For the Love of Dawgs

I hear a lot of complaining about the dawgs, they're running loose, they pooped in my yard, I'm scared of the them. Bad dawgs should be picked up and dealt with, that's what animal control is for. If they are not bad dawgs, leave them be, better yet, learn their names, makes friends with them. You know your neighbors, know their dawgs. If they poop in your yard, so what, consider it the cost of your first line of defense.

The reason I bring this up, ( even though at this time I don't have a dawg,) is dawgs have been with us all along. They are our first line of defense, weather they be big or little, they are noisy, they don't like strangers, they are territorial, and we are living in uncertain times, with many stranger about.

Burglars, and other assorted criminals don't like loose dawgs. Loose dawgs make them nervous, they are less likely to be comfortable or operate in a neighborhood with a lot of dawgs barking at them.

I repeat myself, we live in uncertain times, with many strangers about. So get over yourselves and make friends with your neighborhood dawgs, they are your first line of defense. A dawg just might buy you enough time to get your gun. Learn to appreciate what God has given you, least he take it away.

God Bless you all

& your little dawgs too.

George Henry Nichols

My Odd Music Odyssey

 Somewhere around 2005 I was at a music convention back east.... I ran into, or you might say meet an old 60's rock & roll star, who part of the British invasion. I'm not going to say who he is, but he had a couple of albums over here. Just for fun, we'll call him Glen. Well he had his granddaughter with him, she was 10 years old little blonde girl.

Well we're listening to the music and talking, and as it turned out, the little girl was quite the talker. Her English wasn't very good, turned out her first language was Welsh Gaelic, her second language was Ukrainian, and she was working on her English. I must say I understood everything she was trying to say.

As the conversation progressed, it turns out the little girl, (we'll call her Jeannie), was a genius. That's right, a genius, a ten year old genius.

Before it was over, Jeannie had ask me to be her pen pal on the e-mail. I explained I was an old man, and she would find me boring, and it wouldn't be appropriate. But she persisted, and Glen chimed in and said, be her pen pal, the two of you hit it off, and nobody will talk to her now that she's a genius.  So I agreed.

I figured it would go on for a few letters, and that would be the end of it. Well as it turned out, we wrote for better than ten years, right up until she passed away at 21 from leukemia.

My heart goes out to anyone who reared a teenage girl, what a ride. It turned in to quite an odyssey, most of which I won't go into. She was a jet setter, and flew all over the world going to various schools, including dance and music schools, for she came from entertainment people. Which brings me to part of the odyssey I want to share here, the world of little girl music.... I was blown away.

Let me mention just for fun, (each letter, the first paragraph was always in the language of the country she was in, and I had to decipher it.)

Right after the music convention, I got the first letter from Spain, she was attending a dance school, she said, they showed them (the dance class) videos of El Club de los Tigrtos, as their standard.

https://youtu.be/vUIOzwZJk4U?si=8RlX_jeEsZts9UFR

Just in case you didn't catch just how many kids they had on that floor, → https://youtu.be/U6_1jEsx7-4?si=8hr214FE3DGpOYDn

She was in a dance class with this girl, Maria Isabel → https://youtu.be/rY5B5BX5A1g?si=r0pSb0gE59db09gn

Again-> https://youtu.be/0Uax6TiZPXo?si=M3wqjCIQliv0KGQ2

Then off to Ukraine, Jeannie had grandparents in Ukraine. This is Assol → https://youtu.be/7tZzrljZ9Oo?si=yCqdMBOB8pZ-k2mg

Next stop was France, seems she new this girl, seems, entertainment people tend to know each other, I learned that as time went on...This girl, Prisso Bette is11 here, https://youtu.be/_Pe9lfAOds4?si=KnqY2Gw32dLfZ04z

Another → https://youtu.be/KxJyjf1zFAc?si=WsiJXnG9Nyz3fK8R 

 Just about this time, I get a video of this girl, Hagawara Mai, from Japan (this isn't the video, but it shows who she is.) Jeannie said, this is a friend of mine in Japan, keep an eye on her, she just went on into the Hello Project, an old geisha school. She's going to have a career. https://youtu.be/-ZajBGe-RkE?si=ILfTTE9Rig-nh3wp So keep her in mind as we go along.

