Another beautiful day yesterday, in the 70s - perfect for working in the yard!  We had watched Dr. Zhivago on TV the night before, which reminded us (as if we needed a reminder!) of why we choose to live where Old Man Winter (usually!) behaves sensibly!  

During the movie, 

Tom thought he recognized Garry & Karen's back yard a few times. <G>  

This is pretty to look at, but I just DON'T want to live there:

Tom got a LOT more trimming of dead stuff done yesterday, and yet he's barely made a dent in it; the two huge oleander hedges are not going to be fun.  On the plus side, at least he's able to do stuff like that now, though I do think he's going to have to put aside the hand saw and finally replace the chain saw that got stolen (along with all that other stuff out of the shed and shop) 2 years ago.  We have our quarterly bulk trash pick-up approaching rapidly, so there's a real push to get it done sooner rather than later, which would entail moving the piles twice.... never fun! 

We delivered bags (and bags) of lemons/oranges/grapefruit to a couple of our neighbors - though the trees of course are still heavily laden with their bounty.  I'm very happy to report that the absurd 5-day freeze apparently did not hurt the fruit. 

Now I'm off to get some work done on my car, and after that a quick trip to the lab to get my blood drawn.