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Comments (28)Chipmunks are good eatin' according to most local cats. Early on, when we came back to the farm to work on the house after a long cold winter, an extended cat family had been dumped here. The mother cat, (#2, she tried harder) and her sister (who earned the name #1) stayed with us (as did the cat who became known as Idiot son of #2). #1 was a hunter and one day we watched her bring a still alive chipmunk to her sister (#2); her sister downed it quickly. One neighbor, about a mile away has a major chipmunk and squirrel problem. He hates cats and his wife won't have an outdoor cat. So, they have rodents. Elf cat (number 11 who came later) used be be a good vole cat, but when she got older (14) she became a pensioner, and now it takes a prybar to get her away from the woodstove. The dawg does eat voles and moles right now, and we have some black snakes who work the mole runs. Winter is giving us rain. So far this month, seven+ inches. The ground is sodden. This may be a major help in keeping trees alive. But IF we had mulched around the rose canes, the rain plus the temps in the 60s at the surface would be a disaster for canker. Our lowest temps so far are just below 10F and the Chinas and Noisettes are holding on to their latest season leaves. The teas have dropped their leaves. It's nice to view from afar, right now, knowing that I don't 'have' to do anything right now. Now that the minutes of daylight are getting longer, I wonder if that's going to be the reason that Cherokee Rose will start to set bloom buds....See MoreWhat is the academic reasons for why only some grafts work?
Comments (4)How weird, my post to this thread has disappeared. Basically, I had said that it's physiological and genetic, depending on how you use the words. When plants are grafted together, the cambium and phloem cells have to join at the graft. The cells along the graft will even exchange some genetic material. Even plants from different genera have been grafted successfully, but that's much rarer than intraspecific and interspecific grafting. If I were going to ask a similar question at school, I'd rephrase it something like, "Can you explain the specifics of what determines which species and genera can be grafted together successfully?" While you're at it, you might ask them to cover what makes some grafts fail after an initial, seemingly successful period. If you ask, come back and tell us what they said, so we can discuss their input....See MoreWhy does everything have to be BM'S way or its a fight
Comments (28)Nivea - you are so right! A lot of fathers don't argue and fight for their kids because they frankly don't want to have any more responsibilities than when they were married to the BM. My X is like that with his GF. SHE takes DS to daycare on Monday mornings after his weekend. SHE does his laundry. SHE gets him up and dressed in the mornings when he has to go to school. I've been thinking about why my SO didn't fight harder for his daughter and why he doesn't insist more on her visiting (going on 5 months now). It came to me this morning. He doesn't want to fight with her because he doesn't want to have to spend the extra time doing the things that it would take to have a child live with him and be his sole responsibility. For instance, he always wakes up before me by about 45 minutes or an hour, and closes the doors to the bedroom so he doesn't disturb me. I have my own alarm clock and I'm an adult so I'm responsible for getting myself up and then getting DS up. Well, this morning, I evidently turned the alarm OFF. He never came to check on me even though it was about 30 minutes after I am supposed to be up. I got to thinking that maybe that's why he doesn't want custody of his DD. Maybe he doesn't want the responsibility of making sure she gets up on time in the morning, gets her homework done, gets her to all her activities and gets to bed on time. Maybe he doesn't want the responsibility of checking her grades and making sure she has lunch money. If he leaves everything the way it is, he can just complain about it and then he's always the good guy, never the bad guy, and can always focus on himself. With me...all he has to do is think "she's an adult and responsible for herself and her kid". Even though common courtesy would dictate that if I wasn't awake at the normal time, he should at least come check and make sure everything is okay. He wouldn't have that excuse with his own child....See MoreAn Article On Yahoo Today Is The EXACT Reason Why...........
Comments (7)It sounds as if this BF should have never been allowed around these children ...ever, never, not even at their mother's house. It sounds as if this mother had little concern for the safety and well being of her children in the first place. And Dad? What's up with that? Who lets their children take off with anyone who is not expected to be picking them up at least without verifying with the absent parent. Why was father not informed BF and mother are fighting with knifes (fighting at all). But this incident could have occurred whether the BF was a BF, father or stepfather. Angry and/or hurt people can do awful things. With that said. Can't say I blame you for objecting to a GF signing anything school related, Ashley. I would not blame you either if you did not allow others (no matter who they are) to pick up your child. Especially if you were not pre-informed that someone other than your ex was picking the child up. I seriously think it's a good idea to phone the day of pick-up just for clarification on who and when pick-ups will be. I would hope any parent fighting with or other wise estranged from a BF, SF, husband whatever would also have sense enough to phone the school/opposite home, inform them of the changed situation and be assured that the child/children will not be released to a possible danger. --"This is why I don't want people "calling" her SM when she isn't married to X, giving others (such as the daycare she picked him up from and the school that accepted a report card that she signed) the impression she has any type of authority or legal rights to my son.--" This should not be happening even if you absolutely knew she was the safest/nicest person who ever lived. I'd seriously have a discussion with the school over what is acceptable and what is not and follow it up with your ex who has no business handing off his responsibility to GF. Currently this GF is no more to your child as far as the school should be concerned than a strange lady. She's nobody as far as dealing with your child in a school situation. GFs come and go, they are not reliable fixtures in a BF's life. He could dump her at any minute, kick her out the door blah blah. It's not up to a school to keep up with who the latest lady/gentleman a parent might be 'dating' now or shacking up with. They should not be on the emergency contact list nor the 'allowed to' list....See Moreeld6161
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