A music machine using marbles or balls....

 Yesterday, a friend in the U.K. posted a video about a machine that plays music by using marbles or small balls. This is another similar but different one.

 

Let's have some music, shall we?

 

 

Reconciliation: 'Give the country back to the Indians'

Once, facetiously, I said, "If we tried to give the country back to the Indians with the condition it's in these days, they probably wouldn't take it."

Looks like I was wrong about that. Lately, there's been a rash of demands by our venerable aboriginal community both hither and yon for a return of not only their traditional lands, but a return of their traditional hunting and fishing rights. 

The lands, they could have, perhaps, if they can successfully wrest them from the tightly clenched fists of the existing establishment, which will insincerely but quite graciously try to pacify them in hopes of continuing to seem to be doing something while actually avoiding that like the plague. 

However, the hunting and fishing rights, such as they'd like to have within one of our access-restricted forested water reservoir areas, I'm against. Their tearful pleas of needing these rights for the continuance of their traditional ways of living strikes me as being more than a little hollow, a bit dishonest, actually. And I say that because our local aboriginals not only shop for their groceries at the same supermarkets we all use, but they also work there, and probably get an employee discount. They look and act healthy, and most of them are in much better shape than I am. 

They profess to respect and honor nature and the earth, and if so, then why do they need the right to hunt game and catch fish that are already endangered from encroachment of civilization and recent climate changes? I just can't connect the dots on this one. This just doesn't make a lot of sense to me, I'm sorry. Leave those deer and those fish alone! 

Today's 'Question Everything' is ....

Why is our health authority about to relax restrictions for full crowds at sports events and concerts, while we're seeing a 5 month high in requirements for beds in our hospitals because of new Covid cases? Is our government playing politics with our healthcare requirements? Is this just more of the old 'Mushroom Philosophy'? You know.... 'Keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em BS'... I certainly hope not! 

 

Here's some famous guys from an old movie...

 And the old movie is 'A Song Is Born' with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, and most of the big band era's top players and band leaders. But this bit is about two guys that were known as Buck and Bubbles, and the piano work is amazing...

Here's a song I like, done by Annette Hanshaw back about the time I was born...

 When I first stumbled on this tune on YouTube, I couldn't hardly believe how well it sounds. It seems almost like a more recent effort. Or maybe it's just me....

Most of our leaves are still showing but it was frosty last night.

 

The leaves are turning

 

This still works, I think...

The format on here seems to have changed, but the blog is still active. 

I wondered about that, and did some searching, and found it is still 

being maintained, and that Google has no plans to shut it down.

I hope that's the right information.