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General Discussion, Tuesday, May 14, 2019
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An American Redstart wants all Stellars to have a terrific Tuesday…and so do I….
“Happy Trails: Wild Treasures in the Lone Star State”
Wild treasures in Texas go far beyond cattle, cactus and coyotes. Texas is also a resting place for over 600 bird species, more than any other state.
https://www.insidethegate.com/2013/04/happy-trails-wild-treasures-in-the-lone-star-state/
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Beautiful! Morning Lucille!
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Good day, sand! Wish I were here…
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Count me in! Evening, Lucille!
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Thank you……..
Morning Everyone !!!!!!
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Have a good day, Colonel!
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Good afternoon, Col. (R) Ken!! How ya doing ? 🙂
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Bjosz, making progress after receiving my new Liver in January. I have another year of light duty, before receiving my return to duty slip. It just drives me crazy watching people I have too hire do jobs I used too do……I have some minor issues, nothing the Doctors haven’t dealt with before. Thanks for asking
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My son, who got his new liver at age 17, got a full clearance for all activities a year post-transplant, I believe. They said that after that time when all the blood vessel grafts were fully healed his new liver was as good as if he’d been born with it. I don’t know if that holds true with older recipients (& he wasn’t technically “liver sick” before transplant) but hope it might encourage you.
This lack of restrictions eventually was very encouraging to me for after his heart surgeries he was never given zero restrictions–the transplant docs said he could play tackle football or even ice hockey if he wanted! He was always supposed to avoid blows to the chest per cardiology. But since he underwent open-heart surgery twice & both times his sternum was rejoined using “sternal wires” my understanding was that once that bone had healed it was then even harder than before being cut in half, so why the restrictions?
Anyway God bless you on your recovery…may it continue relatively problem free!
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Col: That is a wonderful report!!! May God continue to bless you!
I am sure it is and has been hard to have to watch others! 🙂
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Evening Col. !
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And for good measure…
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Stellar’s Jay!
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Excellent!!!
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I was dive bombed by two blue jays in my yard yesterday afternoon. Nest near by?
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I hope the mokingbirds don’t set their nests near the clothesline again. That’s really a problem when they dive bomb us!
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Drives the kitties crazy too.
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More than likely!
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I had vultures perched on the crest of the roof yesterday…
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Czar:
Aww. they were just over looking the land.. 🙂
I hate those ugly things!
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I enjoy them, they’re really quite interesting when they’re hopping around your back yard doing what God designed them to do. We have both the regular black headed turkey buzzard. They really are handsome birds close up.
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Doing this image as a puzzle it was surprising how much beautiful color there was…
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Some folks are turned off by their peeing down their legs but hey, I got a few friends who do that too.
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Yikes 🙂
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They’re getting treatment.
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Reminds me of the time my dad was deer hunting in winter with too many layers on…that’s a story that will live on & hopefully never be duplicated!
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Or the military winter clothing getup in Graffenwahr in winter. I’m sure the Colonel must have a winter Graff experience.
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Sounds foreign & fascinating. So many tales are much more fun in the telling than in the original living!
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Yeah, Graff has two seasons: frozen solid and mud.
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Would to God that those same seasons apply to Graft!
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The world needs a place to put the hose when it needs an enema and Graff is high on that list.
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vying w/ DC for that “honor”
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DC has multiple ports.
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🙂
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czar:
Not so much when you are driving down the highway and they are feeding on road kill!
Those suckers can come back toward you with a vengeance! Goodby windshield! (and try to avoid wrecking)
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I can remember being told that as a kid many, many years ago. I just see them ahead and adjust speed, if you aren’t going too fast they’ll veer off. They’re a heavy bird and it’s hard for them to get aloft, we have the same problem with turkeys if you spook a flock. Around here if you slow enough they’ll just hop to the side and wait for you to go by or fly away from you.
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Did you ever experience Blue Jays giving a gang scold to a cat? It’s a racket that defies description! The noise that a half dozen Jays create has to be experienced to be believed.
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No, I haven’t seen that. One thing I did see was jays stealing peanuts from squirrels. The squirrels buried the nuts, and the birds watched and took them.
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Jays can be rascals. Like all members of the Crow family, they’re “smart as whips.” Their thievery extends to egg stealing which may seem unsavory to some. (At least they eat them…tiny wrens are content to simply puncture the eggs of birds they consider rivals, thus killing the contents.) I just enjoy Jays for the athletic show offs that they are.
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I used to have an outdoor kitty that I would leave food for on the porch. The Blue-jays found it and helped themselves. If it ever went empty, they would raise a ruckus whenever I went outside until I refilled “their” dinner bowl, lol!
