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Rant: Abandon the War on Drugs? No!

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Ok, it’s time to get vocal.  I simply hate Meth and what it has done to our rural communities (did you watch Winter’s Bones?).  Mexico produces even more meth then we do; add in marijuana and we’ve got a real drug factory just right next door.

200 miles from San Antonio as the crow flies, in a coal mining area of Coahuila, Mexico, the Army has recently unearthed a tank hidden in the earth by organized criminals.  These guys are waging a real. serious. war.

Why the US press tells us about the brutal slayings in African nations but not what is happening on our very border is beyond me.  Daily hangings, beheadings, tortures, ambushes of community leaders, etc.  Things you don’t want to know about.

So here’s the latest weapon:  The Monsters, modified heavy duty Ford trucks.

Tank Buried by Organized Criminals Unearthed in Mexico

According to El Blog del Narco:

It is a huge vehicle Ford, Super Duty model, armored with steel plates about 1 cm thick, 7 feet long by 3 ½ feet wide and 3 meters high, with capacity for 12 people, with 2 turrets for shooters.

You can search for El Blog del Narco  on your own but be warned: Mexican-style news reporting is very graphic and they do not pull any punches in trying to protect the public from the gruesome torture and murders that they report many times a day.

How does all this apply to our lives right now?  Well, last week the Mexican Army found a factory that makes these “Monsters”, right across the Rio Grande from Rio Grande City and just up the river from McAllen, Texas

This post you should see because the descriptions of these Monsters is hard to believe.  Check out the photos.

These Cartels mean business.

And, please, I know very few people who read my blog are likely to use marijuana, but if you do, STOP!

No more money to Mexican criminals.

Mocking Bird Chick Getting Ready to Fly

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Chick getting ready to step out of the nest, originally uploaded by Mary Beth R.

It looks too young to me but when I went back s/he was gone!

Memorial Day 2011, Morning Ramble

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Revolutionary War Soldier

Confederate Soldier


Old Style Grave

Stewart Cemetery

More photos at Flikr set Memorial Day 2011

Then we visited Cane Creek Park. Cane creek winds through the edge of our subdivision, causing some of the homes to be classified by FEMA as in the flood zone (not so good)

Boat Launch Cane Creek Park: No Noisey and dirty gas motors :)

Willows at the Fishing Pier

Cane Creek Lake

Swamp Log

You can tell by the smoothness that this log had been in the water a long time

Weed Seeds

Path Through the Morning Woods

Tall Tulip Poplar

Twisted Maple Trunk

Iron Wood Tree

Iron Wood is very strong and dense, used for axe handles and such. It has ripples that feel like a heavily muscled arm under my hand. One of my favorite tree trunks

Gaely chases squirrels into the trees

Such Longing! Such Cuteness!!!

Gaely Taking a Drink in the Lake

All before 9 am. Now back to the hard labor of landscaping, planting and chipping

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