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Its about people that have passed on in your life. Their spirit and memories always stay with you. Through having dreams about them or seeing visions of them for that split 2nd. There is an afterlife I truly believe and reincarnation. The soul is reborn into somebody new . U will quite often come across this person and say to yourself u remind me of somebody . Beautiful piece of music.


I learned years ago that Native Americans have visions. Plus see visions regarding their ancestry.

Restaurants are just opening, after months, and we haven't been out to eat for some time, where we discuss the twins, property, health care, etc. Fun and support for the restaurant business. A local patriotic Pub. There's a sign saying, 'We shoot every third liberal. The second one just left.' Nice atmosphere, no?. Most guests have side arms strapped on. No chance of being robbed there. Amerikkka, love it or......

My family of origin is of peasant stock, so from an early age, all were exposed to physical work. So much so, that higher education was somewhat frowned upon. Perhaps a little like "ackin' White", in some Negro cultures. So my Black relatives aver.
But this tendency to know one's place is present in many working class cultures. I recall my time in Norway, Hei Da !, where I learned of a similar cultural attitude, there called Janteloven, or the law of Jante. Not a stranger to bragadoccio, I quickly learned of how such isn't exactly a favored personal style there. Morfar called me the equivalent of " a damn fool". And my Slovak relatives talk of something similar, much more present still in the backwaters of the old country, about Bratislava, but still visible in many elderly, and even a hottie niece or two, in Pennsyltucky.
So when I asked for an estimate for removing the toxic, non PC, VERY non PC , tar on my drive and walkways, here at the Vierk-Gnome mansion, I was shocked to learn that these ran into the thousands of dollars. Only to have to retar things in a decade or so, with this frost heaving Northern climate?
I learned quite early the triple value of self sufficiency. Pride of workmanship, learning from mistakes, and saving money. So I took up, ---pick, shovel and wheel barrel,--- all the tar "black top", using it to shore up a failing berm, far from the veggie garden, later to be covered with loam and flowers. It's all looking great, as instead of toxic, petroleum based tar, I'm putting down God's own dirt, and planting turf, with a few flat stones to walk on, across the new piece of lawn..
My neighbors seem to be of two thoughts on this. The New York/Jersey summer crowd, struggle to hide their deep disdain. There goes the neighborhood again! But the DIY Mainers applaud the efforts. Now I'm faced with the decision to do something similar with the driveway, from which we removed the tar for berms when we built the new garage/rentals. There's only gravel there now, and it'll likely require my learning how to rent and use a small back hoe to level things out and to spread the dirt about. Hand sowing of grass seed is simple enough.
One more benefit is the loss of a pound or two, if working for a few hours in the sun, likely so called immeasurable water loss by the physiologists of the world.
But who doubts all this has more to do with being a cheap piker, than anything else?
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We hupersons have always commented on death. In ancient classical times, here in the West, the philosophers had at it. During the Middle Ages, it was largely the church. Later, as in the Great War, the poets did so, but kept a certain distance from the nitty gritty. Hell, even the cave persons had their cave wall art, with themes of fertility, animal prey, and yes, oh you CS bozos on our great bus, the Grim Reaper.
Heard a new medical sadistic. It would seem that, for the first time, folks choosing to die at home, exceeded the numbers (%?), wanting to die in hospital. Hospice programs are chock full. And in many parts of the world, access to modern treatments, such as these are, is hardly equal.
We all have ideas on this. As with Ebola, and other such Viruses, contamination typically made victims die alone, away from loved ones, although clinicians often tried their best to fill in. In some nursing (care) homes, family gathered about windows.
Of course, as with most families, the good old fashioned love-hate Jones intervenes. Nuff said.
But these numbers are telling. Hospital care can help save some, but treatments aren't exactly state of the art, and can certainly not be a cake walk.
Lots to ponder. Another benefit of the Virus? Any finger/hand painting of intensive care units on the walls and ceilings?

Tag... everything under the Sun...

..the Rock. / Atomic Rooster
...breaking Atoms / main Source
how to dismantle an A - bomb./ U 2.
....color Co-0rdinated code of PoP....} Peak strength. Ed.
... Condensed 21st. Cent. Guide / king Crimson.
.....1a....sword of god / red crayola.
Channel orange / ocean.....Lemon parade / tonic*
...shine On Y. C.D..} pink Floyd blues band.....
S U N./ Cat power....) .time passages../ stewart
.green mind / dinosaur Jr.....Amk. idiot./ Green day.
blue sky mining / midnight oil...
...Out of the blue / system F.
Purple./ Gus Gus.......}..times Up / Living Colour.
..S Y N.} Reading, Writing, Arithmetic / Sundays.
.......gen.9:11...deut.9:11...ps.119..et Cetera.....
A R ] ..vision thing / sisters of Mercy.
..white light from the mouth of infinity / swans.}.}..}

Tag...} 40 more...[ Negative numbers.

