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    What did you do in the garden today?

    "Gardeners Supply Company" has a wonderful catalog with quality products and outstanding customer service. That said, they have this black pound-in, sturdy hard plastic edging that interlocks and comes in three sizes and you can order a separate mallet for pounding, if you wish. They advertise...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I began removing patches of straw I used to mulch my flowerbeds over winter. I discovered the Monarda I planted last Fall not only survived, but is putting on new growth. Also pounded back into the ground some of the edging that heaved with the frost this winter. Every year, I have to do that...
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    Is it legal to raise leverets?

    I've heard of that happening a lot with pet rabbits. They'll seem perfectly healthy, then just up and die suddenly. Actually, a leveret is a baby hare. And while we're told that rabbits and hares are entirely different animals, I'm inclined to believe that a hare is just another kind of...
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    Nobody proofreads, anymore!

    I was referring to professionals who charge money for the books and other publications they sell, or who run stories with people's names in them but misspell those names even when they're told the correct spelling. To me, that's just disrespectful. When I spell out my name for someone and they...
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    Nobody proofreads, anymore!

    Our local newspaper is always full of typos, misspellings, lousy grammar, sentence structure that doesn't make any sense, and other errors. They misspell people's names -- even names of people they know. A story on page one will end in the middle of a sentence, with a continuation line at the...
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    Is it legal to raise leverets?

    They do in England. They rescue abandoned leverets, raise them, then turn them loose in the wild as part of a conservation program. Is it legal for anyone here in the states to raise leverets? They have very special needs, including a HUGE space to move around in. Anyone experienced at...
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    lost 3 chickens to our dog. what to do

    This may seem cruel, but it just might break her from molesting your chickens: Next time she kills one, tie the dead chicken around her neck tight enough so she can't get it off, but not so tight that it strangles her. Make her walk around for several days with the dead chicken around her neck...
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    Kiwis, anyone?

    That's very interesting!
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    Kiwis, anyone?

    Didn't know it's illegal to own them. I'm glad they're being protected. I think they lay only one egg a year? And it's a good percentage of their body size! I can see how that would make them slow to breed and prevent their population from rapidly increasing. Not even Kiwis are completely...
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    How many new spins can you come up with ...

    to this one very old riddle? "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Here are a couple of my new punchlines: Because he wanted to make it mad. Because the rides he wanted to hitch were going the other direction. Now, you come up with yours ...
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    do you like geese? anyone can answer you don't have to own any geese

    I like geese. As a small kid on our ranch, there was a free-roaming white goose that I was warned about. It could bite, and I was warned to stay clear of it. There was also a white duck. Where I live now, we have wild Canada Geese. Did you know that Canada Geese come in a wide range of sizes...
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    Taming Cassowaries? Is it possible?

    They have a spike on their feet or legs than can disembowel a person when they kick. If there are no other cassowaries around to cause her to have to defend herself, maybe the spikes can be surgically removed. Although, she might be at the mercy of predators, then. It would be like declawing a...
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    Hi, there!

    Thanks, folks. That clears it up for me. There are Silkies and "Silkies" -- those called such but not purely so in every aspect. I don't know if ours had five toes -- we never thought to count the toes. We didn't keep them for show, but for the eggs they produced with our banty hens. Guess we...
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    Hi, there!

    Thanks, folks, for the warm welcome. Believe it or not, I'm still on dial-up with Windows 8.1, so loading anything is slower than a seven-year itch. Can't get high speed where I'm at and satellite costs a small fortune out here. Still, at $89.00 a year (not month), I think it's a pretty good...
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    Kiwis, anyone?

    Sorry about the double post -- computer acting up, today. First time, it took so long to do anything, I was afraid it wouldn't post, at all, and I expected an error message to come up as so often happens. Just to be sure it would post, I clicked submit a second time. Won't happen again ...
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