Hardly anybody posting. Is it the change in seasons? The advent of
(sob) the early dark? Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.

In article
,
Artful Dodger wrote:

Hardly anybody posting. Is it the change in seasons? The advent of
(sob) the early dark? Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.

Take a look at Obie almost 40 years latter.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1...for-obam_n_137
214.html

I don¹t know about you but we are gearing up for the holidays. Use to
be an easy task but kids are all about with different folks. A month
away (Thanksgiving) but things we did in two days takes longer. Hear a
leg of lamb may be about but the traditionalists insist on some turkey.

Bill thinking about anemones for next year as our current just start
to bloom.

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

Artful Dodger wrote:
Hardly anybody posting. Is it the change in seasons? The advent of
(sob) the early dark? Or -- the elections?


For me its not the elections. This is the "off season" for gardening
and there isn't much to post.

Also, this news group has gone WAY down hill in the last few years. At
one time it was "all gardens all the time". Now there is so much off
topic stuff that it isn't worth reading most of the time.
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)



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Bill wrote:
In article
,
Artful Dodger wrote:

Hardly anybody posting. Is it the change in seasons? The advent of
(sob) the early dark? Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.

Take a look at Obie almost 40 years latter.

FYI Ron Howard screwed us on Imagine stock. Now he will screw us with
Obammy.

Vote for Obama is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

In article ,
Bill R wrote:

Artful Dodger wrote:
Hardly anybody posting. Is it the change in seasons? The advent of
(sob) the early dark? Or -- the elections?


For me its not the elections. This is the "off season" for gardening
and there isn't much to post.

Also, this news group has gone WAY down hill in the last few years. At
one time it was "all gardens all the time". Now there is so much off
topic stuff that it isn't worth reading most of the time.

More off topic stuff.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html

Bill going up hill

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

Plants are dead or dying from frost. As Gibbons said, "Time for the
meat course." I'm hunting.

"Artful Dodger" wrote in message
...
Hardly anybody posting. Is it the change in seasons? The advent of
(sob) the early dark? Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.

People in general are taking their plight to heart, and, know they won't
receive genuine help from those politicians that advertise same. As a
result, people are taking actions at their own control level. The news
media doesn't see this as they see the forest, not the trees.
--
Dave

If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not
a cantaloupe.

On Oct 24, 3:08*pm, Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote:
Plants are dead or dying from frost. *As Gibbons said, "Time for the
meat course." *I'm hunting.

Be sure to wear an orange vest!

Hey, not all plants are "dead or dying from frost". Many parts of the
country, including mine -- So. Calif coastal -- people plant all
year. That's what I was wondering about -- haven't heard from
Calif, Fla, etc. growing zones.

I have radishes, spinach, beets, green onions, tomatoes, and
strawberries
in various stages of growth. Just planted snap pea seeds. Hope
they're still fresh.
I used to wait too long to see if seeds would germinate.
Now, won't wait so long.

Tomorrow, putting in more seeds -- bok choy, more spinach, snap peas
-- if it isn't too hot to work outside after 9-10 o'clock**. The
garden work day is getting shorter & shorter.
After Hallowe'en when they take away Daylight Saving, it gets dark-
ish by 5:-ish
-- in December 4:30-ish.
HATE the short days!

** We have been having real Global Warming weather. Now, in late
October, we
are getting more heat than usual in a week or so during July-August.
Everything is ****-ed
up. Hardly any rain last year. Hope we get some this year! Plants
need a drink
of real water.

On Oct 24, 3:06*pm, Bill wrote:
In article ,
*Bill R wrote:

Artful Dodger wrote:
Hardly anybody posting. *Is it the change in seasons? *The advent of
(sob) the early dark? *Or -- the elections?

For me its not the elections. *This is the "off season" for gardening
and there isn't much to post.

Also, this news group has gone WAY down hill in the last few years. *At
one time it was "all gardens all the time". *Now there is so much off
topic stuff that it isn't worth reading most of the time.

Yeah, what happened to all the regulars? I miss you, folks; give a
sign of life!

*More off topic stuff.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html

* Bill going up hill

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

On Oct 24, 1:55*pm, Bill wrote:
In article
,
*Artful Dodger wrote:

Hardly anybody posting. *Is it the change in seasons? *The advent of
(sob) the early dark? *Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.

* Take a look at Obie almost 40 years latter.


Couldn't find. Tried cut & paste as well, but no luck. Can you give
a
summary/hint?

"Artful Dodger" wrote in message
On Oct 24, 3:08 pm, Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote:
Plants are dead or dying from frost. As Gibbons said, "Time for the
meat course." I'm hunting.

Be sure to wear an orange vest!

