Fall Revelations...

So, this "fall" (as I know it should be winterish already) in New Jersey has brought me to a realization.

Oklahoma doesn't have many trees. Now, don't get me wrong -- there are trees and even forests. However, these tend to be within a certain mile radius of rivers or lakes (or honest to god creeks that are SMALL). But in the towns and cities, not so much.

This never really occured much to me when I lived in Philadelphia. But now whereever I drive in New Jersey, town or not, there are trees, trees, trees. I can't remember if our first house had a shade tree - I know our second didn't because that was why I loved visiting my friend's house was so I could climb on their weeping willow (the only one in the entire town because Willow trees don't do well in drought prone areas). My grandparents had several trees (at least before my grandpa got chainsaw happy ten or so years ago), but their house was older and in an older section of town and also in a town that used to be in a forest area (prior to coal mining anyways). Our next door neighbors when I was a kid had ONE tree (pecan was grafted onto it - yum) but it was huge and old. Our current house is next to a large gulch/gorge and so from out of that comes trees but much of the surrounding land is pasture and not so much.

It had never occurred much to me until I moved out here to NJ and was assaulted by trees (novel after living so many years in Philadelphia). You'd think I would have realized it when I lived in Missouri (omg, trees EVERYWHERE in that state), but I guess it didn't mostly because MO has so many rivers and lakes and so that still seemed normalish to me?

Anyways...just fall musings..

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I tried to find some Burn Notice vids (and succeeded, sadly -- my eyes will never be the same)

I did stumble on a decent Dead Like Me vid though.

And now I find that halcyon_shift has never watched Dead Like Me. Any help w/ pimping is appreciated...

Because I am sheep and my flist is dead...I mean, empty..

More meme! It's that one with the asking questions via a poll, and thenthe anonymous answering? Only, for "poll" read "screened comment". Askme what you want, about anything, particularly if it never happened.

Question 1

Because I need the distraction NOW.

If you weren't DOCTOR Jebbypal, what career do you think you'd have liked to pursue? Feel free to not be limited by banal convention - dimension-hopping astrophysicist and world renowned cheese maker is perfectly valid.

Hmmmm, well, I guess I have mad scientist already wrapped up, don't I?
( ahh, the possibilities )

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Whee..home again. :P:P

methinks I'll go watch some burn notice in prep for winter_deaddrop (2.5 more days left to post your wishlist!!) since there's nothing on TV tonight.