Sheep highlight similarities between dreary weather and politics

 Our CSA share was ready this morning. The Better Half will turn these basic ingredients into delicious fare for the winter, spring and summer weather we’ll probably experience over the next week. The box contained:

• Arugula
• Kale
• Lettuce
• Red potatoes
• Spinach
• Watercress, and
• Yellow onions

On our way home, we slowed enough to grab some quick pictures of the lambs at one of the farms we drive past regularly. I count about a dozen in the picture below and there were several handfuls outside the frame that wouldn’t fit. There were few gamboling about today. Most, as you can see, were resting from breakfast and morning dashes as they marshaled their strength for lunch.

spring lambs at rest

Photo by J. Harrington

Once we got home, the dogs were fed and walked and a loaf of sourdough bread is baking as this is being written. Slowly I’m coming to accept that the best way to deal with our continually dreary weather is to try to ignore it, since we can’t easily change it. I wonder if the same approach to politics is the way to go.

Sheep to Sweater

By Drew Gardner

Considering the frequency

with which I take people’s words

out of context, lie through my teeth and smear

anyone who doesn’t hew to my philosophy

of division and contempt,

I’d prefer my candidate of choice to stay

on the high road, but there’s a certain element

of fighting fire with dilemmas,

not just for me, but for any candidate.

Is it more important to lose honorably,

or to get into the gutter with your own particularity

when so much is the answer?

I love the pumpkin idea.

I will definitely use that and I also plan

on making the “kielbasa launcher.”

I already have a guacamole rifle

and it’s the same thing, I just need

to figure out how to do it.

If you have ideas for that please help.

Also on the splitting heads thing they

have that hydraulic wrench that

rips the brain chunks out of the

head you can do that so much

easier just get the fishing line attached

to the fragments and then fill 

a two to three liter soda bottle

with sand and throw it in the opposite

direction your life is going.

To see the results of this oscillatory combustion

phenomenon between the acoustics of the

cavity and the pyrolysis of the propellants

which were used in irreproducible ignition

which I never liked much anyway.

I couldn’t decipher myself.

Too bad. I have typed out some abbreviated remains

where my old life used to be, but I’m still

living in them as if they were a book.

I spent the afternoon reveling

and wondering what

I need to do to get my own sheep.

I saw sheep herding and shearing,

admired the baby lambs, and followed

the “from sheep to sweater” interpretive trail.

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