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Skate Park Cost Shoots Ever-Higher. Looks Like We May Get Ripped Off. Again.

When they first started selling us on the skate park, the estimated cost was around $200,000.

Pretty small potatoes, in the grand scheme of things – considering City council wasted over ONE POINT FIVE MILLION dollars (or almost EIGHT TIMES MORE) just to renovate the Old City Hall building that nobody (except City council and City employees) gets to use.

Then a year later in August 2021 (page 20), we were informed that actually, the cost will be more like $400,000 – a straight doubling of cost in one year.

NOW, hidden down on page 65 of the latest council packets, Finley informs us that “consultants estimated the increased cost of construction to be on the order of $170,000“.

By my math that makes it $570,000 for this thing – but the packet (page 69) tells us $470,000

Of course, that same page also tells us a lot of what ISN’T included and will be “done by others”:

So your guess is as good as mine but I’d say we are looking at WAY over a half-million bucks for sure. Sounds very expensive to me. I paid less than that for my house – and this is just a bunch of shaped concrete. According to the plans (page 69 again) the Lampasas skate park will be 5,000 square feet.

Let’s see what the experts say:

The average price to design and build a skatepark is from $40-$60 per square foot. Most projects cost around $50 per square foot in total. Skateparks rarely are more than $65 per square footand can sometimes be as low as $25 per square foot.

At the average cost of $50 per square foot:

A 3,000 square foot skate spot will be $150,000 and will support a few skaters at a time.
An 8,000 square footskatepark will be $400,000and will serve a neighborhood of about 25,000 residents.

So we’ll get 5,000 square feet instead of 8,000, it will cost about $100,000 more than the above assumptions, and Lampasas county has pretty close to 25,000 residents. It works out to about $100 per square foot – or double what the experts say is average.

All in all, it sounds like the kind of typical fucked-up, overpriced deal that TJ Monroe and Cathy Kuehne would slobber over and call “an excellent price” while a couple hundred grand of tax dollars disappear unaccounted for into thin air (see also: Campbell Park pre-fab bathroom, new City council chambers, Azbell A/V system, Business Pork Project, RKJ elevator, etc).

I also don’t hear a peep about “volunteers” or “fundraising” anymore. That charade has been dropped. This will come 100% out of the taxpayer’s hide. As usual.

I can GUARANTEE you that neither Kuehne nor Monroe (nor Williamson) has spent one second of their time Googling “skate park costs” over the last two years. This is all play money to them – especially Kuehne who is up for election next month.

Even Those Frog-Eating Socialist Loons Know How to Vote Properly.

Yesterday, the socialist nation of France held elections.

In that election, there was no mail-in voting or early voting. They use paper ballots cast in person and counted by hand.

In fact, mail in voting was BANNED in 1975 amid fear of potential fraud!

There was a mandatory proof of ID to vote.

Why can’t we get that basic election integrity here? Much of the rest of the world understands how to run secure elections. Hell, even Puerto Rico is far more stringent than us. You know, that entire island populated by “people of color”. Somehow THEY all manage to get with the program and obtain ID for themselves.

One can only conclude that: a) those opposing voter ID laws (like local socialist bum Comrade Clayton Tucker) are racist/classist/elitist toward those they (incorrectly) view to be inferior and without the means and wherewithal to get a voter ID (see Ami Horowitz’s video)

Or…

b) the issue is just a smokescreen and those who oppose stricter voter ID laws really ultimately want to facilitate voter fraud and voting by non-citizens because they believe it benefits them politically in terms of obtaining and retaining power.

Some Lady Rented Out The Hostess House – Shows Us What a Shit Pile It Is…

Catherine Groothoff recently rented out the Hostess House.

It did not go well:

The City only just barely took control of the Hostess House a mere 29 months ago! What do you think they are…miracle workers?

Catherine must be new in town or she doesn’t read here. If she DID, she would understand that the numbskulls who run the City can’t be bothered with the little things. They are too busy arguing about how to blow the next million dollars on some hare-brained project – like the Business Pork.

