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Re: PPB: Dandelions / George Sulzbach

#734251
From: will.dockery@gma
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:16
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Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 2:02:04 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>>
>> > On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 1:07:59 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 11:04:48 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>> >> > On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 10:19:04 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> > > Family Guy wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > > On Monday, April 12, 2021 at 12:02:04 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> > > >> Zod wrote:
>> >> > > >>
>> >> > > >> > On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 1:49:28 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> > > >> >> On Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 2:03:30 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
>> >> > > >> >> >
>> >> > > >> >> > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> >> > > >> >> > Dandelions, by George Sulzbach
>> >> > > >> >> > [...]
>> >> > > >> >> >
>> >> > > >> >> > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2020/05/blog-post.html
>> >> > > >> >>
>> >> > > >> >> Again, Zod, I think you should expand your "Sunday Sampler" website/chapbook to include a few of your "greatest hits", such as this one..
>> >> > > >> >>
>> >> > > >> >> ;)
>> >> > > >>
>> >> > > >> > By golly I think I will..................
>> >> > > >>
>> >> > > >> Set it up on Blogspot:
>> >> > > >>
>> >> > > >> https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Stop xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Perhaps you should try that?
>> >> > Speaking of dandelions:
>> >> >
>> >> > Last Saturday (4/7/2021) I saw the first dandelions of the year in bloom. Today (4/18/2021), they're out in force. None have gone to seed as yet.
>> >> >
>> >> > I guess it will be another week or two before we can laugh knowing that Spring is just around the corner.
>> >> I reported the first dandelions going to seed here at least a month ago, maybe sooner.
>> >
>> > I know you did.
>> >
>> > And I explained to you then that Georgia is in the sub-tropic zone where traditional seasonal changes are not applicable.
>> > The current temperature here (in a temperate zone) is 60 degrees Fahrenheit.. Trees are blossoming, leaves are budding, grass is green, daffodils, tulips, magnolias, forsythia, etc., have been blooming for almost a month. By any traditional understanding of "Spring" (calendrical included) -- it's here.
>> > Dandelions bloom in 60 degree weather. If the weather in Georgia is 65 degrees, and the dandelions have gone to seed, "Spring" has been around for several weeks -- regardless of the calendar date.
>> I mentioned similar circumstances in this discussion last year.
>
> Good.  Then you agree that "'Spring' has been around for several weeks" if the dandelions are in bloom.
>
> And, if "'Spring' has been around for several weeks if the dandelions are in bloom," then Lo-Ho's wish that Spring will come soon is as idiotic as the drunken pissbum who wrote about it.

Your name calling of Loretta is noted.

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