Tuesday 11/10/2026
Took an early walk. Then tidied the apartment, and did several small items at the computer, like making a contribution to Stanford Jazz, renewing my AAA membership, and such.
Writers meeting was unusually short; the prompt had not produced very many contributions.
At 1:30 I went down expecting to join the Line Dance class, only to find out it had been canceled. Well fine, I have other things to do.
Joanne was out with our car on an errand, but we have a second car this month. Our friend Prue is away on a long trip and asked us to exercise her Prius. So I hopped in Prue’s Prius and drove to FOPAL where I completed processing all pending books, and prepared my shelves for the sale this weekend. Back home around 4.
On the way home I made a sentimental side-trip. Back in April, 2019 (Day 0.139, check the picture there) a group of us planted a tree in Marian’s memory. This was sponsored and organized by Canopy, a volunteer tree-planting organization that Marian had given many hours of volunteer time.
A couple of days ago I was reviewing old pictures, and there were pictures from that tree-planting, which made me wonder, how is that tree doing, seven years along? So I detoured around to the place and checked.
Answer, not very well. It has hardly grown, and the leaves are mostly brown. It has some green, so it isn’t actually dead, but it looks pretty sad. I am going to blame Canopy; either it was the wrong kind of tree for the location, or something was wrong with our planting technique. Whatever; it is not very nice. Too bad.
