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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Best Reforestation Assistants EVER!

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Not only do they enjoy doing a useful job, but they can dash around as much as they want!

And they get to freestyle some high-nitrogen-content fertilizing, while they’re at it…

From GreenMatters:

Last year, forest fires in central Chile wreaked havoc in the El Maule region with more than 100 different wildfires sweeping through the area and destroying over a million acres of forest land. It was the worst wildfire season in the country’s history, taking several lives and created an estimated $333 million of dollars worth of damages. The animals were forced to flee to safer areas.

The job to replant endless acres of forests seemed like a daunting endeavor. That is until three unusual workers took up the task. Six-year-old Das and her two daughters, Olivia and Summer are three Border Collies who have been trained to run through the damaged forests with special backpacks that release native plant seeds. Once they take root, these seeds will help regrow the destroyed area.

It turns out that Border Collies are an ideal breed for this specific type of job. Bounding through miles of forest terrain requires not only speed, intelligence, and endurance, but also a willingness to stay focused and not get distracted by wildlife. Border Collies were bred to herd sheep, so they’re not as likely to run after or hurt other animals in the forest…

This system is also more efficient than having people spread the seeds manually. These speedy canines can race through a forest and cover up to 18 miles a day. Humans, on the other hand, can only cover a few miles each day. These pups can scatter over 20 pounds of seeds, depending on the terrain. While robots or drones might be able to disperse seeds too, dogs aren’t as pricey to handle. Most importantly, they leave a lighter carbon footprint…

For Francisca, bringing trained dogs into the forest made sense. She runs a dog training facility and community called Pewos. While they receive some donations, she and Constanza pay for most of the seeds, supplies, and transportation themselves. Despite the hard work, their labor of love is already paying off…

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What’s on the agenda in your gardens, this week?

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  5. 5.

    raven

    I waited until this morning to tell my Saturday garden disaster story. Our solid waste department makes compost from sludge and wood chips and sells it for $12 a truckload at the dump. The boss lady was ready for a batch so I dutifully loaded up the pups at 8:45am to make the 20 mile round trip journey. The compost pile was pretty wet and when the guy dumped the frotnloader scoop the bed sunk down over the back wheels so the ass end was almost scoping the ground. I’ve done if before so I just decided to go slow and be careful.
    There is a major bike race weekend here with a number of events capped off with the Twilight Criterium held on Saturday evening. I picked up the load and head back to town when I hit a road block on my normal route home. I’ve lived here 32 years but there are still areas of town I’m not totally familiar with so I thought I could pick my way around the area. I went up a drastic hill only to find myself at a dead end with a couple of narrow driveways at the top. I turned in one and backed up and my rear right wheel dropped off the pavement into a hole and basically bottomed out. I tried to rock it but could get not traction in either direction and my tire just spun and smoked. When I got out a couple of neighborhood dudes wandered over and began to assess the situation. They we re pretty buzzed for 9:30 in the morning but they had seen this happen before and were eager to give advice and help. I have USSA roadside assistance so I said “aw man, I appreciate it but I can just call and get a tow truck”. “”Aw hell no, we can get this motherfucker outta here, lets just get a flat rock and put it under the tire and it will pop right out”! Having been stuck many times in my long like of pickup truckin I was pretty sure it wasn’t coming out but they were insistent so I figured “what the hell”. We all rooted around for a bit and someone found a rock so we jammed it in between the tire and the drop off and I gave it a shot. Zip, nada except a smoking tire. Oh, did I mention that the way the truck was tilted to the right that gas started to drip out of the filler??? So I’ve got a smoking rear tire and gas dripping on the ground right in front of it! All this while the pups were in the cab just sleeping away! Well this wasn’t going to work so, between hits off the gin bottle, one of the dudes says Peanut Head down the street has a truck and he’ll come drag me out. They hollered a bunch and this guy finally comes up, surveys the situation and goes back and gets his truck. When he got back we asked if he had a chain a rope and he said “hell no but I have this big extension cord and we can pull it out with it”!! I looked at it and said, “man there is no way that is going to take the weight of this truck full of we compost”! There was no talking these cats out of this so I said fuck it and got to doubling the cord and wrapping it around the bumper bracket. Meanwhile these guys are trying to find somewhere under his truck to secure it and it was funny as hell. They all had different ideas of where it should go and, lying on their backs under the front bumper, they debate raged. And the gas is still dripping. Finally they got the cord secured and the great tow job was ready to proceed. I got back in the cab, lit the engine and P-nut head did the same. We took the slack out of the line, we both gunned it and the extension cord snapped like it was a piece of thread! Of course my tire was smoking again so I decided to get the pups out and set up camp of some nearby steps. I had called USAA and told them I was going to try to get it out myself so I called them back and went through the drill to get help. I sat there for about an hour shooting the shit with these folks when the truck finally made it through all the fucking road blocks and got to me. He tried to just lift the truck out with his forklift type rig and, when that didn’t work, wrapped both front tire with big straps and was able to yank me out. The guys were hanging in their driveway so after I singed I went over and offered them a $20 for trying to help. One dude said “nahhh” but another said “heel yeaaa”! I felt a little funny because I know where the dough was going to go but I felt like it was the right thing to do so I did. And that, boys and girls, I how my garden day went yesterday.

