By now the new PLWP website has been made public, and is being used well and happily. I felt like I had my head stuck in my computer for the past two months while working on it. There will probably be some bugs in the cupboards and corners. I'm hoping that folks just swat 'em and the rest take heed and go away .

However, I did get out of the house a bit this summer. I offer proof below of a trip through the Kentucky countryside on a potato buying excursion.  The produce they sell at the farm stands at the end of summer is not only a delight to eat, it's also great fun driving to the riverside farm-stands to buy it. 

We've grown our own vegetable garden every year but this one. This year there are a few scraggly plants down there in the back yard begging for attention. The raccoons and deer ate more  produce than we did in years past, and I do kind of feel like I let them down this year. I think  it's getting to be too much to handle, the weeding and daily care of a garden. I did plant it though, really I did. 

I get offers of help, but somehow there's just no one around when it needs weeding. I could deploy my Dad's method of weeding the garden, but I don't think I could get away with setting a brush fire. It's a tempting thought sometimes. Guys garden differently I guess. My niece once called my husband "Conan, the agrarian" as he rode by on the tractor-mower. 

I'm going to stick my head back in my computer now. It is still August as I write this, and I have one week to finish the new website and a week and a half to finish Virtuality. Bye .

        

Carol Mcleod