You want them to spend $400 or $500 to fix a sink and get a new microwave? Surely you jest. They are busy planning to spend $1.4 million on the Hostess House “facelift” and “minor repairs”. It will take another year in addition to that $1.4 million. They cannot be bothered to replace a microwave. What fun is that?

I’m sure they DO have people to fix a sink, but they are too busy wasting time and money putting in hose bibs, pipes and a $12,750 water tank for a local moron to grow a couple of squash at the Community Garden!

It’s the same reason they blow almost $200,000 on a “pavilion” but literally 100 feet away at the local pool, they won’t spend any money to hike lifeguard wages to make sure the pool is fully staffed for summer. They’d rather close it an extra day every week.

It’s the same reason the City electric fund is “in trouble” and rates had to be hiked on everyone last November while they simultaneously give out hundreds of thousands of dollars in ‘free’ electrical subsidies to rich developers at Stone Valley, Hidden Oaks and Hillside Acres.

See how it works?

It’s also the reason the water fountains at the 580 Sports Complex have been non-functioning since March 2020. They cannot be bothered with something that tiny. They are too busy deciding if they should waste $1.3 million on a bike path over there that nobody will use.

Now, I’m not sure who to point the finger at…..so I’m just going to go ahead point it squarely at Cathy Kuehne since she is up for election next month and actually has a challenger. She’s also the one who was quoted that they should keep the historical look at Hostess House “even if it costs a little more“.

Cathy Kuehne: great spender of OTHER people’s money since 2018!

NOW It All Make Sense

I always wondered why Robert Francis put his hands protectively around Comrade Clayton Tucker….

Comrade Clayton went from short hair and clothes you might find in the men’s department to looking like a lesbian at a hemp rally….

The purse…the fupa…the longer hair…

It all makes sense now….

As the kids say: “OK groomer!”

Weird. Now that Robert Francis is officially running for governor, you’d think Comrade Clayton would be pumping him (pardon the pun) on his Twitter and FB pages non-stop. But Clayton Tucker has been strangely silent about Robert’s entire campaign.

Maybe it’s because even Comrade Clayton knows O’Rourke is going to get destroyed in November and can’t be bothered to waste any typing on him.

OR, maybe we need to ask Clayton to show us on a doll where Robert Francis touched her/she/him/his.

***Yes, yes we know about your “big news”: you’re transitioning to female. I guess we can add “Freedom from a ball sack” to the list above.***

More Proof Liberals Are Morons Who Deserve To Be Scorned And Shipped Off To California.

I really hate liberals. Is that apparent yet? These aren’t the Carter liberals from my childhood who merely bleated for more welfare spending. These are complete commie lunatics who want to take down America. I cannot share Texas with them. Like termites, they should be removed and sent to California or New York

Today we have Krista Lindley:

Whenever I see someone asking for something very basic like this, I think to myself “has this person never heard of Google? This looks like a very helpless/dumb person. This person is probably a liberal”.

I’m not talking about people who ask LCBN to recommend a contractor – that is a different story. There are times you need to ask the community for a reputable painter or contractor because there are a lot of shady shits out there who will ruin your house with poor workmanship.

THIS can be solved by Googling “Lampasas appliance repair” in 3 seconds.

So I decided to dig deeper and see how liberal this moron was. If you are friends with Krista Lindley, you may want to stop reading here. I am about to rip her to pieces and it will not be pretty.

Krista is not only too stupid to use Google, she is too stupid to remember the answer to a question she already asked 3.5 years ago:

I just KNEW this had to be a Biden-loving, triple-vaxxed, BLM-cheering, free-college-loving retard.

I was right.

Over a YEAR since the “pandemic” started, and she is still too petrified to walk around outside. This shows she is incapable of reading statistics and data on Covid – because they all show that as a young female, she is not at risk. This is more evidence that she is a moron incapable of critical thinking.

