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92.7 John and Gordy in the morning and what a fantastic song to lead us into this morning.

Well we've got a lot of clouds moving in downtown now and saw just a ray of sunshine but I think the clouds are gonna be taking over at least at times today and we've got some chances for

some rain along the way late this afternoon and maybe some thunderstorms tonight.

Some strong to severe thunderstorms.

We'll check in with Brittany Merlot, our WMDX chief meteorologist in about 15 minutes and get the latest.

But yeah, could be really strong tonight.

That ray of sunlight you saw.

Yeah, what was that?

That was the look on the leaf blower's face.

They're

out there very

optimistic getting that job done.

Well, they do a great job because I don't see any leaves out there at all Because every day they're out there if they're one or two leaves they're after

them.

That's a cleanest street in the

world State Street, right?

It truly

It truly is.

Well, the Mifflin Street block party was happening over a week.

Oh, yeah.

No, I drove down here on Saturday.

Oh, man.

What a nightmare.

Don't ever do that.

No, don't.

There are a million people out on the streets.

They

don't let you drive on any of the side streets.

They

have

it all blocked.

Yeah.

Oh, that was a nightmare.

All right.

Shouldn't have done that.

Been there, done that.

All right.

Let's talk about the arrest.

of the judge in Milwaukee, which just hit the fan nationwide.

Everybody's picking up on this.

And that's because the Trump administration is going after the judicial branch.

They're threatening judges all over the place.

And this is their one big opportunity to go after a judge in Milwaukee.

And this could be a trumped up charge on her, no pun intended, but I

Accidentally, I was tuning around the AM dial, and I ran across an afternoon rerun, I think, of Dan O'Donnell's show.

He's on, like, at eight or nine o'clock in the morning in Milwaukee.

And he was taking all the credit for noticing what Hannah Dugan, Judge Hannah Dugan, had done with an immigrant in her courtroom.

And he had discovered it.

It was his news story.

And he even thanked the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for giving him credit for God.

Okay.

And I'm bringing it up only because this is how it starts.

One of these Republican talking disc jockeys out there bringing up the subject matter and then it gets blown completely out of proportion, gets picked up nationally, and then of course the Trump administration found out about it, sent Pam Bondi AG into the area and scooped her up in public.

Purple walked.

In public, it has to be like that.

That's a big show biz thing for them.

Photo op.

So thank you, Dan O'Donnell, for discovering that egregious behavior by a judge.

All right, so there's a lot of different points of view on this.

I saw one recently from some attorney on TV and they said that it's based on what she said to the immigrant that appeared in her courtroom in order to leave the courtroom.

See, Hannah knew, Hannah Duggan knew that the ice was outside.

So she directed this immigrant, after his court case, to leave out the side door through a back hallway.

Now it depends on how she phrased it.

Now, did she block ICE?

Did she lie about it?

This is the analysis from Brian Krestenstein.

He reported this.

Here's why Judge Dugan, her arrest is a complete joke.

DHS ICE only had an administrative warrant.

not a criminal judicial warrant.

Administrative warrants don't authorize agents to bust into private spaces like a courtroom without consent.

At the time in question, the man was inside a private courtroom, not wandering the public halls.

Quietly telling someone, take the jury door instead, isn't a crime unless you lie, threaten, or physically block agents.

The affidavit makes no claim that Judge Dugan

Had done any of those things according to the government's own documents after the hearing ended Judge Duggan allegedly pointed Flores Ruiz the immigrant and his lawyer Toward a non-public jury door a back exit used by staff and jurors.

That's it That's what she did.

That's the case.

No lies.

No threats.

No physical obstruction.

No crime.

That's his analysis of it now Governor Evers

Over the weekend, I guess, released a memo helping state employees deal with ICE agents.

And this is a web wonder.

I don't even know where he got this.

I tried to research this.

I couldn't find this story anyplace, but this guy came up with it.

And here it is.

This is cut 255.

You got that?

All right, let's listen to this.

We have some breaking news right now.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has instructed state employees to limit cooperation with ICE officials.

Folks, this is significant, and this comes one day after FBI agents arrested a Wisconsin judge over allegedly obstructing an ICE arrest.

So this is the memo that was sent out from the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration to state employees instructing them about how to act if state employees encounter ICE or other federal agents.

at their workplace.

You can read the full memo here, but it's also online.

There are serious concerns after this judge was arrested both in Wisconsin and across the country about ICE agents interrupting official state business.

