Lamb’s Ear

Nature 2 Minutes

The leaves and stems of lamb’s ear, also known as betony, are covered with a dense layer of tiny white hairs that make them feel silky to the touch and give them a silvery appearance. This plant is a must for sensory garden settings and is sure to delight children who are encouraged to stroke the soft leaves. While lamb’s ear is most commonly grown for its foliage, it does bloom; some varieties are grown specifically for their prolific blooms.

In addition to lamb’s ear plants providing tactile joy, the silvery foliage also serves as the perfect backdrop for many other plants. The flower stalks are usually 12-24 inches tall, with small purple, white, red, or pink blooms.

Lamb’s ear is a vigorous grower. It isn’t on the USDA invasive plant list, but unless it is carefully contained, it can become troublesome. Lamb’s ear produces creeping stems that root along the soil, creating dense mats of foliage. The roots aren’t thick, so the plants can be pulled up where you don’t want them. This spreading habit makes lamb’s ear a good choice for a groundcover in full sun or poor soil situations. Lamb’s ear also readily reseeds itself, so removing the flower stalks before they go to seed reduces spreading.

Lamb’s Ear Care Tips

Light

This plant performs best in full-sun conditions, but it can withstand shade. The plant looks greener in the shade because it produces fewer dense hairs.

Soil and Water

Lamb’s ear varieties withstand poor soil conditions and drought. One thing it does not tolerate, however, is soggy soil.

Give the plant about 1 inch of water weekly if the soil is dry. Don’t water from the top of the plant. Keep the plant as dry as possible by watering it from the bottom.

Temperature and Humidity

The soft hairs on the leaves and stems help prevent plant moisture loss, making it exceptionally drought-tolerant. Heat is not a problem for lamb’s ear. However, in desert locations, it is best to select a planting location with at least some partial shade. Low humidity is best for this plant. In locations with high humidity, the plant is susceptible to leaf rot.

Fertilizer

Lamb’s ear doesn’t like rich soil. It is best to avoid giving the plant any fertilizer.

Pruning

Because the prolific seeds spread quickly, deadhead the flower stalks or cut them back to the ground to prevent unintended spread. Prune any dead or damaged leaves as they occur. Repeat the process whenever you see more dead leaves or about twice a year. The plant can stand a harsh pruning if needed. It’s difficult to kill.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Cloudy here today, still kind of windy but nothing like it was yesterday. 57 at the moment but we’re looking at the low 80’s next week!!! And rain, hopefully, altho that was supposed to start last night – haven’t seen any yet – probably went north of us! GS left with his GF Friday evening and I’ve not seen or heard from him since. I just sent him a text asking if he’s ok, and suggesting he check in now and then…..smh. Kids!!!

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        1. I posted this yesterday morning….

          Morning, Pat! No doubt you’ll get your exercise this week-end! LOL – enjoy every minute of it!

          I met GS’s GF yesterday with her 3 kids. Nice kiddos but the little girl, who is about 1.5 or so, was barefoot and they all 3 got to running around the island, up and down the hallway, etc. and I’ve got all those danged Texas stickers everywhere. They get tracked in on shoes and stick to EVERYTHING. She got 2 of them in her foot until Mom put her slippers on.

          The 5 year old, Maddy, who experienced the abuse, has been going to therapy – thankfully, C has both of the older 2 in therapy. When C introduced them to me, M kind of held out one hand and I leaned down as if to hug her. She backed up a step and put her hand out again, saying “Secret hand shake.” I followed her lead and she showed me her secret hand shake – shake, fist bump, hand slap. C then said that she didn’t know how much G had told me – I told her “a lot” – and she said this was the first time she had seen M resist the hug and push the hand shake, which her therapist had suggested – she was very proud of her for doing it for the first time. I thought it was a wonderful idea!

          The boy, who is 7 (Zander), was enthralled with the documentary I had playing on the TV. He is very close to his Dad and will have an especially hard time because of that. I got the impression that he is a very smart little boy.

          As I said at one point…..my soft-hearted GS has jumped straight into the fire on this one….

