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750 Olive Ave, Carpinteria Exquisite Craftsman Nearly New and Impeccably Maintained, this Stunning Residence Combines a Refined Coastal Comfort with Luxurious Finishes and Details Throughout. Gracious and Welcoming Wrap Around Porch with Beautiful Santa Barbara Stone Walkways and Columns. Graceful Gardens Designed by Notable Landscape Architect and Featured in the Garden Design Magazine. Expansive Indoor/Outdoor Living with Custom Stone Garden Bench with Firepit, Fountain, Covered Patio and Meandering Walkways with Inspiring Gardens. Warm and Inviting Foyer with Rich Wood Accents with Formal Living Room and Dining Room with Bay Window. Spacious Family Room with Floor to Ceiling Stone Fireplace. Just Two Short Blocks to the Beach and Featured in the Carpinteria Home and Garden Tour. Simply Speaking, it Just Doesn’t Get Better Than This!

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Pot filler Choices for New Kitchen

By Ed Del Grande

Tribune News Service

A pot filler is a great kitchen accessory.

Question: Hi Ed: I’m remodeling my kitchen and plan to make it my dream kitchen with all the home chef extras.

While in the rough plumbing stage I want to make provisions for a pot filler faucet next to the stove. Since I’ve never had a pot filler, what choices do I have and are all pot fillers installed the same way?

— Nancy

Photo courtesy Kohler

Answer: A pot filler is a great kitchen accessory. These tall cold water faucets are installed at the stovetop and swing over the pot to easily fill it with water.

With pot fillers, you have two basic choices for installation.

First is a deck-mounted style. This type mounts on the countertop and has a very high swinging spout tall enough to clear the rim of a big pot.

The second type usually requires a little more work to install, but it’s less noticeable than the deck-mounted

style. This style is a wall-mounted pot filler, because the high spout swings out directly from the wall area behind the stove.

So, choose a wall-mount or a deckmount style and fulfill all your kitchen dreams with a new pot filler.

Master Contractor/Plumber Ed Del Grande is known internationally as the author of the book “Ed Del Grande’s House Call,” the host of TV and Internet shows, and a LEED green associate. Visit eddelgrande.com or write eadelg@cs.com. Always consult local contractors and codes.

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Around Town: CLEANING At Its Best!................................... 4

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SBAOR: Realtor Responsibility ............................................... 6 Your Handyman: Loose Towel Bars ......................................... 6

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An Affair with Artwork............................................................. 8

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Could Your Indoor Air Quality be Hazardous to Your Health? ......................................................................... 8 Santa Barbara County Sales.................................................... 12 Firecrackers Explode the Drought-Tolerant............................ 14

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Around Town

HOA Homefront:

Wait for the Board to Act

Cleaning at its Best!

As part of efforts to ensure the safety of students returning to school this summer and fall, Sierra Property Management has partnered with local cleaning company Master Clean USA to fully sanitize and disinfect close to 200 rental units.

The units, all located in Isla Vista, provide housing to students attending UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College, many of whom were forced to leave school prematurely due to the pandemic.

Sierra Property Management wanted to make certain that anyone moving in to student housing in the coming months would not be exposed to human coronavirus on surfaces in their units.

“We partnered with Master Clean to be sure we keep the incoming Isla Vista community as safe as possible this school year,” said Michelle E. Roberson, president of Sierra Property Management.

“With so many demands and challenges facing students at this time due to the pandemic, we want our residents to rest assured that their living space is virus-free.”

To treat the units, Master Clean used a two-step, advanced virusremoval procedure provided by Pure Maintenance of Santa Barbara County. The procedure involves the application of two, non-toxic products using dry-fog technology. The first product, InstaPURE, sterilizes the entire unit, effectively killing any mold, bacteria and viruses — including human coronavirus — that might remain from a previous tenant or guest. Once sterilized, a second dry-fog treatment called EverPURE creates a barrier of protection on all surfaces that kills any pathogen that touches it for the next 90 days.

