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Gutwrench said:
Yeah. 2,4-D is a strong herbicide too. We had a can of that too. Actually Agent Orange was a mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D. (I just looked it up!)
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I remember reading way back in the 90s it was used as a pill decades ago to increase the body's thermic effect. The idiotic stuff people did back in the day to lose weight. Yikes.
[doublepost=1556820418][/doublepost]Palm fronds are dangerous to dogs, IIRC. Apparently they smell very sweet to them and encourage them to eat it, which is poisonous.
 
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Do people plant Canadian thistle, button weed, and milk weed? They’re on my list too! :mad:
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I was out there being vicious with some milkweed today that were pretending to be stalks of rising peonies. I don't know where it comes from around here, farmers hate the stuff and I don't know anyone who would choose to plant it. Sometimes seeds just lie dormant a long time and get heaved up by frost (along with all those damn little rocks) during winter.

There are different kinds of milkweed though... maybe the sort they call butterfly milkweed gets put in by people who like to attract birds and butterflies to their gardens. Not sure if that's the kind pops up around here or not, we just call it milkweed, sometimes with some really impolite adjective in front of the word. If the pods break open around the time autumn rains set in, then it's a real challenge getting rid of the seedlings in the following year.
 
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Zenithal said:
People plant bamboo. Sunflowers ought to be last on your WTF list, BARTO.
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Here? In the US? For oil production surely?
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I agree about people planting problematic bamboo... might as well be kudzu. Or that yellow-flowered tall jewelweed that looks like bamboo in the stems but at least they collapse in cold weather like the stems of impatiens.

Sunflowers, well, not just oilseed though, right? Lots are meant for putting in salads and snacking on them, and then some for feeding our feathered friends in the cold climates. People buy them for bird feeders by the 25, 50 lb bag... the black oil ones are more expensive but even the stripey gray ones aren't that cheap. I see a few acres of them around here now and then that are destined for either birdfeeding or else grown for human consumption. The oilseed plantings are more in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Texas, I think.
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Gutwrench said:
Lol! Those rascals!
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Yeah plants really have that camou **** down pat by now don't they. So annoying.
 
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LizKat said:
I agree about people planting problematic bamboo... might as well be kudzu. Or that yellow-flowered tall jewelweed that looks like bamboo in the stems but at least they collapse in cold weather like the stems of impatiens.

Sunflowers, well, not just oilseed though, right? Lots are meant for putting in salads and snacking on them, and then some for feeding our feathered friends in the cold climates. People buy them for bird feeders by the 25, 50 lb bag... the black oil ones are more expensive but even the stripey gray ones aren't that cheap. I see a few acres of them around here now and then that are destined for either birdfeeding or else grown for human consumption. The oilseed plantings are more in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Texas, I think.
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Yeah plants really have that camou **** down pat by now don't they. So annoying.
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Kudzu? That reminds me of my visit to Atlanta. Miles and miles of the stuff on our daily commute!

On my mind is work as I'm off next week (yay) so trying to make sure I've got everything done before I break up, hence working until 10:30 tonight. Anyway laptop is done for the evening.
 
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I've just learned that weird creeping vine that covered everything back in SC was kudzu. Bamboo was planted in our area who knows when. It makes fantastic fire wood when chopped and dried out. Or for woodworking if you know how to work with it.

I'd grow asparagus just to say I grow asparagus when I don't like asparagus much at all.
 
Dreams, their interpretations and actual meanings.

I've been having this recurring dream for quite a few years now. It's particularly interesting in that the dream has, so far, always adapted itself to my current living situation, ie. it changes depending on where I live or am at the moment but most of it always stays the same. What makes me think of it now is that I just woke up about five hours ahead of when my alarm would go off because of it. Not really a nightmare per se, but there is still a distinct feeling of dread involved when I wake up from it.

It usually follows a similar "narrative", if you will. In the dream I wake up, and go to my balcony (or a window) and look down into the (court)yard. It's early morning and still dark out, but I can see a shape in the yard. Some time later, the shape in the yard turns around, and it turns out that's also me down there. So now I'm on the balcony and stare at myself staring up at myself from the courtyard. This goes on for a while before my perspective changes to the me that's on the yard staring up at the me on the balcony, and I just turn around and leave. That's when I wake up. Never sweating or particularly horrified, but still with a certain feeling uneasiness.

So now I'm watching "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" reruns and dreading not the dream, but the day I'm going to have having been awakened five hours before I actually needed to.
 
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I've had that recurring dream, too, Mefisto. Rather spooky.

Currently dealing with heartburn. I should have laid off that habanero relish...
 
My parents; my dad passed away on this day fourteen years ago.

And I have just learned that a colleague whom I greatly respected and admired (and liked enormously), and with whom I worked when I was in the Horn of Africa, Police Commissioner Christine Alalo of AMISOM, from Uganda, was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines (Boeing 737 Max) crash flying from Addis to Nairobi on March 10.

This is a real tragedy, for she was a first class human being and an outstanding police officer.

She was brilliant, funny, sharp, clever, brave, fiercely intelligent, extraordinarily competent, utterly straight, and absolutely inspirational. One of the best people I worked with; we had dinner a few times together - as well as many meetings - and I thought she just rocked.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
My parents; my dad passed away on this day fourteen years ago.

And I have just learned that a colleague whom I greatly respected and admired (and liked enormously), and with whom I worked when I was in the Horn of Africa, Police Commissioner Christine Alalo of AMISOM, from Uganda, was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines (Boeing 737 Max) crash flying from Addis to Nairobi on March 10.

This is a real tragedy, for she was a first class human being and an outstanding police officer.