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          1. what a wonderful time I bet you had!
            I cleaned like a fiend last week and i will have to clean again…starting tomorrow…LOL
            but not as intense.

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          1. I hope to catch up over the next few days.
            I expect to fall asleep a lot today…my son in law snores like a BEAR in winter…he was on the main floor, we were on the second. and it still sounded like he was right next to us!

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  14. my family has left…so now I can read and see what I’ve missed for a couple of days…
    plenty of stories coming later about our weekend…lol

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      1. Friday morning before they left. one of the goats had twins and her milk hadn’t come in…so they had to scramble to find someone to take them in and bottle feed them or they’d die. they have a 4 hour drive home, then retrieve those goats, manure the 2 barns and do a host of other things. gonna be a LONG day for them

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          1. yeah…so they will have to prepare a space in their basement to keep these guys if they have to bottle feed them every few hours.
            AND they have another goat ready to deliver any day…

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  18. Troublemaker10
    April 9, 2023 6:40 am

    Democrats are still after Justice Thomas…

    ***

    Democrats press Supreme Court chief justice to investigate Clarence Thomas’ trips with GOP megadonor

    Excerpt:

    Thomas issued a rare written statement responding to ProPublica’s report Friday, insisting that he has always followed Supreme Court guidance on gift disclosures.

    “Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years,” Thomas said. “As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them. Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable.”

    “I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines,” he said. “These guidelines are now being changed, as the committee of the Judicial Conference responsible for financial disclosure for the entire federal judiciary just this past month announced new guidance. And, it is, of course, my intent to follow this guidance in the future.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-press-supreme-court-chief-justice-investigate-clarence-thomas-trips-gop-megadonor?intcmp=tw_fnc

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  19. “Trump 2024? The Vax & the REAL Swing Vote He NEEDS”
    Tom Renz
    5 hr ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “So Donald Trump wants back in the Whitehouse in 2024 (yes we miss him); well, he’d better pay attention to this. Every election cycle we hear an endless trumpet of “experts” telling us about the “swing vote” and how a candidate can get that prized group of voters. While most of us that are focused on fighting for our various causes find it a bit absurd that so many are in the squishy middle, this time I think this segment of the electorate will be critical component of the election cycle. Specifically, I believe the most important and undetermined demographic of the 2024 election will be those that are either COVID/mRNA unvaxxed or against the COVID/mRNA vax.

    Before I go any further let me define this segment. First, understand that the CDC is doing the same thing when it reports the vaccination rates as it has done with everything else related to COVID – It’s lied. At this point the CDC is reporting that the about 92% of Americans are jabbed. That number is not even close to true. Dr. Peter McCullough reported in his Substack (click here to read) that an independent university report suggest the real number is more like 75%. While I think that number is closer, my personally belief is that the real number of COVID vaxxed is closer to 60-65%. Regardless, of the exact number it is well over 20-25% of Americans that have not been poisoned by these jabs.

    Beyond the 25% control group, there are a HUGE number of people that received a single dose and have vowed to NEVER get another. There also appears to be an equally substantial number of people that only got the first dose because they were coerced into doing so who would also refuse further vaccination. While I have been unable to find any accurate numbers of people that fall into the one-and-done category, it is almost certainly a very substantial number of people.

    Finally, as more truth about the dangers of the COVID jabs continues to come out, there are many more people that feel betrayed and angry over having been lied to, manipulated, or coerced into getting jabbed. The Died Suddenly movie, Damar Hamlin, the endless parade of dead celebrities, and the constant headlines related to the death of children have woken many up to the truth that, if they received these jabs, they are potentially going to live their lives as ticking time-bombs. Again, I have no hard numbers on how many people fall into this category.

    This leaves us with the reality that there is VERY likely 30%+ of the voting public that will fall into the “vaccine swing voter” demographic. Key to understanding why any of this matters is to recognize the motivations of these groups. The unvaxxed stood through job loss, name calling, the loss of family and friends, and much more to say no to these poisons. These people are angry about this nightmare and this issue WILL impact their voting. The coerced and the regretfully jabbed may be somewhat less motivated but will also strongly consider the vax issue in 2024. This means that a huge number of people that are very likely to vote because of the vax issue will also be voting ON the vax issue.

