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These are my geraniums.

And the last time you saw this was all weeds.

It looked like this.

Let's see how close it is.

And you can see there's a plastic there.

That's that plastic business.

It was all around here.

And what they did is they put it down, then they cut a hole in it, and they planted this guy.

So I had to cut this loose, and it was a huge pain in the ass.

I dug a bunch of dirt out of here to put this topsoil down because this soil is just rocks.

It's just rocky as hell.

It's more rock than anything else.

So I figured that can't be good.

They don't sell garden soil by accident.

So anyway, I put those in there, and I told the woman about this.

I said, you know, last year it died off probably mid-June.

And she said, well, put some geraniums around it.

It'll look fine.

I don't know.

I mean, maybe so.

Last year by July, July 4th, it was just sticks and I cut those down and got rid of them.

I thought it died.

I didn't know.

It just doesn't seem like,

I don't know why somebody would want something that starts growing early and then

literally dies by the middle of the summer.

I mean, I just don't understand the point of a plant like that.

You know, it makes sense if it like flowered and it doesn't flower the rest of the year.

Okay.

You know, to stay green like this through September, sure.

Yeah.

but to then just keel over dead here by the middle of the summer, I don't know.

I think what I'm going to do is if it does,

it seems like it's dying,

these yellow leaves,

and I can't be starving for water,

man.

It would rain constantly here.

So I'm going to,

I think I'm going to dig it up,

put it someplace where it doesn't piss me off because I just don't want to throw it

away.

And then I'll convert this whole thing into just a flower bed.

And that'll be the plan going forward.

Because, you know, the work I did, I mean, to clear this out,

I mean,

I had to just swing a pick at it to get this stuff up,

to get about five inches of dirt out of there,

or clay and stuff,

and then I put the topsoil garden soil in.

I've got, let's see, this was 10, I think this was four bags of stuff, something like that.

Let's see, I bought 10 bags.

And I had 10.

So, and I got like four left.

So 16 bags of soil is on it.

It doesn't look like it.

No, it doesn't, it shouldn't look like it, but you know, six, eight inches in some areas.

And,

uh,

the woman at the nursery also said,

you know,

I have a couple in reserve because when it rains,

it'll mat down and you might want to fill it up just for,

uh,

cosmetic reasons,

which makes sense.

I did that over here,

but these guys are called dusty millers and I don't know why I think they look

cool.

I don't know.

I mean, it rains, they turn,

They're completely green,

and then when the rain stops,

the water runs off of them,

and they get that dusty color back.

They're apparently deer-proof.

The deer have just ignored all of this.

These guys, I don't know what the hell they are.

They have something like Cassius or something like that.

Uh, it has a name that I don't know.

And I, the woman at the nursery says they'll double in size at least.

She said, you know, put them, you know, a foot or so apart a little bit more.

So that's kind of what I have here.

We'll see.

I mean, if it gets, I don't know.

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if all this stuff just doesn't drop dead.

Uh, see this guy here.

I mean, none of them are looking great right now.

Uh, and then I got these guys, which are called flamed towers or something.

Don't know.

I do think they kind of look neat, and I suppose they're almost idiot-proof.

They don't die easily.

So we'll see.

We'll see if I can kill them.

But I think they look kind of neat.

I like the purple color in flowers.

Purple, blue is the rarest color, but purple is like the second rarest color in flowers.

So I like the purple.

You can understand why royalty likes it.

And these guys, see, I'm a little worried about these guys here.

They're looking a little

rough.

This guy's okay.

This guy looks terrible.

These two guys are fine for the most part.

This guy, he doesn't look like he's going to make it.

This guy, maybe I got to water him.

I don't know.

They got tons of water.

I don't know how they could possibly need more water,

but I'm going to water him a little bit here in a minute.

We'll see what happens.

You know,

it's one of those things when you don't know what you're doing and something goes

wrong,

you have no idea why it went wrong.

But the thing is, I've got

300 bucks and probably four hours worth of time.

About two hours of digging and about two hours of putting this stuff down and

figuring out where to put it.

So four hours worth of time and I've got probably

Well, count, let's say two, about $400 worth of material into it.

So not cheap, but, you know, it's not the most expensive hobby.

And the soil is half of that, and I won't have to replace that every year.

