WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

eoe wrote:

Circuit City laying off thousands to replace them with lower salaried employees. The laid-off workers will have the opportunity to apply for their old positions after ten weeks, but at the lower salary.

Dirty bastards. There ought to be a law against this.

I'm adding them onto my personal list of never-shopping-there-again retailers. Walmart, Macy's and now Circuit City.

There used to be laws against this. What happened to our teeth, collectively

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I don't know. Bush & Co.?

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eoe wrote:

I don't know. Bush & Co.?

Reagan.....
Republican Social Darwinism=Survival of the richest.

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Quote:

Why is waiting so exhausting?

Being a Hapless Pawn of Fate with No Control Over One's Destiny is always exhausting.

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Neighbours chopped off their beautiful magnolia this morning.

This is all what's left by now:

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The state took my father's magnolia tree. I think I am beginning to appreciate Joyce Kilmer.

http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/MagnoliaSouthernFlower03.jpg

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Don Imus. The daddy of one of those nappy-headed ho's he referred to on his program the other day ought to pay him a visit and stomp his dusty ass into the pavement.

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Although terribly overpriced, the 2-acre lot next door sold and a Sweet Young Couple started clearing the land.

Evidently the job was too much for them, because they hired some commercial loggers. Those two acres are practically clear cut. Fortunately there are some trees on our side of the boundary line to act as a privacy barrier, but I'm afraid we're going to be close neighbors.

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You'd think on 2 acres they'd need a few trees!! Sounds very stark and bare.

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Damn, I hate that! Here's hoping they plant a few large trees of their choice, pronto.

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weather has been great all this past week, we went to the garden center and bought many new plants; this morning I woke up to snowing and cold. I have dozens of plants that need to get into the ground.

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Noddy24 wrote:

Although terribly overpriced, the 2-acre lot next door sold and a Sweet Young Couple started clearing the land.

Evidently the job was too much for them, because they hired some commercial loggers. Those two acres are practically clear cut. Fortunately there are some trees on our side of the boundary line to act as a privacy barrier, but I'm afraid we're going to be close neighbors.

Arrgh!!! It took two years, but we finally passed a Woodland Protection Ordinance in our village to stop such things. Hopefully you don't get a McMansion looming over your tree line, but I'm afraid that's what comes after the clear cutting.

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In these parts you have a choice of buying a wooded lot or a subdivided cornfield. I suspect that the loggers were to clear a site for a house, a well and a septic system in exchange for the wood.

I'd guess that all trees over fifteen years old are gone--but with the extra sunlight they may go bushy. With the extra light some of the trees on our side of the line may branch out as well.

The area has been logged at least three times, most recently for oak for pallet wood during WW II. We've also had two severe infestations of gypsy moths.

Time brings change. Change is not always welcome.

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Perhaps when you meet the new neighbours you can offer your sympathy on the loss of their trees "such a shame about the loss of property value. i hope you're not too upset"

Cool

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To continue a theme, I haven't taken a chainsaw to any of my trees but I'm really worried about several of them. Pretty much everything has little tiny delicate-looking leaves that are now looking sad and withered after several days of cooooold temperatures. (Down to 20 last night.) I still don't know what will happen, but am very concerned.

(Why did your neighbors take down the magnolia, Walter?)

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EhBeth--

I'm betting the damn fools just told the loggers to "clear" the site rather than taking time to mark which trees should come down. They are in their late 20's with jobs and roots in the area and by the time they are ready to sell in 40 years (unless the marriage goes belly up earlier) some of the damage will correct itself.

When we built, I measured angles of trees from the east, the west and the south, saving us a great deal of money on heating and air conditioning bills.

The Sweet Young Couple will resent those loggers for 40 years.

Sozobe--

Trees are tough. The acorn crop may be limited--as will the peach crop--but the trees will survive. Believe.

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My toilet going kaput! on Thursday morning, just as I was about to rush out the door for an appointment! THEN finding that my usually trusty handyman could not come & assess & repair the damage until 8 am on Friday. (Don't ask about the time between, OK?) You have no idea how fabulously wonderful it felt to have a brand new, working cistern installed by midday Friday! Phew, back to the 21st Century! Laughing

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I can only imagine msolga. We take these things for granted until they're on the fritz. Only then can we truly appreciate them.

We have to buy a new sofa. And it's just not on the financial agenda. But I've been having problems with a pinched nerve, the pain has landed at the nape of my neck and it's aggravated by sitting on the old twenty-plus year old sofa in my den, where we settle in the evenings to watch television.

I didn't want to spend money on a new sofa. But I've got to be comfortable in my own home.

It's really the pinched nerve that's got me gritting my teeth. That's the real beef. grrrrrr............... Mad

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A pinched nerve, eoe! Ouch, that sounds really painful!
Buy the most comfortable (for your condition) sofa you can afford! You're worth every cent!

And yes, I must confess, I hadn't thought much about the wonders of a toilet in the home until the damn thing went kaput! Let me tell you, I was ecstatic when the new cistern was installed & working, something like 24 hours later! It was like all my Christmases had come at once! Laughing

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Msolga--

We have at least six power outages every year. Without electricity we have no heat (electric pump), no water for any purpose (electric pump), no lights, no cooking facilities, no air conditioning.....

I've decided that Power Outages are a time to meditate on the daily problems in Third World Countries.

Perhaps I sound smugly pious, but perspective does that.

Congratulations on your lovely, lovely new equipment. You deserve civilized comforts.

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