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Do you have problems loading up the Garden, Brenda? Do you have it set for 50 posts per page?


..... Yanno what? I don't know if we can still even change that if somebody isn't set for 50 posts per page.

I did it years and years back (when the site was a different color) when I was having a problem loading pages at somebody else's suggestion, and now the only time I have trouble loading any pages is in the music threads where there are a lot of YouTube videos to load up at one time.

But I can't find any option to do that now.

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Do you have problems loading up the Garden, Brenda? Do you have it set for 50 posts per page?


..... Yanno what? I don't know if we can still even change that if somebody isn't set for 50 posts per page.

I did it years and years back (when the site was a different color) when I was having a problem loading pages at somebody else's suggestion, and now the only time I have trouble loading any pages is in the music threads where there are a lot of YouTube videos to load up at one time.

But I can't find any option to do that now.

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Hey SIX. Forgot to tell you, I finished watching season 1 of "Miss Scarelet and the Duke." It was slow starting and by the last episode it had picked up. Have to see if I can find the second season.

One of the actors from Jamestown is in it playing the police inspector. He cleans up real good and I found myself thinking, "I'd like one of those."

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No, I don't SIX. I didn't know you could do something like that about how many posts show.

The only time someone showed me how to do anything like change how a site worked was for the Official Board.

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Do you have problems loading up the Garden, Brenda? Do you have it set for 50 posts per page?


..... Yanno what? I don't know if we can still even change that if somebody isn't set for 50 posts per page.

I did it years and years back (when the site was a different color) when I was having a problem loading pages at somebody else's suggestion, and now the only time I have trouble loading any pages is in the music threads where there are a lot of YouTube videos to load up at one time.

But I can't find any option to do that now.

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It was probably a glitch is fff.net database. It was displaying the pages, as it normally does, then the content, then the pages, again, which it shouldn't do. And it did that three times in a row.

All of these kinds of websites operate on some sort of database. I'm not a db expert, but I've worked with many MANY databases, and I know that even the very expensive ones aren't infinitely extensible. You run into a limit somewhere - a limit on the number of bytes in a field, or a limit on the number of fields in a table, or a limit on buffer size, or the amount of RAM a db takes up... any number of program and physical limitations.

We've seen the db crap out before, where it lost the link between a username and its content (I think that happened with MIKE R bc the username still appears but the content is gone) or lost a username completely (I think that happened with KPO and BRENDA bc not only did the content disappear, so did their usernames).

Anyway, databases aren't infallible.

I prefer not to stress the architecture in case the whole thread craps out, so maybe we should end this thread and re-start someplace else?



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Hey SIX. Forgot to tell you, I finished watching season 1 of "Miss Scarelet and the Duke." It was slow starting and by the last episode it had picked up. Have to see if I can find the second season.

One of the actors from Jamestown is in it playing the police inspector. He cleans up real good and I found myself thinking, "I'd like one of those."

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Hehe. Are you talking about Mrs. Scarlett's "foil". I only saw the first episode, but it looks like things might get spicy.

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Do you have problems loading up the Garden, Brenda? Do you have it set for 50 posts per page?


..... Yanno what? I don't know if we can still even change that if somebody isn't set for 50 posts per page.

I did it years and years back (when the site was a different color) when I was having a problem loading pages at somebody else's suggestion, and now the only time I have trouble loading any pages is in the music threads where there are a lot of YouTube videos to load up at one time.

But I can't find any option to do that now.

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It was probably a glitch is fff.net database. It was displaying the pages, as it normally does, then the content, then the pages, again, which it shouldn't do. And it did that three times in a row.

All of these kinds of websites operate on some sort of database. I'm not a db expert, but I've worked with many MANY databases, and I know that even the very expensive ones aren't infinitely extensible. You run into a limit somewhere - a limit on the number of bytes in a field, or a limit on the number of fields in a table, or a limit on buffer size, or the amount of RAM a db takes up... any number of program and physical limitations.

We've seen the db crap out before, where it lost the link between a username and its content (I think that happened with MIKE R bc the username still appears but the content is gone) or lost a username completely (I think that happened with KPO and BRENDA bc not only did the content disappear, so did their usernames).

Anyway, databases aren't infallible.

I prefer not to stress the architecture in case the whole thread craps out, so maybe we should end this thread and re-start someplace else?



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I'm okay with that. Your 2nd thread is as good a place as any.

