My way of getting rid of the imperfection in flowers anyway. I went to Leaf & Petal & told them that daisies & my blackened Susans are beginning to flower. The green part came out of the dirt perfectly, then as in every year, the tops got holes in their leaves & flowers came up already looking half-way gone. Leaf & Petal told me to put “this stuff created by Univeristy of Alabama made, which is so strange, because you’d expect something like this from the University of Auburn to make something like this.” This makes sense to mostly Alabamians really. Bama is a business school & Auburn is an agricultural school. Everyone in Alabama has a favorite team whether they’ve attended or not. Each unliked team is spoken of in contempt UNLESS one team is NOT playing a game at all, then most of the state will watch the other team play a game & route for their rival because they remember only then, that its just a game & we are all from Alabama.

Strangest damn thing. When I arrived I was ordered by my Aunt & Uncle, both had or was working at a completely different school, University of Alabama at Birmingham-mostly known as nursing, medical school, anyway I was told that my favorite team & school was University of Alabama, where the “Bear” (famous) coach played. I just answered ok.
Alabama is known as the Bible belt, because of the Baptists. Time does change somethings. Some of the Yankees invaded for UAB known as one of the best Medical schools around. People from all over the world came for Business, medicine or agriculture/arts at our colleges. It is cheaper to live in the South. So the Yankees are coming. a/c was invented & more Yankees have come to live.

We have all been welcomed with a “Hi, where ya from?” People mostly don’t care, if its to attend a University. Second question, “Ya for Alabama or Auburn.” Most say Alabama, because it obviously sounds the safest. If you tell this to an Auburn fan, they usually just grunt & move on.

If you come to Alabama to do physical work, I wouldn’t recommend it. Latino’s are not welcome by the local governments, but people who ask them to work for practically nothing, don’t mind the Latinos. Kinda like a long time ago, when Abraham sent the Yankees down & changed a few things. Then in the 60’s, when the Yankees came again, leading that group was Martin Luther King. He was trying to remind everyone what Jesus said, what the constitutions said, what the Magna Carta said. We are all People in God’s eyes.

I see hope for both the holes in my plants & the closed minds of native Alabamians. Both will take time to fix. Bring nature of man & earth to balance.
The holes & damage is being caused by moles, so we put some Bama made organic stinky stuff in the red dirt.
As far as opening closed minds, maybe attending a football game & sitting beside someone from another country with different believes & both people sharing a love of their football team. Bama’s gonna kick some ass. Or Auburn.