Oh, deer! The plant saga

Tom went out to water the spirea Peggy gave us, only to discover that the deer had dug it up and had it for breakfast. Peggy says they have found deer tracks up close to their house, too, and I guess they are checking all areas of recent planting.

At any rate, Peggy brought some other plants over -- a beautifully dark red coleus, kale, what she thinks is a wild horseradish or some such thing, gazania and marigold.

Helen is due to visit in a couple of weeks, and she is bringing several gazillion day lilies and some flowering kale, too. That will keep her and Tom busy for a while. He already put out all those trees, a hundred or so glads and rearranged some other plants. For someone who is supposed to be sick, he just keeps going and going and going.

He and Rich walked the property this afternoon looking for wood that Rich could take for firewood this winter. While they were doing that, Peggy dropped in with the afore-mentioned flowers and a chat. Tom invited them to join us for roast pork that he is cooking on the grill as I speak.

And so life goes in the country.

Meanwhile, I decided that the last chapter of the Elijah book is beyond bad and will require a complete re-write, not just editing. So I put in a little time on that.

Sigh.