40. I need to start a garden / heynderickx.
...14...L U $ H./ snail....mail.
54...b l O O m. / Sivan...
....2018.) ball point radio.

..0. .the Garden / zero 7.
X.. super unknown / Soundgarden
-1.. SUPERPOSITION / Young the Giant
-2..the statue got me high / they might be Giants.
-3.... Kryptonite / 3 doors down.
-4..sea monsters/ the wedding gift.
- V...super massive black hole / muse.
-6.. rainbow rising / rainbow.
- 7..post cards from Italy / beirut.
- 8... world wide suicide / pearl Jam
- 9...darkness descends / dark Angel
- Ten...bird Flu / m i a....[ 2006.
- XI...paralyzer / Finger 11.
- 12...please visit your Natl.parks./ oxford collapse
- 13...Oxford comma / vampire weekend.
- 14...damn these vampires / Mtn. Goat.
- 15..20 / 20 ) graveyard...[ 2012.
- 16...Under a Funeral Moon / darkthrone.
- 17...Left hand path / Entombed
- 18...... ) Standby...

...Just ruled against President Trump's reversal of the illegal and unfair B Hussein O's order to allow illegal children of illegal residents to remain on the US taxpayers' teat.
Do you like conservative SCOTUS ruling apples? How's them for apples>

Literally, over the past 6 months, I have heard of 6 different small entrepreneur being challenged to exist anymore...after 20+ years of existing. I know these people personally and I come from a small community. I wonder how widespread the issues they face is.


1. A small online reseller, in business nearly 20 years (19), the avenue in which they sell on line, the host has now increased their fees by 5%. In addition to that, states are now charging sales tax across state lines. He relied on buying online and selling online, with these new fees...he is now forced to shut down.

2. Small farms around here, after the tariffs were put in place have been struggling financially. I have heard of several of them in my areas filing for bankruptcy. I now see large farm equipment along the roads up for sale. In addition, the people who pick up milk don't want to travel to small farms just to pick up small quantities of milk.

3. The scrap iron industry is getting hit hard. Two people here locally have stopped buying/hauling scrap after the tariffs. They have been doing this business for well over 20 years. They say to me, in all the years they have been in business, the prices for scrap iron today is the lowest it has ever been.

4. There is a gentleman that has been installing ceramic tiles in excess of 20 years. He says he is still in business, but he says, that he is forced to charge his customers over 10% higher to do the same job he did before the tariffs were put in place. Because of this, he is getting fewer jobs. If this trend continues, he might be out of business sometime in the near future.

5. I just heard lately about a small bakery owner. She has been in business for over 20 years and she has been making it. As of the new year, she is now forced to comply with a new set of complex taxing rules. If she sells something at room temperature, no tax charge...above room temperature...tax collect. A person buys something and leaves, no tax. If they stay and eat at a table, no tax. If they stay and eat at a table and use a napking...collect tax. This is just a short example of the complexity of the new tax rule just put in place. It looks like she might have to go out and buy some new customized for bakery tax accounting software.
She says her profits are so thin in the first place...and questions if it is worth it.

6. The same here as with number 5. This guy has been selling used cars for as long as I can remember...20+ years. Just in the past month, he says he is done. He says it is no longer worth it. The new paperwork he is being forced to do with the new laws and the profit margin he was making, is no longer making it worthwhile to stay in business.

Now, if these people were huge businesses, I am sure they could afford making changes in accordance to the new laws and economic environments they have presented to work within. But, they are just small entrepreneurs...and that is what this blog is about.

I have been retired for many years now and still I find myself waking up at 4 AM - time enough to get ready for 6 AM commute to a 7 AM job start. This behavior makes no sense, but there is - firmly ingrained in my life.

I delivered a radiator to an address in Calver, Derbyshire, the other day. The address turned out to be a massive 19th century mill that had been turned into posh flats. When I got there, I phoned the customer and she told me where to wait, so that she could come down and let me in.

Later, when I was back at the warehouse, I was telling someone about the mill, and what an impressive building it was. He said that he had also delivered there some years ago, when he worked for a furniture company. He also told me that the mill was used as the location for the TV series, Colditz, which was broadcast in the 1970’s.

That night, I looked on YouTube and discovered that all the episodes were available, so I started watching episode one. Episode one opens with a load of British prisoners being marched through the countryside by the Germans. Next, we see them arriving at Colditz Castle, where -after being de-loused and what have you- they are assembled in the courtyard, ready to be addressed by the prison Commandant.

By this time, I had recognized the “castle” as the place I had delivered to earlier in the day. When the camera angle changed and the Commandant came out of the door that I had been let into that morning, carrying a radiator, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. The thought that only a few hours earlier I had been in the place where all those captured soldiers had been lined up and had the law laid down to them by that arrogant nob head of a German officer filled me with a very eerie feeling.

Then I remembered that I was only watching a TV drama, and all those soldiers were only actors, and the German officer wasn’t even a German. Still, at least I can say that I delivered a radiator to the place where they filmed that very popular TV series, Colditz, in the 1970s.