stubbed toes and mud pies

[digitS']

 

[flowerbug]

*whew!* was getting worried about the thistles that are about to bloom and so i rang the neighbor who owns the field and he said he was just getting ready to mow the problem areas. i told him i was very glad to hear that and would kiss his feet. not having all those thistle seedlings popping up will save me many hours of weeding.

they did plant it with some kind of mix, but i don't know what all is in there.

 

[flowerbug]

if things go well today i should be able to get a garden weeded and planted today if i go all out. then rains in the forecast for several days which means i may not get much more planted. hard to say as rain forecasts are not always accurate... not what i want here, rain delays, but weather is weather.

 

[Marie2020]

this may be a tough topic for some people here so i'm putting that right up front here, drug addiction...

in scanning the news headlines i came across this article:

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5414476/fentanyl-gen-z-drug-overdose-deaths

i knew things were bad but i didn't know how bad.

i'm glad that things seem to have calmed down somewhat and also turned around.

my own experiences with drugs were in times before and i tried to limit my exposure to only the mild ones (pot and hashish), but at times people did pull things like putting acid in my beer (i stopped hanging around that person right after that happened) or the pot was spiked (opium) or had chemicals sprayed on it (paraquat).

I'll have to look up what pataquat is. I don't have a clue.
I've never been tempted by hard drugs at all.
The people I once knew started doing a number of different drugs and I found that I no longer had anything in common with them anymore because they drastically changed.

Weed wasn't a problem but this skunk is nothing like it, IMHO. There's something really nasty about it.

gladly i did put limits on myself, i absolutely did not want to get into harder drugs like cocaine or heroin (um, needles really! noway! that's just crazy) and acid was really scary in what i saw what it did to some friends (who OD'd or destroyed their minds). i also made the limit that if i was going to smoke pot i was going to have to quit smoking (which i largely did).

It's sad people feel the need for the drugs you mentioned. I cannot understand why they have to do it all.

then after a few years i decided that i did want to go to college so i stopped smoking weed entirely by the time i was half way through 10th grade. haven't smoked any of that since then and i only smoked a few cigars until one time i really got sick from too much nicotine all at once (a friend cut a cigar in half to share it and the fact of how the whole cigar would filter the smoke vs. what half a cigar smoked was like... well, i threw up i was so dizzy). to say the least (i can actually do that? ) i haven't done any of those since then either. my lungs now say thank you. i'd probably be in much worse shape than i am had i not quit all those things.

Yuk, cigars. I tried a few puffs but didn't like it at all. But only enough the smell of a cigar doesn't make me feel sick. But in saying that I wouldn't like it in my home or any kind of smoke at all

still i'm addicted to smoking, i dream of it at times even now and i've not touched any of this for 20-30 years or more.

Good for you

but back to the present, there are some people in my life who i worry about, i suspect they may be "using" of some kind. i don't worry about those who are into smoking weed. i do worry if they are doing other things.

We don't know what is in weed today, it's nothing like it used to be 20 to thirty years ago

Now I'm going to look up that link.

 

[Marie2020]

this may be a tough topic for some people here so i'm putting that right up front here, drug addiction...

in scanning the news headlines i came across this article:

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5414476/fentanyl-gen-z-drug-overdose-deaths

i knew things were bad but i didn't know how bad.

i'm glad that things seem to have calmed down somewhat and also turned around.

my own experiences with drugs were in times before and i tried to limit my exposure to only the mild ones (pot and hashish), but at times people did pull things like putting acid in my beer (i stopped hanging around that person right after that happened) or the pot was spiked (opium) or had chemicals sprayed on it (paraquat).

gladly i did put limits on myself, i absolutely did not want to get into harder drugs like cocaine or heroin (um, needles really! noway! that's just crazy) and acid was really scary in what i saw what it did to some friends (who OD'd or destroyed their minds). i also made the limit that if i was going to smoke pot i was going to have to quit smoking (which i largely did).

then after a few years i decided that i did want to go to college so i stopped smoking weed entirely by the time i was half way through 10th grade. haven't smoked any of that since then and i only smoked a few cigars until one time i really got sick from too much nicotine all at once (a friend cut a cigar in half to share it and the fact of how the whole cigar would filter the smoke vs. what half a cigar smoked was like... well, i threw up i was so dizzy). to say the least (i can actually do that? ) i haven't done any of those since then either. my lungs now say thank you. i'd probably be in much worse shape than i am had i not quit all those things.

still i'm addicted to smoking, i dream of it at times even now and i've not touched any of this for 20-30 years or more.

but back to the present, there are some people in my life who i worry about, i suspect they may be "using" of some kind. i don't worry about those who are into smoking weed. i do worry if they are doing other things.

All these cuts are going to cause a heck of a lot of damage to the great work that these people have done to sort out these drug problems. It a crying shame

The cuts here are bad but nothing in comparison to what's happening your way.

 

[flowerbug]

paraquat is a herbicide that authorities in other countries (Mexico and Columbia being the major ones at that time) that were growing pot would spray to kill it, but sometimes the growers would still be able to harvest it and sell it if they could catch it in time. very nasty stuff.

 

[flowerbug]

amazing, someone did what they said they would do.

the field to the south of us got mowed today and so we won't have this round of flowering thistles to worry about. he said he would mow it again when it gets about to flower a 2nd time.

it's getting green and looking nicer every day. much better than bare dirt or a farm field that is being poorly managed (the people he rented the land to for farming didn't do a very good job of it) and also being sprayed with who knows what.

 

[flowerbug]

i did get a large garden weeded and planted and also weeded some thistles out of another garden (which will be the next in line to be planted).

was a bit warmer than i expected today and a nice breeze that certainly helped keep me cooler, but it was blowing enough that i didn't get the bean pods buried that i was hoping to put in that garden. they'll go in the next one or the one after...