Both products in the Pure Maintenance disinfectant system are approved as safe by the FDA, and certified by the Environmental Protection Agency as meeting or exceeding CDC guidelines for pathogen removal. Once treated, the rental units are certified virus-free.

While human coronavirus is believed to spread mainly through close contact with someone who has the virus, some studies have shown the virus can continue to live on surfaces for several days.

“Since the units are vacated and occupied sometimes within seven days with several people going in and out of the unit, we thought it was prudent to maximize our sanitation procedures for incoming residents,” Roberson said.

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq.

In community associations, corporate formalities seem to interfere with efficiency. Some argue that if someone is making good decisions, why wait for board meetings and motions which might delay the action? Although most clients view corporate procedures as a bother to be avoided as much as possible, the process is an important protection for volunteers.

Corporations are a legal fiction recognized by law as a “person” with rights to own property, to sue, and be sued. The requirements of board action and written minutes are evidence that a legal responsibility is the corporation’s and not the volunteer’s.

If these steps are skipped, how does the volunteer prove that the commitment was corporate and not personal action? Failing to follow corporate process could result in an obligation thought to be corporate being imposed upon the volunteer who failed to obtain corporate approval. Obviously, that would be a nightmare for the volunteer, but it can easily be avoided by waiting to sign a contract until the board approves it in a meeting.

Corporations are legal fictions recognized by law as “persons” that act through authorized agents, normally a board of directors. Actions outside the corporate authority are called “Ultra Vires,” a Latin term meaning “outside the powers.” In business corporations, officers often act as the primary agents, but in HOAs, the primary decision-maker is the board. If an officer acts outside those powers and without board approval, it is not corporate action.

Proper minutes are a critical part of the corporate process. If the minutes don’t record it, then the corporation didn’t do it.

Minutes document corporate decisions, including any authority given by the board to a director or manager. Managers or officers should insist that authority to act must be recorded in minutes.

Occasions sometimes can arise when there is no time to convene the board and urgency requires a decision to be made immediately — such as calling an emergency contractor, for example. In California, boards may take emergency actions via email, under Civil Code Section 4910(b)(2).

It is critical that any director acting for the corporation in an emergency obtain formal corporate approval, called “ratification” of the action taken, which ratification must be documented in minutes.

California’s Open Meeting Act (Civil Code §4900-4955) sets forth a variety of mandatory procedures — in addition to the procedures in the association’s bylaws. That law bans action outside of board meetings, requires advance notice of board meetings, limits the use of executive sessions, and requires prompt availability of draft minutes.

Some boards hold board meetings violating this law using excuses of efficiency or convenience. If an association violates the law and corporate process by deliberating outside of open meetings, are the board’s decisions susceptible to challenge as outside the corporate authority? Although the Open Meeting Act does not discuss the consequences of violations, such a result is possible.

Sometimes it is tempting for a director to step outside of their authority in their zeal to “get things done” without waiting for documented board authority. However, what happens if the board later disavows the director’s action, leaving the director personally exposed to liability?

Board motions, votes, and recorded minutes are proof that the corporation acted and not you. Don’t avoid those steps — embrace them.

Sierra Property Management is owned and operated by Michelle Roberson and her husband, Kevin Roberson. An industry leader in the Santa Barbara real estate management world, Sierra manages 1,400 rental units, including apartments, residential and commercial properties, from Carpinteria to Goleta.

Sierra Property Management is at 5290 Overpass Road, Bldg. C, Santa Barbara.

Call 805-692-1520, email spm@sierrapropsb.com or visit http://sierrapropsb.com.

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Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. is a Fellow of the College of Community Association Lawyers and Senior Partner of Richardson Ober PC, a California law firm known for community association advice. Submit potential column questions to Kelly@ Richardsonober.com. Past columns at www.HOAHomefront.com. All rights reserved®.

