Ray’s Thought for the Day - No rain in these parts, Plus, Jim Dandy Grits

The season, Polaris or Polar Bear, that stretches across both DY 1 and now, DY 2, has been rainless or essentially so, and the DY 2 component is completely sear. So the rainfall total for DY 2 stands at 0.00".

Dang it! No seed wants to begin life at the end of a water hose. It’s unnatural. Seeds have told me personally, Ray, We don’t like it when you toss us out on the ground, then hose us. Soon as you hose us off, and most likely forget about us, we may dry out before we germinate. Then the mice eat us.

Maybe I shall prepare some flats for my seeds. Yet that is lots of work. Plus, the annuals, my main concern, seldom prosper in flats. Oh, they may come up in the flats all righty then, but soon as I transplant them to a new home, they die. Then once I espy that they are all dead, my conscious pesters me. Ray, why do you murder all those cute little plants? They never did anything to you. All they ever wanted to do, was please you and help you. Yet, you murdered them all. Why did you do that Ray? Why? Why? Why?

Dang it! Well, as my sister generally advises in these situations, Do something, Ray. What I may do is think about this conundrum some more. That’s it. While I am enjoying my delicious cinnamon bun, anon, I shall think upon this conundrum, exclusively, except for remembering to chew.

Spelling of, remembering to chew, I shall now, shamelessly endorse my favorite brand of grits, Jim Dandy Grits. Jim Dandy Grits are fortified with iron (Fe). See. You can espy that spell on the box. Yet when I tested those grits with my trusty magnet on a stick, not one grit stuck to the magnet. Where’s the evidence for the iron fortification that helps the little children?, I wondered.

Once upon a time though, Karl the Tracker Druid told me this incredible story about this friend of his who forgot to chew. Apparently, this friend of Karl’s was dining on delicious Jim Dandy grits when he was struck by an epiphany and forgot to chew and swallow. The epiphany lasted so long that eventually the grits set up like concrete in this boy’s jaw, rendering him almost entirely speechless. Because he couldn’t explain himself, it took a long time for this boy’s friends and family to figure out what was wrong with him. Then, once they did eventually figure out that Jim Dandy Grits were set up like concrete in the boy’s jaw, it took everyone a while to figure out what to do. What are those grits soluble in?, everyone wondered.

Turns out though, Jim Dandy Grits are soluble in Dolmen Stout. But this boy had to hold the Dolmen Stout in his mouth with the grits for days on end before the grits finally dissolved. During all that time, while the grits were eventually dissolving, all the boy’s friends and family kept after him with good advice. They all kept going on and on. From now on you need to chew your food properly then swallow it on down as soon as it’s chewed up. Otherwise you shall find your jaw locked up again. Do you want that to happen? Course you don’t.


The boy began to worry. What if all this good advice kills me before the Jim Dandy Grits dissolve? Yet no one ever died from good advice, maybe, or at least nobody, the boy in this example. No. That boy, eventually, survived both the Jim Dandy Grits and the good advice.
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Electropictoid credit: C. Ovate and C 5060 WZ.