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I don't think so. It may have traveled with some soil we moved years ago and it was just obscured from view until we dropped a huge basswood to the left, last fall? Maybe, but however we're pretty happy to find it.😊

A volunteer bloodroot! Sharon and I are perplexed as to how it jumped uphill and about 6 feet from the parent bunch.

"We do it nice, because we do it twice"?

The "Merlin Room" recently acquired an addition to the Mackie Music Co. collection. The mandolin has substantial damage but the price-point was too attractive to ignore. Now we have an instrumental trio, although the mandolin needs a luthier and the instruments need musicians.

Best of luck!

Rest in Peace Dickey Betts and thank you for the music!

Fantastic!

We do, unwittingly. Unfortunately my "library" is in multiple locations including our house and barn attics, livingroom (actually the audio room), family room, dining room, kitchen, pantry, upstairs hallway, bedrooms, a couple of china cabinets, antique upright phonographs and record storage...

To cut, or not to cut, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to drill The stripped and broken screws of outrageous fortune, Or to take hammers against a Sea of troubles...

A Lakota Sioux woman friend told me decades ago that my Spirit Animal was the Mató (Bear). I think she may've been wrong.

I've been on the fence with buying a  good generator for over 3 decades. In 1991 we had a devastating ice storm that literally obliterated the power grid and it had to be completely rebuilt in our area. Poles, substations, wires, you name it. The good thing is that the grid has been more stable...

Sorting tubes is a kind of Zen-Zone I like.

Gotta get through hump day...

Happy to hear your eyes are being saved, Mike! Thank goodness that is possible.

It should be fine. Ours went through a similar cold snap and snow after the super early warm streak we had here. Now its about 8-10" high! Incidentally, Sharon planted shallots and leeks today. 3 types of onion will be going in over the next couple of days.