Ray's Thought for the Day
For about the last eight rides on the big merry-go-round* one of my, Ray's most important jobs has been controlling alien winter weeds at RGVECB. The most troublesome of these alien winter weeds, fer me, has always been rescuegrass, (Bromus uniloides) er (Bromus catharticus) if ye prefer that moniker. Har, har! Looky here. Moniker is an anagram for monkier. I got to tell that one to Red.
But be that as it may, we are now well into the rescuegrass growing season and I, together with the inspirin' Hope, have been pullin' double duty out in the grass, not only lookin for shrews and signs of shrews, but for rescuegrass, as well. Now ye may recall from among the very earliest of my commentaries within the context of this topic (RGVECB), that I spelled much on the subtopic, rescuegrass, previously, and that a great multitude of them have died by my hand. So I have been anticipatin' the commencement of yet another massacre for the last several moons. But lo and and behold neither me, nor Hope neither, nor even my esteemed sister, Rayetta, who has been monitorin' our progress with the shrew habitat, have been able to detect a single rescuegrass.
Now I, Ray am renowned in these parts as a killer, but I don't believe I could have got all of em, because as the great Robert spells "Ye caint get em all". Soooooo, somethin' else is goin' on here and hepin' me, as it were. And that somethin', I surmise, is the paucity of rainfall in these parts plus the unusally high temperatures**. The Cow Barn and vicinity have not had a good soaker since back in August of the Julian, which as you may recall, saved the warm season perennial grass crop and brought us an abundance of seed and also precipitated the mowering situation we now have relative to mowering and shrew habitat management.
Anyhow, we suspect that the paucity of rainfall and the intermittent seasonally high temperatures have helped out with the rescuegrass troubles, since rescuegrss likes cool and damp conditions. I, Ray will continue to monitior this situation and hopefully I'll get to kill some rescuegrass anon, since I, Ray have become habituated to that activity (killin' rescuegrass) during this part of the ride.
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* Ray is comparing this globes journey around sol to a merry-go-round ride. These merry-go-rounds may be encountered at fairs.
** The Druidry of RGVECB have concluded that recent weather phenomena are in part and parcel attributable to mismanagement of the environment by the liars and gluttons and that such phenomena is accelerating directionally in proportion to that mismanagement.
The Arkdruid
But be that as it may, we are now well into the rescuegrass growing season and I, together with the inspirin' Hope, have been pullin' double duty out in the grass, not only lookin for shrews and signs of shrews, but for rescuegrass, as well. Now ye may recall from among the very earliest of my commentaries within the context of this topic (RGVECB), that I spelled much on the subtopic, rescuegrass, previously, and that a great multitude of them have died by my hand. So I have been anticipatin' the commencement of yet another massacre for the last several moons. But lo and and behold neither me, nor Hope neither, nor even my esteemed sister, Rayetta, who has been monitorin' our progress with the shrew habitat, have been able to detect a single rescuegrass.
Now I, Ray am renowned in these parts as a killer, but I don't believe I could have got all of em, because as the great Robert spells "Ye caint get em all". Soooooo, somethin' else is goin' on here and hepin' me, as it were. And that somethin', I surmise, is the paucity of rainfall in these parts plus the unusally high temperatures**. The Cow Barn and vicinity have not had a good soaker since back in August of the Julian, which as you may recall, saved the warm season perennial grass crop and brought us an abundance of seed and also precipitated the mowering situation we now have relative to mowering and shrew habitat management.
Anyhow, we suspect that the paucity of rainfall and the intermittent seasonally high temperatures have helped out with the rescuegrass troubles, since rescuegrss likes cool and damp conditions. I, Ray will continue to monitior this situation and hopefully I'll get to kill some rescuegrass anon, since I, Ray have become habituated to that activity (killin' rescuegrass) during this part of the ride.
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* Ray is comparing this globes journey around sol to a merry-go-round ride. These merry-go-rounds may be encountered at fairs.
** The Druidry of RGVECB have concluded that recent weather phenomena are in part and parcel attributable to mismanagement of the environment by the liars and gluttons and that such phenomena is accelerating directionally in proportion to that mismanagement.
The Arkdruid
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, January 01, 2006
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