If Brenda's on board, why don't you put the final post in here with a link to the new Garden thread? I'll just post in the new one for now while you two sort it out.



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Wow, this has been a hard, hard year for gardening. Last rainy season started out early and promising; October 2013 we got a couple of good rainstorms and then .... nothing. Nothing. More nothing. Which dragged on to the historic drought.

Usually my water usage goes down during winter, but not last winter. I had to water the garden areas every week, and the lawns twice a week (one of the reasons I'm xeriscaping) just to keep them alive. I took special pains with the two avocados and the camellias because they're the grandparents of the backyard, planted by the previous owners sixty years ago. I soaked them deeply at least once a month. But despite my best efforts, the plants still suffered - not from lack of water, but possibly from high salt buildup or basic soil ... the older avocado and camellia leaves took on a pale bronzy color, and needles on my canary island pines were just beginning to turn yellow.

In addition, the tomatoes were crippled and the eggplant killed by a horrible infestation of spider mites. Last year, I gave away almost thirty pounds of homegrown tomatoes and had all of the eggplant I wanted. This year, I was lucky to have enough fresh tomatoes for a weekly salad, and just a few eggplant before they gave up the ghost. The spider mites went on to attack a few more plants (which fortunately I didn't care so much for). My Italian flat beans- which I've never grown before - and my sunflowers (which I HAVE grown before) were spindly and unproductive. Same seed source. I wonder if the seed was good. At least the corn came up OK.

Two of my recently-planted sundrops died, I only have one left. This is a good representation of what the survivor looks like in my garden




and one of my verbena lilacena died, I only have two left ... another good representation



For no reason that I can see except they really, really didn't appreciate such hard wellwater. And then, the summer was hot and humid - tropical, even - and some native plants which are adapted to cool wet winters and hot DRY summers responded with a fantastic case of mildew. I broke down and got some Neem oil so that next year I'll be prepared for the onslaught.

I have NEVER failed with so many plants all in one season! This was a gardening year I was happy to close the book on, and I now have a much MUCH greater appreciation for the commercial farmer, who lives or dies by whether plants produce or not.

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But in order to be a gardener or a farmer, one must be an optimist, I guess. I've been buying my xeriscape plants mostly in onesies and twosies because I really don't know how they'll grow, or what they'll look like ... or what I want ... and the reality is that I'll still have a surprising amount of bare space, even when the plants mature.

So I took out several of my CA native/ xeriscape gardening books, and just looked at the pictures and figured out what I respond to, and what I hate, and the principles behind both. And I just ordered a crap-ton of plants: Spanish lavender (because it looks most like the Great Basin sagebrush that I like, which won't grow here because the winters are too warm),


penstemon BOP which looks like a micro boxwood when not in bloom


white monkeyflower


blue-eyed grass

and Indian rice grass

to go with the germander sage, Dusty Miller, red autumn sage, and the creeping Oregon grape and various native currants and snowberries under the trees.

I hope, when all is done, that you would feel as if you were in some very nice landscape, something that nature had put together in a happy combination of loveliness.

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And then we got RAIN!!!! A storm last Sunday dropped an unexpected 1/2 inch of rain on our location, and the storm which followed added another inch. I once again found myself wishing I had a rain barrel or two or seven. The plants already look happier for the soft water.

So there it is for the garden so far this year. A horrible horrible season, but maybe things will turn around this rainy season year and we'll get at least the usual amount. I still plan to xeriscape more lawn, it just takes a surprising amount of plants to fill in the spaces, I'm finding out!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures. One of these days -when the plants mature - I'll take real photos of my real garden and post them online.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow, this has been a hard, hard year for gardening. Last rainy season started out early and promising; October 2013 we got a couple of good rainstorms and then .... nothing. Nothing. More nothing. Which dragged on to the historic drought.

Usually my water usage goes down during winter, but not last winter. I had to water the garden areas every week, and the lawns twice a week (one of the reasons I'm xeriscaping) just to keep them alive. I took special pains with the two avocados and the camellias because they're the grandparents of the backyard, planted by the previous owners sixty years ago. I soaked them deeply at least once a month. But despite my best efforts, the plants still suffered - not from lack of water, but possibly from high salt buildup or basic soil ... the older avocado and camellia leaves took on a pale bronzy color, and needles on my canary island pines were just beginning to turn yellow.

