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4-16-21,
2:26pm
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Aloe vera blooming
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Razz, Sure. The flowers at the bottom open first. Six are open today. I estimate there are about 100 flower buds in total. When the the last...
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4-15-21,
7:54pm
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Aloe vera blooming
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On my sunporch a big aloe produced a flowering stalk about a yard in height. I don't think I ever had an aloe bloom on me before, so I am quite...
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4-15-21,
7:38pm
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Your recommendation of a supplier of tulip bulbs?
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The batch of tulip bulbs I ordered from Brent and Becky's is off to a good start this spring. I use cages to prevent herbivores from eating them.
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4-15-21,
7:31pm
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Time to plant garlic.
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The spring peepers are peeping, and the garlic is sprouting. At least 30 garlic plants are "up and at-'em" today.
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4-15-21,
7:25pm
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Price Increases and Inflation
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Looking at the bright side, now at $3 you are traveling First Class!
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4-13-21,
9:08am
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Price Increases and Inflation
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Today the Consumer Price Index was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. CPI-W (all items) is up 3% since March one year ago.
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4-12-21,
10:30am
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Why don't we live together?
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I would be open to co-housing, provided that the communication among residents was compassionate and non-violent... rather than "a living hell". ...
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4-5-21,
11:02am
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Drought
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln drought monitor maps the severity and impacts of drought. Commentary includes discussion of recent rainfall and...
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4-3-21,
6:36pm
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Happy Blast Off Day 4/3/21
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I observed Blast Off Day by watching videos of Starship Serial Number 11 http://www.spacex.com/launch At 1:00 into the flight test the narrator...
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4-2-21,
2:55pm
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Happy Blast Off Day 4/3/21
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4...3...2...1 Blast Off! This Blast Off Day comes 100 years after the last one. It will be a century before it comes around again. Have a...
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4-1-21,
7:15pm
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Mourning Doves looking for a nest site
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Today I watched a pair of mourning doves size up a horizontal branch of an oak tree, as a place to build their nest. Then they flew off to a balsam...
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3-31-21,
11:50pm
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Happy News!
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Great news! I attended a memorable outdoor wedding... the father of the bride danced her down the center aisle to a recording of "The Beer...
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3-31-21,
7:55pm
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April is the cruelest...
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from "The Waste Land", by T S Eliot: April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memories and desire, stirring...
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3-31-21,
2:08pm
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Price Increases and Inflation
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During the month of March selling prices of consumer goods continued to increase. Certain companies announced their intentions to increase consumer...
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3-29-21,
1:56am
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Price Increases and Inflation
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Auction prices of used vehicles are rapidly rising. J D Powers Weekly Wholesale Auction Price Index is up 19.5% since one year ago. Manheim...
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3-27-21,
11:23am
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Getting the vaccine??
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The night after I got the second Moderna jab was rough. In bed I felt awful, with chills, soreness at my shoulder where I got the injection, and...
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3-26-21,
1:56pm
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Getting the vaccine??
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3 hours after the shot, I am not aware of any problems. I decided I would keep my calendar free today. So I am sitting around, drinking herbal...
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3-26-21,
11:28am
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Getting the vaccine??
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I received with gratitude the 2nd Moderna jab this morning. In a couple weeks my Dear Wife would like to go out for a fish fry. (It has been a year...
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3-21-21,
8:20am
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Please explain this to me
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In the woodlot, is a coppice considered one tree (one root with more than one trunk growing out of it) or a number of trees with a shared root system?
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3-20-21,
7:08pm
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Happy Vernal Equinox
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NYC, Chicago, Milwaukee, and other skyscraper cities with east-west streets had a local Stonehenge sunrise this morning, and will have a Stonehenge...
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3-20-21,
5:36pm
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Happy Vernal Equinox
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Joy Spring -- Clifford Brown, 1954
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3-20-21,
3:55pm
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cutting caffeine
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I changed from 5-7 cups/day of coffee on 2/24/21 to a selection of drinks with less caffeine, which I like better. First thing in the morning I...
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3-19-21,
6:44pm
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Earliest Harbinger of Spring
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Snow drops beneath the oak tree in my front yard 3/19/21. About half the turf in this neck of the woods is bare of snow-cover now.
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Retired at age 50 from a career as an educator. Bird-watcher, gardener, library-patron, secular humanist liberal.
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