Arnold Tries to Kill Watson Family Picnic/Hunting Story/Nuthatch

(P1) Political
Schwarzenegger Vs. The Watson Mother's Day Picnic

When, through Joyce, I joined the Watson family in 1989, I automatically began taking part in a wonderful traditional event which in one manner or another had thrived since the early 1940's. This was the annual family Mothers' Day breakfast picnic which began in Oregon and later shifted to a grove of redwoods at Armstrong Woods State Park in Guerneville, California during the 1950's and subsequently thereafter.

Each year we would gather at about 8AM, choose the best spot, and the men would be led through their paces by family patriarch George Watson, my father-in-law. George instructed the men and boys in the intricacies of cooking pancakes, eggs, bacon, and hash browns (all, of course in bacon grease) over a wood fire. When George was no longer fully up to handling the main duties, he reluctantly passed along the "ceremonial spatula" to the eldest available Watson bloodline male. A wonderful tradition indeed!

Now, in the newspaper of January 11th 2008, we read that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, exhibiting infinite lack of vision and guts, has determined to shut down something like 48 state parks including our venerable Armstrong Woods! What would it take for the Superhero to courageously raise taxes just a bit instead of continuing to terminate services and ultimately eliminate the final literal refuge for families?

Instead, he goes to the refuge for scoundrels begun by Ronald Reagan in his misguided effort to eliminate all roles for government except the military one. Obviously, if you reduce revenues from taxes, you make them up by reducing government services, and his "evil bogeyman" of "big government" disappears. Such was the theory, and, tragically, the ongoing result. But the State Parks??!! Here may be the "final straw." When we are pressed this tightly against the wall, the people, upon whom our constitution is based, either push back or are crushed. If you are reading this, make your voice heard!!! Save our state parks now! Save the Watson Mother's Day Breakfast Picnic!

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A gorgeous line like this one from his concession speech in NH causes me to lean a bit away from Edwards in the direction of Obama. But not all the way in that direction yet. I still need to hear Barrack say he's going to battle the drug and insurance cartels.

"In the unlikely story that is America,
there has never been anything false
about hope." - Barack Obama.

Follow the link here to get more info on saving the state parks through Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods.

And here's an even more direct and action-oriented link

(P2) Philosophical

A Whole New Perspective On Hunting Deer

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(P3) Poetical

Nuthatch

I've yet to see
a nuthatch
hatch a nut
but
a nuthatch
hatching
nuts would
surely also be
a nut.

         
Ed Coletti in Light Year '87, (Bits Press, Robert Wallace, Ed.)

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