Around Goshen

fishing

2010-10-21T07:36:00.001-05:00

christiana creek behind the kroger in elkhart

pinata

2010-10-19T19:00:00.001-05:00

today at oxbow

and the sign said

2010-10-19T04:57:00.001-05:00

"long-haired freaky people need not apply"

huron river

2010-10-13T08:09:00.001-05:00

proud lake

2010-10-09T08:06:00.000-05:00

giwitatigweiasibi

2010-10-07T11:04:00.003-05:00

railroad over the huron (giwitatigweiasibi) river in
milford i've jumped from this bridge

dryad's saddle

2010-10-06T14:11:00.001-05:00

molly and i walked at oxbow today

medicine

2010-10-05T22:14:00.000-05:00

it's good to know that ol' doc is able
to get his much needed medicine

had a great fall

2010-10-02T17:06:00.001-05:00

all the king's horses and all the king's men

milford

2010-10-02T09:21:00.000-05:00

millpond pettibone creek

proud lake

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highland

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house in commerce

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kung fu fighting

2010-09-23T18:54:00.001-05:00

or maybe tofu fighting

froe

2010-09-20T21:37:00.002-05:00

at the fayette county museum vandalia il ....
the lady giving me a tour pull this froe from
a locked display case and told me it had
belonged to abraham lincoln

i think i'll pass

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chaplain sullivan

2010-09-18T19:53:00.000-05:00

brother bill

2010-09-17T21:20:00.000-05:00

bill's brother was kia while serving with alpha company
in vietnam, bill and i have been internet friends for more
than 10 years, his friendship has enriched my life greatly

you can find me in st louie 16th-20th

2010-09-15T08:55:00.003-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AULocM49BE

guard dog

2010-09-14T18:37:00.000-05:00

the couch is safe

moth on sedum

2010-09-13T18:42:00.000-05:00

A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL

2010-09-12T15:37:00.000-05:00

Tickseed Sunflower

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oxbow

my buddy

2010-09-10T08:17:00.000-05:00

new hat

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found in middle of ironwood dr in south bend
a quick trip though the washer and i have a
new used hat

lobelia cardinalis

2010-09-08T13:18:00.000-05:00

lobelia cardinalis / cardinal flower
oxbow county park

stinging nettle

2010-09-07T23:03:00.001-05:00

today at oxbow

Happy Fuckin' Labor Day!

2010-09-06T22:38:00.000-05:00

By Michael Moore

Dear Rahm Emanuel:

Happy Fuckin' Labor Day! I read this week that — according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration's former "Car Czar" — during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost if GM and Chrysler collapsed, your response was, "Fuck the UAW!"

Now, I can't believe you actually said that. Maybe Rattner got confused because you drop a lot of F-bombs, or maybe your assistant was trying to order lunch and you said (to Rattner) "Fuck you" and then to your assistant "A&W, no fries."

Or maybe you did mean Fuck the UAW. If so, let me give you a little fucking lesson (a lesson I happen to know because my fucking uncle was in the sit-down strike that founded the fucking UAW).

Before there were unions, there was no middle class. Working people didn't get to send their kids to college, few were able to own their own fucking home, nobody could take a fucking day off for a funeral or a sick day or they might lose their fucking job.

Then working people organized themselves into unions. The bosses and the companies fucking hated that. In fact, they were often overheard to say, "Fuck the UAW!!!" That's because the UAW had beaten one of the world's biggest industrial corporations when they won their battle on February 11, 1937, 44 days after they'd taken over the GM factories in Flint. Inspired by their victory, workers struck almost every other fucking industry, and union after union was born. Had World War II not begun and had FDR not died, there would have been an economic revolution that would have given everyone — everyone — a fucking decent life.

Nonetheless labor unions did create a middle class for the majority (even companies that didn't have unions were forced to pay at or near union wages in order to attract a workforce) and that middle class built a great country and a good life. You see, Rahm, when people earn a fucking good wage, they spend it on stuff, which then creates more good paying jobs, and then the middle class grows fucking big. Did you know that back when I was a kid if you had a parent making a union wage, only one parent had to work?! And they were home by 3 or 4pm, 5:30 at the latest! We had dinner together! Dad had four weeks paid vacation. We all had free health and dental care. And anyone with decent grades went to college and it didn't fucking bankrupt them. (And if you ever used the F-word, the nuns would straighten you out in ways that even you couldn't bear to hear about).

