April 3, 2011
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(Where the heck is the thing to make a box around this! How irritating. And I can't find the font-colour thingie. Zut alors.)
Mr. Bigglesworth's blog has inspired me to buy a hose, a schpritzer, and a claw-thing, plant my Alpine grasses and flowers, and "work the earth". Very exciting. Around here the garden shops are always crammed with shoppers.
Now I'm going to vote.
ps - Later in the day, I saw magpies eating the seeds. Expensive bird feed.
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I guess 'schpritzer' isn't the same thing as a 'spritzer' although many times I wished I had a 'spritzer' while watering the lawn.
Alpine grasses sounds very exotic. I wonder if the birds only eat the seeds they can see or do they search under the soil? I'm glad my blog inspired something besides yawns. 
(mostly my own)
(wine spritzer)
So I'll have to switch back and forth between editors to get the effects I used to be able to get with _one_ editor. Progress.
"Working the earth" was very seventies here. In those days, when people started to go live in farming communes in remote places, they called it "retour à la terre". Most of my souvenirs from Switzerland have a background of green grass and flowers on and around the houses. What impressed me the most was that most driveways (in rural and semi-rural areas) were not visible before practically having our noses on them, even if at times they were quite long and meandering. From afar, the whole terrain just looked like a seamless green carpet. Quite beautiful, may I say.
There is a tiny village on Québec's North Shore called Magpie (I lived at about 150Km from it for a decade). It's very arid and cold there (can freeze at night until late June and start again from late August), so I don't know why it's called Magpie. If Wikipedia is right, it's not really magpie territory. Another mystery, like Xangan editors I guess.
By the way, I do see a box around this post. I guess it's because you switched editor as you mentioned you would have to? If not, then maybe the problem is not with Xanga... although I do have recent problems with it, I can't preview my comments when editing them (but it works when I edit a post), however I use the Plain Text. I steadily refuse to "try", to their insistance, their "newer" editors, because I'm afraid of not being able to switch back to how it was before. From what you commented on Biggles' site, maybe my hesitations were warranted. I wish that things straighten out for you. These kinds of "progresses", as you say, can turn into real pains where the back loses its name. No one needs that.
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