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Plants

Today I added more fertilizer and water to my straw bales, weeded, cut wintercreeper and honeysuckle off the fences, repotted a lot of house plants, put the rosemary Jennifer gave me into a nice pot, and did a little trimming along the porch. I was delighted to notice that three marsh milkweed plants are coming back strong in back. The yarrow by the porch is going to engulf the hostas and beebalm, I fear. 

Wits and Wagers

Playing with friends via text during an era of social isolation.

Hasty map

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Azul

Played today with my daughters. I came in last. It was fun.

Squirrel

Highlight from yesterday: I spent ten minutes watching a squirrel in my back yard. It was carrying around an ear of corn. It would stop, take a kernel off, hop around to select a good spot, bury the kernel. Then it would get another kernel, and bury it. The squirrel seemed to bury three kernels per ear-drop: It would drop the ear, then bury kernels at the points of a roughly equilateral triangle, roughly 3 feet from the ear. Then it would carry the ear to another spot to bury more kernels.

First asparagus of the year

Picked yesterday. 

RPG meet up in the time of pandemic

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Rabbit nest

Today I caught a bunny lining a freshly dug hole with grass. Unfortunately, this is right next to my neighbors big garden, where they are planting all sorts of greens. I felt obliged to shoo the rabbit away. If it decides on another spot in my yard, farther away, fine. But, jeez, not *right next to* my neighbors' lettuce.

It's a very cute little dugout. But I moved bricks around on top of it. Find a better spot, rabbit.

Shopping in the time of pandemic