Well Hello… tell me what the season is? We’ve got a big crop of 4 buttercups coming up by the back steps…
And with all the wind about this week… we have a yard full of sticks that I suppose should be called ‘windfalls’ – (one was pretty big – I was glad it wasn’t closer to the house.) We spent a fair amount of $$$ cutting some of the overhanging branches. Most of the trees near the house are tulip poplars… nice for the shade in the summer… bad for the cars that sit in the driveway for the unknowing in the spring. We’ve had some smaller limbs fall… but the tulip poplars seem to shed their branches when they’re still small… For that, Lord, I’m truly grateful.
During the early part of the winter… actually I guess it was January mid part – cold and we did have enough snow to keep the mail truck from arriving four days in a row… then comes mild summer weather right after the groundhog said we’d see six more weeks of winter… (And I suppose it is not beyond belief) – we’ve got a lot of decorative fruit trees in the neighborhood.
I do hope it got cold enough to freeze all the mosquito larvae. Anyway… I started to remark on the way the robins and blackbirds really stripped off the holly berries… of one particular kind of holly… Very pretty and about eight feet tall… I had hired a young man to trim them down to that height … and he never came back. (He must have mistaken one of my jokes for criticism.) In any case we have another breed of a hedge plant that also bears red berries – more than the holly bushes – but the robins/blackbirds didn’t touch them. The robin/blacks were diligent to decorate my truck and driveway… with some opaque splotches… looked like it could destroy the top level of concrete… One *more* reason to get the driveway repaired … I also suppose I’ve got to write a best seller to get up the $$$ to make the repairs. (L)… that’s not too likely. But those birds didn’t leave a single red berry on the first set of holly bushes. And I’m glad something in the front yard provides food for them.
We do have a water-oak. It has been trimmed twice this year to get some of the limbs off the power line coming to the house… (the squirrels like the little acorns) and Duke Energy paid Asplundh (Is that the way it’s spelt?) to trim back the trees of any limbs that threaten the high tension wires feeding the neighborhood – which kept about four crews busy here for a month and a half or so… and then we didn’t get any ice. Maybe next year. (Or maybe yet this year… who knows?)
Anyway… I’ve been fiddling with my audio recording set up for the JAM (Just A Minute) … and replaced a mike with one I thought would bring things up to snuff… but … not so – YET. Maybe I’ll learn about this audio stuff… I’ve only been working at it 50+ years. (J) But my electronics education sort of froze in its tracks after solid state stuff started coming along… and digital is the icing on the cake… MORE stuff I don’t understand. But I nod and smile a lot. (J)
Ya’ll come back t’morra ya heah? Bye now…
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
THE PRESIDENT REVERSES HIS STAND ON HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE
Just a Minute: -- Apparently in his last campaign for the Illinois Senate seat, the President signed on to support the Defense of Marriage Act between one man and one woman. Only five states and the
Now the President just sends his underlings to express his re-discovered opposition, thus softening his previous position. This stirs up Conservative groups who vigorously assert his earlier position was the correct one.
“It’s a dereliction of duty…” says Tom McClusky, Senior Vice President of the Family Research Council. “Whether they agree with the law or not is irrelevant… They’ve purposely dropped the ball…”
Pew Research polling finds 43 percent favor homosexuals marrying legally and 47 percent oppose. Only 21 percent of Republicans support it – Washington Post opinion research has a similar division.
<>I’m Jack Buttram.
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