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DECEMBER 18 2019

And we roll. Live is... Quiet. I'm sure T rump is blowing up Twit. Err. Unfair. Obama was the illegitimate one everyone wanted2 knock down. T Rump is white. How can all those traitorous white guys be giving an orange man a hard time.

Anyway yesterday was trimming a gum, a peach and a cedar. Very little cleanup. And then 2day was the cruncher. a gigantic dead elm with plenty of obstacles. Gates, sheds, guest houses, interstate rail road...

Then a large declining dead maple also rife with obstacle. Somehow once again Rebel Tree CAre finished another successful job.

so I re upped my liability insurane4 the twenty ninth year in a row so Rebel Tree Care is insured till December of 2020. Maybe I shouldn't have signed the terrorism exclusion cos thats right after the election. Lol I think?

Still in the off season4 a coupple more weeks. I'm here @ the river on top of a two point five rapid so I may do some fishing etc 2moro.

So this glimpse of my life, this portal2 the freak dimension that is Rebelriver.net it picks up in 2004 but there are two decades, nay parts of three decades not chronicled of trimming trees and river tripping. Mfis trips. U get a taste in2 the early entries but we will never get the nineties vibe back..

A Train runs through it.

The Hacky Sack eighties. the Canoe nineties. Beyond. Some might say that I have lived a selfish, frivolous life of long hair and scorn4 convention. sometimes it makes me lonely that I cannot conform, play ball, but I cannot change, I must b myself and that is not always socially desirable.

I know only that I do quality tree work and smile @ ugly women. Life is not like Soap Operas. When u help the less fortunate there is never a supermodel peering through the bushes. Nice guys. finish Last.

EROSION in house 2moro night. Listen. U will hear us.

So im realizing the Cherokee here in Cherokee Village and Highland were Keetoowah. Different spellings Kituwa and others. They were keepers of the northern border back east, which @ times was probably the Ohio River. They knew from french mariners that stream moved2 gigantic swamp and open water @ it's juncture with mississippi. With canoes developed only decades b4 around the ATlantic Ocean Islands of the Outer Banks and Roanoke, Keetoowahs found they were unmatched on open water and also through mud flats, gravel bars, reeds or sand... I never heard they were better on rapids and something tells me they weren't better on rapids than some canoe styles. But. In theory during high water of April there were very few rapids between WEstern Virginia and the Ozarks.

So traditional shaman migrated west. whether by force, banished by Cherokee Proper, or choice, they moved @ night midstream. This is further evidenced by the Deleware word4 the greenbriar or Konawha river in WEstern Virginia. Dark Path.

So from the old towns of Kituwah and Sitka, there would b mule, foot, and canoe trails northward2 south of Blacksburg Virginia, then westward basically on the Konawha, now called the new river. In addition2 being the northern boundary area of Cherokee claim, these ppl merged with allied confederation of native nations headed by Powhatan. This alliancee enable safe canoe making and secure portages. @ deepwater Deleware joined. They also had recently purchased long guns, they understood needs of ammunition and lead, powder and smithing.

Flotillas moved n2 sun. As darkness fell secret flotillas moved across the vast inland ocean. With levels routinely fitty and sixty feet higher than present day, water stood flat and still from WEstern Virginia all the way2 modern day Black Rockeven2 Hardy, @ the time known as Forty Islands or on2 the Gulf of Mexico. Vast unbroken cypress forest and cane brakes, gone now, held gentle massive flood many month of every year, sometimes the whole year round.

The cane breaks disappeared in 1813. Even white men realized that although buffalo could defoliate an area, they moved on and the area replenished. With domestic cattle once cattle stripped a cane break of forage, they moseyed through more often until udder desolation pun intended I think?

Cherokee and Deleware moved with wise purpose. Shawnee also, Three nations moved2 pierce n2 the Ozarks.

They and Cherokee had tried in the sixteen eighties2 move here. But they found out the hard way, like Cherokees did, that Host Osage shot strong bows. Osage could launch a killing arrow much further from the target than could Eastern tribes.

In the sixteen nineties, sixteen ninety six, Cherokee got guns and came back. They were here continually until 1812.

They did evacuate many times over the course of that one hundred and sixteen years. Otter Town was shelved and steep, horses floundered. Sometimes Osage would show them selves, poserful force silhoueeted on a till top. If Cherokees showed respect and timely retreat, war was averted. Cherokee need only flee2 vast swamp thirty miles east, then Crow Lee's ridge another thirty miles of swamp.

Sometimes Osage would surprise attack. These were often slave parties or horse thieves with little sanction of the Osage nation.

Other times Cherokee would fight back. Rifle shots ringing out, horns and whistles communicating. Dam keepers would open up the dams2 aid canoes hurrying. they would harvest tame beaver underfoot and try2 escape Osage...

so then in Seventeen Twenty ONe, having established posts here in Modern Day Cheroee Village and Paragould Arkansas in sixteen ninety six that housed and traded only a few dozen people suddenly many more came. Chicken Pox had killed more Cheroee back east. Keetoowahs, or the Preistly Class, could not stop dreaded disease. As healers they failed. They went away2 Saint Francis River. Many came here2 Otter Town. They also moved by Atlantic Ocean style canoe @ night. Some say Dangerous Man brought 600 families2 the Ozarks. Many were probably on Crow lees ridge.

About this time the french governors of Arkansas began using the thirty six thirty line, the modern day state line, 2 help categorize and control native claims.

Sweet Saint Genevieve was lucrative and safe. Arkansas Post dangerous and vile.

At some point Cherokee abandoned claims of upper Saint Francis River. As the Devil backbone became the western limit of Cherokee, Deleware, and Shawnee expansion, and the thirty six thirty line established definite boundaries recognized by French and eventually @ times, Osage.

French Keetoowahs held steady here in Sharp and Fulton Counties. Irish Cherokee proliferated on STrawberry River.

Though the area sponsored massive craft "bees" and olympiads, contact wtih the old world fell, they still flew pigeons, but the coalition was a vast secret, no one ran their mouth or bragged. Alcohol and slavery were taboo. Some members of this first version of the Keetoowah Society were also masons, or scottish royals, etc. With night travel and sober military readiness Cherokee survived.

By the time a Cherokee could walk they knew a hunters discipline, 2 sit still, 2 instill the child with vital patience and importance. @ a few years old Cherokee knew knives and darts and applications. A Five year old cherokee child was more effective surviving than an adult drunk.

Although Osage and Caddo slave traders roamed, inside the backbone slavery was taboo. Blacks among Cherokee were cunning and strong, vital part of the braided web.

Further west was danger. slave wars and raids captured any race or color human and shipped then off2 Haiti.

As france lost the Seven Years or French and Indian War2 England, by then Great Britian, more French influenced Keetoowah, the most traditional Cherokee came here2 populate the Devils Backbone south of the Thirty six thirty.

Spain assumed ownership of Arkansas, encouraging Cherokee back east2 "come2 Arkansaw2 young cherokee."

They proclaimed Cherokee, being south of the line in Arkansas, must trade @ dreaded and disgusting Arkansas Post. Using pigeons Cherokee coordinated movements from Forest City Arkansas in conjunction with the Sulphur Rock area2 give Cherokee advantage of two partys converging. But they only did trifling trades there, bear and mink oil, much of the valuable trade was with Deleware in Missouri, usually4 lead and bullets, then Deleware could take Cherokee Goods2 Saint Genevieve. Other times Cherokee took western items such as white clay or wool Deep n2 Kentucky. They still used the fastest boats as other local cultures never seized upon the secret of the fast ocean boats. They also traveled @ night coming or going to or fro Kentucky.

Pro British Cherokee had stayed east after 1763. But by the revolution, by 1780 many Cherokees were forced west by victorious colonists. The ink was not dry on the "talking leaves," when Wataugaun and HOlston settlers were in violation. Many more Cherokee came here.

Many war like Chickamaugauns came here2 take up farming and be peaceful. EAch treaty and land cession brough new immigrants2 Arkansas. Warriors turned farmers settled the quiet land.