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Planted a rose bush, and 2 azaleas yesterday. I had to work the beds over pretty good good first with the tiller, and add a bunch of compost. I have had limited success with both in the past here so this time I very carefully selected the locations and prepped the soil to the Nth degree. We’ll see.

    Also planted some herbs: 2 rosemary, 2 thyme, 1 oregano. and seeded beds with cilantro and dill. Still need some basil, tarragon, and and and…. something. My sage wintered over and is coming back. Had some parsley pop up on it’s own and found I had no seed for more, so gotta get that too. I also have lavender seed, need to find a spot for that too.

    I think we dodged our last chance at a killing frost last night so I am going to put the maters in today. Might even finish tilling the rest of the veggie garden.

  10. 10.

    zhena gogolia

    @raven:

    And the dogs were in hog heaven the whole time! Great story.

    I love the border collie up top, Anne Laurie. I like this dog blogging thing. Now all we need is a few cats once in a while.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….. gasp….. wheeze…. What are you trying to do, kill me? An extension cord? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. I’m only laughing because it didn’t happen to me this time.

    Reminds me of the time my Mardi Gras krewe had a sewer line collapse under our float which had a hot tub filled with app 3,000 gallons of water in it. Fortunately about half the krewe were cavers I had invited to join and we had it out in about 20 minutes.

  13. 13.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: I really was enjoying it, these guys were giving it their best shot. I forgot to note that there was a lady there and she laughed her ass off the whole time!

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I think I’m in love with Michelle Wolf:

    Wolf also excoriated Trump’s daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka. “She was supposed to be an advocate for women, but it turns out she’s about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons. She’s done nothing to satisfy women. So I guess, like father like daughter.”

  16. 16.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    On Democrats: “Democrats are harder to make fun of because you guys don’t do anything. People think you might flip the House and Senate this November, but you guys always find a way to mess it up. You’re somehow going to lose by 12 points to a guy named Jeff Pedophile, Nazi doctor.”

  20. 20.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: Sean Spicer got his panties twisted:

    Spicer, who quit as press secretary last summer, was visibly angry as he said: “It was absolutely disgusting. The idea that people clapped at that. It’s one thing to celebrate the first amendment but that, tonight, was one of the most disgusting and deplorable things I’ve ever heard in my life. The language, the references were way over the line.

    “There’s a lot of people on that dais from the media that need to answer for that. The White House Correspondents’ Association needs to answer for that. That was disgusting. The idea that viewers at home listened to that. I think they have a very distorted view for what the first amendment’s all about. There are a lot of reporters on that dais that brought her here that should answer for that.”

    Ummm, Sean? You want to see disgusting and deplorable go back and watch one of your press briefings. When are you going to answer for that?

  25. 25.

    Raven

    @Lapassionara: And that was after I was at a stoplight, a dude in a Caddy turned the corner and his wallet flew in the middle of the road! I pulled over in a driveway, risked my life picking up all the cards that scattered and retrieved the goods. There was no cas habit plenty of credit cards, his DL and, the kicker, his VA ID. I know what a bitch it is to get a VA ID so I set out to find the guy and give him back his good. His DL had his address so I quickly loacaterd his house. He was pulling in his driveway as I got there so I hopped out and said “Mr Moon”? The dude was definitely on alert until I said “I found your wallet”. He just said “oh yea, I left it on the top of my car, thanks.” I said ,”well, I’m a vet too and I know how hard it is to get a VA ID”. It wasn’t so much what he did or didn’t say, it was just like he didn’t seem to give a shit. That was BEFORE the dump!

