So Honey, what did you do with your day?

Miss Critterpants and i dragged our sick selves (yes, still sick, eternally sick) to a friend's house In Town to collect on her very generous offer of plant divisions. Wild Ginger, whose roots taste kind of like the ginger you get in the store. Lady's Mantle, which has all sorts of good properties, mostly to stymie bleeding and things to do with mysterious Women's Ailments, and anti-wrinkle tonic. And Alpine Strawberries. they are short on fruit, but long on pretty pink flowers. All of these lovely plants are going into THE SHADE GARDEN. the garden that i will putter around with in all my spare time.

when we got back from Town, My Guy had taken a tree down. The Big Tree. After the local school bus had pulled his hot rod truck from the muddy ditch (that is another story), he showed off his morning's work. He totally wins the big project of the day.