    If you look at Trump’s polling he is absolutely crushing it. His numbers are good enough that he may even be able to overcome cheating at the polls if he properly implements a canvassing/harvesting machine soon and properly preps for the inevitably necessary lawsuits. That said, I am of the belief that the one issue that could split his base and cost him the election is the vaccine.

    Make no mistake, I support the Donald and admire all he did but we are not at Election Day yet and, when Primary and Election Days come, if Trump has not addressed the 800 pound gorilla in the room – the poison death jabs – I think a substantial number of people will have no choice but to truly question his judgement. I will be amongst them.

    With Bobby Kennedy coming into the picture as a potential presidential candidate and more truth about the jabs coming out daily, I think this issue becomes even more crucial. Bobby is an incredibly charismatic guy and is spot-on in terms of recognizing the danger of vaccines and the general corruption of the medical-industrial complex. I do not know where he stands on issues beyond the jabs so I do not know if he can be competitive in the race, but he will definitely bring even more focus on the issue of the death jabs (something we all owe him a debt of gratitude for). This is and will continue to draw an even greater distinction between Trump’s position on the jabs and the position of that massive number of swing voters.

    While I could analyze this for MANY more pages, I think the point simply boils down to this: if there is a single issue that could cost Trump the election it is the vaccine. Trump was right when he said that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his people would still support him, but I’m not sure that holds true if instead of him shooting someone his supporters are seeing their loved ones die from a a shot he won’t disavow.

    I want to end this article with this a statement of position. I really admired what Trump did in his first term and think we the people owe him a great debt of gratitude for being the ONLY person willing to stand up to the swamp. I still like Trump and believe he is the right man for the job again.

    That said, I am a God, family, country guy and my support for him is because of that. I am not a fan – I’m a supporter and I don’t know him on a personal level. That said, I am uninterested in saying what he probably wants to hear, rather I am interested in saying what I believe to be right and what I believe is right is that the President is a great America, great leader, and strong human being but he has blown it on the jabs and needs to fix it. If he does he will unify his base and become unstoppable through the primaries and far stronger in the general election. If he doesn’t, I’ll let you know how I intend to vote when we get closer to the election.”

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      1. For people in our category, of course; however, you and I both know there are a LOT of so-called Evangelical Christians, as well as dems, who have awakened to the terror of the jabs, who are still on the fence on this very issue – look at GA and how deeply she holds that against him. Someone who has lost a close – or even not so close – family member directly from that jab, who leans even slightly woke….they will go for Kennedy whereas they wouldn’t for FJB. Just sayin’……

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  20. Early yesterday morning while we all having coffee, hubby spotted a porcupine down the driveway. He was going to shoot it before it destroyed another tree. My son in law saw hubby’s gun and his eyes lit up…so hubby offered to let him try the gun…which started a fight between our daughter, son in law and granddaughter…LOL
    son in law won out because hubby said it’s gonna waddle away! one shot and it was gone.

    after breakfast, they headed out for the Finger Lakes while we got ready to take our granddaughter shopping.

    then we get a text–did you know there’s a dead deer at the bottom of the driveway?

    color us surprised! it must have been there at least a month under the snow…

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      1. granddaughter wanted to shoot it, my daughter wanted to shoot it…but hubby handed the rifle to sil.
        he steadied the gun on the deck railing and one shot it was gone.
        then the three of them walked down the driveway to “make sure” it was dead and collect some quills for a science project…LOL

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              1. mom used to be different…but just before our granddaughter was born, she got into a competitive phase. she HAD to go hunting every year. sil had to give up his tree stand because she said it wasn’t fair that he got it every year (it’s been his since before they even dating.)
                then he did more archery than rifle hunting–she HAD to get equipment and learn that too.
                his friends tried hatchet throwing one vacation and he said he was getting good at it…didn’t she insist that he teach her so she could prove she was better than him at that too?
                we don’t understand it

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      2. they came back up saying (not my sil mind you) that it was “cute” with “cute little hands”…I said they took bites of our deck and chewed our stairs!