  26. 26.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: @WereBear: yeah, saw that thread just as I was going to sleep last night. Badger is totes adorable! But a new puppy is a handful for everyone in the house, including the older animals. The chickens are probably not amused.

  27. 27.

    MomSense

    I love the border collie dash planting. I have so many blurry photos of my dog running in the woods. The best is how she can jump over fallen trees and turn on a dime to avoid something right next to them. Border collies love to run.

  32. 32.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @raven: You wandered into somebody’s novel. I’m not literary enough to recognize whose. If it was in Maine I’d say Stephen King.

    Who wrote “Deliverance”?

  34. 34.

    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly: Oh, sure, to us :) We humans also have the confidence that puppies grow up, and not all older dogs do.

    When we got feral kitten Mithrandir, he greatly puzzled Tristan, who was fostered from the age of 3 weeks and had never seen a kitten before. It took a month of observation before he was convinced that this was the play machine he’d been wishing for.

  38. 38.

    Jeffro

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s paranoids all the way down!

    What a pretty morning but MAN am I tired of the chilly weather. How am I supposed to enjoy a nice brunch outdoors and keep dividing America with weather like this?

    Brunch has waxed, the founder of BrunchCon told me, as our interest in religion has waned.

    “I don’t have time to get up at 7 or 8 to go to church. But I do have time to go to brunch,” confirmed Monica Zurita, 32, of Vienna.

    Brunch is its own kind of religion. Or at least a pagan ritual, practiced each Sunday by urban elites who are known to pound so many mimosas that it’s easy to imagine a nationwide shortage of André on the horizon.

    Brunch is a lifestyle. And friends, it is also a lewk, and that lewk is off-the-shoulder and frilly, and it hobbles up the sidewalk in flesh-toned stilettos. Brunch wears coral-colored khakis and pocket squares tucked into baby-blue slim-fit blazers, or sometimes it rolls out of bed and throws on a cleanish T-shirt that says “Resting brunch face” or “You can’t brunch with us.”

    All of this — but especially the mimosas and the loud and leisurely ways of brunchers — is why every Sunday, brunch cleaves us into Two Americas.

    One America sneers at the drunken sea of humanity that emerges from restaurants at 4 p.m. to pose for the ’Gram (and, occasionally, to puke in the streets).

    The other brunches.

    Overblown much, Style section writer?

  40. 40.

    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly: I guessed and I was right. From the article:

    “You have to wonder with that kind of disproportionate retirement number whether what happened in June played a factor,” he reportedly said. “There are a growing number of leftists who believe the way to resolve this is not at the ballot box but through threats and sometimes through violence and assassinations.”

    Yeah, right. Always projection with these fools. But then, these are the same clowns who suppressed that DOJ report on right wing terrorism.

  41. 41.

    HeleninEire

    @raven:
    FUCKING FABULOUS.

    Morning, morning crew. 1pm (or should I say 13:00) here on an absolutely beautiful Spring (finally!) day.

  43. 43.

    Amir Khalid

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    I can understand that no Republican Congressperson wants to be “solved” 2nd Amendment-style. But, probably like you, I doubt that they are giving up their political careers in such numbers for fear of that.

  44. 44.

    Kay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    My winter-sown seeds are up. They all came up at the same time. It’s magic. I did sweet peas, 4 different violas and shasta daises. The sweet peas will be temperamental about transplanting so we’re not out of the woods on this experiment yet but it’s looking good so far. I used really light soil mix- 1/10 potting soil/vermiculite. We got a lot of snow and rain so I didn’t water them- if anything they stayed too wet which is what I figured so hence the light mix.

  46. 46.

    Baud

    @Amir Khalid: If you click on the link, it’s pretty clear that the statement was more an arbitrary dig at the left than a serious expression of belief.

  48. 48.

    Amir Khalid

    @WereBear:
    I can’t think of any recent (i.e. in Trump’s term) violent political act in America that was committed by a self-professed liberal/”progressive”.

  51. 51.

