Ol’ Dutch and Miss Trixie are fortunate enough to have some great friends here in the beautiful Rocky Mountains and we get to spend considerable time with them while we are here. Our dear friends Gidget and Moon Doggy (who may now be better known as Willie) are one such couple and they are the ultimate hosts as Miss Gidget makes what is quite possibly the best salsa on the planet.
Now this isn’t just some ordinary chip dip, I’ll have you know. It’s on par with my little sister’s which is bar none the best you ever have tasted, ever. I honestly believe that these two tomato smashers could make a great living mixing up their potions of red goodness and selling them to dippers everywhere.
So having been exposed to such savory deliciousness over the better part of my life, I was somewhat dismayed to read about the chip shortage affecting the United States.
Last winter, Ol’ Dutch was shopping for a new truck to tow the old Conestoga and the salesmen kept telling me they had a chip shortage. Having just been to the Dollar Store and seeing the shelves stacked ten high with all kinds of chips I could not understand why these poor fellows could not find some chips to go with their dip.
Realizing that this was going to cause a chain reaction in the market with now an oversupply of salsa, I was almost ready to make an emergency run for them to satisfy their corn cravings when someone mentioned the Japanese being involved and something about electronics chips. And I knew that those people were more into rice and noodles which I also can consume in copious quantities, so research was warranted into just what exactly was going on here.
As luck would have it, the chips they are talking about are some minute plastic particles without which the monstrous mass of plastic and steel known as a truck cannot run. It’s hard to believe but we seem to have gotten ourselves into quite a pickle depending on people of a foreign land for the one piece of the puzzle that makes the whole thing run down the road.
And in the chase for more and more electronic gizmos, it appears that everything, but soup and nuts is run by these chips. Hence there is a shortage of phones, game boys, watches, computers, and anything else that lights up a screen of some sort.
Relieved as I was to find out there would be chips for Gidget’s salsa, it still put the hiatus on my new truck purchase and eight months later they still cannot seem to get one to make my new truck run. And as crazy as it sounds, they keep making these trucks and are simply parking them on lots all around the country hoping that when chips do become available, tens of thousands of people will want a truck that is now more than a year old. America.
As you all know the COVID has plagued us terribly not only here in the U.S.A. but around the world and even though they came up with a vaccine to help with the severity of the virus, we still do not know what is going on or how it will morph into something else.
Ol’ Dutch finally got his shot this past Spring just in time to hear the next day that the J&J shot was dangerous, of course. But since getting it I have also found out from a well-meaning friend that each shot has a tiny chip in it to allow the government to know exactly what you are doing at every moment.
And add to that they informed me that I have taken the mark of some beast when all I know is I am about to start hunting said beast next week in the Colorado Big Game Season. I cannot seem to figure it all out.
Another friend is convinced that it is a form of population control which is why all these 70- and 80-year-old people need to get it? Last I knew they were not that interested in procreating anyway, so it is working out great for them.
So Ol’ Dutch has figured out that since my arm has hurt ever since, I just might be able to locate said chip and extract it and put that tiny rascal into my new Chevy and be up and running in no time. And they say the government is out to get me? They just helped me get a new ride and I do appreciate it so.
Kevin Kirkpatrick and his Yorkie, Cooper, fish, hunt, ATV or hike daily. His email is [email protected] Additional news can be found at www.troutrepublic. com
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