Friday, May 16, 2025

Two Trees Gone and That Man

Yesterday and the day before were spent removing two Roses of Sharon.  The winter of 2022/23 finished them off.  Last year they looked like hell, this year they were not sprouting anything.  This is the big one.


We had to take it down in stages.  It was extremely tedious.  It had to be cut up in small pieces so it would all fit in the green can.  The reciprocating saw was used on the larger bottom branches.  Fortunately, our nice neighbor has a chain saw, and he came over and cut it off at ground level.  We had no way to do that.  Then our other neighbor dug the small Rose of Sharon out for us.  That neighbor is a very strong guy, he digs up pine tree stumps for fun.  So, we're probably not planting in the corner, the fireplace exhaust will be visible.  If it bothers the next owner, they can plant something.  Yet another boxwood will go in where the small hibiscus was.  I don't know why people plant those trees here, it can get really cold.  The HOA president lost 6 of those trees due to the extreme cold. 

The branches foreground are what was removed.  That's where the new boxwood will go.  I love those plants, deer don't eat them, they're always green, and they're cold hardy.  What more can you ask for?

The weather is bad.  It rained all night, and just recently stopped.  It's cold, it's gloomy.  I feel Seasonal Affective Disorder coming on.

47 went to the Middle East and thoroughly humiliated himself.  He fell asleep, then he got up and walked past the table where he was supposed to sign something, and had to be led back to the chair.  It was just sad.  At one point he launched into a riff about we're going to add an engine to the F35 airplanes, because he likes two engines.  There is no possible way that can ever be done.  He's just making up stuff.

47 has directed Federal Departments to purchase and erect huge banners of his face on all federal buildings at an estimated cost of $184 million. Trump says: "they do it in North Korea and China to show respect for their supreme leaders, so why shouldn't we."  And yet we can't fund Meals on Wheels.


This is what dictators do.

Click the link, play the video.  It's a brief news report on how 47 got hornswoggled with the "free" air plane.  Such a master deal maker, that one.

SCOTUS has returned yet another 7-2 decision that Venezuelans may not be deported without a trial.  Presently they are hearing arguments about doing away with birthright citizenship.  That one is huge, hopefully another 7-2 will uphold the constitution.

Moody's has downgraded US credit.  This is bad.

That's it, that's all I have to report.

11 comments:

  1. Paintball target comes to mind.

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  2. It's embarrassing to watch trump. He must not have gotten nearly enough attention as a child.

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  3. The banner thing -- unreal. It's pretty sorry when our president is looking to North Korea and China for inspiration.

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    1. I wonder if those banners are flame retardant?

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  4. The banners make me laugh, because he is using his mugshot for the photo. He really has no idea what a fool he is. Assuming there is mid-term elections, and they can't come a moment too soon, surely the American people will see him as so much of the world already does.

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  5. I always find myself wondering how we will look at these days 30 years in the future. I will not be here of course. I never understood the how of things. How Germany chose Hitler, how Afghanistan chose the taliban. How russia...well never mind about Russia. We know that there, men with guns carry ballots door to door. We know why that continues to happen.

    But I also cannot understand the amount of worms that crawled out of the highest echelons of our country to lend their voice to this. I never would have believed that our nation hung on such flimsy supports.

    It is a sad time. There will be more sadness to come, Allison, but we can only do what we can do. Speak against it and to do good for our fellow Americans being marginalized.

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  6. Rose of sharon's have a lifespan I think. I lost several old ones over the course of three years after we got the first polar vortex that sent temps in the teens and into the 20s once or twice every year after. Every year the plants froze and came back less and less until they died. But only the really big old ones.

    I despise that man. Big banners of his glowering face on all public buildings. This is not a fucking communist country. How long before he demands his portrait in every business and home in the country. Meanwhile children are going hungry. What a bottomless pit of loathsomeness he is. Not even those banners will fill the empty place where a soul should be.

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  7. The banners are outrageous. And during our local news, there are ads every night touting all the good he is doing "tariffs bringing back American jobs" and the like. They are paid for by some awful PAC. I mute them immediately. What US president has ever needed to campaign the year he takes office, I ask you? This man is not well, nor are his minions.

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