Weekly update: the garden, a new flimsy, and reading
from With Strings Attached
Illinois officially opened up on Friday with fewer Covid restrictions in place. My P.E.O. chapter met for lunch on Saturday (we brought our own) -- the first in-person gathering since August. Church services on Sunday were mask-optional. There were twice as many people as we've had over the spring. A light fog over the lake on Thursday was not a harbinger of rain, unfortunately. We are in a moderate-to-severe drought. On Saturday we saw the clouds that brought 1" to the suburbs just south of us but not a drop fell here.
I have been watering the vegetable ...
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