Pictures! We want pictures!

Yeah, yeah, when I get around to it.

Mini-update:

- One tree only, as far as we know, survived (of the 10 Arbor Day seedlings we abused), but it's all the more precious to us on account of that. It's the Pin Oak, and it has a lovely green-leafed twig sprung from the root node.

- The compost heap is lovely and large and has had several visits from a large turtle who lives in the woods. He/she especially likes cantaloupe.

- With the departure of the boys to college, adjustments to our diet, and Emly's school schedule, household soft-drink intake is dramatically down, along with recyclable waste output.

- I got around to buying the tools that may mean the most to us after the collapse: a large bow saw, an axe, and a maul. In a few weeks I plan to bang together a sawhorse out of 2x4's and cut and split the pine logs I salvaged after the spring storm.

- It's official (actually, it was long since official): The tomatoes were a dead loss this year. We'll need different deck-garden crops, or more aggressive squirrel deterrence. (More aggressive than a chittering cat and a silent basenji peering out from behind a closed window.)

- Speaking of cantaloupe -- who says?? September 22, 2007, 11 a.m.