AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 1677) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | August 24, 2005 | All of Us

[Dog]

I am this close to get a FR time out....some cheery soul is on a military mascot needing a home...degrading the effort...called it BS.

I will gladly take the day away from FR...I'm tired of this kind of crowd here.

[Miss Marple]

I hate to hear that! I read the article from that thread and thought that the DOD needs to make it a policy that troops can send a pet home if they can get financial backing.

You just know that nay-sayer is a troll.

[Dog]

No its been here for almost 2 years....I told it to don't even reply....because I won't put up with fools tonight.

[lysie]

Well, I let them get out of hand...far too much... Rhodos and the Upright Yews that is.( the ones you don't care for because of the stink. LOL)

I chopped them from about 6-8 feet to maybe 3-4 feet.

If the Rhods don't blossom next season..which I doubt they will , I don't have a problem with that. I want my shrubs pruned so that they grow away from the house and within the 3-4 foot range.. height-wise.

There was a time when I wanted them all to grow naturally , but with the Blue Spruce and other evergreen tree seedlings ..now... well over 20 feet I don't need the shrubs for that purpose.

When we first bought these 12 acres there wasn't much other than a few wild blueberry bushes and some small Quaking Aspen. Nature took it's course. With the ice storm a few years ago..many of the Aspen bit the dust. That will help the other stronger hardwood...oak, maple,cherry, tulip trees,etc.

[Miss Marple]

Two years does not negate a troll. Many of the sleeper trolls have been here for much longer.

If he is hot a troll, he is a damn fool, and should be treated as a troll.

Going to bed...babysitting tomorrow. See you tomorrow.

[Iowa Granny]

Can I hard prune Annebelle hydranga and Red twig dogwood?

[Dog]

Jane did you get that home I emailed you earlier. Guess what it's in the same small town my dad was raised in....and get this....the rear of the house I sent you is in front of a set of railroad tracks...and my dad was raised in a home just on the other side of the tracks..on the street facing the back of the home I want to look at...

Imagine that me looking at a home across the railroad tracks....that when I sat on my grandparents front porch while I grew up I must have looked at it a hundred times....and here I am 30 plus years later looking at it to buy it.

[Dog]

See post 167..

[lysie]

It could be the one. :-) It looks good. Would it be close to work?

[Dog]

Not close farther away...20 + miles north of work. Thats me looking to commute with high gas prices.

I ain't got the brain I was born with....:-)

[Iowa Granny]

I hope this one works out for you, Dogster.

[lysie]

Oh well. How many miles to work now? You have to subract that.

[MozartLover]

Just got a call from Ev.........he's doing just fine. The training is hard, including PT at 5:00 a.m. in full BDU's. He says it's REALLY hot and sticky down there.

He's been doing a lot of "medic-ing" already, dealing with heat exhaustion and other things. One guy came down with heat stroke during morning PT and had to be evac'd. Another had a bad reaction to anti-anthrax serum.

He sounded strong and alert. AND I HAVE HIS ADDRESS!!!!......so now I can start sending him those care packages.:) :) :)

[lysie]

Woohoo!!

Medic-ing. Great news. That's what he wants, right?

I'm beat.

You know the song. Bless you all.... Till we meet again.

[Iowa Granny]

I'm so GLAD. I can read the excitement in your post.

Get that oven warmed up!

[Dog]

I'm calling it a day..

See you all in the AM..

[onyx]

GOOD, GOOD, GOOD!

[MozartLover]

Yup. Medic is what he trained for. For a while it looked like he would have "diversify", IOW, be a medic/infantry; but now he is full-time medic, which is what he wants.

[Utah Girl]

I'm glad you heard from your son. I've been in Mississippi in August and it is not pleasant.

My dad and youngest sister are wending their way home from Rochester, NY to New Orleans, Houston, the 4 corners, Grand canyon and home. I talked to my sister Sunday night and the humidity was just killing them. It can get blindingly hot in Utah, but it is a dry, almost bearable heat.

I am off to bed. I am incubating one of those lovely summer colds. :(

[kassie]

Here's some early morning treats for ya'll.