In addition, the tomatoes were crippled and the eggplant killed by a horrible infestation of spider mites. Last year, I gave away almost thirty pounds of homegrown tomatoes and had all of the eggplant I wanted. This year, I was lucky to have enough fresh tomatoes for a weekly salad, and just a few eggplant before they gave up the ghost. The spider mites went on to attack a few more plants (which fortunately I didn't care so much for). My Italian flat beans- which I've never grown before - and my sunflowers (which I HAVE grown before) were spindly and unproductive. Same seed source. I wonder if the seed was good. At least the corn came up OK.

Two of my recently-planted sundrops died, I only have one left. This is a good representation of what the survivor looks like in my garden




and one of my verbena lilacena died, I only have two left ... another good representation



For no reason that I can see except they really, really didn't appreciate such hard wellwater. And then, the summer was hot and humid - tropical, even - and some native plants which are adapted to cool wet winters and hot DRY summers responded with a fantastic case of mildew. I broke down and got some Neem oil so that next year I'll be prepared for the onslaught.

I have NEVER failed with so many plants all in one season! This was a gardening year I was happy to close the book on, and I now have a much MUCH greater appreciation for the commercial farmer, who lives or dies by whether plants produce or not.

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But in order to be a gardener or a farmer, one must be an optimist, I guess. I've been buying my xeriscape plants mostly in onesies and twosies because I really don't know how they'll grow, or what they'll look like ... or what I want ... and the reality is that I'll still have a surprising amount of bare space, even when the plants mature.

So I took out several of my CA native/ xeriscape gardening books, and just looked at the pictures and figured out what I respond to, and what I hate, and the principles behind both. And I just ordered a crap-ton of plants: Spanish lavender (because it looks most like the Great Basin sagebrush that I like, which won't grow here because the winters are too warm),


penstemon BOP which looks like a micro boxwood when not in bloom


white monkeyflower


blue-eyed grass

and Indian rice grass

to go with the germander sage, Dusty Miller, red autumn sage, and the creeping Oregon grape and various native currants and snowberries under the trees.

I hope, when all is done, that you would feel as if you were in some very nice landscape, something that nature had put together in a happy combination of loveliness.

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And then we got RAIN!!!! A storm last Sunday dropped an unexpected 1/2 inch of rain on our location, and the storm which followed added another inch. I once again found myself wishing I had a rain barrel or two or seven. The plants already look happier for the soft water.

So there it is for the garden so far this year. A horrible horrible season, but maybe things will turn around this rainy season year and we'll get at least the usual amount. I still plan to xeriscape more lawn, it just takes a surprising amount of plants to fill in the spaces, I'm finding out!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures. One of these days -when the plants mature - I'll take real photos of my real garden and post them online.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow, this has been a hard, hard year for gardening. Last rainy season started out early and promising; October 2013 we got a couple of good rainstorms and then .... nothing. Nothing. More nothing. Which dragged on to the historic drought.

Usually my water usage goes down during winter, but not last winter. I had to water the garden areas every week, and the lawns twice a week (one of the reasons I'm xeriscaping) just to keep them alive. I took special pains with the two avocados and the camellias because they're the grandparents of the backyard, planted by the previous owners sixty years ago. I soaked them deeply at least once a month. But despite my best efforts, the plants still suffered - not from lack of water, but possibly from high salt buildup or basic soil ... the older avocado and camellia leaves took on a pale bronzy color, and needles on my canary island pines were just beginning to turn yellow.

In addition, the tomatoes were crippled and the eggplant killed by a horrible infestation of spider mites. Last year, I gave away almost thirty pounds of homegrown tomatoes and had all of the eggplant I wanted. This year, I was lucky to have enough fresh tomatoes for a weekly salad, and just a few eggplant before they gave up the ghost. The spider mites went on to attack a few more plants (which fortunately I didn't care so much for). My Italian flat beans- which I've never grown before - and my sunflowers (which I HAVE grown before) were spindly and unproductive. Same seed source. I wonder if the seed was good. At least the corn came up OK.

Two of my recently-planted sundrops died, I only have one left. This is a good representation of what the survivor looks like in my garden




and one of my verbena lilacena died, I only have two left ... another good representation



For no reason that I can see except they really, really didn't appreciate such hard wellwater. And then, the summer was hot and humid - tropical, even - and some native plants which are adapted to cool wet winters and hot DRY summers responded with a fantastic case of mildew. I broke down and got some Neem oil so that next year I'll be prepared for the onslaught.

