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My Music Video: eARThsong - about Growing Our Own Food in Chico, Living With Horses...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tERVWVZUNyw

This Song was written at a time that we were living in Chico, California and were surrounded by a corral with 4 horses. We were also growing many plants including Morning Glory Flowers that eventually got so tall that they climbed up to the roof of the little house. The tomato plants produced an abundance of food... quite a miracle... especially to eat them hot off the vine... the earth in Chico is dark black and fertile... 

(lyrics) Bm A D G Planting, planting, planting seeds D A D May our garden grow... Bm A D G May God bless the earth and rain D A D And sprout the seeds I sow D A D And sprout the seeds I sow CHORUS: G Bm We've been tilling soil since the dawn of time A E The fertile loam of home is nature most divine G Bm The lady with the hand upon the plow A E is identical, then and now Weeding, weeding, weeding weeds feed 'em to the horses may God bless the new-born foal and teach it natures forces and teach it natures forces Riding, riding, riding steeds just like long ago May God bless the hay they eat and set their eyes aglow and set their eyes aglow

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another Video: White Rabbit
performed by the Dirty Cello Band...

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Question from 2021:

I Wonder Why Fresh Water from The Sacramento River Flows into the Ocean? Why Not Use It To Water Crops? After All, The Colorado River is Pumped Dry... and That's a BIG River... It Dug the Grand Canyon... 

We are Having a Drought Here in California... This Water COULD be used to Grow Crops, Water Livestock, Take Showers or Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks... But NO... It Flows Out into The Ocean at San Francisco... 

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Many People say we Need to Provide a Lot of Cool Water for the Salmon to Swim in... I Wonder... What if We Cared More about Human Life than Fish? What if the Salmon All Died in the Sacramento River... They Still Have The Klamath and Columbia Rivers to Swim in... What if We Just Pumped the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers Dry and Spread all that water over Farmland in the Central Valley... A LOT Would Evaporate and Fall as Rain When It Reached the Sierra Nevada... In Effect RECYCLING The Water... and Allowing the Hydroelectric Power Plants to Generate Electricity... In My Area, SMUD Generates all Electricity Using Power Plants on the American River... But They Create NO Electricity Without Rain... 

 

closeup of golden bear at the Klamath River Bridge - Yurok Reservation

Sadly... The Klamath is a River is Having a Water Crisis too... It is Home to The YUROK and HOOPA Tribes. When I worked at the Welfare office in Eureka I Had a LOT Of Contact With People from those Tribes... They REALLY Understand The Salmon as They Have been Living in Harmony for a Thousand Years... The Fish have a FIVE Year Cycle and If One Year (like 2021) has a Massive Kill then The Total Population is Reduced by 20%... The Four Years of Salmon living in the Ocean are not Affected... 

We Had a Massive Kill During the Presidency of George Bush the Son... Same Problem... The Potato Farmers in Oregon wanted the Water for crops but the Fishermen wanted to Keep the Fish Alive... My Brother in Law is a Tourist Fly Fisherman who came out here from Delaware on Vacation specifically to Fish the Klamath and Trinity River... 

What Finally Happened was there was a Huge Loss of Money for the Motel Owners, Tour Guides and Restaurants who depend on the Salmon to Attract Tourists... about ten times the Increase in profit of the Potato Farmers... 

Photo of the Yurok Golden Bear at the Klamath River Bridge

Photo of the Golden Bear on the Klamath River Bridge... This is where Highway 101 Crosses the River... It's the Location of the Tribal Headquarters... and I Always stopped there to Buy Gas (no California Taxes on a Reservation) and Get a big bottle of Coke...  

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The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats... Reviews... I've Been To All Five... Many Times!

#1.  CafĂ© Marina... This is where I Take EVERYONE when they come to visit... At the Woodley Island Marina... Outdoor Tables Available and on A Clear Day You can See the Carson Mansion and the Waterfront... Expensive... But Worth IT! 

https://goo.gl/maps/hGpkKAd9AVqGJ3LA6

View of the Carson Mansion from Woodley Island Marina


Another Great Restaurant in Trinidad (just north of Eureka) ... Seascape Restaurant... This is also where I Take Friends and Family when they come to visit... When They are Paying... 

