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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. X-posting on gardening thread... I have what I guess you could call an ornamental garden in the backyard. It has knockout rose, mountain laurel, purple lantana, lily of the nile, plumbago, mexican bush sage, Esperanza, texas sage, red bud, weeping red bud, red yucca, pink skull cap, purple heart, indian hawthorne, artichoke agave, turks cap, loropetalum, soft leaf yucca, variegated ginger, abulia, liziope, oak leaf hydrangea, beauty berry, and black & blue salvia, and flax lily. 80% of these were installed in Nov 2019, and the remaining 20% is going to go in over the next 60 days. Unfortunately I also have the dreaded NUTSEDGE coming up in the mulch. Nutsedge laughs at Roundup and Glyphosphate. Manual pulling makes it worse. In the past I've used an Image/44% Glophosphate mix to kill it but I literally had to paint it onto the shoots. That's no longer feasible here. I have some SedgeHammer (halosalfuron) and a container of Dismiss (sulfentrazone) and I'd like to do a spot spray in the areas that have trouble, but I'm finding conflicting info on if that is OK in my landscape garden. The Sulfentrazone label says not to use it in ornamental areas, but there are lots of threads online where it's fine. SedgeHammer says its OK but apparently doesn't work as well as the Dismiss. Apparently the Dismiss persists in soil for a year, whereas the SedgeHammer is much shorter. I'm wondering if when they install the new stuff in the next month or two if that's going to interfere with the transplant process if I spray now. Anyone have any thoughts/ideas?
  2. X-posting on landscaping thread... I have what I guess you could call an ornamental garden in the backyard. It has knockout rose, mountain laurel, purple lantana, lily of the nile, plumbago, mexican bush sage, Esperanza, texas sage, red bud, weeping red bud, red yucca, pink skull cap, purple heart, indian hawthorne, artichoke agave, turks cap, loropetalum, soft leaf yucca, variegated ginger, abulia, liziope, oak leaf hydrangea, beauty berry, and black & blue salvia, and flax lily. 80% of these were installed in Nov 2019, and the remaining 20% is going to go in over the next 60 days. Unfortunately I also have the dreaded NUTSEDGE coming up in the mulch. Nutsedge laughs at Roundup and Glyphosphate. Manual pulling makes it worse. In the past I've used an Image/44% Glophosphate mix to kill it but I literally had to paint it onto the shoots. That's no longer feasible here. I have some SedgeHammer (halosalfuron) and a container of Dismiss (sulfentrazone) and I'd like to do a spot spray in the areas that have trouble, but I'm finding conflicting info on if that is OK in my landscape garden. The Sulfentrazone label says not to use it in ornamental areas, but there are lots of threads online where it's fine. SedgeHammer says its OK but apparently doesn't work as well as the Dismiss. Apparently the Dismiss persists in soil for a year, whereas the SedgeHammer is much shorter. I'm wondering if when they install the new stuff in the next month or two if that's going to interfere with the transplant process if I spray now. Anyone have any thoughts/ideas?
  3. Price isn't based on cost. (Good) pricing is based on value and what someone is willing-to-pay. Right now people are willing to pay more because the value that masks create is higher. As to the question of if a price is fair, that's different. It's fair if the market thinks it's fair and pays the price.
  4. Separate the message from the messenger. There is a cost-benefit analysis to be made AT SOME POINT. Putting the economy into recession or depression will cost lives and wreck lives for years to come. COVID-19 is also awful. Which is worse?
  5. It's possible, but drawing an exponential curve from a handful of datapoints is a fool's errand. Doesn't take into account a whole host of confounding variables in the equation that have not been present in the data to this point, assuming deaths lag infection by several weeks, e.g. social/physical distancing, new treatment regimens, etc.
  6. Pussy v. Death v. Taxes...sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY! Three will enter, only one. will. win!!!
  7. Let me get this straight: You've identified a guy who clearly has mental issues, and you're crawling around in his attic, alone, to somehow use logic to try to convince the crazy guy that he isn't crazy. Do you have a death wish?
  8. Let's drop the pretense that if the (D)'s win they won't do this, or it will be "measured." They will absolutely do this if they have the ablity to do it, the question is do they go to 11, 13, or 15? Then how far beyond that does the next (R) President go? I believe we'll get to around 57 SCOTUS justices in my lifetime.
  9. Looks like my friend Donna Imam who is running in TX31 as a (D) made it through some of the gauntlet of 7 (D)'s running in the primary to land in the top 2 for a runoff vs. Christine Eday Mann. You can learn more about Donna's campaign here: votefordonna.com
  10. Lulz that you think I’m right wing
  11. We’ve reached max pander with the reparations discussion. Kinda surprised that the giveaway king Bernie didn’t get there first, since he’s giving us everything else for free!
  12. Liz seems to be under the impression that anyone gives a shit about anything she says. So shrill.
  13. That’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face.
  14. Careful what you wish for
  15. Crystal ball time ... So Klobuchar and Steyer drop out after Super Tuesday. Warren shortly after. Klobuchar’s people go to Biden Steyer’s go to Biden Warren’s go to Bernie Then Pete drops and his people go to Biden. Final three Biden, Bloomberg, Bernie. Bernie wins clear plurality. Biden takes nom on 2nd ballot, weakest winner in Democrat history. Bros stay home in general pouting. Trump re-elected.
  16. Lulz. Not a trump supporter but you’re blinded by your Bro love. He would be destroyed.
  17. Conspiracy! If Bernie loses it’s because of Gayle King!
  18. If Bernie can’t defend himself against this weak ass field Trump will steamroll him.
  19. “Allegedly”.
  20. The look Pete has as Warren eviscerates Bloomberg
  21. The amount of sweet, sweet tears I'll be here to lap up from the Bernie supporters will be fun when he loses on the 2nd ballot of the convention, following the rules and processes he agreed to by running as a Democrat.
  22. There aren't many center-right Republicans who want to ban guns or tell you what size slurpy you can order at 7-11. He's a big government guy, he's liberal on many issues and the only reason anyone would think he's "center-right" is because the Democratic field has swerved so far to the left that they knocked over the guardrail on the way to Sweden.
  23. Still hopes he tears his ACL, MCL, PCL while getting run over by a car swerving to avoid a crashing helicopter.
  24. Marion Cotillard
  25. I think we all have seen experienced similar. In my experience HOA boards forget that they're not JUST about enforcement, they're also about making reasonable judgement calls - in fact that is their primary purpose, or should be! When I see HOAs veering too far over to enforcement it's usually for one or more of a few reasons: People on the board get off on control or conflict and are using it as a power play The "noisy 5%" of the community has taken over and is terrorizing the other 95% via the HOA (aka little old lady syndrome) There are one or more lawyers on the HOA board who enjoy shit like Robert's Rules and writing nastygrams The HOA was set up incorrectly to start with and requires insane requirements to change anything; I was in a HOA once that required 80% of the ENTIRE community to vote in favor of any rule change. Average voter participation in the board meetings: 2%, average vote by mail participation: 5%... Effectively the rules were frozen in place for eternity. I just don't buy the argument of "but if we make an exception here that locks us into making exceptions elsewhere!" ...because it simply isn't true. Exceptions are just that, exceptions. A functional HOA can and should be empowered to make exceptions as needed. The residents have the power to address those exceptions by replacing the HOA leadership each year if they don't like the judgement calls that they make. My $0.02.
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