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    1. ST. LOUIS, MO — In a natural continuation of its push for diversity and celebration of transgender lifestyles, Anheuser-Busch has announced the company will be replacing the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales with cows that identify as and dress like horses.

      “We feel this is a natural next step,” said Anheuser-Busch CEO Brandan Whitworth. “If we’re going to bend reality and ignore all basic understanding of science and biology with our Bud Light brand, then it only makes sense to make that philosophy consistent across our other brands, including the classic Budweiser advertising campaigns.”


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  23. my sil, the farmer, and I share soooo many of the same opinions of liberals and gov’t. my daughter, the teacher supports the party line.

    she says she is holding the line and not getting another job because of the health insurance, salary and bennies.

    when my sil had his 2 eye surgeries at Wills Hospital in Philly, he only paid a TOTAL of $350. how’s THAT for primo coverage?

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    1. If you’re being uber practical, it’s a smart move on her part…..it just all depends on one’s conscience and when someone feels it’s time to draw the line. Some draw a MUCH longer line than a lot of us do…..her family is also benefiting from those benefits, as they’ve seen first-hand so…..Ya’ can’t blame her there. I certainly had to compromise in a lot of ways, even before I was a single parent because I suck at picking hubbies!!! LOL

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      1. she was talking about her classes. her kids do not even HAVE to show up for class and she can’t fail them. they tell her constantly to f off…they use their phones to cheat on tests…
        one girl overdosed and the school refused to call it that. they called it a medical emergency…so the parents are in the dark about the amount of drug usage.
        they had 2 lockdowns this year

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  24. “Analysis of Mortality Among Transgender Individuals — British Study Reveals Alarming Risks of Suicide and Homicide”
    Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
    6 hr ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Many of us have been struck by the rapid rise in clinical interest and reported studies on transgender persons. The main clinical indication for gender change medication and or surgery is gender dysphoria. This means that individuals are afflicted with a syndrome in which they are not happy with their natural gender from birth. While changing biological gender the opposite is associated with a modest improvement in gender dysphoria scores, one may wonder if there is a price to pay for such a substantial and and relatively permanent intervention for a psychiatric illness?

    Jackson et al, recently reported on the outcomes of total of 1951 British transfeminine (male at birth) (mean [SE] age, 36.90 [0.34] years; 1801 White [92.3%]) and 1364 transmasculine (female at birth) (mean [SE] age, 29.20 [0.36] years. The normal control group was matched to 68,165 cisgender men (59 136 White [86.8%]) and 68,004 cisgender women (57 762 White [84.9%]). Compared with cisgender men, there was an increased risk of overall mortality for transfeminine (MRR, 1.34; 95%CI, 1.06-1.68). Compared with cisgender women, there was an increased risk of overall mortality for transmasculine (MRR, 1.75; 95%CI, 1.08-2.83) adults.

    The most notable relative risks for those who changed genders was suicide and homicide as shown in the table. These data suggest that psychiatric and behavioral determinants arising from background gender dysphoria and the transgender process contribute to death at a relatively young age among those who have chosen to change from their original biological gender to the opposite.”

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  25. NF: Long but good, IMO

    “The biggest problem mRNA skeptics face — And how to handle it. Because this battle isn’t going away.” Alex Berenson, 4 hr ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “On Friday I was having lunch with a relative. She’s a nice woman, smart. We’re not especially close – we didn’t grow up near one another and we don’t live near each other now – but we’re blood, and in no way unfriendly. One more thing: she’s an academic. You can guess her politics. Just after we sat, we talked a bit about Covid. She said she’d been only vaguely aware of my views or how controversial I’d become – surprising but not entirely, she’s had plenty else to worry about of late. She’d googled me and come across “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man,” though. Of course. We ordered, ate, caught up, gossiped about family. The usual.

