Can you tell us your reasons? Other than cost/benefit.

Waiting to see if both pawpaws made it through the winter, which is ongoing here.

I am weary of winter. Bud swell is happening; my beech tree by the front door (saved during house construction) is beginning to shed 2017 leaves. I have no oaks (reds or pins) that hold leaves over winter.

A neighbor had chicken and ducks for 4H projects. Seeing a fox running through my woods w/chicken in mouth was enough to forget that project. My college roommate still lives on a farm in WI but it's mostly a hobby farm. She sewed up a chicken without Vet assistance and she lived.

Is your grass greening? Please excuse any typos, my brain is on some disconnect and I have a concussion headache.

Melissa Etheridge - Come To My Window

I don't know what happens, people get rich, they get married, they have kids, they get plastic surgery, they think everything is good, because I don't know why. "That's the system." Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs and Melissa Etheridge headline Rodney Strong Summer Concert Series

I am still waiting to hear who the floater was, down the road in Geyserville where Rodney Strong lives. I know it is not Ray because I saw him on Sunday pushing Magenta's chair in to town. He looked better, but still can't walk without help from the chair. They are being evicted now, "moved along", because of course.
Homeless encampments located near railroad tracks

Cloverdale transients must clean up and leave area
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The police chief explained that the people living there are not the occasional homeless people who come into town for a few days and leave. Rather, they are Cloverdale’s entrenched homeless, most of them in their 20s and 30s, each with their own stories.

“Their situations are ones caused by financial ruin, substance abuse, losing a job, losing their home and they are faced with living on the street. Their position is they have nowhere to go and don’t make enough money with social security, disability or social services,” Cramer said. “Some say they don’t want to get out of that lifestyle, and financially they can’t afford an apartment, find a job with living wage or have presentable clothing to look for work. It’s not a reflection on them, it’s just a process,” he said. “It’s a cycle into poverty.”
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"Some say they don't want to get out of that lifestyle" ding ding ding! It is carved in to their stone brains because "some say" it is so, so it is. I don't want to be mean, but this is our city manager who used to work for CalTrans and thinks RangerPro is safe. He is recovering from his fifth cancer surgery, Brawndo! Really, I wish him well in retirement and hope he can enjoy it. He is lucky.

Condemned Bay Area house sells for $1.2 million

He says two investors bought it and plan to tear it down and build a 4,000 square-foot, "completely green" home they hope to put in the market within five months.

Gallegos says the buyers didn't even enter the house because they had no interest in it but on its location.

He says the median home in Fremont is $1.1 million, compared to $1.7 million in San Francisco.

Legal! In fact that kind of behavior is encouraged by Ds and Rs alike. Just keep flushing.

Seized horses safe and being rehabilitated

‘Cloverdale 12’ await permanent, loving homes

Fuck it, please shoot me now. Felony horse abuse is what happens when the economy is so great! Nobody wants to adopt a disabled human, and treat them with the same respect. wtf I'm sorry.

Thor bring thy hammer to my window! Happy Thursday.

I could lose weight and get in shape while sitting here in front of the computer if I could only convince myself that I'm actually working out.

Unsure why placebo, power of positive thinking or effects of negative reinforcement how one perceives their exercise level may have more to do with health benefits than the amount of actual exercise.