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8:50 pm
September 25, 2013
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No you don't. Justin confirmed it in his Q&A, you get a noisy room sometimes. We had elephants roller skating on our roof all night. Something equally weird would happen this time. I still think the Bermuda triangle got them, cause they dropped off the tracker.
Seriously there are a LOT of blue economy cars out there, must be some fashion trend. Shudder. Bright skipper blue too.
9:43 pm
September 25, 2013
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It's the babe from the present (1980s) in the "Wildest Dreams" video. Or maybe it pertains to that psychological phenom mentioned in that very boring song, "We count only blue cars." I cannot say. When I get turned loose, all the cars are the same color of dark.
11:02 pm
September 25, 2013
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Meet me at the back of the blue bus, driver where you takin' us?? --- Jim Morrison
It's time for a long long bath and soak............
8:53 am
September 25, 2013
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Can you smell me in Washington? Eek. Time for another tub - of Ha! Glug glug. No hangovers with this stuff.
8:55 am
September 25, 2013
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Back on topic, a lot of flowering trees are in bloom with soft pastels. I saw the most lovely row of pale, pink, rounded tulips. Lots of little flowers abound; namely, daffodils, jonquils, and forsythia. I saw two healthy dandelions yesterday, too. It still looks bleak, though; the green has not really made a comeback, yet.
11:29 am
September 25, 2013
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You are welcome to take OUR dandelions, we have been invaded here. I'll get out and mow again here shortly, before they go to seed. I like the flowers, but the plants are taking over the sunny part of my yard. The moss has staked out the shady part.
Yeah this is a really nice time of year.......... I have a lot of rhodies too, just waiting for those to get going. Then the iris. AND (hurrah!!!!!) my sister in law didn't get all the Tiger lilies after all, some are coming up!!! (The wood lilies are already with us)
6:11 pm
September 25, 2013
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You are so ahead of us. I don't remember seeing tiger lilies until June. It's a freezy 62oF here today. Mum has it worse in Detroit. I think they were talking about snow and high winds today. In the same email, Mum closed, signing, "Mum (That's my code name, Mum spelled backward.)"
6:41 pm
September 25, 2013
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Oh gosh it's 50 here! I had to bring my wine in off the porch because it won't ferment in that sort of temp. Smells like a winery around here now. Yes my tiger lilies are coming up!
3:26 pm
September 25, 2013
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If you find 51 there, do tell. I'm curious.
The Bartlett pear trees are in bloom. It is beginning to look like a lovely Appalachian April. The grass is green in most places. There are a lot of forget-me-knots and wild pansies in white varieties as well. Purple knobby stuff is all over the grass, too. I should venture up north to see if the weeping cherry trees are in bloom. What is lovelier than a weeping cherry by streetlight? Oh, right.
8:42 pm
September 25, 2013
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TWO cherry trees which bear fruit in my back yard!!! (some are only flowering trees) I rescued one this winter by pruning the scavey around it. It was buried. This yard is like a jungle. Right now it's beautiful tho, because the weeds haven't taken over, they're just small and quiet now. If sunny tomorrow, I'm out to work on the yard.
For some weird reason I seem to get colder these days. Not sure why. Scary, I'd hate to have to move back to California to be warm. Worse yet, Arizona.
Apple trees aren't QUITE in bloom, neither is the plum, but the maples have started putting out tentative sprouts. It might almost be beautiful here once the mold dries out. I need to create more rock beds in my landscaping plans.........
Area 51 is somewhere near Fallon, you may seek it without ME, thank you.
9:43 pm
September 25, 2013
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I crashed my spaceship somewhere around there, I think. I don't remember, I was flying high.
Does the cold pertain to your feelings of abandonment?
It is all spring and pretty, sunny, misty, and warm. It smells like spring, and all is swell.
9:05 pm
September 25, 2013
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The flowers are coming in interesting colors. At home, the landlord has these daffodils that have multiple layers of petals and then orange middles. I saw some pumpkin-colored pansies, one of which was an albino, yesterday, as well as some very reddish magenta phlox. There was something else, which I have forgotten. Also, in the woods today, there were these flowers that looked like wild strawberry blossoms, kinda, but they had five, six, seven, and even ten petals per flower.
10:23 pm
September 25, 2013
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I now have some tulips in my weird flower garden. I sorta glean flowers here and there, bulbs, and plant them in there, and up they come......... these tulips are a bright yellow with red streaks in them, very attractive! Wonder how they got there. The fruits trees are all in bloom now...
I had something happy happen with the trees this year. The yard was hideously overgrown so I've been attacking it since last fall, when my Dad moved out and couldn't hassle me about it anymore. One of the cherry trees was buried in a hedge bush (don't know the species but MAN it sure grows well here!) Got that freed up and pruned a bit. NOW it's blooming out in those gorgeous pink blossoms. I'm SO happy. I've always wanted one of the pink ones, and I do now. As soon as summer rolls around, I'm going to clear and prune it MORE... Not to mention continue with the painting around here. Sheesh!!!
