Conservative Conservation

10/12/2018

For many years, I think beginning in 1974—maybe, January ’75, I have watched the dominant media excoriate the conservative ideas and the people who embrace them. A few years before that I mentioned to my boss-at-the-time how I got more from the Mutual Broadcasting System’s news programs than any other. He told me how wrong I was and that CBS was the best. So, I switched. When Walter Cronkite retired, I went to find the MBS and they no longer existed, having met their demise several years earlier, probably because they were too conservative.

There is a christian-based news network which is fair to conservative views, but not as thorough as the old MBS and Gabriel Heatter. Fox News Network is the only thing close to fair today, and some of it fails to stay far enough “right” for me. Methinks I’m too conservative for most everyone about government and the constitution, especially fiscally, but too liberal for the right on some other things. I can’t say I trust any source except the bible, I guess, and it covers everything.

I’ve mentioned before, I think, about how much I enjoy listening to Alison Krauss sing. This morning’s SIMH is “Forget About It” which also seems to have been written by her friend, Robert Lee Castleman who wrote “I’m the Lucky One,” “Let Me Touch You For a While,” and others. And on and on it goes. Very good listenable music. And Union Station is the best group of musicians since the Eagles. (IMHO)

Facebook does weird things simply because they can, I suppose, but saying someone has “like”d too many things is one of the weirdest! Didn’t happen to me, but to a friend. Which makes Facebook downright irritating! However, it is a resourceful part of our lives. We’re in touch with relatives easily, some of whom we didn’t know existed till FB. Others become friends for one reason, then we find out the depth of their lives is greater by some of their involvements. Yes, we may find some things we don’t like about others, but had we met them eye to eye we would have found some things, also. Irritating as it gets sometimes, FB is a useful resource.

Another aspect of the alkaline water business is to bottle our water into small containers, the size America has come to be enamored with over the last 30-odd years. Sounds simple does it not? Well, not so fast. This is more detail oriented than anything I’ve yet to see. Bottling water is manufacturing! It isn’t get a license, open the door, invite in the public, oh, no! There’s a bit more to it. There’s a huge area necessary for the equipment to sit in; a “clean room” for the filling station, a rapid bottle capper (now that’s a shocker cost!), the label has its own set of requirements, and you sell it by the pallet full! And that doesn’t even touch the “how to bring it to market!”

It’s a great new learning process. And oddly enough I, dumb ol’ me, am enjoying it—hoping not to foul up too many things along the way. I’ve said it several times: next to preaching the gospel of Christ on my continuing path, this is the most fun I’ve ever had! (You know, water is the second greatest need for life here. It is so very important as long as the earth remains to worry over this #2 most necessary element.)

Hey! It’s too cool to sit on the porch and write this morning! Fall must truly be here, 46 deg at our house this morning, but a beautiful sun rise!

Thanks for reading, the Elder