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One of the two bright spots in my very sad backyard. It looks pretty spectacular considering that it received zero watering this year. (Photo dated July 14)

On Tuesday, I went out in the cool of the afternoon (4pm) and dead headed the fading blooms. Most people are unaware that you can get a second bloom on crepe myrtles if you promptly remove the faded flower heads – unless you have a late-blooming variety.

But with this blistering, dry summer, I think I will have to start watering it to get a decent second bloom.

The neighboring Pride of Barbados also thrives in the Texas heat:

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  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    While the pride of Barbados may be somewhat attractive, once it gets in your yard it never leaves.  Those damnable noxious weeds pop up everywhere.  They are an invasive menace.

    Others may have a different opinion.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

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    Interesting. I haven’t had a problem with them being invasive. I have lost a few to hard winters, though.

    The one pictured even survived the super-bad winter of a couple years ago, but I had whacked it to the ground and covered it with a sheet and a pot.

    It’s a hummingbird magnet.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’ve never heard of the Pride of Barbados but I guarantee it’s got nothing on Wisteria, that stuff makes Kudzu look like a non-problem. It is pretty though and the Crepe Myrtle looks real good. Our Crepe Myrtles were spotty and all bloomed at different time because of the March killer freeze. We have several huge Crepe Myrtles.

    It’s Friday!

    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    I’m trying to get my Thai Basil to be an invasive plant; at least in my back yard. If nothing else it’s great for caprese salad and my white boy pho.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I like the Genovese (Italian) basil the best.  I ended up using the common sweet basil this year because the two Genovese plants I had died from too much rain.  The common sweet basil is like a weed – you can’t kill it.

    The weird thing is I live in the most densely Italian populated county in America and it’s almost impossible to find the real Italian basil here.  I’d like to try the Thai basil but I’ve never seen it up here.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    These cockroaches never die and never give up.

    Financier George Soros is almost single-handedly bankrolling a mysterious Texas entity working to build up progressive infrastructure across the Lone Star State in attempts to elect more Democrats, records reviewed by Fox News Digital show.

    According to Federal Election Commission filings released Monday, George Soros’s Democracy PAC II has provided $750,000 to the Texas Majority PAC during the year’s first half. Meanwhile, the Texas Majority PAC’s state filings show that the group raised $752,040 during that time, meaning Soros has financially propelled the group.

    Texas Majority PAC has maneuvered in the shadows, and virtually no information about the group is available online. Texas incorporation records show it registered in December 2022. Its website doesn’t appear in search engines like Google but can be found at texasmajoritypac.com. Even so, there are sparse details about the entity on its site.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Also, if like me you didn’t know…

    The 17 Types of Basil

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Happy Birthday GJT!

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #3 It’s Friday Thursday!

    WTH did that come from? Oh well. 😉

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just getting going, as last turned into almost wake up time before I fell asleep.  Gonna be a long day.

    As for plants, I have both thai and Genovese basil in my garden.  There’s some little wasp that loves to hang out around my thai basil.

    So here I am, bleary eyed and with coffee in hand…

    QUIDS AND QUOS ☙ Thursday, August 3, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Your roundup today includes: History repeats himself as Trudeau dumps mother of his children; DeSantis’ new Reedy Creek board abolishes DEI rules; Governor DeSantis to debate Governor Newsom; more Biden Bribery evidence trickles out and I summarize the high points; horrible Yale study purporting to show higher Republican excess deaths is trash; and the (Dixie) Chicks experience a sudden and unexpected tour cancellation.

    Are the Dixie Chicks still around???

    News:

    After the “whatever” story about the Trudeau marriage breaking up, we move on to Disney, where obviously DIE has gone to, well, die!

    Unsurprisingly, the New York Times undersold the headline. In fact, according to the press release issued by the new district governors, the DEI program will be “abolished,” along with the odious practice of using race to award contracts:

    /snip

    …Calling Disney’s DEI rules for the district “un-American,” new District Administrator Glenton Gilzean explained in the official statement that, “Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal.”

    More of this, please.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    While y’all were sleeping last night, Dr. Phil Good was making internet memes.

     

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #10 Texpat, That had to be Dr Phil Good for sure.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Skipping some more stuff, there’s more of the “Biden really was involved in his loser son’s business” story:

    During a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Archer explained that Rosemont Seneca involved on “helping clients navigate the U.S. regulatory environment.” Specifically, Archer said, “Understanding a regulatory environment means selling access, at the end of the day, and I think that’s how I think the most people working on Wall Street… interpret it.” [emphasis mine]

    That’s how it works for the politically elite. You make your money off government. Why take the risk of inventing something when selling access is a sure thing?