I have NEVER failed with so many plants all in one season! This was a gardening year I was happy to close the book on, and I now have a much MUCH greater appreciation for the commercial farmer, who lives or dies by whether plants produce or not.

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But in order to be a gardener or a farmer, one must be an optimist, I guess. I've been buying my xeriscape plants mostly in onesies and twosies because I really don't know how they'll grow, or what they'll look like ... or what I want ... and the reality is that I'll still have a surprising amount of bare space, even when the plants mature.

So I took out several of my CA native/ xeriscape gardening books, and just looked at the pictures and figured out what I respond to, and what I hate, and the principles behind both. And I just ordered a crap-ton of plants: Spanish lavender (because it looks most like the Great Basin sagebrush that I like, which won't grow here because the winters are too warm),


penstemon BOP which looks like a micro boxwood when not in bloom


white monkeyflower


blue-eyed grass

and Indian rice grass

to go with the germander sage, Dusty Miller, red autumn sage, and the creeping Oregon grape and various native currants and snowberries under the trees.

I hope, when all is done, that you would feel as if you were in some very nice landscape, something that nature had put together in a happy combination of loveliness.

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And then we got RAIN!!!! A storm last Sunday dropped an unexpected 1/2 inch of rain on our location, and the storm which followed added another inch. I once again found myself wishing I had a rain barrel or two or seven. The plants already look happier for the soft water.

So there it is for the garden so far this year. A horrible horrible season, but maybe things will turn around this rainy season year and we'll get at least the usual amount. I still plan to xeriscape more lawn, it just takes a surprising amount of plants to fill in the spaces, I'm finding out!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures. One of these days -when the plants mature - I'll take real photos of my real garden and post them online.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow, this has been a hard, hard year for gardening. Last rainy season started out early and promising; October 2013 we got a couple of good rainstorms and then .... nothing. Nothing. More nothing. Which dragged on to the historic drought.

Usually my water usage goes down during winter, but not last winter. I had to water the garden areas every week, and the lawns twice a week (one of the reasons I'm xeriscaping) just to keep them alive. I took special pains with the two avocados and the camellias because they're the grandparents of the backyard, planted by the previous owners sixty years ago. I soaked them deeply at least once a month. But despite my best efforts, the plants still suffered - not from lack of water, but possibly from high salt buildup or basic soil ... the older avocado and camellia leaves took on a pale bronzy color, and needles on my canary island pines were just beginning to turn yellow.

In addition, the tomatoes were crippled and the eggplant killed by a horrible infestation of spider mites. Last year, I gave away almost thirty pounds of homegrown tomatoes and had all of the eggplant I wanted. This year, I was lucky to have enough fresh tomatoes for a weekly salad, and just a few eggplant before they gave up the ghost. The spider mites went on to attack a few more plants (which fortunately I didn't care so much for). My Italian flat beans- which I've never grown before - and my sunflowers (which I HAVE grown before) were spindly and unproductive. Same seed source. I wonder if the seed was good. At least the corn came up OK.

Two of my recently-planted sundrops died, I only have one left. This is a good representation of what the survivor looks like in my garden




and one of my verbena lilacena died, I only have two left ... another good representation



For no reason that I can see except they really, really didn't appreciate such hard wellwater. And then, the summer was hot and humid - tropical, even - and some native plants which are adapted to cool wet winters and hot DRY summers responded with a fantastic case of mildew. I broke down and got some Neem oil so that next year I'll be prepared for the onslaught.

I have NEVER failed with so many plants all in one season! This was a gardening year I was happy to close the book on, and I now have a much MUCH greater appreciation for the commercial farmer, who lives or dies by whether plants produce or not.

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But in order to be a gardener or a farmer, one must be an optimist, I guess. I've been buying my xeriscape plants mostly in onesies and twosies because I really don't know how they'll grow, or what they'll look like ... or what I want ... and the reality is that I'll still have a surprising amount of bare space, even when the plants mature.

So I took out several of my CA native/ xeriscape gardening books, and just looked at the pictures and figured out what I respond to, and what I hate, and the principles behind both. And I just ordered a crap-ton of plants: Spanish lavender (because it looks most like the Great Basin sagebrush that I like, which won't grow here because the winters are too warm),


penstemon BOP which looks like a micro boxwood when not in bloom


white monkeyflower


blue-eyed grass

and Indian rice grass

to go with the germander sage, Dusty Miller, red autumn sage, and the creeping Oregon grape and various native currants and snowberries under the trees.