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Oh yeah. They do it to cats, crows, owls, hawks and sometimes people. They do know how to raise cain.
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Happy Tuesday Lucille 🙂 !
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Thanks, lovely! A river of flowers…
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But then…there’s this guy…
…and he couldn’t care less what kind of day anyone has…he’s a Cassowary, an enormous flightless creature deemed the…”World’s most dangerous bird”…
Native to Australia and New Guinea, a cassowary ‘can slice open any predator or potential threat with a single swift kick’, according to animal experts. Here’s what happened to this poor Florida man…https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3006074/worlds-most-dangerous-bird-cassowary-attacks-and
So beware, Stellars of those who wish a Cassowary on you!
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The head crest makes it look like one of the dinosaurs. Especially now that the paleontologists are saying dinos had feathers, and that all birds are descended from dinos.
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That was my first thought too, a near-classic dinosaur head.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂 (Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂 (Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Tarts
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Morning Nyet! I haven’t had hash browns in quite a while. Thank you!
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Nye!!!!!! SOS on the biscuits…….well done….
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Morning Col. Ken!
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Yum! Breakfast! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning auscitizenmom!
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I made some muffins with wild blackberries from our woods in them. Happy to share…come on by later!
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Howdy, Nyet, and a good day to ya! That top plate looks mighty fine to a hungry gal who just ate a Pepperidge Farm Milano double milk chocolate cookie while awaiting your fare before heading off to…you guessed it…Milan, Italy…
…where I’ll visit the Duomo di Milano…
…the largest church in Italy & fifth largest in the world. Construction began in 1386 but wasn’t completed until 1805 when Napoleon demanded it be finished so he could pretend he was a man deserving of being crowed King of Italy in a cathedral.
The Piazza Duomo is magnificent…
Imagine shopping here…in the incredible Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II…
Grazie
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Wow!! Those huge tall buildings would make me claustrophobic, even out in the open!
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Evening Nyet 🙂 !
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Mornin’ all!
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Morning Ms. WeeWeed!!!!!!!!! we have a brake in the rain. Hope the yard guys mow today. Do the boys and girls need anything?
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir! Boys ‘n girls are doing well!
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We could use a lot of that rain in FL.
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My grass was done a couple of days ago, and you can see it grow, I swear! Good morning, Col. Ken!
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I’m going to bale my yard, that’s how high the grass is…… should have raised goats, sheep instead of cows…….
Your Mother’s Day post was a tear jerker for me. Don’t think I have ever mentioned this, lost my Mother, brain cancer. I was very young when this happened.
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I was lucky to have my mother for so many years, and I am sorry to hear about your mother. That must have been very difficult.
As for livestock, I have a cousin raising sheep for meat (tasty lamb; they are a variety that has no fleece, just hair). If I didn’t live in a city, I might consider goats.
I don’t mind at all letting someone else do my mowing and snow removal. I know we have to pay for it, but just let it go, at least until you feel really up to it.
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Ours is too swampy near the house, but getting toward knee high! I’ll mow down the end of the driveway near the road today. Thursday should be better for mowing near the house, since weather people think it will not rain until Saturday.
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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“Hmmmmmm…popcorn…Jews…popcorn…Jews. ALLAH AKBAR!”
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Mornin’ Z’s!
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Didn’t I just answer this someplace else?
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Is there an echo in here??
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lolol Great tweet WW, thank you. Wonder why Babylon Bee has not been banned yet?
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Oh, they have been – temporarily. Afternoon Jeans!
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Good Tuesday to you, WeeWeed! I’ll not say the same to Ms. Tlaib whose skewed view of history is evidence of the brainwashing all Palestinians undergo. If anyone thinks she and her jihadi buddies are the last of their kind in Congress, think again!
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Evening Wee 🙂 !
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Just in case you’re planning to travel to England with your dog, I saw this on CBS this morning:
https://cbsloc.al/2HmuUOW
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You can’t take your dog to England. If you did, it would be quarantined for 6 months in a kennel before you could go to the pup-pampering places. England has no rabies, so they are very strict about animals coming and going.
When we immigrated back here, we brought our kitty, Ruby. We had to get a special vet’s certificate to bring her with us. She had to have a rabies shot which we had to get from Germany! We also had to buy her a plane ticket. All together it cost us about $700 to bring the kitty and this was 22 years ago. She was worth it though. Sweet Ruby lived to be 17 years old.
