Troubled Water

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Day Off is raining on the possibility of outdoors exploration again, but at least I was spared most of the severe thunder n lightning that got most of the state this afternoon. I'm so zonked from the marathon work week-end anyhow, n not energetic enough for major chores. The yard is beginning to resemble a mini-jungle with out of control weeds having a field day around the trailer...
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Perhaps tomorrow will yield more clear weather n ambition to tackle some more overgrowth. At least I got some low tree branches sticking out into the road pruned last week. One small step at a time.

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Fires in southern Quebec are pouring smoke clouds all over New England this week. The other day driving on the highway was like going thru fog banks, n it smelled like something was burning. There were air quality alerts issued.

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I can't tell if that's why I'm so tired too, but suspect it isin't helping. The rain may clean the air today at least.
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This week I discovered troops of small beetle buggies to declare war on in the kitchen. The cleaning list never ends, work laundry first of course. Cupboards, walls, floors, ... picking it off a bit at a time...

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Wish I had more energy. Usually getting out for walks helps, but I'm stuck in.

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I wish TV would replay the finale of LOST which I didn't get to see due to the network changing the night of the week it was aired from the series scheduled night. I had been able to see the series when Day Off was changed. (Puter's too slow to watch online).

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I'm going thru the old n extensive VHS collection again. I read somewhere you should run them thru a VCR every two years or so to keep them playable. Today's choice is "The Order" with Heath Ledger. I haven't seen it since his untimely demise. In the film he's a priest who becomes a "Sin Eater."
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The DVD I'm watching this week is "Deep Blue," also seen in a new light when considering the damage currently being inflicted upon the oceans by the May BP oil disaster. I find some parts of this film horrifying to behold, btw. Namely the sea lions being tossed around by Orcas. But that's out-weighed by the beauty of the other sea life shown to excellent music scores, which is very intense.

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My thoughts on the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is affected by my knowledge from college courses taken in Earth n Ocean science. I wrote an ESR post, "Just Ducky," on the fact it has been proven that objects in one ocean can eventually end up in all seven oceans via the major currents.

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The Atlantic may be only a hurricane away from oil wandering out of the gulf n into "the Gulf Stream Current" which runs up the Atlantic East Coastal USA. They are predicting a bumper crop of hurricanes this season...

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The waters of "Buzzards Bay" from Westport around to Falmouth MA, where I live, is in fact fed by "Gulf Stream Current". This is why occassionally tropical sea animals like manatees, sea turtles, Portugeuse Man-o-War, n even White sharks are found off the coast of Cape Cod. They ride the Gulf Stream ocean highway up here.

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Then the North Atlantic Current swings around Greenland n Norway to the shores of the UK, down the European coast, ect- It's possible the entire ocean, n world, can get reminants of this contamination affecting the entire planets food chain which begins with step one: the plankton.

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Thinking about the oil situation is upsetting because I believe it's only a matter of time before it affects everything. I also hate not being able to do anything about it, feeling helpless.

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I'd rather have the yard caught up too. It feels better to solve problems instead of not having a choice but be affected by it. The rain is dictating my activities. We need a Sin Eater to take the blame for the major oil in the ocean problem n fix the mess. No one will have a choice but to feel the effects, with nothing to do about it. Water, clean-up, beyond control, n the elements of my day all seeming so connected-
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Contaminated food sources... I don't even want my cat to eat fish anymore!

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Where's the chocolate ice cream...