Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Come on, man.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Celebrate the fucking wins.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

The revolution will be supervised.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Not all heroes wear capes.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

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  1. 1.

    aimai

    Yes, its spring! the time of year when I find the bulbs I meant to plant last fall quietly moldering in the cellar and I’m too frightened to plant them because I’m sure the squirrels will just dig them up in two seconds.

    aimai

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    satby

    If the picture above is what opened, it’s a daffodil.
    aimai, plant the bulbs and put a toy snake in the garden near them (a realistic looking one). Scares the squirrels away. But they don’t eat daffodils anyway, neither do deer, so I mostly plant daffs for spring color.

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    RossInDetroit

    Yesterday I saw the first male goldfinch in full summer plumage. But I’m not taking the snow shovel off the front porch until June, just in case.

  11. 11.

    burnspbesq

    There was an announcement last week that Mammoth Mountain still has a 25 foot base, and expects to be open until early July. I haven’t checked with the National Park Service, but I assume this means that the road into Yosemite from the east won’t open until at least June.

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    Halteclere

    Daffodils are my favorite flower. On my parent’s land, in the middle of the woods several clumps spring forth from the ground every spring, marking where some settler family a long time ago built a log cabin and tried their hand at farming. Nothing remains of the cabin – the foundation rocks have all been reused on other houses in the area and the woods have completely closed in any clearing that had been made. But the daffodils return year after year.

  14. 14.

    David in NY

    The tarragon is just inching above the soil. Yes!

    And in case mistermix has missed the point, that is NOT a daylily.

  15. 15.

    jane from hell

    Peak dogwood (and wisteria) season here in NC & SC. The azaleas all seem to be on individual schedules this year, even parts of the same plant. My butterfly rose is about to bust out all over. The pine trees look like they’re flipping the bird at everyone.

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    RossInDetroit

    I’ll know it’s spring when my prickly pear cactus bounces back from being crushed under the snow and starts sprouting new pads. The thing has gotten huge and last summer it gave us over 100 blossoms.

  18. 18.

    Violet

    @GregB:

    Day lilly season comes in the summer.

    Not where I live. Day lily season will begin in a few weeks. I keep checking mine for buds. My daffodils are well past finished. The foliage has mostly died back.

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    Chinn Romney

    The last pile of snow left Westminster MA yesterday morning, with a little help from my shovel. It’s going to be a couple of weeks before we get any color around here. A quick 10 minute jaunt east on Rt 2 and they’re a week ahead of us. Make it 60 and down here in the People’s Republik where I work, they’re at least 2 weeks ahead.

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    johnny's mom

    I wanna live where Violet and Jane from Hell live! We get Day Lilies in July and Wisteria in May, Kousa Dogwood in June and Common Dogwood in May. My Daffies opened up about a week ago.

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    tess

    So, since moving our cat inside fulltime, the neighbor cat has been using my raised beds all winter as a catbox. (We only discovered this recently, so it may not have been all winter.) She stays toward the center, away from where the herbs from last year are still growing around the edges.

    I’m not too worried about losing the parsley, since it’s going to seed and I need more for this season anyway. But the Greek oregano and savory are coming back beautifully and are mostly in the far corners, so I hate to dig them up if I don’t have to do it. Does anyone know? Or is this a personal ick-factor question?

  22. 22.

    Origuy

    @burnspbesq: Tioga Pass is CA 120, so the place to get info would be Caltrans, not NPS. They haven’t posted a schedule yet, but I think June would be the earliest to open the Pass.

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