She also went ahead and injected a brand-new “vaccine” into herself AND her young kid, despite this “vaccine” not being subjected to the years of testing we normally do for a “vaccine”:

Yeah…I remember when I got “vaccinated” for the second and third and fourth times for polio as a kid. Totally normal to get “vaccinated” over and over, right?

She is also too stupid to see the difference between burning, looting and destroying entire cities (BLM protests) and a protest at the Capitol building where video shows Capitol police OPENING THE DOORS and waving people in. The January 6th protestors did not burn down anything or shoot anyone. That would be the Capitol police shooting an unarmed woman named Ashli Babbitt.

You see, the Capitol Police officer who murdered Ashli Babbitt was a black man…so he cannot possibly be at fault.

But to morons like Krista, they are the same thing, apparently:

Because looting and burning Target stores and electronics stores and running out with expensive stereo equipment is a completely valid and normal way to protest something in the tiny mind of Krista Lindley.

Yes, I DO call the dems “violent protesters” – they did billions in damage.

Naturally, she is in love with Joe Biden:

But she is a little miffed that Joe didn’t just let every deadbeat off the hook with their college loans – she thinks college should be “free”…

That way, everyone can soak the taxpayer for hundreds of thousands of dollars for useless degrees like “nutrition”:

Grad school too! What’s that like? Six years total of “eat more veggies and less McDonald’s”? Wow. Sounds like a very difficult area of study. Too bad you didn’t take a class on how to replace the drive belt on a clothes dryer though, hey?

So the guy who goes out and fixes Miss Liberal’s dryer, air-conditioning, SUV transmission, leaky faucet, etc likely said “fuck college” and went to a trade school to learn useful skills. Miss Liberal now wants THAT guy (the repair man who saved her ass) to pay for HER useless degree though his taxes.

Sounds really fair.

If you love Biden, then you obviously also love border jumpers – and you hate Trump:

No, the problem with illegal invaders is (1) they vote in elections that they are not allowed to vote in, thus putting shitheads like Greg Casar into office (2) they are a massive drain on the taxpayer through things like Medicaid, food stamps and the hiring of more teachers to teach English to illiterates.

[Krista also ignores how her hero Joe Biden used an S Corp to avoid paying taxes on the $13 million in speaking fees he and his wife collected. Who in hell pays money to listen to Joe Biden ramble incoherently? Morons like Krista Lindley, I would assume]

You know what I hope? I hope that when Lampasas Appliance Repair (who kicks ass, by the way) shows up, they tell her she needs a new belt but it will be 6 months because Joe Biden’s idiotic policies have incentivized people not to work – so the belt factory had to shut down for a while.

Also, the moronic Covid lockdowns that crashed the economy (but which Krista Lindley loudly supported because she has a Nerf job herself) also shuttered 50% of the dryer belt-making factories.

Also, that dryer belt will cost 300% more than it did three years ago, because of Joe Biden’s retarded economic policies, which include printing up trillions and handing them out to deadbeats. It will also be tough to find a driver to deliver it. If we DO find a driver, there will be a 10% fuel surcharge because the price of diesel is $5 a gallon – ALSO thanks to your hero Joe Biden.

In short Krista Lindley, I hope you end up washing your clothes with two rocks in a stream and hanging them from a clothesline to dry them – because that is what they do in shit-hole socialist failed nations like Cuba and Venezuela, you absolute unmatched imbecile.

Thank Fossil Fuels For Keeping Your Fridge On Today.

I just happened to check the ERCOT dashboard today, as I was wondering how Bruce Haywood’s beloved solar was doing on a cloudy day like today. You’d think wind would pick up the slack, but you’d be wrong:

Hey, what’s a 10 GIGAWATT shortfall between friends?

The grid MUST be in balance every millisecond of every day. When you turn on a light or a heater, the grid MUST increase generated power by EXACTLY that amount. It is a miracle of modern technology.

When solar and wind shit the bed, who comes through and saves the day? That’s right – gas, oil and nuclear.

