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Wednesday Evening

Spent most of the evening working on the pond, and Camron helped. Things are moving along well, but I want more plants to appear. My sister can just decide that she wants something to grow in a certain place, and it does, so her gardens just appear in the right places looking great - no work. She's lucky she has a job to take up all of that spare time she has when the rest of us are plowing, planting, weeding, watering, and sometimes watching $50 worth of plants die before the weeds do.

These are turning into nice plants 

Camron redesigned the waterfall. All of the rocks are carefully placed to -- I'm not sure what. He carefully planned each placement. 

The water is sort of murky.\ 

Hooked up the aeration system 

Camron and I cleaned in this area today 

She still loves frisbees, but no longer chases them. She redesigns them.  

The end of an incredibly nice day. 

Some Things I Didn't Know About

I can't leave the house any more on week-ends or after 3pm when Camron gets in from school. For the past week, as soon as he gets outside, he sits on the NE side of the pond berm and stares at my house. He knows that I will come outside when Kilo starts barking, and she does almost as soon as he shows up. When it started today, I stopped working and went to tell him hello and trace a mysterious buried electric cord that I found while digging up the garden. It seems to be attached to something in the shop so I was wandering through it and Camron was following me, chattering. I finally realized that he had just said he was disappointed because Julio was going to the science fair and he wasn't. I turned and said "really" - thinking "you're in kindergarten, do science fairs start that early?" He looked right into my eyes and said "really, and he doesn't even know how to make a laser!". While I was trying to digest that, he said "He did make that teleportation device to the sun, but it didn't work". I was afraid to show the depth of my ignorance and ask why anyone would want to be teleported to the sun.

gottablast -even though I almost dread the encounters (or maybe it's just getting away), he cracks me up every time.

Transition into Spring

For the past year I have been watching the weather move completely away from the patterns that have been familiar for the past 45-50 years, and have kept thinking how strange and out of the ordinary each event is. Well, no, they probably aren't. This place could be a moldy swamp in a few years.

Spent the day cleaning the pond surface 

I almost missed the - 

last bit of light 

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