Bad things about living in Indiana

[danielson]

Is the bark damaged all the way around the trunk?

 

[Daggy]

Gotta agree with the terrible roads during winter. I have a feeling that my city doesn't bother with patching potholes until winter is completely over, which at this rate is probably around July.

 

[findingZzero]

1. Sure, it's easy as hell to get a gun here, but if you use it to kill folks, they're all over you.

2. Aliens tend to visit Muncie (not sure if good or bad). Note to self-do poll on anal probes.

 

[Wolfhound]

Is the bark damaged all the way around the trunk?

Yes, 3 of the 5 are completely around and 12 inches high. The other 2 are just very narrow strips of bark remaining.

 

[danielson]

If the bark is gone, in a section, all the way around the trunk, dont expect it to live.. Depending how bad it is, you may want to do some aggressive pruning (when the wood isnt frozen)

Its called girdling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girdling

If the damage is less than halfway around the trunk I wouldnt worry too much. Just put cages around them, from the ground, under the mulch, and tall enough to keep deer off of them too. Fertilize this spring

 

[Smokepole]

State income tax. Lived in TN for 4 years and enjoyed that extra 3-4%!

TN has a sizeable tourism tax though as do the other states that don't have a state tax. Indiana doesn't have a tourism tax because tourism isn't something that we can count on here.

 

[forgop]

Easy...

It's Indiana

 

[danielson]

I cant take someone with a picture of George W Obama seriously.... lol sorry...

 

[churchmouse]

1. Sure, it's easy as hell to get a gun here, but if you use it to kill folks, they're all over you.

2. Aliens tend to visit Muncie (not sure if good or bad). Note to self-do poll on anal probes.

Anal probes with a poll.....

You must be a riot in a strip club.....

 

[bingley]

Anal probes with a poll.....

I put up an anal probe poll, and the moderators took it down. I must be on the brink of finding out something big. Maybe the moderators are in league with the aliens who abduct people from Muncie and probe them. If I disappear from INGO, it will be because of our alien overlords!

 

[Dirty Steve]

No mountains, elk, mule deer, antelope, bears. No tropical beach. No interesting hiking. Paying for license plates.

Dirty Steve

 

[bacon#1]

I like it here.

Will be keeping my eye out when visiting Muncie though.

 

[Hoosier8]

I usually like anywhere I live. Thought I wanted to live in the mountains once but I have lived in flat land all my life and traveling out west I felt hemmed in by them. I thought I wanted to live by the sea but then you have to deal with hurricanes. Of course we have tornadoes but I have yet to see one.

That said, I like Indiana.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Everything North of Mooresville.

 

[danielson]

Everything North of Mooresville.

and south of kokomo
and east of plainfield
and west of greenfield.

 

[Cozy439]

...Folks that complain about the time change. I love it. I love having extra daylight hours after work. Don't tell me to go to work earlier, its not an option. If only it were that easy...

...No mountains/terrain. I too would love to hike hills/mountains/woods. Love Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Colorado, S. Dakaota (the Black Hills area), New Mexico and Arizona.

 

[Mosinguy]

You can have a morning where you need the heat in your vehicle on full blast, then when you get in later that day you wonder why the cab is so hot even with the windows open and it turns on you left your heat on. Happened before to me.

 

[ATM]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention daylight savings.

What a fool's errand that whole notion turned out to be ...yet Indiana eventually joined the herd.

So now we get to change not only our schedules twice a year, but our clocks as well.

And why must the clocks be changed? So we can pretend that we aren't changing our schedules, of course. (yes, seriously)


Oh, Indiana.

 

[stephen87]

The temperature during the winter. Why can't it snow when it's like 70*?

 

[sharkey]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention daylight savings.

What a fool's errand that whole notion turned out to be ...yet Indiana eventually joined the herd.

So now we get to change not only our schedules twice a year, but our clocks as well.

And why must the clocks be changed? So we can pretend that we aren't changing our schedules, of course. (yes, seriously)


Oh, Indiana.

You're forgetting the ~$9,000,000 increase in annual energy costs statewide that DST has brought us as well. Or the rise in pollution from emissions generated by the rise in energy use.

It's a Global Warming dream come true.