I WANT MY SEEDS ! ! [shameless vanity]

7-10-04 | EA

[EggsAckley]

A week or so ago I ordered some farm supplies off of the internet. My county is so business-loathing that I usually have to go out of the county or out on the net to make certain purchases.

I ordered a small portable greenhouse; it arrived a week later. I ordered a gallon of dog/cat repellent; it arrived yesterday. But the fifty pounds of orchard seeds, a grazing mix, has NOT arrived. My UPS driver tells me that it's being "held" at UPS because the county needs to inspect it. He said he saw the box and it was open, but the "inspection lady" hadn't seen it yet.

Now, this is NOT the first time they've done this to me. A couple of years ago I ordered fifty root starts for a tree called Paulownia. THOSE plants, the county CONFISCATED! Yes, confiscated! The Florida company who sold them to me was outraged, and agreed to send me my plants to another, out-of-county address, at no charge. In other words, my county ripped off the Florida company for several hundred dollars.

I WANT MY SEEDS! I want to get my land seeded before the rainy season, and these mental midgets here in Santa Cruz County are preventing me from doing that.

Since I found out about this on late Friday afternoon, of course I'll have to wait till Monday to start making phone calls. Other counties don't do this. Next time I'll have the shipment sent to my friend in Sunnyvale and avoid these Nazis.

/rant off.

[sweetliberty]

"Oh, just admit you were wanting to plant pot."

No, if it was pot, they'd have let it right through...in the interest of medicine, you know.

[sweetliberty]

"For a second there....I thought you were looking for a sperm donor."

Were you looking to volunteer?

[EggsAckley]

You volunteering?


~</;o)

[sweetliberty]

Where are you in Arkansas? Did I ask you that before?

[TexasCajun]

Well, we certainly don't want any crop devastating bugs or parasites hitchhiking into the U.S. with your foreign material, err seeds.

[OSHA]

NW Ark. Small town 10 min from Springdale.

[sweetliberty]

Tontitown? Just a guess. I'm over that way most every week this summer.

[OSHA]

Cave Springs.

[sweetliberty]

Oh, ok. I've heard of it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Might be smarter to buy local pasture seed from a local feed store. Seed bought locally is likely to be a seed mix that is right for your area, and also not have invasives in it.

[OSHA]

Bout 7 mi north of Tontitown on 112

[Focault's Pendulum]

Were you looking to volunteer?....... You volunteering?

You two were on the phone...weren't ya?

[sweetliberty]

LOL!

[EggsAckley]

Naw.......great minds think alike.............that's all.

I got out of the gene pool long, long ago.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I got out of the gene pool long, long ago.

I was told some time ago....there wasn't enough chlorine to allow me in the pool.

[Cultural Jihad]

While they're not orchard seeds, if you plant them then smoke the resulting plant, you won't care.

Or rather: All plants will look like orchids, and you'll see why they really all are, but afterwards you won't be able to remember why.

Eggs: Have you done your research to ascertain under what authority your seeds from Florida were confiscated? Or the current batch are being impounded?

[EggsAckley]

Haven't had a chance to research this. It just happened on Friday, no time to call anyone till Monday. But believe me, I WILL get some answers!

[Cultural Jihad]

How about a couple of years ago? What was their rationale?

[EggsAckley]

They don't want those trees grown here. That's all they said. Funny thing though, I could go to Home Depot out of the county (we don't have HD here) and buy as many of those trees as I liked. I live in a Socialist paradise.

[Carry_Okie]

Haven't had a chance to research this. It just happened on Friday, no time to call anyone till Monday. But believe me, I WILL get some answers!

I see.