Happy New Year

It's partly cloudy at Fringe Benefit Farm this morning. there are patches of sky showing through the clouds, which is hopeful, but the weather forecaster says it's supposed to snow again. four to six inches over the next 24 hours. Problem is, the snow is accompanied by wind. (Can you say blizzard boys and girls?)  So the snow will blow over to North Dakota.  Arrgh! Oh, well, 'cest la vie in the north country. I will be thankful in the spring when the grass starts to grow and the flowers bloom.

Kathryn is looking forward to getting down to the house in town and transplanting her flowers up here. She has the most beautiful flower garden there. All laid out in the classic English style. I hope she will be able to get things growing to her satisfaction.  Problem may be the water. The well water is so alkaline that it kills fish, and causes severe damage to a lot of plants.  We have access to ditch water during the season, but it's hard to deliver to the garden.  I have a big pump, but there is no tank, (yet, $$$) to hold it. I'll have to look around and see if I can find a used one. Sometimes they are available, but not easy to get. There is a basement from the house that burned down on the property some years ago. Maybe I can get it cleaned out and use it as a storage tank. Depends on how sound the concrete is. Also, it is FULL of junk, so I don't know if the concrete even extends over the full basement.  As Bill Wilson once said. "More will be revealed." 

The sunrise was spectacular this morning. A golden rosy glow, with a shaft of light going straight up out of the middle of it.  Reminded me of the Pillar of Fire that led the Hebrews out of Egypt.  Or, for you no as religiously inclined as I, the shaft of light descending from the Romulan starship in the new Star Trek movie. In either case, it was wondrous.

Our friend William gave me the new Star Trek movie as a Christmas gift. Being the old trekker that I am, I was overjoyed.  There are some things that may or may not line up with Gene Roddenberry's original stories, but, all in all it was a pretty good show.  I won't give any more of it away. Ya gotta see it for yourself. Buy the DVD.

I was watching a clip from Stanly Kubrick's "2010" on the web yesterday. One of the comments was something like "I thought this was all supposed to have happened by now. What happened?"  I just had to answer. "We spent all of our space exploration money on killing people."  Makes you kinda wonder what would have happened if we had not gotten involved in Viet Nam.  We were supposedly trying to stop the reunification of the country by the Communist north. In the end, 55 thousand of our boys, and hundreds of thousands of their people died, and the country was reunified by the Communist north.  So instead of shooting rockets into space, and bringing Buck Rogers into fruition, we shot brave young men , and they shot our brave young men, and we are still on the ground, and not on Mars. 
      "Take Care, Beware Of Greedy Leaders."  -G. Harrison-

Whooyah! I kinda got off on a rant. Well, that's the way I feel.  Don't get me wrong. I support our troops over there fighting for stuff. I just think that those who start wars should read the Ten Commandments, and follow them.

Meanwhile, Kathryn just left for work. I don't have to go in for about 2-1/2 hours. The roads are icy, so I am going to close for now, and spend some time in prayer for her safety.

Agape
Lee