SILVER QUEEN UPDATE


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We don’t hold a candle to the seminal Two Mules for Sister Sarah. As some of you may recall, member Leigh and her husband sent me corn to plant this year. Leigh is fighting VA for HCV SC and is having a rough go. It seems VA doesn’t want to grant her claim. She recently underwent a liver transplant and it was pretty rough. The opportunity to do something for her was uppermost in my mind this spring. What better way than to show her how it takes less time to grow corn than to get the VA off their lazy asses and adjudicate her claim. 

Alas, it isn’t to be. She will have to go to D.C. for justice. We hoped to avoid it but, as most know, jetgun claims are a bone of contention with them. While it is a fairly well established fact that the Munjis and Pedojets of yesteryear were horribly unsanitary, VA still clings to the myth that this is merely plausible and no one has ever been documented as actually being infected by one. This lends credence to the old saw that “If we don’t investigate it, then it didn’t happen” theory.

As you can see, being stage 4 with cirrhosis and poor health  demands extraordinary measures.  I’m inherently lazy about weeding so what better way to subdue the crap than to simply pave over it for the summer? Thus the groundcover you see is simply a way to avoid work.

Farmers crow across the midwest when their corn is “knee-high by the fourth of July”. Eat your heart out, Kansas.

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7 Responses to SILVER QUEEN UPDATE

  1. Mikey's avatar Mikey says:

    I prefer the dark colored carpet method to keep weeds away while warming the soil and carpet breathes better than plywood! My Candy Corn, Bodacious are usually ready for picking around mid July.

    • asknod's avatar asknod says:

      You can’t see it but there’s candy corn and bodacious both in there with the silver queen. Also my favorite Jubilee and peaches and cream. A test flavor this year- Yukon chief. It’s reputed to ripen in 73 days. Designed for Alaska. I find the roof shingles do the trick best as they soak up heat all day and release it back to the air at night. Unfortunately, they cost $. I got a bunch free from a roofing co. but not enough to do the whole thing. Found the OSB lying around in the side shed. Leftovers from the construction days. More shingles next year. They don’t get soggy and rot. Can be stored outside.

  2. david j murphy's avatar david j murphy says:

    Have not seen any of the particular’s on Leigh’s case, however there ought to be all kinds of evidence in her pretransplant workups. There was in mine and it greased the skids very well. Wish her and her husband happy hunting in vermin ave

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