    WereBear

    @Amir Khalid: They are fixated on the past; the anti-war left that had some instances of bomb-making and the sheer terror of black activism from the 1960s. When the past few decades has been littered with right wing terrorism, from organized abortion clinic bombings and murders to the solitary shooters steeped in white supremacy and Nazi-leaning propaganda.

    The Authoritarian mind is the violent one.

  52. 52.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Kay: I am not sure about my wild flower seeds yet. I sowed them in February and there has been plenty of cold since then so they should be good. I have plenty of little green shoots coming up but I can’t say what they are at this point. Last week I found some seed packets in the freezer that I had bought in March. Columbine, Flutterby Weed and a wildflower mix. Put them all in peat pots with starter mix and stuck them under the grow lights. The wildflower mix have already sprouted. I am pleasantly surprised.

  53. 53.

    Lapassionara

    @Raven: a great story, until the end. There must be something wrong with him. Otherwise, his lack of gratitude is inexplicable.

  57. 57.

    Lapassionara

    @OzarkHillbilly: I have never done a winter seeding. All the seed packets I have say wait for nights in the 50’s.

    We aren’t to nights in the 50’s here in the St Louis area. So I am trying to keep myself from starting to plant. Not easy, when the days are so nice.

  59. 59.

    debbie

    @raven:

    Glad it finally ended well. Any thought to getting the stuff delivered to you next year?

    I love border collies! The #1 best way to rid an area of Canada geese.

  61. 61.

    satby

    Last night went down to 26°, so at 11pm I was out covering the newly planted replacement roses, again. Looks like the last overnight frost for a while though. Today I have to plant the strawberry grow bags and two black current bushes. My indoor seed starting off well but I lost most to damp off when the tray got overheated a few sunny days. It’s ok because I was just using up old seed anyway. Hoping the hard frost didn’t total the daffodils that just started blooming.

  62. 62.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Lapassionara: Wildflowers, because they have evolved to self sow, need cold scarification. Domesticated flowers have lost that so they get sown in the spring when things have warmed up enough. I too am having a hard time resisting the urge to sow them.

  63. 63.

    Patricia Kayden

    @raven: Quite an adventure. At least the guys were trying to be helpful even though they couldn’t help you. That’s a pretty good deal on a load of dirt. Wish we had that in my neck of the woods.

  67. 67.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Patricia Kayden: I have been thru way to many backcountry odysseys with vehicles getting stuck/broke down/blown up in which some of the players had had one or two more than they should have. It is usually best to have them “help” by sitting in the cheering section. I remember one notable night when we broke one tow strap, 2 come-alongs, and a rear window when the come-along hook went thru it. I was lucky neither it nor the whip lashing cable didn’t take off my head (or any other body parts).

  68. 68.

    JPL

    @Lapassionara: Last year the bunnies ate my vegetable garden, so they are not fans of mine. The mutt caught one and delivered it to me. Yes my mutt, killed Peter.

  72. 72.

    MomSense

    @Lapassionara:

    I bet he was embarrassed and felt foolish so he shut down emotionally. It’s a very common response. People often do that when an emotion overwhelms them.

  73. 73.

    MomSense

    @Quinerly:

    My mom just said that she heard she wasn’t funny and was vulgar and mean. I told her to just listen for herself because I thought she was great. It’s amazing how we are so quick to form opinions based on what we hear from media.

  76. 76.

    BC in Illinois

    In other breaking news: “Paul Ryan Nominates Jole Osteen to be New House Chaplain.”

    In a surprise move during the weekend, Speaker Ryan proposed that Prosperity Gospel champion, Joel Osteen, become the new chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives. In a brief comment, the Speaker said, “America needs to become more prosperous. It needs a new approach to individual wealth. Pastor Osteen carries that message and shows us the way. Working Americans should be grateful to pay more taxes to the Federal Government. As Jesus, himself, said, ‘It will be returned an hundred-fold.’ Joel, my good friend, suggests that the road to a more prosperious America will come through even higher taxes on low-income citizens, who will benefit in the end, of course. I agree with the good Pastor, and will be introducing new legislation to that effect soon.”

    It’s from the Democratic Underground, so it is an unquestionable true fact.

  77. 77.

    satby

    Oh, I forgot to mention that ramps and fiddlehead ferns were both at the market yesterday. Got two bunches of ramps, I’m tempted to plant one and eat the other ?

  78. 78.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: Zing!!!