I hope, when all is done, that you would feel as if you were in some very nice landscape, something that nature had put together in a happy combination of loveliness.

----------------
And then we got RAIN!!!! A storm last Sunday dropped an unexpected 1/2 inch of rain on our location, and the storm which followed added another inch. I once again found myself wishing I had a rain barrel or two or seven. The plants already look happier for the soft water.

So there it is for the garden so far this year. A horrible horrible season, but maybe things will turn around this rainy season year and we'll get at least the usual amount. I still plan to xeriscape more lawn, it just takes a surprising amount of plants to fill in the spaces, I'm finding out!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures. One of these days -when the plants mature - I'll take real photos of my real garden and post them online.

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What's with the supply chain over the last year? I can't just get my list together for groceries and sundries, and go shopping and get it all. Somebody - and often a few somebodies - are always out of at least one thing. So I have to go to different stores, or go back to the same store later, usually a lot more than once, just to get everything. Or bail on what I wanted and either get something sort-of-like, or give up on it altogether.

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I have a Russian source I follow, Inside Russia. He gave an update about power outages in Russian cities. 1 hour 50 seconds into the video. It's all good but the blackouts tell a story you won't want to miss. tick tock tick tock

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I have sources too. Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst. Alex Christoforou, blogger. Scott Ritter, former Marine and USA and UN weapons inspectors.

Unlike your shill, they sometimes broadcast FROM RUSSIA. Johnson is in Russia NOW, in fact, interviewing military ppl, politicians etc, taking Russian political temperature, so to speak, and they all observe everyday life in Russia.

ETA: Col Wilkerson, Col Douglas MacGreggor, Col Daniel Davis.

Get better sources.

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He's a Russian propagandist.

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You think all those Colonels are Russian propagandists? Former Marine and international weapons inspector Scott Ritter? Former Marine Brian Berletic?
Those who broadcast from Russia... some do "walk and talk". I get to see what's going on in the background. It's not what you imagine.

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What do you think is gonna happen, son? A palace coup in Russia? Russian troops running back to the border? At what point will I "have to acknowledge" a Russian defeat? If you're going to make a prediction, be specific and put a time limit on it, bc even a broken watch is right twice a day.

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Seriously? Ukraine is dark practically from end to end. Russia isn't.

You make unbelievably STUPID statements.

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And it's been getting worse the last few weeks! Today for example, I struck out at 4 of 5 places where I went shopping! ... just looking for ordinary, everyday stuff.

Walgreens - Walgreens-branded sugar and dye-free cough syrup, and hand sanitizer, not a single one on the shelf. Albertsons - lite salt (discontinued entirely, even though I'd been buying it there for 10 years), it was the only reason I'd shop there.. Chevron - not pumping gas at all, open, but not for buying gas. Vitamin City - no paper towels or ground pork, at all. Target - no shampoo or paper towels. The only place that had what I wanted was Trader Joe's.

It's so time-consuming and frustrating!

I feel like there should be some geezer sitting behind the counter, picking his nails with a camp knife, saying ... nope, we don't have none of that here, neither. Not since the gas station burned down in oh-five.

Has anybody else noticed the same thing?

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Sounds like everyone is making progress more or less. Been kinda stalled out here chasing after stupid stuff. Rounding up a handyman to repair the stucco that the plumbers broke open to replace the wast

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How's your dead whore of a mother, Ted?
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THGR: All your posting in the garden thread about your daddy and none about your mother gives insight into why you hate women so much. It’s a mommy thing. I’m sure you feel the same way about your mother as you do mine. So you insulting my mother goes by without injury.

Hey Gilligan, point to the guy whose mother was a whore. Yours; yes, we know. And we feel sorry for you.

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e pipes, and our blu-ray DVD player broke. It's got to be at least 10 years old, but they will still repair it if I ship it to Menlo Park (all things considered cheaper than buying new) so that's what I've been in touch with the mfr about.

Fortunately my nose is making enuf progress that I can sleep thru the night mostly, so I've been back to taking puppywuppy out for her AM walk and then yardwork before it gets too hot, then kitchenwork until its time to start on the house projects.

We started prepping the walls for daughter's room with a little sanding, but I thought to get the lead check swabs and by golly it looks

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How's your dead whore of a mother, Ted?
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THGR: All your posting in the garden thread about your daddy and none about your mother gives insight into why you hate women so much. It’s a mommy thing. I’m sure you feel the same way about your mother as you do mine. So you insulting my mother goes by without injury.