This girl is from Belious. https://youtu.be/4HgFcW2LDVQ?si=UZ4E_gg6BtHntWWu

Another → https://youtu.be/7tZzrljZ9Oo?si=7gF64UONdaGrzCDD

Then along came Christmas and I got this → https://youtu.be/bgXa3lft14I?si=pPDkWIFx7bYTg63H

and this → Peaches → https://youtu.be/a-79sbicwTQ?si=TEqBmjLUTIz0VgOX Sweden I believe.

Then come the spring I get this, I don't know a thing about it, except Jeannie knew who she was, https://youtu.be/LRZ09jkuakM?si=cenh3ZTUc38cFkME 

Same bunch, apparently a family ordeal. → https://youtu.be/CEeeL_0fC3M?si=FCRNgKgAJos1u3P2

Now much of this is related to the Junior Euro Song Contest, because they were all competing. I bring that up because that's where she meet these girls, the Five Angels → https://youtu.be/_NBsZIdpeTE?si=-rqO5cM98rWYXkEs

Who went on to do this → https://youtu.be/NgEI5T98qoA?si=BzD1fkvEnQoqiSiV 

and this → https://youtu.be/4Pc5YQWaYd8?si=PicVu7Zwh07R9Vp- it starts slow, but it's pretty good.

Have you noticed the quality of the music, the production value, a lot of money went into these little girls.... I must say I was surprized.

She told me this girl was her cousin 268 times removed, Katya Ryabova → https://youtu.be/nEGOlNtC5vw?si=CObMGh0ci2Rl2S0C 

this is her in the Euro Song Contest... https://youtu.be/F9wSgC4DhXQ?si=h_-oRjoa7gnO6fjt

Again from Russia, The Tolmachevy Sisters... https://youtu.be/F9wSgC4DhXQ?si=h_-oRjoa7gnO6fjt I think they are twins. 

Again the Tolmachevy sisters → https://youtu.be/ivASIwtHALM?si=fEnN0-JxJav5EucZ I even translated this one.... It's a love song...!!

Now we come back to the girl from Belarus → https://youtu.be/7tZzrljZ9Oo?si=yCqdMBOB8pZ-k2mg

Then off to Sweden, this is Peaches → https://youtu.be/XLz11zLDWfk?si=J_TWYrSFMOLhqR_k 

and this → https://youtu.be/FWTkfGNf_7k?si=YN1kCJ9bIjWHdgaV

This was slipped in to the mix somewhere... Alexandrina Palca → https://youtu.be/ayhnn8IEY9c?si=QkG-a4yfAs0OIgIy

This is Mylene and Rosanne from the Netherlands → https://youtu.be/iCnENq9Nv9g?si=-pcSTD1C9kcCpyMd of course they're twins.

This was one of Jeannie's favorites at the Euro Song contest → https://youtu.be/jzmXhe5Ssrk?si=4vWJCxvyhNZFV2lO Mad Show Boys..

Then Jeannie tells me Mai Hagawara has been put into a sub-group, C-ute, and now has her own camera, every girl in a group has her own camera... https://youtu.be/x051byIonH8?si=EwLMGsM0OrbH6GVT

Keep in mind, this was twenty years, ago so it's not really chronological, but I'm trying. This next fellow taught her piano in Sweden... https://youtu.be/rFllwby6hcs?si=trDkRh5tcpHvi4Qj

Meanwhile, as time goes on, back in France, → https://youtu.be/rFllwby6hcs?si=trDkRh5tcpHvi4Qj

and → https://youtu.be/d3zsEyBoUKw?si=YN5j2bDXdHLtCSC9 I think she went on to be 'Kim Possible' which I think is Disney. https://youtu.be/9zru1EMVLKI?si=r-DYZHQm_b-USblr

So back in Moscow with our cousin, Katya → https://youtu.be/AkHCAN0EOh8?si=PKRRHIUAXsBaU07P

and here she is again at the Euro Song Contest. → https://youtu.be/BehpKIqw-xQ?si=aIb2k2_WdbrEQ89R

I know this is long, feel free to come and go, this carried on for ten years, and I'm hitting the highlights. I find the world of little girl music quite impressive.

