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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 21, 2017
Watched the "Trump" being sworn in yesterday on the TV, and a cold shiver ran down my spine.........
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 21, 2017
WILDFLOWERS, VINES AND SHRUBS
Anemones, Canadian
Black eyed Susans [Rudbeckia]
Bleeding hearts
Blue flag iris [iris versicolor
Bunchberries
Butterfly Milkweed
Carolina rose
Cinquefoil
Coreopsis, Lance leaf [Coreopsis Lanceolata]
Coreopsis rosae
Dewberries
Eastern Red Columbine
Evening primrose
False dandelions
Fox grape [wild cousins of Concord grape]
Goldenrod
New England aster
Pale-leaf Sunflowers
Pale purple coneflowers [native to Norfolk Country]
Partridge peas
Phlox, blue and pink
Poison Ivy
Red-twig dogwood, dwarf
Smooth asters
Solomon's seal
Swamp Milkweed
Swamp rose
sweet fern
Violets
Virginia bluebells [native to Norfolk County]
Virginia creeper
Wild asters
wild geranium
Woodland Asters
BUSHES
Blackberries
Brambles
Raspberries
TREES
Elms
Sugar maple
Red mulberry
White ash
White oak
white pine
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 21, 2017
That's a nice list 
one of the things I can really do is a nice list, I tend to leave that sort of thing to the missus 
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bobstafford Posted Jan 21, 2017
Oh yes they like lists keeps em busy, its good fun to be able to point out what they forgot to put on the shopping list when you get back home 
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bobstafford Posted Jan 21, 2017
Grumpy geezers Started on Feb 16, 2015.
2 years of quality world class grumpiness
all round 
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 21, 2017
Ta! for the beer mate and the information
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 21, 2017
My list includes plants that grow here now. Many of them are here because I planted them. 
How many of them will thrive remains to be seen. I'm kind of a beginner at this.....
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 21, 2017
I went for the low maintance garden...... concreat is very low maintance
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Baron Grim Posted Jan 22, 2017
If I inherit the family compound, I'd love to replace the entire lawn (about a quarter acre) with maintenance free local plants (ie weeds).
There was a house not far away with the entire yard replaced with some sort of covering vine. It just sold and the new owner resodded half of it.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 22, 2017
Was the covering weed Jimsonweed?
You could try Blackfoot Daisies, Butterfly weed, various types of Columbine, Coneflowers, Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Texas Firecracker Plant, Blazing Star, Missouri Evening Primrose, various Penstemons and Phloxes, just about any kind of sage, etc.
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 23, 2017
O my
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 23, 2017
Some of the plants I mentioned are popular in much of the world.
If they're native to Texas, so much the better.
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 23, 2017
Got a new front gate, after it was hit by me with my tractor this morning! took me a few hours mending it, welding a new end on it was a right giggle!
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 24, 2017
You sound like a handy man with fixing things and welding. 
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 24, 2017
A one legged handy man/small holding/ mechanic/artist/wrriter/womaniser/ex hard drinking, person and those are my good points 
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bobstafford Posted Jan 24, 2017
All in all sounds like an interesting life
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 24, 2017
Yeah baby
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jan 24, 2017
I'll drink to that
I just told Pandora (born again tart) that since I retired four years ago I have been quietly but steadily working to find back to being the best possible me. No pretence, no commitments, no nothing. Since childhood, school, work, married life and parenting I have never been so free in my life and I intend to keep it that way
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Jan 24, 2017
well done that man
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jan 24, 2017
You've been retired four years now, Pierce? 
Time just flies by .
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