Hey Gilligan, point to the guy whose mother was a whore. Yours; yes, we know. And we feel sorry for you.

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like the first coat of paint has lead in it. So I halted the sanding and got some first-class info on what to do next: wipe the walls with trisodium phosphate to pick up any lead paint pigment that may have powdered off over the years, seal everything with sealer (I was going to to that anyway) and then paint. So we got a little hitch in our plans, and today was lunch with dear daughter which set things back one more day.

She'd been bugging me to try this Mexican restaurant that looks like a real dive from the outside, I was ready to try a taco place but, well, what the hell we went to questionable-looking place. And wouldn't you know, it was quite charming on the inside, and it specialized in what I was looking for, which is fish! So I ordered a fillet (probably tilapia) which came pan-fried in an egg batter topped with shrimp and crab in a mildly-spicy sauce, with rice (gave that to dear daughter) beans, and salad. From what little I can taste I think it was well-prepared and I suspect that if I COULD taste it more, it would be really good. Then for dinner I had some leftover Greek-style salad from yesterday and topped it with a little leftover tuna so dinner was pretty good too!

Wish I was making progress like you, SIX! Even on your "bad" days you do pretty good!

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake


"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

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I've always imagined Peltier coolers as being useful for when you need to keep something small and medical refrigerated, like a box if vials or a transplant organ. It could run off your car's electrical sysem.

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You're an idiot.

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He's not in Russia, you doofus.
I even linked his goodbye meal at a Russian McDonald's from three years ago.

When you get me actual evidence ... not just some jowly guy with a thick Russian accent blabbing about secondhand stuff, I'll watch. Videos from Russia would be nice.

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I always say signature not GIF. I'll be going to your site now and saying hello. Then I'll get to the fact of your post.

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Pity would be no more,
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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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It was COOOOOOOOOOOLD here last night.

Nothing record breaking, but by far the coldest night we've had around here this year so far.

It was pretty warm and sunny two days ago, and yesterday fooled me. When I went out on my back porch to smoke it was soLets have fun. My signature consists of a "T and coffee." You manage to get rid of the T but not the coffee. Why, because you want me to come here and play. SO BE IT.

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I hope it makes it over the Rockies.

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SECOND, we’ve watched Signym defend every strong man on the planet over the years as they’ve suppressed their own citizens and brutalized others.

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Well, that would also be Trump, Biden [*in reality Blinken and Sullivan], Obama, GW Bush [* in reality Cheney] and Clinton. Show me how they did NOT suppress their own citizens and brutaliz others?

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She has always taken their side even as they’ve exposed themselves to be the worst of the worst.

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Putin and Xi materially and SIGNIFICANTLY benefitted their people. China, unlike India, raised almost a billion people out of poverty. Russia, prostrate under USA depredations, transformed itself into a modern, independent economy. Vastly improved living standards is the source of popular support, which is expressed in Russia in the form of electoral success. (China doesn't hold elections.)

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The problem she has always had while posting here is that...

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I always have to deal with your lies and bullshit.

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To make excuses for and deflect conversations away from their behaviors. To never hold them accountable as she does Western democracies.

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Have I ever posted an extended diatribe about France's policies, or Germany's, or Britain's, or any other "western democracy's" besides our own? I may make snide comments from time to time if I think they're doing something incredibly stupid, but I don't hold "western democracies" accountable any more than I hold Russia or China because they're not my country.

In fact, I'm not universally supportive of China, which I find alien and prone to strategic mistakes. But IMHO Russia, so far, has followed the best course for itself and its people since about 2000. Time will tell how successfully.

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Comrade Signym has been exposed repeatedly as a propagandist for Putin. She posts that Alex Krainer is “one of her fave analysts.” It’s a window into how her thinking is un-American. Krainer says something huge is about to happen. The video suggests it’s a deal between Trump and Putin.

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In the video Krainer says a lot of ignorant things. Like suggesting Trump has the power to tell Europe to send all Russian funds frozen there to American banks.

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I don't recall him saying that. Please repost the link.

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That’s how a dictator would act. He does a video, is Putin evil.[i.e. "Is Putin Evil?"] In it he says Putin in general, is good for Russia.

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Putin has been VERY good for Russians. That's a fact. That's how he built up a LOT of goodwill among Russians since 2000. If, over time, the war in Ukraine drains too much of that goodwill, he'll be voted out of office.

