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Thanks... Great event, was very well attended..

Fantastic turnout, Paul! Congratulations on a job well done. We have some very talented local artists and the elk must have spent an awful lot of time doing nothing but posing. Nice seeing Bon and her sweet daughter who has nothing in common with her SOB designation. 

Guess it is the wrong kind to make tequila out of. If you can't go out as a bottle of tequila I guess a flute isn't a bad second choice. Gotta love college professors!

Thanks for posting...

And I'll bet he is hungry!

Any hobby that you can eat your failures is a good hobby. 

Any hobby that you can eat your failures is a good hobby. 

I'd rather rent a bunny. I prefer chocolate eggs, especially this time of year. Those creamy peanut butter ones are especially good.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!  Normally in Towns and Cities farm animals are NOT allowed.  At the central tractor store you can buy chicken or duck chicks in several different varieties depending on if you want white eggs, brown eggs, green eggs, blue eggs, yellow eggs or duck eggs.  And they normally only cost a few dollars per biddie.  You should be able to find simple instructions for building a coop online including a tool and materials list.  The coop would probably set you back about fifty dollars or so.

This vine has gone up into the supporting structure of the watering system in the greenhouse. Escaping seems to have made it very happy as it never has bloomed like this before. It is a bleeding heart vine or Clerodendrum.  And yes, that is about 2 feet of snow outside. Wish I were a better photographer as it is really spectacular this year. 
There are also several orchids, a hearty fuchsia and a couple of lipstick plants blooming. They know it is spring!

This vine has gone up into the supporting structure of the watering system in the greenhouse. Escaping seems to have made it very happy as it never has bloomed like this before. It is a bleeding heart vine or Clerodendrum.  And yes, that is about 2 feet of snow outside. Wish I were a better photographer as it is really spectacular this year. 
There are also several orchids, a hearty fuchsia and a couple of lipstick plants blooming. They know it is spring!

Oh well, I'm dead. Is this going to be like coffee? One day it is going to kill me the next day it is good for my health? 

Aw! Poor thing. Keep her warm. 

Bon.... It seems appropriate that since Blue is now a movie star, that he would be hanging out in Hollywood.  Makes sense to me...

Except for the black eyes they sound kind of like door-door sales people.  Girl scouts trying out a new sales technique? 

Wow! Who doesn't make sure something is dead before they bury it? 

Wow! Who doesn't make sure something is dead before they bury it? 

Very clever! I've tried growing potatoes in a barrel without much success. it was awhile ago and I can't remember what the problem was. My greatest success was with some stray potatoes that got tossed in a perennial bed. Go figure! 
 
Just remembered that you can also make a  litmus solution by boiling red cabbage in water. Let it cool and add a couple of teaspoons of soil. It turns pink for acid, blue/green for base. 

They have been doing much the same thing or even more severe pruning to the catalpas on the hill and they have been thriving for the last 20 years that I have been watching them. And they were mature trees when I first noticed them. There is usually more than one way to do most things and who is to say that one is better than another?

My father has been pruning his apple trees like the one above for many decades as he was taught by his parents and grand parents and I have been pruning mine the same way for over 20 years.  It may be the wrong way or we have gotten lucky all these years but it works for us.
Our apple trees had so many apples this past season that we had to give many 5 gallon buckets away so they didn't go to waste.
Right or wrong it has worked for us.

It's a pity. If it gets into Cook Forest it is going to destroy one of the largest stand of virgin hemlock in the East. 

Mr. August! Wonder if he knows he is a poster boy? 

Climate variations? I thought only man and his wanton ways caused those. 

they were in my neighbors yards across the road from me. The one cow started running towards the road, but a box truck was coming & she did stop!!!