Nuclear, gas and oil are very reliable because their fuel can be stored easily. Solar and wind are extremely UNPREDICTABLE, which makes life 100x harder for grid operators.

Luckily, we are not “100% renewable” here in Texas like Comrade Clayton Tucker and Bruce Haywire want us to be. Otherwise, we’d all be sitting in the dark with rotting food in the fridge and toilets that won’t flush.

And again on March 29th…

Success Has Many Faces…

To an able-bodied, 31-year-old male who is a socialist bum, lives with his parents and whose accomplishments in life could rest comfortably on an eyelash, this probably DOES look like “success”.

I guess we all have different ideas about success. You could look at this and say “wow – 12 people attending in a county of 20,000 citizens is not really very successful”.

OR you could say “wow – putting that sign that said FREE SOUP under the bridge in the homeless encampment really brought in a crowd!”. Which is what this actually looks like to me.

I’ll admit, the smaller this group gets every year, the more erect I will become.

It is pretty much how I would expect a Democratic convention to be, however:

**Bruce Haywood has REALLY thrown in the towel.**

Moocher guy who looks like he is there for free food, has crumbs in his beard and will corner you and go into a 45-minute dissertation about how there is an engine that gets 200mpg but Big Oil bought up the patent? Check.

Dummy older guy who still wears a mask thinking it will protect him because his feeble brain has been snapped by CNN propaganda? Check.

A gaggle of old ladies who are just lonely and want someone to talk to? Check.

Female to male ratio of about 3:1? Check – which backs up my beliefs that to be a Democrat you are either a chick (mostly operate on emotion as opposed to logic) or a very stupid man (see: Bruce Haywood/Clayton Tucker/Heath Bishop).

I can forgive women falling for socialist/commie crap because their brains are wired more for emotion. They usually believe in silly things like astrology, palm reading, aromatherapy, pyramid schemes and “life coaches”.

Men who fall for this shit, on the other hand, deserve every ounce of ridicule and scorn we can muster. They should know better.

**“I was told there would be free soup!”**

Congratulations, Clayton Tucker! May your convention continue to draw a dozen people for years and years to come! Let’s Go Brandon!!!

Government Employee Cathy Kuehne is Seriously Deluded. Thinks She is a Small Business Expert

The delusions are strong with this one. I’m talking Julie Cain Landrum level of delusion.

In today’s Dispatch, Cathy Kuehne (who has been on City council for four years already) was asked to tell us about what she brings to the table as she runs for a third term.

After following her for four years on this blog, I can tell you with great confidence that the REAL answer to that question is an emphatic “nothing“…unless you count a lot of expensive screw-ups, ridiculous money wasting and hysteria about Covid.

She trots out her college major in Business Administration as proof of her business acumen. When you are in your 50s and still talking about what you majored in in college, you are seriously grasping at straws. Nobody gives a shit about that.

This is a woman who thinks spending $1.4 million to give the Hostess House a “facelift” so they can rent it out for $10,000 per year is a brilliant move.

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She claims that thanks to her 30-year-old BBA degree, “she learned what it takes to keep a business running efficiently and effectively…skills which I have applied to our personal business as well“

What business is that? I thought you were a public school teacher for the last 30 years? Last I checked, you and your husband are full time employees of the Lampasas School District – pulling down a combined $126,000 per ~~year~~ nine months….PLUS benefits, sick days, 10 days of Covid leave IN ADDITION to regular sick leave (which is no doubt abused by everyone), all federal holidays, summers off and future pensions guaranteed. All to teach ‘art’, or something.

Is she talking about her “business” of taking photos of kids sports teams? I’d call that more of a hobby. You have no employees, no suppliers, no transportation costs, no exposure to massive price in creases of your packaging costs or shipping costs – and since you and your husband BOTH have extreme job security provided by the taxpayers, you could literally run that ‘business’ at a $10,000 per year loss and it wouldn’t hurt you a bit. It is a side hustle…NOT a small business.