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At 11 minutes into the video, he talks about Trumps opinion that America has been Europe’s errand boy. When in fact it’s been the other way around. America has used soft power to influence our allies for decades. Europe and America both benefited.

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Which direction had money been flowing since WWII? While the USA paid for most of Europe's "defense", European nations used that "peace dividend" to pay for healthcare, education, and social services. Britain SPECIFICALLY refers to itself as "the brain" directing USA "brawn".
And what have they done for us, really?

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He talks about paying attention to Zelensky after a face to face with Trump. How his facial expressions suggested to him that Trump offered Zelensky a golden parachute, guarantied his safety. Implying Zelensky wanted that most of all. In the beginning America said it would get him out of Ukraine. He said he didn’t need a ride, “he needed ammunition.”

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You've never listened to someone with a different POV and, INSTEAD OF GETTING ANGRY you thought .. "Oh, how interesting!" ?

Krainer has a different POV and sees things we can't. But, like everyone, he's not 100%.

One thing I found interesting is his laser focus on Britain as the ultimate source of our hatred for Russia. Just as we innoculated post WWII European political elites with our agendas, Britain ... seeing the end of its Empire approaching... innoculated the USA with ITS agendas thru Oxford and Rhodes scholarships, the collaboration between Chatham House (Britain) and the Council on Foreign Relations, the collaboration between the BoE and The Fed, and between MI6 and the CIA. It's a story that goes back to about 1913.

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I found this quote in the garden thread signym because you insisted on playing games. You are still playing with my signature. I've taken a breath but if you continue, I will destroy both garden threads. Last warning...

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sunny that it still felt warm. I didn't even realize that the high yesterday was only 22 degrees. So when I went out shopping, I wasn't exactly dressed for the occasion, and my hair still wasn't completely dry an hour after I took a shower. (Yeah... I forgot how nice it is to have your hair ready in 1 minute when it's short).

It didn't really hit me how cold it was until the wind went right through me while I was unloading my cart in the car, taking the cart back and getting back in the car. Chilled to the bone. I took off my mask and felt something hard behind my ear and almost freaked out imagining what kind of animal or something was on me until I realized that it was my frozen hair. Jeez....


Not feeling under the weather or anything, but I think I'm going to try to limit my time working in the chilly basement today just in case. I'll paint those doors and shelves, then I'll try stripping a few shelves upstairs after laying down some tarps first.

Seriously reconsidering having torn up that vinyl floor in the kitchen this early in. But still happy to have gotten it out though too.


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Well back in upstate NY, for fun, I used to go out with wet hair, shake my head and listen to the icicles clink against each other.

But, I hear ya about the wind. It feels like it's going right thru you if you're not dressed for it.

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Over here, it's raining. A couple of days off no rain, then three more days of predicted rain. I was cold last night, forgot to turn on the heat after airing out the house, plus the air cleaner was blowing on me, so the comforter wasn't quite hacking it. Woke up curled into a little ball at 5AM, turned the air cleaner away, tossed a heavy bathrobe over the comforter and slept a lot more comfortably!

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Pity would be no more,
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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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GREAT WORK JACK!


I think I figured out what's going on with your surface water ... it's not a high water table (ground water) because that implies some kind of permanence. I think what you have is subsurface flow of surface water through your property, whenever there's a surface water source uphill of you.

I see that A LOT both within my yard and in the neighborhood. My lot generally has a steep north to south slope, and a much gentler east to west slope, so that the highest point is the NE and the lowest is the SW. Lets have fun. My signature consists of a "T and coffee." You manage to get rid of the T but not the coffee. Why, because you want me to come here and play. SO BE IT.

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I hope it makes it over the Rockies.

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Originally posted by THG:

SECOND, we’ve watched Signym defend every strong man on the planet over the years as they’ve suppressed their own citizens and brutalized others.

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Well, that would also be Trump, Biden [*in reality Blinken and Sullivan], Obama, GW Bush [* in reality Cheney] and Clinton. Show me how they did NOT suppress their own citizens and brutaliz others?

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She has always taken their side even as they’ve exposed themselves to be the worst of the worst.

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Putin and Xi materially and SIGNIFICANTLY benefitted their people. China, unlike India, raised almost a billion people out of poverty. Russia, prostrate under USA depredations, transformed itself into a modern, independent economy. Vastly improved living standards is the source of popular support, which is expressed in Russia in the form of electoral success. (China doesn't hold elections.)

