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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 21, 2019 21:13:34 GMT
My wife and I just had this new fence built around our back yard:  At the same time, our next door neighbor built his own fence with free pallets:  |
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Post by pierinifitness on Oct 21, 2019 21:19:12 GMT
Blue neck and red neck neighbors of Main Street in all-American Pratt, Kansas. You’ve come a long way from Haight-Ashbury.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 21, 2019 21:20:44 GMT
A life time ago!
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Post by Michael on Oct 21, 2019 21:58:26 GMT
Your fence definitely looks better. What kind of tree is that? I can't make the picture bigger so it's hard to tell. I would guess and say it's some kind of maple but I can't see it good.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 21, 2019 22:06:54 GMT
Oh. You like our fence better. Thank you. You have definitely proven yourself to be a genuine tree guy. Yes, it is a Maple. We just planted it a few weeks ago. There are very few Maples around here. We wanted a bit of New England with bonafide autumn colors in our back yard. Notice our neighbors' keen sense of curb appeal:  |
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Post by Michael on Oct 21, 2019 22:50:13 GMT
Red Maples look really nice. I think they are called red sunset maples. The one You have is a silver or sugar maple? Make sure You water that tree weekly if You don't get any rain. After the first year, You shouldn't have to water them. Where I worked before, we would plant 50-100 trees spring and fall. Someone would go out with a water truck and water them every week for the first 6 months or more depending on the weather.  , Your neighbors' keen sense of curb appeal is different. I really can't see those plants. |
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 21, 2019 22:57:19 GMT
Thank you for the tip. Michael. The tree people who planted that tree had advised us to place a hose at the base and let the water run for twenty minutes twice a week, which is what we have been doing.
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Post by golden on Oct 21, 2019 23:16:56 GMT
How can you stand Pratt, Kansas after living in the San Francisco area? It must be quite an adjustment for you. |
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 21, 2019 23:33:44 GMT
How can you stand Pratt, Kansas after living in the San Francisco area? It must be quite an adjustment for you. You haven't lived until you've sat on a porch on Main Street a-whittlin' and a-chawin' terbacky and a-watchin' the cattle trucks go by. |
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Post by golden on Oct 22, 2019 0:28:10 GMT
Wow! I guess I have missed out on a lot in life!  |
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 22, 2019 1:08:16 GMT
To be honest, I miss San Francisco a lot. But that was another time. It is a young person's city, and when I was young and single, it was Heaven on Earth. But, you can't go back. The last time I was there some years ago, I walked around and relived a lot of fond memories. But that's all I had were memories. Now that I'm old, it's alright living in Mayberry. We are surrounded by wonderful neighbors and I love the little people next door. It's almost like having my own children back again.
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Post by pierinifitness on Oct 22, 2019 3:49:24 GMT
Bruce,
Better to step on cow dung walking down Main Street in Pratt, Kansas rather than stepping on homeless people feces walking down a SF street.
True story - a couple years ago I had a client meeting in the SF Financial District. After parking my car in one of them all day garages for about $35, I was walking to my client’s office when I saw this homeless lady in the distance who was bent over with a grimacing look on her face. Being the caring person I am, I wondered if she was OK. Getting closer to her, she was standing in front of a newspaper stand, bottomless, and crapping out the biggest and steamiest turd you can imagine. Needless to say, I just skedaddled along to my meeting not wanting to be late.
It ain’t what it used to be, you can have it. Winterland is long gone, remember it?
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 22, 2019 5:04:04 GMT
Yes, I remember Winterland! It seems that the "homeless" are multiplying everywhere, exponentially - LA, SF, Honolulu. There were no homeless in Honolulu when I grew up there. I recently read this article: link |
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Post by macky on Oct 22, 2019 8:38:14 GMT
The growing number of homeless in South Auckland (and elsewhere) is the logical and inevitable result of capitalism unbridled by sufficient government intervention.
1984 NZ elected a supposedly left-of-centre Labour govt that prepared the way for the top businessmen of the country to hold the politicians in their pockets (as they do in America), set the scene for privatizing and selling off govt departments, opening the gates to more immigrants from poor countries, and shopping NZ jobs out to dollar-a-day labour in countries such as India and China.
Our govts are supposed to protect their citizens from armed invasion, and protect their jobs. In both accounts, our govts have totally failed our countries' people.
The medical systems are breaking down due to never having been accounting for the numbers of new immigrants entering the countries, mortgagee house sales are rocketing as owners either can no longer afford to live in newly-swank areas, or can no longer pay their mortgages from having their jobs taken from them and "out-sourced". Many of said unfortunates are older persons who will have great difficulty getting employment as younger immigrants take their jobs (those that are left). Camping grounds are growing in permanent populations as "refugees" spend what they have left to buy a trailer/caravan to live in.
Others have given up the idea of a roof over their heads and roam the streets asking for money. Meanwhile CEOs engage in the Global CEO Excessive Wages Cult, a clear example the CEO of Fonterra, an overseeing body of dairy farmers which lost over half a billion dollars for the financial year picking up an annual salary of 8 million.
I note he didn't give any of it back, something a small businessman would have had to, or lose his job like any incompetent wage-earner.
Underneath it all, the growing menace of the global drug trade, especially in methamphetamine. Drug seizures on the NZ border have increased in frequency and sheer bulk in recent years. Mexico is extending its cartels' influence to our shores. That country like others is simply run by the drug cartels.
So why doesn't America target those cartels and remove them militarily like it does with everywhere else ? They are the real threat to world peace, social cancer from within.
Because there are too many hands in the Big Drug Money pockets, including the CIA etc. That's what big money in a few hands does to our societies, rots them from without, and from within. |
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Post by denis on Jun 11, 2021 1:43:02 GMT
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, Your neighbors' keen sense of curb appeal is different. I really can't see those plants.