Here are some REAL small businesses: Cherry on Top, Lampasas Beer Market, Bill’s Burgers, Copy Cat, M&M Butcher Block, Alfredo’s, Giovanis, Legacy Awning, PhoLicious, Putters & Gutters, Eve’s Cafe. THOSE are people risking their savings and dealing with 20 different issues every day.

You take pictures of little kids.

Oooh. That sounded a bit weird. Sorry.

Unfortunately, I think Kuehne has her sights set on being mayor someday. That cannot happen. She is part of the Talbert Faction of Cronies. This includes Misti Talbert (now wreaking financial havoc at the LEDC), TJ Monroe (current mayor), and Chuck “The Vampire” Williamson (who has his strings pulled by Monroe). It is an incestuous group that has squandered incredible sums of money over the last 6 or 8 years.

All remnants of the Talbert Faction of Cronies need to be pushed out of the Lampasas political body like a large bowel movement and flushed down the toilet. We need more council members who have actually lived in the real world and run a REAL small business. Zac Morris and Herb Pearce were a good start. Replacing Kuehne with Myles Haider (small business owner) would be a great continuation of this process.

Business Pork Prospects: Dwindling By The Day…

And then there were three (maybe)….

We went from “about four” Business Pork prospects…then to the five supposed prospects the City finally sent me…and now it looks like there are only three left. We know for a fact that Eco-Strong is a complete sham and a joke. It now appears that PhoLicious is now just doing what small business owners do: solving the problem themselves.

You’ll recall that only a few weeks ago, I suggested that PhoLicious only needed some warehouse space – and not a $7 million Business Pork that is still over a year away from ‘completion’. I suggested three different empty buildings around town, but apparently the owner is looking at a better solution.

Good man, Mr. Trousdale!

Ya’ll be sure to get your Pho tomorrow and help out this new local business.

Janet “Crazier” Crozier Falls For “Old Russian Cripple” Prank. Sorry Janet: Haywood Jablowmi Is Actually Me.

My issues with local locust Janet “Crazier” Crozier are well documented (HERE and HERE) over the last couple years. She has cost the City a small fortune with her hare-brained schemes, and is currently in the process of trying to sponge ANOTHER $13,000 or so off of the City for her “community garden”. The moment she started grabbing public funds for her “private and volunteer” club is the moment I had to go on the offensive.

Over six months ago, she posted that she was looking for handicapped people so she could grab some more free money in the form of accessibility grants. Mind you, she has ALREADY managed to blow over $15,000 and is looking to grab another $13,000 for rainwater catch tanks. Besides being a VERY questionable use of City HOT funds, the tanks are superfluous in that she ALREADY had the City install pipes and spigots to provide subsidized City water.

Naturally, I had to email her and pretend to be a crippled old Russian in a wheelchair. The entire exchange (which has been running for the last six months) is below. I made my responses more and more ridiculous to see if she would ever catch on. Naturally, she did not.

Janet is in red text and “Haywood Jablowmi” is in blue:

Hello to the Community Garden!

I saw post for gardening with back injuries. I have much interest in this. Is very thoughtful for you to include injured citizens into your grand plans of gardening. I have this kind of injury after many hunting trips and carrying huge load of deer meat on my shoulders. That will crumble the back, for sure. I also spend some time in iron lung but not too much.

I am very interested in gardening as I miss growing very large and girthy zucchini for my wife.

What is your plan for helping us with old bad backs with gardening? I am in the wheelchair but it is very sturdy.

Thanks you very much for this!

Haywood Jablowmi
Lampasas

Thank you for your interest in gardening. I am in the process of writing a grant to allow us to purchase materials to allow wheelchair access. The entrance into the garden is uneven and will require a rubberized material that will not slip so that wheelchairs can maneuver in and around the garden area. Unfortunately it is very expensive and I am interested in seeing if I have enough people interested in gardening to pursue this. Building the raised beds is not a concern. We have most of the materials to do that. The raised beds can be 4’x4′ or smaller, but they will be built so that you can move around the bed. We would like to serve at least 4 individuals to make it worth the effort. Hopefully, we can garner enough interest to pursue this grant.