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The problem she has always had while posting here is that...

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I always have to deal with your lies and bullshit.

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To make excuses for and deflect conversations away from their behaviors. To never hold them accountable as she does Western democracies.

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Have I ever posted an extended diatribe about France's policies, or Germany's, or Britain's, or any other "western democracy's" besides our own? I may make snide comments from time to time if I think they're doing something incredibly stupid, but I don't hold "western democracies" accountable any more than I hold Russia or China because they're not my country.

In fact, I'm not universally supportive of China, which I find alien and prone to strategic mistakes. But IMHO Russia, so far, has followed the best course for itself and its people since about 2000. Time will tell how successfully.

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Comrade Signym has been exposed repeatedly as a propagandist for Putin. She posts that Alex Krainer is “one of her fave analysts.” It’s a window into how her thinking is un-American. Krainer says something huge is about to happen. The video suggests it’s a deal between Trump and Putin.

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When was the video posted?

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In the video Krainer says a lot of ignorant things. Like suggesting Trump has the power to tell Europe to send all Russian funds frozen there to American banks.

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I don't recall him saying that. Please repost the link.

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That’s how a dictator would act. He does a video, is Putin evil.[i.e. "Is Putin Evil?"] In it he says Putin in general, is good for Russia.

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Putin has been VERY good for Russians. That's a fact. That's how he built up a LOT of goodwill among Russians since 2000. If, over time, the war in Ukraine drains too much of that goodwill, he'll be voted out of office.

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At 11 minutes into the video, he talks about Trumps opinion that America has been Europe’s errand boy. When in fact it’s been the other way around. America has used soft power to influence our allies for decades. Europe and America both benefited.

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Which direction had money been flowing since WWII? While the USA paid for most of Europe's "defense", European nations used that "peace dividend" to pay for healthcare, education, and social services. Britain SPECIFICALLY refers to itself as "the brain" directing USA "brawn".
And what have they done for us, really?

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He talks about paying attention to Zelensky after a face to face with Trump. How his facial expressions suggested to him that Trump offered Zelensky a golden parachute, guarantied his safety. Implying Zelensky wanted that most of all. In the beginning America said it would get him out of Ukraine. He said he didn’t need a ride, “he needed ammunition.”

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You've never listened to someone with a different POV and, INSTEAD OF GETTING ANGRY you thought .. "Oh, how interesting!" ?

Krainer has a different POV and sees things we can't. But, like everyone, he's not 100%.

One thing I found interesting is his laser focus on Britain as the ultimate source of our hatred for Russia. Just as we innoculated post WWII European political elites with our agendas, Britain ... seeing the end of its Empire approaching... innoculated the USA with ITS agendas thru Oxford and Rhodes scholarships, the collaboration between Chatham House (Britain) and the Council on Foreign Relations, the collaboration between the BoE and The Fed, and between MI6 and the CIA. It's a story that goes back to about 1913.

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I found this quote in the garden thread signym because you insisted on playing games. You are still playing with my signature. I've taken a breath but if you continue, I will destroy both garden threads. Last warning...

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Oh big fucking deal.

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The front of my house faces north, uphill. Whenever I water the trees on the northwest in the front yard I get a water seep on the west side yard downhill from it. If I do EXTRA watering, the coast live oak even further downhill on the west side yard sprouts extra-long new shoots.

I even have a funny story. As you might remember, my house is now quite old - even (sadly) a city historic house (with a crap-ton of restrictions and the official city interest that comes with it). And though you're not supposed to discuss a lady's age, she's 112 this year. Anyway, back when I bought it, it still had all the original plumbing, including a hose bibb in the rear that suddenly broke and was almost leaking a steady stream. But there were a lot of various ongoing medical emergencies over time, and I just didn't have the opportunity to deal with it. So I got a really short hose and attached it to the hose bibb, and put on a nozzle that I could at least shut off - mostly. It had a really, really slow drip - maybe 2 (or 3 maximum) drips a minute. Crisis - not solved but at least addressed!

A few months later, my back-door neighbor from across the alley south of me and one lot west - which is downhill in two directions - asked me if I had a water leak in my yard - because he was having a seep coming up in his!

And I sort of got alerted to this because years ago I had asked an arborist why my big trees were doing OK even though I didn't water them (dry, dry, dry sunny SoCal was a mystery to me), and she said it was because the people upslope from me were watering their lawns too much.

So, yeah, subsurface surface-water flow - it happens!

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