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Valerian root is, ostensibly, a sleep aid.

I was walking along a sidewalk in pretty much the edge of any city - it most closely resembled Tchopitoulas Street down towards Napoleon in New Orleans (light industrial area). Up ahead, some guy was selling a truckload of Varigated Stuff - oriental rugs, end tables, greenery, etc. Ten paces ahead of me was

jaylake, who stopped and looked at a particularly scraggly orange tree, then talked the seller into giving it to him for free after cutting all the dead, and much of the living, foliage off, ending up with a four-foot stump with an array of short, denuded branches at the top, resembling a thick, oversized rake drawn in crayon.

Jay, I'm pissed at you. . . I was gonna try to do exactly the same thing. ;-)