A look back
Geez. It's been a long time since last posting--longer than I'd realized by about four months. A new year seems like a good time for an update, though, especially since there's a good bit to say. The short and incomplete list of fun stuff since May involves these events: After picking up Walter the Wonder Dog in May, we took off for a week-long trip to southern Utah. We stayed a night in Glenwood Springs on the way down, then hung out in a yert south of Moab. Arches, Canyonlands, Mesa Verde, Canyon of the Ancients: check, check, check, and check. The biggest summer project was a new fence, to keep in the beast. I put up cedar pickets along the west and north sides of the back yard. So far, they're straight. We'll see what a season of frozen ground and frost does to my work. A relatively successful effort to make something grow in the front yard, despite a crazy hailstorm that flooded out a bunch of my planting and seeding work. Ended up with mostly gras