    @MomSense: @Baud: If critical thinking was an animal it would be an endangered species. Far too many are perfectly comfortable with thinking as they are told to.

  79. 79.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @BC in Illinois: Entirely plausible. Republicans are mumbling words about how we need somebody “non-denominational”, so almost certainly they have some mega-church grifter in mind who is going to preach prosperity gospel and not have any of that annoying Jesus stuff about taking care of the poor.

  83. 83.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Alex Witt asks if Wolff went too far in commenting on Jethrene Huckabee’s looks. Defends her by pointing out that she looked really pretty last night! Female reporter Very Concerned about civility chimes in “Yeah!”

  84. 84.

    Amir Khalid

    @BC in Illinois:
    Maybe when the Democrats win the House (fingers crossed) they could appoint an imam from a neighbourhood mosque in Michigan or New Jersey as House chaplain. He’d be as eligible as any Christian pastor, right?

  91. 91.

    gene108

    @Quinerly:

    You will not say anything derogatory or humorous, in the presence of our King, Donald J. Trump, or in the presence of any of the Lords and Ladies of His Court.

    They are only to be praised with great praise. Amen.

    – Mindset of Trump and the people working for him.

  92. 92.

    Quinerly

    @gene108: my favorite line: “Like a porn star says when she’s about to have sex with a Trump, let’s get this over with,” Wolf began when she finally took the podium Saturday night.

  94. 94.

    Quinerly

    With Sanders just a few feet away on the dais, Wolf praised the press secretary’s resourcefulness. “She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye,” she said. “Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”

    The Daily Beast

  95. 95.

    Quinerly

    Wolf said Ivanka Trump has “done nothing to satisfy women,” adding, “so I guess like father like daughter.”

    The Daily Beast

    ?

  96. 96.

    germy

    I could be wrong, but it looks like someone’s been ratfucking Michelle Wolf’s wikipedia. During her monologue, she said she worked on Wall Street but I see this:

    Wolf worked at Scores from 2007 to 2008, and later at Christie’s Cabaret, for a total of almost four years between the two gentlemen’s clubs.[6][7]

    The two citations (6 and 7) reference Wall Street employment, not strip clubs.

  99. 99.

    gene108

    @WereBear: @OzarkHillbilly:

    I thought Mo Brooks supported the 2nd Amendment, because it is all that stands between us and tyranny. And what happened at the baseball game practice was just a concerned patriot exercising his 2nd Amendment rights, as defined by guys like Mo Brooks.

    Hat tip to Mo and others, 2nd Amendment solutions are not going to be a second civil war, our standing Army (and other service branches) are too big, but rather either targeted deliberate acts of violence or random acts of violence against government officials.

  101. 101.

    Barbara

    @Lapassionara: He might have been embarrassed or he might have been afraid of what it signified about his mental capacity. I left my bag on the hood of my car in a situation where I needed 8 arms and it was stolen. I didn’t want to leave the house for days. I couldn’t believe how stupid I was.

  102. 102.

    bemused

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    It’s entirely understandable they’d be afraid there are people who would want them to suffer great pain/death. It’s what they do every day, fiendishly work on increasing entitlements for the wealthy, eliminating them for everyone else ensuring that large numbers of Americans will suffer and die early.

  105. 105.

    raven

    @debbie: The whole way I conned the bride into a new engine, rear end, tranny for my truck was for garden related stuff!

  108. 108.

    Kay

    @amychozick
    Apr 23
    More
    .@NYMag calls CHASING HILLARY “a sort-of ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ meets ‘What it Takes’ coming-of-age rom-com set on the campaign trail, with a tragic twist at the end (spoiler alert: Clinton lost).”

    I feel like the NYTimes victory lap over finally vanquishing the evil Clintons is overkill.

    They should do a special legacy edition, annually. Use the whole roster. “The Clinton Threat- continuing coverage”

    When do you think they’ll get around to covering President Donald Trump?

  109. 109.

    germy

    @Kay: They’re making damn sure to give Chelsea the message: “We did it to your mother and we’ll do it to you, too.”

  110. 110.

    Aleta

    Odd that the members of the press criticizing Wolf aren’t bringing up what she said about them.

  112. 112.

    Immanentize

    On a plane about to take off. But for those who were following, my son’s robotics team are now world champions. Finals we’re at Ford Field in front of 20K plus people. Never thought myson would participate in any sport championship on an NFL field?