Back to the Five Angels → https://youtu.be/xPNIw2yaM0A?si=61fPFSz5EwuGND7_

and a stop in Armenia, 'Welcome to Armenia.' → https://youtu.be/o9w5thMk7J4?si=H7m6LP_yul13CBkj Dalita

Along in here, when Jeannie was 15, everything changed. She found out she had Leukemia, and she was granted a scholarship to the University of Osaka, Japan, to study Quantum Physic and Japanese. By this time she is speaking fluent English, Spanish,French, Swedish, Gaelic, (Welsh strain), Ukrainian and is now going to study Japanese... She informed me she was now Jeannie San... She liked Japan, because she was blonde with green eyes...She was exotic. She said she loved the school (the university) too, because there was no messing around.

She was going to stay with her family friend, Mai Hagawara. As you know, was now part of the Hello Project, which is a boarding School, so she stayed with the family. 

The sub-group C-ute, has now made a video → 'New Blue Jeans' https://youtu.be/L9gDX4mfWtY?si=q6B8ulEzqLpufCJ3 Mai is the one in glasses... 

and then this → https://youtu.be/tFMfTDcr03Q?si=gaLhLo1VoxdS1CmI

Now Mai is part of the Hello Project, an old geisha school updated, well I was told this is 'Sakura Gakuin' a rival school... Seems to me, this number is 'Turkey in the Straw,' which reflects on us, and they love of us. → https://youtu.be/FbId5Fkq-eI?si=Yxcj0oILBhqhR-Xk

Okay, back to the Hello Project, This first number is C-ute, the second number is Berryz Koubou another of the sub-groups. Apparently they draw quite an crowd. Seems each girl has her own camera, ( a little exploring and you will find them), and is assigned a color. When they are in their colors, you'll know it, but the audience knows who's who, and waves a flashlight with their favorite girls color on it.

https://youtu.be/h8Li5TXKzOY?si=eidZPMTLI6C-VYa5

I know I keep speaking of sub-groups, this is Morning Musume, the are the core, the group, so-to-speak. This is 'The Legend of Noisy Girls' → https://youtu.be/q9zybLvi_Ug?si=Nv4qq2Cs2ya7jbAI 

This also the core group, this is Morning Musume. https://youtu.be/JcsHjnLnNyQ?si=5kRTFZWXcRg59ndv

Back to C-ute, they are growing up.... Something happen while I was observing this, These geisha schools grew more and more popular with the public as time went on and the Japanese Idol came about because of the music, that's why I'm still around, I am amazed at how good the music is. (not to mention the production value) Yet..? Where is the band..? Anyway, in this next number, if you pause it right when they line up, from left to right they are, Chisto, Suki, Airies,Maimi and Mai. Notice the cherry blossoms. → https://youtu.be/dLPO7nl6uZw?si=qduWGi2tpH5AC1tb

Down the road a ways (remember we are in Osaka,) there is another rival school Jeannie said were a little racy, but...were really good. AKB48. AKB48 claims to be the most sophisticated show in Japan. And they just might be.. → https://youtu.be/WdhMjzfg6-k?si=SOloPOyKynRMjgYO Look at the faces here. 

Remembered I wondered about the band... Who's making the music..? Well, look at this next number, and look at the faces → https://youtu.be/SuhiIItERLo?si=t024O628cypuq6Sm Keep in mind, these are schools, and schools have a bands. 

They (AKB48) claims they can put 48 girls on the stage at once... we'll see → https://youtu.be/JELg3Ljmv0g?si=u5NlFqEajOvEL-Ys I don't know if you were counting, but there were 5 groups of 12, hummm... That's 60. Actually, that number was rather mind blowing.