    /snip

    In other words, Hunter and Archer were coincidentally there to talk access with the same president Hu that Biden complained he had trouble getting away from.

    Before that, in April 2010, Hunter and Archer flew to Beijing … for three days of meetings with some of China’s most powerful state-run financial institutions. By 2013, Hunter would start yet another “investment” firm, BHR Partners, including some of the Chinese officials from the April 2010 meetings.

    /snip

    It was in the context of all these access meetings that that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone at least 20 times, according to Archer.

    Because corrupt officials usually never admit they took a bribe for a political favor, the way bribery cases are normally proven is by establishing the ‘quid pro quo.’ …

    If you can prove that much, it then becomes the accused official’s burden to prove that the beneficial action was not a quid-pro-quo, but was purely coincidental and had nothing at all to do with the valuable property.

    So far, widely-available information shows at least two clear cases of an apparent quid-pro-quo involving White House Resident Joseph R. Biden:

    (1) Devon Archer testified that Hunter was hired onto the Burisma board for a million dollars a year because Burisma thought it would lead to the Ukraininan prosecutor would be fired. The FBI’s whistleblower told them at the time that Burisma believed it was asked by Joe Biden to pay $10M to get Viktor Shokin fired. A few days later, as Biden himself admitted on camera, Biden then pressured Ukraine’s government to fire Shokin “immediately.”

    It is worth noting that democrats and Mitt Romney impeached Trump because allegedly, there was “no good reason” for Trump to ask Ukraine to investigate the Biden-Burisma connection except politics. Obviously, at this point it is clear to the meanest intelligence that President Trump had plenty of good reasons to seek the investigation.

    /snip

    (2)  Next, Hunter and Archer met with Moscow’s ex-mayor and billionaire oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov in New York in 2012. Emails on Hunter’s laptop describe a dinner with the ex-mayor that Joe Biden was also supposed to attend. … the billionaire wired Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca firm over $100 million for “real estate investments.”…

    According to the Post, the State Department and the White House refused to explain why Yevtushenkov and Baturina are exempt from the Russia sanctions.

    Finally, it’s also worth remembering that Hunter owned 50% of Metabiota, a biological research company with labs in Ukraine, which coincidentally in 2019 was working on bat coronaviruses, which Russia claims was the origin of the covid-19 pandemic.

    /snip

    All Ukrainian roads lead to the Bidens’ greasy fingers. A March, 2022 Daily Mail UK article linked Metabiota to the natural gas company Burisma, regarding a ‘science project’ involving high biosafety labs in Ukraine. Not natural gas. The same article also reported that, after Hunter Biden became involved in Metabiota, the DOD grants in the millions began flowing to that company.

    Hunter Biden helped secure millions for biotech research Ukraine

    Can you imagine where this story would be right now if Biden were a Republican?

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Spotted over yonder; Hedy Lamarr

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Happy Birfday, GJT!

    You share a birthday with a very special person – Sunshine made her appearance ten years ago today.

    I just love that girl. <3

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Dixie Chicks are now known as “The Chicks” although I think they should be known as “The Two Chicks and Butch”.

    Natalie Maines has left no doubt as to which team she plays on.

  17. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang! Another hot day in Houston… I wake up to a hyperactive tribe of cats, but within minutes after licking their breakfast bowls clean, they are all snoozing in their various favorite spots. Travis takes a bit longer to snooze out, but he does have to talk me into hurrying up with my cottage cheese bowl, and then pass it on to him.

  18. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Thanks guys for the BD wishes, Aug 3rd is a very popular birthday. I have 3 peeps in my world with the same BD, plus Sunshine I see. One of which is wife’s sister Robin, wife got a message sent to her this morning from a co-worker of Robin’s at Cracker Barrel – it was a phone recording she’d saved asking her to come into work, they were short staffed and busy, just about broke her down it was so Robin, all business. Sweetie is headed up there now to put flowers at the monument Cracker Barrel put up at the front of the store.

  19. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Natalie Maines Mange has left no doubt as to which team she plays on.

