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Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

by Apondia

Rated: E · Book · Experience · #2050107

A Journal to impart knowledge and facts

July 22, 2015

I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done.

I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them.

I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Mar 20, 2025 at 11:31pm
In response to "When Will Spring Be Active"

I agree with you Spring does have it's entertaining moments.

Purple Catching Up

Mar 18, 2025 at 7:26pm
In response to "Dancing at the Mall"

Haha! Very creative. I love that she referred to the hat as odds and ends.

Apondia

Mar 18, 2025 at 4:37pm
In response to "Ides or the center of the month"

Ides means center I think.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 18, 2025 at 4:34pm
In response to "Dancing at the Mall"

I wasn't expecting that! Nice work.

Purple Catching Up

Mar 14, 2025 at 3:05pm
In response to "Ides or the center of the month"

I knew about Ceasar, but was surprised to find out how far back that dates goes when it comes to disasters. It's no wonder Shakespeare went for that date

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 12, 2025 at 5:02pm
In response to "Ides or the center of the month"

March is a time of change or leading to change. At least in Montana and Kansas. Where I grew up, near to you, April was change. Same in Thailand and Costa Rica. Either winter calm giving way to storms or heat building until rains poured down. The Ides of April is the 13th.

Imho, a certain contemporary leader needs to be wary of the Ides.

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Conrad Moriarty

Mar 12, 2025 at 3:38pm
In response to "AI?"

I have so many mixed feelings about A.I.: at once horrified and awe-struck. I think it's a good tool to construct processes, plans, and maybe toward the very end of a writing process it's like a sterile pair of eyes. I want it to have as little to do with my creative process as possible. Honestly, it just feels...wrong.

I've explored interesting philosophical queries with it, including past-life regression. Those "conversations" are usually a ton of fun.

What role do humans play behind the steering whell, Lyn? I wasn't aware of that. Let us know if you can find the link, too, please!

I deeply fear for the youth. I teach adult students and when I assign them in-class projects, the majority of what they present is A.I. generated. It's obvious: word choices, turns of phrase, and...they're reading quite a bit off their screen monotonously, without deep acquisition. I use an A.I. detector and give 0's to work that is A.I.-made. You'd be surprised the % that still use it for their writing. It's troubling.

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Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Mar 7, 2025 at 12:27am
In response to "Tariffs?"

No the problem lies much deeper than that.

Purple Catching Up

Mar 5, 2025 at 11:44am
In response to "Promise of New Life"

Sunshine is such a mood changer! I'm all for melting snow

Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 3, 2025 at 12:12pm
In response to "Spring Thoughts"

Yes, an orchard sounds nice. What apple varieties do you have? Any pears?

January 19, 2019 at 12:00pm

#949990

Avocados from Mexico

Find a piece of nature that you can hold in your hand (leaf, twig, rock, berry, etc). Describe it as closely and carefully as you can. Use any means available to you to examine the object (magnifying glass, scale, all of your senses) and practice your descriptive writing skills. My favorite entry today will receive a Nature MB. *Leafo*

Did you know that avocados are a fruit not a vegetable? Possibly originated in Mexico, a member of the family Lauraceae,(Persea americana)

I grew an avocado tree from a seed in the winter of 2018. Using an unrefrigerated pit from a fruit, stab in 2 or 3 toothpicks one third of the way up from the flat end. Place it in a small glass or jar in luke warm water. It should sprout in 3 to 6 weeks. I planted mine in a plant pot that has multi vines and other plants growing in it. However, the kitchen is cold. and, the plant pot was not getting enough water so it eventually lost the struggle against a lack of water and not enough space for its root system.

This summer I started another tree from a seed. The seed is from an avocado I bought at Walmart in the grocery store section. The label pasted on the fruit said it was from Mexico.

Avocado trees are shallow rooted trees. They put out the root system in the top 6 inches of soil. The tree can live for more than 50 years. The fruit will not be produced by the tree until the tree is 3 to 5 years old.
Hass avocado orchards depend on bees for pollination. The fruit is the large green fruit you see in food markets. The fruit grows from the blossoms of the tree. A well tended tree can grow 15 to 30 feet tall. In the proper climate it can blossom twice in a year. There can be 150 to 500 blossoms on a tree depending on its health and age.

My second attempt at growing an avocado tree is planted in a pot that is presently one foot deep and two feet wide. It is filled with a plant growing product from Walmart.

The trunk is now 45 inches tall. It is about a quarter of an inch thick and a beautiful bright green color. The leaves start out small and grow very large. The leaves on mine are 14 inches long from the base of the stem which is emerged from the trunk. Each leaf has veins running out from the central stem about 1 inch apart. the veins run from the base of the leaf to the tip. The shape of the leaf is similar in shape to a gondola. The leaf flares out from the base of the leaf to about 5 inches than gradually shape back to a point at the end of the leaf, They are a vibrant green color. The texture is like a thin soft leather. I am keeping the tree in an East window because it gets what ever early sun happens out in the winter. My tree takes a great deal of water. And, it is suffering from lack of sun and heat. We have only had about 3 days with real sun in the last month.

As the trunk of these trees grows up new leaves sprout from the top. As, the tree grows bigger the leaves get larger, they stay on the trunk and grow bigger and grow out into limbs with more leaves. I grew mine before I knew there were You-tubes about the way to do this so I put this here because it has some valuable hints I did not use.

I found out online that it has become a fun thing for many people to try, growing fruit trees of all types, avocado, mango, lemon, and others. I would never be able to set this tree out because it could not survive the weather in zone 5.

Happy trails I hope the snow clipper expected today and tomorrow misses everyone.

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