May Day Workers Of The World Unite With Sikes Lake Goslings

It was to Sikes Lake I ventured this morning on the first day of May, also known as Workers of the World Unite Day.

A couple days ago I was at Sikes Lake and photo documented a flock of goslings in flotilla mode floating on the lake.

Today that flock of goslings were landlubbers, tiptoeing in waddle mode through a patch of Evening Primroses, which is what you see photo documented above.

The first day of May is a warm one at my location. Clear blue sky, windless, just about as perfect a day as a day can possibly be.

Cinco de Mayo arrives on Friday. I think I shall celebrate that day with tacos. 

Celebrating International Workers May Day With A Flat Tire

Looking out my primary viewing portal on the outer world on the morning of May Day, that being the first Day of May, or what my fellow traveling communists celebrate as International Workers' Day, I see a sky with clouds blocking the sun and a breeze blowing the trees.

What I can not see, but can feel, is the temperature. It is currently 70 degrees, heading to a high of 81, if the temperature predictors are correct in their prediction.

Changing the subject from my favorite one to something else.

Apparently I'd not called my mom and dad since my mom called to tell me my little sister had a medical woe. So, my mom called last night to ask why I've not gotten gas lately. The Phoenix zone is being a bit hotter than my location. Arizona has had several temperature record days in the 100s.

Last night I discovered the rear tire on my new bike has gone flat. I've only pedaled on paved trails, so this flat vexes me very much.

This morning is the regularly scheduled day off, so no pool for this fool this morning. I think I'll get myself some aerobic stimulation by replacing an inner tube.

A Rainy May Day In North Texas Thinking About Spaghetti, Shrimp, Superman & Being A Communist

The first Sunday of May is also the first day of May, also known as May Day, a major holiday for me back when I used to be a communist.

Speaking of politics. Yesterday I was shocked to learn that Superman is threatening to speak to the United Nations Assembly to inform the world that he is renouncing his American citizen ship due to issues with the current American president.

What in the world did Mr. Obama due to so greatly annoy Superman?

Switching the subject abruptly from Superman, last night, around 4 in the morning I started seeing flashes of light and the distant sound of thunder. The storm remained distant.

Today is supposed to be stormy, with rain throughout the day, with possible t-storms and the temperature dropping to a low of 43 tonight, with the next couple days being rather cold, as in the high for Monday is scheduled to be 51, with the low only 9 degrees above freezing.

Currently it appears I will be swimming in the rain if I decide to get in the pool this morning, which I likely will.

I do not foresee any Tandy Hills hiking in my future for the first day of May.

I do foresee a lunch of spaghetti and shrimp. With a mango.

I'm Having A May Day Hunt For Ed Fitzgerald In Texas

Time flies. Seems like just yesterday it was April Fool's Day and I was moving to Las Vegas with the Queen of Wink.

Now it's May Day and I am still in Fort Worth and the Queen is still in Wink.

I've got a mystery I would like to solve.

Does anyone out there in the Eminent Domain Abuse Capital of the World, Tarrant County, Texas, know an attorney named Ed Fitzgerald?

If you Google for "Ed Fitzgerald Attorney" you find such a person in Massachusetts.

Why am I hunting for this mysterious lawyer? Well, this natural gas company named Chesapeake Energy has been abusing eminent domain in order to run a non-odorized, high pressure natural gas pipeline under homes in the east Fort Worth avenue named Carter.

One by one the people on Carter Avenue gave in to the pressure and signed away their property rights for a pittance.

Only one Carter Avenuer refused, he being Steve Doeung. Unbeknownst to Steve Doeung, court proceedings were initiated against him by Chesapeake Energy. Somehow an attorney, named Ed Fitzgerald, was representing Steve Doeung in these court proceedings.

To this day Steve Doeung has never spoken to Ed Fitzgerald. Steve Doeung has asked, repeatedly, for legal help and I'm sure he would love to have the help of the mysterious Ed Fitzgerald.

What I'd like to know is how it is that Ed Fitzgerald came to represent Steve Doeung?

Adding to the mystery, a few months ago FW Weekly had Steve Doeung on its cover and told the story of his battle against Chesapeake Energy. I think it was in that article I learned of the Gestapo-like intimidation tactics used by the City of Fort Worth against Steve Doeung, sending in goon squads to issue bogus citations.

I never saw any followup article in FW Weekly in which FW Weekly tried to find out who ordered the Gestapo raids on Steve Doeung. I think Woodward and Bernstein would have been all over that.

And then this morning one of my anonymous sources tells me that the FW Weekly reporter who wrote the article about Steve Doeung claims that someone who knows Ed Fitzgerald talked to the reporter and told him that Ed Fitzgerald had repeatedly tried to contact Steve Doeung, leaving messages, with no call back from Steve Doeung.

Now, this really sounds really hinky to me. First off, in my experience, Steve Doeung returns calls quickly. He would certainly be strongly motivated to return a call to the mysterious attorney he'd never met, never hired, never talked to.

I find it a bit surprising that the writer of the FW Weekly article somehow magically ran into someone who knew Ed Fitzgerald with somehow the conversation turning to this attorney's inablity to reach Steve Doeung.

Perhaps the writer of the FW Weekly article could put Steve Doeung in touch with the person who knows the mysterious Ed Fitzgerald, so that Steve Doeung might finally somehow meet the guy who has been representing him all this time.

I tell you, the way things operate in Texas really perplexes me at times.

Oh, and Happy May Day.