Often times in violation of Osage, Cherokee built lakes and dams quietly. They did not burn fires in day time. they held taboo not just on slavery and alcohol but on fiddle music and bag pipes, beating of metal, axes...

Outfitters just outside the backbone allowed any taboo b violated on general principal. They allowed slavey and encouraged alcohol. They played bagpipes and fiddles. Named Pfeiffer and Viola, Pfeiffer on the main southern road and Viola on the western turnpike, each town was rife with danger and fear.

Inside the backbone Cherokee stayed secure4 the most part. Much more secure than outside of it. No one lasted long heading west. Best stay inside the backbone.

December 14 2019

So we rock. I been sick. Just out of it many days. Dinking my concoctions of Sunny D OJ, several flavors of squirt koolaid, and pulpy aloe or gotorades of many flavor and maybe the occasional mountain dew mixed in. Mountain biking long ago got me n2 mixing what I had w what was left. U hydr8. U must hydr8.

2nite is Copper Feather. THE MIKE GRAY BAND featuring LAUREN GRAY. I suppose. I haven't checked face book so I don't know4 sure. Last night they did the Spring River Draft House. I bet that was sweet as Hardy is there adopted home.

 Hatebook doubling down as House votes2 impeach. They will now send it2 the SEnate, where Moscow Bitch said yesterday he would b working the trial in coordination with he White HOuse. Which. Is. A. Preemptive violation of the Oath he will take. Kind of like the Bush Favorite Preemptive strike.

U remember that one. Fox news says Iraq is yada yada? Bomb them. Bomb them4 a rumor. don't even let them grumble. This is a Holy War.

The Bush Doctrine. U C Bush went2 summer camp with Osama, Saddam, Moamar, Bandahar, all of them. Repos know how2 whip their many madussa heads around like PANTERA. they devour, obliterate muslim cultures so our cars can have six drink holders.

I'ts in their DNA. George HW, President4 twelve years from 80 till 92 grew up playing tennis with Osama's daddy. they hated each other over Drunken dick pics.

Jeb lost in poker2 Prince Bandahar, a cool million when they were twelve.

George W watched Dick Cheney whore Moamer khadafy one night in an arid Syrian border town. At six George w. swindled the royal family4 a crate of bowie knives and sixty four kilos of opium.

T Rump/Russia has weakened us. And that's not a bad thing. Maybe now we will quit harassing China in their own waters, maybe our blockade of Iran will b perforated.

Hate Book doubles down. Idiotic tropes about how they had2 put up with Obama as he purposely divided the country. I mean plz.

Disrupting, gas lighting when faced with iron clad proof of his criminality. They are all covering up, obstructing. But it's no surprise the way they blatantly sabotaged Obama.

Barr should b in prison. Oaths of Office mean nothing2 repos. Blatant violations of oaths, every single time a repo speaks, an oath is broken. A unicorn dies.

I think this whole episode will weaken us, but maybe that will in turn make us stronger, maybe we will have2 scale down and get vehicles with only two drink holders. Large metal boxes2 parade our superiority on the perfect surface. It's the cobblestone that really tests us. Cobblestone made from skulls of the poor. But it gives us an orgasm.

Instead of bullying Russia and China we will go back2 bullying Mississippi and Rhode Island.

Hemp and mulch will b the new missile and cocaine.

Every day T Rump has a new pronouncement of proof of his innocence. He projects what he is on2 dums. "Folks this is far worse than we thought. This is the worst time in American history, what I, I mean they are doing."

In Texas a couple of days ago he was like, "The dums are gonna take ur guns, ur bible, and ur oil. How bout that Texas, Ur guns, ur Bible, Ur oil, thats what the dums are gonns do." He was literally almost crying like he loved the bible so much that it just made him very sad that evil treasonous dums were going t take that away from Texas. But it sure rung hollow, even4 him, his fake sad about the bible yada yada.

T Rump is destroying much of conventional Christianity. The hypocrites that still believe he is the chosen one need2 read an oath. Any oath. T Rump violates it. He searches oath memes @ night2 find one he hasn't violated lately.

Bipartisan resolution2 assure that T rump cannot pull us out of NATO on a jealous whim. That will piss him off, knowing he can't just pull us out. So he will sabotage it4 the next few months until he is removed from office forcibly. "Put ur hands behind ur back sir."

Okay I'm gonna pull the plug. I guess i'm back. I was contemplating leaving this journal behind but I think it's where I fit in the universe. If I'm not in a tree or on a river I don't do so well. This is my vent. This is a portal n2 true madness. An island Cam.

EROSION crisp and live L8ly. Rebel Tree Care booked4 winter. River Adventures. I've spent time on a class two five rapid, stark rock and bare hillsides quite a different vibe than summer.

Word. I may have the Keetoowah Nation of Oklahoma coming2 c me. We will c. They may not care about a three hundred year old Keetoowah Cherokee burial inscription on an upright stone.

Panadox. I have some ballistic new waterfall videos Im showing L8ly when we jam.

Keeping 2 fires. Night Fever. Staying Alive.

December 7 2019

And we roll this dusk. A dog barks then is quiet. Sometimes coyotes set up howling in packs, recently it was two large packs making noises: growling, howling, yip yipping and yowling, murderous screams or melodious harmonies, psychotic rantings of torture or drama Neighborhood dogs join. It's quite the row.

EROSION tuning up. Imma have my first beer. Ever. We are writing a few new songs, staying tight on our set of originals.

I have a reggae song called Fight the bulls we r trying2 flesh out.

A jazz country song called Opposition Road.

A Operatic horror metal song called Charlie's Peaking/Dark Shadows. These three songs will make eleven? This will add twenty minutes2 our forty minute set. Unless I talk. Tell stories and jokes, relate2 the audience yada yada.

December 7 2019

Brisk morning. Gearing up4 a ride beyond.

North Korea calls T Rump a "dotard", and an "old imbecile."

Leaders of France, Canada and Germany mocking him.

Leader of England refuses a photo op with him.

Chad issues a tweet calling him the Orange Menace.

Venezuela notes that he is a gibbering idiot.

Ukraine says he is a "lying crook."

Russia says he is "cool," and "handsome."

Kurds call him "dead meat," if he shows his face there. They may join ISIS and Al Queda now.

Mexico says stop sending ur rapists here.

December 6 2019

And we roll. Crazy ride through the village 2day. Gearing up4 a big week of Rebel Tree Care. Things have been strange. My mother passed from this life. So I still ride beyond, just no longer2 Eagle Crest.

Haven't been working lately, don't know when I last checked in. I did a large red oak by a Cherokee Village house, then walnut and red oak in Hardy yada yada. I am getting January booked nicely.

MIKE and LAUREN play in Hardy 2nite. DYLAN KANE and REVOLUTION also. Im chilln.

T Rump all but certain2 b impeached in the house. Articles include witness tampering, obstruction of justice, bribery, etc and should include, perjury, treason, war crimes, emolluments, and many more...

Moscow bitch McConnel will obtruct a senate trial, especially so now that numerous Repo senators are hinting they may impeach.

Devin Nunes showing up more and more in the midst of the scandal, Guiliani up2 his chrome dome. Repos throw rubber clowns @ the window, nothing sticks as they contradict themselves and implicate themselves further each desperate maneuver. The rubber clowns are greasy and slimy, they slide n2 the ooze, n2 the fever cauldron where they are reborn as brand new Fox/Russia conspiracy theories. They are born again4 the Chosen one2 anoint as the story of the day. The Orange Anus, Cheeto Mussolini. Agent ORange.

Melania has a crush on Canadas Prime Minister. She so obviously wants2 eff him and not Donald.

I have come2 the conclusion that the "Cherokees" here were actually Keetoowah, lost Cherokee who broke with EAstern Cherokee @ a very early time, they were the priests and shaman, the traditional Cherokee who moved across the Mississippi and on2 the Saint Francis River in sixteen ninety six and seventeen twenty one.

