Reznjun

every fall my sugar maple changes into some brilliant red and orange colors. then it sheds its leaves. i enjoy the color for awhile tho. my aunt gave me two sugar maples to plant about 20 years ago. one tree didnt make it. maybe running over it with a van had something to do with that. i think of my aunt when the tree has its color. she knew it would be a good specimen tree. i have to agree with her now. i have other trees in my yard that change color during the different seasons. some flower during spring, others have colorful foliage in the fall. i have been waiting for years to see how my trees would turn out. once someone asked me what i had been doing, i replied ‘watching my trees grow’. gotta be patient in that.

so far we have canned 5 gallons of lye corn. well most people call it hominy. i will make some mish mot with some of it.  i think  there wont be anything else left to pick from the garden. maybe some potatoes and onions. that would be about it. it has been a good growing year. i am anxious for next year already.

i went to an auction this past weekend. i didnt buy very much. it is entertainment, like going to the casino.  except a lot cheaper and you have something to show for your money. they have some real characters that show up for auctions. seems like its the same players every time. i go now and then, couldnt make it a regular thing though.

it is world series time again. i dont really have a favorite team. the only drama we can expect from the local team is whether or not they will finish last. they have been for the past 5 years or so. must be nice guys. since i dont follow any team, it is nice to have some cash down on the series. i use to have series pools every year, but someone burned people on a pool once. that was like 20 years ago. once in over 20 years. so naturally some people arent too trusting. they kinda ignorant in that it only happened once. and it wasnt me. i always paid mine. i got tired of the comments ‘how do i know you will pay?’  i would answer ‘you look bright enough, if you dont trust me dont get in’. its that simple. dont take a genius to figure that out. i may get a pool together for some friends and family. hell with the untrusting types. i dont trust people that dont trust me.

someone asked me again bout the sweat lodge thing down in the southwest. i said it was easy to be appalled by non natives that profit from our spirituality. i am equally appalled by natives that exploit our ways. just because they one of us, dont make what they do right. i see others that use a sweat as a ‘confessional’. they live anyway they want, then think a sweat washes away anything bad they did. then they start the cycle over again. that is justifying something. thats too easy. 

 hows that old saying go ‘the only reason i stick around is to see what will happen next’. well what will this week bring…