A "look see", ramblin and preachin. [Preachin a mite]

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After a night of rain, I took the old 4 wheel pull chevy and went for a "look see" around our neck of the woods. Had to first go to Wallyworld West [a local scrap yard] and see what goodies the city dudes had throw'd away. Moseyed on after that and saw all that 2" of water we got last nite. Most of it is in the fields, road ditches and streams. Me'n the old chevy even went for a swim in waters over the low lying road west of ole jeeps house. Mite nigh to the floorboards of the old chevy, it was!

Got me to thinkin a little more and that sometimes ain't healthy for this old hillbilly! Fifty years ago when we got big rains like this one-nothing flooded. The modern advent of "gov't set aside programs" have really messed up things. Fifty years ago the flood prone areas were just left alone or at worst, used for pasture. Now with Unk Sam pay'n so much per acre to NOT farm--it's a rather lucerative part of farmin now. Of course the land has to be "farmable" with no brush or trees hinderin that farmin. Consequently land was cleared of all the undesirable "trash" makin more elgible ground. When this clearing is done--the rain waters quickly become flood waters because there is no brush, trees or tall grasses to slow down those waters. When money can be made off of not farmin then something must be wrong somewhere! Maybe not--maybe it's just this old hick's obsolete way of thinkin! I'm not knockin the farmers for participating in those programs [will try myself year after next] because of the big business's crooked tatics of squeezing out the small family farms. One has to look to whatever LEGAL and MORAL options available or take the chance of losing the farm.

Well, now that I fell off my soapbox methinks it's nappy time for this old "tard braned" hillbilly. Done and "taxed" it almost beyond the point of recovery. Folks Jesus Christ is coming back real soon -to take back His own. Are you one of "His own"? old hoot gibson. Matt.24:44

-- old hoot gibson (hoot@pcinetwork.com), December 14, 2001


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