There were also many reverse migrations. And small migrations or regular movements. 4 instance from Saint Francis they took ARkansas goods such as bear and mink oil, pelts and skins, and white clayacross CApe Girardo and on2 the Cumberland or Kentucky Rivers, bringing back guns, plows, knives, hoes...Clan members run afoul of eastern ways headed2 ARkansas. Traditional shaman unable2 stop white man diseases headed2 ARkansas.

    From here on South Fork River if attacked by host Osage they would have2 evacuate Modern dAy Cherokee Village and flee2 big swamp, and relative safety of Crowleys' Ridge and Saint Francis River.  Soon, often within hours of days they would come back here.Also  a quiet network of furs and skins, shovels and saws...lead and salt...

    Cherokee traveled @ night. IN canoes. One clue supporting this is the Greenbriar river in West Virginia, on the Konawha river,  fRom that area of Western Virginia is where the first western Cherokee Came from. Delaware called it the "dark path."

November 13 2019

And we roll. Another brisk morning in the urban forest. Early we were getting gas @ the new Casey's in Highland.

Then soon on the job in Ash Flat. Quickly I was warming up by trimming a prize pin oak. We worked removing privet and cedar, box elder, cherry in a fence row. HOney suckle complicated matters.

On2 so many others. numerous hackberry and box elder, crowding streets, pasture, parking, wires, house, fence, gates, sheds etc... Proper pruning all around. Exhausting but rewarding.

Their was walnut in the mix, sassafras, burning bush, maple, holly... Now I have load of mixed mulch. Albeit green, this stuff is crucial2 the ecosytstem. Raised beds can help our planet in many tangible ways.

Raised beds are right up there with solar power and hemp. Raised beds. Mulch. Save the planet. Forty$.

November 12 2019

And we roll this quiet night. It hasn't been dark long but feels like midnight. I guess I'm tired.

Early we were rigging Cherokee Village pines4 removal. We laid out the brush4 later then focused on three curving, leaning red oaks over the house. We were able2 pull them all over, but the rigging and preparation was annoying. Sleet was accumulated and or trying2 thaw by this time footing was meticulous. So we went back home and got the chipper, I took it off the trailer4 certain reasons, I will put it back on around January. Maybe.

It was ten degrees when we started, up2 a balmy thirty finishing up.

Same 2moro as we head2 Ash Flat.

The sleet last night was fierce@ times. It started as I was talking2 a client in her yard, bouncing off us. Then there were waves of snow and freezing rain. Bright moon reflecting chrome white most of the night but by day light much of it had evaporated.

November 11 2019

Rain out. Just after day light big rain system moves in. Not 2 heavy yet but it shows2 b widespread, with sleet and snow on the back side. Nice.

I will piddle and play 2day. work on the dockett, minor projects here between tree care adventures.

I am an island. A distracted island. I may open a new side business called Olivia's Landscaping. Specializing in mulch and plantings. It will work in conjunction w Rebel Tree Care. Just musings.

So i guess it's time2 get out2 the shop and stoke the fire. Load it up. Once it's going good I put soaking wet wood on it. I like burning wet wood.

I've seen alot of people whining: we cant stack the wood we don't have a tarp. I'm like so? Just do it. U don't need a damn tarp4 firewood.

Others are like u have a college degree why do u eff around trimming damn trees? I'm like I do what the eff I want, u need2 check the attitude. An arborist can put up big earnings if he or she so chooses. Or he can rest lol.

Guiliani rumored2 b flipping. Pence hedging. Barr abroad. Putin holds the buzzer like Howie Mandel. Deal Or No Deal. Nancy open ur case.

Then there is Rachel from The Price Is Right. Damn I bet Drew Carrey is hitting that. Like he could get her if he wasn't famous. Then the girl on Let's Make a Deal is crazy hot also. Plus she seems2 have more personality or something. Love them both. Makes their respective shows even better.

I have been visited by a beautiful young woman recently. We had a deep meaningful visit. Exciting.

I had twenty four year old year old girlfriend a couple of years ago and that was exciting for a fiftyish man. I also have much older girlfriends and cherish them also. Most times they love and honor me back. It's the obey thing that messes up the chemistry.

Hard sleet now. Blinding, stinging sleet. Temps dropping fast, sposed2 get all the way down in2 the teens. That should b illegal.

Jim Superstar Jordan red e2 take on fact with fiction. He will grill witnesses in the impeachment trial with no preparation. H. He will check Breitbart a few times4 ideas, then imply slyly all witnesses, dums, media are in cahoots against T Rump, a vast conspiracy2 frame him. He will claim Hunter Biden does late term abortions in his lake Chatuea, he will scream that T Rump has religous liberty2 do crimes battling the gr8 Liberal Satan. JUst like drug cases, the lies and coverups, the brutality, are worse than the original "crime."

Jim Superstar Jordan is used2 vehemenenty covering up crime from his stint ignoring and denying sexual abuse @ Ohio State.

LSU beats Alabama. but now they face the feared Razorbacks, who just fired their coach.

Lebron James averaging triple doubles as his Lakers cruise2 a title this year.

Winds howl. Sleet may b stopped4 now. 2moro will b some coldness.

This will knock alot of leaves off. Sumac will b bare, maybe the sleet 2moro will have a crimson oval. Green Bradford Pear leaves will litter in a perfect circle.

I want2 do raised beds. I may b forced2 open a common sense nursery, just sensible affordable raised beds. Raised beds are sorely needed2 return our water table back. See rampant non best management logging.

So repos in Arkansas worked in conjunction with other repos2 sabotage The Clean Water Initiative, a totally voluntary and non mandatory government program2 help farmers and ranchers do some things2 keep the river clean. And now that Governot Hutchinson has helped destroy the totally voluntary and non mandatory Clean water initiative, he introduces a totally voluntary and non mandatory program2 help farmers and ranchers keep the river clean. Kind of like how repos take credit4 medicaid expansion when they fought tooth and nail against it. Repo dirty tricks and smelly pricks. Quietly change the name. It's all in the branding. The deceptive messaging. The Fink tanks. Stolen valor, dubious honor, joint task force...

November 9 2019

And we roll. Sunny. Almost warm. It was chilly last night, but by dawn had lost it's edge. Highland played Pocahontas a good game.

Lately I c beautiful trees. U come around the corner and a maple is waving in ur square vehicle viewing screen or wind shield. Oaks still have most of their leaves, some are just now turning. Bradford pears and just now turning. Gums have already flashed sweet scarlet and are naked now. Dogwoods are scarlet now, breathtaking in forested slopes or fine landscapes.

So many others I cant remember. I will make a conscious effort2 take more notes.

I promote mulch2 little avail. I try2 educate people one on one eye2 eye about trunk or branch collars and proper cuts. Try2 instill some care.

There are actually two collars that bind in a strong union2 support the branches, tapering the tree with strength. But4 certain educational purposes 2gether they make the collar. ANSI standard.

Plenty of substandard logging going on. Real sloppy non Best  Management Practices everywhere. Especially by the river. Farm Bureau would b proud.

More and more smelly chicken ware houses. More and more overcrowded cattle feed lots, more and more chicken litter being spread on cattle or hay fields.

Big beef say it's floaters putting fecal matter the water. Sure a Lamda Chi took an oily underwater shit but that river is still cleaner than ur average tap water. Until u get2 where the hog farm trickles down. T hen, the eco system battles weird colors and a cocktail of noxious chemicals. The Buffalo is still much cleaner than most rivers, even rivers in the Ozarks, but @ that point downstream from the Hog Farm it becomes impaired.

Point sources of pollution are Large cattle farms. Whoops I probably can't say that. I mean they made Oprah not say beef was bad.

Then u have the chickens, smelly chickens everywhere, smelly chicken shit being spread everywhere2 fertilize hay2 feed cattle. More and more forest trampled on with harsh, coarse needlessly destructive methods and design.

We should, and should b, planting hemp. Hemp is environmentally friendly. It needs no fertilizer, herbicide, fungicide, insecticide or water2 grow. Rain water normally sufficient. Hemp paper needs no bleach like wood pulp paper, no glue like wood pulp paper.

