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This is just too funny. Make sure to read the comments too!

Thanks to Rita for giving me the link that literally made me LOL!

Spring is Sprioinging

It is truly spring. I know this because of 3 signs that appeared yesterday:

1. The crocus in the walkway (that chipmunks had transplanted on me several years ago), and in the new flower bed are blooming. Purple is in the walkway; yellow and white are in the flowerbed.
2. The Iris Reticulata Cantab, which I planted last fall next to the fence, are blooming. I had no idea that they bloomed this early. They are definitely a dwarf iris as they are only about 4 inches tall.
3. Glory-in-the-Snows are blooming in front of the dogpen. I got them as freebies when ordering other stuff that I planted last fall.
4. The pheobes are back. I heard two of them while I was out measuring features of the existing yard and landscape (homework for the landscaping class). One pheobe is probably our usual one, but the other one sounds weird. It has the regular call, then does a peculiar bzzbzzzbzzbzzbzz afterwards. I was so peculiar that for a minute I thought it was coming from a 3rd bird of a different species, that just happened to time things right.

I'm still waiting on the squill and forsythia to bloom. I see them in bloom (along with daffs) on my way to work. Heck, my BIL: in Francestown has beautiful daffodils, while mine are still deciding whether the leaves want to poke up more than an inch or two.

In looking at the daffs that are poking up, the ground is really dry (little snow and only one good rain in the last couple of weeks). It sprinkled last night and is doing the same now, but I'm hoping for at least showers yet this morning. Otherwise I might have to break my no watering rule and break out the hoses.

The 3 new lilacs have green buds (as do the existing lilacs), so they survived the winter. I was really worried about the grafted one since we got little snow to help protect it. However, it looks like it should be okay. The grass, too, is starting to green up.

Yep, it looks like spring is busting out up here!

Working News

Last time I wrote about my place of employment, it was with the sad news that the VP (and holder of 45% of the stock) had died. At that time, I had no idea what that would do financially to a company that was already struggling.

I have discovered (thru sources that will remain annonomous) that the President and VP had Key Share Holder insurance on each other to that they would be able to pay the family for the stock and retain the shares of the company. The corporate structure also defines that the stock will revert back to the other owner upon payment for the shares under such circumstances.

That is one worry off everyone's mind. Now if we could just get into the habit producing our product in such a way that we actually make money, then we would be in decent shape.

Yes, that means I'm still on the lookout for a new job, and have been putting in my reseme whare appropriate.

Strange News

Pythons are taking over Florida - and one even exploded from trying to eat a large alligator (sounds like a myth doesn't it?).

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Then there is the girl that had a second heart taken out, she wasn't born with it, it was put in to help out her own heart. Now that her heart can handle the job, the donor heart has been taken out.

Phone Book Mania

The Monkey brought up having a stack of phone books because he is to 'ignorant" to know which one(s) he really needs. (as usual, language might offend some people).

Let's see, we have 2 different Concord phone books (different companies put them out), a Manchester/Derry phonebook, Hillsboro/Henniker/Washington (and parts of Antrim) phonebook, Concord/Laconia/Plymouth phonebook, Henniker/Hillsboro/Weare phonebook, and an Auburn/Barrington/Candia/Raymond area phone book. All SEVEN are phonebooks that we get throughout the year from varous companies.

Then on top of ones we normally get, there are a couple that I have gotten specifically: an old Nashua phonebook (I should probably update that one as it is about 8 years old) and the Peterborough/Keene phonebook (only a couple of years old).

Naturally, not everything that is in one Concord phone book is in the other (or the Concord/Laconia/Plymouth book) - and it the same for the other books that seem to overlap territories. So, we have to keep 9 freakin phone books.

Somehow I believe that anyone that lives in/around large towns don't have quite this problem,

Spotting Things

Have you had your dose of pareidolia this month?

Tracking Ice Cream

Seemingly, Hood Dairy Company doesn't think that New Hampshire is part of New England (or we've p*ssed them off somehow).

Seed Planting Time?

Buffy is so disgusting when she brags like this. Us, it's been cloudy, snowy and rainy. We've had the woodstove going every night - and all day yesterday;  the forcast of sun and in the high 40's didn't fit reality of absolutely no sun and in the mid 30's (and windy to boot).

Forecast today says sunny and in the 50's. We'll see, but I can tell that at least the sky isn't overcast at this point.

I'm hoping to get vegetable seeds started today. It depends on how warm it gets since I want to do everything out on the deck before putting the flats under lights in the basement. Last year I used the kitchen and for weeks I was finding soil in the weirdest of places (like silverware drawers).

I sure miss the greenhouse at times like this!

Wiley E. Errr Sam

Every couple of months the local TV station has kept us updated on the Golden Ghost. He has finally been caught and will hopefully settle down to a more family orientated life!

Play By the Rules

So I've been listening to all the back and forth on the undocumented, temporary, guest workers, illegal aliens. Then I hear about the freaking brainchild that "will deliver to the American people what they expect, what they deserve." No Bill, I think you have it wrong - it is what the illegal immigrants want, but not neccessarily what they deserve.

I expect you, as representatives of American Citizens and Naturalized Citizens (aka taxpayers and voters), to do what is right and quit rewarding the law breakers. What have you just told all the coworkers, who I have rejoiced with, and been exceedingly proud of, who have gone thru the system and become naturalized citizens? Why, you have told them that all their playing by the rules meant absolutely nothing. All their efforts in class (ESL, History etc.) were wasted. What are you telling all those people that have gone thru the effort, not to become a citizen, but to get, and keep, a current work visa? You've just told them that they shouldn't have stood in line, because the cheaters will end up with the prize anyway.

What have you told me? You have told me that the borders are meaningless and there is, and never will be, any security there. You have told me that I "will not do some work" even though you have no idea what kind of work that myself and WS have done - nor what I will do if neccessary. You have told us that although you federally support a minimum wage, that employers don't have to really pay it (after all, many of jobs Americans, of which it is said that we aren't willing to take, do not pay that much). You have told me that I don't count, only the illegals count. 

Well, believe me, I have been keeping track and keeping score. I had to go back and do some research, but I was sure that we had been thru this before, and sure enough, Michelle Malkin had it all nicely summed up with even more than I remembered:

·The 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act blanket amnesty for an estimated 2.7 million illegal aliens

·1994: The "Section 245(i)" temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens

·1997: Extension of the Section 245(i) amnesty

·1997: The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act for nearly one million illegal aliens from Central America

·1998: The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti

·2000: Extension of amnesty for some 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed eligibility under the 1986 act

·2000: The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act, which included a restoration of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty for 900,000 illegal aliens]

So, giving amnesty to illegals doesn't seem to help with the illegal immigration problem. Maybe we should try something else - like enforcing the laws we already have and deporting them whenever they are discovered.

And, I think it's pretty funny that people who do call for the enforcement of immigration rules, are called racist because "everyone knows" that we are against the Mexicans. Well, the US can somehow manage to try to enforce the rules for illegal Chinese immigrants. Why can't the rules be enforced for everyone? I want everyone to play by the rules; Chinese, Mexican, Italian, French, Indian (from India), Irish etc.

I think this pretty much sums up my feelings on two different fronts.