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Omaha Steve

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7. We had winter wheat once 25 or so years ago

Reply to herding cats (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 9, 2014, 09:15 PM

Oct 2014

It was in a rock retaining wall. Same bird planted way.

This just seemed too wide an area to all show up at once this year. But with the rain we've had this year, everything is growing. Like the story in "The Illustrated Man" on the planet where it never stops raining.

Or the story "All Summer in a Day"

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Mother Nature provided a gift for our birds [View all] Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP

hey let me ask you Skittles Oct 2014 #1

They do the same thing here Omaha Steve Oct 2014 #5

sometimes if I am off schedule a blue jay will loudly screech a reminder Skittles Oct 2014 #8

Awesome! I loved the wild raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and cherries growing up. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2014 #2

Lovely! cwydro Oct 2014 #3

What neat little surprise! herding cats Oct 2014 #4

We had winter wheat once 25 or so years ago Omaha Steve Oct 2014 #7

Boil to syrup to avoid coughs and sore throats take a little every day lunasun Oct 2014 #6

It's the beeeeeeeest BrotherIvan Oct 2014 #11

Elderberries make the best pie. Sweet Freedom Oct 2014 #9

Drinkin' with the birdees shenmue Oct 2014 #10

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