Hemp gasoline has no carbon when burned. Or maybe carbon monoxide. If hemp could regain its rightful place as primary energy fuel the stranglehold of huge energy conglomerates could b defeated and small farmers once again keep their farms.

Rest assured gigantic oil conglomerates will sabotage every good faith imitative, every grass roots resistance. Only when they actually own all the hemp will they allow hemp2 b sold. In the process they will lower the minimum wage so people losing their farms will make less.

They, and by and large "they" are repos, will force the retirement age up, benefits down2 pay4 more tax cuts4 the richest and corporations. Hey corporations vote. Citizen United shows that $ is king.

T Rump ordered2 pay millions4 swindling charities. This is not2 b confused with the millions he paid2 victims of T Rump university. He never settles. Or maybe he always settles.

November 7 2019

Rain out.

Big rain last night and 2nite. Spring River jumped up, over the rocks @ Howards, over the bridge @ Biggers Road or Humphrey's Ford. OR is it Chevy?

I've been active, hitting the bike many miles this week, Yesterday it looked like rain @ day break but we hurried and went @ it.

A fine Ash Flat willow had been ripped asunder by a lightning bolt. We repaired that and cleaned that up. Still no heavy rain so we bolted over2 The south golf course in Cherokee Village, a dead black jack had been topped by the power company and needed a pro cleanup, so we dove n2 that, emotions ran high and the chipper chugged as that1 cleaned up.

` Still another job in Cherokee Village. A fine landscape needed a cedar and privet trim, a reclamation if u will.

The chips graced a fine landscape on Spring River. Big day and then the rain finally let loose all night.

Now it's winding down, soon will stop according2 the funny tv man.

Barr refuses2 write T Rump a get out of jail note. Maybe Barr is thinking he better stay abroad. Like Bruce Jenner.

Maybe a mfis trip in the worx. Deep recreation. Lots of it.

November 5 2019

And we roll. Dark night. Quiet now. Earlier was EROSION. Quick jam.

Tired. Long day. Early we were on the banks of Spring River rigging a dead red oak(recurring theme). boom that one hit on target. We diced it up a little4 the next guy.

Then it was down stream aways2 another red oak, this one alive, declining, I picked it clean of small dead and a couple of larger snags. This one is over a house so care was taken. In the mix was an adjacent post oak.

Now across the river in Hardy. A gigantic white oak removal. We rigged with multiple ropes and boom that one was history. Just getting it sectioned up was quite the ordeal though.

Another day of several jobs 2moro then it's sposed2 rain and god 4bid snow.

Big time blue wave 2nite. Kentucky kicks their worthless repo guv2 the curb. North Carolina gets it right and rejects repo reptile mfers.

T Rump and Randy Pauley and Lind Z Graham"Cracker" busy attacking and intimidating the whistle blower, committing federal crimes in the process. U. C. The Federal Whiswtleblower Act Protects Whistle blowers.

It was likely passed in a rush by repos trying2 get Obama on something, much like the rules of engagement4 congress, Repos changed them2 try and frame Obama, now they don't like them being used, gasp, against fine Christian repos.

Graham Cracker, head of the Senate judiciary committee says 2day he will not read any briefs or summaries or transcripts. Read that again.

The lady cyclist that flipped T Rump the bird and got fired? She got elected handily2 a government position.

T Rump tells California they are on their own with their liberal wild fires, offers help2 Putin fighting fires.

The general consensus among repos has run the gamut. There was no Quid Pro Quo, more easily understood as blatant bribery, then it was, well there was a Quid pro Quo but its simply inappropriate not impeachable. Not like it was a dum doing it. C'mon. Abortion.

October 29 2019

And we roll. Rainy night. It's been quite a run. Saturday was a crazy Halloween party. EROSION did a sweet gig with a killer guitarist. WILL. He's taller than me! The rest of the night was incredibly loud OZZY OSBOURNE cd's. Fights and cops raged just outside but I kept the jams flowing. Cool night.

This morning was a dead red oak on Spring River in Hardy. Two of them in fact. One I had2 climb way up and take the top out, a couple of snafus had me hollering but it worked out. Then another was, or had grown n2 the eave of the house and the patio and house were in play. Another crazy morning in the Urban Forest.

So work is slowing down but I will soon have January booked up. Well on the way. I do want2 space jobs out now, take some time off if possible. sometimes I need separation from chainsaws. Especially after rocking out lol.

Life is good.

Repos two days ago: no closed hearings like we did continually back when dums were in power.

Repos 2day: how dare dums plan open hearings and give us equal time.

October 24 2019

And we roll. Overcast. Cloudy. LOl. We got back over2 Lake Chanute early and picked up a trailer of wood. Good red oak, I'm always stocking up because once I get2 a certain level I begin sharing with certain friends.

We had a priority situation over on Lake Sequoyah so we had2 bear down and get over there. A large red oak had lost a large branch. It was tangled up with a shorter elm and sycamore. It was a little dicey but everything is fine now.

So I'ts gear up4 Scary on Kere, my friends are having a Halloween Party this weekend and I have the entire garage4 Panadox and me. Free Candy.

So it's run a few things down. I've done alot of miles on the bike lately, I need a fancy beer stein, a few estimates yada yada. Life is fine.

Scam alert. A lady who thinks she is smart got her red oak hacked. Non standard work destroys red oaks. It just takes time. If u pay attention u will c the decline and stress take effect. If u live long enough because it takes years, even decades2 become apparent.

Repos pitching a royal bitch that dums are enforcing. The rules repos made. Trying2 frame dums.

Guiliani hires a criminal defense team. Barr meddling in Italy or wherever an extreme right wing conspiracy theory takes him. This works4 him because he may not come back soon.

Moscow Bitch hit the not guilty button, signaling he won't even pretend2 have an impeachment trial should the house impeach. Critics say it is a little early4 acquital, the Grand Jury is still out...

So with the senate and Attorney General repos have cornered the market on unconstitutional over reach. What repos accuse others of. They are doing.

they have cornered the market on hypocrisy. The narcs run the day care. Just say no. Here try crack.

October 23 2019

And we roll. Sweet morning in the Urban Forest of Cherokee Village. First up was large dead red oak, leaning 2ward a fine home on Lake Chanute. Ginger Lee we rigged it and bam that one hit just right.

So as we cleaned it up there were other tasks mixed in: removing a skinny pine in the eave, trimming 2 other pines off the drive and roof, removing half a mimosa clump, trimming a fine catalpa, a prominent weeping cherry. Maybe more.

So life is fine. I am an island but thats not a bad place2 b.

October 22 2019

Quiet night. Pizza and a movie. Long Crazy day. First up was a larger job in Salem. I got n2 a small maple and cleared the driveway, then some bushy bradford pears all over the fences, dog runs, houses, etc... We reduced them... N2 a tall maple, reducing away from the house and neighbors...

The same4 a tall pecan, trimming, reducing. Proper pruning...

And back2 Highland. We thought we were done, but a Hardy house had a bradford pear on it... we got that down and cleaned it up.

Then a Cherokee Village shed was partially destroyed by a large red oak branch...

Long day. Moron tap 2moro.

Ambassadors and aides testifying each day in the impeachment hearing. T Rump complains that they are "lynching" him. Blacks don't care4 him using that term.

T Rump didn't just deny black people residency in his complexes, he made them go down town2 get rejected

/There adding new lines 2 social security regulations. Now instead of getting benefits when turning 65 u must first convince T Rump u r a T Rump supporter. And then when u convince him after knocking tepidly on the huge mahogany door, approaching the throne with reverence and awe, we are ordained by the Orange One, and then we go back and collect our social security. @ age seventy.

Quid pro quo.

So I'm musing about Cherokee past. The very first Cherokee that came here2 Arkansas used the Konawha River. They brought Atlantic Ocean Style canoes, the fastest in North America. They also brought guns.

