Trumpet vines! Those plants are designed to survive, try digging them out and if you leave any piece of root, they grow out again. You can’t break them off and damage the vine enough to kill it. If they drop a seed pod near anything you want to keep, they grow right into the roots of the plant you want and make it almost impossible to get them out.
That’s where I’m at. A few years ago one of them was planted right next to a Banks Rose bush that I dug up and moved. “Die you little POS shit die!” said me to the trumpet vine as I noticed its healthy leaves sticking out through the rose bush last fall.
Fast forward to almost spring here in the desert. The Banks rose bushes don’t freeze off when it gets down to freezing here…perhaps if it hit 0 or something really obnoxious, they would but so far they’ve stayed green (I have 2) even when it gets below freezing. I went out yesterday and started pulling the rose bush open at the base by where the brown, woody vine was running up out of the ground from the trumpet vine. Much digging around the edge of the rose bush roots still wouldn’t let me rip its roots out of the ground so I got out a saw, cut it off about 4 inches from the ground, covered the rose bush roots back up and got an eye dropper and weed killer out.
On my hands and knees, pushing back rose bush vine off of my head and shoulders, and being extremely careful to dose only the sawed off stub of the trumpet vine, I fed it yesterday and three times today. The best way to kill a tree you don’t want, or stop something growing up from a root, is to drill holes in the tree stump/root and fill it with liquid weed killer. It may take more than one dose, but it works. Die you little POS, DIE!
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The WSOP.com has had a few software glitches that make the blinds all crazy in tournament play, I reported one, got no response, and that one I had the hand #, the tournament, and the table all recorded in that email. In going back to find it, it seems to have disappeared from my ‘sent’ folder. POOP!
Then this happened:
It was late in the tournament, the player that should have been the BB was all-in for the ante, and the software gave the BB to the next player and dealt the all-in player into the hand. Umnhhhh…
The all-in player didn’t win the hand, he exited, the button moved to the SB position and the same player that had the BB in the previous hand, ended up with it again with the vacated seat not in action. BS. It’s not the first time I’ve witnessed a player being forced to take the BB twice in a round in the tournaments. But here’s the part I’m really curious about, what if the all-in player had won the ante pot? Would he have been dealt in again for the ante, and whatever he might have had left over held out for the next hand – totally screwing with the fact that he didn’t take the BB and would he have been in SB position and paid it if he had enough left from the ante pot?
Thinking about it kind of gives me a headache trying to put all the ‘what-ifs’ together.
I didn’t record the hand #, etc. and sent an email a few days later to support. They responded with their perfectly canned response, ‘please send in the hand #, the tournament #, the table #, go to your hand history log and you can find it.’ Right. Like I would have any idea which hand it happened on. Yes, I understand they don’t either.
Anyway, in the future, I will make sure I have all the vital info when I report something else to them.
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Major planting job coming up soon, plants shipped today and are expected to arrive here on the 14th…Heart day! I loves me some plants and I can tell you they are always a welcome Valentine’s Day gift.
His Riotness came to see me this weekend, Dadparental brought him out on Friday after school and will be back to get him later today. I’m still without a rig. Apparently the engine has been removed, parts are being disassembled, and I’m waiting…waiting…waiting. My son Dan is being held hostage by a bucket of grease, numerous wrenches, and a repair manual, working on fixing it with the friend that knows how to repair everything but humans.
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The Spring Mountain range at almost dark from my view:
Laters…