I will keep your contact information and keep you informed as we start to move forward with this project. Thank you for your interest.

Best regards, Janet Crozier, President Lampasas Community Gardens

Greetings again!

I have wondered about the wheelchair access for the grand community garden place! Have you found anymore unfortunate handicapped souls like myself to grow vegetables by the Hanna pool? This weather is very good for growing now – radishes and other root crops do very well now.

Haywood Jablowmi

Hello again, I know I have talked to others in wheelchairs and at that time I had nothing to offer them. I talked to the Parks Board director this week about getting the entrance into the garden built up and leveled off. There is a very expensive mat that will need to be purchased to enable a wheelchair to come into the garden and have it cover the floor of the garden area so you can move around. This is not a project that can be accomplished with out a grant and some engineering. I am trying to find some people to help with this. Be patient we will get there.

Dear community garden!

Ah yes. I see now. Of course, EVERYTHING is much more very expensive these days – since the year started on very bad foot with Brandon. I’m sure there is some money sloshing around out there in government – there always is. Perhaps I will contact my neighbor Clayton Tucker about this. He has many connections with the government spending, it seems. As champion of the little people in wheeled chairs, I will try to count on him.

I have a question for you, how limiting is your ability to use your wheelchair on a dirt path? Can your wheelchair move on artificial turf? Are you only able to use the wheelchair on level cement or asphalt?

I am very good at traversing all the terrains in my chair with wheels. You name it. On artificial turf during football game. On dirt when chasing down wounded deer with arrow in its liver from good shot with bow. Also on cement, which is easy to roll over at the Wal-Mart.

Sand gives me much trouble. No beach for me. I get bogged down like a monkey doing calculus, to be honest.

Thank you for asking!

I am working on some alternatives to the expensive mat and the equally expensive artificial turf. I have not been able to get the information from the City that I need at this time. I will continue to pursue this before our spring gardening season. Keep the faith. janet

This is very joyous news!! I have told my wife that we will plant bushels of girthy zucchini and squash during the spring solstice. We are both so happy that there may be crying tonight into our borscht. Thanks you, miss Yoder Crozier!

Hello Mr. Jablowmi,

I want to let you know about a class I am offering at the A&M Agriculture Center Conference Room on November 16 at 3:30-4:30. I will be teaching the Square Foot Gardening Method. This is the method that I think would be the most beneficial to you as a wheelchair gardener. The class is free, although I will be selling the Square Foot Gardening 3rd edition book. It has become my bible for all things Square Foot. Of course there is no obligation to buy it, I just want you to know it will be available.
I really hope you can make it.

All the Best,

Janet Crozier, President Lampasas Community Gardens

Hello Ms President of gardens!

This gardening with the feet sounds very interesting. Back home we use square meters but is much the same thing, yes?

The date of November 16th is very bad timing for me! I make my annual trip into west of Texas to Terlingua to watch the Leonid meteor shower! You know of this shower? It is very famous. My great, great, great uncle Wilhelm Temple discovers this comet that makes the meteors every year in November. This Temple-Tuttle comet should REALLY be just “Temple comet” but that yak-eating thief Horace Tuttle try to take some credit and put his name on the comet too. Very sore spot in my family, to be honest.

This is a week-long mecca for me to the west Texas. Being old and crippled in the chair with wheels leaves me with few joys. This meteor shower is one of them – even more joy than gardening the fat zuccini.

I can perhaps make the next instructional class time, yes?

Haywood Jablowmi

I wish I could join you on your adventure but I’m committed. I hope you will be able to come to the December class on the 14th at 3:30. I’m looking forward to meeting you.

Yes, it will be a grand adventure. I have always said, you should be committed!! The December class is the Square Feet gardening as well?

