Ma and Pa's Blog

I like looking into these peepers!

Just saw a blurb on the morning news about Scotts / Miracle Grow pursuing sales growth in the medical marijuana field. I thought it was curious that a company with the most severe smoking ban (no smoking at work or at home for employees) would promote the use of their products to grow weed. Below are links to articles on the two subjects.

High Hopes at Miracle-Gro in Medical Marijuana Field

The Legal Ability to Mandate a Smoke-Free Workforce

Mike and Jen held Owen’s birthday party at Wingfoot Lake (now a state park). The rains ended just in time (1 day before), and, although it was cool, everyone seem to enjoy being outside and watching Owen, Caleb, and cousins Kate and Anna romp in the park and at the playgrounds.

One tree seems to have some spirits that want out.

Just seeing how this works. Please excuse me.

It’s a little scary that we may, over time, become so isolated, because web sites are customizing the content they offer up based on individual behaviors.  We can then each become ignorant of perspectives different from our own.

I have a new favorite Facebook comment thread:  some troll on a site commented “Your litteraly to stupid to insult.”  One lone comment:  “Oh, the irony.”  “Like” indeed.

A letter from the newly appointed chairperson of the Democrat Party asked what would we like to see in a new chairman.  I wrote back and asked them to grow a pair.  Was that wrong?

This is what I imagine every time I see companies going overboard with marketing schemes and promotions that say nothing about the quality, utility or aesthetic of the product being offered.   It’s likely close to the conversations that went on (go on?) at the investment firms and banks that created the real estate crisis . . . just substitute “sub-prime mortgage instruments” for “billing errors”.   I really wish honesty could trump greed more often . . .  I guess that’s what heaven and hell are for.