I can't call it rain. It is more like living under a waterfall. The rain has been torrential all night and is expected to continue until 11 am. By that time four inches will have fallen in eleven hours.
As of now brooms are grounded; but my wife insures me she will be able to fly tonight.
Born Free, in one of your comments you questioned the idea of relocating to a simpler lifestyle as you age.
For twenty years we lived in a small, two story post and beam chalet in the woods. We were on a private dirt road that had to be maintained by the occupants on the road, we supplemented our heat with firewood, we had to maintain a well and wellhouse through the Maine winters, had to maintain a septic system; mowing, snow removal, maintenance... Being rural we often lost power every winter for three or four days at a time. The demands were great, but it was the life-style we chose. It was good, but I feared that my wife would not be able to maintain the place when I am gone - and it was getting to be a grind for me.
We had never considered living in a mobile home in a park until we started to look at available housing in our area. Places were over priced and we felt we would be inheriting someone else's problems - we just found nothing we liked. After shopping for almost a year we checked out some double-wide mobile homes on the internet. They are not like the trailers of yore. They are built to the same standards as modular homes/ new homes. There are scores of floor plans available at varying price ranges.
The decision came when we found a small park of twenty homes with an opening. The occupants are all older adults with no children. It is rurally located but with easy access to town. The park owners set high standards for all the occupant units. The road is plowed in the winter, the grass is mowed, there is a convenient garbage dumpster emptied twice a week, the septic systems are pumped yearly, we are on town water, there is even a hair dresser at the entrance to the park so my wife can easily walk to get her hair done. We were skeptic of living in a community, as we have always lived somewhat isolated; but the neighbors are nice. The choice of the park was more important then the selection of a home.
We have three bedrooms, living room, dining area, kitchen with a walk-m pantry, laundry room, and two baths. The master bathroom has a large walk-in shower large enough for us both to shower together. All the appliances are new; I even had a generator installed in case of power outages. We absolutely love this place, and being in our later years we could not have made a better choice. The stress factor far less than owning a home and land.
Hope this answers some of your questions.
the Ol'Buzzard
There are
numerous numbering systems. The system
most widely used in society is base ten.
The base ten system has ten numbers: 0123456789. We have ten fingers and ten toes so this is
a system easily visualized. Where the individual
numbers fall (the place value) determines the overall value of the number.
5283.12
The octal (base
eight system) has eight numbers 01234567
The counting
system that runs the world (computer language) is binary or base 2. It only contains two numbers: a one and a
zero.
001 = 1
010 – 2
011 = 3
100 = 4
101 = 5
110 = 6
111 = 7
1000 = 8
1001 = 9
1010 = 10 etc.
Where the
number ‘one’ falls determines the value of the product.
View the place values as a series of switches. Each
switch can be either on or off - one or zero. There
are thousands of switches on a microchip and the order you turn them on or off
determines the value of any certain number.
Mathematics
is a language, and when physicist exceed their ability to express concepts in
verbal language, they resort to mathematics formulas.
OK, where am
I going with this?
We are
constantly looking for intelligent life in the universe. We always view alien life as having a head,
legs, arms and a body, with some similarity to humans, or at least something familiar to us.
We are a carbon
base life form and the general consensus when looking for life in the universe
is to look for elements with carbon base that might indicate life.
But what if
the intelligent life in the universe is not carbon based – but mathematical based. Suppose the dark matter that physicists are always
searching for is actually an intelligent binary life form with energy spikes
falling in a place value system far exceeding anything that we can comprehend. We tend to call it AI or Artificial Intelligence,
when it is possibly OI – Original Intelligence: life that is not physical but intellectual.
My wife and
I have always lived close to each other and close to the earth. Almost everywhere we have lived our life has
been dictated by the seasons.
We have no
friends or associates that visit us, and we see her family only once every few
years. Some people might call us
recluse; but we are not. We enjoy travel,
shopping and eating out - together. We
are pleasant with neighbors and people we have to interact with. We don’t
dislike people; we just don’t like being around them.
We avoid all
holiday times like a plague. We have
our own celebration for spring equinox, summer solstice, fall equinox and
winter solstice. Other than that, we decorate
and enjoy Halloween.
I can't take credit for any of the decorations. I would live a solitary drab existence without my wife.
Halloween is the time of witches. How could we not celebrate it?
the Ol'Buzzard
Thanks to Leanna and her Religion In A Nutshell posts, I lay awake from five to six this morning contemplating religions and their God Heads, in respect of the fundamentals of Physics.
There is a
striking similarity between an atom and a solar system. Enough so to form the basis of a new
religion.
The atom’s nucleus (the sun/star) contains all
the energy. Electrons (planets) rotate
around the nucleus forming atoms. Atoms
(solar systems) coalesce together to form a galaxy (molecule). Galaxies
(molecules) group together to form a universe.
Coalescing
universes (molecular groups) could well be the building blocks for a living organism
living on another dimensional planet (electron). The process could start all over again where
that dimensional planet is actually an electron building toward a group of
universes forming yet another living creature living on a higher dimensional planet
(electron) that builds toward another living organism…
Until there
is finally one single organism, not on a planet, floating in the void of some
space, that is the final product (God, if you will) of multiple dimensions
combined.
Of course,
the laws of physics still apply to that chain ending in a God.
So that God would have mass and exert gravity;
and each time that God defecated the shit would fall into orbit rotating around
the deity, until He/She/It was surrounded by an ever-growing shit ball floating
through space, in search of another shit surrounded deity of the opposite gender
in order to have sexual intercourse; because in the end, the Hokey Pokey (getting
laid) is what it is all about.
the Ol’Buzzard
I get up
early with the cats while it is still dark outside. It is quite before the world awakes. I love this time of morning, and especially
today with rain drumming on our metal roof.
After the cats are fed, they go back into the bedroom, onto the bed with
my sleeping wife. I am left alone, with
the dark, and the rain, and I like it.
Some of our
most precious time is our mind time.
When we are alone with our selves and out thoughts.
the Ol’Buzzard
