:

Georgia Got her Woowoo On

Back in the Soviet Era when Uri Geller was on TV reading our minds and bending spoons with his own, both the Russians and the US governments searched for persons who might have some degree of psychic ability for remote sensing … so we could spy on each other better. I suppose it was her brother Greg the, CIA operative, who suggested that Georgia and their mother Pearl be included in the search for remote sensors. Pearl claimed she could see through the backs of cards, but whether or not that was true, she was unbeatable in the frequent family games. And there was that time her husband’s buddies at the taxi company cleaned him out of a weeks pay, after which she had George invite the boys to the house again for cards and snacks, something they did now and then, but this one time she didn’t just make the snacks, but joined the card game and took the men for all they had,. And Greg’s sister Georgia not only saw fairys, but she also aced the SAT exam at age fourteen, as if she KNEW the answers, A test that more spectacularly and confoundingly demonstrated Georgia’s gift, or curse as it could be, was a mid-term exam for a course involving the ancient artworks of Florence, Italy. Georgia had done NONE of the reading by the evening when realized that the test was the very next day. She not only aced the test, but to do it, had (without any such intention or notion that it was a feasible, emergency measure) dreamed that she traveled to Ital y …to a cathedral that housed much of the art in question. There she met the nun in charge, who told her about the art and artists and sent her about the city to see the other collections. And so she went. To have such a vivid dream was one thing, and vivid dreaming was native to Georgia, but for the dream to be so full of new information was another thing - and as puzzling as it was informative. She would always struggle to explain that test prep. She tried supposing that instead of just falling asleep late that evening when she realized the test was next day, she had trotted over to the library and read a whole book. That too would be a bit of a stretch and she certainly did not in the least recall such a thing, although she WAS a prodigious speed reader with deep memory. The intial CIA sensitivity test should have been a cinch for Pearl, because it was a simple matter of telling the investigator whether the face of the card he showed her the back of was X or Y. I don’t know how Pearl did on the tests, but she never went to work of the C.I.A. and had better things to do for her country, which around then was leading the regional campaigns for Bobby or Hillary. And as for Georgia: by the standard for that first level of testing, she failed completely. But as she was leaving the office the investigator caught up with her … because he just wanted to say, the interesting thing is … that it wasn’t like she didn’t get more than half of the Y or X answers right, which at seventy five percent would get her to the next level, but she ALWAYS said X when it was Y and visa versa. A hundred times. She failed TOTALLY. That’s outside the algorythimic peramaters of the systems structure, or words like that. Georgia was an undiagnosed dyslexic psychic, and her learning was retarded by the great weight of her gift. Maybe you or I are like that.

The Door in the Sycamore

Along little Paynes Creek near here, or Little Paines Creak, I wlways for get which it is.