Defunked

Thanks, everyone, for your words of sympathy, encouragement and pants-kicking. Despair is the lazy way out -- you are so right, Roxie! Back to the garden I go. And I owe you all a couple of sky pictures. Shortly after I finished the previous post I went outside and discovered that things were improving.


We ate dinner on the deck as the clouds flew away.


That's what I get for whining! I'm done for now, I promise.

Yesterday brought a lowering sky that kept dripping all day, but it also brought a box full of goodies...


and more goodies.


There were actually even more goodies, but I'd hate to be responsible for mass sensory overload. In one respect, the box's timing was bad: you all may remember that Ruth was kind enough to share her spoils with me when the box visited her, and I promised to do the same in return. At the moment, however, Ruth is off on vacation and not scheduled to return for another three weeks. So, Ruth, what should we fight over?