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Plum Tree

Our poor little plum tree. It is not pretty, parts of it have had to be cut off and it looks ridiculous, but I've never had the heart to take it down. And look how it rewards us every spring! Such delicate little pink blossoms that will give us plums that eventually fall to the ground so that Misty can eat them and get the runs. Oh well.

So here I am, back in blogland. It's been a loooooooooooooong time! Ugh! What an ordeal it was to get everything restored on my laptop after the hard drive crashed about a week ago! After three separate and long sessions with three Carbonite tech people and a computer wiz in Cameron, it was discovered that my files wouldn't restore properly because something deep in the innards of my computer wouldn't allow it to happen. It threw it into 'error' mode, and once that happened, it corrupted something. At least that's what the final Carbonite guy told me. Once the genius discovered that and remedied the situation, my files backed up in only about 12 hours. Yes, twelve hours! It could have something to do with the fact that there were 105 GB that needed restoring. That's what happens when you upload multiple camera cards, file them by month, then resize, crop, etc. and file them again by subject.

I'd be interested in knowing how you back up photo files. Is there anything stable, that doesn't deteriorate or get corrupted after a while? If so, that's probably what I need to do. I can't tell you the last time I printed photos.

I did a little cleaning out last night, i.e. getting 20,000 emails and 7,000 unread emails deleted from my Inbox. That cleared up 14.9 GB of space right there. I'm determined to be better about cleaning it out periodically, like maybe every night.

Maple Seeds. How have we never before noticed that they're so red?
or maybe they're just much redder this year?

Early Girl tomatoes, before second transplant

Last night I re-transplanted the Early Girls. They're looking pretty good. Of course, they look just like the photo above except that the stems are buried and only the leaves show above the soil line. I hope they can get nice, thick stems and survive until June 2 or so, when I can set them out in the garden.

My sweet doggie, who hates to go outdoors
 And honestly, I feel just about as motivated as he does today. That huge dog loves it when I lie on the floor and use his belly as a pillow.

Today, my daughter told me that she had read the following, 'Keep only what you find useful or beautiful.' Now that I've cleaned out my Inbox, I need to start on the house. Bridger and Misty, Lionel and Tuppence can relax. I find them all to be both useful and beautiful!

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