I've done a number on the blackberry brambles out back, attacking them several times over the past 30 years, hacking them back and pulling them up by the roots. Hope they won't lay in wait for me and take revenge...

It's the unexpected infections that seem to do the most harm -- and nature has been getting more vicious lately.

Hope you're on the mend -- healing thoughts and good wishes coming at you from this neck of the woods.

Linn and Tom (Curmudgeon)