    And then she said something along the lines of, Well. I would like to hear about your journey, how you developed these views. Journey. Uh-oh. Sure, I said. “One question I’d ask, one way to look at it – do you generally believe in the scientific method?” I think she said “scientific method,” not “science.” But she meant “science.” She meant, “Do you believe in science?” There is only one answer to this question, if someone is foolish and/or rude enough to say it out loud to you, the mRNA skeptic. I don’t care who that someone is: a relative, a friend, a frenemy, a television interviewer, a total stranger.

    Yes, this question has only one answer. “What an idiotic thing to say,” I said. She was taken aback. After all, she had asked me if I was a moron, but she’d done so politely. “I don’t think it’s idiotic,” she said. “Of course I believe in science,” I said. “A nuclear power plant sits not far from where I live. It exists because one group of brilliant scientists unlocked the secrets of the atom and another group figured out to how to use fission to heat water and turn turbines and make electricity. Which I use every day.”

    I could have made the same point even more simply: whenever I get on a plane I don’t expect to see the wings flapping. To exist in the modern world is to know science exists. To agree to a prenatal genetic screen, to check your favorite team’s highlights on your phone, even to drive – is to understand the profound technological revolution humanity has undergone in the last three centuries.

    These people. These smart liberal people. They believe, truly, that anyone who questions the mRNA shots must be a knuckle-dragging mouth-breather who has no idea what the scientific method even is. The mRNA jabs are extraordinary science. They are an incredible feat of biotechnology. We have figured out how to hijack our own cellular machinery in the same way viruses do. These shots build on generations of brilliant biological research, dating back to the discovery of the structure and function of DNA in 1953.

    But that amazing history doesn’t mean that the modified mRNA in the Covid jabs is safe, any more than it means plutonium is safe. In fact it means the opposite. It means they should be treated as dangerous until proven otherwise. And the scientists who helped develop them knew that they might be dangerous. As they wrote in a widely read 2016 paper called “mRNA delivery using nanoparticles”:

    Currently, no mRNA therapeutic is approved for use in humans, and a beneficial safety profile in patients still has to be demonstrated. A first clinical application will likely not be a prophylactic vaccine, because the tolerance for side effects is very low for a drug that is injected into healthy individuals. [emphasis added] Establishing the safety profile in a therapeutic application, such as cancer immunotherapy, will be followed by prophylactic applications.

    In other words, mRNAs shouldn’t be used in large numbers of healthy people before we gained years of experience with them in cancer patients, who have far shorter life expectancies and a much higher tolerance for risk as they pursue cures. When regulators approve drugs, they do so on the basis that those drugs are safe and effective.” The first word is “safe.” Not effective, safe. First, do no harm.

    But in 2020 drug companies, scientists, regulators, and the government tossed that maxim aside. They decided the Covid mRNA jabs were safe enough to be moved within months into large clinical trials. When less than five months later those big trials did not turn up obvious and deadly side effects, they decided the vaccines were safe enough to be given to more than a billion people. They made this decision though the vaccines had NOT demonstrated a clean short-term safety profile in the trials, but rather fairly severe though generally short-term side effects.

    I cannot emphasize enough how completely these choices upended the normal process of drug research and development. The regulators took an enormous risk. It has not paid off. Two years after mass vaccinations began, all-cause mortality remains well above normal in almost every country that used the mRNAs, while births are way down.

    (Ashes, ashes, 12.7 percent more of us fall down)

    It is also theoretically possible to have a reasonable conversation about these facts with mRNA vaccine advocates, and to speculate as to what reasons other than the shots might be driving the current death wave. Theoretically. In reality two factors make it very difficult.

    The first is that most of them are unaware of the demographic reality currently unfolding. Although advanced countries all over the world regularly publish weekly or monthly death rates, the media has almost completely ignored the recent excess in mortality. This refusal is particularly striking considering the same outlets obsessively counted of Covid deaths for the first 18 months of the pandemic – until late 2021, when it became clear that Covid deaths were continuing to rise quickly even in Western European countries where nearly every adult had been vaccinated and boosted.

