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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.41

Good morning, and it's time to fire up the War on Christmas.HAPPY HOLIDAYS!Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.And, just in time for the proper start of the holiday season the Christmas cactus...

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A Very Special Holiday Greeting

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.44

Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.We did another of those weird Denver weather turnarounds this week.  On Wednesday, December 18, we hit a record high of 68°; yesterday the high was 22° and a...

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Silent F*cking Night

This is the seventh annual posting of the Christmas Story, from a mother's point of view. Through the years it's changed a bit — the language tweaked here and there, photos added then improved...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.45

Good morning, and HAPPY NEW YEAR.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging New Year's Resolution Edition.We all have our gardening foibles -- things we never do well or consistently; conditions...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.46

Good morning, and it's safe to come out now.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Well, we made it through the holidays, and we made it through the first days of recreational marijuana sales,...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.48

Good morning, and we're rolling downhill to outdoor gardening season!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver has settled into its semi-normal pattern of giving us a shot of...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.49

Good morning, and it's time to plan.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver's weather has been whipsawing this last week: on Thursday the morning low was 4°, the high was 24° and we got a...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.50

Good morning, and it's February!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver's weather has been a colder re-play of the weather of the last several weeks: last weekend we were in the upper 50s;...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.51

Good morning, and it's time's awasting.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Hot damn but it's been cold; record breaking cold, in fact.  We started February off with a high of 24° on the 1st,...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 9.52

Good morning, and is this thing on?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.While you folks to the east have been buried in snow this past week, Denver's bout of cold finally broke.  It's been...

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Bring us your tired, your poor...

your huddled progressive candidates yearning to take their rightful places in our municipal, county and state governments.We need these people to win to make government work for all of us, not just the...

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kos is wrong

Yesterday kos posted that we should stop obsessing upon Hillary Clinton as the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2016 presidential election and the inability to affect that outcome and concentrate...

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delete your #@&$ing opinion, kos!!1!

Yesterday I posted a diary with the click-bait title "kos is wrong.Yup.  I admit it.  It was click bait.  And I MADE YOU LOOK!So I'm doing it again today.  Today's title is courtesy of grubber in the...

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LAST CALL!

We're coming up to the deadline for submissions for the 9th Anniversary of Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Seeds of Change Local Election Fundraising Opportunity. Time is running out -- we need your...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.1: Seeds of Change

Good morning, and welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging’s 9th Anniversary Seeds of Change edition.Saturday Morning Garden Blogging is usually a politics-free zone; perhaps that’s why we’ve...

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Clusterf*ckery

So.After enlisting the assistance of navajo and others spread the word;After weeks of urging kossacks to make submissions to the Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Seeds of Change local election...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.2

Good morning, and the curtain rises.Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver's weather has continued to yoyo — Monday the high was 64°; Tuesday it was 27°, with an single-digit lows, Thursday...

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Paul Ryan is Correct

We don't want to turn the safety netInto a hammockA safety net is much, much larger than a hammock.

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.4

Good morning, my fingernails are grimy!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.As has been the pattern this winter, Denver had days of lovely sun and warm temperatures, interrupted by a brief...

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terrapin #mcconnelling

Thursday on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart issued the #mcconnelling challenge.  If you missed the idea, last week Mitch McConnell's campaign posted an "ad" consisting of nothing but PR film backed by...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.5

Instant fill in edition.Franki here, and I'm not seeing anything in the queue. And we must have our SMGB fix.Discuss away.

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Justin Bieber Banned from India?

...or causes polio, or is polio, or something?No, India Declared Polio Free by World Health Organization.

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.7

Good morning, and winter is going.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Once more Denver had a week of incipient springtime interrupted by snow.  Last Sunday the high was 72° here in Denver...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.9

Good morning, and is it over?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver started the week wet and cold — Sunday was one of those days when the high temperature occurred at midnight.  It...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.10

Good morning, and I think it's the last blast.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.After a week of beautiful weather (and I include the overnight rain mid-week as "beautiful"), this weekend...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.11

Good morning, and happy May!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.It's been a strange week for me here in Denver, and the weather was equally strange.  The cold front that went through brought...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.13

Good morning, and it's still weird here.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.In Denver, warm-weather gardening season is considered to begin Mother's Day weekend.This year on Mother's Day we...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.14

. Hail in Central Denver, May 21 and 22, 2014.

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.15

Good morning, and happy June!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.It's been a glorious week here in Denver — starting out in the 70s, then building to a mid-week warm of almost but not quite...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.16

Good morning, and busy busy busy.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Another great week here in Denver.  We started out in the low 80s, warmed up to 92° mid-week, then another band of...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.17

Good morning, and it's Summer!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.We've had another beautiful week here in Denver: started with highs in the 70s, building up to 91° by mid-week — and then a...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.18

Good morning, and I'll miss June when it's gone.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.June has been beautiful here in Denver — enough heat to get the veggies going, but no consecutive days of...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.21

Good morning, and I guess we're in a permanent state of weird.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.It seems like this year the season were thrown into a paper bag then vigorously shaken — and...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.23

Good morning, and I may have Audrey III in the back yard.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.We've had more weirdly cold weather in Denver this past week, along with a healthy and extended...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.24

Good morning, and where's August?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver's delightful weather has continued into the first full week of August, with the strong monsoonal flow bringing...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.27

Good morning, and Labor Day already?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver has had an extremely long and strong monsoon season this year.  We've had thunderstorms and rain almost every...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.28

Good morning, and is it summer?  Fall?  I'm getting so confused.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.On Wednesday, September 3, the high was 94°— hotter than it had been through the entire...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.30

Good morning, and happy autumn!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.The shot of winter that we had a week ago jump-started the change in seasons, even though we switched right back into...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.33

Good morning, and it really is fall.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.We got a whiff of frost on October 3 — enough to freeze burn the very top of the tomato vines, but not enough to kill...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.35

Good morning, and is the calendar stuck?  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.You see that lush growth?  That's the zucchetta vine, which should be dead.  Our weirdly warm October continues: no...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.36

Good morning, and Happy Day After Halloween!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.My garden dressed as September for Halloween That's what's happening here.  What's going on in your gardens?

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Gawd I Hate Drinkers

Gawd - I hate drinkers!.I live in a urban area, and all year long I see the SUVs of drinkers parked crookedly with the ass-end in the roadway and taking up 3 spaces along the street where I live, as...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.40

Good morning, and happy Thanksgiving!  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.This has been the weirdest November here in Denver.  We started out extremely warm, reaching a high of 72° on November...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.41

Good morning, and at least the Christmas cactus bloomed at the right time.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Denver's weather has not been getting me into the mood for Christmas.The high on...

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Silent F*cking Night

This is the eighth annual posting of the Christmas Story, from a mother's point of view. Through the years it's changed a bit — the language tweaked here and there, photos added then improved upon.In...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.45

Good morning, and it just ain't right.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.Our weirdly variable weather here in Denver, which started with a sudden, brutal freeze in early November, has...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.46

Goodmorning, and isn’t this just perfectly fucked up?So, yesterday was one of those days.It started with having to spend 15 minutes chiseling peepholes through the ice a freezing drizzle had left on my...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 10.50

Good morning, and it's still weird.  Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.In Denver this week we went from lumpy wads of wet snow on February 1, to a high in the mid 70s yesterday — and in...

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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 11.1: Tenth Anniversary Edition!

Good morning, and are you ready for another ten?  Welcome to Saturday Morning BloggingTenth Anniversary Edition!I have headed Saturday Morning Garden Blogging for a full ten years.  During that time my...

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