Kith and Kin Everywhere on March 28, 2018,

On this day in Arizona history in 1884, O.W. Sample, William Delaney, Dan Dowd, Tex Howard and Dan Kelly were hung from a single gallow in Tombstone for the murder of four people, including a pregnant woman, during the robbery of a store.

Speaking of pregnancy, it seems as if Hardy, our pet roadrunner, is preparing for a spring happening.  Marlene saw him/her carrying sticks, twice, for nest building.  He still is sharing meatballs with his skittish kid, Babe, however.  Hardy eats 3 or 4 meatballs at one sitting, while his kid demands 3 squares a day, but not on the floor of our back patio.  He demands to be fed on the patio wall within inches of me, but keeps a quick getaway path open.  Funny.

Of course, it is spring here in the cold desert.  Cold, that is, for a desert.  It's late March, snowing in the mountains of eastern Arizona, almost a gale blasting out of the north and only 75° here.  

Good news is that we'll be in the mid-90°s by the end of the week, ending a cool, dry winter and spring, so far.  We've had only 0.59-inches of rain so far this year.  If you are planning a visit to our teepee, you might want to carry extra water on the trip to get here in case of a traffic stoppage.  Dehydration is a serious business in Arizona!

Monday was granddaughter Sky's birthday -- a whole 12-years-old, translated means she enters the dreaded teens next year!!!!  We hope that her presents from us reached her in time, but we were dependent on two separate outsiders to make the delivery.  No word has come through Cyberspace or the phone as yet, so we are waiting on tenterhooks.  We insured the shipment for only $7,500 via FedEx, the maximum, although the value was more than that by far.

Hopefully, we'll have a happy young girl who's worth every penny of that.

There's not much happening around our desert city alongside a lake except for the Spring Breakers who flock here as a destination.  Traffic is noticeably heavier than normal even though the Snowbirds are winging their way northward to escape the searing heat that Marlene and I love so much.  

With new houses exploding everywhere, the traffic may portend a new norm for us.  We hope not.  We fled here to escape the traffic congestion of every big city.

We still have two vacant lots on our street, one requiring quite of bit of grading in order to build, the other nice and flat.  Then there's that empty 3/4-acre cul-de-sac lot just across Whaler Wash behind our house.  Great lot, owned by a woman in L.A., they tell us.  When and if she builds, it will limit our view, but stop the dust accompanying every breeze.

May we invite all to Portland's Fleet Week the first full week in June?  Come visit with Marlene and me on the PT658 to tour the fully-restored WW2 PT boat.  To take a ride will cost you some serious money as a tax-deductible donation to the all-volunteer foundation that has restored and operates this historical treasure.

The two of us CAN act as docents for free, but we still donate a four-figure amount to help keep her in ship-shape condition; the Foundation having no major sponsor.  Our wonderful public schools apparently barely touch on World War II much to the disgust of us who spent our youths fighting the Nazis and the Japs in faraway and remote places unknown to today's citizenry.

Alas, poor Jazz can't go.  He must stay here at our teepee slaving away at polishing his guns and leathers, unable to go with us.  He probably would rather "have the duty" than travel, anyway.  And somebody has to feed the roadrunner menagerie we have acquired.

Hopefully, by this time, most of Jack's Pack will have learned how to manipulate blogspot.com to be able to read the latest in the lives of JackandMarlene.  There will continue to be harangues, raves and rants, only not crammed into your mailboxes.  Instead, you'll have to hunt for them.  We hope you'll comment or at least acknowledge having read them.

We still are concerned that the bugaboo of "the Russians are coming" is just a smokescreen to cover the Communist Chinese.  The Chinese are the ones who are on the march to marginalize America.  Our analysis of the New Silk Road or One Belt One Road or OBOR is that it will leave the USA with only agriculture as a major export -- other than warplanes. 

Our American Progressives seem to be in lockstep, not with our fair nation, but with the Chi-Coms' goal of World Domination as in a New World Order.  We hope and pray that everyone of the Pack has read or will read both Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 .  They are fictional forecasts of what might be in store if our Founding Fathers' experiment in governance fails or is tossed aside by the Progressive elitists among us. 

You may not recognize America's Progressives; they secretly wear the colors of both the Democrats and the Republicans.  Every Senator or Congressman with more than 10 years of tenure are to be suspect and voted out.  They tend to consider themselves elite rulers rather than Representatives of the voters who put them in their catbird seats.  Their $179,000 salary plus BENNIES, amount to far more than they are worth or most of them could hope to earn outside of their cushy cages.

Inre the hoopla over Trump's supposed tryst with Stormy Daniels, last night we Googled "Stormy Daniels in action" and came up with extremely hard core.  Ain't no way anyone might want to touch that broad -- no tellin' what STD you might end up acquiring!  Apparently, from what we observed, she'd do anything for money.  Be warned!!!!  The brutish Neanderthal-looking ape with whom she was playing was even uglier than I.  We were left in doubt that the future, non-drinking, non-smoking president might hook up with that whore.  Be warned!

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PT Jack, the Neanderthal