The Konaw ha river flows northward from Watauga. Watauga was later a flash point of Cheroke/Anglo war as White watagauns defied law and expanded westward.

The Konawha was the northward boundary of old Cherokee country in virginia. Carolina and virginia @ one time stretched2 the MIssissipi.

2 navigate the many waterfalls, key portage trails were guarded by a strict secret society. The coalition of Powhatan, still strong in that area, helped secure these key portages. And some Powhatan came along with Cherokees on those first voyages 2 Arkansas.

The adze quickly revolutionized canoe making. Industry standards and open competition developed a canoe capable of stable ocean travel, yet shallow drafted and light, perfect4 inland movement also. Once this boat made the lower konawha it began2 rule the Ohio River, then the Mississippi. Traveling @ night across vast distance on gigantic capes and open water swamp

I need help with graphics. I need2 show Devil's BackBone as it curves and zigs roughly northwest from Forrest City Arkansas. Or @ least from the Newark Area. I need2 double check again but I think the town of Charlotte. Maybe Charlotte was a Cherokee, a woman with a big web of messengers. foot, pony, smoke, who knew all happenings, a member of the bird clan, releasing pigeons on the hour, recieving pigeons. Scrolls wrapped around the birds shins conveyed symbol writing. From Charlotte, @ the edge of the Ozark escarpment thus on the "ocean," birds would fly regularly2 Pine Knot or Bono on the northen parts of Crowley's Ridge, or Cherry Valley mid way, and Village Creek or Forresst City @ the southern point of Cherokee Claim.

But @ that point the watersheds divide the run off, one mans yard might drain away2 the White, next door might drain away2 the Black.

Maybe Charlotte was of the bird clan. Coopers were Jewish cherokee. Just north 2ward imboden Cooper is the name of a long mandering creek that flows2 the Black via the STrawberry or Spring I 4get which right now. My point is Coopers were probably named4 their craft which might have been making bird cages or houses. Coops.

A woman like my imagined Charlotte would use many coops, probably arrayed in calculated geometric shapes such as setting and rising suns or moon and star patterns.

Charlotte post was probably crucial4 Security. Spanish Owners of Arkansas decreed that since Cherokee claims were south of the territorial line of thirty six thirty, still the Arkansas Missouri state line, Cherokee must trade @ vile and hazardous Arkansas Post down south on the Arkansas River. Trusted Delaware in Thayer Missouri were free2 trade @ much favored Saint Genevieve Missouri. And Cherokee did filter the disadvantage by trading quality furs4 lead @ the line, but my focus here is promoting the importance of Charlotte in treks2 dreaded ARkansas Post. Pigeons would relay symbols4 Cherokee headed2 Arkansas Post. Upon reception of the pigeon near Modern Day Forest City just north of modern day I40, a contingent of Cherokees would move across the swamp in very fast Atlantic Ocean Style canoes, giving advantage2 Cherokee as they came n2 the area from two different directions unbeknownst2 others. Cherokee likely did this with other eras in the early seventeen hundreds, dealing with Frenchmen, or also the English claimed the area also. Much of Cherokee Trading was probably directly2 ships.

Other trades headed east @ night from the north end of the Ridge 2ward the Ohio River. U could not head east anywhere else on the ridge because that would send u n2 hostile Chickasaw territory. A Cherokee had no business over there in Tennesee. Maybe over in eastern tEnnessee were lots of kin on the Duck and Buffalo Rivers But the Wicked Cliffs and Wolf River area was certain death or a bound and gagged rough ride2 Haiti4 a lifetime of slavery.

But from chalk bluff @ the extreme northern end of the ridge, by coincidence thirty six thirty, the ridge ends within feet of the line, Cherokee packed canoes with fine white clay. In Atlantic Ocean style canoe they made for the horn of Kentucky over night.

The English were amazed @ the fine white clay Cherokee mined or made. But since they smuggled back2 Carolina the English thought the source was Carolina. Anyway the English took many Cherokee back2 England2 teach the English how such fine porcelin pottery was crafted.

This thread of small shipments kept a thread of old school communication. Pigeons also flew in conjunction with sojourns from North east Arkansas2 the Cumber land rivers. There was tide in this massive ocean of water stretching from WEst Virginia2 Baton Rouge. There were prevailing winds, storm surges, flooding...

This was all hazardous, perilous work. Cherokee traveled by canoe @ night only, unless the mission was factfinding, measuring common word or politics @ a pub. Dangerous Man likely enjoyed such work, having an amber mug of ale with fiddle music, two pistols crossed under his pancho. He would likely have sold willow headache powder4 possible barter, maybe beadwork or inferior skins or fur. Inferior skins and furs didn't interest European interests but natives used them, trade in inferior skins and fur was thrifty and brisk.

The BackBone meanders north by west2 just south of Cave City. Neighbors along the imperceptible ridge separating White and Black were nearly identical. Sure they knew the differences: The Black was bound by tribute and absolute 2 Cherokee Clan and general council. The White were supposedly Osage, though they were far removed from Osage council and generally followed no law. Scottish clans began collecting outside the backbone. Pfeiffer was later born just outside the backbone in responce2 a Cherokee ban on bag pipes.

Further North and West2 the western point of Cherokee movement til 1812. Viola also is just outside the backbone in White Waters. it2 was formed in responce2 a Cherokee ban on fiddles.

So we have a Scottish District. Cave City was Cherokee with a heavy scottish element. Dota Creek covers much of the drainage 2 Black River, thus it was Cherokee and SCottish Cherokee evidenced that Dota was obviously Oona Dota, or John Stuart, aka BushyHead, 4 whom my home town of Highland was originally named. The Scots influence grew in the seventeen nineties as the Spanish sponsored a north south road construction through Forty Islands, modern day Hardy, Highland, then named Stuart after the Superintendant of Indian Affairs4 the English prior the revolution. @ one point there was strife when Scots not only violated hunting taboos and strayed further than agreed upon from the road being constructed, suspected of drinking ale, but also bag pipes began2 irritate elder council so there was kind of division growing between Certain Scots and Cherokee proper. Once2 Pfeiffer Scots men could abandon Cherokee ways completely: they could shoot guns4 no reason, hammer on metal all day and night, own a slave, set fire2 a cedar tree, kill a pregnant doe, piss in the river, dance2 fiddle music with a whore and a bottle of whiskey.

But. Then. They. Sobered up. Life outside the backbone was fluid and dangerous, horse thieves and braggarts, gun fighters and race war. Wise men accepted a few restrictions on their conduct and worked hard on a small quiet farm inside the backbone. Chances of survival much better.

The Irish had been with Cherokee since b4 Columbus. Their was undoubtedly a red hed or2 on the original sojourns, the first serious scouting edpeditions2 the Ozarks proper by Eastern Cherokee was in the sixteen eighties. Irish undoubtedly were in the mix. Full blooded Irishmen or women accepted fully as member of tribe and clan. These people moved2 Strawberry ARkansas in sixteen ninety six.

All of STrawberry River Valley subdivided among IRish Cherokee. EAch creek valley capable of supporting thousands of people, wool and crop industries. Fish farms and hemp... The aforementioned Jewish district of Cooper Creek combined traditional Cherokee methods of weaving white oak, river cane, etc, with amazing new metal wire and pliers.

Maybe the first printing presses were @ Franklin on the STrawberry River. Maybe on Ben's Creek. Ben Franklin was a printer and Cherokee were known2 possess a printer just a few years after they left STrawberry River in 1812

French Cherokee moved up south fork quietly2 form Otter Town, modern day Cherokee Village. Also Frenchtown upstream halfway2 Salem, then known as Walking Stick district.

The french, who claimed ARkansas as the first Cherokee came here, blended well with Cherokee culture. They were water people also, Customs of Paris blended well with matrilineal family structure and clan. Southfork the life blood of the Backbone, moved quietly with life and trade.

Just as Hebrew Cherokee had an enclave on Cooper Creek south of Imboden, African Cherokee had a place just inside the backbone and near the crucial thirty six thirty line. Moko, black cherokee fished or danced on stilts.