This next number just popped up one day, Kusumi Kohura, 'Balalaika' https://youtu.be/BF7J78C3aRo?si=v1C96LTdRb6FQhH9 She does a great trick in this.

Back to C-ute.. https://youtu.be/orxN4z4Yny0?si=1lXUA7tIdYUoU4ld as you can see, they continue to grow up.

And so does the other sub-group, Berryz Koubou. Both groups are no longer considered sub-groups, they have become popular to the point they are idols. They are core. https://youtu.be/PrUPFCF7OTs?si=IApVRsUt8v5Uk4Qj

Both groups were so popular, that at times, they did numbers together... Berryz Koubou & C-ute, 'Happy Song' → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKWrv4G-mo&list=PLFD332793F0E46FB2&index=95

Well... How many girls can Hello Project put on the stage... Well lets see, Morning Musume is in the orange, C-ute is in the violet and Berryz Koubou is in the blue and the Eggs (younger girls in training) are in white. → https://youtu.be/8MBgv9EbxyM?si=rSs9yqxhLcXwMOkb

This is Berryz Koubou, I don't the name of the number, I call it the 'Burger King Song' → https://youtu.be/gDf2C6K1alI?si=2wHYyvTlPasTDnT_

Along about this time I get a letter from Jeannie, “Have you seen this, a half a billion people have seen this and that pisses me off, cause I'm usually one of the first. I've never heard of him, PSY.” → https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0?si=dlCZy5qpMNiHnhz-

Remember I said, every girl had her own camera, well here's a number with Mai's personal camera. → https://youtu.be/kCYn9wA7Vqs?si=w2qiZWBy1W0VHcrE

Anybody still here...? I was raised on music, my parents came up in the big band era. My Aunt Henrietta sang opera. So I heard all the great operas, my grandfather was in vaudeville, so I know all the music from the teen's and twenties. I grew up on rock and roll. In my opinion, the big band era was the finest music. It took so much cooperation, and the dancing, Just excellent. So I found the world of little girl music surpizingly good.

I was told by Jeannie, there was a custom in Japan called gravure... It's where the older men, the safe men, admires the little girls, to help sharpen their feminine skills (to help catch a man later). Again this is Sakura Gakuin, sub-group, Twinklestars doing 'Mr. Socrates,' → https://youtu.be/OPFDHW4RFI0?si=IpOP56Kwj6LwI_l1

This next one is the Hello Project doing the broom tap dance... https://youtu.be/EpAG4FeXzHs?si=JtPSsT1lj4bzkmbz

This Morning Musume doing 'Sexy Boy' → https://youtu.be/ebShKgjBGKk?si=B0tyfDlj3LMA29nK

This is AKB48 doing the 'River,” which I think is one of their best videos. https://youtu.be/bQqLKCg-UgA?si=yflrsR3uCZw1NGJn

and the girls at C-ute continue to grow up-> This is 'Kiss Me' https://youtu.be/4l_jiJu4Lfg?si=nZb1-zziffDgf46q Notice here, the money is coming in, the production value is on the rise.

AKB48 doing 'Lucky 7' → https://youtu.be/GRFwFjgDmus?si=F-6JdQV48izxd9NJ

Berryz Koubou doing the 'Mongolian Dance.' → https://youtu.be/uYEKnKopViI?si=8TL95OoInU4YXnc6

This is Maimi from C-ute being the girl on the jewelry box, called 'Foggy Doll.' → https://youtu.be/ZieveaVq4L8?si=T2jWjXb5DyABlYzq

This is another sub-group made up of members of C-ute and Berryz Koubou. Bouno https://youtu.be/zXPs4ZW3tSM?si=N6i8dxSo1zbB2HfC

As you can see, C-ute grows right on up, this is 'Love is like Static Electricity.' → https://youtu.be/_BYPwsocxk0?si=hpov5iHTwaN5gHsv

