Where Are The Acorns?
Jill at skippy the bush kangaroo and others have linked to The Washington Post article about a lack of acorns in the mid-Atlantic states.
Short answer – they are in my yard, and anyone who wants the brown ball bearings of doom is welcome to them, but the management is not responsible if you end up on your backside trying to walk around out there. If you could pick them up before my landlord’s yard guy decides to run around on the mower, it would be appreciated, because they get sucked up and fired out at a pretty good clip and he doesn’t notice.
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Brown ball bearings of doom!!!!
My keyboard thanks you for the shower.
After Hurricane Ivan I was cutting a tree off a roof and ended up on the ground because of the accumulated acorns on the roof. They are not my friends.
brown ball bearings of doom is right. they’re rampant here too. the dog has certain parts of the neighborhood he refuses to walk in, but i do kinda like the crunching noises when i drive over them with the car.
My Mother has metal awnings on her windows and they have been pinging off of them for a while.
I had to get up on her roof to install the Christmas lights and the very first thing I did was haul out the leaf blower. It’s the only thing I use it for, to clear off a roof, but I won’t even bother to move away from the eave until I have cleared everything off of it. Her roof could use a lot more pitch to keep it clear, but you work with what you have.
Well, you know what they say: from little aches, great corns grow…
They would be wise not to say that to me if I have a chain saw.
OT, you probably already know about it, but take a look at my first December post, on a suicide prevention program of the US Air Force at Lakenheath… based specifically on a religious slideshow. I’m all for suicide prevention in the military, but IMHO this program is unconstitutional. I welcome your thoughts on the matter.
We’ve got our own little “Petals of punishment” when the jacaranda are in bloom.
They may look gorgous and all purpley on the tree, but when they fall of onto the sidewalks, beware. Those suckers are slippery.
The question Bryan is whether you are ready for every skwerl, wild pig, deer, chipmunk, etc from the eastern seaboard since you are the only one with acorns. It is your ‘year before the mast”.
OT: Steve, that violates so many rules and regulations on its face that it would never get to the Constitutional question. Having the Third Air Force crest on the slides and showing it during a Commander’s Call is enough for courts martial for the presenter and everyone above him through and including the Commander of the Third Air Force.
Oh, and there are several factual errors on the slides, including: while Communism is a political movement, communism is an economic system as practiced in Israeli kibbutzes.
That obviously belonged in the Base Chapel, and someone should have filed a JAG complaint.
Jill, those were second only to the cacti that people planted along the sidewalks, or in front of windows to prevent intruders. As I mentioned to the landlord at an apartment complex, I didn’t want to dash through a mine field of yucca if I was escaping a fire.
Well FM, I figure with I-10, the ‘gators, bull sharks, coyotes, foxes, feral cats, and Ranger training camp, it’s probably not worth buying another gas cylinder for the grill. The state may have to shift a front loader to keep I-10 clear of the deer, but most things will take care of themselves.