Just in from watering. We still have a healthy flow in the creek. A lot of the plants are suffering from locust depredation. Some blue potatoes I had going--big healthy lush foliage--have become little skeletons. A few big marigolds, as well, and some others. It's the struggling transplants that are most afflicted. Bugs always go for the weaklings. Yet they haven't killed them altogether, and most have new grow showing behind it all.

I don't think my little cottonwood is going to make it. I may have to buy Populus balsamifera saplings from Forestfarm.com. They should be so easy to root, like willows almost. I'll research more, and again.

Lunched yesterday afternoon with a friend from over the mountain. He brought his G4 17-inch laptop computer and I am so envious. He demonstrated software called Delicious Library 1.5 (from http://www.delicious-library.com/) that allows you to hold a book (CD, DVD, videotape) up to any webcam and it will read its barcode and instantly download all the info about it from six websites, including (and primarily) Amazon.com. I'm not sure of its value yet for business applications, but if the catalog it creates is transferable to a database application, then I'm there.

Again, all I need is OS X Tiger. We'll dip into the quantum possibilities and see what we can manifest.

I was able to first-draft a poem this morning, and nudge another far enough along than I can pick it up later and carry it away. An excellent way to begin a new month.
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