And while now Governor Evers, who is a Democrat, is stepping up to ensure that ICE does not dictate what happens within the state of Wisconsin.

It'll be curious to see whether or not other states follow suit.

That's right.

So that is what took place.

I haven't been able to find that story any place, but that supposedly is what happened.

All

right.

So... I know Maggie Dawn

has had some comments on this the other day.

Yes,

she looked at the whole thing.

You mentioned that she is a friend.

Yeah, she

knows

Dugan.

She's

been before that judge.

Yeah, Maggie worked in Milwaukee County.

Still, I think works in Milwaukee County doing...

I'm not sure in what capacity

her

lawyer stuff, but she's worked there for decades at this point and yeah, she knows Hannah Dugan has worked with her before and She was she was one of the first people to find it find out and she told us about the news I was I was recording an interview with her on Friday when the news broke This

is you know such an extreme act.

Yeah, I

You know, the Republicans love this.

The Magus love this.

And this is their big talking point now.

You know, the judges ought to be arrested, put in jail.

I guess they're throwing a run like Hannah Duggan, committing at least two felonies.

And, you know, it's just, it's crazy.

The right wing has really picked up on this and we'll see what happens.

Don't wait for the day in court.

Get the mileage you can now.

Right?

Cues are of everything and then, and then.

backtrack and then be proven wrong.

That's how it always happens on the right anyway.

They live in opposite day every day on that side of the aisle.

That's the way it seems, anyway.

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All right, let's go to the

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We've got Mark waiting.

Good morning,

Mark.

Good morning, guys.

Yeah, for why didn't I, if they're gonna detain this guy, say coordinate with the court, you know, coordinate with the judge's staff and say, we're gonna detain this guy, but we understand you have a court proceeding.

so let her complete that court proceeding and then do what they needed to do because this court proceeding has now been delayed as far as i'm concerned you know the skater with scott's and has it first crack at the sky because he's you know accused of apparently some new some on battery charge apparently that state of wisconsin should have gotten its chance to have this guy have his his court proceeding and then ice could detain him rather than uh...

sending in the flying squad in there to Interrupt with the state of Wisconsin's first crack at this guy, you know to administer justice I mean that it is just ridiculous that they did this they could have coordinated all this and for all I know that they wanted to embarrass you know They want to come up with some embarrassing incident, you know, I'm a daily basis And

that's what they do.

Yeah,

it's just it's just deeply disturbing and shows that

the lack of thought that went into this whole detention process, because it is just a, you need five guys to arrest one guy.

I mean, I just, I don't get that.

I know, I know.

But you know, none of this is legal.

None of this should be happening because we really don't have an emergency in this country.

We don't have, you know, it's, and if we had stopped this originally and had.

some court case that challenged it and eventually won by the people challenging it, we wouldn't be going through this mess.

And I don't know why we're allowed to let all these things happen, slip by.

And Donald Trump wears a blue suit to the Pope's funeral rather than black like everybody

else.

Yeah.

Well, the fact that he fell asleep and his jaw was wide open while he was sleeping there in front.

And

he

wasn't

supposed to be sitting in the front row, but he demanded to sit.

Oh, he did.

Oh,

yeah.

So everybody could see him, right?

Yeah, with Melania.

And then, of course, you know, he texted a few things.

He wasn't even paying attention.

He was texting.

Unbelievable.

And then he fell asleep.

Yeah.

And his mouth wide open, sleeping in the front row.

Yeah.

We all know he was going to embarrass himself in us.

And we really shouldn't be surprised.

No.

Right.

I

know.

Mark, thank

you for that call.

Sometimes you just

throw up your hands.

You just

can't imagine how this is

happening.

But I don't think the Magus get the whole point of this.

It's due process.

That's the

whole thing.

That's

the whole thing.

I mean, they've

sent deportation.

Another big story we're going to get to here, and I'll just bring it up now a little bit anyway, the three children, American citizens sent away, taken out of the country, deported.

Now, and one, I think one or two of them had health problems, dangerous health problems, one cancer.

So, unbelievable.

There has to be some day in court, due process, find out what's going on, these kids at least could have been taken care of in some way, shape, or form, you know, custody, you know, give the parents some peace of mind.

Working through that but instead they scooped up one mom who had a what a three-month-old baby and sent her to Cuba

and

Cuba does not allow any flights into this country So she's not coming back.

Yeah You know the Biden administration did deportations Obama's administration did

deportation, but they did it with due process.

That's the

thing.

That's the

thing.

