A freelance job came up for the weekend after next - two sessions, one Friday evening, one at noon on Saturday. I don't charge much, it's a campus group, but it is an nice opportunity to get out and try out the new camera and the processing things I'm learning vis a vis Camera Raw.

Warmer here today, and through the weekend. I watered my cold but parched garden yesterday and overnight I didn't put the faucet cover back on. I think it only got down to 31, so not a crisis. My broccoli is finally growing and it looks like the onions are getting established. I picked up some thyme for the front bed where I want to establish ground cover and some strawberries for the kitchen garden to add to the existing patch. Coriander is doing well but my bay tree is looking wretched since the tender growth ends all got zapped in the cold. It usually recovers, but this has been a test I didn't expect it to receive. Good thing it is a little be sheltered by the house.

Zeke threw up this morning - the second half of the dishtowel that he ate about three weeks ago. Last week I found half of it in a long twisty poop in the back yard. This guy has probably had a stomach ache for the whole time. I have made a mental note to keep a laundry basket up on the washer for anything I toss into that room from the kitchen. I think he smelled food and ran off with it. How he managed to swallow it without choking himself is a mystery. I visualize catching him in the act and pulling it out. Yech.

Deadlines loom, so I'm back to work.

SRS