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[Chechem]

"Good morning, boys."

I couldn't sleep. 

Welcome to my world.  I love it this early. 

Then you'll love old age.    I've always gotten up early, but usually there is at least a 4 or 5 involved.

I get lots of work done early, mostly reading and writing.  When I'm on the island I write and do email (the modem works well before daylight; not so after dawn).

I saw that we lost the baseball game - ugh.  But Ole Miss beat the Boogers, so that's something.

[ssmith general]

"Good morning, boys."

I couldn't sleep. 

Welcome to my world.  I love it this early. 

Then you'll love old age.    I've always gotten up early, but usually there is at least a 4 or 5 involved.

I get lots of work done early, mostly reading and writing.  When I'm on the island I write and do email (the modem works well before daylight; not so after dawn).

I saw that we lost the baseball game - ugh.  But Ole Miss beat the Boogers, so that's something.

Exactly, I get a lot of good thinking done this early.  Catch up on emails and stuff.  I do prefer there to be a 4 involved as well, but 6 hours is all I can sleep and by 9 I cant hold my head up any more.

[Chechem]

I got my lawn mowed and most of the yard chores finished yesterday.  Today I have a manuscript to review that I'm avoiding.

What's your plan for the landscaping?

[ssmith general]

I got my lawn mowed and most of the yard chores finished yesterday.  Today I have a manuscript to review that I'm avoiding.

What's your plan for the landscaping?

No plan.  All the 'plans' are kind of out the window until I figure out what I can do with this dirt.  Very anxious to see how it is today.   

The girl wants to do some flower beds on the hill, but she's going to have to wait until I am down with the yard to see how far back the hill has to go, plus that hill gets no sun.  When it snowed this winter the snow stayed on that hill for like 2 weeks.

Hopefully I just get some grass going and she takes it from there.  We have lots of flowers and stuff surrounding the frog pond.

[Chechem]

I got my lawn mowed and most of the yard chores finished yesterday.  Today I have a manuscript to review that I'm avoiding.

What's your plan for the landscaping?

No plan.  All the 'plans' are kind of out the window until I figure out what I can do with this dirt.  Very anxious to see how it is today.   

The girl wants to do some flower beds on the hill, but she's going to have to wait until I am down with the yard to see how far back the hill has to go, plus that hill gets no sun.  When it snowed this winter the snow stayed on that hill for like 2 weeks.

Hopefully I just get some grass going and she takes it from there.  We have lots of flowers and stuff surrounding the frog pond.

Most any flowering perennials that you could plant on a shaded hillside will need good soil and watering during summer.  I built my Mom some flower beds in 3 terraces behind her patio in B'ham.  I put in azaleas, daffodils, and daylilies (she had sun on the bottom 2 terraces), then buried it all in pine straw to keep down weeds.  They all did well, but the azaleas needed watering regularly.  Hilltops dry fast, and azaleas have shallow roots.  We ended up adding a watering system, which was easy since those beds didn't get any walking traffic.

Shade?  Hostas, azaleas, and lots of impatiens.  The impatiens aren't perennials, but they reseed.

[Chechem]

Here is a link for shade perennials.

LINK

[ssmith general]

I got my lawn mowed and most of the yard chores finished yesterday.  Today I have a manuscript to review that I'm avoiding.

What's your plan for the landscaping?

No plan.  All the 'plans' are kind of out the window until I figure out what I can do with this dirt.  Very anxious to see how it is today.  

The girl wants to do some flower beds on the hill, but she's going to have to wait until I am down with the yard to see how far back the hill has to go, plus that hill gets no sun.  When it snowed this winter the snow stayed on that hill for like 2 weeks.

Hopefully I just get some grass going and she takes it from there.  We have lots of flowers and stuff surrounding the frog pond.

Most any flowering perennials that you could plant on a shaded hillside will need good soil and watering during summer.  I built my Mom some flower beds in 3 terraces behind her patio in B'ham.  I put in azaleas, daffodils, and daylilies (she had sun on the bottom 2 terraces), then buried it all in pine straw to keep down weeds.  They all did well, but the azaleas needed watering regularly.  Hilltops dry fast, and azaleas have shallow roots.  We ended up adding a watering system, which was easy since those beds didn't get any walking traffic.

Shade?  Hostas, azaleas, and lots of impatiens.  The impatiens aren't perennials, but they reseed.

I was 32 years old before I learned that pine straw was acidic and bad for grass.  

Weird when something so simple and obvious escapes you for you for so long.

[Chechem]

Looks like Harvey made Sportscenter today.  I just saw a teaser on ESPNHD (at 4:24).

[ssmith general]

Looks like Harvey made Sportscenter today.  I just saw a teaser on ESPNHD (at 4:24).

I wish they would run an IQ test on him and go ahead an declare him disabled.  The guy is obviously very dim.

[Chechem]

I got my lawn mowed and most of the yard chores finished yesterday.  Today I have a manuscript to review that I'm avoiding.

What's your plan for the landscaping?

