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Goines wondered whether Trump would still be dictator when the tree was 20 feet tall. “Trump won’t still be alive then,” Mrs. Goines said.
God, had he actually said that about Dictator Trump? Goines wondered.
“It’ll be one of Trump’s children,” Mrs. Goines said.
“Queen Ivanka,” Goines said.
“But we won’t be alive then either,” Mrs. Goines said.
“Who would want to be alive for that?” Goines said. Or he thought he said it.
How many little oak trees had he pulled? Goines wondered. They looked so much like other “weeds.”
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Always love Goins On. Best to pull those oak seedlings, or most of them-if you just mow them they become like hundreds of little punji sticks and will puncture a rubber flip flop.
ReplyDeleteI myself (and Goines, too, I'm sure) have pulled hundreds of one- or two-foot trees to find their tap root to be already a foot long or more. I routinely plunge a narrow trowel or a long nail into the ground all around such a tree preparatory to trying to pull it, usually with both hands (gloved). Another instance of the infinite marvels of Nature, of life on earth.
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