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A note from the SBAOR President

By Staci Caplan President of the Santa Barbara Association of REALTORSÂŽ

Realtor Responsibility In the wake of the horrific death of George Floyd, the Santa Barbara Association of REALTORSÂŽ and its members reconfirm our commitment to providing equal service, equal opportunities within the industry as professionals, and promoting equal opportunity for housing.

As stewards of the right to own, use and transfer private property, REALTORSŽ recognize our significant role in upholding the Fair Housing Act. “The shocking, senseless death of George Floyd is tragic. Our deepest sympathies are with the Floyd family and other families who understand and feel this pain and grief,� said National Association of REALTORSŽ President Vince Malta in a statement released to all 1.4 million members. “Our neighbors in the communities where we work and live across America should feel safe and free from discrimination. As longtime champions of fair housing, equality and inclusion are among NAR’s most cherished values.

NAR is committed to leading the way on policies that address racial injustice and that build safe and inclusive communities.

Building the future begins with equal access to housing and opportunity for all.�

The real estate community must actively contribute to reform and unification in our industry, and in our country, by listening and by working together to be a part of the solution to racial injustice. To this end, REALTORSÂŽ affirm our responsibility to promote inclusion, acceptance, and equality by adopting and practicing the tenets of the REALTORÂŽ Fair Housing Declaration:

“I agree to: ¡ Provide equal professional service without regard to the race, color, religion, gender (sex), disability (handicap), familial status, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity of any prospective client, customer, or of the residents of any community. ¡ Keep informed about fair housing law and practices, improving my clients’ and customers’ opportunities and my business. ¡ Develop advertising that indicates that everyone is welcome and no one is excluded; expanding my client’s and customer’s opportunities to see, buy, or lease property. ¡ Inform my clients and customers about their rights and responsibilities under the fair housing laws by providing brochures and other information. ¡ Document my efforts to provide professional service, which will assist me in becoming a more responsive and successful REALTORÂŽ. ¡ Refuse to tolerate non-compliance. ¡ Learn about those who are different from me, and celebrate those differences. ¡ Take a positive approach to fair housing practices and aspire to follow the spirit as well as the letter of the law. ¡ Develop and implement fair housing practices for my firm to carry out the spirit of this declaration.â€?

Staci Caplan can be reached at 805-886-3970 or emailed at stacicaplan@gmail.com

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Country Compound by the Mission 700MissionCanyon.com

Country Compound by the Mission Located between the Upper East & Lower Mission Canyon, this charming 1920’s era estate is set amongst majestic oaks & boulders. Positioned well back from the road on over an acre of land with a Main House with 3BD/4BA, Guest Cottage with 1BD/1BA, Stone Grotto Studio, detached Garage & pool this property is both unique & magical.

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An Affair with Artwork

Ask Angie’s List:

Could Your Indoor Air Quality be Hazardous to Your Health?

A blocked fireplace chimney or flue can allow carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your home.

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By Megan Linhoff Angie’s List

As soon as the artwork goes up, it feels like a home.

Photos courtesy Mary Carol Garrity/TNS

By Mary Carol Garrity TNS

Settling into our cottage has been a long and languid journey. It started with the Great Purge, when Dan and I let go of many of the furnishings that filled our larger home in Atchison, Kan.. Because our cottage is so small, we could only keep the things we loved most. For Dan, it was all those books. For me, it was artwork (and dishes, but that’s a story for another day).

Even though I had miles less wall space in the cottage, I was determined to squeeze in every piece of art I held dear. To Dan’s astonishment, I did it. In my mind, there was never any doubt. Because I know that art is what makes a house feel like a home, gives it its voice.

I’ve had fun working with Dillon, the gifted artwork display designer at Nell Hill’s, to see my old favorites in brand-new ways.

Where could I hang my huge canvasses, the ones that had filled my two-story entry and lofty rooms, so they didn’t overwhelm the cottage’s snug spaces? How could I mix up my groupings, putting pieces together with new partners, instead of just replicating the montages I loved in my old house? How could I squeeze in all these pieces without making the spaces visually chaotic? Dillon was a master at taking my vision and making it a reality.

