Thursday, April 24, 2008

HAPPY EARTH DAY - - Humbug!

If one more person wishes me a "Happy Earth Day," I'm going to scream!

Better yet, I'm going to give them an ounce of Mother Earth from my home as a TOKEN of the EARTH Day which travels enshrouds my house five-out-of-seven days-a-week at speeds of 15- to-65 MPH during March and April in west Texas.

Living on the Caprock, west of Lubbock, Texas, there is very little variation in the terrain between here and the mountains of New Mexico to break up the winds. And with the cotton fields bare after being stripped, with little rainfall, dust storms are a regular, if not daily occurrence.

And if it does rain, there's "smud." That's rain, mixed with dust, pushed ahead of a thunderstorm by high winds.

"You ain't seen nothin' till you been smud on, then hailed on, then have to keep an eye out fer the torenaders that are right on their tail," warns the cowboys.

So, for all you Earth Lover folks out there, I've got a great deal. Our Mother Planet has left me with a over-abundance of her fine, red dust in my back yard. I'm assuming it is her gift to me as it's been over six weeks and she has not taken it back.

I really want to share some of that gift with all of you who have an appreciation of our Sacred Mother and her treasures. If you'll send $5 and include $2 for S&H, I'll send you your very own five ounces of commemorative 2008 Earth Day Dirt…(sorry) Earth. It will be something you can treasure and pass on to your children and their children. Imagine, telling them that this was a sample of Mother Earth from Whitharrel, Texas.

It will make it a truly Happy Earth Day…for both of us.

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