To all those who are reading this note, I hope that your holidays are joyful ones. Thanks for being loving family members and friends. I cherish you. I doubt he can afford a regular analyst, so he's probably writing poetry instead. But all 4 tons arrived on just two pallets, each piled 4' x 4' x 4'.
Rocks are heavy.
We'll try again when the next batch of bare root figs hits the nursery. It seems impossible that we might actually get fruit from these saplings some day, but the Fuji apple we planted several years ago produced real apples this year, right on schedule, so perhaps the others will, too. 2000 started off much the same, with plenty of time to relax and only one ugly project to spoil the view. This was, of course, a volunteer project, and as you know, no good deed goes unpunished. For some reason, I volunteered to take over the formatting and final layout for a little booklet documenting our UCSC class reunion in 1999.