Giving it another go with an Abutilon picsoni "Thompson's Maple". I dug the mother of all holes, amended the soil like heck, positioned the root ball, and back-filled. Followed by repeated watering. It's somewhat sheltered by an old Mock Orange. #gardening#perrenials#flowers#California
@MsMerope@ai6yr well this is a tad hilarious: in some of the older east Davis neighborhoods, sewer lines that run from houses to the municipal lines were made of lengths of rigid cardboard tubes impregnated with wax and tar (think of tube forms for making concrete pillars). Folks I knew had to replace their 40 year-old line after one of their shade trees finally destroyed the line. They were shocked to learn what it was made of. I think the codes have likely improved.
@BrunoMcGee@MsMerope There are a LOT of neighborhoods here are still on that tube (Orangeburg Pipe). Walked by a house a few months ago with a massive failure. Expensive. It's made out of wood pulp and asbestos fiber. Terrible idea.
For your #FensterFreitag an aerial view looking west while flying south over the #Sacramento Valley of #California. A water #landscape : fields flooded in preparation for seeding with #rice , a major crop. Some varieties are grown for export by Sikh farmers. The Sikh community has been integral to the region since the 1920s. #Agriculture
I'm a fan of dogs of Mastodon and cats of Mastodon. Anyone out there with photos of Koi carp to share? They're kind of cool. Some are even friendly. #Fish #Koicarp
Wow i did not realize a Murdoch protégé is managing editor at the Washington Post. I thought it was sketchy that Bezos owns the paper. But this feller is there in the day-to-day. I guess that helps explain the labor unrest at WaPo: jerk management.
@geographile "Sneezefest" is right, lol. I do however get a trippy kick out of watching the puffs of pollen when things warm up. It's like watching footage from a documentary.
A good column by Sally Jenkins. Collegiate women teams have been playing #Basketball since at least the 70s. Apparently out of spite, the #NCAA doesn't "count" records set before 1981 (pre Title 9) by collegiate women athletes. This as Caitlin Clark closes in on a scoring record. I'm astonished by NCAA's erasure. Meanwhile, NCAA recognizes football records going back a hundred years, before there was an NCAA.
@BrunoMcGee Was chatting with someone here about that last week; we had no solutions but that’s a charming name for whatever solution does come to exist :)
@ai6yr Do you by any chance know how WatchDuty is able to report when a prescribed burn has initiated? The actual ignition date/time of an Rx burn isn't commonly reported in the databases I work with.
@BrunoMcGee They're now working directly with agencies and PIOs to get the most accurate on those, plus they occasionally get tips from people on the line (ie "here's a photo of us lighting it up")
#Russia has been coopting right-wing parties and political operatives in the West for decades, and that includes the Republican Party. Amptly documented by the Mueller investigation, Senate Intelligence Committee reporting, and investigative journalism. And it's working: Republican foot-dragging on support for #Ukraine.
I have a quick question for any #Gardeners in upstate #NewYork. Are there any examples of Fuyu persimmons growing in the area of #Albany New York? Or in the #HudsonRiver Valley?
@douglasvb@BrunoMcGee I'm constantly finding people growing plants well beyond their recommended zones here in California, but it's almost always in a protected location; or, high likelihood of loss (ie only survives a few years), or with some serious help (ie, some lychee trees around here, but with misters in the leaves to keep them in a tropical environment)
Late in life, Dana Milbank of the #WashingtonPost discovers the need and advocates for #InsectDiversity . There's a good quote from E.O. Wilson, about how we'd be in a whole lot of trouble if insect populations collapsed.
Pay-to-play soccer in America indeed is pretty much the preserve of more affluent families. Gear is expensive, youth league fees are high, weekends on the road is pricey. The sport is poorer for it.