You know, my mega friend in Milwaukee sent me this video, and it was from a Fox News host saying, well, he did all of this.

Obama did all these deportations.

What's the difference?

Well, you know, maybe you should look it up.

Due process.

This would be an easy thing to find out.

Yeah, it was due process at Dan

Court.

It's 19 past the hour.

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We could be in for some severe weather later on this evening and late tonight as well.

We'll get the update from WMDX meteorologist, Brittany Merlo on John and

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WMDX 92.7, John and Gordy in the morning.

Right.

Yeah.

Now

we're seeing sunshine again.

Yeah.

What the heck is going on here?

You're

just

singing

the blues, you know, a little too soon, my friend.

Well, but the clouds are eventually going to take over and maybe some.

Oh, you

still have to be right,

right?

Oh yeah, the clouds will be.

Well, let's check in with our professional meteorologist.

Yeah, you know, to get the real word on what's happening here.

Our chief meteorologist for WMDX, Brittany Merlot.

She knows what's going on.

But there's some thunderstorms near you in Wausau this morning, right?

Yes, they woke us up in northern Wisconsin.

They've been rolling through about five o'clock this morning.

It started and it has not stopped.

Got a lot of cloud to ground lightning.

big thunder rolling through, but that's about it, besides some heavy downpours.

I mean, we had the chance for hail, but we haven't had it yet.

But you can just tell today, something's in the atmosphere.

It's got an eerie vibe to it this

morning.

I mean, we had the, I don't know about you, but I had a red sunrise.

Yeah.

Hmm.

Legend has it,

right?

Yeah.

Red sky in the morning.

Sailors take morning.

Yep.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And say the rest of the freight.

There's more, right?

There is.

I don't know it.

Do you know it?

Is it green sky at night?

Sailors delight, I think.

I could be wrong about that.

There was only a source of sexual innuendo in there.

What are you bringing up here?

What are you, drunk?

OK.

Let's get back on track here.

So

yeah.

There's going to be a lot of heat and humidity.

Like the temperatures are really going to jump up this afternoon, right?

Yeah.

So you're going to hit about 80 degrees

in

Madison and your

dew

points, John, you love this one is 65 degrees.

So that's that's muggy.

That is all that sticky.

Yeah.

I agree.

And all of that, of course, is the perfect mixture.

So we've had the warm front left in.

We're going to get hot, humid, unstable.

And then we've got a cold front that wants to sweep through tonight.

So it's going to do a couple of things.

First, with the heat of the day, those storms could spark up probably around five or six o'clock, a little bit off to the west.

And then I think those are going to be rolling towards you around six or seven.

So I think you're going to get a first round around six or seven.

And some of those.

Definitely could be severe.

I think those have the potential for strong tornadoes, maybe EF2 or higher, which could rip roofs off, shift foundation.

I mean, we're talking about some strong, intense storms tonight.

So I'd say weather savvy from at least 5 p.m.

through maybe 1 a.m.

or so.

I know that's through the overnight hours, but as the cold front actually moves through, we think we're going to get another wave of storms later tonight, maybe around midnight.

And that is going to probably have 70 mile per hour wind gusts as the line comes through, probably hail with it.

And we could also see more tornadoes embedded hidden in that line, rainwrapped, surprising us as it moves in like 50 miles an hour.

So.

Okay,

you sufficiently scared the

daylights out of us.

I'm sorry.

I hate

this part of my job, but I have to take the gazebo down again.

That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Here

I'm

thinking we're going to have to break off the cuts in the basement.

You're worried about.

A lot of time in the game.

Maybe you should

take shelter in the gazebo.

Well, we've been sufficiently warned and yeah, thanks for the update and boy, we'll just keep a real close eye on things.

I'm a scared now.

Well, make sure you got a weather radio.

Yeah, yeah, I got it right here.

You got a radio ready to go.

Oh, yeah, yeah, the weather radio.

Yeah.

And you know, most of your most of your cell phones will give you warnings and

Oh, yeah, definitely.

I

get on my Samsung watch,

the official

weather watch.

Mm-hmm.

It works, though.

That's all that matters.

That's right.

Stay safe.

All right.

Okay.

Thank you, Brittany.

I was wondering, do you have a little

extra time, Brittany?

I do.

All

right.

Because we have something very special here at the WMDX Studios.

It is the official WMDX weather window.

Oh, we have we have a weather window.

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Wow, wow, that's strong.

It is

strong.

I can't

keep going with this.

All right, we're spitballing.

I'm

dropping stuff over here.

All right, Brittany.