This AKB48 doing 'Baby, Baby, Baby,' on someone's television show. → https://youtu.be/Ba800i0K2_4?si=E1fveGdjRvhQwLyX

This my favorite number by C-ute, 'Step' → https://youtu.be/4RjYDNPwdvo?si=NVkh_qbOGe2-gOtd

and this, 'Dreamlike,' → https://youtu.be/UBmBGKjFuRQ?si=ellAJoHTIEIxlslI

Jeannie was right, Mai Hagawara had a career...and I saw pretty much the whole thing. Jeannie passes away about this time from Leukemia. And so the video's stopped... But she had opened a whole new world of music to me, that was up beat and well thought out...

Jeannie would want to mention, 'Notice the audience, how quiet and well behaved they are, and each boy has a light shinning for his favorite girl. In most numbers, when done live, the audience has a part, and they know it and sing it...' → https://youtu.be/kzrMqHiv3Cw?si=w_hPlq3E86pTVV9b 

She would also point out, 'Notice there are no stars... The schools don't allow stars, there are lead singers, but they are all idols, no stars. Idol is like a rank, they will be idols from now on.'

If you notice that the number of girls changed, keep in mind, it's a school, and they graduate.

Indeed, they graduate... these idols → https://youtu.be/9aFOJpYmPfE?si=eP7a2rKFkV9y1Ghe not sure how many of these schools there are, but every year, they turn loose a mob of these girls, ready to take on the world,

I did a little crying putting this together, it brought back many memories. To give you an idea of who Jeannie was, here's one of her letters http://thebiggalootfrom.blogspot.com/2014/02/another-letter-by-teenage-girl-from.html 

Good night Jeannie.

PS I most likely have messed up of a lot of this, it was a long time ago. But that doesn't change the music.  

George Henry Nichols

Are You Lost? from - Highway Ramblings

 

If you can't place yourself on a map, you're as good as lost. 

I'm an old OTR truck driver... Did it for years, enjoyed most ever mile. OTR is short for 'Over the Road.' I've been from sea to shinning sea, from the gulf coast to Canada. In fact I've been to all the bordering Canadian Provinces. I always knew where I was, cause I drove there.

When I was a young fellow, a friend of mine was learning to fly. We were up flying once with his instructor, when Byron (my friend) said, “I'm lost,” which Fred (the instructor) replied immediately, “No you're not, you just haven't thought about it.” Then this liturgy followed.

Fred “What country are you in?”

Byron, “Well the US.”

Fred, “What state?”

Byron, “Well Texas, hell I know that..!!”

Fred, “Shut up... What county.?

Byron, “Galveston.”

Fred, “ See, you're not lost.? You just hadn't thought about it. Start with what you already know, you know the direction you're going, so get this plane down low enough, and fly a wide circle until you recognize something, and wa-la you're not lost.” And we did just that. I have a feeling we were never lost. I think his point was, if you're in the plane alone, and trouble arises, there's nobody to ask, except yourself. Get asking. Get answering.

In trucking, or any over the road travel, or even flying, the trick, as simple as it is, is to know where you are, know where you are going, and knowing what route you're going to use to get there. Kind of sounds like life. Choose carefully, consider weather, construction, low overpasses, under-rated bridges, don't be afraid of the smaller roads, if they are rated.

Like I said, I was never lost, cause I was the one that drove there. When you train as an OTR Driver, one of the thing you have to master is map reading. Now my daddy taught me to read a map when we went on vacations.... So I thought I knew how to read a map. Turns out, when I took the class, there was much about a good road map I didn't know. It's full of information if you know how to read it. A trucker treasures his Rand McNally.

Where am I going with this. Well, I been watching Youtube, on Youtube truckers put up videos of their dash cameras as they go down the road. Sometimes they give you an idea of where they are in the title, and sometimes they don't. What I have discovered, (and I am sure many of you have, I am usually late to the party), is, that you can watch one of these trucker's videos going down the road, and within ten miles, you know exactly where you are on google earth, I mean to the mile marker.