Then a Republican fired all the air traffic controllers, a Democrat gave us NAFTA and millions of jobs were moved overseas (hey, didn't you work in that White House, too? "Fuck the UAW, baby!"). Unions got scared and beaten down, a frat boy became president and, like a drunk out of control, spent all our fucking money and our children's money, too. Fuck.

And now your assistant's grandma has to work at fucking McDonald's. Ask her for pictures of what the middle class life used to look like. It was effing cool! I'll bet grandma doesn't say "Fuck the UAW!"

Hey, don't get me wrong, Rahm. I fucking like you. You single-handedly got the House returned to the Dems in 2006. But you and your boss better do something fucking quick to put people back to work. How 'bout making it a crime to take an American job and move it out of the country? In other words, treat it as if It were a fucking national treasure like you would if someone stole the Declaration of Independence out of the National Archives or some poacher stole eggs out of the nest of an America bald eagle.

Or how 'bout arresting some of those Wall Street guys who fucking stole our money, the money that ran the American economy. Now that would take some fucking guts.

And maybe, just maybe, that one act of real guts might save your ass come November 2nd.

Oh, I can just hear you now: "Fuck Michael Moore!" No problem. But Fuck the UAW? How 'bout if I just leave off the ‘A’ and the ‘W’?

Yours,
Michael Moore

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/happy-fuckin-labor-day

mill race trail

2010-09-05T21:53:00.000-05:00

molly and i walked the mill
race trail in goshen

viceroy

2010-09-04T18:03:00.000-05:00

molly and i walked at oxbow today

round

2010-09-03T18:11:00.001-05:00

http://www.photofriday.com/

pokeweed/polk salad

2010-09-02T12:38:00.000-05:00

as in polk salad annie

fat geese

2010-09-01T21:53:00.002-05:00

today jackson blvd elkhart

the reefer man

2010-08-31T23:06:00.002-05:00

i've been staying with Al, 93 y/o us navy ww2 ....
Al owned a trucking company ...

lake michigan

2010-08-29T13:57:00.001-05:00

moth

2010-08-26T11:02:00.001-05:00

molly and i walked this morning at oxbow

molly

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box elder bugs on milkweed

2010-08-23T21:46:00.001-05:00

molly and i walked today at oxbow

elkhart river

2010-08-22T20:45:00.002-05:00

the dam in goshen, the water level is about
as low as i've ever seen ....

today

2010-08-22T19:19:00.002-05:00

molly and i walked along the mill race
in goshen

bloomington indiana

2010-08-21T22:13:00.004-05:00

today i helped julie move to bloomington to attend graduate school at indiana univ, i saw this car in the parking lot of her apartment complex ....

"There is no way to peace — peace is the way."

Abraham Johannes Muste (Jan 8, 1885 – Feb 11, 1967)
Muste was born in Zierikzee, the Netherlands, and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1896. He attended Hope College, where he was class valedictorian . He earned a Bachelor's degree (A. B.) in 1905 and a Master's degree (M. A.) in 1909 from the Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church .

At the end of his life, Muste took a leadership role in the movement against the Vietnam War. Fellow peace activist Andrea Ayvazian tells of Muste standing outside the White House every night during the Viet Nam War, holding a candle, regardless of whether it was raining or not. One evening, a reporter approached him, and asked if he really thought that by standing outside the White House holding a candle night after night, he would change the policies of the country, to which Muste replied: "Oh, you've got it all wrong. I'm not doing this to change the country. I do it so the country won't change me.

(the building is made with bedford limestone)

long ago

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you might be a redneck if

2010-08-18T12:40:00.000-05:00

manistee river, kalkaska county

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me and a group of mergansers

fire pit

2010-08-17T10:03:00.000-05:00

mikes fire pit

raspberries

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pleasant lake

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spider

2010-08-12T09:02:00.001-05:00

same guy as yesterday

spider

2010-08-11T21:52:00.001-05:00

another spider the rascals are
out in this hot weather

spider

2010-08-10T21:41:00.001-05:00

viceroy

2010-08-09T19:46:00.001-05:00

on our weber grill

fort beane

2010-08-09T18:42:00.001-05:00

goshen indiana

Sunny 1966

2010-08-08T20:01:00.005-05:00

Bobby Hebb (July 26, 1938 – August 3, 2010)

