Weekend Roll Call 2-22-25

[kcdave]

New BLS



Here is something else new ... but we have to
wait a couple of months yet .....



This will be a great opportunity to take a swerving stroll down
memory lane. Pluto has free streaming of every single C&C movie.
Starting tonight Vaghub and I will spend the next 9 Saturday nights
watching a different C&C flick. Split an edible, pour a couple of
cocktails, and let the hilarity ensue.

Got a few honey do's, trip to the city for lunch,
and a little grill biz as we emerge from the polar vortex.
Fake Spring arrives to FOC as we see the 60's next week.

M.o.W.



Happy Weekend, Y'all.

[Wolfman]

IN--- college baseball an softball for diversion---enjoy

[Sudden Sam]

Sittin’ in a rocking chair outside (just 31 degrees, so no big deal) waiting to get my wife’s car worked on. Gotta get here early. First come, first served on Saturday.

[Roux]

Thanks Smackie for another epic TT last night.

Yesterday, one of my daughters got engaged, really happy for her. We have 4 daughters between 25 and 31, and she's the first to get engaged.

I'm going to my first LSU baseball game of the year today. Not fully recovered from surgery but making progress. Y'all have a good one.

[HighPlainsGrifter]

Looks like Donnie Baker has Tommy in the DP. Cancer, November.
No one picked Cheech Marin this year.

[bungle clone]

man... I haven't had Percocet in a long time I've forgotten how pleasant the experience can be



but the slight difference this time is they are tiny little pills (with k 18 on 'em) that don't have acetaminophen

[Smackie Chan]

man... I haven't had Percocet in a long time I've forgotten how pleasant the experience can be



but the slight difference this time is they are tiny little pills (with k 18 on 'em) that don't have acetaminophen

Then it's not percocet, just oxycodone. Percocet, by definition, is oxy + acetaminophen; percodan is oxy + aspirin. K18 is 5 mg of straight oxy.

[HighPlainsGrifter]

Smackie knows his drugs. Like...KNOWS them.

[Smackie Chan]

Smackie knows his drugs. Like...KNOWS them.

Helps being married to a retired RN. Opioids were never my thing, although I did have a friend in the AF who had a growth removed from a testicle and was prescribed 12 Percodans for pain relief. He just took Tylenol for the pain, went back to the doc saying he’d run out of his Rx, and got prescribed 60 more. He waited for the pain to subside then just took the ‘dans recreationally and shared a few with me. Didn’t seem to really do much, though. Mighta had a hard time competing with all the THC I had floating around in me.

[88BuckeyeGrad]

In cold Tennessee for another night. Going to go to a farm this afternoon that has its own onsite butcher shop. Maybe it will be gastronomically pleasing.

[HighPlainsGrifter]

In cold Tennessee for another night. Going to go to a farm this afternoon that has its own onsite butcher shop. Maybe it will be gastronomically pleasing.

If they offer sweet breads, get them. They're delicious.

[Mikey]

I saw Cheech & Chong perform live in 1973 when I was a senior in HS. Funniest shit I think I’ve ever seen. The half pint of Southern Comfort probably had something to do with that.

Here’s my haul from the Vista Farmers Market this morning.

[HighPlainsGrifter]

Bismarck farmers market be like:

[Mikey]

Yeah but you don’t have a commie Governor and a legislature full of woke DEI hires.

I do love me some roasted Brussels sprouts. Didn’t know that they grew in the snow.

[Ken]

I do love me some roasted Brussels sprouts. Didn’t know that they grew in the snow.

Brussels sprouts can easily withstand temperatures in the low 20's and even for short periods in the upper teens. It is standard practice for home gardeners in the midwest, northern plains, NorthEast, etc to allow a snow event before harvesting. Their flavor sweetens when exposed to frosts.

Not much for me this weekend. I tightened a set screw with an allen wrench on a door handle and I feel like I accomplished something and deserve relaxation. Some college BBall/golf on the tube today. Will make a reuben for dinner and continue the relaxation into tomorrow. Need to do it since this coming work week will be a taste of hell.