Most recently, we finished decorating our den downstairs, our little hobbit hole where Dan and I cocoon in the winter months, watching way too much Netflix or getting lost in a great read. Until recently, this room doubled as Dan’s home office, a hidey-hole

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where Dan, Lyric (our golden retriever) and the cats reigned. While my husband has many amazing talents, keeping a space tidy is not one of them. Clutter, pet hair, ugh. So, I evicted him from the room and reclaimed the space.

We moved some of the older furniture over to Mom’s cottage next door, brought in a few new pieces and covered the walls with art. I am no longer embarrassed to bring friends down into this private space, and if he’s honest, Dan enjoys spending time there all the more now that the space is beautiful and clean.

We had just moved my mom into the cottage next door before she died. I’m sad we didn’t have the home finished before she passed so she could enjoy it to its fullest. But now I’m making it a warm and welcoming retreat, in her honor. As we decorate, room by room, it’s the artwork that has made all the difference. Once the walls were covered in art, it became a home.

My affair with artwork began when I was just beginning my career. When I had a little money saved up, I bought art. Through the years, I upgraded my pieces and added to my collection. It’s made all the difference in my homes. And, that’s one of the biggest pieces of decorating advice I give when people ask me to help style their homes: Don’t scrimp on the artwork. You may have the most beautiful furnishings in the world, but your home isn’t finished — doesn’t have its soul — until the walls are filled with artwork that brings you joy.

This column was adapted from Mary Carol Garrity’s blog at www.nellhills.com. She can be reached at marycarol@nellhills.com.

We all know that outdoor air pollution can be hazardous to our health, but indoor air quality presents several risks that we should keep top of mind as well. Sources such as heating systems, certain building materials and even nature itself can release harmful gases or particles into the air inside our homes, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And inadequate ventilation can lead to increased concentrations and exposure.

Here’s a look at three common indoor air pollutants and what you can do to avoid unsafe levels in your home: CARBON MONOXIDE Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas. Common sources of carbon monoxide include improperly vented gas appliances, poorly maintained boilers and furnaces, and clogged or leaking chimneys. Carbon monoxide can be fatal at high concentrations.

And at lower concentrations, it may cause fatigue, nausea, headaches, impaired vision and reduced brain function, among other symptoms.

To prevent high concentrations of carbon monoxide, it’s important to properly maintain all combustion equipment and ensure proper ventilation. (The EPA recommends having a trained professional inspect chimneys, water heaters, gas furnaces, and gas ranges and ovens annually.) It’s also important to keep a carbon monoxide detector in good working order in your home.

RADON Radon is a radioactive gas that results from the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock and water. Like carbon monoxide, it is both odorless and colorless. All homes, new and old, are susceptible to radon. The gas typically enters a home by rising up through the soil and seeping into the cracks and crevices of a home’s foundation, but it may also enter the home through wall cracks, construction joints and water supply sources, among other areas. The EPA estimates that one in 15 homes in the United States is affected by high levels of radon.

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known to cause lung cancer and serious respiratory health issues. The best way to ensure that your home is safe is to administer a radon test. You may either hire a qualified testing professional or purchase a home kit to test your home for radon. There are both short- and long-term tests available. The EPA recommends starting with a short-term test.

The results of this test will indicate whether you should follow up with another shortterm test or a long-term test. The higher the results, the greater the likelihood that you’ll need to hire a radon mitigation specialist to address the problem.

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from a variety of household paints, disinfectants and solvents, as well as some building materials — including certain carpets and flooring. The health effects of VOC exposure will depend on the level of exposure and the amount of time exposed, but VOCs are known to cause eye, nose and throat irritation; headaches; nausea; damage to the liver, kidney and central nervous system; and, in some cases, even cancer.

