Everything’s Coming Up– Weeds

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  Sisyphus on May 27 at 2:44 p.m.

  Weeding is my form of Zen meditation.

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  Cindy_H on May 27 at 2:50 p.m.

  Come on over, Sis. I’ve got all the Zen you need.

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  Sisyphus on May 27 at 2:59 p.m.

  LOL Cindy. Somehow I don’t think my path to enlightenment, or even my sense of personal satisfaction, is through your yard.

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  Cindy_H on May 27 at 3:04 p.m.

  I dunno, Sis. It is the road less traveled.
  Oh well, you can have your Zen and I’ll toast you with my Zin.

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  Frum Helen Back on May 27 at 3:15 p.m.

  I meditate while spraying Roundup and weed killer on anything that looks like it shouldn’t be where it is. Then I rejoice when what I sprayed starts dying.

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  Sisyphus on May 27 at 3:15 p.m.

  Those can be combined to great effect.

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  Cis on May 27 at 3:59 p.m.

  I have been spoiled in the past years…. I had a deal when i was working… inside work, women’s work,…… outside work, men’s work.. and in the summer my grandson use to help a great deal with my flower gardens… he earn bikes, action toys, ipod, playstation and etc. thru the years with his money.

  Now… I am retired and my husband went back to work. So he does the veggies and I do the flowers… and the grandson is working and graduating next week… Now I have to do it.

  I spend 3 hours today, and I look out and I don’t know what I did, because I think they breed and go forth and multiply as soon as I get in the house. And the rule, of course, is that all weeds grow at least a foot higher than any flower..

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  Cis on May 27 at 4:00 p.m.

  by the way, Cindy, has anyone told you, that you look like the actress that played Shirley on Laverne and Shirley?

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  Cabbage Boy on May 27 at 4:05 p.m.

  This year the lawn care company made us a great deal. After I looked at the cost of a big bag of weed and feed, my time and actually getting to it on a regular basis, it made sense to hire them.

  So I expect wonders out of our yard this year. Even with the dandelion fields in the empty rental next door.

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  Cindy_H on May 27 at 4:12 p.m.

  I’ve heard that before, Cis. But I don’t see it. Plus, she’s waaaaayyy perkier. Trust me :-)

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  JeanC on May 27 at 4:48 p.m.

  Since we aren’t allowed to water our lawns, the weeds are the only thing still green when summer hits. Until then, what grass there is gets mowed when the neighbor does his (I loath mowing and I much prefer to pay him money to do it for me. He loves to mow so it works out for the both of us).

  One of these years I am going to get my hands on drought tolerant grass seed and spread it out in the lawn and see what happens.

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  JeanieSpokane on May 27 at 4:49 p.m.

  Hmmm - just noticed that when you changed your avatar, Cindy, it didn’t change the old ones. Ryan must have slipped a little trick in there and didn’t know it.

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  Cindy_H on May 27 at 4:58 p.m.

  Changed them all on today’s postings, Jeanie. Which ones are you looking at?

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  inlandempiregirl on May 27 at 5:43 p.m.

  I am like Cis… the husband does the veggies and I do the flowers. My philosophy is do what you can when there is time…. I wouldn’t say I am magazine cover worthy right now. The flowers seem to have more weeds this year. I am very puzzled at how the weeds survived a winter that caused trees and roses to die. I would like to say I that weeding is a Zen thing, but I don’t feel to peaceful yet. Perhaps in a few weeks I will feel the calm.

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  JeanieSpokane on May 27 at 5:48 p.m.

  ok - didn’t work. I hit refresh and the lips went away.

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  raymond_pert on May 27 at 5:48 p.m.

  Cindy Williams (Shirley) shows her not at all perky side in the movie, “The Conversation”.

  Cindy H, I hope you are nothing like the character Cindy Williams portrays in that movie…..<shivers>

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  Bent on May 27 at 6:41 p.m.

  Ha! see I told you Cindy. Cis, I thought they were seperated at birth as well…

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  mike_s on May 27 at 6:50 p.m.

  “You think you own whatever land you land on
  The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
  But I know every rock and tree and creature
  Has a life, has a spirit, has a name”
  —Pocahontas

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  Stickman on May 27 at 8:35 p.m.

  That’s good mike_s. Read Sacajewea sometime, and that will ring true. Great book, my favorite in this world.

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  hhuseland on May 27 at 9:42 p.m.

  This is really provocative stuff. That rock and dirt is alive? I guess many Indian tribes believe that is true. If one wonders down that road, many things open up. Suddenly, I feel more open to my dirt talking back to me. Normally that only happens when I forget to shower.

  Seriously though, I, also have often wondered how much of nature is dead and unresponsive, and how much is alive and very responsive. Then there is the middle ground where we aren’t sure which applies. Nature is truly a mystery.

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  Bent on May 27 at 10:06 p.m.

  That rock and dirt is alive? — herb

  As a former hardrock miner, I am here to tell you that yes it is alive. it just depends on your definition of alive. Rock and dirt is constantly moving and pushing. Any miner will tell you the rock definitely talks, as well, Herb. Learning its language is what keeps many miners alive…

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  Cabbage Boy on May 28 at 7:55 a.m.

