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<\/a><\/p>\nclear dry skies and hot.<\/p>\n Aside from some occasional smoke, a few distant neighborly sightings and as ever the dogs,<\/p>\n quite quiet.\u00a0\u00a0 The altitude, without the pollination complications of lush grasses, is having less<\/p>\n of an effect than last summer and soon we were making it to the top of Fossil Hill<\/p>\n as well as tentative forays upstairs to the studio…plenty of time ahead for all that.<\/p>\n Some smoke [maybe dust?],<\/p>\n some considerable clarity,<\/p>\n some dogs<\/p>\n and a moon coming [full on the Fourth, they say].<\/p>\n I wanted to be timely with this as Asshole<\/a> celebrates the continuing desecration of indigenous sacred lands by showing off his fatass insulting self in the Black Hills<\/a> with all the self-aggrandizing pomp, bullshit, fireworks and flyovers by the Air Force of the Oppressors<\/a>* he can muster…yeah sure, the Fourth [or Third?] of July is a big deal for colonizers and racists, but who<\/p>\n else really thinks it deserves to be so celebrated in a pandemic year? Not my president, if I had one, not under my flag [it looks real cute wrapped around those open-carry militia dudes, though, don’t it?], not my country.\u00a0 “Happy Fourth of July, and allow us rub your noses in it…” Again.<\/p>\n RUB BACK!\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 When ya got nothin’ [for SO long] ya got nothin’ to lose…<\/p>\n As seems to be a theme of Covid summer…<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n