There is enough information along most any stretch of highway that within ten miles, you can pinpoint yourself on a map. You can't ask for any better road markings. If you get lost, you can't read. Our fathers did a marvelous job putting together our Interstate, highway, byway, roadway and drive way system we utilized today. To ask for a railroad, or drones or anything else is like bitching about gold. Ahhhh...I don't like my gold...

Not only are the highways well marked, everybody and their dawg wants to tell you something, so the variety of signage out there is remarkable, and each one tells you a little something about what's down the road a ways, sometimes about what you just missed, 'Turn Around!' In many cases they are an art form, and in many cases they are intriguing. In many cases you don't even know what they are selling. Those people need to be fired. I should at least know what you're selling.

There is a serious of billboards west bound on I-10 that run from Louisiana to Arizona, the closer to Arizona, the closer the signs, “The Thing.” The Thing, was in the desert, on the edge of Texas Canyon, which is a place where God hand stacked the rocks. (A place worth seeing.)

I guess one of my points is, You Drivers, don't put your videos up live, put them up after the fact. We are at war, if you put it up live, you can be tracked to within a mile, you're a sitting duck. Quack, Quack..... Put them up after the fact. I enjoy them I do, as an old Driver, but don't put yourself and your cargo at risk for my entertainment. I am just fine with seeing them after the fact. You and your cargo are important, to you, your family, the company, the shipper, the receiver, the consumer, for goodness sake, the country. So be smart and safe out there.

As for anyone else reading this, it's kind of fun. Give it a try, pick a video of a trucker just going down the road, and see how long it takes you to figure out where you are, using google earth as your map. You can even drop yourself on the road to see if you see what the trucker sees. It's an interesting exercise.

Too many people don't know their way to the corner store. Too many people can't place themselves on a map sitting in their house. If you're one of these, then the schools failed you. Reading a map is basic, goes back thousands of years. Learn to read a map, and find out where you are on it. If you have a phone, everybody else knows. So be smart and be safe.

Do you realize that from Orange, Texas to El Paso, Texas is just as far as from Houston, Texas to Chicago, Illinois. I just bragging now, It's as far from Brownsville, Texas to the state line with Oklahoma there in the panhandle, as it is from there to Bismark, North Dakota. As a trucker you learn this, when you finally get out of Texas, state lines start going by, instead of just county lines. It's as far from Houston to El Paso as it is from El Paso to LA.... It's all good driving.

Can be tough in the winter, but what a site. Wisconsin in the winter, is a wonderland, around Christmas, you can't touch it. The beauty is story book stuff. Do you even know where Wisconsin is on a map? There is about two-weeks in Wisconsin when nobody goes to work, they go hunting. So don't pull no stunts in Wisconsin, you might get shot. Wisconsin was one of those states where in the winter, instead of cars outside the bars, it's snowmobiles. You'd see them weaving up and down the ditches.... Were there is a will, there is a way. So..... learn to read a map, find out were you are on it, and find out where your favorite places are on it. You are an American, you should know how to read a map.

July 10^th 2025

George Henry Nichols

Houston Control, Time to Ditch the Networks

 

An open letter to KPRC, KTRK and KHOU in Houston.

To Whom it may concern,

KPRC, KTRK and KHOU, you affiliate yourselves with the NBC, ABC and CBS networks respectively. Through these networks you brought me national news, which I quit watching around nineteen-eighty-two because they were lying, and I knew it, we all new it. But I did watch the locals, Dave Ward, Sara Fryer, Ron Stone, Marvin Zennler, Ron Paul, and I watched a few of the shows....

You have failed me. You should have gotten rid of the networks long ago. They offer you, (us) crap, and nothing more... I know none of the news peoples names anymore, because television has gotten so bad, I don't even turn it on. If it ain't on Youtube, I don't bother... The selection on Youtube for exceeds anything Television has to offer.....

You find things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H9RtjPVpLU

and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l67uOu4bU0

and everything in between.