All right.

We'll workshop that one.

Yes.

And we appreciate it.

If you have any ideas, let us know.

All

right.

We'll

do.

That's Brittany Merlo, our WMDX chief meteorologist.

OK.

Yeah, we do need to work on that one a little bit.

I can just hear

the guy at the end, though, you know, with the Johnny Gordy ball bouncing off the window saying,

wow, that's strong.

That's really, really strong.

Yeah.

OK.

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John and Gordy in the morning, we got a texture from Mark in the sack and he writes, we don't need those stinking expensive Noah.

We've got John and Gordy's weather window.

That's

right.

Big thumbs up.

And again, we're seeing sunshine through the window at the moment.

It's 7 36.

It's never wrong.

Well, that's that's correct.

And we will be in for some rain and thunderstorms tonight and could be strong or severe.

So keep you posted.

Well, we got another call.

Yeah, that's right.

Dick is on the line with a question or a comment this morning.

Phone lines are open.

6088798255.

Good morning, Dick.

What do you got for us today?

Well, Brittany explained it beautifully in the newscast without Noah and Mark brought it up.

Soon she won't have the ability to scare us.

We'll just be able to just find her through this in the dark.

Why do we need to know about a tornado?

There's

something else that happened this weekend.

The Sunday talk shows.

Yeah.

Oh boy.

Marco Rubio now.

I didn't realize this.

Maybe you guys had heard this, but apparently Justin Trudeau asked to be annexed because

He said, we really can't compete with you if we change the tariff situation.

And according to Rubio, that's what Trudeau said before he left office to Trump.

Oh

my

god.

Oh sure.

How much more delusional does it go?

That sounds nuts.

Yeah,

I'm sure that happened.

Oh my god, really?

Unbelievable.

Yeah, so, you know, they're in such a desperate way, but also more on that.

Looks like Nissan is going to close some plants and also one of them.

Other ones is talking about American plants in Indiana, Mississippi, Subaru, and Nissan both.

Wow, I did not

hear that.

That'll help.

That'll help the job situations, won't it?

Yeah, that was such a good idea doing the tariffs.

And you know, I love, I think it's a New York state is that I believe the governor there is going to get rid of all the Tesla dealerships out there.

They were given an exemption to have dealerships for Tesla, and they're gonna take the exemption away.

Because they're company owned, right?

They're not sort of franchised or whatever.

And they're gonna have other dealerships, other car manufacturer dealerships sell the Teslas as well.

But anyway, they're gonna get rid of the special dealerships, which aren't allowed in this state.

And thank goodness for

that.

auto plants closing all over the place.

There's CNN is on a story here with plants closing in Kokomo, Indiana and a number of other places here.

Well, this is not through it.

No,

no, it's not.

Well, thanks,

Dick, for giving us a heads up on that.

Appreciate that.

Yeah.

Dick,

thank

you for that.

A little bit later on here, we're expecting Amy Horak.

She'll be here with the Horticultural Report from David J. Frank.

Yeah, you were

doing yard work over the weekend or gardening.

I was doing, yeah, I cleared out a whole side of the yard there and getting ready to, yeah, I need to know what to put in there.

John,

John,

has

your entire sack of grass seed has any of that sort of growing yet?

No,

no, no, it got washed away.

We knew

it, really.

She told us that would

happen.

I know and it happened.

I didn't think it would.

I was taking my chances and I lost that one.

I do want to mention this though, this is devastating news, tariffs could increase the price of coffee.

Oh,

what?

Yeah.

Oh, no.

Throughout the entire medicine area, this is not good.

Local roasters and shop owners are also concerned the tariffs could impact the coffee industry from higher prices for raw green coffee to the menu prices.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

I'll tell you.

What are you going to do?

Yeah.

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We

sure

want

coffee, we're not gonna be able to get it soon though.

I know it.

How expensive is

it?

Well I've noticed at some of the restaurants.

I think you're scalping as well.

Some of the menu prices are already jumping up quite a bit.

But you know, what are they gonna do first for

eggs now for coffee?

Have you have any of you been to a restaurant where you had to like pay a surcharge for some kind of egg dish?

Surcharge no, like I like I heard that some places were doing that where you had to pay extra

if you were getting like a holler

or something like that.

Because of the bird flu it wasn't the president's fault,

it wasn't

Trump's fault, it wasn't anybody's fault.

Except

for the

bird flu.

And you know, I mean, of course we're gonna blame Trump because he would have done the same for Biden.

So we blame him for the high fake crisis.

