By way of many folks...

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON'T ACTUALLY remember about you.

And, yeah, I'll have to catch up and post many fake memories as time allows... end o' the month, fourteen hour workdays, intermittent breathing, stuffy nose, wot wot...

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Okay, done with work - that gave me about 10 hours today, 14 yesterday... ain't the end o' month grand?

Completely random stuff:

• The largish (40-50') dead pitch pine lost its top third in the wind and rain yesterday/last night. The Good News is that it missed the selfheal, a Washington hawthorn, and a Colorado blue spruce. The Bad News is that it was leaning about 10-20 degrees away from the direction where the largish pieces fell, and those pieces landed 10-30' from the tree. Why is that Bad News? The pitch pine on the left which looks even more alarming in this photo. It also leans away from the house, it doesn't happen to be dead (yet - I know one third to half of its roots were cut when they did our electrical wiring), but it's only 5' or so from the house. The pictures are from last March - not that much wintry weather here, yet


• The Rachel River is running, and it bogged down with about 10 brazillion bushels of leaves, so Justin and I made some effort to clean it up a bit - we used the removed leaves to mulch next to the house (just across Stone Stream from the pitch pine in the pictures above.) Just for reference, and because I was posting the other ones, here's the Rachel River, circa this past January.


• Brandon is very close to talking - his babbling is getting much more expressive, and, speaking of expressions, his expressions are hysterical. The kid's got a great sense of humor, even if he's misapplying it at the moment by trying to bite Deb. He's doing the So Big thing, as well as using ASL to indicate that he wants to eat (in addition to 'please' and 'more.')


• I had other things to mention, but I've forgotten them completely. Oh well.