We are all ravenous for news ... but, think of it from the company's perspective.

They have a whack of tantalizing news gathering with the geologists ... so what to do with it? Is it 1) make a bunch of KXL retails schlongs happy in mid-Summer, so that they can fill their BBQ bellies cheerfully, or .... 2) wait until the markets are back in full swing and push the SP up to $5.00 on the double-quick.

Sorry to say it (including sorry to me too), but I'm betting the company will pick #2. The big brokers are sunning themselves at the lake. KXL is not thinking from here (mid-Summer 2008) backwards to Fall 2007, i.e. how long we've waited - they are thinking ahead to this Fall 2008. They will be wanting a sequence of powerful releases, each timed and organized to please Bay Street and Wall Street. They won't be wanting a long, hot-Summer gap between this next NR and the ones after that.

Sorry to say so. But we're all like the kids that are given some peas to plant in the ground. Yup, the next couple of mornings we're up early staring at the dirt.

Some things take exactly as long as they take.

I like the Abraham Lincoln line, "How long should a man's legs be, Mr. President?" Abe: "Why, they should be just long enough to reach down to the ground."

Sigh. Patience.

I have a patch of tomotoes, and plants are nearly 6 feet high now. Covered in yellow flowers. I know darn well that the flowers will become tomatoes, and I wanted to show off the red shiny tomatoes to my cousins, soon to visit.

Alas. I have to wait for the bees, sun and nature to do their work. With big, healthy plants, of course I will have bushels of tomatoes. But not tomorrow.

I hope, as soon as possible, to be proven wrong and forget all about patience! Sigh.