Haiku 6 + in These titles mean nothing.

This day the kings come
Bearing gifts, bowls of oatmeal
Bananas and nuts

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I have a picture of my oatmeal and I may or may not have uploaded it but I cannot put it here. I will try again in the morning when I am eating my actual oatmeal.

We are at 160% of our allotted internet so that might have something to do with my photobucket woes. We get to start over on Saturday.

The telephone company is offering us a really good deal on internet. We get phone service and what seems to be unlimited internet for less than $100. I asked if they were sure it would work for us down in the valley and I asked if it comes on the phone line, will the lightning come on it like it used to do and take out our modems. Yup I asked those questions and the person on the other end of the line said Sure it will work perfectly for you. There is no contract and the price is guaranteed for several years - three maybe?

I now pay fifty bucks for satellite internet through the electric co-op and the service is limited. I’m paying about seventy for our land line.

Oh well, it’s easier to leave things that way they are. Inertia.

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Inertia rules us
We stay still, we stay moving
Wave as you go by

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There was a woman on Old Days who wrote really good haiku. She was from South Carolina and I can almost see her. She was a young 40 and she had dark hair. She said she wrote the last line first. I don’t. I write the first line first. But I think her product was better than mine.

Where are all the lost people? Most are so lost I can’t even remember their names.

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Nameless, faceless them
Lost now in the webs fallout
All’s left is Facebook

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It was cloudy and seasonably warm today. I saw a crescent turning into quarter moon in the eastern sky on my way to work.
Busy day at work. I worked on a whole bunch of different and marginally interesting jobs. I’d tell you about them but it would take too long. I told Jim about them at the beginning of my Gracie walk tonight. He gets us started and then goes back home to feed cattle or bring in wood or something.
When Gracie and I got back we helped feed ground feed to last spring’s calves who are in the lot behind the barn. Jim grinds shelled corn from the bin and adds protein and minerals and vitamins and medicine to prevent digestive upset. He transfers it from the grinder to a bin on a stand. When I help I put 5 gallon plastic buckets under the bin’s spout and open the slide and let the feed out and then close it when the pails get full. It involves some lifting and carrying and I think it’s good for my back.
We got a pizza from town tonight. Two thirds sausage and pepperoni and one third House. I slid the toppings from two of the House pieces into the bowl of last night’s left over cabbage salad. Gracie got the crusts. I got the salad and pizza toppings. House is generous with onions, green peppers, mushrooms, cheese and special sauce.

Oh we have a new cat. I will post pictures in the morning - if I get up in time.

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I got up in time. For oatmeal and for picture linking on the internet.

The cat just appeared. Jim saw it in the barn on day and then the next day it had insinuated itself into the house. It’s just a little more than a kitten. It’s quiet. It’s not popular with any of the existing cats or Gracie. I think it must have been dumped. It’s too nice a cat to be wild and it knows what a house is.

Jim says when it gets warm it will move out. I am skeptical. They almost never do.

Last updated January 07, 2016