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May 6Liked by Patrick Jordan

You always brighten up my day. I am referring to your humor and not the news from Hell.

WTF!? Earthworms ate the layers of biomass that protected the redwood trees? Who would have thought? It will be hard for me to like earthworms now. My CHI is being drained by very alarming levels of cognitive dissonance.

Don't get me started on the honey bees as this is causing me distress too.

Is there anything that's not effed up in this world?

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I'm glad you like my tourguide script as we're all ex-courted to the gallows.

To my examination NOTHING here hasn't been inverted beyond insanity.

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May 7Liked by Patrick Jordan

Your brain is still pristine and intact.

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To be said with that effiminate caught-sound at the back of the throat while lightly tapping one's chest while perklempt:

"Pristine... is my given middle name !"

"... and I can assure you that my Dura Mater has not be circumscribed either!"

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I could say somwthing naughty, but my inner Lady will refrain.

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The map in the video on that earthly wormie bit seemed to be on the east coasty side.. But-whowler knews..

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Ay 'm-mean..

Late afternoon fun if I may..

Cherries bloomings cheerio..

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there ain't nothing in this whirrled that doesn't get shit canned! BUT, we did come here to learn lessons.. NOT!! I always thought it was the worms that turned rotting debris into fertile soil in the first place.

As for those lessons, WHY do people buy into this CONcept, pain For gain, suffering is necessary to LEARN. Looks like humans aren't the only ones here learning these lessons. Around every corner lurks a lesson to be had...through torment, suffering, pain and death. Everything definitely suffers here, seems nobody is learning, because from what I hear we keep coming back to learn more. nothing escapes. I guess we need all these little things to kill us, so we can suffer die and return and start over, yea, that makes sense.

btw I have a beautiful plum tree, blossomed magnificently this spring, thousands of green unripe plums now......ON THE GROUND... Bee live me... there are just as many still on the tree.. I don't know why they produce sooooo many that they drop half the crop each year. maybe it's a worm thing.

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You amuse me: We're hear to learn a lesson...

Fruit trees will abort fruit under many conditions.

TOXIC FARM CHEMICAL OVERSPRAY - that might just be me...

Improperly polinated flowers. You can get a bit of pollen to the ovary but if there isn't enough then the seed count won't be high enough and since a tree's imperative is to maximize its chances of reproducing then it will jettison fruit rather than expending energy to mature something that won't give offspring.

It will also drop fruit because it has to regulate how much energy goes to making babies, vs. feeding the entire tree. So it will overproduce if possible and get rid of the excess instead of under producing. Do you have a second plum of a different variety? Many need to cross pollinate to set fruit.

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I can rule out farm chems.. I don't use any. improper pollination that is a new one for me to hear... The plums are forming, to about the size of a giant grape and then fall, still green, but with a seed. I have heard of the tree's imperative to maximize it's chances of reproducing... and regulating its energy expenditure, which is my guess. NO, I don't have another tree, but I guess I will be getting one soon. I have been thinking that for the last few years that I should. There is definitely a lot of fruit, it just falls before it's ripe.

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has it ever produced edible fruit?

A pollinator could be as far as a mile away. I always tried to have one dark and one red plum for the different tastes but also cross pollination. The plum tree borers had different ideas.

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May 7Liked by Patrick Jordan

Thank you. I have all ways wondered how the hard work gets done when there is no honey-bee farms around and there are so many places like that. Are plants themselves so skilled? Nature just works. All references on bees I have ever got or seen from skull buks and I just looked again are based on honey-bees. Even though I have my-self seen at least 4 other bee-like in-one-you-alls that were not honey-bees. Make sense be-cause Honey-bee is a white man's fly. White man does not know or care about any other bee but one bee, new-bee, noe-bee or the bee of Noe. It is further complicated be-cause we are not who is white in here, right? Honey-bees could be named more like mass-on-nick bees or civilization-builder bees. In-dust-tree would fall with-out honey-bees and avatar-film like trees like sequoia among them would come back again. Witch further proves to me that all my bio-lodge a.i.-duke-action is mass-sonic. if honey is also a mass-sonic title, "I love you honey", then I would not be sir-priced to find out that it is not just your preference to avoid honey but honey could be pretty addictive and dangerous also judging by webmd state-mente "Honey is likely safe for most adults."

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a lot to unpack here.

Will this be going into the cargo hold or checked baggage?

My favorite are the metallic green flower bees. There is nothing more beautiful in nature than a 50-foot row of cucumbers on a tressle in full bloom with the heady smell of the pollen full of yellow flowers and green irridescent bees just doing their job and not bothering any body.

I've even worked side by face with giant bumblers in the pea patch (all of this is pre-farm chemicalgeddon) where they give off an attitude of "Working here. Get out of my way." but were never aggressive. I pulled weeds. They pulled pollens and the peas were happy.

Mason Bees (yes, they are a thing) were the first line to show up when the honeybees went in decline. They didn't have a strong presence because, well, we're surrounded by biocidal maniacs. Carpenter bees in my mind have ZERO usefulness. They are too destructive for any benefits that might be accorded them.

The Masonic (free-style not the bee-style) pattern can be seen in total control of the hive, used specifically for gain of filthy lucre, and aggressive swarms if you get out of the thrall of the Hive Queen.

Me no like bees.

Honey can contain botulism spores but commercial honey can contain corn syrup either as an adulterant or fed to bees so that they can make second-generation corn syrup spit.

Homey don't play that.

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May 7Liked by Patrick Jordan

If laughter is the best medicine, you are one hell of a healer!

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Channeling my Inner Danny Kaye:

I'm one heel of a heller,

I mean: one hell of a heel,

I mean: one hell of a healer.

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May 7Liked by Patrick Jordan

You need a sip from the chalice from the palace. No, the flagon with the dragon. Wait a minute, it's the vessel with the pestle. Anyway, have a drink.

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I see how you are...

just one little sip, my pretty....

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May 7Liked by Patrick Jordan

I identify a Glynda, the Good Witch of the North not the ugly one from the West.

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I always had a fascination for the one from the East when I was a kid. She had such stylish socks but we couldn't see her face. I'll bet she was a looker before the house hit.

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May 7Liked by Patrick Jordan

Considering she was the Wicked Witch of the West's sister, I beg to differ.

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I am impressed by the wrangling skill to get those two horses to jump to the live stump-cut. And the second horse watched the first get up there but there was then half as much space. This is about 9 and half minutes into the Redwood video. Horses are probably dumbfounded by this behavior.

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Babesia also causes anemia. Cows die from babesia causing anemia. I had Babeosis and I had anemia. I will bet more people have Babesia than gut worms……or possibly both!!!!!!!!

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these buggers are like organized crime.

Many families, many different ghangs. But they all work together against the host.

Someone gave the impression that maybe a yeast infection was a response to spirochetes that are susceptible to fungi.

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yes true they do work all together…that is why the chain reaction of a series of malaise all connected.

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Do you like malaise better than salad dressing?

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