She was brilliant, funny, sharp, clever, brave, fiercely intelligent, extraordinarily competent, utterly straight, and absolutely inspirational. One of the best people I worked with; we had dinner a few times together - as well as many meetings - and I thought she just rocked.
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Sorry to hear that.

I’m contemplating places to visit this week with my camera as I’m off work. Weather doesn’t look great though.
 
Zenithal said:
I've had that recurring dream, too, Mefisto. Rather spooky.

Currently dealing with heartburn. I should have laid off that habanero relish...
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Yeah, I've actually come across several people who have seen similar dreams. Seems to be pretty common, that one.

Fun fact (for me, at least), I've never had heartburn. At least that I know of. I know people who get seriously fierce heartburn after f. ex. drinking certain alcoholic beverages, and when they tell me about it I really have no idea what they're talking about. Still, I sympathize. Hope yours got sorted quickly.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
My parents; my dad passed away on this day fourteen years ago.

And I have just learned that a colleague whom I greatly respected and admired (and liked enormously), and with whom I worked when I was in the Horn of Africa, Police Commissioner Christine Alalo of AMISOM, from Uganda, was killed in the Ethiopian Airlines (Boeing 737 Max) crash flying from Addis to Nairobi on March 10.

This is a real tragedy, for she was a first class human being and an outstanding police officer.

She was brilliant, funny, sharp, clever, brave, fiercely intelligent, extraordinarily competent, utterly straight, and absolutely inspirational. One of the best people I worked with; we had dinner a few times together - as well as many meetings - and I thought she just rocked.
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Oh wow, just saw this post and am so sorry to hear that. That accident affected my work in a tangential way as my current group of students were slated to visit the office of the Norwegian Refugee Council here in Geneva for a presentation of their work back in March and I know a few people who work there. It was cancelled as two staff were on that same plane. No one I knew but a bit of a shock all the same.
 
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decafjava said:
Oh wow, just saw this post and am so sorry to hear that. That accident affected my work in a tangential way as my current group of students were slated to visit the office of the Norwegian Refugee Council here in Geneva for a presentation of their work back in March and I know a few people who work there. It was cancelled as two staff were on that same plane. No one I knew but a bit of a shock all the same.
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She was brilliant, hilarious, clever, competent, brave......the kind of person you wanted to see take charge of reform in some of those spots - and she was committed to this agenda - leading by example - and led with a dry wit, and hands-on competence; I really rated her, admired her, respected her and was in fits of laughter whenever we met, because she spoke truth to power, but in the disappointed tone of an irked mother to an underperforming and irresponsible offspring.

Seriously: A black woman - funny, decent, sharp, competent, ferociously hard-working, formidably ethical - who was the Police Commissioner (granted, acting) in an international mission in one of the most challenging places on the planet - what a role model!

I really rated and respected her; this is an absolute tragedy - she was wonderful, just first class.
 
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Gutwrench said:
Any cinco de Mayo festivities?
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Man I need sunshine for that. We're still doing apparently endless April showers... :rolleyes:

Meanwhile , I'm filing this post under "class acts don't just happen, they get done."

Here a couple of university presidents with a presumable understanding of bureaucracy managed to make a nice end run around what was probably a pile of red tape: A mom gave up the right to attend her own college graduation in order to attend that of her son at a different school. Hearing about this, the president of the son's school promptly arranged with the president and trustees of the other university to confer the mom's degree upon her at her son's ceremony.

https://twitter.com/CMUniversity/status/1124791292138065921
 
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LizKat said:
Man I need sunshine for that. We're still doing apparently endless April showers... :rolleyes:

Meanwhile , I'm filing this post under "class acts don't just happen, they get done."

Here a couple of university presidents with a presumable understanding of bureaucracy managed to make a nice end run around what was probably a pile of red tape: A mom gave up the right to attend her own college graduation in order to attend that of her son at a different school. Hearing about this, the president of the son's school promptly arranged with the president and trustees of the other university to confer the mom's degree upon her at her son's ceremony.

https://twitter.com/CMUniversity/status/1124791292138065921
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Bern got 4 centimetres of snow this morning, Saint Gall 19 (!!!) and here we got no snow (except you could see a dusting on the mountains) but 3 degrees Celsius this morning. :mad: It's May!!! Maybe Zeus, Apollo and the other weather gods had joined Thor fighting Thanos. Lots of wind too.

Weird to have longer days but colder temperatures, to think Easter was warm and seasonal.
 
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decafjava said:
Bern got 4 centimetres of snow this morning, Saint Gall 19 (!!!) and here we got no snow (except you could see a dusting on the mountains) but 3 degrees Celsius this morning. :mad: It's May!!! Maybe Zeus, Apollo and the other weather gods had joined Thor fighting Thanos. Lots of wind too.

Weird to have longer days but colder temperatures, to think Easter was warm and seasonal.
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Wow, at least our early morning temperatures have moderated and we haven't gotten a late snow dump this year. Keep that stuff over there!

But the darkness of the cloud cover starts to wear on us around here. The rainstorms are effective erasing sunrise lately so it's still pitch dark at 5:30am. Trying to round up any desert-oriented fiction that I may have on hand to serve as a distraction. That and flinging Bali batik fabrics around the place as a reminder that not everything is raindrop-grey after all, at least indoors...

gimme something past raindrop grey.jpg
 
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LizKat said:
Wow, at least our early morning temperatures have moderated and we haven't gotten a late snow dump this year. Keep that stuff over there!

But the darkness of the cloud cover starts to wear on us around here. The rainstorms are effective erasing sunrise lately so it's still pitch dark at 5:30am. Trying to round up any desert-oriented fiction that I may have on hand to serve as a distraction. That and flinging Bali batik fabrics around the place as a reminder that not everything is raindrop-grey after all, at least indoors...

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You get used to grey skies in the UK!
 
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