Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Let there be snark.

Books are my comfort food!

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

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

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

This really is a full service blog.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Lush August

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More glorious photos from commentor Jeffg166:

Top pic: I don’t plant the morning glories. They come up by themselves. Real thugs over running everything else.

8.15.2021: Crape myrtle with sunrise.
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I don’t like Rose of Sharon. My neighbor has one. The seeds get carried or blown into my garden. They are weeds in my garden. I pull out lots every year. This one by the birdbath was left to serve as a perch for the birds.
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8.21.2021: The sunflower my neighbor gave me.

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What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?

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  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    First things first:

    Vivien Louise
    19 3/4″
    6 lbs 5 oz

    5ish am
    Aug 22, 2021

    MawMaw is a happy Mawmaw even if she was checking her phone every hour all night long. Pawpaw is ready for a nap.

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Now that that is out of the way, thanx for the pics Jeffg, especially that glorious crepe myrtle.

  4. 4.

    steppy

    In a word, tomatoes.

    In many words, we are getting tons of Romas and Genuwines. Canning sauce from the Genuwines that we don’t keep for slicing and canning crushed and whole Romas.

    Lots of okra, still getting zucchini but slowing down a bit, green beans are close to finished.

    Those are getting frozen, canned and dehydrated for the most part.

  9. 9.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @eclare: @raven: We hope to meet her this evening, depending on covid protocols. I’ll find out in a few hours.

    Mama had a difficult and long labor. Her blood pressure spiked and they had to induce so she came a week and half early. Just wasn’t quite ready to meet the world I guess.

  14. 14.

    satby

    Well, I love morning glories and I really love those wonderful bicolor ones up top. Serious crepe myrtle envy too!

    It’s going to be a humid and possibly rainy day today, with another hellish week of high temps with even higher humidity before things cool back down to average warmth and humidity. I’ve gotten a few tomatoes, but when the temps stay over 70° at night the fruit doesn’t set, so not as many as in a less steamy year.

    A suggestion I read online to improve my sandy soil was to mix in biochar and plain clay cat litter. Once things cool down I may be digging up and replanting a lot of my plants in a new soil mix with both of those. Heavy on the kitty litter ?

  16. 16.

    debbie

    @OzarkHillbilly: 

    Congratulations ?! How many is that now?

    One of the two Trump supporters in my neighborhood has a crepe myrtle (didn’t know what it was until now, thanks). They just pruned it back pretty viciously. Will it bloom next year?

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie: 4! Count them: Cora Eileen, 1! Addelyn Rose, 2! Lyriel Persephone, 3! Vivien Louise, 4!

    I’ve got a thumb in reserve for a 5th baby girl.

  22. 22.

    Kay

    I love Morning Glories. They do self seed all over but they’re easy to pull and there is nothing like that blue. I grow batchelors buttons for the same reason- they’re rangy and floppy plants and they look a mess by midsummer but they’re really blue.

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    @OzarkHillbilly: Congratulations to your entire family! All your granddaughters have beautiful names, and now you have one more to adore and spoil.

    That white and lavender morning glory is gorgeous. The usual kind grow up a telephone pole in my neighbor’s yard so I get to look at them without constantly having to beat them back.

  33. 33.

    LiminalOwl

    @OzarkHillbilly: Congratulations! ?

    @jeffg: Thank you for the flowers. I love both morning glories and Rose of Sharon. And that’s the prettiest sunflower I’ve ever seen.

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    @eclare: One of my customers wanted their two crepe myrtles pruned back low, because he noticed that a friend had done the same. His wife had just brought a horticulture maven out to instruct me on proper thinning of upper branches so as to a achieve a nice looking, tall plant. So the husband got ignored. He generally leaves gardening projects to his wife anyway.

  39. 39.

    Immanentize

    Love the pictures of some of my favorites! I also am no Rose of Karen — they always are asking to talk to the head gardener.

    Meanwhile — Devo in Space?

  43. 43.

    Immanentize

    Meanwhile, (now) Tropical Storm Henri has decided the Ocean State is a nice place to land. We should be getting a couple three inches over the next few days. I got the grass mowed yesterday. I love the feeling of getting summer mowing done just before it rains.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @OzarkHillbilly: I guess I was a day early on the something good thread!  :-)  So happy for all of you!  Especially happy for the mama who had a tough delivery.

    I love all those old-fashioned, traditional names.

  46. 46.

    Falling Diphthong

    Morning glories: Years back I tried planting them along the fence by the road. Nothing. A few years back a different color (so wild) showed up in gardens by the driveway. As here: pretty flowers, but they try to consume everything. (Also, why would they not climb the fence, but will climb the deck?)

    I quite like rose of sharon, planted after enjoying them at my aunt’s slightly warmer climate (coastal New England) and trying them here (inland) and was pleased at how well they have done. It’s our main August bloom-giver. My attempts at rhododendrons always died.

  48. 48.

    TheQuietOne

    The ONLY reason to like rose of Sharon is the hummers they attract. Potted cherry tomatoes and potted peppers are doing great right now in KC area.

  49. 49.

    Kristine

    Love the morning glories.

    Still in drought here in NE Illinois. Yesterday’s expected 0.25-0.5″ fizzled to zip before it reached me. But the front did bring a 10F cool-down and drier air, so I’ll spend part of the morning mowing the areas of lawn that sprang up after the rains of a couple of weeks ago. After today, humidity and higher temps for the next week, but little if any rain. I am over summer.

    Even so, Rose of Sharon shrubs still drawing bees and hummers. The Limelight and Annabelle hydrangeas in the shade garden have flowered, and the mums are just starting to pop. Stuff in pots–the dahlias and my beloved Gerbera daisy–are still blooming.

    Been hit twice by wasps in the last three weeks. Paper wasps, I think. The nests are on the deck, but the mornings haven’t been cool enough for me to even think about getting rid of them. I may need to call the exterminator–the reaction I had to the last sting bothered me.

    I’ve never seen wasps go for the birdbaths like I have this year. I think the drought made them crankier than usual.

  52. 52.

    Betsy

    @eclare: @debbie: 
    That’s called “crepe murder” and while common, it’s pretty bad for the trees, as well as destroying their natural, beautifully muscular and picturesque branching form.

    People do it to stimulate lots of weak, straggly flowering shoots. People keep doing it because they see everyone else doing it. Monkey see monkey do

  54. 54.

    Betsy

    @debbie:  In my experience at least, there’s about a 90% correlation of Trumpism and crepe murder, which makes sense when you consider the common threads being vulgarity of aesthetic taste, ignorance, and a general feeling that plant growth (being part of nature) should be hacked back to nubs.

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