Althouse: Fern.

May 13, 2017

Fern.

A closeup on the backyard Meade cares for.

19 comments:

tcrosse said...: Art Fern; 5/13/17, 1:17 PM
Rick said...: I just spent the afternoon digging up those kind of ferns from my flower bed. The first few years I loved them. One Spring they popped up everywhere, including the lawn. I tried like the dickens to get rid of them last year, but I see that I failed, and now they moved over into the vegetable garden. Time to get tough!

I'm too old and too tired to keep fighting these invasive plants. Can Meade suggest a good weed killer? I have two varieties of Lysimachia (Gooseneck Loosestrife – a.k.a. Lysimachia clethroides, and Lysimachia ciliata 'Firecracker', Queen of the Prairie, Lady Bells, Persicaria, Lily of the Valley, and on and on and on. The Virginia Bluebells and Forget-Me-Nots are going crazy as well.

Oh, and we're growing a wonderful yard full of creeping Charlie. It just loves all this Spring rain that we've had.; 5/13/17, 3:58 PM
rehajm said...: Where's fern's...old...buddy...Jack...in the pulpit?; 5/13/17, 4:49 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "Can Meade suggest a good weed killer?"

Quoting Meade: "Yeah, your mower. You need to get off your lazy ass and mow every other day."; 5/13/17, 5:35 PM
Delayna said...: Are the little pink flowers from a Redbud tree?; 5/13/17, 8:22 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: "Industry officials and others say the uptick comes from a bump in crude prices, regulatory certainty with the more drill-friendly Trump administration, better technology, and the prospect of nearly half of the state's crude coursing through the disputed Dakota Access Pipeline, which could open markets abroad where top prices are typically fetched."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BAKKEN_BOOMLET?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-05-13-10-34-16

When did AP become pro-Hitler? There is no justification for praising Hitler, unless you are Hitler.; 5/13/17, 8:35 PM
Rick said...: Quoting Meade: "Yeah, your mower. You need to get off your lazy ass and mow every other day."

Since some of them are growing toward the center of large flower beds, where a mower won't work, and in the case for many of them, they're popping up in the centers of clumps of hostas (ferns), mowing isn't the answer. Does he oppose all chemicals (I do, but now I'm desperate!); 5/13/17, 8:37 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Lyrics
Sister Christian
Oh the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say O.K.
Where you going
What you looking for
You know those boys
Don't want to play no more with you
It's true
You're motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Babe, you know
You're growing up so fast
And mama's worrying
That you won't last
To say let's play
Sister Christian
There's so much in life
Don't you give it up
Before your time is due
It's true
It's true yeah
Motoring
What's your price for flight
You've got him in your sight
And driving through the night
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Sister Christian
Oh the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say O.K.
But you're motoring
You're motoring

Night Ranger - Sister Christian; 5/13/17, 10:39 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Prospect is one of my favorite words of all time.; 5/13/17, 10:43 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Pop quiz: when can the Dakota start moving the lube of the sex? Answer: way way sooner than you think/imagine/believe.

Lay it out then, using the articles (you know, the one above you gotta copy-and-paste, if you want to put forth the minimal effort to be in the in crowd.

I am telling you right now that which you ought to do which is read your Buckley.

Cumulus.hillsdale.edu/Buckley

Zero feces higher ed is not only possible IT EXISTS THIS VERY DAY.; 5/13/17, 10:58 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I guess evolutionarily speaking those Hitler didn't murder were perhaps better off, like in America after the fifteen (15) million Russians, or Soviets--I am too dumb to frankly know and lazy to care--dead, even with, after a while, our food and fuel and what-must-have-seemed-divinity at least, minimumly, to the survivors all around.

Everyone you see today.

We could give Hitler credit for Steve Jobs and Apple, if we got paid, enough, and praised, enough, to be so situated we felt we had no choice.

In all, and because of all, that matter.; 5/13/17, 11:12 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: The things contained outside the matter are not ideal, only perfect imitations.; 5/13/17, 11:34 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Could any honest man, Diogenes hissself, interact more than briefly with a person tattooed across the forehead "FOOL" andnyet not understand in a way neither empathetic nor symp, concerning your own only ethics, my morals for me alone though, TWEET, TWEET, TWEE, Fool.; 5/13/17, 11:37 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: I think Nk everyone should by Disney. This ESPN goof is you being so stupid again.

Idiot.; 5/13/17, 11:43 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: All you jerks are jealous you ain't built your brand on a Michael Jackson image of fucking things Michael Jackson fucked.; 5/13/17, 11:46 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Let me explain it to the fools, idiot tattoos abounding resounding sans-floundering; We are dealing with what Gary Shandling considered fucked-up assholes.

Not jerks, assholes.

Fucked up.

Pricks. Cunts, motherfuckng cunts. Miserable, horrible, angrily suicidal sons-a-bitches.

They blame me BECAUSE THEY ARE RIGHT I AM THE CAUSE OF ALL THEIR PROBLEMS AND THERE IS NO AND NEVER CAN BE ANY SOLUTION TALK SAVE THIS SOLUTION TALK HERE THOUGH DON'T YOU KNOW."; 5/13/17, 11:52 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: The only musicians vocally to enable little drops of truth per Dwight, was Iris Dement.; 5/14/17, 12:26 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: It is a Hell of a fo I've chosen. All to my detriment.; 5/14/17, 1:09 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Seems wierd to you.; 5/14/17, 1:11 AM