Linn, I love the kind of yard work where you putter all day long, and when you get up the next morning and walk over to the door with your cuppa tea, the morning yard looks fresh and park-like.

Liz the Squeak was having a lot of work done in her yard last year, and Andrea was doing a lot of building on her house then switched to her yard. Alice as a lovely yard (minus a deer antler lately) and Maryanne and . . . I think gardening is a common thread for all of us. The friend I delivered pots to today is an avid gardener - and I've invited her over to pillage and sample in my yard because I have a lot of stuff that needs thinning. She's moving from the house she's in (and has been moving a lot of landscape material) to a new place. Apparently her neighborhood is being torn down by developers who bought out property owners to build housing for the university where we work. There is so much at her house to try to save - stained glass, tiles and rocks in the yard, plants, solar panels - oy! She has a new place she has been slowly moving things over to for the last 8 months. I detect another large declutter operation.

SRS