     

    I guess she is the one with the mohawk.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Man, the blast furnace is gearing up already.  Hubby came out to kiss me good morning, since he decided not to wake me up this morning. Good thing, especially when he heard it was about 5:00 a.m. when my eyes finally closed.  I may have dozed off and on during the night, but I remember seeing the clock ticking away until this morning.

    So, here I am, hose in hand, and I have us move to the shade as we talk.  He starts rambling about projects he wants to do, and I’m thinking “Every minute we stand here talking about menial things, I’m losing shade.”  I finally break in and ask if we can talk about it after I finish in the garden.  He was about to head out for the day, so I said we could talk about stuff tonight.

    I can usually water about 90% of my garden from the shade, with the right nozzle and the right hour.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    18 Bonecrusher

    I don’t know that you would call it a Mohawk.  It is a classically masculine, butch lesbian hairstyle no heterosexual woman would ever be seen wearing in public.  It’s like wearing a neon sign flashing “I’m a dominant gay woman.”

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I remember the chicks caterwauling when their CDs were being piled up and run over when they bad mouthed the US from overseas.  They mistakenly thought that “freedom of speech” meant “I get to say what I want and you have to sit there and nod your head”.  IIRC, their sales plummeted and I never heard about/from them again.  I assumed they’d disbanded.

    I guess they found a new crowd that’s not too patriotic to swallow their swill.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A 25 year old actor has died suddenly & unexpectedly, and no details have been released.

    How often do seemingly healthy men in their 20’s just drop dead without the benefit of machinery like cars, trucks, or  farm equipment?

  24. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Vue vill veat zee bugs vee give vue.
    vue vill vear zee vuniform vee give vue.

    vue vill vown nuffving and vee vhappy

    vee vill vule over vue vith zee viron vfist

    vincerly, zee wef

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/elites_cannot_hide_from_the_consequences_of_their_actions_.html

  25. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Never seen young people dropping dead like they are now.
    Much like I had never seen 5 key states simultaneously quit counting votes during the 2020 election as Trump was well on his way to a landslide victory.

    but to think it’s the vaxxx causing the deaths and the election in 2020 was stolen is not permitted in the Animal Farm states of Ameereka.

    just ask mr potato head and his pet sushi shark mika the mako.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Everybody needs to read and share phil’s #23 linkage.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    22 Tedtam

    These details have been repeated in the media.  The friends and family of the young deceased actor, Angus Cloud, have said he was very distraught over the sudden death of his father last week.  He was very close to his father.  Cloud himself has openly discussed his battles with chronic depression and mental health problems.

    The unacknowledged, looming elephant in the room is whether he committed suicide or not.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Quick Drive-By, I just heard on the news that a lowly sailor has been arrested for accepting bribes from China. Really?!?! But the doddering old fool in the White House who has much more power than a sailor can get away with accepting bribes from China, Russia, the Ukraine and who knows who else? Beam me up Scotty.

  29. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    One more thing, Mike Pence is a steaming pile of dog doo but you already knew that.

  30. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I didn’t know that!!! The Willy’s Jeep had 3, yes 3 PTO’s, front back and center.

    Dang learn something new every day. FWIW; I thought that they only had one in the rear.

  31. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Is anybody else as sick and tired as I am of former AG Bill Barr ?  This oily, back-stabbing, hypocritical Deep State rodent has burned up my last ounce of patience.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #30 TP: I don’t think of snack Barr that highly.

  33. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #29 SD

    I did not either. Actually, I didn’t even know about the rear PTO. Should’ve already assumed the front winch was PTO driven.

     

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat – I was unaware of his depression, the story I read didn’t mention it.  Or at least I didn’t see it.

    If that’s true, my heart breaks for the young man.

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    29 Super Dave

    When I was 12 to 14 years old a family friend, Clifton Fisher, had 55 acres of splendid land in Cat Spring and he let me keep my horse there.  We would ride horseback everyday in the summer after I got off work at the ranch. His place was surrounded by two ranches that were thousands of acres each and we had permission so we would ride all over creation and certain days we’d ride fences for them and repair any breaks.

    He kept an old Willys Jeep out there and I got to drive it a few times.  For many years, I dreamed of finding one and restoring it.

    For the record, at the time you could buy land out there for $400-500 an acre.  My mother and I talked about trying to buy 20-25 acres back then which would have been $10-13,000 total.

    Adjusted for inflation, today’s price would be equal to $4,843 an acre.

    It’s now listed for around $25,000 an acre in 40 to 50 acre parcels.

