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[Page Scrawler]

7 hours ago, dughlas said:

G'day y'all. Last night's storm passed with little fanfare, mostly rain. Though the high is forecast to be in the low 80's/27 it's still very warm and muggy this morning. We're off for our walk. 

Afternoon, Dugh and Thistle.     *scratches for Thistle*

6 hours ago, Marty said:

After worrying that the strawberries were going to stay green forever, the current very welcome spell of sunny weather has them all ripening at once. If you lived closer you would be welcome to some of them.

As it is, I may just finish up having to make jam with the excess.

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The season for strawberries in Michigan is almost done. Maybe two or three more weeks before it gets too hot and the plants go dormant. I'll try canning some jam before that happens.   Hey, Marty! 

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All 

Hey, Albert. 

2 hours ago, Dmrman said:

Well, I guess it's better to be specific...🤔🤔 so got the strawberries, where is the homemade Ice cream...??😌🙄😊😊 Hope you're having a good day Marty...😗😗

Hey, Bobber. 

2 hours ago, BabyXander1990 said:

I'm going to be an angel 😇, so I'm not going to say what I'm thinking, Bob...

You, an angel? Perish the thought!   Hey, Xander, Dennis, Jordan, and Ash!   *waves to the other kids*

[Albert1434]

US Women won there second world cup woot 

[Headstall]

43 minutes ago, Marty said:

Thanks, Timothy.

Saved me from having to look up the figures about the carbon footprints of artificial christmas trees. And I suspect that figure of ten years probably doesn't take into account the fact that many of those trees are made in distant parts of the world, and have to be transported long distances to where they are being sold.

Another suspicion of mine is that many people do not realise that a proper rotation of crops like trees is actually carbon neutral...

The biggest issue with trees is forest, especially rainforest, devastation. Huge tracts of it are cleared daily, and a lot of unknown plants--flora and fauna-- are lost forever. The real shame is these lands aren't arable. It takes only a year for erosion and such to strip the nutrients, and they must have heavy duty fertilization. It also affects the climate, survival of animals, the ozone layer... attempts at reasonable approaches have been failing for decades. Places like Brazil are an example of how it can ruin a country... tourism and conservation makes a lot more money than farms destined to struggle and fail. 

[Albert1434]

BTW I have had the same xmas tree for over 20 years tim

 

[Headstall]

38 minutes ago, Marty said:

But how much of it is true, and how much is fake news?

All @Drew Espinosa's news is fake.  

[Albert1434]

I have done as much I could carbon net before it was popular

[Page Scrawler]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

Tough night, but today has been okay. No Cookie today. My son and his girlfriend took her away for a BBQ today... won't be back until later tonight.  

Hey, Gary.    May I offer Sneakers as a temporary Cookie stand-in?

2 hours ago, Marty said:

Smuckers?

That a store? Or a brand?

It's a brand known in 'Murica for making different kinds of fruit preserves.

[Headstall]

Just now, Page Scrawler said:

Hey, Gary.    May I offer Sneakers as a temporary Cookie stand-in?

It's a brand known in 'Murica for making different kinds of fruit preserves.

Hi, Page.   I have Falkor and Wobbles and...  

[Page Scrawler]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Is it just me or is quote not work for everyone

I tried quoting Marty earlier, and it wouldn't work. Probably just a small glitch.

1 hour ago, Dmrman said:

Say...🤔🤔 by the outhouse to give it a nice pine clean feeling...!!!😒😆😆

Don't they use bedpans in hospitals anymore?   😀

[Kitt]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

I can't help but worry about her when she's not here. It only takes one person being careless with closing the gate. Apparently, there will be lots of people there, and his girlfriend has her until my son gets off work... and she is not the best with being attentive and watchful. 

PLEASE tell ms that isnt the one just had a baby!

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

I bought her from a family whose kids(two of the four) developed allergies to dogs. They had four kids six and under, and it was affecting how they handled staying awake and alert at school while taking allergy meds, so they had no choice. She was eight months at the time... and yeah, I was looking to rescue a dog, which was how I saw the ad for her.   She understands 'Stay' very well... she's smarter than my son's girlfriend.  

