Saturday, July 12, 2014

Quiet in Kentucky

Good Morning,
It is about 68 degrees out here on the deck with no wind; peaceful with birds and the hum of technology in the area. Vehicles are moving on the Federal Highway.  Laurel was out here for a bit and she went in; I think she will come back as it is very pleasant out here (I found it pleasant in the mornings at Laurel’s sister home in Las Vegas in the mornings too). 
You can gather the piece of pleasantry wherever you go it is a choice. I think women find it knitting by the fire and men waiting for prey to get near them. I am in a position that does not require hunting. I remember laurel Rose relaxing on the weekends when I first met her and then back to the chaotic 9 to 5 world of Chicago the rest of the week. She was intense and tense. I was totally cool and relaxed as was Kathy and Ambo. There were benefits to dropping out and it was a mental state of that era.
The last two days we have been working on the pool. The pool is pleasant to be in.
 Kentucky is very wet, relaxed and green. There is no danger for fires out of control here or a lack of water as it flows under homes here. The hills are rock covered with top soil, clay, trees and roots. If you have a coffee cup you know that clay will not move. I notice that in Las Vegas the hills had lost its top soil, the clay had turned to cups and the trees had left the area. Living plants there had evolved to hold water.

Here the farmer is trying very hard to eliminate the top soil but Mother Nature grows very fast here and turns to forest quickly. What was nice here when Daniel Boone came through the Cumberland Gap was the prairie he saw where the Buffalo had tended to the prairies for centuries? Kentucky is rolling hills of forest and prairies;  the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains; we were pushed up by the glaciers that roamed Indiana and Illinois.

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