The line was populated on both sides by English Cherokee and English Delaware. This was probably on purpose, as the English figured2 claim whatever side of the line was convenient in war and peace. Along the line tribal divisions blurred as Delaware and Shawnee mixed with Cherokee amid English and French.

Some English and French breeched the Backbone, no longer Cherokee. In general these transgressions did not go well as both Osage proper and rogue bands of thieves and slavers invariable gobbled up or burned these groups. Scots managed2 survive around Locust Grove, and some ethnic cults might make it a couple of years but outside the backbone was death.

By 1808 things were getting chaotic. The Backbone was full. Full scale war between Osage and cherokee erupted here in Sharp and Fulton county. STill it was safer here, than in Baxter county4 the unafilliated. Truces and summits came and went, in general peace prevailed prior2 1811 as Tecumseh the great Shawnee worked constructing coalition.

Boom. Earthquake. Game over. As whites and cattle moved in they ate the vast cane breaks bare and killed them all. They drained the old swamps and brought slaves. Things changed. Over on Buffalo River in Northwest ARkansas a few dozen miles away Cherokee continued2 live in traditional fashion twenty five more years until forced out by the trail of tears.

Charlotte must have had pretty advance writing skills by !812 as other Cherokee worked 2 perfect the alphabet started with pigeon symbols. Maybe she or a letters recipient in Tennessee liked English: "Cherokee in conjunction with Shawnee and Deleware have decided2 breech Devil Backbone this August 8 1812."

Maybe a few of the more full blooded IRish, French, Scot and English tried2 stay and harvest crops but quickly they were termed squatters, draconian racial laws devised2 kill out all trace of Cherokee. Meanwhile a few miles away Cherokee lived well in traditional fashion on Buffalo. Others lived much as whites on ARkansas River.They set the template, showed whites how2 carve a farm out of these Ozarks with a mule and steel plow. Given most of Northwest ARkansas in a treaty in 1818, Cherokee rested and rebuilt. Then  uprooted, forced further west2 Oklahoma. Some just a few miles, but the displacement and upheaval accompanying the white mans imagined line goes on 2day.

    In the seventeen twenties disease rocked  Cherokee. In response shaman priests were banished from the Carolina Cherokee, forced2 go2 Arkansas. They occupied crowleys ridge and saint francis river, assimilating with Cherokee here inside the backbone quickly and quietly. Always quiet. This was a silent land.

    As corrrespondence between Spain and France reveals in seventeen sixty three, Cherokees had in 1763 been in the region of Saint Francis River "@ least forty years." The reason many Arkansas and Cherokee historians don't know this is it was a huge secret. Most inside the backbone, including Shawnee and Deleware in Missouri belonged2 strict fraternal orders, the priestly Kituwah or Keetoowah society itself may have been crafted by masons in native tribes. The web was well kept secret. Although this was the United states in 1811 they had very little power here in the Ozarkds between the Osage and Cherokee. Fifty LEwis and Clark types were sent here2 scout the country. None returned. LEgend says they were staked2 crosses @ river junctions. Blue hat or red jacket clues.

    So there was2 b no white settlements established in the Ozarks anytime soon after 1811 had the earthquakes not hit. Cherokee were not as accomadating as Brothers Quapaw further south in Arkansas. Cherokee allowed whites plenty of bear hunting territory, allwed tourists 2 visit the large bees or craft fairs and olympiads sponsored @ Forty Islands. Even n2 the 1790s Cherokee accomodated Spanish governors who wished2 dissect  Cherokee territory with a north south road.  That project stirred strife as rowdy scotsmen, instructed not2 wander a set amount from the planned road or consume alcohol, did both. But they were not fools they rarely did both @ the same time. But they were also suspected of slavery as the big black men working with them did much of the burden. It was established the blacks were indeed paid. However little was irrelevant. But old clan pride showed, bag pipes and kilts and long blonde hair were prevelant.

    Old Scotch Irish clans usually dropped old complaints here. Centuries old fueds from the old country rarely flared up inside the backbone. When the taboo towns of Pfeiffer and Viola partially burned near nightly, clan revenge and mob burnings usually centered there. Willamite and Jacobite were Cherokee inside the backbone, outside it doomed.

    Cherokee believed int he white dove of peace.

October 18 2019

And we roll. Quiet night. Good vibes. Life is exciting!

Early this morning I was reducing a pretty post oak with a quality built tree house in it. That was fun by a little lake in northern Sharp County.

Then it was over2 Ozark Acres, dropping a huge leaning dead red oak. That one was a little stressing after it hit, it was wedged against a smaller tree and the pressure was awkward. After a few choice words we got the beast2 collapse.

On2 a funeral4 a gr8 old guy from Ash Flat and California. Not only was he the uncle of my drummer and sometimes guitar player, but his son was a team mate of mine on one of the greatest HIghland Basketball teams ever, and heres the rub. He was killed in the line of duty as a police officer. My Grandfather was also killed in the line of duty as a police officer. By sheer coincidence they are side by side on the ARkansas Slain Law Enforcement Officer Monument @ the State Capital grounds in Little Rock. Small world.

So the end of a long week comes. I may have an attractive young lady visiting4 popcorn and a movie. Maybe lol.

T Rump melting down, trying2 take a hobbled United States with him. He stands2 make a cool hundred million if he makes the G7 summit @ his failing resort. This will turn that overpriced bedbug haven around.

Elijah Cummings passes away. He fought Repo hypocrisy till the end. He seemed amazed that repos could try so blatantly2 kill so many, amazed @ blatant sabotage of the Affordable Care Act. Amazed repos still have no plan after voting4 repeal seventy? times. On his death bed he signed impeachment subpeonas. The man is in heaven.

T Rump zeroing in on fourteen thousand easily proven lies. Barreling 2ward the coveted fifteen thousand, he hopes2 hit that milestone b4 impeachment.

Uno what? If Obama or Hillary had uttered just one of those fourteen thousand easily provable lies, Fox and the right would burn this country down. but T Rump and his reprehensible repo buddies? Meh.

They were all Elizabeth Warren dodged the subject when asked about the thirty trillion it would take2 implement universal health care. What they fail2 mention is She will b fighting repo sabotage, dirty tricks and fake news. she will b against a corporate media who is content2 bleed the sick dry and pummel the poor bloody. They still demonize Affordable Care with no solutions. They have no plan except2 divide and destabilize as Putin directs. Repos are the world terrorists posing as police. We have shown we will elect a reality show moron who will stab our allies and citizens in the gut4 a buck. We love our hate. We will burn the world down2 make sure our huge metal boxes have cool drink holders.

October 17 2019

And we roll. Nice day on Spring River. Early I was casing a dead sassafras growing through a deck and sprawled all over a roof on a cool house.

Actually a double box elder was first up, actually all over the house also. without the aid of adjacent tall sassafrasses I would have been stressed. but the other trees helped immensely in rigging and safety.

Lastly was a declining sycamore. Recurring theme. It is short and stunted now but still alive and may live long. Stranger things have happened.

This place was like a Swiss Family Robinson type, with multiple decks2 the river and trees and ropes etc. Super cool.

I got some fishing in. Trout on stringer. LIfe is fine on the river.

2day we blew up a weapon and ammo warehouse in Syria. Our own.

October 16 2019

Quiet night here on Spring River. Good day here also. Early I was dropping a declining sycamore. Another. The clean up was not2 bad, chipping, lifting...Hauling, Unloading... Raking, blower detail...Unloading of chips. I made a bow tie shape by a camper.

Around lunch I shook free2 hit the trouts. Quickly I had a full stringer. Later on it was a nice bass. Sweet day.

Another Guiliani associate arrested on Federal $ laundering with foreign donations2 Superpacs, etc..

T Rump melting down. Lets hope he 4gets the launch codes. Or the Secret Service man up and slap him around.

Looks like he 4got that Turkey has fifty of our nukes. He is starting a war with them, beginning with sanctions, and they have our nukes. This. Can't. Go. Well.