You're HOUSTON...!!!! (the name sake of Sam Houston,) Do you really need the networks anymore..? Is Houston really void of talent..? Is Houston void of truth? The networks seem to be. There's what...? Six million people in five counties.... There's talent out there, don't think there's not, go look at Youtube, yes, there is talent out there, go find it, and open a door.

Time to drop the networks and do something new, bold, and give me a reason to turn the damn TV on again. Hollywood and New York are dead. Don't follow them into the grave. Instead, rise up and dust off the ashes from Hollywood and the self-centered world, and take us, Houston, and the rest of the country in a new direction.

If I stand alone in this opinion, so be it.

George Henry Nichols

Hitchcock, Texas

The pool

 

All you people who are afraid to try something new, let me tell a story.... (I'm keeping it short and sweet)

I once bought a house, and it came with a pool. A small in ground pool, about eighteen thousand gallons. All my friends thought it was nice. I told them I was going to turn it into a pond, they all laughed and said I was crazy. I told them to come over anytime and swim and enjoy it. No body ever did... Six months went by....

So I mentioned again, I going to turn it into a pond, “You're crazy,” is what I heard, “then we can't use it...” So nobody used it, another six months went by....

Well then came the big storm and blew thing all around, filling the pool with limbs and various debris. What a mess... The lights where out, the water was out for quite awhile.

In this big mess I saw opportunity to do what I had been longing to do.... I had kept an aquarium, a nice one, I new how it worked... I was filling the pool from a well, so treated city water wasn't going to be a problem, so I sat down and laid out a plan.

I just let it sit, so all the pool chlorine would dissipate. I went to work on the filter system, which didn't take much, mainly a good cleaning, with the introduction of some batting. After about two week of sitting, I filled it back up and started filtering, stirring it from time to time to get all the fine dirt out of it...

Then I introduced some lily pads and other plants to control the algae growth, and continued filtering for another two weeks.

Now I have a friend, who was coming over pretty regular for coffee telling me I was nuts, and all the things that were going to go wrong... I kept telling him, it's an eighteen thousand gallon aquarium, once it's set up, it pretty much maintains itself, just add to and filter the water.

So while I am arguing with my buddy on the state of my sanity, I get creative with some pcv pipe and make a fountain and a small water fall.

So.....after about a month of prepping, I put a couple of Wal-Mart goldfish in it. What do you know, they didn't die.. So after a couple more weeks I got some koi and through in there. They didn't die.

Then one morning, there are rings around the pool, back ones, all the way around the pool. Looking a little closer, it's eggs, thousands upon thousands of eggs. Fish eggs..? But they are not quite in the water, not quite.

Well this is a mess.... then I thought, leave it along, see what happens... After a couple of days, I had a pool full of tad-poles, it was amazing... The fish were eating tad-poles.... After a few more days there were tiny little frogs everywhere, hopping all over the place....Then after another couple of days, they all hopped away.

In the months that followed, I had friends, in their fifties, in their sixties, one fellow who was seventy-five on their bellies, petting the fish in the pond.... They were getting in the water and swimming with them, with tiny baby fish eating the dead skin off of them, telling me I was a genus.... After months of telling me I was crazy.

So..... If you have an idea.... and everybody thinks you're crazy... So what...

The fellows who were telling me I was crazy, were well educated, well rounded airline pilots.... But they didn't know squat about an aquarium, and only one of them had had a pool.

Build it, and they will come...

George Henry Nichols

April 9^th 2025

With a little Cooperation

 

I have a video here, a music video, and I want to talk about it a little. So go give it a watch, and then come back.-> https://youtu.be/unau6nthttg?si=qkeUhcyfsRbwvJQB

Marvelous wasn't it..? I want to talk about some of the things that made this possible. For instanced, did you notice in the beginning when all the lights in the stadium came on at once... (!!!) That is not easy to do, there would be a huge power surge, that they of course were ready for. But somebody there had to know how to pull that off, at the moment the artist appointed.

