going to drop below freezing tonight—rats!

We have ton-o' new plants. Of course.

Jane worked outside from dawn to dusk, and I popped out now and again to assist, but I couldn't take that icy wind. She came back in after building 50′ of sidewalk (40′ to go) base (it will be gravel, lined with basalt and rimmed in places with retention slabs) and after yesterday wrestling yucca out of the ground. Did you know yucca produces a bushel basket of roots surrounding the central core? In-cred-ible.

We have about a dozen yucca plants. We have...