heh, you don't need a farm to have all those nice things like "strangulating branches and vines along the fence rows, overgrown with thorny bushes, burdocks and stick-tights. All just to gain access to the failing fences".

I am supposed to struggle all those in the garden of my sister, who has all that plus very complicated neighbors. We have failed fences and the fight is over who pays what to repair the holes. Common ivy destroyed the fence. We also fight about branches from our trees hanging over to their property. They cut them off and throw them over in our porperty, so that we take care of getting the branches and pay for their disposal, as we have so many, we can't handle them anymore. Everything in angle of the view of my sister from where she sits on the patio is a manicured lawn for absolutly no use. Every other aspect of the garden is not her 'problem'. Enemy number one here is common Ivy. I am not fighting it anymore. Capitulated.

What's on my mind? Bloomberg! If Bernie can't win against Trump and Tulsi can't win, I take Bloomberg as an alternative. Am I a traitor? At least he is richer than Trump, isn't he?

Have to read gjohnsit's piece about it first.

Have a good day and thanks for the OT.

on controversial topics and persons.

https://consentfactory.org/2019/11/05/the-ministry-of-wiki-truth/

And:
The media isn’t even hiding its anti-Bernie bias anymore

Thanks for filling in for our friend.

I almost forgot - HAPPY FRIDAY!

Silly season is getting sillier by the minute as the DNC cannot stomach Bernie rising like crème! I see real revolution on the horizon. Buckle your seatbelts - 2020 is going to be one hell of a year!

Have a beautiful day and weekend, folks!

I started singing that one after Trumpolini started his wall. Roy and Trigger make quite a show piece out of the song...

I think Cole Porter wrote this for a movie that was never made.

Better to avoid round up, but vinegar can be used safely.
http://midatlanticgardening.com/did-you-know-vinegar-can-replace-roundup/

Another trick is to cover over the fence with a heavy tarp or old carpet and starve the vegetation of sunlight. Of course that would be a small fence strategy.

Well I hope you all have a nice day and a great weekend. Sounds like you finished up your sailing trip QMS. Hope things are well on the home front!

I went on a cruise on the Danube. As the boat entered Vienna, the ship's sound system started blasting out "The Blue Danube". I was on the top deck, thank goodness nobody else was around, and I did quite a ballet solo.
Anyway, it was so beautiful, I was overwhelmed.
I was free, not fenced in!

These cat advent calendars came in yesterday and we already sold out of the first order. Love them!!! I bought half a dozen and plan to give them out to feline friends and family on Thanksgiving as a sort of pre-Xmas gift. Funny thing is, we also have dog advent calendars (which I posted here last year), but the majority of calls we are getting is for the cat calendars. Hahaha!

Any one interested in these as gift ideas, I suggest you call Trader Joe's and have them put your cat calendars on hold when they come in. They are $5.99.

Thanks QMS for hosting today's OT!

Thank you for all the different notes and images your OT creates. The Thomas Wolfe quote is so moody and pensive. The Strauss piece is so light and gay.

I hope your weekend is as you like it.