What’s up with the passage of time? It seems that as I get older, it flies away faster, but my list of to-dos keeps getting longer. This week was a combination of doing what I want and doing the things that have to be done for maintenance – finishing up planting spring bulbs and trying to hide my tracks from the rampaging squirrels, using raked-up leaves. I can see them in the naked branches of the falling-down Norway maple in the back – laughing as they bolt to their nests clutching yet another tender tulip morsel.

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