To decrease exposure to VOCs in your home, the EPA recommends carefully following label instructions, increasing ventilation when using VOC-emitting products, and safely storing and disposing of unneeded chemicals. Many products offer low-VOC or zero-VOC options; it’s best to choose these whenever possible.

To evaluate your risk for poor indoor air quality, take a survey of your home. Identify where combustion systems are located, inventory how chemicals are stored and assess whether ventilation is adequate. If you’d like further reassurance that your home is safe, contact your local health department for guidance on how to evaluate your home’s air quality with the help of professionals.

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How to Grow Horsetails, Which Have Been Around Since Before Dinosaurs Equisetum planted beside a small waterhole had taken over this entire composition a few years after being planted in that low moist spot from rain gutter drainage.

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During its reproductive phase, Equisetum produces sporangiums from which it releases spores high up where the wind can catch and carry them away.

The Equisetum “rod” is segmented like bamboo, but far more primitive.

By Maureen Gilmer TNS

This demonstrates just how completely Equisetum fills a slot planter so tightly it eventually bars water penetration.

Shearing the tips of Equisetum at the wrong time of year or when inadequately watered there can be excessive dieback due to moisture loss.

It was the most important wild plant for pioneers settling the West by wagon. The women knew it made a perfect pot scrubber.

Equisetum hyemale, named horsetail for the similarity of its stems to hair of a horse’s tail, is a very primitive native plant. It’s actually a living fossil that contains an abnormally high silica content in its cell walls that makes it abrasive. Native Americans also used it as sandpaper to smoothen and balance arrow shafts.

When bundled, tied and blunt cut, this is the SOS pad of the Old West. Nothing works better on cast iron and enamelware. It was known in medieval England as pewterwort.

The silica could clean soft metal without leaving scratches, so it was widely used in the Old World, too.

Horsetail is a species of wetlands, both at the water’s edge and far from it. It produces rapidly spreading roots that send up new shoots to expand into a vast network. Its role in nature is to use aggressive roots to bind the soils of banks and shorelines against erosion from the effects of high water. However, such rooting also makes the plant a super pest where it becomes well established, and can be as difficult to extricate from your soil as bamboo.

Horsetails date back relatively unchanged for 300 million years. During the era of dinosaurs, the plants were 20 feet tall and with much larger diameter. They are so primitive that they achieved their ultimate form before seed plants appeared on earth. They reproduce by spores, just like ferns, except they’re carried in little cones at the top of the stems.

Horsetails are a great native for creating fun and unusual effects. They are ideal for suggesting water where it does not exist.

The reedlike appearance tells us subliminally that water is nearby, so we naturally believe it’s there. Add a few boulders and you have a faux spring. One way to add horsetails without worrying about the invasiveness is to leave them in a pot and bury it to create a root barrier. You’ll get a nice tall columnar reed effect that works well with drip irrigation emitters.

Equisetum has found its way into our cit-

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ies too, often as a problem-solver for long, narrow openings in paving. The slots occur at foundations and where remodeling has left odd spaces that won’t support most plants.

The universal solution was to pack them with equisetum until they discovered what happens when the slot becomes so dense with rods and surface roots that water cannot penetrate. This dries out the plants and makes their tips turn gray. Their coloring changes from nice green to an insipid olive. Thankfully this practice seems to have gone out of fashion for the time being.

When stands of equisetum are cut during the summer, they also die back due to the drier conditions. Buzz cutting the tops only encourages more moisture loss, which leaves the topmost tissues dehydrated. They almost never look good after cutting, losing their natural beauty. When these plantings inevitably get ratty due to the lack of water penetration and pruning moisture loss, the only option is cut them to the ground and renew the whole thing.

To grow horsetails at your water feature, don’t put them in the ground. It’s best to keep them in containers buried or hidden behind foliage and boulders with drip irrigation. They can draw from the accumulated moisture for great color and lush looks even in the heat. In the far West they do nicely in bright shade and on the patio in pots. As a marginal, you can also grow them as potted aquatics in a big container of water or in a real water garden where dragonflies will come to perch on the tips.

