One reason I love living where I do is that you can get 14 of these bad boys for under 100$. Yeah baby! 

Here is this years crop of gourds. All grew from the gourds I tossed into the compost pile. No work necessary. Cool, eh? 

Last year I tossed some gourds into my compost pile. This year the seeds took. and took well. This vine and gourd managed to climb a tree, take hold and grow IN the tree. Two gourds grew like this. It was the coolest/ weirdest thing.  

Burnin' the pile.  

Out of 12 seeds i planted, i got two. Oh well, the seeds were free anyway. 

Wife's new addition to the stable. 

Mt. Katahdin

Mt. Katahdin on leaving day. I took this pic from the window of the float plane on the return trip from Rainbow to Millenockett.

Fishermans Warf

Dont Deport 'em...Deploy 'em

Here's a crazy idea. For any of these Mexican immigrants caught illegally crossing the border into the US; instead of processing their information and shipping them home, the US should start processing them right into the Army. They are looking for work, right? Well, here's a job. The Army recruiting goals would exceede expectations. There would be additional troops to rotate into Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever else.

It could also drastically cut the # of illegals attempting to cross. There would now be a REAL RISK if they were caught. None of this manmsy-pamsy BS of sending them back, only for them to try again and again and again.

The reward to the new solider is of course the salary, but to sweeten the deal -full citizenship at the end of their 4 year duty. We already know that they can walk endless hours across the hot desert. Its a win-win.

It of course could morph into a whole basic policy change....Fast track to citizenship...join the army.