Tuesday, August 02, 2011
A kind of closet environmentalist
Yesterday I took my long customary walk from Woodlands Lake in Ardsley, Westchester County NY all the way up to Rte. 119 in Elmsford figuring maybe the beavers moved downstream after all these years. When we were kids my Dad took us to Warehouse Lane in Elmsford off 9A where UPS is and where the Saw Mill River meanders its way through on its eventual destination in the Hudson River and we observed the local beaver population busy at work building their lodges and dams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver). Now there's much more industry here, there's a Sam's Club where the drive-in theater used to be and Masters Department Store has been replaced by a huge multiplex showcasing the latest in Hollywood dreck. Warehouse Lane, home to a huge Coca-Cola plant, FedEx, Conway Freight, Nestle Foods (Poland Spring and Deer Park trucks parked outside), a tire and auto place and San-Mar Laboratories, the Elmsford Animal Shelter and other assorted places of business. Over down 9A a bit by where you get on 287 is a Romantic Depot, an overpriced porn hut. Browser packs, a clown fucking some fat woman or maybe that's Giggles. It kind of melds together in your mind after awhile in one big existential landfill but I mean at least strive for Art. Wendy's, KFC, Grainger's, Rosedale Nurseries more in Hawthorne where the Saw Mill is very picturesque here and quaint like something out of a jigsaw puzzle. If Rush lived here he'd probably think it's all good, a hustling and bustling area, good population and jobs galore but you'd think a beaver population would be special, a kind of nurtured and protected area. Do we have ANY sense of the environment anymore? Does that make me an environmental wacko? maybe in his book but I'm just someone who would like the Dads of today to be able to take their kids there and learn something about Nature, about this special rodent that had been so heavily and tragically decimated back in the day, to see something they don't teach in school anymore because they're too busy learning about the Gay Lifestyle instead. Been meaning to ask btw, Powerwalkers with their weird arm movements, what's that supposed to do for you?
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You burn more calories swinging your arms and it also gets them toned.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know, it looked kind of epileptic but thanx for the tip.
ReplyDeleteI love the fact that we live in a place where you can see wild turkeys, deer, woodchucks, foxes, skunks, possum and a million different kinds of birds all from the porch swing. We're isolated even for local standards (see if this works for you: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1336602748744.45380.1641379183&l=a44b1e94b1&type=1 ) ten miles from town and a mile back on dirt roads but really and truly I wouldn't trade it for a mansion.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid we lived in a very isolated area too and we mostly played in the woods or out on the lake (had a lil rowboat) and it was a really great experience. I wish that all kids could have that kind of opportunity but I was very lucky, and we got lucky when we found this property too.
Anyway, this is why keeping county/state/national parks going is so very important.. kids, and people, really need to have the opportunities to see how magnificent nature really is.
I might disagree with the environmentalists from time to time but where I differ from Rush is I'm willing to listen. Getting back to the arm-swinging soap it's a meaningless fad. So if a bunch of fat folk are going for their walk and they're waving their arms they'll magically become thin? Looks stupid and I've done well w/o it.
ReplyDeleteBTW call me clueless, a bit out of the Hip Loop but I never understood how the word "beaver" became a sex'chal term. It's a word that's been co-opted and I don't know why. Perhaps the original perv can clue us in, can we wiki him?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, I think anytime you can increase the motion you're doing you're burning more calories and this is a good thing. Just like wearing wrist or ankle weights. Every little bit helps. You might look stupid. And the point is? Far as I'm concerned if it's working for you, more power to you.
ReplyDeleteWell you can kind of unzip your pants and let it flop around too if it works for you.
ReplyDeleteLong as you're not in front of a school, in the middle of the street or something of that nature.. anyway I don't think that will increase the amount of calories you're burning during your power walk....
ReplyDeleteI've never understood the philosophy of public nudism. Some guy gets on the bus and just took a dump at a local Burger King or someone else is at the salad bar over at Stop 'n' Shop and the thing is flopping around in the antipasto. Saw more arm movements the other day, forgot to ask the people how's it working for you?
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