Hey, not all plants are "dead or dying from frost". Many parts of the
country, including mine -- So. Calif coastal -- people plant all
year.
_____________________________________________
:-)) Usenet is a worldwide thing. It's prime planting season here in the
Southern Hemisphere.

I don't have any problems on which I need to seek advice and I'm sure no-one
is interested in the state of my compost or what my sweet peas are doing.
There has to be some sort of reason to post.

In article
,
Artful Dodger wrote:

On Oct 24, 1:55*pm, Bill wrote:
In article
,
*Artful Dodger wrote:

Hardly anybody posting. *Is it the change in seasons? *The advent of
(sob) the early dark? *Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.

* Take a look at Obie almost 40 years latter.


Couldn't find. Tried cut & paste as well, but no luck. Can you give
a
summary/hint?

Try http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d

Bill

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

On 10/24/08 4:36 PM, in article
, "Artful
Dodger" wrote:

Hardly anybody posting. Is it the change in seasons? The advent of
(sob) the early dark? Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.


The election, the economy and the change of season, with a dash of family
stress, has me pretty quiet too.

Cheryl

On 10/24/08 6:08 PM, in article
, "Frank"
frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote:

Plants are dead or dying from frost. As Gibbons said, "Time for the
meat course." I'm hunting.

Send some venison my way please.

A bout of achy knee and achy shoulder has kept me from doing my fall clean
up. Never did re-do the iris bed or weed out more garlic chives. I will go
cut the seed heads off and throw them on the "lawn".


Cheryl

On Oct 24, 3:04*pm, Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote:
Bill wrote:
In article
,
*Artful Dodger wrote:

Hardly anybody posting. *Is it the change in seasons? *The advent of
(sob) the early dark? *Or -- the elections?

I am so tense, I feel it affecting me not only psychologically, but
perhaps even physically.

If I were a praying person, I would pray that my beloved country
doesn't fall back into the hands of the villains who
have been running it into the ground for more than the last 8 years.

* Take a look at Obie almost 40 years latter.

FYI Ron Howard screwed us on Imagine stock. *Now he will screw us with
Obammy.

Vote for Obama is cutting off your nose to spite your face.-


Your boy McCain must be thrilled with the current American recession
and
world-wide crash, brought on by the pirates who ran their
UNREGULATED Wall Street games. While they got rich, the scene was
set for the crash which has screwed people out of their homes, their
retirement money,
the old and sick and children put out in the street,
while the Wall Street execs collect their gazillion-dollar bonuses
for ruining
the institutions they were leading. Un-effing-believable chutzpah!

McCain (until his recent flip-flop conversion to "change" -- slogan he
swiped from
Obama) voted consistently with Bush in favor of Wall Street, against
Main Street.

Do a little Web search and send me $100 -- no, make that $1,000 --
for every time McCain voted AGAINST regulation! He voted to repeal
the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial banks from
investment banks. The UNREGULATED investment banks then
went on a crazed spree which made their execs and traders
billions on over-leveraged transactions -- until the bubble burst.

McCain voted for the Bush tax cuts for the top 1%, and voted against
regulation of the capital markets.
Now, suddenly, he and the moose-skinner are hollering for government
intervention.
It would be pathetic if it weren't so dangerous.

I hope people understand enough about how we got to this point
to NOT sign up for Bush III, but instead put in a calm, cool,
thoughtful, WELL-EDUCATED candidate rather than a reckless.
unstable, immature Daddy's boy who boozed and partied his way through
the Naval Academy . He graduated fifth from the bottom of his
class, and only got into the Academy because his father and
grandfather
were admirals. Any other Naval who crashed ONE plane,
let along five -- one of them from stunt flying -- would have been
out on his --- the FIRST time. But Daddy always pulled strings to get
around regulations.

It's so weirdly like the Bush saga -- rich kid with serious father
conflicts --
except that McCain wasn't a draft-dodger, just an incompetent pilot.


McCain is a 100% phony. Only he's white, which is all
some people care about.




This a reckless, unstable, dangerous man. Check out what his Vietnam
vets think of him. Check out what even the non-crazy Republicans
think of him!
Scandalous the way he picked the hockey mom after an hour's
conversation,
WITHOUT running an FBI check. His campaign said they did; the FBI
said they most certainly were NEVER asked to do the usual for an
important candidate. That poor old man is so desperate, he says
something contradictory every five minutes. Check out the article
in Rolling Stone last month -- a devastating indictment of McCain
from the mouths of those who knew him best.

And more thing:
Many soldiers suffered as POWs in Vietnam. But only ONE used his
experience as a POW to methodically build a false image of himself for
political
purposes. The others went quietly home and never spoke of their
ordeal,
even to their friends and family. McCain is a deeply immoral creature
of expediency.