Wilderness Blues- Ramblings from the Great Land

   We're living in unprecedented times in this country. We applaud people who are breaking the law and demonize those who try to uphold it. Most of the kids graduating have trouble doing the most elementary math, like making change at a register. Many of them are so socially awkward that they can't even hold a conversation face to face, it all has to be via a phone or computer. Church attendance is at it's lowest point in this country, but violence is at an all time high. See any correlation? When there is a mass shooting, as happened recently in both Buffalo New York and in Texas, there is an outcry for gun control. I understand, what happened is tragic. However, over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago there were something like thirty shootings and I can't recall how many dead. This goes on every week. Where is the outrage at that? What happened to the BLM movement when black men are killing other black men on the streets of the windy city, or L A or New York City?  A...

  Well, I was sifting through some of the pictures that I have in my file, looking for something to write about. I actually was going to go out and take a picture of some of my gardening stuff, since it's that time of year, but my camera crapped the bed so to speak. Actually, it was just  a matter of having to charge the battery, but that takes hours, and I don't want to wait that long, so I'm settling for a picture of a bottle of hot sauce called Ass Blaster. One of the kids thought I would enjoy it, and gave it to me for Christmas some years back. If you're reading this, whoever sent it, don't be offended, but I gave it away. I did hang on to  the box though.  Do you see the picture of the underwater volcano? I think if I had partaken of the aforementioned hot sauce, that probably would have been an accurate portrayal of my nether regions. I like Pace Picante sauce. It adds a little flavor to different dishes. Cha Cha potatoes comes to mind. They are mashed potato...

 Does anyone remember the Sci-fi movie from 1958 titled The Blob? To this day I still remember it. It was about some gelatinous glob of goo that fell from outer space and engulfed everyone it encountered. It had no real shape, just kind of round and red and gooey and it had the ability to come up through the drains of bathtubs and even through transistor radios or under doors. It moved painfully slow, so I don't know why it managed to catch so many people off guard, but it did. It probably would have had a heyday at a nursing home. I was six years old at the time that the movie came out, and for reasons beyond me, my dad thought it would be a good idea to take me and my older brother to the drive-in movie to watch it. Forget going to watch Bambi or some kids show.  I was terrified of the bathtub for several weeks, certain that the blob would come through the drain and eat me when I was distracted by my toys. I  kept a close watch on the transistor radio on the kitchen cou...