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    33 Tedtam

    I checked out the story for the same reasons you did.  Like most of these young stars and celebrities, I had never heard of him.  Most of them come and go before I’m even aware of their careers or whatever it is they do.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Happy Birthday, GJT !

  38. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Also, if like me you didn’t know…

    The 17 Types of Basil

    As Johnny Carson used to say, I did not know that. 8^)

  39. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Thanks Texpat! Officially an old coot now.

  40. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Happy Birthday, GJT.  And many more.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The official announcement won’t be made until this weekend, but since the rather confused gender reveal icing in Sunshine’s birthday cake turned out green, I’m going on a limb to guess that Gummy Bear will be a Gummy Boy.

    Aggie Beau did the icing, not Lovely Daughter.  As she said, he’s an engineer, not a color theorist.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I asked Sunshine how it felt to be ten years old.

    “It feels AMAAAAAAZING!”

    I do so love that girl.  Ti voglio bene, sweetheart!

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    40 Tedtam

    …rather confused gender reveal…

    This is ominous and disturbing.  Say it ain’t so.

  44. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Today’s high here is 101, and since the humidity is “only” 53% it is still smothering but not as  nasty as it would be with a much higher humidity that truly is suffocating.  And the weather guesser is now saying we won’t have a  chance for moisture as in rain until sometime next week.  Our only moisture is back to the morning mist again.  And the sprinkler system that is holding up quite well.

  45. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Is anybody else as sick and tired as I am of former AG Bill Barr ?  This oily, back-stabbing, hypocritical Deep State rodent has burned up my last ounce of patience.

    I can think of at least one person that is.

    oily, backstabbing deep state rodent.

    that’s pretty good.

    the only thing I would’ve added to that is jelly donut gorging.

  46. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I understand now why that fly was buzzing around and landing on Mike 30 pieces of silver Pence during the 2020 VP debates.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Late to the party.

    I spent the entire day doing a ride-along with a guy who thinks he wants to hire me. 🙂

    I haven’t talked so much, and been on my feet, in I don’t know how long.

    Absolutely worn out.

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So, uh, am I gonna have to talk and walk this much if you hire me…?

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Shannon, glad to hear you at least have a nibble on a job.  I’ve been thinkin’ and worryin’ about you.

  50. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #44 Dr. Phil,

    Former AB Bill Barr seems to have vanished for a while, and now that he’s back again he seems to be barely recognizable as the same person.  Hhhmmmm. Wonder where he’s been.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GJT

    He was probably wondering if this guy was ever going shut up.

    Happy Birthday

  52. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Shannon,

    Hope something good comes of today’s meeting.

  53. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Shannon, prayers sent for the outcome from the interview to be for your best…

  54. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Lol Shannon, imagine that!

    Thanks!

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This whole stinking mess up at TAMU with them rolling over and handing one million bucks today to the jilted journalism dean from UT seems ridiculous and highly suspicious.

    The president of TAMU resigned in the middle of this because she has been accused, and has not denied, forging a journo school official’s signature to official documents.  Banks has also denied changing all kinds of things in the incoming dean’s job offer while numerous people said she did.

    Ultimately, according to the fair and balanced hyenas at the L.A. Times, it is all the fault of the white supremacist loonies at The Texas Scorecard because they exposed factual evidence about the incoming dean’s extensive history with DEI.

    It’s going to take a day or two to let the dust settle and find the fragments of truth in the debris.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    52 Texpat

    Good grief. I leave for a day and that ugly A&M story degenerates even farther?

    Haven’t seen such a cluster out of there in a long time.

     

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    56 Shannon

    The only time university regents start throwing a million bucks at a problem in the first round is when they and other people have done stupid, incriminating things and they want to shut everything down to avoid lawsuits, discovery, depositions and interrogatories.  That is when the knives come out and people’s reputations are vivisected for all to see.

    Quick, Leroy, go to the vault and get a million in cash and see if she’ll go away quietly.  It doesn’t matter; it’s not our money anyway !

  58. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon good luck on the job.

  59. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #34 Texpat when I was growing up a  Willys Jeep was fairly reasonable since a lot of them were surplused but being 4 wheel drive they had a slight premium. Now they’re hard to come by and the prices have gone through the roof. I used to see a US Marine Willys at the Pasadena Gun Show sometimes and it was a cherry. completely restored with the A/C spark plugs and shielded plug wires. Oh and a 24 volt system.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Unbelievable 

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