The Seventies Arise in Scavangnation

In other news, do you know how hard it is to find tools or Anything that is not made in China? Are there no foundries in our nation anymore? The lopping shears I bought are made in Finland; I like IKEA and Finland is close to Sweden where IKEA originated, so that makes it okay. I think Santa lives in Finland, or maybe that is where the reindeer are farmed in the off season. Norway is up there too, and that is where AHA is from, you know the rotoscope "Take On Me" band, meaning that these lopping shears have a five octave range if you don't look at the eighties hairdos too closely. God forbid I type the word /mullet/.

I have put a message out to the universe that I want to have a garden next year, in case of no food and would sneak chickens in there too if the zoning laws allowed. This garden will cost as close to nothing as can be sanely managed, which indicates scavenge mode is activated. With a Chevy Cavalier, though, loading isn't as easy as it was with the Ford Escort wagon, unless I clean out the trunk and push down the back seats. On the search and rescue list are boards for making raised beds and soil. And rocks, I like lots of rocks for that Japanese Sensible Serenity environment. Rocks calm me down, and I will play with them for hours, stacking and rearranging.

Rocks are free, and I know a cliff on the lake where millions of prehistoric bivalves have fossilized themselves into solid chunks of: rock. My poor car. It has no idea what it is in for. If it could run away, it would; it would join the circus and become a clown car instead of helping me garbage-pick off the streets. It might hope to be stolen and taken on a joy ride through the barrio by teenage boys who leave Starburst wrappers in the back seat. Can I blame it? The only reassurance is that I can't haul heavy stuff like I used to, and have cut way down on my Abbie Hoffman hippie liberation of other people's castoffs.

Vegetable plants are easy to start from seed, and friends are busy donating flowering perennials thinned out from their own yards. I have enough tomato seed to make Chef Boy Ar Dee do a backflip.

I am excited about this garden, am not sure where it will be but that is minor detail. Send any news regarding rocks that need adoption to this posting address. I think they are knocking down a building which mightily may provide the boards for banking the sides of the garden bed. Next year, we shall be rolling in carrots.

Love to all. Sleep well.