Days semi-sans Petanque: Sweltering in Place

I think I figures out why it's so hot at the park in Sonoma.



I'm pretty sure after it cools off a bit Peter, Dave and Wolfie will be able to jack hammer it out as long as it doesn't go too deep. If not then Maggie will probably come up with an online work around. No one should be surprised though. California is on the ring of fire, and I'm not talking about the Johnny Cash song.

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Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7107ELQvY

This one just because I like it.
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight (Official Live Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUSzL2leaFM

This is one of the comments:
Samuel Lackey (3 years ago)
The song playing the first dance with my would be wife of 39 years.  I lost her six months ago.  I will never forget the dance and the music.  Thanks.

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Forty acres and a mule is part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a post-Civil War promise proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, to allot family units, including freed people, a plot of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform effort. However, Lincoln's successor, president Andrew Johnson explicitly reversed and annulled proclamations such as Special Field Orders No. 15 and the Freedmen's Bureau Act. Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction during the war and for a brief period thereafter. However, federal and state policy during the Reconstruction era emphasized wage labor, not land ownership, for blacks. Almost all land allocated during the war was restored to its pre-war white owners.
"40 Acres and a Mule" is often discussed in the context of reparations for slavery. However, strictly speaking, the various policies offering 'forty acres' provided land for political and economic reasons—and with a price tag—and not as unconditional compensation for lifetimes of unpaid labor.