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I'm slowly getting caught up on email... a ways to go, but I'm slogging through. Getting some writing done, too.

More amusingly, Joyce, our housekeeper came today, and when she kicked me out of my office I headed down to prune the Japanese maple and do some general clean up. The japanese maple is slowly teaching me how to prune, I think. It started out looking like a salad bowl turned up-side down, but is making a slow journey towards looking like a cross between an old bent tree and a series of little waterfalls bouncing off rocks on their way down a cliff. I think so, anyway.

The front beds are now somewhat clean, and I need to give the bitter pills to the roses before the deer do them harm. (The deer were here this morning, and either Gwinn or I scared them off. Gwinn insists that it was him, of course.) The chard is starting to leaf out, and I should probably go harvest another mache salad. (We are somewhat overrun with mache, but it's not too bad this year, and mache is edible. Hopefully I'll stay on top of things...)

Oh, and I found a sprig of witch hazel I was willing to cut for the altar.

Next, it will be time to tackle the orchard... Or plant bulbs, or put in some more alliums...