[Sudden Sam]

I tightened a set screw with an allen wrench on a door handle and I feel like I accomplished something and deserve relaxation.

I failed to mention I fixed a dripping faucet. Hooked up a Bluetooth device to my old school stereo. Cleared a blocked drain line on our fridge.

When my wife gets home, a blowjob seems fair.

[bungle clone]

Not much for me this weekend. I tightened a set screw with an allen wrench on a door handle and I feel like I accomplished something and deserve relaxation.

rack

what you did on a rando weekend in Feb sounds like my worth for a year




and rack sam

[Roux]

Boudin balls from Tony's Seafood.

DAMN those things are good.

[Mikey]

We had a very happy couple of red tailed hawks in our sycamore tree yesterday.





Both were feeling pretty good when they were finished.




Was I invading their privacy? I don't know, but they chose the most visible place around to do their thing.

[Mikey]

Ten months of no rain, and mostly brown. We've gotten about four inches in the past two weeks, and the green is making a comeback.





















Black mustard, the bane of my existence. Time to get out the backpack sprayer, mix up five gallons of Roundup concentrate, and get to work.

[Dr_Phibes]

Black mustard, the bane of my existence. Time to get out the backpack sprayer, mix up five gallons of Roundup concentrate, and get to work.

Just tell the nieghbours your yard concept is 'Wabi Sabi'. That's Japanese for letting a garden do whatever it wants.

[Mikey]

Black mustard, the bane of my existence. Time to get out the backpack sprayer, mix up five gallons of Roundup concentrate, and get to work.

Just tell the nieghbours your yard concept is 'Wabi Sabi'. That's Japanese for letting a garden do whatever it wants.

Sounds sort of like the gardening equivalent of omakase “I leave it up to you.”

That’s actually kind of close to what I’m shooting for, in parts of the yard at least. Except that black mustard (which will overwhelm just about anything if allowed to) and some other invasives aren’t what the garden would want. So I might give them a week to resign before I terminate them.

[Ken]

Black mustard, the bane of my existence. Time to get out the backpack sprayer, mix up five gallons of Roundup concentrate, and get to work.

Curious as to what that flowering bush is. Very much looks like a Buddleia, but I don't recall them being a west coast plant.

Mustard is a bitch over here in the MidWest/NE... Especially garlic mustard. I have to continuously battle it in my gardens by cultivating the soil. It self seeds like no other weed (other than Hairy Galinsoga which is twice the bitch in the veggie garden).

[Mikey]

Black mustard, the bane of my existence. Time to get out the backpack sprayer, mix up five gallons of Roundup concentrate, and get to work.

Curious as to what that flowering bush is. Very much looks like a Buddleia, but I don't recall them being a west coast plant.

Mustard is a bitch over here in the MidWest/NE... Especially garlic mustard. I have to continuously battle it in my gardens by cultivating the soil. It self seeds like no other weed (other than Hairy Galinsoga which is twice the bitch in the veggie garden).

It’s funny that you would ask that. It’s a variety of ceanothus (California Lilac) called ceanothus spinosus (Greenbark Ceanothus). There are more than 60 varieties and cultivars of this genus, very common in different parts of California, described on this grower’s website:

https://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-ca ... s-spinosus

Some will grow 20’ tall, some are like ground covers and everything in between. This is one of the 20’ varieties and the only one of these that I have. It’s not very common in nurseries. I have at least six of the other versions around the yard in various quantities.

My wife picked this one up about 10 ago as a free giveaway during an open house at a local native plant grower. There was no tag on
It so I had no idea what it was or what it would do. So I planted it in an out of the way spot behind the bbq area, next to a fence. I pretty much ignored it for a long time. Looked kind of like a ceanothus but it never bloomed for about five years and didn’t get all that big. Suddenly it sort of took off and got to about 15 feet tall, sending out branches with four inch long needle like thorns over onto the patio, into the kitchen, and over the corner of the magic solar patio cover, which you can see in the picture. I have since learned to control it, and it’s one of the first plants to bloom every spring.