  113. 113.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: Sullivan used to sell compost for cheap but now they don’t have the money to support staffing the site on the part time basis they used to. I could load up my truck one 5 gal bucket at a time but it’s time consuming enough unloading it one wheel barrow load at a time. So now I drive into STL and spend about $30 a yard for it.

  114. 114.

    Aleta

    I did think it crossed a line when Wolf called Tester “Very dishonest and sick!” Oh wait–that was the prez yesterday; reported, repeated, but not called out.

  117. 117.

    Kay

    @raven:

    I had my son got too-wet top soil with my his truck last week and it was really heavy but not that heavy. I kept telling him I would get the soil out and give the truck back and he finally told me to keep it as long as I want. I wanted to let it dry some in the bed. I’ll give it back in the winter- I’m moving it a quarter wheelbarrow at a time :)

  119. 119.

    debbie

    Off to another rousing day on Twitter:

    Just got recent Poll – much higher than President O at same time….Well, much more has been accomplished!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2018

    As if.

  120. 120.

    MomSense

    @Immanentize:

    Wooooooo Hoooooooo! Congratulations to Immp and the whole team, including the teachers, parents and advisers who guided them.

    You may want to make sure he knows all about Skynet.

  124. 124.

    Kay

    @germy:

    Frankly, Chelsea is insane if she runs for anything. It will be a feeding frenzy. There’s no way that doesn’t end badly for literally all concerned.

    They seem to like Gillibrand,which, sadly, makes me like Gillibrand less because I’m like “ugh-if they like her I won’t” :)

    The post office banking bill is great but that was Warren’s issue. I think Gillibrand should present it as a collaboration. People love collaboration. It’s not a “female” thing it’s a positive thing that women happen to better at. If they treat sharing credit like a weakness it will be perceived as a weakness and it’s not. It would be a kind of a refreshing contrast to the big gasbag Donald Trump and all his “me, me, me”.

  127. 127.

    Kay

    @germy:

    “Whitewater- a retrospective”.

    It’s weird and I don’t care how many times they deny it – the thing speaks for itself. There’s 30 years of a written record here.

  128. 128.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: @raven: well, raven inspired me to go look, and S.Bend has municipal mulch and compost free for the taking of you load it yourself. Since I would be loading empty storage totes, that may just be tomorrow’s garden activity!
    Thanks raven!

  129. 129.

    Another Scott

    @OzarkHillbilly: I just watched her show at the dinner (at RawStory). It was pretty good. I especially liked the end (“… Trump has helped you …”) – it was right on target.

    The fake fainting over her blue language is oh so predictable, and oh so childish.

    Here’s hoping she has a bright future.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  135. 135.

    zhena gogolia

    @Another Scott:

    I just watched the whole thing. It wasn’t as funny-funny as Colbert, but then the situation is now much more dire. The anger was very cathartic for me. I thought the last few seconds were the best, when she attacked the media. They’re using the SHS jokes to distract from the main thrust of her routine.

  136. 136.

    cynthia ackerman

    @MomSense:

    Here, here!

    Nevertheless, my first thought at the headline was, “Seems about right. Once again, I can’t be sure this is real or The Onion.”

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    Kay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Columbine

    I love Columbine. I got volunteers in a formal rectangular bed by the driveway that is red/dark green – the bed is intended to be blocks of color and straight lines- and I couldn’t bring myself to rip them out.

    They’re purplish-red with yellow – that muddy magenta color that seems to happen when flowers aren’t bred but just mix together- so they don’t fit in at all but I just love them. They’re kind of exotic coming up out of nowhere like that- it’s like finding an orchid or something. No idea where they came from.

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    J R in WV

    @satby: \

    We have probably a quarter acre of ramps patch now, by buying bundles, eating one and planting the others. So highly recommended that you do so.

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    Jay

    @satby:

    I don’t buy compost. Vermiculum wilt is common here, and both the commercial and munincipal compost is laden with it, instead of garbaging infected plants, people take them to the recycling center, and composting doesn’t kill the virus.

    I make my own compost from manure, last years garden debris, and several large compost bins.

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    Bess

    @raven:

    If you find yourself in that situation again jack up the truck enough to get the tire off the ground and put the flat rock under the tire.

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