October 15 2019

and we roll. Quiet dusk. Long day. Early we were rigging a rotten red oak by a Cherokee Village home. The beast was gnarly and riddled, hollow and weak... I pulled from two different directions and cut the beast down. I barely cut n2 the back when it started falling. successful first job.

The next job across the village was less stressful. WE dove n2 numerous shrubs: reducing and trimming yew, boxwood, thorny olive, crepe myrtle, japanese maple, dogwood, red oak, sky rocket? juniper, patina, holly. We also detailed a creekside trail, removing many small volunteers...

Moron tap the rest of the week. Stay tuned...

I have2 give T Rump cred. I didn't think he would make it six months without impeachment. He may make it 3 years. He will probably survive the senate, but there r cracks in the partisan firewall, mostly because of Syria.

His Syria move helped Russia, Turkey, ISIS, Iran and Ivanka. He blamed his troubles on liberal media and godless heathens.

Barr blames non religious people4 a vast conspiracy against T Rump. No really. He also in one of his bullshit briefs or summaries said that T Rumpz deeply held religious beliefs were the reason he made a deal with Russia4 election interference. Bill Barr. Satanic underling.

Ivanka and Junior decried the unfairness of Hunter Biden using his family4 profit.

Rudy Guiliani says the impeachment is a clown show and circus. Then donned a top hat and flipped out.

I better go. Stay tuned...

October 14 2019

And we roll this long monday. By dawn we were crossing Fulton county headed2 Mountain HOme. A storm had battered three bushy maples. The first was over the street, the house, the driveway... Did I say it was bushy? So we did a combination of reduction and storm damage removal. KInd of the same4 the two in the back, two houses, air conditioner, fencing and shrubs in the way, we reduced that on, then one more, major reduction, this one had been topped so it was more riddled with pockets of rot or hollow, but we got it manageable, looks fairly good now. The long road home had no mishaps, and that's always a good thing...

And it's winter. Good old rain out this morning. Hard rain early. Cold now. It's time4 kindling with a friend.

Firewood warms up many times: cutting, loading hauling splitting, stacking, burning, ash disposal... U earn ur shelter discount the old school way. Or u can search memes all day 4 that perfect facebook post some one wlse wrote. A picture of a hot person saying the words u found gets a couple more likes. Hot is... Interesting...

T Rump travels2 Minnesota, screaming their elected rep is unamerican socialist whatever seems2 resonate in the sea of red hats. I'm surprised he made the show, Minneapolis insisted on getting paid up front, T Rump has a long list of stiffing cities4 security costs he is supposed2 share. In the immortal words of FRANK SINATRA when T Rump tried2 stiff him: Go f*** urself.

So it's piddle and ride a few days. Bear down mentally. Life is a grind. Then u get a bump. And u take it slowly. And do that bump and grind.

I will do a panadox presentation of WAter Spider soon. sTep through a slide show, explaining my free form version of the Cherokees here in Sharp and Fulton County from sixteen ninety six till 1812.

I also have a major viewing of Panadox coming up Saturday b4 Halloween. EROSION rehearsal 2nite,

October 10 2019

And we roll. Storms also rolling in. LIghtning. Thunder. Rain.

2day was a road trip over2 Strawberry ARkansas. Lawrence county. On strawberry River. First up was a bushy maple near wires. We reduced it, removing one stem of three.

Then it was up a huge willow oak, though his species is rare here, Strawberry is closer2 the flatlands, where they are prolific. Then another large oak, both were standard pruning, getting dead and lower, crossing, interfering, etc... In the mix was a dead pear.

2 finish us off was a not small dead elm. Rough and tough morning east of here.

Yesterday was a bushy hickory all over a Cherokee Village house. Tough removal. Also a burned loblolly pine and long dead blackjack.

Tuesday was two very large dead red oaks on Nine MIle Ridge. One I had2 climb up2 about fifty feet and relieve it of a large side branch so that it would squeeze by a live red oak and not damage it. But this put it very close2 a building. Perfect hit. Nice short week.

Next week looks 2 b fuller.

2moro is EROSION in house. Loud rehearsal. Maybe a Highland Rebel football game.

Hope2 catch THE MIKE GRAY BAND featuring LAUREN GRAY @ Copper Feather saturday nite.

T Rump responds2 Fox News reporting that most Americans want T Rump impeached and removed with the only true words he has ever spoken: "they suck."

Across the board repos stumbling and stuttering, refusing2 answer simple questions about using the presidency2 black mail foreign leaders4 political gain. They won't denounce it. They are all compromised. Two megadonors headed one way2 Zurich, really close buddies with Guiliani, imprisoned 2day lol.

More and more repos crawling out from under their rocks and stating the obvious: T Rump is an embarrassment, a bald faced liar, a strutting poser, a spoiled brat loser, naked emporer, arrogant jerk, a corrupt bastard...

Pence and Barr drowning. In the Sea. of Hypocrisy and lies. The ocean of corruption, the crimson tide of criminality.

Facebook doubles down on false memes slurring Obama. Turns out the guy in charge of Facebook works4 Russia/GOP. What a coincidence.

So T Rump cuts a deal with Turkey2 let them massacre the Kurds who helped us defeat ISIS. T Rump still isn't sure what a Kurd is, and can't find Yemen on a map.

Prick Perry subpeonad. Dums are hinting that handcuffs are in store4 ignoring summons.

Trey "Shooter" Gowdy back from his brilliant Benghazi embarrassment. Even though his investigation showed only that HIllary was short staffed from Repo sabotage, he now goes2 work trying2 save murderous dweeb T Rump.

Oh yeh, Darryl Issa "Moron" is back4 more Russian fear mongering and disinformation4 Fox/Putin.

I'm sure Eric "We" Cantor is prime4 some prime time. He probably has all kinds of new ideas4 killing the poor.

LIberal Christians rising up, speaking out against right wing hypocrisy and lies.

So I've been trimming trees since b4 MIchael and Scottys first championship. Thousands upon thousands of trees, each one done2 a strict standard.

I don't knock on doors or advertise. Always insured.

Oxtober 3 2019

Quiet night on Spring River. After three nights in a row on Spring River. Big adventures out there. I'll recap off the top of my head, then check notes but here goes:

I left Saddler Falls Monday morning, easing through Many Islands I put a couple good trout on the stringer. I took these off and cleaned them and put them in the freezer. Wind punished my progress rate, my hands complaining about the degree of pain. But I saw lots of wild life, huge softshell and snapping turtles. At one point I could c a kingfisher, a bald eagle, an osprey, a blue heron, and ducks all @ the same time. I'm tryna remember if their was a loon in the mix.

Worked my way 2 Hardy, The low water bridge is not a problem4 me. Stopped2 check on a tree job estimate, and Worked through the heat2 Weiand Island4 the night, hanging with my brother and friends nearby, then back2 the tent...

NExt day was an easier day, stopping2 visit friends or have coffee. That area is my old home. My Uncle Joe had a boat ramp there b4 the Arkansas Game and fish put one there in the seventies. We pulled a snapping turtle out of there that bit a boat paddle in half. Then dented the tube on a john boat. Gigantic creature.

ONe osprey flew across the sky like a meteor, all the way across the blue sky the white breasted osprey, and of the many ospreys I saw no two were the same color patterns, but this one hit the water hard and seemed unsure or dazed. Ducks waited patiently4 him2 leave.

Nice quikening as the River narrows through Ravenden. I camped downstream of Ravenden. A giant deer very near my tent woke me up, so I cast a lure out @ daybreak And ka badda boom a fifteen inch brown bass was on the stringer. Other bass were smallish. The state record Blue Gill almost jumped n2 my boat I kid u not.

This morning as i camped @ the juncture of Spring and Eleven Point I tried2 do it again, Again a fish immediately took my first cast. But this one had some gator in him, he swirled my ultralight equipment a second then snapped my line like a bull whip. Must've been a whopper.

Although the last two days were fairly ez, I had2 admit the slow sluggish few miles this morning2 Black Rock really wore me down as big heat once again ruled. Sweet trip almost the length of Spring.

