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Here it is at eight o'clock at night and I completely forgot about writing a blog entry. I've been out in the woods again today. I burned off more ground cover than I expected to. The humidity has dropped considerably, and the weather people expect it to stay relatively low for a couple more days. Perhaps I'll get the rest of what I wanna burn off done by then.
This is not gonna be a quick turnaround. The woods I'm working in were ravaged by two hurricanes one after the other during one season. Both times the eye of those hurricanes came right over my house. The first hurricane soaked the ground to the roots, and the second hurricane blew the trees over roots and all.
It was a pine forest full of mature trees. By the time the weather straightened out most of the yellow southern pine trees on my property were on the ground. Fortunately for me, an old friend of my family had a lumber crew operating nearby, and he paid me a thousand dollars to cut what lumber he could out of it.
He hauled at least $15,000 worth of timber away. It was painful to go from living in an idealistic setting that my friends sort of envied me for, to living in what looked like a combat zone in a war. The value of my property dropped way more than half it's former listing.
Ten years has passed since the two hurricanes struck. The ground cover still had most of the trash that was left over from all those trees going down. The land itself was torn all to pieces from the timber company's logging machines. I was so saddened by the whole deal I couldn't bear to mess with it.
Two years ago I tried to clean up some of it in order to see the family pond from my house. The pond is about a hundred yards west of my house and during the winter the sun sets over it. The work I did there hasn't paid off too well. Many of the young trees I left to mature died when I burned that section off. I'm trying to be more careful this time.
After I burn what I can off I plan to rake the rest of it up and plant some centipede grass over it and rake it again in hope the seed will take. In any case it'll take at least two years for the grass to start appearing. I planted the lawn around my house with centipede without knowing it took so long to mature, but when it did it looked real good.
It took me by surprise that there haven't been more copycat Koran burnings. Evangelicals can be fairly violent people. To me they qualify as the American equivalent of the Taliban, but most conservative types associated with most of the cultures I'm familiar with are like that. This will never change, but the evangelical movement is not really Christianity as it's been regarded in the past.
They may call their religion Christianity and they may continue to use the KJV as their guidebook, but it seems to go beyond the general categories of contemporary Protestantism and/or Catholicism or Mormonism or whatever old people are continuing until they die out.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
