Cutting remarks. Cruelest of all.

Cuts are worrisome.

More than unusual, these.

Some will say unnatural, undesirable, unexpected, and unwanted.

He might have started small – and let it go to his head?
(Screenshot.Walgreens.com)

Heard of bushes trimmed and trained into trees, but the reverse cut?

Lollipop trees.

Inspired by the Wizard of Odd?

Good sized oak trees, the sprawling kid-climbing kind, are being hacked into something entirely different.

Cartoons of real life.

You can sense their embarrassment.

Poodle cut for trees?

While most homeowners are now thinning their trees’ canopies in preparation for hurricane season, the tree’s natural growth pattern is respected. The wind just needs to be able to blow through easily to keep tree from being ripped out of the ground and landing on the house.

Here’s one with a whole different agenda?

An identifying mark so friends can find his house?

Is it like kings of old creating monuments to themselves?

He and his wife do proudly sport a similar manipulated hair styles: permed strawberry-blond bubbles. Like the Bobbsey Twins, they are. Now their trees match them and their little dog, too!

It’s a tree! If you want a topiary, cut it out and plant a bush!

The tree roots shall have their revenge. Especially the well fertilized ones.

All that growth energy has to go somewhere.

Rodeo fried food. (screenshot/fox26houston Facebook page)

Talk about crazy cut ups, how about those food vendors at the Houston Rodeo Midway?

Winners have been selected for Gold Buckle Foodie Awards 2014. And a couple of the spicy offerings might have some peeling out for the nearest Jamba Juice.

Bacon was all the rage in years past. Still popular is the bacon covered Texas Squeeler Cinnamon Roll. There’s the HEB Better Than Good Bacon Jam and some recipes for that agave nectar and bacon combination. Chocolate covered bacon, bacon wrapped turkey legs, bacon cotton candy – they’re all there!

But for dessert, nothing beats a big gooey wedge of pecan pie. Pretty messy.

Solved: Fried Pecan Pie on a stick. (outrageous rodeo foods.)

A hefty slice of pie stabbed with a stick, dipped in pancake batter, placed in hot clear vegetable oil until golden brown. Ready to dip in syrup or a shake of powdered sugar if desired.

Some purists – and healthy eaters – may wince and say “Just put a stake in my heart.” Or was that “steak”?

No matter. Lots of choices. Pick your poison, as they say. Chopped up just for you.

Bobwhite quail. An appreciative audience. (USFW.Steve Maslowski/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Now for one cut from a different cloth: George Strait.

The Texas honky-tonk singer is getting an award from Park Cities Quail, a wildlife conservation group focused on research and preservation of quail.

The game birds need friends in both high and low places.

In 1967 there were about 31 million bobwhite quail. Today estimates place the numbers around 5.5 million.

And it’s not all due to habitat destruction or hunting. Cutting the flocks is an eye worm. A blood sucking nematode parasite that stays in the bird until it dies. Researchers at the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch are trying to figure out how to kill the worm and save the bird.

The event where Strait will be awarded the T.Boone Pickens Lifetime Award has been sold out since Christmas raising more than $6600,00 for quail research.

George is more that just a pretty face that draws bucks.

Well, on his ranch he does that, too. Ones with four legs.

He  grew up country and appreciates that kind of wild life, too. Wildlife biologist Macy Ledbetter has worked with him for over many years improving habitat and ranch management.

So Strait seems to be cut out to be a conservationist as well as a country music legend.

He says he’s always amazed to get awards for doing stuff he loves: country music and taking care of the land.

He must be pretty sharp.

As the weak comes to an end, the most unkind cut of all: Day Light Savings Time!

Talk about undesirable!

Slashing sleep for mass populations, unwise?

Time to cut out,

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

Anyone really know what time it is?
(Gary Halvorson,Oregon State Archives/USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

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