Marijuana Dispensaries

I love New Businesses!  It is the American entrepreneurial spirit, that "can do" attitude and taking advantage of opportunities.  For Oregon and a select few of other States, that is Marijuana!  There seem to be as many Marijuana Shops in my town s Starbucks!  and some give me work!

 They are very Security Conscious, wanting grills over the windows to prevent robbers and most have the often seen 4" on center bars, looking like a jail. This particular dispensary had some imagination and allowed me the freedom to clean out my shop with odds and ends!  Art to keep out the bad guys!

There is a Huge Walk is Safe with a huge safe door they wanted covered in my metal art,

so I made this!  

Marijuana is a money making business and the State is like the Mafia BOSS and they are reaping Millions!  They anticipated 4 million the first year and are over $20,000,000 so far! I might go into crime for that amount, certainly the /state did!

Oh, I am not complaining!  I got work from it too, and maybe even in my retirement years I have found a "Product"  These Metal Grids could be shipped all over!

Lucky me, there were five windows in this shop! and they have candy, candy, candy!

Do You Like Daylight Saving Time?

You don't really get an extra hour of sunlight, a 25 hour day and more sunlight would raise heck with global warming.  Like all government programs, they steal it, take it away from us early risers and give it to those people who like to mow their lawns or operate the leaf blowers at 8pm.
At one time I think it saved energy.  You could work late and walk home without the aid of streetlamps.
Now so many businesses are open 24 hours, someone is always in the dark.
In my retirement I am a morning person, pretty much getting up and going to bed with the chickens.  Well, at the same time they do anyway.  Chickens are smart and have sensible hours.  I still get up early, it is just longer before the darkness goes and, it seems, the day is half over before the sun comes out.  I think most gardening people like the early morning, hours when we can still find the slugs, and it amazes me that the little garden shops I like to frequent haven't caught on to this.  At 8am if I need something garden related I have to go to the "Big Box" stores.  My little garden shop doesn't open until 10am!  It concerns me that the best shop in town caters to the marijuana growers and doesn't open until 10:30am!  They have seriously great soil amendments but I suspect their clientele are busy testing the products late at night and prefer to sleep in.  That is too bad, I would buy a lot more from them if they maintained "gardener's hours"!
   Speaking of "that herb", I wonder why Monsanto and the seed producers and chemical suppliers of the world have not gotten involved in its production?  The marijuana produced now is not the same as the nasty leaves of the 1960's. No sir re bob!  We would have 16 pound tomatoes by now if the same effort had been put into agricultural production!  Let's see?  I have a really good greenhouse and perhaps the best soil in the Willamette Valley and I have a green thumb and unfiltered well water.
You are allowed Six Plants, at various stages even.  That is a lot of money!!!! What the hell am I growing tomatoes for?