No plan.  All the 'plans' are kind of out the window until I figure out what I can do with this dirt.  Very anxious to see how it is today.  

The girl wants to do some flower beds on the hill, but she's going to have to wait until I am down with the yard to see how far back the hill has to go, plus that hill gets no sun.  When it snowed this winter the snow stayed on that hill for like 2 weeks.

Hopefully I just get some grass going and she takes it from there.  We have lots of flowers and stuff surrounding the frog pond.

Most any flowering perennials that you could plant on a shaded hillside will need good soil and watering during summer.  I built my Mom some flower beds in 3 terraces behind her patio in B'ham.  I put in azaleas, daffodils, and daylilies (she had sun on the bottom 2 terraces), then buried it all in pine straw to keep down weeds.  They all did well, but the azaleas needed watering regularly.  Hilltops dry fast, and azaleas have shallow roots.  We ended up adding a watering system, which was easy since those beds didn't get any walking traffic.

Shade?  Hostas, azaleas, and lots of impatiens.  The impatiens aren't perennials, but they reseed.

I was 32 years old before I learned that pine straw was acidic and bad for grass.  

Weird when something so simple and obvious escapes you for you for so long.

I grew up along the Gulf coast, and my father had beds of Amaryllis and lots of big azaleas.  We had pine straw even if we had no pine trees.  Great for azaleas.

Ole Miss landscapes with pinestraw all over their campus; they have no pine trees much at all.  They buy it.

[Chechem]

Looks like Harvey made Sportscenter today.  I just saw a teaser on ESPNHD (at 4:24).

I wish they would run an IQ test on him and go ahead an declare him disabled.  The guy is obviously very dim.

Yes, not the brightest lamp in the tanning bed. 

Amazingly, he speaks well in interviews. 

[ssmith general]

I got my lawn mowed and most of the yard chores finished yesterday.  Today I have a manuscript to review that I'm avoiding.

What's your plan for the landscaping?

No plan.  All the 'plans' are kind of out the window until I figure out what I can do with this dirt.  Very anxious to see how it is today.  

The girl wants to do some flower beds on the hill, but she's going to have to wait until I am down with the yard to see how far back the hill has to go, plus that hill gets no sun.  When it snowed this winter the snow stayed on that hill for like 2 weeks.

Hopefully I just get some grass going and she takes it from there.  We have lots of flowers and stuff surrounding the frog pond.

Most any flowering perennials that you could plant on a shaded hillside will need good soil and watering during summer.  I built my Mom some flower beds in 3 terraces behind her patio in B'ham.  I put in azaleas, daffodils, and daylilies (she had sun on the bottom 2 terraces), then buried it all in pine straw to keep down weeds.  They all did well, but the azaleas needed watering regularly.  Hilltops dry fast, and azaleas have shallow roots.  We ended up adding a watering system, which was easy since those beds didn't get any walking traffic.

Shade?  Hostas, azaleas, and lots of impatiens.  The impatiens aren't perennials, but they reseed.

I was 32 years old before I learned that pine straw was acidic and bad for grass.  

Weird when something so simple and obvious escapes you for you for so long.

I grew up along the Gulf coast, and my father had beds of Amaryllis and lots of big azaleas.  We had pine straw even if we had no pine trees.  Great for azaleas.

Ole Miss landscapes with pinestraw all over their campus; they have no pine trees much at all.  They buy it.

I once restored a woody area on a base.  Basically remove all the demo debris and return it to forest.  So we're done and the COE girl comes and looks at it and asks me to add some pine straw.  Well, the contractors are gone.  So I go fill up the back of the truck with straw and spread it.  Not enough, again, not enough, again, not enough, landscaping place now out of straw.  I ended up just calling in a contractor with a blower.

We ended up buying some ridiculous amount of straw and blowing it into a pine forest, literally I think 1000 bales. That was like a 200,000 dollar job.  Yep.

[Chechem]

So, what flaw do you predict that WV will find in these girls?  He always fixes on some insignificant character and criticizes it.  I could see plenty for ammo.

[ssmith general]

So, what flaw do you predict that WV will find in these girls?  He always fixes on some insignificant character and criticizes it.  I could see plenty for ammo.

the blond seems to be missing some fingers.

[Chechem]

So, what flaw do you predict that WV will find in these girls?  He always fixes on some insignificant character and criticizes it.  I could see plenty for ammo.

the blond seems to be missing some fingers.

Laughing.  He'll find more than that.

The Harvey story just aired on ESPN.  For those who are sleeping and read this later (and want to see it when it airs), it came on ESPN SportsCenter at ~35-36 minutes after the hour and ran for about a minute or two.

They reiterated the story about the trees, mentioned the attack, then played part of the Finebaum interview when Harvey almost confessed.  Said he was sorry and wish he could change it, and was sorry to everyone he hurt.  He ended the interview by saying he was indeed an Alabama-football fanatic, then said, "Roll da#@ Tide."  ESPN ended by saying the next court appearance is May 2.

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