    But an even bigger problem is the attitude that vaccine advocates display. As if those of us raising questions must be treated with kid gloves because we just don’t understand how science works. Don’t we understand basic biology? Don’t we know these drugs have been tested? Don’t we know there’s a process? Don’t we understand that sometimes terrible things can happen to people after they’ve received the mRNAs purely by coincidence?

    Yeah. We sure do. We understand everything these nice folks who got the shot do. The problem is that we understand more. So. When you are confronted with this patronizing line of questioning, don’t try to talk around it. Call it out. Make sure your questioner understands that you believe in science. (Ugh.) Then, if he or she doesn’t shut down entirely, you can at least begin the process of trying to walk through the more worrisome data. Or just send them here.

    And if he does, so be it; at least you have shown that you will not accept any debate that begins with the premise you are too dumb to understand that vaccines are real.”

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  26. the mall we went to was alive–but the stores were gated and empty.
    there was a lot of activity in the mall tho–because the Easter Bunny was there. they closed the athletic shoe store and instead there are indoor pickleball courts.
    one of the anchor stores is now boat and camper storage.
    on the other end, another anchor store is a planet fitness gym.
    the pet store is gone, Sears, Macy’s, JCPenney’s all gone.
    even the Spencer’s is going out of business.
    there is one remaining show store.

    many stores are moving into the outer strip mall things.

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    1. Our mall is a shadow of what it used to be, altho, tbh, it’s been years since I’ve even been there! Food Court, Pizza Corral…..I don’t even know what else any more. I do know the Husker’s store moved into a small strip mall further west; the originally-local department store was sold; most of the traffic, tbh, is to Target, where the Starbucks is located.

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  27. my granddaughter came prepared for her birthday shopping by applying for all sorts of birthday freebies on line. at Kohl’s sephora (?) counter, she got a free mascara and lip gloss pack. At kohls we got kohl’s cash and her secret discount. At the mall, she got a free auntie ann’s preztel.
    when we got to the Texas Roadhouse, she got a free appetizer.
    We told the waitress it was granddaughter’s birthday and they started doing the birthday things around the restaurant. Our waitress came over and looked at us and I shook my head yes, but my granddaughter was furiously shaking her head no!
    LOL
    the waitress asked hubby…he said no…i guess not…

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    1. How old is she? When HB was 13, I took her and her bestie to, I think, a Red Lobster….or it may have been a Mexican restaurant…in any case, they do the whole thing, with the noisemakers, hats, pennants and drums, with a fancy cupcake with a BD candle in it. It was fun! That night, she had a sleepover with about 5 other friends, boys and girls! They had a blast! I’ve got pics……but they aren’t scanned into the computer.

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  29. OK, BD pics….we were sharing a TH in Centreville with a close friend, Mary, so this was in her living room. HB, a friend of hers and me – she had asked for a 10-speed bike for her BD.

    This was in the basement of the TH, where there was a small family room/bedroom, the top one of the morning-after:

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  30. tennessee trying to acquire property thru buying or eminent domain to facilitate building roads to connect a rural tract of land for an EV plant to the interstate…land was selling for $10,000 an acre–but in the boom has skyrocketed to $100,000 and acre. Tenn gov’t is offering $3,750 an acre.
    FTA
    Tennessee government officials have moved to seize land from American farmers in an effort to meet the goals of Democrat President Joe Biden’s green agenda.

    The state is suing to confiscate farmland just west of Memphis that will be repurposed to build a new multi-billion dollar electric vehicle (EV) plant.

    Ford Motor Company has announced plans to build a $5.6 billion electric truck and battery plant to be built in the rural area of Tennessee.

    Officials in Tennessee are so eager to bend over backward to comply with the green agenda that the state is prepared to seize land from black farmers in order to facilitate Ford’s EV project.

    Here’s a bit of the legislative contortions that led to the decision to build “Blue Oval City” in the Volunteer State, as reported by Reason:

    In return for picking Tennessee, state lawmakers overwhelmingly approved legislation that would grant Ford $884 million in state incentives.