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Good morning all! Excitement in the neighborhood this morning. Was wakened by the sound of heavy equipment, so went outside to look. The street is blocked off and they are removing at least 3 large trees in a yard. At least one of them is in the backyard where the lot is narrow and the house is 2-story. They are using a cherry picker and a huge crane to accomplish the task. I hope they don’t drop anything. The first one in the front yard was very large – the trunk is about 2 feet thick. Another in the front yard yet to go. It’s quite a feat with houses, power lines etc.
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I know the feeling. We have a huge live oak in the backyard of the NOLA house, a magnolia tree that refuses ti die and a huge pine tree. It’s not a big lot, standard mid-to-late 50s size, but they fill the yard and make hot summers a bit cooler.
Front yard has an old crepe myrtle on one side and a Japanese magnolia we planted over 30 years ago on the other side. It’s an old neighborhood with a lot of old trees so it doesn’t look like the new ‘green desert’ developments with grass with a few bushes.
Here we have a huge number of trees, we lost between 11 and 14 thousand in Katrina and we’re back to forest between the ones we planted and the volunteers. I can’t envision a life without trees, living in some development where the neighborhood committee decides what type and how many trees you can have and where the can/can’t be placed. We have oaks over thirty feet high we grew from acorns in NOLA that we placed where we want them, we have about forty volunteer oaks we’ve babied growing on the west and north and about 50 long leaf we personally planted where we wanted, as sprouts, between the house and the lake. They’ve become members of the family, a life without trees is unimaginable.
Biggest problem in planting mature trees is the tap root. If the tree was cut from the ground by one of those huge ice cream cone scoops the tap root’s usually lost. There’s a chance one might grow back but it won’t be the same as the one it originally had. The tree’s then stuck with the lateral roots for support and they weren’t designed for that, wet ground and a windstorm and you’ll be picking up a tree off of your house.
Ahhhh…trees…
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I breathed a sigh of relief when my neighbor cut down his huge 3-branch maple that was held together by chains 30 feet up. If that sucker came down in a storm it could have wiped out his house – or mine.
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Yeah, I love maples, even grew a few dozen from seed in NOLA and brought them here but none are planted within 100 feet of the house.
During Katrina our neighbor’s maple, parent to many of ours, split and fell, took out the corner of his house.
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Czar:
That sounds beautiful! Lots of work, though, when little limbs break off ? And leaf raking!
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Limbs don’t break on the oak, matter of fact I had to trim some of the low-hanging limbs so Czarina can mow under. The oak left untrimmed goes from ground to top, increasing the availability of food for the tree by shading out competition.
The pines’ boughs that fall just get run over by the big mowers and ground in though the pine tree in NOLA is so large that limbs don’t fall much any more.
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Good Thanks for the information!
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I am going to have to have a talk with our oaks. Every time we have a little wind, twigs and limbs end up on the ground. I am always praying I won’t get hit by one of the larger ones.
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What kind of oaks do you have? Do you have those Florida sand oaks?
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I think they are Live Oaks. I looked up oaks, and Live Oaks are the only ones that I noticed lose their leaves when the new ones come in. I have always wondered what was going on because the ground would be covered with brown leaves and the tree would still be covered with green leaves.
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There’s a sand oak down there too, just bought one for here, it’s in the live oak family. If the 22-horse mower can’t chew it up then there’s always the brush hog or tractor-mounted chipper, we just let the detritus rot in.
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That’s what the groundskeepers here do, too.
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It’s a little harrowing to watch, but if these guys know what they are doing, it is amazing.
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Lots of that happened after Katrina in New Orleans. Most houses are barely 3 feet apart and have small backyards, so no machines could go back there. My friend’s backyard tree was badly damaged but mostly still standing 40′ tall, so to have it removed she had to pay for a large crane to lean over her house to stabilize the top when it was cut off, then transfer the top and each subsequent piece to the truck in the street in front of her house. Cost a fortune, and the insurance only picked up a fraction.
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My parents once hired a local man near their Northern Michigan cottage to remove a very old tree, probably more than 50′ tall. He was a Christian & would pray about each cut before making it. He climbed the trunk with spiked boots & a very basic harness & would tie off each section before cutting it strategically & lowering it to the ground. Once started he’d taken down the whole tree in less than half an hour. Those that watched said it was truly an amazing (& economical) thing to see…
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I’ve seen that done too. Back in the 1960’s, a friend’s mother had a beautiful house on a wooded lot; unfortunately with several big elms – one huge one within two feet of the corner of the house.
The brother in law of the guy I was dating at the time worked for a tree surgeon, and that’s exactly how he and some friends took down those big trees. It’s not exactly safe for the guy climbing the tree, though.
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I miss the beautiful cathedral of elm trees on the streets of Detroit in my childhood. We always traversed some pathways entranced with filtered fairy-tale green light on Sunday morning journeys…now a tragic loss from Dutch elm disease, I believe.