Lots of cows in the river. I mean lots. I chase them out just4 fun. Hay field edges crumble much of the way. I saw the old cars used As erosion control by the railroad. I think it's the Valley Stone area.. ONe area is big roadsters u could c Al Capone hauling booze in. The other was a coupl decades later, maybe some edsels. Again I regret not taking pics, plus the side structures: old bridges, railroad tresles, etc. would make good photos.

Then it's T Rump inviting China2 help him out with this Biden thing, And 4 good measure he also asked North Korea2 execute Joe Biden in return4 a new T Rump Tower.

Hate book doubles down, all the repo right there with the Billion dollar cheeto. T Rump says there will b civil war if they attempt2 remove him from office. Maybe that is the era he is refferring2. Well, the era prior2 the civil war.

So it's piddle now. I'm having a party saturday night. Panadox showcasing my new waterfall video and also a giant bon fire.

Then I'm sure it's back2 work Monday. I will be red e2 strap those boots on.

All kinds of wildflowers on weeds along the river. Big green hedgeapples. A few butterflies and dragon flies but the more irritating kind didnt show up till the flatlands. Dapples and dollops of floating white or yellowish pollen foam. A Few leaves are falling, they form a skim and march along the currents like good soldiers. Crickets serenaded in shrill layered harmony as Freight trains switched, idled, or barreled through...Sunset nears. 11point gurgles and pops apprval land welcome. I c huge carp, some freak out when they see me or just jump.

     wont lie. this was grindage. this was no ez. There was wind.long dead stretches, tests of skill, tests of endurance, tests of patience...I finally used my Off! this year. ONly once did I use it b4. But the flies down in the flat lands were getting bad as I cooked fish by the fire. I always get Off!

Just a few miles2 Black Rock. The scenic river doubles here, then doubles again in mile or2. EROSION sounded good out there...

September 27 2019

And we roll. Early we were rolling up2 a fine home on Lake Thunderbird in Cherokee Village. A bushy hickory was all over the driveway, dropping hickory nuts that invariably rolled2 the carport. In Cherokee Village hickories can b a nuisance. Many elderly have trouble with the nuts. So there was no talking them out of this one. Boom. It's gone.

It was a pleasure2 work this cool morning. I got up in2 the tree slicing and dicing. Topping, flopping... The neighbors were impressed.

So now i've already unloaded the truck. I have firewood stocked up n2 next year. Well n2 next year.

Last night was DYLAN KANE @ Cherokee Village Octoberfest. Then the MIKE GRAY BAND rehearsal. It's fascinating watching them collaborate and develop proper structure of songs. LALA coaches, BOBBY works on it also coaching, MIKE and LEE may fumble a minute, but make up4 it with tight melodies and breaks. As a novice I am over whelmed @ the level of professionalism. They play with world famous ERIC GALES 2nite in Newport Arkansas Depot Days festival... Then 2moro@ The Cherry Festival in Cherry Valley Arkansas.

All Repos 2day: the whistle blower is hear say. The whistle blower was not in the room. What he thinks he heard could b wrong. I don't know. I haven't read the complaint. I didn't read the ACA replacement plan with scribbling in the margins and last minute changes but I voted4 it. Fox/Russia commanded it so.

September 24 2019

And we roll this restful night. Cool weather has me piddling. After a late start we got2 work @ a fine home on Spring River. It was nipping n tucking on a variety of hackberry, box elder, elm, locust, catalpa, cedar...

Getting red e4 some Panadox. I have a new video2 reveal. I may b hitting Eleven Point4 many days.

September 23 2019

And we roll. Rough and tough morning in trees. ONce again I was with an inexperienced crew. But this was all right, they got better as the morning went on. Plus they didn't get hurt. thats always a plus.

one guy was strapped. They were gun enthusiasts, I helped them clear an area4 a pistol range. We removed many oaks, sassafras, hickories and ash... Sassafras so fragrant is always a sweet moment.

We chipped it up and now I'm a member of the Cherokee Village Gun Club. I don't know if that makes me a card carrying member of the National Rifle Association.

So it's some easier jobs on Spring River, plus I want2 make some time4 fishing and unlaxing. I caught a trout with a cherry tomato yesterday lol.

Repos: Dums children should not b allowed2 do business. this is basically the hypercritical than thou approach2 the latest accusations about Joe "the plumber' Biden and his son versus T Rump.Org.

Like so many other fake Fox/Russia scandals the real teeth is in how the investigation shows dums2 b good public servants, Joe Biden helped clean up Ukraine, and repos are slimy reptiles: T Rump trading aid4 dirt. T Rump says 2day, who doesn't know what their son is doing? Perhaps u sir, as u have denied many times knowing Junior met Russians4 dirt on Hillary, i.e. interfering in our election. But since Congress failed2 act on Muellers advice, he feels he has free reighn2 repeat offend.

Chants of Hillary weren't enough. Now it's "Biden deserves the electric chair" Just as in all HIllary and dums fake scandals, The Biden Ukraine story has already been inestigated and Biden not only is innocent, but should b credited with helping clean up the country. T Rump is right about one thing. It's about corruption all right. His corruption.

The bloated corpse of the repo party now addled with dementia, instinctively attacking, accusing dums of repo crimes. It worked as recently as 2016.

Repos in their greed are shooting themselves in the foot. Demanding all these investigations n2 election fraud, FBI bias, or corruption by Dums invariably digs their hole deeper as more facts come out about repo election fraud, Repo FBI bias or repo corruption. T Rump says he might release the transcript. This caused the entire planet2 unite in uproarious laughter.

SEptember 21 2019

And we rock. Not really its dawn, the birds are singing. EArly last night was a different story. EROSION made a little noise. Ripping off most of a set. I shorten the songs a little sometimes in rehearsal2 keep my drummer engaged. But we also have2 do extended versions as we prepare4 a gig. We r not pros. I use athletic training experience, how a coach tries2 get the team2 peak as the playoffs begin. The playoffs is a scheduled gig. We step it up as the gig approaches. Or not. Sometimes we blow it off. We have choices. Options. So it's rest. 2day. Still recovering from the inexperienced crew. No i'm not worried about them reading this because they are rabid Obama haters and T Rump goonies. And bullshitters. Willing2 gamble on themselves pulling it off when they are grossly unqualified and inept. Kind of like T Rump himself.

I don't take myself 2seriously. Unless I'm on the job site. Lucky4 them this was their job. They just couldn't do it.

But thats all over now. Plus T Rump is embroiled, along with his countless other serious scandals, in a whistle blower complaint and subsequent demonization and cover up.

More foreign meddling in our elections. More coverups, Rudy is prepping us2 take the fall, get us2 believe, even with a recorded phone call, that he acted alone as a lone pariah, alone he acted alone. T Rump was concerned only with Ukrainian adoption laws, concerned with helping the children of Ukraine, Stopping abortion in Ukraine. So Americans who can't have children because of botched home abortions can adopt Ukrainian children...

So maybe this whistleblower is T Rumps Serpico.

T Rumps lawyers now say that no one can even look n2 it. I assume all of us r traitors now4 breaking the law by asking questions. That may not b a joke, Because with the Department of Justice and Bill Barr blocking the whistle blower there only move may b2 prosecute the whistle blower and the inspector general. Dont put it past T rump and Barr.

These guys commit high crimes and misdemeanors non stop. fifty or sixty a day 24 7. week after after year after year. But Obama wore that tan suit. It really clashed with his skin.

So T rump prolly thought withholding aid2 Ukraine would b ok because Putin would def b on board4 that. But he tried2 get a twofer, win them over with cash and get fake dirt on Biden. Just like hid did2 get here.

But hopefully its the alpha domino that triggers one of those world record domino displays, with the bursting flowers and collages of varying visual patterns as the dominos fall. some of those have high wire, obstacle courses, as will T Rumps impeachment and disgrace. Thousands of dominos are used in these displays. Google has them. Google tube it.

 

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