molly

2010-08-08T13:11:00.001-05:00

lake michigan

empire bluff

2010-08-08T13:10:00.001-05:00

cicada-licious

2010-08-07T11:07:00.001-05:00

chocolate covered cicadas
ingredients:
8 squares of good-quality dark, white, or milk chocolate
30 dry roasted cicadas
directions:
1. roast teneral cicadas for 15 minutes at 225F.
2. meanwhile, melt chocolate in a double-boiler over low heat.
dip insects in chocolate, place on wax paper and refrigerate
until hardened.

my best friend

2010-08-06T16:25:00.008-05:00

Perhaps love is like the ocean
Full of conflict full of pain
Like a fire when its cold outside
Or thunder when it rains
If I should live forever
And all my dreams come true
My memories of love will be of you
(j denver)

i haven't done photo friday in what seen like forever ...
http://www.photofriday.com/

oops

2010-08-06T11:56:00.001-05:00

posting by e-mail works better if you don't
forget to attach the picture .....

moth

2010-08-06T11:49:00.001-05:00

on garage door window

dead cat

2010-08-05T09:04:00.001-05:00

kenwood park cadillac

Peter and Gordon

2010-08-02T22:01:00.000-05:00

The Zombies

2010-08-02T21:52:00.000-05:00

fire destroys tower at oxbow

2010-08-01T22:36:00.002-05:00

http://www.wndu.com/localnews/headlines/99464674.html

sleeping bear dunes

2010-07-31T22:19:00.000-05:00

little me

2010-07-29T09:25:00.000-05:00

glen arbor

molly

2010-07-19T22:29:00.000-05:00

on alligator hill

the man

2010-07-18T22:22:00.001-05:00

time to retire that shirt

the crew

2010-07-17T22:23:00.000-05:00

earwig

2010-07-06T09:26:00.000-05:00

soon to die

deer at oxbow

2010-07-05T22:48:00.000-05:00

happy 4th

2010-07-04T21:33:00.000-05:00

peg

2010-06-27T23:25:00.001-05:00

elkhart jazz festival

2010-06-26T22:51:00.001-05:00

heron

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elkhart river

goshen

2010-06-24T20:36:00.000-05:00

molly lake michigan

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kalkaska michigan

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home of the national trout festival

d h day farm

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sleeping bear point

2010-06-20T18:26:00.000-05:00

north and south manitou islands in background

needs a good squashing

2010-06-19T14:49:00.000-05:00

the beatles

2010-06-18T09:00:00.001-05:00

the dead beatles

jerky

2010-06-14T17:22:00.001-05:00

two thumbs up

2hrs @ 145

2010-06-14T10:30:00.001-05:00

time to turn over

food dehydrator

2010-06-13T21:51:00.001-05:00

30 + yo

the meat

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1.65 lbs round steak
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. dry mustard
3 tbsp. brown sugar
1/3 c. hard cherry cider
1/3 c. ketchup

hunting dog

2010-06-12T21:28:00.002-05:00

soft tick

2010-06-11T22:40:00.002-05:00

wow

2010-06-10T22:07:00.001-05:00

i don't know who made this, but it sure caught my attention !

let it all hang out

2010-06-09T05:16:00.001-05:00

one ball one dog one deer

2010-06-08T20:10:00.000-05:00

one ball one dog one deer

dead mouse

2010-06-08T14:22:00.001-05:00

molly killed it

rover in the clover

2010-06-07T18:49:00.001-05:00

today at oxbow

mighty duck hunter

2010-06-06T23:19:00.002-05:00

molly jumped in after the ducks

bee

2010-06-06T19:55:00.001-05:00

today at oxbow

may fly

2010-06-06T12:01:00.001-05:00

found inside pot on stove

Oil reaches Louisiana shores - The Big Picture - Boston.com

2010-06-05T15:09:00.001-05:00

Oil reaches Louisiana shores - The Big Picture - Boston.com

today at oxbow

2010-06-05T09:30:00.000-05:00

tge

2010-06-03T20:23:00.001-05:00

painted the picnic table

2010-06-03T20:22:00.001-05:00

Come And Go With Me-

2010-06-03T20:14:00.000-05:00

The Dell Vikings