Daily observations of my simple life.

A New Day:

I drank my morning coffee looking out my window watching the sky colors change. Feather and Sage were doing a chase around the pasture and kick up the heels. I like to see them do that because it is good exercise and keeps their hooves pared down. Tangerine, my little yellow male cat came running across the courtyard after being out hunting. I do worry about him with the coyotes out . I hauled a sack of dog food out to the wash yesterday to help cut down on the chances of a hungry coyote eating my critters. Tangerine and his sister are garage cats. His sister is in her carrier on my bed so I can watch her. She had her successful spay operation yesterday. She seems a little anxious to be free but I want to wait at least another day before letting her out. 

I'm wondering about humans today. At the vets office there were newspaper pictures of truckloads of dead dogs being dumped. People take dogs to the pound and they are disposed of. It reminded me of Nazi camps. Sickening. Who do we think we are? So careless with other lives.

We have a prison out across the valley. I can see the lights at night. I read that they have a program to transplant the burrowing owls. I love these little owls and often see them out on the dirt roads early in the morning. Problem is this valley now has a proposal for 120, 000 new homes in just one development by some greedy Las Vegas man. Where are these transplanted by prisoners owls going to go after that?  One of the places I often saw them has just this year become a new development. One man who had the cutest little hand built funky house and yard. has moved on due to a string of cooky cutter houses along his once isolated block. 

 In Florida an older man who has owned 160 acres of prestine natural habitat had emminent domain exercised on him because developers left none. Now he has 5 million and is left only with the desire to be back on his own land. They said the community needed a preserve.Why should money give people the right to alter others lifestyles so drastically?  I believe in opportunity when morally sound but this is just greed. I sound off . I'm against cruel mindlessness and harming our earth. There are so many people who contribute nothing to life but their consumption. Think about that, I do.

Posted by: cactusandquail at 16:44 | link | comments (2)

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#1  27 January 2006 - 16:10

 

You re back!!!
I was missing you! I started asking all around for you and last you were heard from was in August. We never met but my blog is here:
http://queitsch-hof.blogspot.com/
susan aldridge in Germany

susanaldridge

#2  02 February 2006 - 19:24

 

Some of us must do the heaviest for so many shall do none.

You write like a painting, I throughly enjoy it.

recycledair

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