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My Favorite American Food In Eureka, CA - This is Where We Go When We are Paying... The Village Pantry on Highway 101... A Large Amount of Food For Not a Lot of Money... 

https://goo.gl/maps/ibcc6MPnNgT9GyBc6


They Have another Restaurant North of Arcata and We Go There Too... But on Google Maps, The Restaurant off Guintoli Lane at Valley West Blvd is Now Called Peppers! 

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THE Place to Eat in Fortuna... Peppers on South Fortuna Blvd... American Food... Excellent Murals Indoors...  

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"Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. 

A Lifetime of Trial and Error Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

 #1. For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own!

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"Live Your Life as If Every Action Was Going to Be Published on the Front Page of the Newspaper." - J. D. Vanderlaan

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The Main Lesson Learned is Don't Smoke Tobacco. It Doesn't Really Get Me Very High and It Makes me Cough and Wheeze... I Smoked for 40 Years and Quit 5 Years ago. Glad I Shook That Addiction. I Started at Age 19 When I Found out That a Half and Half Blend of Marijuana and Tobacco got me Higher using less Weed. The Same Idea as "Hamburger Helper." - So I Always preferred Roll Your Own Cigarettes. Bugler or Top. and Then Later, when I Had Money... American Spirit... a Can cost $34 Dollars... 200+ Cigarettes... and I Often Stopped smoking after Half a Cigarette and saved the "Roach" for later... Unrolling it and Putting the Enhanced Tobacco Back in the Can. VERY STRONG TOBACCO near the Bottom of the Can... and I Did Experience Paranoid Schizophrenia... or as I Like to Call It: "Channeling My Inner Chewbacca." - Just a General Background Rage... and a Belief that The Government Was Spying on Me... Of Course, The Government IS Spying n Me But... They Just Don't Care... I'm Not That Much of a Threat... All That Faded Away After I Quit...

I Used FEAR to Help Me Quit. My Brother Got Lung Cancer and I Believe That Cancer Runs in Families. He Recovered. I was Afraid that I Had a High Risk of Getting Cancer Myself So... I Just Stopped... and Experienced the Pain of Withdrawal Symptoms for a Month... and Experienced the Desire for a Smoke for a Year...

On a Related Note: I Did Use Tobacco to Perform a Ceremony at Significant Locations. Just Like the Native Americans, I Have Always Smoked the Holy Places. To Certify Their Wisdom. For Example: The Park Bench overlooking the Mouth of the Mad River Where it Enters The Pacific Ocean. THAT'S A Worthy Place...

and Then I Posted on Facebook: I really want other people to Submit Their Own Lessons... Either Comment Here, on the Bottom of the Blog or Email me gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com
 
DSW Said:
I was trying to do that a few years ago...spent several months really enjoying just letting the memories flow and actually finding some answers to things once I started writing....and then my computer DIED with no warning and I give up. Sad.

I Replied:  The Health of My Computer doesn't matter since I Write Everything on Facebook, Wordpress and Google Blogger... If This individual Laptop Fails... all my words are online...
 
DSW Said:
Anyway Greg, I do Understand. Ended up in the hospital last year for 2 months and had to go to a nursing home for a month before they would let me go home. they didn't want to. I had to beg. So during that process I ended up QUitting a 48 year smoking habit. Not much choice when you are hooked up to oxygen in the ICU.... It's been awful....My husband who I have been with since September of 1972 still smokes a bit and goes outside to do it and I can't go out there with him like we always did because I am afraid I will smoke again. I hate this.

I Replied:  I felt the Craving fade away after a year of not smoking... and YES... a Year is a Long Time... Maybe two years... but I Don't have it NOW.

KD Said:  I quit smoking 33 years ago and still have cravings. Giving up tobacco is tough.

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Secret Trick To Life: "Stop Believing Lies."
GUNS DO NOT SAVE LIVES - reality - meme - gvan42


Owning a Gun Makes Your Own Family Less Safe
and Puts the Rest of Us in Danger.

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Often it Has Been to My Advantage to Listen to The Women in My Life and Act on Their Advice.

My First Ex-Wife Recommended That I Go To College and Study Electronics Drafting. After One Year I Was Able to Get a Great Job.

Then She Recommended That We Move from California to Washington DC So She Could Take a Government Job at The NSA... I Lived there for Twelve Years and Had Many Amazing Adventures...

My Brother's Wife Took Me to My First Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting and Eventually I Quit Drinking.

My Second Ex-Wife Recommended That I Go To College in Arcata, California. We Left Chico and Relocated. Four Years Later I Graduated With a BS Degree in Computers and Immediately Got a Great Job.

