If It's Monday...It's Hot

 Oh yeah, screaming hot and now we've got smoke. Thick smoke. The smoke does NOT smell like burning wood. Although the smoke is from wildfires in California, Oregon, Idaho, and as far away as Washington. The state and not the D.C.. Smoke is so dang thick you can cut it with your air knife. We have those a way out here in the ole American West. You've got to have something to cut the dang smokey air so you gets yourself an air knife. If you lived out here well then you'd understand what it is I'm prattling on about. An air knife...that's rich. Not monetarily rich. So to be quite precise about the wildfire situation, there are wildfires burning in Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana. Oh yeah and I forgot about Colorado. There's wildfires burning in Colorado. That might comes as a bit of a surprise to the denizens of Colorado. Surprise! Anyway, we need rain. We need a whole lot of rain and then snow on top of that rain. Of course with all the wildfires burning up the landscape and forests and stuff, that leaves a forest full of burned barren ground. Ain't no trees left to be burned or the dang wildfires would come back and burn the shit twice. Anyway, after any forest wildfire and IF rain happens to fall out the sky, well, that wet earth turns to mud and the mud slides downhill and that's not exactly an Olympic event. But the damage caused by a mudslide is on an olympic scale. So you'll get warned about flash flooding after heavy rains. Warnings about mudslides tend to get overlooked. Either way, we've got us a disaster in the making and any mudslide disasters are on top of the wildfire disasters we've already got. Dang, things can't get any worse. That's a bit of an understatement AS things can always get worse. And things WILL get worse when the rains finally come. Might take about ten or twenty years for the rains to come but eventually the rains will come. You see the American West is suffering from one of those "on a geologic time scale" drought. Those kinds of droughts can last a couple of hundred years and there is geologic record that reveals exactly that. Damn, folks are gonna get a powerful thirsty if this drought last even one hundred years. Look out middle and eastern America, the westerners are gonna be moving your way and maybe sooner than later. That should make for some good time no doubt. East meets West in that traditional American way of welcome. Oh yeah, some really 'good' times. Okay and moving on to today's really important stuff and that would be of course the machine art portion of our program. 

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I wonder if Alaska is on fire...maybe somebody could ask Sarah Palin. Did you know that our gracious Ms. Palin is looking for a new 'soul mate'? Well she is you know. Good luck with that Sister Palin... 💔 poor woman, she sleeps alone. HAH!