Re: I LIKE THE DORK GROUP NOW

On 2020-10-09 7:31 p.m., mixed nuts wrote:
> On 10/9/2020 8:38 PM, % wrote:
>> On 2020-10-09 1:33 p.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>> On 10/9/2020 4:03 PM, % wrote:
>>>> On 2020-10-09 11:59 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>> On 10/9/2020 1:22 PM, % wrote:
>>>>>> On 2020-10-09 8:48 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/9/2020 10:38 AM, % wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2020-10-09 5:52 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10/9/2020 1:03 AM, % wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Peaceful.  No strife.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> no heads coming off , no black people getting shot ,
>>>>>>>> no hispanics making up any reason to get what they want ,
>>>>>>>> not having to read about these things in a place where ,
>>>>>>>> i shouldn't have to read about these things is great
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah. I got up early when it was just getting light and I had six 
>>>>>>> turkeys in the back yard.  Bug and seed cleanup.  Yard janitors, 
>>>>>>> but not bitchy.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One of the maples switched from green to red yesterday.  It's on 
>>>>>>> a high spot that's drier than where the other trees are so it 
>>>>>>> must have decided there's no more growing for this year and 
>>>>>>> started the big nap.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> the color changing is all about the sun changing ,
>>>>>> the sun is likely shining on the tree in a different angle now ,
>>>>>> all the east facing mountain sides turn color long before the west 
>>>>>> facing ones do
>>>>>
>>>>> This one sees sun all day all all year.  It's a few feet up from a 
>>>>> plowed field on the east and next to the road where all the water 
>>>>> runs away. We're in a drought so I think it's just lack of water.  
>>>>> I have maple trees the same size and age but lower down where water 
>>>>> collects and they're still 100% green.
>>>>>
>>>> they don't care about water now it's all photosynthesis
>>>
>>> If you don't have water and CO2, photosynthesis doesn't work.  The 
>>> maples have stored all the sugar they need for spring down in the 
>>> roots by now. If they have extra sun and water, they'll just top off 
>>> the tank.
>>>
>>> Now it's up to the trees to drop some dead limbs so there'll be 
>>> enough wood to boil the sap in the spring.
>>>
>> not in canada
> 
> We don't have enough forest fires to do the cleanup here.  The last good 
> one was in 1953 when I was a little kid.  My great grandparents had a 
> farm near there (they were dead but cousins still lived there) so my dad 
> worried about it a lot, and he took a plane ride to see what was going 
> on, but it never made it to the farm.
> 
> <http://granthamhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/Grantham%20Mt-%20Fire.pdf> 
> 
> 
that's some fire