So here we have National Trail Mix Day once again. The observance is held anually each 31st of August and is something I've partaken of regularly since my trip down the Chatooga River with Terry Elrod, the late Ronald Player, Dr M F McFarland and his friend whose name escapes me after all these years ...

Anyway, at that period of my life being barely out of high school I earned next to nothing and in retrospect had no business embarking on this trip for reasons of financal propriety but being the basically irresponsible clod I was in the early 1970s I went anyway.

I didn't even have money for supper that night.

The following day we embarked very early in the am and right about the first stop we were given a large bag of 'gorp' from which I consumed mass quantities and it satisfied that immense emptiness secondary to my hunger.

Since then, with the steady improvement of my finances I have continued to enjoy various trail mixes with forays into the plain garden variety all the way through those exotic gormet versions which I typically bought in five pound increments and shared with those at work.

So whether you mix your own recipe or indulge some prepackaged brand I hope you too can celebrate that nutrition from nuts and chocolate and oh, the salty raisin and other dried fruit goodness of it all.

Happy National Trail Mix Day to you !
 

Labor Day is our last public holiday of the Summer season.

Typically it constitutes a day off for most of us with schools and many businesses being closed in observance.

This year I have a four day weekend thanks to my job and I plan to spend a portion of that time with my Mom and handle a little yard work which continually escapes me.

The day is not what it once was to me.

The politics of the present with it's diminished patriotism and freaks of nature claiming rights to be those abominations that they are in conjunction with the stupidity of all too many in general has sullied such days for me and I choose not to observe the day with many compared to times long gone. Be all of this as it may I hope your Labor Day is everything for which you could hope and that it progress in a fashion which suits your life and family.
 

If you get your news or information from CNN, the Washington Compost, the LA or NY Times or any "Media Matters" outlet and feel that it's objective you are stupid.

This makes a number of people I associate with stupid and I stand by that assessment inasmuch as they are stupid idiot democrats who say that the brigand Obama was "their president" and other tidbits which brand them as the non thinking criminal supporting political morons they are.
 

If you're a democrat you're stupid. If you stand with the likes of the so-called "Squad" of stupid socialist and muslim enemies of the state you deserve what you get. You need to go with them.

The fact that Antifa and socialism are even under consideration as viable and valid entities in your midst is telling upon your intellect and your painfully diminished character.

You democrat leaders in congress pursue settled issues wasting the taxpayer's monies as though they're doing a great service when all you are doing is diplaying that level of stupidity for which you democrats are becoming renouned as those dullards you are.

I have no interest in debating the truth with you.

I have no interest in you at all.

You're not polite company nor do you have any redeeming virtue.

Go forth among your equally stupid peers and exist in that squalid desolate nothingness which is your mind, your critical thinking skills, and your savvy.

There is simply nothing worthwhile there.