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Botany

(72,741 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 06:51 AM Yesterday

It is snowing in Ohio in the winter so I have this tip.

Please make sure not to plant your tomato plants outside today.

Btw it is beautiful and I going cross country skiing shortly. Flat ground and I’ll take
it easy considering I was just learning to walk again @ this time last year in a
nursing home that was nightmare after almost dying from an E. coli infection that
went sepsis.

Btw part 2 I think Trump and company are going to push the crypto scam onto the
American people and crash the world’s economy into a depression and the super rich will
buy everything up for pennies on the dollar. We are really screwed.



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EYESORE 9001

(27,654 posts)
2. I almost did a little planting this morning of a different kind
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 06:58 AM
Yesterday

I.e., I almost planted my vehicle in a ditch. Tried to scooch over for a snow plow and started sliding into the ditch. Didn’t dare stop, so I stayed the course until bigazz truck passed. Goosed it and turned to the left to get back on road, nearly lurching off the left shoulder. All within 500 ft from my driveway.

EYESORE 9001

(27,654 posts)
6. No good deed goes unpunished
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 09:20 AM
Yesterday

I wanted to get as far over as possible for the snow plow, but it made an unsafe condition instead. Shoulda held my ground in retrospect.

Botany

(72,741 posts)
8. Driving those plows is tough ass work.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 09:57 AM
Yesterday

You have @ least 1/2 a ton of steel and metal in front of you, a big ass engine that is wicked
strong, all kinds of electronic components, hydraulic link ups, a clutch with a stick shift in a
lot of cases, and a big ass truck that weighs @ least 4 tons empty, Dog only knows how many
tons of an ice melt product, you are on snow and ice, and your rig will crush another car or flatten
a tree in a heartbeat too. Btw you can create a vortex of air between you and the vehicle next to
you that can suck that smaller vehicle over to your plow truck.

You did good Grasshopper.

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,506 posts)
7. I'm concerned that the tariffs / tariff threats are more likely to cause a depression, like they did in the 1930s. . .nt
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 09:48 AM
Yesterday

Botany

(72,741 posts)
10. Just 666 billion in trade of materials between Metro Detroit and Metro Windsor, Ontario per year
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 11:51 AM
Yesterday

And that is just the value of the hard goods Dog only knows how much the value is in wages and
electronic exchanges are per year between the Detroit and Windsor areas. I read that when the
Ambassador Bridge was shut down for just a little bit the lost wages were in the billions.

KS Toronado

(19,807 posts)
9. Crypto scams are designed for one purpose
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 11:23 AM
Yesterday

to make the rich richer and prez. Mump will attempt to do so, hopefully Congress can stop them.

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