From: Rich Gauszka 

Dang Mark - next you'll tell us you are a charter member of the Sierra Club 


Mark wrote:
> Reminds me of the time I ordered 40 (count em, 40!) "2-3 foot tall"
> evergreen trees for something like $24.95. The package arrived with 40 2'
> long sticks in it  39 died, but one grew to 20' or so before I moved. I
> replaced the others with real arbor vitae trees from local sources.
>
> I used to grow a lot of vegetables too (corn being the very best thing to
> grow yourself for that incredible freshness) and I recall a
> hedgehog/groundhog was starting to steal my stuff, so I borrowed a gun and
> had him dead in my sights, then said to myself, "eh, we can barely eat all
> the crops as it is" and pulled the gun to the left and just scared him a
> bit.  like me too!>
>
> "Richard B."  wrote in message
> news:rtfeu2pgloaaqvsmvkp69c9s3jd2vk7q1e{at}4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:22:07 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>>> Says Mr Gore, but .. but .. but.. we buy a lot of green devices..
>> I'm going to toot my own horn here, a passionate conservative who
>> doesn't like labels. 
>>
>> My yard had one tree on the side that was partially in my neighbor's
>> yard.  That is it 6 years ago.  I now have about 20 trees, all which I
>> planted.  I put in a compact fluorescent light on the front porch
>> because I got tired of changing it so often....the real reason is in
>> the summer I leave it on all night so the tree frogs can catch bugs
>> and I like to see the opossum come by for a snack.  I feed the
>> wildlife in the backyard and grow passionflowers to feed the
>> butterflies.  I have a handful of once homeless but now adopted pets.
>> I've got quite a little planet all my own.
>>
>> So when I see a great fool like Al Gore and his minions spewing his
>> ecological sewerage from every orifice, why, it reminds me time and
>> again that it's not in the yapping, it is in the action.  What a
>> fabulous hypocrite he is indeed.
>>
>> - Richard
>
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