food grows on trees

I finally managed to convince myself to give up a paper copy of the magazine Maine Organic Farmers and Gardiners puts out for the Common Ground Country Fair from last fall - yes, I had been hanging onto it thinking I might, someday, read it, at least in part for the article about breeding back blight resistant chestnut trees, even though I haven't read these articles in the past year of having the paper copy available. I don't know, my brain is perverse.

We've planted two chestnut trees and four plums on the property we're going to be leaving. I expressed my annoyance to Mistress of the Night, yesterday, that anyone would ever cut down a fruit tree, because, "Whatever else you can say doesn't grow on trees, you can't say that about food," and she thought that sounded quite profound. :) I hope that future inhabitants appreciate our offering as a help to their food bill, and don't just see dropped plums as an annoyance they have to mow around. Although, frankly, I have never managed to catch a walnut off the walnut tree out back! For some reason I never even see them, just dig up their shells. I think the squirrels get them.

Click and Clack retiring! :(

Holy shit, this is big news - google "click and clack retiring" and the entire first page at least will really be correct hits, from NPRs article to the Washington Post to, like everybody is reporting on this. Four million listeners... wow. I got misty eyed and quivery chinned when Eor told me - I'm not a huge fan of cars, but I love listening to Car Talk.