I didn’t quite figure out what it was until it started blooming. With pictures of the blossoms you have a much better chance of identifying it. This one grows in the wild around here, in a fairly limited range. So it fits with my goal of trying to feature not just California natives, but ones that are local. There’s a great website for identifying different plants and their natural ranges.

https://calscape.org/Ceanothus-spinosus ... Ceanothus)

[Ken]

It’s funny that you would ask that. It’s a variety of ceanothus (California Lilac) called ceanothus spinosus (Greenbark Ceanothus). There are more than 60 varieties and cultivars of this genus, very common in different parts of California, described on this grower’s website:

https://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-ca ... s-spinosus

Some will grow 20’ tall, some are like ground covers and everything in between. This is one of the 20’ varieties and the only one of these that I have. It’s not very common in nurseries. I have at least six of the other versions around the yard in various quantities.

My wife picked this one up about 10 ago as a free giveaway during an open house at a local native plant grower. There was no tag on
It so I had no idea what it was or what it would do. So I planted it in an out of the way spot behind the bbq area, next to a fence. I pretty much ignored it for a long time. Looked kind of like a ceanothus but it never bloomed for about five years and didn’t get all that big. Suddenly it sort of took off and got to about 15 feet tall, sending out branches with four inch long needle like thorns over onto the patio, into the kitchen, and over the corner of the magic solar patio cover, which you can see in the picture. I have since learned to control it, and it’s one of the first plants to bloom every spring.

I didn’t quite figure out what it was until it started blooming. With pictures of the blossoms you have a much better chance of identifying it. This one grows in the wild around here, in a fairly limited range. So it fits with my goal of trying to feature not just California natives, but ones that are local. There’s a great website for identifying different plants and their natural ranges.

https://calscape.org/Ceanothus-spinosus ... Ceanothus)

You could have just said it's a Ceanothus, lol. Quite familiar w/them as biz takes me to California frequently. I'm just more familiar w/the traditional, blue flowering, wild types that are so prevalent along roadsides out there. Didn't know there were any whites.

[Mikey]

This one is very wild. I have to wear leather gloves to prune it and still the thorns will stick through if I’m not careful. None of the others here have any thorns at all. They’re all variations of the blue flowers. Does anyone grow these back where you are?

[Ken]

This one is very wild. I have to wear leather gloves to prune it and still the thorns will stick through if I’m not careful. None of the others here have any thorns at all. They’re all variations of the blue flowers. Does anyone grow these back where you are?

No. I'm certainly not a Ceanothus expert, but I would be surprised if there were any out here in the east. I dunno... maybe there's a minor/non-descript species that grows out here. I can say that I've NEVER seen a Ceanothus marketed here in the east at any garden centers.

[Mikey]

This one is very wild. I have to wear leather gloves to prune it and still the thorns will stick through if I’m not careful. None of the others here have any thorns at all. They’re all variations of the blue flowers. Does anyone grow these back where you are?

No. I'm certainly not a Ceanothus expert, but I would be surprised if there were any out here in the east. I dunno... maybe there's a minor/non-descript species that grows out here. I can say that I've NEVER seen a Ceanothus marketed here in the east at any garden centers.

I don’t know about Ceanothus but I have heard that some California natives are cultivated quite successfully in jolly old England.

[Ken]

This one is very wild. I have to wear leather gloves to prune it and still the thorns will stick through if I’m not careful. None of the others here have any thorns at all. They’re all variations of the blue flowers. Does anyone grow these back where you are?

No. I'm certainly not a Ceanothus expert, but I would be surprised if there were any out here in the east. I dunno... maybe there's a minor/non-descript species that grows out here. I can say that I've NEVER seen a Ceanothus marketed here in the east at any garden centers.

I don’t know about Ceanothus but I have heard that some California natives are cultivated quite successfully in jolly old England.

Oh, I'm sure. Like coastal California, many parts of England don't experience wide temperature swings. California Poppies, Yarrows, Mimulus, Clarkia, and I'm sure many others, are cultivated in England. Not sure if sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) are native to California (I THINK they are) are heavily cultivated in the UK.