I had the strangest thing happen today. We good gardeners know about compost, so sorry for grossing you out .... but about three years of dog poo is in mine, as well as fireplace ash that I throw on top of THAT to keep down what grows in dog poo. Well, I had just dumped a large bucket of ash on top, and these INSANE hummingbirds swooped down and started blowing the ash all over! Two of them! "What are you guys DOING???" said to the birds. They're very smart actually, and many around here know me because I feed them, come look in the windows and such. Anyway they hovered over this ol' dog poo so much I thought maybe they'd lost a baby in there or something. I brushed the ashes around looking, no mini baby birds in it. The hummers roosted on the branches and stared at me. It went on quite a while. I tried shooing one out to the apple blossoms and it came back to fan the ashes some more!!!!
Very weird!!! Maybe they were little aliens.
OK that's my latest spring story. I have to do mundane things like bills tonight, and just got my DVD of the second "Hobbit" movie, so I'm off to do both at the same time. The desolation of Smaug............... one coming up.
8:44 am
September 25, 2013
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There is a joke in there. Give me another day.
12:00 pm
September 25, 2013
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Otay. It wasn't a joke. It was a sign: There is joy in poo.
9:43 pm
September 25, 2013
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Good news, the hummers left the compost pile and went elsewhere I know not where. I can't tell them apart, other than some are orange, and some in that green-red spectrum. Said compost got used to plant potatoes in some old tires that lay around here. Yes it's creepy to say it, but poo grows very good crops.
I'm going to attack the trees even MORE.... where I really severely pruned a snowball bush, little sprouts are now coming out. And it looks MUCH better. Man it's a serious "tungly wood" in that snowball bush.
It's really time for the rain to stop coming down! We get about a half of a gorgeous day (it was fantastic today) and then in come the rain clouds and it's all soggy again. I need some significant dry days to get out and paint the poor garden shed before it starts rotting. Too cold out yet. Can't put my tomatoes and peas in yet............ grumble.......
10:54 pm
September 25, 2013
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You remind me of another story. Years ago, after radio had mostly become closet jobs, one of the things that attracted me to Asheville was it still had a real radio station. You could call in request and a real person would go get the CD or vinyl and put it on. They had a DJ who advertised himself as "Little Joe and his top 10,000." He would bring a case of CD's to work each morning. They also had quite the nice jazz program. It was on that station that I first heard "SIWL."
Well, they wanted to move to the FM dial and all was happy and good. Then Michael Powell at the FCC started changing rules around to favor the consolidation of radio stations into the hands of a few conglomerates, like Clear Channel. Hearing after hearing, the Lee family, who owned the station, kept getting defeated by changing rules. The people who wanted the station wanted to flip it, but they got their minorities in key positions even though one attorney said it was just window dressing. As the court battles continued, the Lee's began broadcasting because they could. People from the community donated their own record collections. I hung out down there to make sure they played Moodies and called them like crazy during BMI week. We had a lot of fun memories, like the morning John, who spoke in a booming voice, did his whole morning show as "The Lavender Princess."
Well, the people who would just as soon be buying shoe stores as radio stations finally won. They had to, as they had more money than the Lees, so they could, as they stated, "exhaust the court system." I even paid a visit to the closet operation where they bragged to me that they could program their playlists three days in advance.
The court battle took its toll on old Zeb Lee. He died right about the time the bad guys finally won. His wife, Betty, told me she was so angry, she went out behind the house and started pulling trees up with her bare hands. (See? It eventually did tie back in.)
As followup, the lives of several of the jox were destroyed after that. I will occasionally run into one of them, and they don't appear to be doing very well. They had talent, but the whole scene left a very bad taste in their mouths, so bad they're still licking their wounds.
P.S. The rhodos are a little late, but they're blooming.
8:26 pm
September 25, 2013
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It's not so bad as that on the west coast, but I see the whole thing. There is a real frightening trend to "trying to control" the media of our country. It all goes back to the 1st Amendment.......... I can't imagine why some DJs in a little shack couldn't continue to broadcast. Unless it was interfering with garage door openers or something. Just wait, a sympathetic jet jock will come along some day and fry the whole bunch of them with his jammer-pods. NYahahahahah
But it's the same trend. Bottom line, is the social Nazis and fascists (who parade under the banner of "progressive") are trying to shut down people like Rush Limbaugh and the cabal of conservatives that "aren't fair"............. and every progressive radio commentator that tries the same act Rush does, is a government prostitute, sucking up federal funds, and failing miserably. Scary scary scary............. and most people are oblivious.
One of the first strategic things you do when you conquer a country, is "take control of the media" and then "take control of the transportation" (airfields).........
OK I guess I sound paranoid, but it seems pretty silly to run a small little band of DJs out of business. I don't know everything about it, and I can think of several technical reasons to not allow "freedom" in broadcasting. The FCC is there for a reason, to make sure EVERYONE can broadcast and the frequencies don't tangle. That's the price we all pay for having cell phones....
We do see it happen in less enlightened countries, the media strangle hold. They had a revolution going in Iran a few years ago, and the government Nazis shut down the Internet. No one could coordinate anything. We should pay attention. It's now the way of the world. Having said all that, I have high hopes for the next generation. There's a lot of real renegades out there on the nets, who know all the back doors and such. Have faith, man WILL be free, one way or the other. 
when one door closes, another one opens.
11:26 pm
September 25, 2013
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But every door you open closes on me, I don't know if I can survive.
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