Butterfly Gardens

 Run walk today: 2.5 miles. Did 10 yesterday. I am getting back to serious mileage.

Beer of the day: The Therapist. Because we all need one.

I am shutting down my Facebook Chronicle and restarting this blog again, hopefull this time for good. The Chronicle is over, just like Cataphract Musings had an end, But this project has never really talked off, so let’s do the time warp again!

I ended Facebook for many reasons, but one was to purge the trolls. They may make their way over here, but hopefully not and with luck the readers that actually enjoyed my musings will follow. But if not, that is ok, in the end I write for myself.

This weekend I finished planting the butterfly gardens. Two patches and a tub. Good dirt, a large mixture of seeds of flowers for bees, hummingbirds and butterfly's and milkweed. Then I set up irrigation. With luck I will have a riot of plants come spring. 

The backyard is very Fall. The maples are red, pomegranate trees are yellow. It is warm enough to sit out in shirtsleeves, but you can feel the snap. Of course I also have no end of citrus and CA oak, so not the fall of Pennsylvania. 

My kids are migrating to the East Coast. My middle daughter is in Boston, my son and daughter in law just closed on a house in New Hampshire. So my grandkids will be New Englanders. Of course the youngest is still with us, and my oldest daughter is in San Diego. But I suspect the youngest will head to NYC for college, and the oldest will leave SD when her final studies are over. 

And my wife and I will probably leave once the youngest is gone, and we too will go back east. Maybe to the south to escape the winters, or maybe have two homes, a summer one close to the grandkids and one in the warmth for the winters. My beloved brother is back east, as are my beloved brother in laws. So it makes some sense.

California has no hold on me. The costs are insane, the politics are crazy. Fires, drought and floods. 

San Francisco was great, till the woke brought the crime and the poop and the tent cities… and a complete loss of logic. 

Sad.