stupid apple tree

Doesn't understand "dormant season." Never dropped all its leaves and now it's leafing out. It's supposed to blossom on bare branches, rather late in the fruit tree blossoming season. And I'm supposed to prune it on a dry day when it has no leaves. Dry day? No leaves?

Summer pruning for all around from now on. They grow too fast anyway.

I forgot to count wordage. Mostly notes

I have well and truly got to the point where I can't remember dates, timing, characters, and their relationships without a scorecard, so I've made some. Organizational charts so I can keep the bureaucracies straight enough to write about them.

But I'm feeling less stuck. And, thanks to Wildepad, I think I may be onto a solution for the Tasmanian FLower Basket story. I wonder if I know anybody who's actually walked on Tasmania, or seen it from the ocean or the air?

(it's a side issue)