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PLANT LIFE with SIGMOND THIS


WOW! I’M GETTING NEW SOIL!


IS THE BEST SOIL


AROUND! A FEW MINUTES LATER...


MADE WITH THE FINEST DECAYED PLANT MATTER!


MADE WITH WHAT?


IT’S OKAY SIGMOND... IT’S VERY HEALTHY!


Healdsburg, CA. ~ I am playing music at the Fireside Lounge in the Healdsburg Hotel at 25 Matheson Street inHealdsburg, starting Fri- day, May 20th from 6-9PM and con- tinuing every other Friday. There is no cover. I play a 12 string guitar and sing “Smooth Rock” (James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Leonard Co- hen, Bob Dylan etc.) and will be joined by Carol Shumate on stand- up bass. I hope you can fi nd a space in your paper to let people know I am there. Thank you so much for your support. Michael Hantman. 707-696-5326. Thank you Michael! I’ll let my Upbeat Readers Know!


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Of Michael Hantman In Healdsburg! May 20th!


www.upbeattimes.com First Fun Facts


To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million fl owers.


A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour.


One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.


Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind.


Flowers have been used in cooking, aromatic drinks, wines and spirits throughout history, including a recipe in the earliest surviving cookbook by the Roman Apicius for brains with rose petals.


The Punitentiary #1


The young pine sapling was admonished by his father. Apparently he’d been knotty.


I saw something similar to moss the other day, but I didn’t know what to lichen it to.


The forest had burned down, but now it’s back by poplar demand.


by Paul Andrew Doyle


IT’S WHAT SOIL IS MADE OF...


HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD OLD


FASHIONED DIRT NEXT TIME?


DON’T WORRY, THE SOIL WILL GROW ON YOU, BUDDY!


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