A good day. It is hot here in the Foothills. A good day to visit a couple great Socialist Institutions: the Public Library and the Community Swimming Pool. The Library is in Paradise. The Swimming Pool is three miles down the road next to the elementary school. All the Concow kids wile away their summer either at the Public Pool or the swimming hole. These Al Goreian, super hot summers necessitate aquatic adventures.I took my walk tonight with Angel. The talk at the swimming pool was that two large bears are hanging out. Joni said the one she saw was about five feet tall at the shoulder. The lifeguard said she saw two about the same size. Some very large bears!
Angel and I went looking for our Ursine friends. I looked for tracks. Scat. Found nothing. Maybe tomorrow?
addendum: I added a few phots to an earlier entry...
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Hot out there? Wish you could give some of that heat to us out here in upstate NY. Besides raining just about every single day, the temp has broken 80 maybe twice.
But I'd better be careful what I wish for.
What kind of giant bears do you have? Five feet at the shoulder! While on all fours? Wow!
Yeah, that does sound to too big for a Black Bear. But Joni said it was as tall as Kylie at the shoulder. That isn't quite five feet.
I was reading about Pennsylvania black bears last night. According to John McPhee, they tend to be larger than other black bears in your neck of the woods. So I guess Joni's monster bear might be possible.
Dropped down the (steep) hill to the resort, back up and made a stop, and then went to the ferry the long way to try to catch the mail lady with some outgoing, but was too late. Found a neat "honor system" stand with garlic and lavender at the dock. Only had 75 cents on me, so I got one bulb of garlic.
Was a bit of a slog to get home with my legs still a bit sore from yesterday.
10.55 miles
1:04
9.8 mph average
34.84 mph max
The history of libraries has plenty of examples of voluntarily funded libraries, which don't have the ethical scar of taking money by force to do something "good". When you want to start a library on the ridge, I hope you don't do it at gunpoint...
;-)
I'm all for voluntary socialism -- we call it cooperation -- as opposed to forced socialism.
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