I'm cooling down again, for the third time, and my clothes all smell strongly of rosemary. The last big chore for today was 45 minutes digging out two trees each several years old that started from squirrel planting in the front bed (a mix of iris, rosemary, salvia, and a large Silverado sage). The pecan came first, then the oak. They were each about 1" diameter at the base (in forestry you would describe a tree by its dbh - diameter breast high - but these weren't tall enough to have that measurement.) Those were the most established of the weed trees. Tomorrow I'll work my way around the yard digging the tree sprouts from last year and this.

A lot of garden stuff is back in the greenhouse after rounding up various sized pots and a few tools that had been in the garage and by the potting bench outside it.

There's a lizard that hangs out on the security door on the driveway side of the house, big enough that even the bigger spiders need to avoid it. There's a yellow-crowned night heron that has started hanging out around the yards on our end of the block (it flounced off to the roof across the street this evening because I was apparently disturbing it) that could be a predator for the lizards and toads. Coyotes, foxes, opossum, raccoons, skunks, and bobcats in the woods across the road. I haven't seen any hares for quite a while; I suspect the coyotes cleared them out. If a squirrel gets hit by a car in the street vultures usually do the cleanup work. Good sized bass and perch in the creek, along with turtles. For an urban dweller, I have a lot of wildlife because of the creek and the woods. Oh, and there was one more wasp confrontation yesterday. They were on the frame for the sliding glass door into the back yard.

Cooking tomorrow. Babaghanouj and a batch of crispy pecans.

How's the new apartment coming along, Keb? Are there any musical members of the community, or access to a piano or a music room? And the furniture you moved in there, is it working out? The new bed comfortable?