The One time I Was Took Advice That Was a Disaster Was My First Ex Wife Recommended That We Buy a Condominium in the Washington DC Suburbs as a "Starter Home." Her Plan Was to Live There and Sell it in a Couple Years and Then Use that Profit for a Down Payment on a Real House... That Plan Backfired and I was Unable to Sell the Condo after Paying on the Mortgage for Twelve Years. What Happened Was The Location Changed from a Middle Class Black Neighborhood into a Crack Crazy Ghetto... Everyone Lost Money on those Condos... READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/lessons-learned-by-gregory-vanderlaan.html

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History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs. 

During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was... if we did not prevent Vietnam from becoming Communist, one by one those countries over there would turn Commie and soon Commies would take over the Entire World and We Would be fighting them at Our Border With Mexico...  Communism Would threaten the American Way of Life Right Here at Home!

During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia.

Dominos was a Family Game popular before the invention of Computers and Video Games... Since "Everyone" Knew what they were... the US Government Named our Foreign Policy for that Game... Because It Made the Policy Easy to Understand...

President Eisenhower and Kennedy sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese soldiers fight the North Vietnamese soldiers. 

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OUTLAW ASSAULT RIFLES - Americans Have Had ENOUGH Murder. Put It To A Vote In Congress To Find Out Who Is EVIL.

 Contact Congress and Tell 'em: "END THE MASS MURDER BY ASSAULT RIFLE. Pass a Bill to Outlaw Them!" 



melt guns meme by gvan42


outlaw guns meme by gvan42

FUND THE POLICE. I'm Totally in Favor of More Police Arresting REAL CRIMINALS. For Example: TREASON, Insurrection, Murder, Rape, Fraud, Income Tax Evasion, Robbery, Kidnapping, Crazy People with GUNS, muggers, arson, wife beaters, BRIBERY of Politicians and Seditious Conspiracy.

People That DO EVIL Really Need to Be Put Behind Bars... For Example: Donald Trump... #LockHimUP

and we ought to release all Cannabis Prisoners... We'll need the Jail Cells to House Crazy TrumpNiks® 

#ArrestTrump meme Here come the Cops

Remember: Trump Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... 

HJ RES 40...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40 
If a person gets a Social Security Check due to INSANITY They No Longer have to Report That Fact on a Gun Purchase Background Check... 

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Bulletproof Backpack Insert Advertisement - Proof that the USA is Insane! Outlaw Guns!
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UVALDE: GOP Loves Guns... EVIL

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Mao Fish Quote - The Origin of Country Joe and the Fish
Mao Fish Quote - The Origin of Country Joe and the Fish


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Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
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Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

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Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

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Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

Fish Artwork by gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan

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Here is a Brief Autobiography of a Burning Man Participant...
SE SAID: I've been thinking about the fact that this year marks 20 years since the first time I went to Burning Man. 20 years. I can't believe it's been that long. It makes me feel so old. I went to Burning Man 7 times starting in 2001. My last time was 2009. 2001 was magical because it was all so new. 2002 and 2003 were even more magical because I was more prepared. By 2004, I was an experienced desert camper who knew exactly what I needed to do to be comfortable out there in the desert for a week. I would spend all year accumulating supplies for the playa, and participating in different events in the local burner community in L.A., where I lived at the time, including camping trips on lakebeds in the Mojave desert, which have a similar climate to Black Rock Desert. 
I do miss it sometimes, especially when I see posts from my friends who still go to Burning Man every year. I'm so glad I got to go at the time I did, when there was no cell reception out there and you really did have to take a break from technology while you were there. There was something really special about that. I remember the gigantic bulletin board where you could post a note for your friends. It was huge, and it was covered with thousands of notes...but that was what made it special. I always managed to locate the people I was looking for out there, despite the lack of technology, I always found people's camps through word-of-mouth. That was part of the fun, wandering the playa and trying to find people, and meeting other people in the process. Now I hear that people are walking around texting on their phones, and to me that seems like it would take away from the experience a little bit. Part of what made it special was the fact that you were out there in the middle of the desert, far away from civilization, and you had to adapt to this world without phones or technology, and you had to be prepared to survive out there for a week, with all the water and food you would need to get through, and it was so much fun meeting that challenge. I always prided myself on having water leftover at the end, and I also showered every day on the playa. 
20 years. I just can't believe it.

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