As most of you know by now, I’ve got a little work-exchange program going with my friend, Boots. In fact, I think we’re in our fifth year of trading time during the winter months.
I agreed to call it a work exchange only because I’m a good friend. But it’s really more like a social service from my end. Because, truth be told, Boots is required to leave the home at least once a week so his partner, Chris, can attempt to find some sanity (read: Boots-free time) in order to focus on her artwork.
I like to think of it as my own little United Way project.
But today was a payback day for me: It was my turn to venture to Boots’ compound in the middle of friggin’ nowhere to offer my labor. It started just fine as we hooked his big Percheron, Bart, to his homemade snowplow for the first time. I had the easy job: Hooking the chain to the goliath of a v-shaped snowplow and then getting the hell out of the way. Boots, on the other hand, had to hang onto the horse and skip across the ice and snow while the adrenaline from all involved skyrocketed from the scraping sound of the plow on the icy undersurface.
But it worked. And with little more than a horse, a wooden v-plow and two batshit crazy horsemen, the driveway was cleared of snow. Piece of cake. And carbon free!
I glanced at my watch and realized after the snowplowing adventure that a mere 30 minutes had elapsed. Oh my, what will we do next?
Well, first we watched the dogs play (my dog is the lab):
And then, after lunch, Chris – a professional photographer – asked me to pose in order to document my very impressive display of facial hair:
Finally, Boots asked me to help carry the laundry inside so it could be hung to dry. It was truly a Brokeback Mountain laundry moment:
Oh boy, it was a busy, busy day. And almost as effective as voting for Ralph Nader.
Nice-Your face reminds me of a diaper I once knew (and I wasn’t the first one to meet it, either). Hope you’re not to worn out, dawg.
Can’t you sharpen those pics?
News Flash:
Chicago
Obama To Name Colby Blog Czar
In another move that will surely draw boos from the whiny Left, President-elect Barack Obama announced today that Vermont radical logger and horse-blogger (or whatever) Michael Colby is his pick to head the newly created Federal Department of Cyber-Action. This new Cabinet-level (sort of) agency will oversee all electronic communications and transactions in the United States, including sex on-line.
However, many Democrats, Progressives, Liberal-Fucks, Peace Ninnies, and White-Male- Bloggers-between-the-ages-of 25 to 40-who-live-on-trust-funds-and-have-been-blogging-for-equal-status-
with-the-main-stream-media-and-also-insider-connections-to-elected-
officials-or-at- least-elected-officials’-friends are now screaming bloody murder that Obama has once again awarded high office and power to someone who is “not one of us,” according to a poll done by the liberal-fuckin’-stupid blog, Daily Kos.
Over ten thousand anonymous negative comments about Colby have already been posted on the Daily Kos site, including at least eight thousand “not one of us” complaints and other assorted accusations that Colby, Obama, Ralph Nader, Sarah Palin, Dennis Kucinich, Jon Stewart, Martha Stewart, Caroline Kennedy, Jesus Christ, OJ Simpson and others are in a conspiracy with the Bush administration to continue the policies that have “busted the Lefts’ balls since people of Colby’s ilk in the sixties began defining the Vietnam War as a Vietnamese ‘nationalist’ movement rather than a polycentric movement of peasants wanting an open dialogue with the white American hippie class,” according to a blogger calling him/her self AllPissedOutInIdaho.
Colby couldn’t be reached for comment. A friend of Colby’s when contacted said Colby went into retreat after an anonymous and gender-neutral person of whiteness threw a horseshoe at him. Obama said he will stand by this appointment and all his appointments and that “the white whiney Leftie assholes and their Stalin-supporting grandparents and great-grandparents have been fucking things up here in America for decades. It’s time for a change. If my great ancesters had to depend on the Left in the sixties, I mean the Eighteen-sixties, I’d be picking cotton right now or cleaning up some honky’s puke in an Internet cafe. Fuck the Left. Left THIS!”
As of noon today, organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee, the Don’t Raise MY Property Taxes, Raise THEIRS Committee, the Committee on Politically Correcting Shakespeare, the Peace Without Justice Coalition of Progressive Restaurant Owners of Vermont Against Union Fascism, the Network of Pleace Use 8 or Better Yet 9 Words to Describe Someone’s Race, and the United Candle and Broomhandle Association of Revolution Through Silence have condemned Colby’s appointment and have also issued statements to the effect that they will continue to condemn any and all appointments and actions by Barack Obama that do not provide high-paying and well-connected jobs and financial aid to “those Americans who deserve to live in peace, prosperity and fashion, as long as they’re not Rednecks or some other diversity perversity.”
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Take That, HorseMan!
Update on News Flash:
The state of Israel has come out with a formal endorsement of the Colby appointment. Israeli government spokesperson Philip Rothsteen added that: “Jews here and the International Neocon Jewish Conspiracy really like the kosher stuff coming from the election of the schwartza. We hope to become some of his best friends.”
nice.
Hey, We’re having fun over at GMD. Odum just called me a right-winger. Where the hell are you when the big dialogues are goin’ down? Oh yeah, somebody threw a horseshoe.