Posted on 08/15/2003 4:04:18 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Early this week, we wrote that President Bush was spending part of his vacation "clearing cedar" on his Texas ranch, only to have several readers write to ask what clearing cedar actually means.
"Growing up in central Texas made me very familiar with the cedar trees so common and yet hated by ranchers," wrote Ronald Best, who abandoned the cedar canopy of Texas for Lakewood, Colo. "To hear that our president personally cares about his land to pitch in and clear these pesky junipers himself says a lot about why President Bush is beloved by so many Texans."
How are the cedars usually cleared?
"When I was a child, itinerant 'cedar choppers' moved from ranch to ranch, clearing and burning cedar trees," says Best. "My father once warned us about these mysterious people and when my sister and I misbehaved, (he) would tell us we could be given away to these mysterious people."
HUMBLE ARI
The dog days of August have crept into political pollster Frank Luntz's usually busy office - or so we gather from his latest poll, "Ari, We Thought We Knew Thee."
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Pesky maybe, but they make fence posts that will last 100 years.
Found some cedar "survey corner posts" in Virginia, nicely notched with the cardinal points.
Unlike the cedar trees (and bushes) that are their namesake, the cedar beaters' family tree has branches that are few and far between.
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