i mean…what do you do with that? bush! the dems “response” to the “most important bush speech” of the year? the term? the what?
sheesh.
it was so dumb. all i can say is it was dumb dumb dumb and the response was predictably dumb as well.
dumb people are in charge.
shit.
we are all so….
utterly
fucked
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hmmm….dunno quite what to say about this. i think these guys said it all…and then some…and then some more.
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so, i was outside and what do i see my neighbor doing? poisoning plants with roundup. he killed the honeysuckle, but left the poison ivy alone. i think i now know why my beautiful st. john’s wort died.
i was using one of the beds in the back yard bordering his yard for planting some food (fig tree) and medicinals.
that ends that.
so, now i have to dig up the fig tree and find some other place for it. then i’ll turn that bed into a compost pile. all the leaves will go there (he hates leaves, which is why there are no trees in his yard. none!).
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I find out the other day that my older son is in Hawaii. I don’t find out he’s planning to go, or is about to go. No, I find out he’s been there for awhile and is about to embark on a kayaking nature tour and then will be returning to Japan. In fact, by now, he should be somewhere over the Pacific on his return flight.
What is it with my kids?
ahwell…one of these days, Mama’s gonna take off for some remote corner and not tell a soul. Let ’em scratch their heads and wonder…
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i found this fascinating…yes, i need a life.
from the Old Farmer’s Almanac site, three ways to measure the height of a tree without risking your neck:
(1) A local New Hampshire forester uses a Biltmore stick, which is marked with a special scale. He paces off 66 feet from the tree, holds up the stick vertically, and sights along the marks to the tree’s top and bottom. The scale tells him the height of the tree. (2) If you don’t have a Biltmore stick, take a yardstick and walk 27 paces from the base of the tree. Give the yardstick to a partner and ask him or her to hold it at the spot where you stopped. Then walk 3 more paces and lie down on the ground (on your stomach) facing the tree. Have your partner mark the points on the yardstick where you see the top and the bottom of the tree. The tree will be about ten times taller than the measurement on the yardstick. (3) Stand far enough way from the tree that the angle of inclination when you look to the top is 45 degrees. You will have created a right triangle with two sides of equal length. Then pace off the distance to the tree, which should equal its height.
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why is it, when it’s really important, you misspell the most basic words? and why is it that the spelling error becomes more important than the point?
(if you don’t know what i mean, join an email list and see how long it takes before someone trashes someone else’s argument by asking if english is their second language)
that, my loves, is the nature of the spelling curse.
when i feel up to it, i’ll address the grammar gremlin.
if i live long enough, i’ll expose the perils of proof-reading poisoning.but for now, what i really need is a beer.
Croneswood Art 