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They were really beautiful.
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How about a public school teacher from New Orleans? It’s a miserably performing system in a state that scores perpetually in the lowest three states, a city that’s had untold millions thrown at its school system since Katrina and the schools still suck and are rife with corruption. There’s yet another investigation going on to find out why after millions were thrown into the charter school system the students are still failing.
Come ‘n git one…or two, we won’t miss ’em and they’re mostly Democrats so failure is an option to them.
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Rally Time!
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Link for tickets:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events/may-mont-pa-2019
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President Donald J. Trump’s schedule for Tuesday, May 14th:
-Participate in a walking tour of Cameron LNG Export Facility in Hackberry, LA
-Deliver remarks on promoting energy infrastructure and economic growth
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This’ll start your day off:
https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/05/13/support-for-maduro-angela-davis-and-hamas-has-critics-calling-ilhan-omar-congress-most-left-wing-member/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/angela-davis-ilhan-omar-rally_n_5cc8a479e4b0d123954bc2aa
https://www.thenation.com/article/ilhan-omar-black-women-rally-support/
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/441407-angela-davis-ayanna-pressley-lead-rally-in-support-of-ilhan-omar
I’ll bet our first Baathist president is just giddy with excitement.
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A good short video here.
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Dang it. Another good guy is gone.
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Two days in a row. 😦 Doris Day and now Tim. Sad.
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Good points included in “Trump’s Tax Returns” by Frank Ryan – May 14, 2019
Liberals did not hear what they wanted to hear in the Mueller report, so now they are waging a different type of battle. The new battle centers on Donald Trump’s tax returns.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/trumps_tax_returns.html
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Tariffs bad? What about sales taxes?
The New York Times editorial board is aghast. It editorialized, “Trump’s Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans.”
What? Has the board finally meet a tax it did not like?
Of course, tariffs are not new. Tariffs were the nation’s first tax. George Washington signed the first one into law on July 4, 1789, on the 66th day of his presidency.
Tariffs provided most of the national government’s revenue until the income tax came along. American industry flourished under tariffs, which Democrats opposed. The opposition to tariffs was almost as strong as Democrat support of slavery.
Republicans were the party of abolition and tariffs — until the Bushes came along.
President Donald Trump wants to end unfair trade agreements. The American-in-name-only companies that benefit from cheap unAmerican labor oppose him. They finance think tanks that churn out studies that show America benefits from consuming without producing…
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The other thing about tariffs is to encourage us to buy American made. I always consider this when shopping, and pick American made if available, even if it is more expensive.
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Chinese scientists at the Academy of Sciences in Quingdao have found radioactive carbon carbon traces left over from nuclear testing in the bodies of spineless, cold blooded creatures at the deepest part of the Pacific. Proof positive that Democrats are EVERYWHERE!
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A lovely listen for eventide…
“Valse Triste” by Jean Sibelius
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
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Woo Hoo…Trump asrriving in New Orleans right now. Gonna be shutting down Interstate and main roads in the busiest part of the day in NOLA’s busiest suburb. Gonna be some folks late to dinner tonite. He has a fundraiser in Metairie tonite, $2800 a plate (originally posted as $28,000 a plate by local press) so he has to land at the international airport instead of the air station in Belle Chasse.
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A favor, if one may be so bold.
DIL is having her pinning ceremony – nursing students receive their nurse’s pin after graduating college – tomorrow night, and I’ve absolutely no idea what to get her, and cash is too impersonal.
Any suggestions?
Was thinking of a good wine or cooler (what is a cooler???), but, not being a drinker, have no idea where to even start. My memory has only Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish Creme, and Dos Equis, from L’il Bro (of course).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
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Here is a link. It has a lot of good ideas. You have to click through, but I think you might find a good idea in it.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/gift-ideas/g4367/nurse-graduation-gifts/
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Found one, thank you. Must wait for order to arrive, so will go with one of Stella’s ideas as well.
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Great. 😀
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I didn’t want to say before you chose, but I really liked the copper stethoscope ID tag.
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Since it’s a celebration, what about a nice bottle of champagne or sparkling rose? French or California sparkling wines (or Washington State, like Chateau Ste Michelle.) Do you know if she likes dry or sweet(ish) wines?
A good wine shop can point you in the right direction.
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Champagne! Great idea, the obvious choice. Never even crossed my mind (of course…). We do have a wine shop, so will pair this with one I found from mom’s link above. Thank you!
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So cute! Jess and Miah help their boys plant their own garden.
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Col. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen.
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Two Bostons viewing the sun sinking low…
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