What are they thinking putting these shows on the air anyway? Ratings and that is all they care about, It is the same everywhere, not much different from when we were kids, EXCEPT most of us were taught morals, manners and respect for EVERYONE. Kids today learn from what they see and I am afraid it won't get better, just worse. If anyone likes home reno shows and had ever watched Love it or List it you can see one very good example. Those people are plain nasty and outright ignorant. Who died and made them royalty? I loved to see just what could be done with some of the homes but I can not even stand to see the start of the show come on anymore..the homeowners don't appreciate what is being done they have to act like ...don't get me started ..it would be embarrassing to even have a next door neighbor like that. I realize it is only a reality show..as are most that are on now because that is what makes the ratings. All the talk about this child, that is fat as stated by some posters is just sad. That child (if they are her parents) didn't or should I say doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell-o of being any different than she is. Hopefully someone will step into her life and steer her in the right direction. But there is a chance of someone in your own families that may come along and be "fat" either from a medical condition or the bad choices that their parents make when raising him or her. What do we do? Reject all these kids and ridicule them, what a boost to their self esteem, because of course we are perfect to begin with? I think not, mirrors show the outsides not what you are inside and we all have faults. To anyone that has never had to deal with a weight problem they will never know what nasty comments and and jeers can do to a person. Then again, start watching all the bullying that has lead to teen suicides all it took was a comment. One that made them feel so bad about themselves that they didn't know how to cope at that young age so the problems kept getting bigger and bigger with the bullies taunting and name calling ...only to escalate to higher degrees of torture. Name calling is just what I did in my post by calling those people nasty and ignorant. In my opinion they were degrading to others but in Honey Boo's case she just doesn't know any better, in social skills nor in her actions and being the youngest in the family probably didn't help matters any.

How is it telling about people who watch this show? There could be a multitude of reasons...entertainment, as a study in social cultures or even plain people watching, joy of watching a family interact and love each other, or just simple down time with the tv on. I think it's more telling that some people haven't watched the show and bad mouth others who do. TLC has opted to highlight this family because they are at some of the extremes of society. Noticible bodily functions might happen on occasion, but most of us try not to highlight them for the entertainment of others. TLC wants ratings so they make sure that every sneeze, fart, and snot rocket makes its way onto the show. The sneezing and the snot rocket couldn't be helped. Most of us would politely avert our eyes, or say "bless you" or get a kleenix. TLC shows it in an effort to embarrass these people. June, the mom on this show, often has some odd looks on this show. Most likely these 'looks' are because she is squinting because she needs glasses. Most of us wouldn't point fun at someone who needed glasses, but for the people of TLC, it is an entertaining highlight. There are some things this family does, that don't appeal to me. I'm not sure people wouldn't be pointing at my family and saying "Can you believe they did that?" if we were on tv. We all have our family habits. What we consider just fine for us, might be considered appalling to others. While we would all like to believe we are better than other people because of x, y, or z, we really aren't. A collage education is a good indicator of some things. It doesn't neccssarily make a person a better person character-wise than another person. People in college often have multiple sex partners, make illegitimate babies, drink too much, publicly barf and urinate, and display other unappealling habits. The difference is the college educated people have learned to put on a public face and not highlight their imperfections.

Who cares about Honey Boo Boo (whom I've read about in the news) or Barbara Walters? Or Jersey Shores or Survivor or any of the "reality" programming? Or the Doctor Phil show or The View or any of the "talking heads?" Or Bill O'Reilly or Anderson Cooper or any of the stuff that "passes" for information or entertainment on the tv? My time is too precious to waste on schlock. Just my humble opinion.

Plugging the hole and asking for a replacement are two separate non mutually exclusive issues. Such cavities should be plugged in order to not allow insect access. I would inject some pesticide also before plugging but that's me. I have a large grown up lemon tree grafted on sour orange that was damaged during a freeze more than 15 years ago. I had not noticed the damage due to the tree being unskirted until only three years ago when I saw the tree deteriorating. There was a hole and lots of old damage just above the grafting point where the tree was branching out which had become the dormitory of ants and god knows what else. I sawed away as much dead material as I could, injected and painted a mix of undiluted dormant oil, organophosphorous insecticide and copper, repeated that after a couple of weeks and then plugged and covered the old wound with pruning paste. It took lots of it to plug and cover the whole area. The tree recovered and has been growing nicely since.