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i have climbed to the mountaintop! while there, i gathered some seeds from wild growing lupine, and now that i have climbed down off the mountain i have commenced a jag to collect more seeds in the wild. took off today & walked to an unmowed field about a mile away & started gathering. i especially wanted to get the yellow salsify i earlier spotted there & i came prepared with a dozen or so rinsed out zipper tobacco puches. looking for native plants only, no aliens thank you, &...

the beautimous little flower you see, for now, aside this post is a plant native to my area, namely Fringecup - Tellima grandiflora. that it is fringed is obvious, but less so 'grandiflora', as it is a rather not grand but small flower. so this one i collected several years ago and grew in a pot, then put it in the yard in a shady corner last year. it's thriving & i spent the last couple days harvesting the ever-so tiny seeds now matured. of the maybe 40 seeds i got i have planted a few...

the sink faucets in the bathrooms were starting to leak and you better believe i'm not about to pay for a bunch of drips doin' a whole lot of nothin'. the bastards! i did a fair amount of plumbin' back in the day and these are the new style 'gasket-less' faucets, although really that's a false advertising play on words to get folks to buy new stuff even though we didn't really have a problem with the old stuff other than people thinking the harder they turned the valve the better and they...

It used to be I'd watch Dave, then Conan, and virtually never watch Leno. Then, Leno out yay , Conan gone, boo-hoo , Dave still here thank dog. Now, Conan back, yay , but on at same time as Dave, oh well , and Conan good and all right wit da wold. But wait!!! Dave has a new war on with Miss Perky Palin starting 2 nights ago and it may shape up like the battle Dave got goin' wit Oprah in which for months he milked her for all she's worth and she's...

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