The book is edited, and in good shape. What comes now is that messy business of composing the ‘mini’ and the ‘full’ downloads, which is close to arcane—not so, since I know what she’s doing, but suffice it to say she’s only gotten to the TOC (table of contents) and she’s nursing a splitting headache.

Plus we had a neighbor come over and fuss about the two Canadian hemlocks in Jane’s very carefully planted side yard, the one ‘done’ part of our landscaping project: seems the neighbors are all fussing about those two very spriggy trees, that you can see through, and which are due to have a branch height you can walk under, once they’re trimmed up as they grow, because allegedly they can’t see through them to watch the traffic, when stopping at the stopsign. Well, they’re nowhere near as impenetrable as the next street down, which blocks the view with a chainlink fence with a vine growing on it. I did a test drive-by, and you can see perfectly well. They’re probably envisioning them as a hedge—but we don’t want to get into a fight about it. We try to accommodate. Goes around, comes around. Sigh.

But it has not made Jane happier: she is trying to do the front yard, (we both are) and now we’re going to have to stop our work on that and move two man-high trees that are quite happy where they are.