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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 7, 2017 9:54:25 GMT -5
Please look for me, I'm sleeping it off in the corn. (Bring coffee)
I your travels through the veg patch, don't forget to sing. Strawberries do better if you sing. And tomatoes really want to hear your voice even if you are only grumbling. Parsnips settle for "aren't you looking beautiful today." And of course when I harvest I always chuck the beans under the chin and remind them that they need to make enough beans for me to save seed at the end of the season. Off to pick them now.
Welcome to our patch. It may be weedy, but we love it just the same.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 7, 2017 17:43:06 GMT -5
keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) there did always seem to be this 'ebb and flow' to the activity: a circus one year (or one week), a graveyard the next. Then the cycle would repeat. save the few revelers who never actually left, just sorta passed out on the sofa and waited until the next evening. (Those were always my favorite.) That's us, just a few skeletons rattling in the closet. No bones about it!  |
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Post by Day on Aug 7, 2017 17:58:12 GMT -5
12540dumont I know you don't know me well yet, but let me assure you... I will always bring the coffee. I'll even hold your hair back, but let's hope it doesn't come to that. philagardener The weedy rag and bone folk of Homegrown Goodness; yup, definitely found my people 
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Post by reed on Aug 7, 2017 19:51:26 GMT -5
let me assure you... I will always bring the coffee. I'll even hold your hair back, but let's hope it doesn't come to that. You mean the tequila's all gone? I'm leaving. |
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Post by Day on Aug 7, 2017 21:19:39 GMT -5
reed - I said I'd bring the coffee. I didn't say what would be in the coffee. If a Tequila with the literal Sunrise is your thing, I won't be the one to stop you. Personally, I'd go whiskey, but hey, whatever blows your hair back.
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Post by steev on Aug 7, 2017 21:21:48 GMT -5
Reed: You've heard of tequila in Illinois? Damn! So cosmopolitan! I hear all the (Hispanic) dairy workers in Wisconsin/Minnesota are bailing; gonna be a whole lotta dairy cows udder-bound, there being not so many native sons eager to do that sort of year-round twenty-four/seven work. There goes another domestic industry becoming "un-great". Anybody feeling "buyer's remorse"?
Cali, producer of NLT 25% of the nation's fresh produce, year-round, is looking at the same problem: the people willing to do arduous field-work aren't native-born (those other people, if they aren't total dipshits, have better options). So, given that native-born don't want these jobs, what does the Pres-in-tweet want?: to restrict immigration to those fluent in English and educated (so they can compete for jobs with the educated native-born?; wait, isn't he against that?) I guess not; he's not a row-crops kinda guy, and they'd be more useful/cheaper to him/and his funders, but I digress; I doubt he ever grew anything but "bone-spurs": is that why he always wants to ride in a golf-cart, instead of walking, like other world-leaders?
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Post by reed on Aug 8, 2017 8:03:31 GMT -5
It's been many years but we had Tequila in Indiana, I suppose we still do, not sure about Illinois.
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Post by steev on Aug 8, 2017 11:19:53 GMT -5
Oops; mis-placed you.
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