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Blueberries and I
I like blueberries. There: I've said it. I've taken a pro-blueberry stand. Oh, but you say, blueberries aren't political. But then, I counter, why are they anti-free-radical? They obviously want to lock up all the radicals, and if that isn't political... So, to review, I like blueberries. I find that I can't eat too many at any one time anymore. It turns out that they are like ball bearings in my digestive track, but I sure do like them. It seems like 20 years ago or more that I first planted blueberries. Just a few plants, mind you. My idea of planting bare root stock is to dig a hole, stick the root stock in the hole, and then fill in the hole. In other words, especially back then, I wasn't as diligent as I could have been. But, it didn't actually matter. Over the first five years the blueberry plants were mowed off by rabbits, deer, and sheep. Not free-range sheep, mind you, but sheep that got loose. After building a fence around the plants,