If you’re not a gardener, look for horsetails on walks and hikes. Consider that they have been there since dinosaurs roamed.

Show your kids how to find them. Try making brushes of your own. Then plant one for the little ones who are always so excited about fossils so they get to grow up with a true living fossil that hasn’t gone extinct for 300 million years.

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Firecrackers Explode the DroughtTolerant

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Upright growth shown here bows down to weep from the weight of cumulative flowering throughout the warm months.

Photos courtesy Maureen Gilmer

Grow firecrackers in tall pots to exploit its beautiful cascading habit up close on the patio.

A large, mature firecracker thrives in full sun in Palm Springs, Calif., a searing low desert climate.

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When water is precious and it’s hot as hell, you need firecrackers to brighten the patio. With blossoms as vivid as old fashioned coral bells and the dangling habit of a fuchsia, it’s hard to believe the curious species thrives in the low desert heat. That means no matter where you live, it won’t be too hot or dry to make firecrackers explode from pots on the patio or to flesh out hell zones on the west side.

What’s important to you is the growth habit, which cascades in a most graceful way. Its name, Russelia equisetiformis, reminds us it bears long thin stems reminiscent of horse hair. That gives it an overall fine texture that makes a striking contrast against certain backgrounds. At the tips of the long stems dangle vivid coral red tubular flowers adapted to native hummingbirds. In taller pots, the cascades create a truly striking effect.

The thin foliage is a powerful mechanism against moisture loss, which is why it’s so heat- and drought-resistant. Firecracker is quite capable of growing in the garden too, but note the cascading form often makes a thick skirt of flowers that becomes impenetrable. That results in a wholly different form than in pots.

However, when planted with boulders and on slopes, the natural character spills color as it fills in the open spaces.

Long ago the plant took center stage in the warmer lowlands of the Maya.

Such cultures recognize the transient nature of the flowers and blood as symbolic of life and death. Naturally the sanguine-colored blooms would be grown around temples and pyramids.

Today there is ambiguous nativity within Mexico because amazingly beautiful plants came into widespread cultivation in pre-Columbian times. This would confound modern botanists as to the exact origin of many.

This flower of Mexico does not come up often in books, but growers are busy as demand is high in drought-stricken regions. Now you can buy them in one gallon to very large pot sizes through most garden centers. For quick results in the coming months, match a 5-gallon nursery firecracker with the perfect pot. It should be tall enough to allow

dangling without floor sweeping, or add a pedestal for more height. The pot opening should be large enough to drop a 5-gallon nursery pot inside with room to spare. This makes a fine freestanding composition to set your firecracker at the perfect height for an exceptional patio accent until frost.

Coral fountain is another name that describes its very unique and graceful habit. Young plants are spindly like Sprenger asparagus house plants. Early on, thin dark stems rise from the center upward to arch only after enough foliage or a good crop of flowers weighs it down.

What we do know about the plant is it prefers more ordinary well-drained potting soil. It’s a very drought-resistant species that looks differently depending on where it is and how you care for it.

A sparse wispy look is more transparent, which occurs with infrequent watering and minimal feeding. For really lush specimens, maintain moderate fertility with regular feedings to stimulate more stem growth that results in a larger plant.

Frost is the Achilles heel of where firecrackers grow over time. They are supposedly hardy to 24 degrees Fahrenheit, but that likely kills back much of the tender growth. Growing in pots allows you to move them to shelter or indoors for winter.

Firecrackers should be our plant of the year during ongoing drought. They are chameleons that raise succulent gardens to a whole new level. They are essentials of Spanish style architecture, modernists love their pop and textures, and they fit in with tropical landscaping suffering for moisture. Why not take a chance on some fireworks this summer to transform dry garden doldrums with red hot color, hummingbird parties and an entirely new fine-textured plant to play with?

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