Gardening for Real People, Part V

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An important part of garden maintenance is "Dead Heading" your roses:



(Although it is hard to capture in a photo, it is highly recommended that one douse oneself in patchouly oil before performing this operation.)

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  1. Anonymous6:04 PM

    This had me cracking up. I will say that you do look genuinely stoned in this picture. But that's illegal, so you don't do that.

    Just a little aside, I used to have a girlfriend that would always buy me patchouly oil soap because she absolutely loved the scent (she was kinda like a modern hippy). Everywhere I'd go people would be like, "ugh, what's that smell?". Ah, the things I do for a little a lovin'.

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  2. Anonymous2:15 PM

    Are you flashing gang signs in that photo?

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    1. gcallah2:41 PM

      Trying to dance like a Dead Head.

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    2. Anonymous5:57 PM

      Then you should be "spinning". But then, you probably don't belong to the _Church of Unlimited Devotion_.

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  3. Anonymous5:59 PM

    I'm curious, were you actually listening to the Grateful Dead while gardening? Knowing you, you probably were.

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    1. gcallah6:12 PM

      Could have been, but in fact wasn't.

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  4. gcallah6:11 PM

    I was spinning, But it's a still photograph you know.

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    1. Anonymous6:41 PM

      That reminds me of a photo that I took of a windmill farm in Kansas (seriously, they're EVERYWHERE out there). I posted it with the caption, "this is actually a video", because in real life they really weren't spinning. I probably should have taken video footage to capture that, but oh well.

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