What goes around comes around, my friend.

Laura Salinger, Johnson, co-owner of JBC Coffee Roasters says everybody's going to be impacted in some way, whether it be the coffee drinker whose coffee is going to be more expensive or the coffee grower who is already fighting to sell coffee at a higher price just so they get paid better.

So it affects everybody, you know, those free market coffee roasters as well.

These tariffs are going to start really impacting yeah market are really going to start Impacting yes in the next couple of weeks.

They're saying the supply chains are you know we can we can tell Prices are gonna start jumping

so there's also something you know earlier story.

I didn't mention this but

they're making all these cuts throughout the government.

And a lot of those cuts were rescinded by the courts and a lot of people got their jobs back.

But the big cut is coming this summer because everybody, all these government employees were offered buyouts.

And a lot of people, a lot of the employees took the buyouts.

So if...

If in fact the courts stop these people from being fired and we go with the buyouts, we're still gonna lose a heck of a lot of people in the government who make it run smoothly for all of us out here in the hinterland.

So that's the big thing that's gonna hit in summer and that will have a major impact on a lot of things that we take for granted.

Yeah, a lot of these...

things that Trump has been doing, it's all delayed effect.

And we haven't really seen the biggest impacts yet, really just except for the stock market, which is all over the place.

I mean, the thing here is, you know, the getting rid of so many checks and balances, you know, we have a free market kind of system, which really isn't a free market kind of system.

They say it is.

But we do have these administrative office buildings that

oversee what's going on in their particular industry.

And without them overseeing it, without them making sure that businesses tow the line from what government has demanded of them to do, then they could do anything they want.

They can rip people off.

I guess we're getting rid of the idea of examining chicken for salmonella.

Right.

We're

loosening regulations on that.

There is no bottom note to that.

Well, if it has seminella fine, just send it out there.

We don't care.

Well,

and what about milk inspection, dairy products?

Yes, the dairy, yes.

Taking loosening restrictions on inspections of that.

Exactly.

So you can't tell me that's not going to have a major effect somewhere down the line,

right?

Oh, man, I tell you.

Um, let's see

here.

We've

got.

Oh,

yeah.

Here's the story right here.

Okay.

A USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella in their products.

Okay.

That

sounds worse than

what I was

describing.

Yeah.

It's it's halting the Biden administration's effort to reduce food poisoning from contaminated meat.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh my God.

Wow.

Maybe

Trump will eat some of that salmonella contaminated meat.

All right, I tell you what, I've got something here.

Fareed Zakaria had an interesting comment about the national emergencies that Trump has put into place, and we were talking about that.

That's why they're scooping up all the immigrants out here, just doing whatever they want, because this is a national emergency.

Let's listen to this.

This is cut 258.

He called it a national emergency.

And now for the last term.

This month, when President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on the world, he didn't just frame it as a smart economic reset, he called it a national emergency.

Similarly in January, Trump sought funding for securing the southern border by declaring a national emergency.

And for a way to boost fossil fuel production, you guessed it, a national energy emergency.

So far, Trump has declared eight national emergencies in his first 100 days.

More than

any other president.

That's according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

The reason for this is clear.

Invoking an emergency has come to mean that the president can bypass Congress, intimidate courts, and run roughshod over normal procedures, even civil liberties.

Unlike many other countries,

The U.S.

Constitution says nothing about how to declare or end an emergency.

This has allowed presidents to organically assume a wide range of powers.

This usually happened during wartime.

As Deborah Pearlstein, the director of Princeton's program and law and public policy, told GPS, these statutes were lying around like loaded weapons for a president who was not acting in good faith to use them.

And in his second term,

Donald Trump is pushing the boundaries of presidential power in a way that is well beyond what the Constitution envisioned.

And yet, despite a distinct danger of creating a super presidency that would undermine America's democratic system, Congress and the courts have been largely acquiescent.

When they wake up, it might be too late.

Well, that's, uh, I

wanted to bring everybody

down.

Well, you certainly did.

We were

having

too

much fun.

Reality there.

Well,

yeah.

Reality check, uh, Fareed,

Zechariah,

and another comment.

Everyone totally comes out with some pretty good ones, you know.

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You know, one of the interesting things is that, you know, Trump never goes by polls.

He

doesn't believe, he doesn't

believe in polls.

And you know, because he's the king, he's the authoritarian.

He doesn't

care.

It doesn't matter what the polls say.

Right.

Let's listen to A.G.

Secretary Brooke Rollins, who is a major asker herself.