I repeat  ...

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

That would require getting her to look up from her phone.   I don't have the energy. 

Text it to her.

1 hour ago, Dmrman said:

That's so outrageous...😒😬 my grandpa used to have a good sized tree farm and eventually just had to groom a little, not make a Bonzai tree... They grew great and looked really nice, just not $95  worth...😶😒😌

My uncle grew Christmas trees for resale.  The tree growers association that governed such things posted a maximum price he could ask for cut and baled trees, and trees are an average of 7 to 8 years old before harvest. We planted two trees in late February for every tree harvested, and any trees that were culled my aunt makes wreathes and grave covers.  More than makes up for the "waste" of killing a tree. Plus our town collects, chips and compost the trees after the holiday.

[clochette]

1 hour ago, Page Scrawler said:

The season for strawberries in Michigan is almost done. Maybe two or three more weeks before it gets too hot and the plants go dormant. I'll try canning some jam before that happens.   Hey, Marty! 

Hey Pagey There's a variety that fruit twice and another one from late June to October

Edited July 7, 2019 by clochette

[Timothy M.]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

My tree was made from 100 percent recycled plastic... I bought it from Canadian Tire about twenty years ago, after years of using my own trees from my property.  

In that case your artificial tree beats the live ones in relation to carbon footprint

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

BTW I have had the same xmas tree for over 20 years Tim

And yours does too. But I still like a live tree better.  

only a few more pages before we hit 999.

Edited July 7, 2019 by Timothy M.

[Albert1434]

I have miss u a lot Randy 

[dughlas]

3 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Is it just me or is quote not work for everyone

Seems to work for me.

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, Kitt said:

PLEASE tell ms that isnt the one just had a baby!

I repeat  ...

Text it to her.

My uncle grew Christmas trees for resale.  The tree growers association that governed such things posted a maximum price he could ask for cut and baled trees, and trees are an average of 7 to 8 years old before harvest. We planted two trees in late February for every tree harvested, and any trees that were culled my aunt makes wreathes and grave covers.  More than makes up for the "waste" of killing a tree. Plus our town collects, chips and compost the trees after the holiday.

LOL. No... not the one who had the baby... she is 23, and a fantastic person and mother. The one I'm talking about is a good girl... just young in so many ways. She's grown up a lot since the first time I met her, but....

[Albert1434]

Well I hope cookie is ok. And they don't give her chicken bones

[Headstall]

34 minutes ago, Randy Wade said:

either way he will take over management

Hi, Randy.  

[dughlas]

3 hours ago, Headstall said:

That would require getting her to look up from her phone.   I don't have the energy. 

Prrhaps you could text her ... maybe send her a gif.

[BabyXander1990]

4 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

I'm going to be an angel 😇, so I'm not going to say what I'm thinking, Bob...

Aloha Xander hope your well today. And that would be a first 

We are fine thanks...watching the Daytona Coke Zero 400 now...

[Albert1434]

This is so funny

[BabyXander1990]

4 hours ago, Dmrman said:

Your such a perv..!!! lol 😄🤣🤣

Who me? 😇. I'm being corrupted by GA...😀

[Headstall]

3 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Prrhaps you could text her ... maybe send her a gif.

  Really, I shouldn't be so mean... she's okay. I'm just worried about Cookie, because that's what I do.  

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

Unless it's pot grown and small, those trees rarely survive.

The tree I bought my ex for our first Christmas after we married in 1980 was a balled white pine tree about 3'5 feet tall. It was her very first Christmas tree. Her family never had one. Interestingly the next year her younger sister bought one and there has been one ever since. In the spring we planted it at her parents home. It is still growing and nearly 30 foot tall.

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

BTW I have had the same xmas tree for over 20 years tim

 

Bought mine in 2000. Mum got a new one five years ago. It's smaller than the previous one she had for 15 years. That one was donated and sold at her church's yard sale the following spring. 

[BabyXander1990]

4 hours ago, Marty said:

Smuckers?

That a store? Or a brand?

A brand of jellies, jams and marmelade.