I mean, I'll have to fill in some of it as it washes away, but it shouldn't be that bad.

But anyway, let's see.

That's my garden.

Let's see.

Let's go.

Oh, there's my garden.

uh, deer water.

There's a little fawn that lost her mother.

And, uh, she came up to me pretty close and I put some water down for her.

I don't know where she is.

See if we can find her.

She's around here.

She's been hiding around.

Don't know if she's going to make it.

You know, deer are amazingly hardy and I'm not sure what could have took her mother out.

I don't know.

There's, there's, we have coyotes and we have a bear, but, uh,

you know, bear wouldn't eat a deer and coyotes are more scavengers.

And,

uh,

I've seen one,

you know,

they're,

they're pretty,

uh,

they're plentiful all throughout West Virginia,

but,

but I don't see,

uh,

I don't see any signs of,

of,

uh,

a predator.

So I'm not really sure what happened here,

but anyway,

you know,

it's been a,

it's been a crazy week.

I know it's today is I'm filming this on Wednesday and, uh,

it's been raining.

I mean, it rained, it just rains all the time.

It's very frustrating.

I find,

I'm finding the weather to be a real,

a real source of irritation,

uh,

irritation for me.

But, um, well, let's just walk down the hill here a little bit.

Let's see if I don't break my neck.

And, uh, I have to, I have to, uh,

I have to cut this every once in a while, but fortunately not often.

But you can see, here's the ground here.

You see it's very stony, not a lot of topsoil.

And this is not really great farm country,

although the places where it's farmed,

I guess they have plenty of topsoil.

But here where it's on the hillside, not so much.

But here's the creek, which is pretty high now because it never stops raining.

So there's plenty of water coming down.

Let's see.

Let's get down here.

How much time I got on this thing?

So minutes.

And let's go this way.

All right.

You can tell here's a deer path.

They'll come through here.

And you can't see anything.

I haven't seen a lot of them lately.

I saw the... I got some video.

Maybe I'll show a picture of it at some point in this video.

If I can figure out how to splice it in.

The other day, it was a doe where they're fawn nursing, which is quite cute.

But anyway...

As you can see, got plenty of water in a creek.

And it'll only get higher here because it's been raining for so long.

And it'll get higher for a while.

And then, you know, last year it got real dry in the summer.

And actually it was completely dry.

Been a wild week, though, otherwise.

I have to say the whole L.A.

riots business,

I've talked about it so much that I don't really feel like talking about it in this

video.

I was going to do the whole thing on just the garden.

But, I mean, what do you say about flowers?

I mean, I have to say I understand why people,

I get why people do gardening.

You know, I like walking around here just to kind of forget about the world.

Well, gardening lets you do that too.

And watching this stuff on the internet,

the Los Angeles riots and all these idiots running around telling me that I'm

supposed to treat these people who are waving foreign flags on top of burning cars

in the middle of Los Angeles.

these weird little brown dudes that I was supposed to pretend to my fellow citizens.

Yeah, man, you just start to, well, you start to think bad thoughts.

And then you start to think about,

at least I do,

I start to think about the people who made this,

who did this,

you know,

they did it on purpose.

And that's the,

that's the real hard part,

I think,

because even if you acknowledge that they did it on purpose,

then what do you do about it?

You know, I mean, we all know what should happen, but you can't talk about that.

You know, I mean, you can't, you can't,

Well, you can, but you run the risk of having the FBI show up at your house.

But, I mean, this is the problem.

What we're seeing here is not a solution to the problem.

What Trump is doing, what we're seeing is another aspect of the problem.

And I'm just not real optimistic about the outcome.

I'm not totally pessimistic either.

But, you know, again, that's why I'm out here.

I'm trying to get a little peace and quiet.

I'm going to be doing the show here.

What time is it?

A couple hours with Paul.

We're going to talk about the riots and immigration and all that stuff.

And so I'll get my blood pressure worked up, and then that'll be bedtime.

So I figured I'd come out here and try and relax a little bit, look at my flower work.

Although, seeing that some of them are dying, actually,

Kind of makes me sad.

I hate seeing things die.

Whether it's a plant or an animal, it doesn't matter.

I think it's what happens when you get old.

You start thinking about life in a bit different way than you did when you were young.

Well, anyway, I think that's enough of me talking.

I'll see you next time.