Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Still carrying on with the rationalizations and god delusions. Can you tell me of a single time when your man made god and angels were actually documented as showing up for work and performing said miracles? Please give specific examples such as CBS, NBC, ABC, the New York Times - businesses that are trusted sources. Not going to happen. There are plenty of tricks to claim your man made god helped surgeons and other medical professionals save someone life. Truth is that these people are highly trained and no such mythical being ever set foot in the operating room whatsoever. If so, it would have been documented, and it would have been a first. Why didn't your man made gods and angels help the Haitians, the people of Chile, the Samoans, the Indonesians, the people of Thailand, or any number of other places including here in the US? Quite simply, your man made gods can't. They don't exist. Ignoring the truth and continuing your god delusion isn't healthy for you nor anyone else around you. It is detrimental to everyone. Now, go mow some grass. You'll enjoy it much better. Rusty: I hear you dude! How about some Rocky Top just to get things going?

The color that best describes my yard and the entire state of Oklahoma right now would be winter wheat. My lawn is that color and most of my gardens too. A few very hardy evergreen trees and shrubs, native junipers and my little pines are the only things green and the Nadinas have green and purple leaves with red berries. The Nandina Bambina is lovely with burgundy, golds, purples, yellows and scarlet. The ornamental grasses were lovely in the Fall, but now after hard freezes, extended periods of cold and 35-65 MPH winds, they look kinda puny. Their plumes beat to heck. The area around my Koi pond looks pretty good. I have lost some of my tea roses. I have a small patch of St. Augustine grass that I am babying along. We are still in a severe drought. Clouds roll over the state everyday, raining and snowing in every state around us, but not here. But now Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, & Louisiana have also issued state wide Burn Bans. Deadly fires erupting everywhere and with extremely hig winds, it is really bad. Fires are burning in every county surrounding the one I live in. The Burn bans issued state wide since September includes no Bar-B-Queing, and no Fireworks. They are still allowing the sell of fireworks, but it is against the law to shoot them off. Now how dumb is that???? The past week, several bad fires were started by fireworks. Still people are careless and foolish. My neighbor down the road has been shooting off rockets, Roman Candles and other really cool fireworks for the past several days. Winds are fierce again today. This morning I finally called our Volunteer Fire Dept and they told me to call the sheriff's office, so I did. Haven't heard another "pop" since. I hope that ends that. It is pretty scarey. Something like 30 or more homes have burned in December alone, and about 70,000 acres have burned since September, and many of the fires burned to within a few miles from here. Because of the drought and because of the emminent danger of wildfires, I am having to water every day to keep the yard damp. It isn't easy for me right now to drag a heavy garden hose all over this hill. I have to use with my walking stick. Major drag. . . It is so dry that some water wells have gone dry around the state, including town wells. It is really bad. No rain on our forecast, either. I wish you guys would post some photos of your winter yard scenes so I can see how it looks in the Carolinas in the winter, PLEASE???? From what you have named, sounds like you have a lot of pretty and interesting things you are still growing & enjoying in your gardens. I am G-R-E-E-N with garden envy. (grin) ~Annie

I just took another peek----the sky behind the rose is lovely. Have a nice trip to Ashdown roses.Wish I could join you Florence

Looks like I finally found who that mystery frog is, I checked link on leaps.ms - it sounds close, but not exactly, so I googled for NC tree frogs and started to listen all on this page http://bio.davidson.edu/herpcons/herps_of_NC/anurans/anurans.html Spring Peeper sounds exactly the same, also it says: "Rarely seen during the summer months, spring peepers loudly announce their presence during warm, rainy nights and overcast days, most frequently from November to April. However, if conditions are right, they may call at any time of the year." It is down to 41F now, but they still singing, I have hard time believing they can be so active and happy with such low body temperature :)