Tiny + Wild

March 17, 2025

Rating 4 out of 5

Tiny + Wild: Build a Small-Scale Meadow Anywhere by Graham Laird Gardner is practical gardening book guiding the reader step by step on creating a small meadow almost anywhere.

  • Focus:
    • The book guides readers on how to create small-scale wildflower meadows, even in limited spaces.
    • It emphasizes ecological benefits, such as supporting biodiversity and pollinators.
  • Content:
    • It provides detailed, practical advice on all aspects of creating a mini meadow, from planning and planting to maintenance.
    • It includes plant lists, charts, and guidance on choosing the right plants for different conditions.
    • It covers various planting methods, including seeds, transplants, and mature plants.
  • Key takeaways:
    • It promotes the idea that even small spaces can contribute to ecological health.
    • It encourages a low-maintenance, naturalistic approach to gardening.

Summarizing, “Tiny + Wild” is a valuable resource for anyone interested in creating a beautiful and ecologically beneficial meadow garden, regardless of their available space.

Note:

  1. I purchased the book in the Winter when I typically spend free time grazing seed and plant catalogs. However we have moved to a house with a very, very small landscape. The previous owner had constructed a 12’X6′ raised bed (2.5 feet high). I was thinking about turning the raised bed into a butterfly garden when I came across Tiny + Wild. The book has been a great resource for me and I expect the small meadow I’m planning for the raised bed will also be an excellent butterfly garden.
  2. This is the 2nd book I’ve given a rating to. I’m experimenting with ratings for a few books. Maybe ratings will stick and maybe they won’t.
  3. As an experiment I asked Google Gemini what if thought of the book and used its answer as a first draft. The question I posed was: “What do you think of the book “Tiny + Wild?” Result was boring.

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The Trump Presidency – the 1st 30 days

March 13, 2025

I have never posted a political post but recent events have driven me to do so now. Also, I read that one should document their beliefs on important, to them, subjects.

Donald Trump’s first month in office has shown his True Colors.

Trump is a bad man. Trump does bad things. Why is Trump a bad man? Here’s the reasons from an unknown author that I could not express better myself:

Because he is the embodiment of evil, cruelty, nastiness, rudeness, dishonesty, corruption, selfishness, vanity. Because he is a liar, a thug, a con artist, a misogynist, a narcissist and a sociopath. Because he is completely devoid of humanity, empathy, sincerity, and respect for anything or anyone but money and power. Because he has no boundaries, tact, class, or a moral compass. Because he is profoundly ignorant of history and culture and utterly indifferent to anything that does not directly affect his own ass.

Tariffs: I’m a firm believer the World is Hot, Flat, and Crowded as documented by Thomas Friedman in the book of the same name. From automobiles to semiconductors the development lifecycle is tightly integrated and multinational. The design is performed in one country, the multimillion dollar machines to fab the semiconductor are built in another country, the company ordering the semiconductor is in another country, the raw materials to build the actual semiconductor are in several other countries,the company fabricating the semiconductor are in yet another country, the construction of the product using the semiconductor is in another country, and the products are sold in many other countries. Creating tariffs on every country to country transit on semiconductors could well double and eventually triple the price.

Government’s Size: while I agree with the concept his methods are dehumanizing. Firing or laying off people by email or locking the doors to the office and announcing on X (Twitter) is no way to run a company let alone a government. Many of these people have devoted their careers to public service. Let’s treat them with some dignity.

Environment: The Republican Party denies the climate is changing in spite of overwhelming evidence. It’s not a theory any more; it’s a fact. Trump has not just ignored the environment. He has doubled down on ruining the planet by cancelling the previous administration’s pitiful attempts to save the environment by executive order.

World Politics: Trump and his cronies have alienated the rest of the World except our arch enemy Russia via tariffs and insults. Now those that make any sense?

Immigration: The Trump administration has been really quiet on immigration after a few highly publicized raids. They need to stop ruining the World’s economy with tariffs, f***ing the environment, and eliminating portions of the US government. Instead,fix immigration! I agree with cracking down on the border. The influx of illegals is out of control. The asylum criteria is laughable. The asylum criteria should be a much, much higher bar than it is. His claim that he has reduced immigration by 95% is misleading if not an outright lie. He compared Biden’s 7 years immigration numbers with his first 7 days in office. Thus he compared apples to oranges. Even then the reduction was 60% not 95%.

I could go on and on and on and on but I’ve limited the post to 3,000 word and I’ve already exceeded my self imposed limit. Let’s pray God sends down a little wisdom to him, his co-president Musk, and his other cronies.

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