Also I see you on the computer YouTube tonight at a City meeting! Was very exciting! I exclaim “that is the Garden President” and startle my wife with my yelling! Our small dog also barks when I do this.

It was about collecting the rains to put on garden, yes? Rain has much more better properties, I think. Much more nitrogen from falling down through the sky many miles on the way to the squash and zucchinis.

Good Morning Haywood,

I always enjoy your emails. I’m sorry it has taken me so long to respond to your last one. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will get the water collection system, even if I have to include it in a grant. I visited Monday evening with the Eagle Scout troop leaders and asked that the Eagle Scout work on providing the infrastructure (concrete pad ) for the garden beds to stand on in the handicapped garden area. As I told you, this will take some time because we need to get the pavilion built before we can put in a sidewalk for the wheelchair access. One step at a time.

I hope you have a good adventure in West Texas. Send pictures. Your friend, Janet Crozier.

Good morning, President of Community Gardens Queen!

I made a very big error I am not happy to admit this! I go to the classroom for the square feet gardening a few days ago on December 14th – then realize it was previous day! When daylight saving end, instead of turning clock back one HOUR, I turn clock back one DAY! So I think that Dec 15th is Dec 14th This has apparently been going on for every day since clocks were changed. I am old and crippled and do not work, so I never notice this error of wrong day until I show up on wrong day to classroom. Every day is pretty much the same for me.

Good thing this error was caught or I would have missed the Christmas day holiday, as well as new year.

I am not a fan of this shifting of time to save light. Very confusing to the goats and chickens and others. They do not not like those disruptions at all. Many times, refuse to lay eggs because of this shifting!

But here is wishing you a happy Festivus and Hanukkah and Christmas too.

Haywood

Happy New Year!

I didn’t mean to ignore your email, but I have been helping some gardeners learn the Square Foot Gardening method and helping them decide what they can plant and when to plant in the late winter and early spring. The next and final class in the series will be held at the Lampasas Community Gardens, weather permitting. I’m sure it will be chilly, but we will be building the box and making Mel’s Mix which is the material used instead of dirt. It consists of peat moss, vermiculite, and 5 different kinds of compost in equal amounts. We will demonstrate how to mix it, dampen it, and fill the box. If we have rain, snow or extremely cold weather, we will have a review class in the Conference room at the A&M Extension Center office instead. Of course I will email everyone who signed up and let them know-and that includes you.

The Lampasas Community Garden is behind the Hanna Springs Pool in the Sculpture Garden. Let me know if you can make it. I certainly want to meet the man who thinks I am Queen, ha!

Yours truly,

Janet Crozier, President Lampasas Community Gardens

Good morning, Miss Queen President of Gardening Club,

I hope you are keeping warm during this weather. Reminds me very much of Russia in the spring time, but for Texas it is colder than hair on polar bear’s ass. My chickens refuse to leave nest box.

You included many details in your last email – the location of this class and your secret dirt recipe, which you should not give out so freely! This is a treasure, this recipe for dirt!! But one detail you did not include is the date and time for this making of dirt!

I am wondering if you add worms to the dirt sometimes? This is something I did for many years – adding worms. Big girthy ones are best, don’t you think?

Thanks you!

Haywood

Are you Russian? I thought you might be Eastern European, but I had no clue you were Russian. I went to Russia in 2012. I loved it. I know about the vegetables grown there. I never saw such big squashes before. I went to a friend’s dacha.

Ok let me give you the time of the class. It is planned for next Tuesday, 3;30-4;30 in the community garden. We are praying for good weather. It will probably be chilly, so dress warmly. If it is extremely cold, we will meet at the A&M Extension Center conference Room . The address is 409 E. Pecan St.I n Lampasas. Call me if you have any questions. 512-434-9293.

Good evening miss garden queen president!

How is the planning for spring? This weather still reminds me of Russia winter but maybe over in a few days. I am meaning a regular winter not nuclear winter as Putin is trying to create on poor Ukrainian souls.

Regards

Haywood J