Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Cole is on a roll !

People are complicated. Love is not.

Consistently wrong since 2002

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

The revolution will be supervised.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

The willow is too close to the house.

T R E 4 5 O N

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

In my day, never was longer.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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  3. 3.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: You mentioned taking care of your wife last night, what’s up? Mine broker a bone in her foot when she was walking Artie and a branch fell from a tree behind them. Artie really gets spooked by any noise behind her and she bolted and  the boss lady fell. She’s in a walking boot but it’s really going to limit her gardening but she can still get up to her studio to do her art.

  4. 4.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: what’s up?

    It’s just life. 63 yo and working at a job she hates to maximize her SS. I just do whatever I can to make home a place of ease for her.

    eta: hope your wife’s foot heals up properly. My eldest granddaughter broke her hand at football practice when she ended up at the bottom of a pile. She is not happy about it either as not only is she out of football for the time being, she can’t ride her horses either.

  5. 5.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: Oh good, (that she’s not injured) mine took hers at the earliest date and I took mine at the latest. It’s going to be interesting to see how much they bump it up with this here inflation.

  8. 8.

    satby

    You have a sharp eye, ema! I bet hundreds of people pass those spots and don’t notice all the little details you do.

    @OzarkHillbilly: That’s one happy pup! I’m dogsitting my son’s dog Odie who you may remember was rescued after he was found tied up and abandoned on the side of a rural road. My cat Peanut is thrilled.

  10. 10.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @satby: That pic looks like Peanut is saying, “Hey! That’s my chair!” You’ll just have to get Peanut a dog of his own.

  14. 14.

    Ken

    Great pictures, though I admit to twitching at the sixth one. I have been trying to eradicate a trumpet vine for over a year now, and the vine is winning.

  16. 16.

    satby

    @Ken: Unlikely. After 50+* years of rescue and scores of both dogs and cats, I’m down to six cats only. Three of whom are old. And that’s enough.

    *I’m only counting since I was an adult. The strays and other creatures I brought home as a kid were my parent’s rescues, since they actually fed and paid the bills. I had great parents.

  20. 20.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Good morning! Thank you for the happy pictures. We are (more or less) fully moved into our new home in Albuquerque. It’s a lovely place, complete with slightly neglected garden with *possibilities.* I have some digging and planting in my future, plus research on what thrives in the local microclimate.

  22. 22.

    oldgold

    —————-“CARPE DIEM!”——————-

    Spent the week burying herpe personpe ridden carp corpses in the coffee grounds that cover my WOKE! garden, West of Eden. To be honest about it and not too koi, this morbid work, aside from leaving me sore (carpal tunnel?) caused the smithy of my soul to shudder.

    As I was morosely burying the carp, my neighbor, the ever randy Dirty Grind barista, Phil Anders, climbed over the border wall separating out properties (he paid for it) to ask, “OG, why do you have a garden? You don’t eat any crudités?” In my existential funk, to explain myself, I told him this coffee related story.

    “Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe’, revising his draft of ‘Being and Nothingness.’ He requests of  the waitress, who is also a student of his, “ A cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “ I’m sorry, Monsieur, we have no cream, only milk.” Sartre replies, “Then, I will have my coffee, please, with no milk.“

    Phil, “OG, Your story is meaningless.”
    Me, “So true.”

    ——————- “CRAPE DIEM!” ————–

    There, I feel better. My existential angst has abated. A morning vowel movement will do that for you.

  25. 25.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Thanks! Fingers crossed we can–and will continue to want to–stay in this place a while. We’re taking a break from homeownership for the foreseeable future.

  26. 26.

    munira

    Love the photos. There are many beautiful things growing in cities and it’s important to see and share them.

  29. 29.

    MomSense

    Garden pics are lovely.  I managed to weed three beds this weekend.  Going to tackle the worst one today.

    I’m in a holding pattern just trying to make things look neat. Between whatever is burrowing and destroying the side bed and the drought I’ve totally lost my gardening mojo.

  31. 31.

    StringOnAStick

    Spent yesterday building a short block wall so a compacted decomposed granite path can be placed between the two sides, making raised beds inside the walls since the native soil is so compacted and rocky.  I can finish it today and all the clean up; adding drip irrigation and native plants once it cooks down this fall.  Next is digging the French for the last French drain the house needs.  The old landscaper saying that the actual planting is the last 5% of a project is very, very true.

  32. 32.

    oldgold

     

    @WaterGirl:

    Plagued with caffeinated moles, in an attempt to make lemonade out of lemons, in addition to the damn carp, I buried avacados in West of Eden.

  33. 33.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    Thanks for that.  It’s also the drought and the changing climate.  I’m not sure what to plant anymore because our weather keeps changing so dramatically.  Even the catmint is sad this summer.

  36. 36.

    oldgold

    @WaterGirl: Years ago, I really was a grave digger. Some day, hopefully, I will have an opportunity to write about that.

    Anyway, you buried my lede, the joke I was circling to was – guacaMOLE’!

  37. 37.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    We are in the D-2 Severe Drought category.  Even when it did rain last week the ground was so dry it couldn’t absorb much of the rain.

  38. 38.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Ken: i regularly drive by a house that has the vine in the picture. I’ve been trying to figure out what it is and you figured it our for me. . Its really pretty. The spot that its in really adds to this house(along a picket fence and the arch over the front gate.)  I consider the color peach and that’s what I’ve been looking up but I guess its a yellow trumpet.

  39. 39.

    Wombat Probability Cloud

    Thanks for the photos. The “cherry” in Central Park has opposite leaves,* so I think it’s actually a dogwood, specifically Cornus mas, the “Cornelian Cherry.” Fruits are edible but supposedly astringent if eaten raw. We’ve got a few of these in our neighborhood in Madison WI, and this is a good reminder to sample them this year.

    *true cherries (genus Prunus), have alternate leaves.

  40. 40.

    sab

    US Drought monitor website shows basically the whole third of the SW of theq country in various stages of drought. And this is based from their normal (very dry by anyone else’s standards.)

  43. 43.

    sab

    @Wombat Probability Cloud: @ema:

    I did not know that.

    We have a wild cherry about to eat the house. We had another that used to dye my whitish labrador retriever with purple spots like a dalmation. Chopped tree down because it was unwell and dropping large branches on the driveway.

    We have a new cherry probably too close to the house. I do not want to make the inevitable decision. It is a very pretty tree.

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