  That is priceless. Quoting a disney movie track as some sorta words of wisdom.

  They butchered that story from beginning to end. But it certainly was PC. Bad white men, bad!

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  mike_s on May 28 at 9:30 a.m.

  CB, there’s a reason it is called the Disney Renaissance. ;-)

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  Cabbage Boy on May 28 at 10:47 a.m.

  Indeed Mike. Sad thing is there are many kids who probably have learned their “history” from Disney.

  No need for revisionist history when you have entertainment history already indoctrinated.

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  Bent on May 28 at 11:21 a.m.

  I know, CB. Bambi ruined a lot of potential hunters, too. Bad people (not just white).

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  thomg57 on May 28 at 11:33 a.m.

  Bad white men, bad!

  CB, so tell me how the ‘white men’ actually helped the inhabitants of this land after they stumbled upon it circa 1492?

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  JohnA on May 28 at 11:52 a.m.

  i agree with Bent. After mining it myself, I can assure you that dirt has a spirit, and it’s usually mean - probably because it feels invaded 2,000 feet down. Dirt also talks, giving constant cautions to get the heck out of it. After college, I was only too happy to comply.

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  Cabbage Boy on May 28 at 12:05 p.m.

  ThomG, how the heck are ya. Only stopping by to play while the master is away? ;)

  As to your query, there have been many things that have helped the native inhabitants of our fine continent. Horses. Guns (for hunting, not so helpful in killing our fine white ancestors ((and that is sarcasm to the nth degree)))

  more advanced languages, literature,

  Whiskey and disease and greed are some of the not so helpful things brought by the white folks.

  I think you could go with just about any technology for the most part. Other than a couple of nations in Central America, most were very backwards in regards to technology and civilization. But again, that came with a cost.

  But to the real issue I have with Disney’s Pocahontas, is the revision of the religious aspect. She was a Christian convert. Disney turns the movie into a bouquet of pantheism.

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  thomg57 on May 28 at 12:45 p.m.

  ThomG, how the heck are ya. Only stopping by to play while the master is away? ;)-

  Yeah, I don’t do too well with masters.

  Are you still a ‘convert’ if it is done at the end of a musket or sword? Not that the benevolent church conquerors would ever do that. ;-) And I think the prior inhabitants would have considered their languages perfectly advanced, thank you very much. And I’m fairly sure theu would have refused the horses and guns if they knew the price they would pay in whiskey, disease and greed, But then they weren’t asked, were they?

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  toadman on May 28 at 12:52 p.m.

  “She was a Christian convert. ”

  HA! That’s funny…. man… yeah.. that made me laugh. Good one CB.

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  Cindy_H on May 28 at 12:52 p.m.

  “Yeah, I don’t do too well with masters.”

  Uh. So whatcher saying is you get along well with mistresses? Just clarifying :-)

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  Cabbage Boy on May 28 at 3:44 p.m.

  Glad to see we have some Disney history majors (or minors) here. at the end of a sword indeed.

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  toadman on May 28 at 3:55 p.m.

  Cabbage, when you go on about Disney, to me, it’s as bad as someone bitching and moaning that Sponge Bob Square Pants is turning our kids gay. It smacks of mirror-hatted nutjob-ness. But hey.. I see things differently.

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  Sisyphus on May 28 at 4:55 p.m.

  Actually CB’s point on revisionist history is well taken but not so much about the conversion. Pocahontas’ tale is a sad tragic one emblematic of saga of Native Americans. She basically saved the Jamestown colony from their own stupidity. Later she was deceived into captivity where her ‘education’, ‘conversion’ and attendant marriage to John Rolfe took place. She was brought back to England where she was deliberately marketed to fit the ‘noble savage’ role the English sought to cultivate in order to induce more colonists to migrate. She died of small pox in England. Her story has been horribly romanticized ever since.

  So see, her story is repeated a hundred times thereafter. Natives help whitey, whitey lies to natives, corrals them up and begins the assimilation process, native dies of disease. If the Nez Perce knew her story, Lewis and Clark would never have seen the Columbia.

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  Sisyphus on May 28 at 5:02 p.m.

  “Other than a couple of nations in Central America, most were very backwards in regards to technology and civilization.”—ethnocentric much? Those are highly subjective determinations. I recommend some reading on Tecumseh. The natives very nearly handed Americans their hats in the early 1800s despite their ‘backward’ ways.

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  idawa on May 28 at 5:25 p.m.

  sis, you know Christianity was the best thing to happen to those dirty heathens… the death of their way of live and the theft of their land was a small price to pay for redemption and salvation. …where is my sarcasm button?

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  Stickman on May 28 at 6:28 p.m.

  idawa: I love the sarcasm, one of my finest traits.

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  Cindy_H on May 28 at 6:32 p.m.

  Alas, Idawa, we have no sarcasm button. But I’ll give you a gold star for snark :-)

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