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Has Spring Sprung for You?
After a week of relentless and much needed rain here in the Bay Area, we finally had a sunny day. I took a walk around the yard to assess what all this wonderful water has done for our drought-decimated garden. Once I got beyond the weeds that grew at an alarming rate, I began to see things.
Wonderful things.
When the drought got to it’s most serious point, Brian and I had to make some hard decisions and yank out some of our most water-hogging landscape plants. In less concerned times, I had designed our garden with a cottage theme in mind. I achieved the look using summer perennials, annuals we bought at my favorite nursery in the entire Bay Area, Annie's Annuals in Richmond, antique roses, and beautiful bulbs purchased over the years on my trips to the Netherlands.
This was our garden a decade ago.
As our landscaping matured over the years, we scaled it back. It’s hard to keep up with all that. Yet, my lovely bulbs remained faithful every spring. The cottage garden gave way to a more streamlined landscaping, but we still maintained some water hogs. Three years ago, our drought got significant. Two years ago, it worsened and last year was a complete disaster for our state. We continued to scale back the garden to all but our landscaping anchors of trees, shrubs and roses. Even they suffered and the bulbs gave up their ghost. Or so I thought.
This morning, I noticed bulbs that had lingered dormant for years were poking through the weeds. A cursory pulling around some of them makes me believe that some of the tulips I bought in Holland years ago survived and are coming out of dormancy for the first time in years. Daffodils too. My hope is further bolstered by the fact that the reliable hyacinth I bought at the Keukenhof gardens in Lisse are blooming their friggin’ heads off, nearly tripled in size over the past few years. Spring is bursting at the seams in my garden.
Enjoy this link. I did.
Spring has sprung
the grass has riz
I wonder where the flowers iz
Question: Is Spring springing in your corner yet?
Community Building Updates
LET'S BUILD COMMUNITIES!
Our team is here to provide support and guidance to new and existing volunteer leaders of each regional and state group, helping them with recruiting, organizing and executing social and action events. We invite you to join in this effort to build our community. There are many ways to pitch in. If there isn't a group to join near you, please start one.
State Open Threads
Colorado: Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Mountain
Michigan: Wednesdays, 6:00 PM Eastern
North Carolina: Sundays, 1:00 PM Eastern
Washington: Sundays, 3:30 PM Pacific
Missouri: Wednesday Evenings
Kansas: Monday Evenings
Events Currently Scheduled
Saturday, March 19th at 1PM at Ferguson Brewing Company, 418 S Florissant Rd, Ferguson, Missouri. We expect to have a few guests, good food, and we will have new data available from the state house. Netroots Nation 2016 planning is also on the menu (besides great food). More info in Chris Reeves’s diary.
Northwestern Pennsylvania Kos
There will be a meet-up of Kossacks in Northwestern Pennsylvania on the evening of Thursday, March 17 at 6:00 PM at Latinos Restaurant on Parade Street in Erie, PA, in celebration of a visit from Chrislove. It is St. Patrick’s Day. A venue for the meet-up has yet to be determined, but will probably be a restaurant somewhere in the city of Erie. Stay tuned.
RSVPS:
1. gizmo59
2. gizmo59’s hubby
3. Chrislove
4. tobendaro
5. revkatie
6. Prickly Pam
7.
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There are a few more locals gizmo59 will contact to determine their interest or ability to attend. If you are somewhere near northwestern PA (Erie, Crawford or Warren Counties in Pennsylvania; Ashtabula County in Ohio, or Chautauqua County in New York) or even farther afield (Cleveland, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; Buffalo, NY), don’t hesitate to contact gizmo59 so that he knows how many to expect.
Hope to hear from you!
Save The Date! peregrine kate will be in town on Sunday, May, 15th! Event will be a picnic in San Francisco at 1:00 PM. Stay tuned for exact location. Please send navajo a kosmail if you’d like to attend.
RSVPS:
1. peregrine kate
2. navajo
3. Meteor Blades
4. smileycreek
5. paradise50
6. side pocket
7. maggiejean
8. Glen The Plumber
9. remembrance
10. TLO
11. kimoconnor
12. Steven Payne
13. Brian Payne
14. norm
15. dsb
16. Lorikeet
17. ceebee7
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Maybees:
FogCityJohn
FogCityJohn’s SO
shanikka
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Registration and hotels still available
Cheers & Jeers Welcoming Dinner Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Time: TBD, early evening, 5-ish or 6-ish Location: TBD, near Convention Center
Roll call for the C&J Dinner in Connect! Unite! Act! This will be the headcount for the C&J Dinner. Spread the word.
RSVPS:
1. navajo
2. Meteor Blades
3. Bill in Portland Maine
4. Common Sense Mainer
5. jotter
6. aha aha (Mrs. jotter)
7. side pocket
8. Mrs. side pocket
9. paradise50
10. smileycreek
11. Chris Reeves
12. Ramara
13. loggersbrat
14. Justice Putnam
15. theRoaringGirl
16. winkk
17. jakedog42
18. vicki
19. markm667
20. brillig (bday gurl that day!)
21. mik
22. K1
23. K2
24. Eddie in ME
25. moody in savannah
26. lulu
27. texasmom
28. texasdad
29. Ed Tracey
30. Shermanesq
31. Doggie
32. 714day
33. gizmo59
34. gizmo59’s squeeze
35. belinda ridgewood
36. evcoren
37. bfitzinAR
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Maybees:
norm winifred3
normAl1792
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There will also be a Daily Kos Caucus session during NN16. Stay tuned for date and time.
Event Reporting
While we are awaiting the official recap photo diary by JoanBrooker of our New York City meet-up on Sunday, February 28, 2016 with navajo and Denise Oliver-Velez, please enjoy this place-marker group photo. Several attendees were taking photos and we can promise some excellent food pr0n. Stay tuned for Joan’s report. We had a great day that lasted from noon until 8:30 PM!
Saturday, February 13, 2016, the readers of Daily Kos in North Carolina joined thousands in the 10th Annual Mass Moral March on Raleigh & HKonJ People’s Assembly GET-OUT-THE-VOTE GATHERING AND MOBILIZATION action. Our readers braved 27 degree weather! There were two diaries about it: The march the trolls couldn't stop: NC-NAACP's Moral March on Raleigh, 13 Feb 2016 by DocDawg and North Carolina Open Thread: Marching and Connecting by randallt.
Here’s one photo of many provided by both diarists:
The marvelous NYC Kossacks got together to welcome front pager, Laura Clawson, to NYC. And what a fantastic job they did. Look at all the people who showed up! Full report here.
nhox42 organized and reports details about a recent meet-up in Maine along with food pr0n! Cheers and Jeers/NE Kossacks Midwinter Meetup Success!
navajo maintains the above event list. Kosmail her if you have any diaries about your event or if you have changes or additions.
This is an open thread. Nothing is off topic.