This thread is totally random

[finesse]

Oops.

You planted wisteria.

No. I moved into a place that had about 10,000 sq. yards of mostly 6 inch tall pine and maple sapling, wild grape. dog fennel, briars and Japanese stilt grass interwoven with Japanese wisteria that also climbed all the surrounding trees. Out of sheer boredom, I decided to turn it into a bird and butterfly garden with all native perennials without using power tools. I've had mixed success but enough that I'm not giving up.

I could actually try to learn what I'm supposed to but I've done the rest of my life by whim so it's too late to stop now.

 

[Zoo_View]

No. I moved into a place that had about 10,000 sq. yards of mostly 6 inch tall pine and maple sapling, wild grape. dog fennel, briars and Japanese stilt grass interwoven with Japanese wisteria that also climbed all the surrounding trees. Out of sheer boredom, I decided to turn it into a bird and butterfly garden with all native perennials without using power tools. I've had mixed success but enough that I'm not giving up.

I could actually try to learn what I'm supposed to but I've done the rest of my life by whim so it's too late to stop now.

I applaud you!

I’d love to see what you’re doing and I’ll bring tools and a willingness to kill invasive plants.

I’m on a gravel road well west of you (based on your posts, I think you’re on or about Hatch Road); but, in Orange County. I spend a good bit of time and energy each year killing bamboo grass and Russian olive bushes.

 

[finesse]

Yeah ,I'm on the short side of Hatch Road. Not too much to see yet. I have had about 30 Virginia bluebells come up and there is a little stuff showing signs of budding but a fair amount of what I've planted won't do much until next year. Native perennials are tradeoffs. Harder to make fast progress but they don't take much care.

 

[UNCatTech]

Oops.

You planted wisteria.

I made this mistake once.

It took me several years of cutting and applying roundup to finally kill it.

 

[05C40]

Link: Using a ‘Tiny Bit of Math’ May Improve Your Heart Health, Study Suggests ‘A Tiny Bit of Math’ Might Improve Your Heart Health, Study Suggests

In the linked article, the ratio of average heart rate to number of steps taken is used as a predictor of heart health. But the NY Times article uses both "average heart rate" and "average resting heart rate." I figure it has to be "average resting heart rate" because the device used in the study does not have a "average heart rate" metric. Can anyone whose knows more about this, my estimate about 99% of the board, inform me which metric was used in the cited study, "average" or "average resting"?

 

[donbosco]

Walking #RiversidePark in NYC is a thing I do often. While out with Prince and Maxie I’ve circled The General Ulysses S. Grant National Memorial approximately 1,642 times over the last few years. One of the things to view at Grant's Tomb is the "Rolling Bench." Here's that story: "The Rolling Bench (1972–1974). A 400-foot mosaic bench, The Rolling Bench was described as the largest public arts project in the country when it was built between 1972 and 1974 by City Arts Workshop, the organization that would later become CITYarts, Inc. The Rolling Bench was designed by a group of artists and youth, and the work on the bench was led by Chilean-born New York artist Pedro Silva and the architect Phillip Danzig.

The benches were not universally popular and there was much debate over whether or not to destroy or move the benches, citing architectural conflict between the neoclassical tomb and the modern, colorful bench. In 1997, the benches were nearly removed by the Park Service as part of the 100th anniversary renovations of Grant's Tomb. The Park Service cut out a small section of the benches and lifted it a few inches to assess how difficult it would be to move them. However, The Rolling Bench was not removed and was restored in 2008 with the help of one of the original artists and many of the original volunteers, together with a group of young artists. It is also a current restoration project undertaken by CITYarts as of summer 2021." CITYarts, Inc. - Wikipedia.