The artist... Have no idea who it is, but he's(she) there somewhere, directing his (her) vision. Because of the vision, and the faith the people around the artist have in him, the work began to bring it about.

Someone designed the stage, for it was a vision to itself, someone had to place and operate all the cameras, someone had to make sure the audio was ready, each mic set up, all fed into a central control panel. Just how many people you figure are involved, and have to cooperate.

Someone had to write all the software to control the backgrounds on the stage and all the various flashing lights, no to mention the lasers, think of all the wiring, all the wi-fi signals that have to be kept straight...

How do you get that many girls together, in one place to preform as one. From looking at them, I believe they are high school age. There appears to be five separate teams. A rainbow, I believe they are the core, then the light blue, a dark blue, a red and a violet.

Somebody, took the artist's vision and put clothes on those girls. Look at those outfits, they are marvelous. You can tell they are well made, and if you look closely, no two are alike, yet overall, they have a uniform look. I promise you, that is not easy to do. There are about twelve girls in each team, think about that. Those clothes had to be cut from whole cloth and sewn together to fit each girl. Give a thought to how many people had to be involved, and cooperating to put clothes on those girls.

Somebody had to write the music, and the lyrics, and the harmony, and somebody (ies) had to perform it. Make it real. Some where there is a band. Wonder how many people involved there...? Actually, the music is quite good.

Somebody had to come up with the choreograph, and teach it to how many girls...? And if you notice, as it goes on, each girl has her own choreograph, just like the members of the band, each one has his own sheet of music, giving you, once again, the artist vision.

Now, we got these girls on stage, preforming, and we have all these cameras running..... Now somebody had to sit down, maybe working from a story board, and go through all that data and edit together the video you just watched.

Anybody notice the audience...? The place was packed, and it was packed because every one involved did what they where suppose to do to fulfill the artist's vision. They cooperated....

Now I believe (not going to swear to it), but I believe AKB48 is a school. Now just think, if we as a nation, were to get behind Donald Trump, our New President, and his vision, and cooperate with one another in an honest and earnest way, well... just imagine.

George Henry Nichols

January 20^th 2025

Observation #423 Male and Female

 

Everyone is really overthinking male and female. Ain't neither of you happy, male or female. And you're not going to be happy as long as you're bucking the truth. You can't go against what it true, and be happy, you just can't, man has spent his entire history proving that. So pay attention, if you want to be happy (an overrated word, the word is content), you have to work within the parameters of truth. You can not expect me to accept, nor tolerate something which isn't true.

Now take a moment, and listen to what we are speaking of. ..... Male and Female....(say it out loud). Male and Female. Has a nice ring to it. Don't you think...? Kind of poetic. . God created them Male and Female....... That statement alone... Think about that.....???? Male and Female..... Seems to me that infers, or perhaps even implies.... That one is not complete without the other. ...and the two shall be as one flesh... Hummm...... isn't this what we find in nature.... Isn't this the truth...? One is not complete without the other. Well duhhh.....

Quit over thinking it...... Screw your feelings...! Feelings lie..! Screw what other people think...!! People lie...!!! You know the truth. Quit trying to be something you're not. ...Think about this.... If one is not complete without the other.....(?????) Than you are different.... Hummm...... Seems your functions would be different... Hummm.... Quit expecting otherwise. You are male and female, you are different. To be jealous of one another is folly ( to lie to one's self and believe it).... God provided to each their own, in a wide variety. There are butch women and frail men, get over it, you are who God made you. Quit believing all the lies, quit judging each other and just look at each other.... God made you pleasing to one another... in different ways..... Explore what God as done..... and quit over thinking it. Good grief people this is basic, the foundation. Without this, you have nothing. Is there even a mating dance anymore..? Every generation had a mating dance, or two, or three. Earliest one I know of is the Minuet... Yeah, I'm a little old.... but I've picked up a few things along the way. ....and one of them is.....'and God created them Male and Female.' ....and it's a beautiful thing, and that's just the way it is.

George Henry Nichols