Re: I LIKE THE DORK GROUP NOW

On 2020-10-11 11:23 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
> On 10/11/2020 2:08 PM, % wrote:
>> On 2020-10-11 10:18 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>> On 10/11/2020 11:39 AM, % wrote:
>>>> On 2020-10-11 8:32 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>> On 10/10/2020 4:49 PM, % wrote:
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> It was inside a place called Corbin Park which is a private hunting 
>>>>> preserve with secret members (millionaires and billionaires).  They 
>>>>> had a lot of animals that aren't found in North America - European 
>>>>> Boar, Red Deer, weird bears and stuff - and a lot of them escaped 
>>>>> so when you drive on I-89 you might see some of them.  There have 
>>>>> been some car wrecks there from hitting boar and if you shoot a 
>>>>> boar or a red deer you can't keep it unless the park owners say 
>>>>> it's OK (it's the same as shooting a cow - it belongs to the farmer).
>>>>>
>>>>> It's like Old Baldy now, but really bald. Sometimes people hike up 
>>>>> there to check it out but you gotta be careful because you could 
>>>>> get arrested for trespassing if you're not a club member.
>>>>>
>>>> go north from there and there's a community forest ,
>>>> its wanders all around and comes out at the cemetery 
>>>
>>> That whole area - Woodward Rd, Davis Rd, Croydon Turnpike, was all 
>>> us. My great grandfather's 1st wife was from the next hill south (she 
>>> died from chasing a horse), the 2nd one came from Hartland Vt (there 
>>> was the Hart's Island rope ferry between Hartland Vt. and Plainfield 
>>> so it was like one big town).  The 3 of them are buried in the same 
>>> cemetery plot.   A lot of it is all grown over now but it used to be 
>>> cleared with farms everywhere. All along Rt 120 were relatives.  The 
>>> big mill connection was Lebanon NH and Hartford VT and the 
>>> transportation connection was West Lebanon NH and White River 
>>> Junction VT so they were back and forth all the time. We had another 
>>> patch of relatives in Jericho (village of Hartford VT).
>>>
>> i thought you meant where leo is
> 
> I didn't see anything about where Leo is.  I just looked.  They planted 
> him way down south where he can hang out with the lake monster.  That's 
> not near here.
> 
> 
no my leo