Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Win some, lose some

Topping the tray of elderberry cuttings with wood-shavings proved to be a mistake.

The temperature of the potting mix hit 123F which cooked the bottoms of the cuttings.

I unplugged the heating mat, trimmed the cuttings back to green cambium and re-stuck them.

BBB

Big Brown Bat. That is what we had flying laps in our living-room this morning before I took Quicksilver to her play-date. I opened one of the windows and then we departed. Maybe it left. Maybe it did not.

Quicksilver had asked me what was chirping over by our exterior door. Of course, I could not hear anything and thought it was a bird outside. I bet it was the bat.

Wins

Quackerberries

Nicotiana tabacum cv. "TN-90" seedlings

The big day for planting seeds will be April 1. That is when I will be planting the tomato seeds: Stupice, Federle, Rosa de Bern and Ace 55. I will also plant the sweet peppers, Stocky Red Roaster and the Lovage.

Pressure on multiple fronts

One of the things Trump's team has done well has been to flood-the-zone.

Saturating an issue with multiple initiatives tangles up the opponent's ability to file law suites and halt implementation of those initiatives.

An example of this is a voter initiative that parallels the SAVE Act in many ways.

Hat-tip to Esox lucius lover. 

3 comments:

  1. If they're in the house, I channel my inner Andre Agassi.

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  2. If I find a bat in my house, I want it dead and tested for Rabies. Most of the very rare cases of human rabies in the USA are of the bat strain of the virus, usually with no known bite exposure - most are so small that exposed persons don't even realize that they were bitten

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