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[terri58 1]

Whew worked up a sweat. Finally quit raining enough that I could get back on the pruning. Finished the Crepe Myrtles in the back (here in the south we call it Crepe Murder). Got the the Blue Rug ground cover over running the retaining wall trimmed back. Still have a good 100' where it's over run the edging. Then it's on to the front. Once that's done will be ready to recover the beds with pine straw.

Hubby read about Crepe Murder a few years ago, and now he trims the few that we have very sparingly. Not at all like he used to. He claims he'd rather see them grow more tree like, but I think he just had that ah-ha moment of reducing spring pruning.

You definitely get better flowering from the Crepe Murder pruning - but I've also seen older, huge specimens that were clearly left alone, and they're gorgeous, too. So I'm really ambivalent - and hey, I don't do the pruning around here.

 

[smoke665]

@terri ours are close to the decks, so it's important to keep them in check. They're over 10 years old, and seem no worse for the wear.

 

[davidharmier60]

A little ice dancing (or pair skaters).

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[waday]

Only in the USA, and that’s about all I can say here.

So sad to see what happened.

 

[Cortian]

Only in the USA, and that’s about all I can say here.

So sad to see what happened.

 

[waday]

Only in the USA, and that’s about all I can say here.

So sad to see what happened.

At least 17 dead in school shooting in Florida

Florida School Shooting: 17 Reported Dead

 

[Cortian]

Only in the USA, and that’s about all I can say here.

So sad to see what happened.

At least 17 dead in school shooting in Florida

Florida School Shooting: 17 Reported Dead

Aw Christ

 

[Gary A.]

Of course, don't forget that there's a great government program whereby you can not only get a university degree, but get paid to get it!

Military????

Or as in the case of few political bad apples from my memory, if you spread enough taxpayer dollars around to the schools, they'll not only give you an honorary degree, but name a building after you as well. LOL

What would you call a politician that gets an entire school named after him?

 

[Gary A.]

Only in the USA, and that’s about all I can say here.

So sad to see what happened.

At least 17 dead in school shooting in Florida

Florida School Shooting: 17 Reported Dead

That is so so sad. Unbelievably sad.

 

[tirediron]

My initial reaction was correct. Canada won.

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It's a sport where the entire venue is based on a bar; did anyone think we wouldn't?????

 

[smoke665]

What would you call a politician that gets an entire school named after him?

Don't know, here in our state, they don't usually get that far. Sad really the number of politicians here that have either been sentenced to prison or forced to resign to keep from going to prison. Anytime a new governor is elected the odds are 50/50 he'll be in jail before the end of his term. Former mayor of the largest city in the state will likely die in Federal prison, and the list goes on.

 

[davidharmier60]

Of course, don't forget that there's a great government program whereby you can not only get a university degree, but get paid to get it!

Military????

Or as in the case of few political bad apples from my memory, if you spread enough taxpayer dollars around to the schools, they'll not only give you an honorary degree, but name a building after you as well. LOL

What would you call a politician that gets an entire school named after him?

Crooked!


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[davidharmier60]

I wish you all a good night and a pleasant tomorrow. Here's hoping the buffer got fixed today. But I wouldn't bet a dime that it did.

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[vintagesnaps]

Schools should be safe, not a place where this keeps happening. One of the former/retired CIA/FBI experts that comes on CNN periodically started saying something about he has nieces and nephews and just broke down... someone else with CNN said at the end of the hour earlier, God help us... Even as professionals who have to stay focused when reporting a crisis situation, they can't always get thru this anymore.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Mens hockey started and the USA didn't do too great; a late goal sent it into OT and we lost, yikes. Womens hockey tonight is USA v Canada. This is like the late west coast NHL games, I was already dozing off awhile ago during figure skating, not going to make it thru this game!


And womens curling starts at 1 am... not going to get to see that!