She can't tell the truth.

If it kills her, let's listen to what she had to say about all those damn polls.

Let's listen.

259, you got 259 up there.

Now he does.

Here

we

go.

Thank you, Sam.

I think the first and most important thing that is really relevant to today is this president has never, ever governed by poll.

He's never worried about this poll yesterday or that poll tomorrow.

We've got the highest poll numbers that I've ever had in that any Republican.

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Plant

music.

Yes, plant music.

This

is the, I told you guys before, this is the lead track off of an album of music written for plants.

That's

right, plants actually, if they're listening to this, they're gonna like it

a lot.

Yeah, they're gonna grow better.

And I just want to mention everybody that we'll get to the polls that Trump doesn't pay attention to tomorrow.

Okay.

Very important story.

It is 753 and 55 degrees now.

Maybe some storms late today and definitely tonight.

Looks like we're going to get some very stormy weather.

Time to get those pre-emerged down.

Well, there you go.

And Amy Horak joins us now from David J. Frank with the Horticultural Report.

Good to see you again, Amy.

Good to see you guys today.

How are you doing?

We're doing OK.

So it is the pre-emergent time, isn't it?

It is definitely time for pre-emergence.

So that is going to a pre-emergent helps protect from weeds coming up before they emerge.

So hence the pre-emergent name.

Putting it down at this time, usually before rain is usually ideal, otherwise you'd usually have to water them into the soil so that the chemicals can start working and the plants can

take them

up.

But that would be a really good thing to consider doing right now in the month of April and into early May.

Okay.

So tell your boss you're leaving a little early today to get that pre-emergent done before it rains.

Hey,

it's a lawn, come on.

Now, what about, is there anything else we should be aware of this time of year as we're getting into the heart of spring and warmer weather?

Yeah,

so you can, along with pre-emergence, some of them are also like a fertilizer, so you can apply it to the entirety of the lawn, not just like to your gardening beds

to

help do weed control.

So you can do that.

And you can also start lawn herbicide applications as well.

If you want to start spot treating, I've definitely already noticed in a couple of different lawns and just even at home, the large, the sole plants

have come up.

So those are

really great to step on.

Not really.

So if you have pets or children in the yard, maybe going around and just scouting those types of things out, maybe doing some preventative weed removal of that nature.

A lot of dandelions already coming up as well.

Some people love them, some people hate them.

What should we think about this?

Because there are two, some people do love them.

There are

some extremes to that.

Some people are the worst nuisance they've ever seen in their life.

And other people, it's like, well, it's just a cute little flower.

So I mean, I feel like it's kind of up to you.

I mean, if you really want to go with the natural look, leave them alone.

They're one of the first things that do pop up in the season and, you know, bees and pollinators, that's a good early food source for

us.

A lot of some people, you know, it's Wisconsin, it's a brewing state.

So there are people that make dandelion wine.

So there's a lot of uses for them if you don't like them, but still want to use them in a different nature instead of spraying chemicals onto them.

You have some options.

If you have children dandelion crowns, you learn how to make them.

They're fun for kids.

So

oh, yeah Yes, it's not like, you know dandelions don't fertilize and and seed other people's lawns or anything like

that That's the other thing so if you um, you don't want them spreading so maybe if you want to be a good neighbor and ask your neighbors Hey, are you already paying money to take care of your lawn and not have dandelions?

Maybe

Try to figure that out.

Or maybe have your neighbor pay for your dandelion.

Oh, are that too?

There you go.

Hey, that's

an idea.

It's a weird area to kind of navigate, but

yeah,

leave or stay.

I mean, it depends if you want that perfect green lawn or if you don't mind a couple little spots of flowers.

Let me ask you something here.

You know, we're talking about herbicides, but what about bugs?

Bugs, um, yeah, I don't want to scare people, but I've already seen mosquitoes out and about with this wet weather and this warmth we've gotten so early It's early, but as soon as those temperatures hit the right thresholds those bugs are going

yeah,

so definitely do some insect scouting um

You can, if you notice insects that are already starting to cluster, like things like tent caterpillars that might be a little too early for them.

But just noticing if there's feeding on any of the new leaves on your plants, definitely getting ahead of the game instead of just reacting to it once the problem is really bad.

Because once they're there, it's going to be more of an uphill battle.

So do a little insect monitoring?

Yep,

monitoring.

So

kind of looking if there's nest, if you see really small, just looking at your plants and if you start seeing bugs on there.

I know you can use some different like online resources like Google.