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[joebanks]

We have rain! For the first time in two weeks; that may not seem like much of a stretch in some places, but here it's dry. The news said we're over 7" short for the year. It's been raining several hours, slow and steady; like in the movies. I still have a few tomatoes and three pumpkins; the vine that carries the largest is dying, though it is starting to ripen and there's always the fear of a deer attack.

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[rafqa]

Ah, the quintessential Fall garden. Mine's kind of pathetic--other people are even telling me it's pathetic :(

Pumpkins are such an investment.

[joebanks]

Who? is telling you your garden is pathetic!

Pumpkins and potatoes are an investment. It's about time for me to dig up whatever might be there.

[rafqa]

The wonderful guy who's done some work on the house was here--he said, "Something's eating your tomatoes." Huh. Like I don't know that. It's too late to fight. An entire July between 100 and 110 basically took the spirit out of everything.

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[rafqa]

I watched an interesting lecture on Catal Huyuk on YouTube, Ian Hodder I think. I haven't followed the site in a while, very closely--after it re-opened I used to read its website for several years.

I thought maybe all the weird stuff had been found in the 60s--wrong! The lecture has a lot of archeologist-type wild conjecture about what was going on, but if we ever have a way a way of figuring out what was REALLY going on, I have a feeling it will look like a dystopian nightmare.

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[joebanks]

I will look for that. I feel like they are completely baffled by it all.

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[rafqa]

Do you get comment notifications? I never know.

I read The Tombs of Atuan. Thank-you. It's on my book page.

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[joebanks]

On email, i check it but i don't like anything going "Ting" when a message comes in.

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[rafqa]

You know you have comment notifications in the header, right?