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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Sherwood's Almanac

Week starting 19 April 2009

What a week!

I've spent an evening putting together a good wordy ad for Kijiji. Spent the 13 to keep it at the top of the list. I've been getting 3-4 phone calls or emails per day. Never have had an ad that worked so well. I've got the same ad on Craigslist, but it's not getting nearly the attention.

Alas many of the phone calls are for stuff I don't have, or don't have enough of. One contrator wanted 500 pussy willow and a thousand dogwood.
Lots of people want large trees. 6'-8'. One guy wanted fifty 15 foot trees for the edge of his yard as a privacy screen. I explained about small trees, but no, they wanted instant forest. Sigh.

Spent a half day getting the water system on again, because I was worried about my seeded plants drying out. Last week ended with balmy warm weather.

This week, I've had to supplement the electric heater in the greenhouse with a kerosene heater.

Spent some time in the willow patch cutting trees down to the ground to rejuvenate them. I'd like to selectively kill some of them, but I don't know how to do that.

Camera was on holiday this week. Whenever I thought about it the weather was crap, and right now wandering around outside with a non-waterproof camera when it's either raining or sleeting is not my idea of fun.

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