    That includes a $500 million grant from the state’s current budget surplus and $384 million for site preparation, including $200 million for road improvements and $138.2 million for infrastructure and demolition services.

    The bill also apportioned $745,100 to fund the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee, an 11-person board with the power to execute contracts on behalf of the development.

    It can also take privately-owned land, via eminent domain, in order to facilitate construction of the facility and supporting infrastructure.

    Eminent domain could not be more antithetical to the American concept of the primacy of private property.

    Eminent domain refers to the authority claimed by the government and its agents to seize private property for public use.

    The land can be taken against the will of the landowner provided the owner receives “just compensation” for his property.

    Supporters of this scheme point to the Fifth Amendment as the authority.

    The relevant part of the Fifth Amendment reads:

    [N]or shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

    Lawmakers in Tennessee are planning to use eminent domain in their efforts to confiscate the land from farmers.

    Tennessee Lookout reports:

    According to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, the state is seeking 35 separate tracts, either through purchase or eminent domain, in order to construct a series of road connections and widenings that will link the 4,100-acre BlueOval Ford campus to the new Exit 39 off I-40 to accommodate throngs of workers and truck traffic.

    Thus far, the state has taken possession of 15 tracts — two through court proceedings, Nichole Lawrence, a spokesperson said.

    Of the remaining 20 tracks, Lawrence said the state is in negotiation with property owners.

    It’s unclear how many land owners the state has sued.

    In Haywood County alone, court records show, the state has filed seven lawsuits seeking to take property for the new interchange.

    The government is suing private property owners and asking the judiciary to collude with them.

    The move seeks to deny to the landowners the most basic benefit of government: the protection of the right of private property.

    One of the landowners being targeted by the state government is Marvin Sanderlin, a longtime local farmer with 400 acres.

    According to court documents, the state is planning to seize 10 acres of his land.

    Sanderlin’s land stands between the Ford plant and the interstate.

    After Sanderlin rejected the state’s offer of $3,750 per acre, the state filed the complaint in court.

    The offer of $3,750 per acre is supposedly in line with the so-called “just compensation.”

    However, land in the area was selling for about $10,000 per acre before the announcement of the planned construction of the Ford plant.

    Since the announcement, the value has skyrocketed.

    Some listings are offering land in the area for as much as $200,000 an acre.

    With those numbers in mind, under no reasonable definition would an offer of $3,750 an acre qualify as “just compensation.”

    As Sanderlin explained it, as quoted by the Tennessee Lookout:

    You can’t buy no land here for $3,500 an acre.

    You can’t buy a swamp here for $3,500.

    I told them this is the biggest ripoff there is.

    They want your land, but they don’t want you to participate in the wealth.

    As it stands, the state is advancing its lawsuits seeking to force landowners to “sell” their property for far below market value.

    Tennessee officials are determined to keep their $884 million promise to Ford and comply with Biden’s green agenda.

    To meet these goals, however, will mean destroying the very thing the government was instituted by people to protect: the right to property.

    https://slaynews.com/news/officials-seize-land-american-farmers-advance-green-agenda/

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  31. “I just thought it was an earthquake, big explosion,” said Lenore Satterthwaite after she says her refrigerator exploded. “I was on the computer. I thought it was an earthquake it was so loud and I came in and the doors were on the floor and the holes in the wall.”

    Satterthwaite has dozens of pictures and videos to show the destruction throughout her home after she says her less-than-a-year-old Frigidaire refrigerator exploded. In the pictures, you can see the outside shell of the appliance is still in its place, with everything inside of it scattered all over her kitchen. The force was so great, it damaged her stove, walls, and furniture.”


    NF: I have no idea whether this is true!

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    1. lol…hubby just woke me up to eat dinner.
      (but yeah, I was alseep…)
      sigh…it’s been a long week!
      THANKS so much for watching the bin all weekend Filly!
      I appreciate all you do!!

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  35. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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