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The Sun Also Rises

BILL’S ANNUAL SUMMER NEWSLETTER

June 4, 2020

We’re fortunate.  We can yield to our outdoors for calm and comfort.  Morning always seems to start out groggy unlike Hudson and Walter who jump to attention with the urge to eat and be stroked.  Walker and I amble up the rise to the West toward the stone house.  The sun glistens off the West roof after another shower.  

I scrutinize the first flowers (they suffered only minor stings from the 4th frost at dawn) of a three year old apple planting of Northern Spy, Pippin, Pixie Crunch, Pink Pearl, and other oddities that only a gambler would attempt.  Walter munches grass along the way before we cross the road to the barn. 

It is a wonder how green the world has become after prolonged gloom and cold.  

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