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According to Patricia, I was having a blonde moment today when I said "sometimes thinking is really tiring." It came out wrong, but what I meant was that I had spent all morning working on a delicate coding problem, and by noon I felt like my brains were leaking out of my ears. Three hours of programming was almost as exhausting as three hours of digging.

Speaking of which, Georg and I got the second vegetable bed dug out. We started yesterday and finished today. I had bought a nice forged digging fork (on sale at Smith & Hawkins!) just for the occasion, which really did make it go faster I think. The old fork felt like it was going to snap in half in that heavy clay. Over the weekend we'll put the frame together, fill it with dirt and then we can start planting! Also I did a little bit of planting today: just some basil and lettuce seeds, in containers we'll put by the kitchen door.

Janey is thrilled about the change in weather. She gets to spend lots of time outside, yay! Thirteen likes being outside too, but she does this kind of annoying neurotic thing: she wants to be with me while I'm outside working. But if she loses sight of me, she forgets that I'm outside. So she barks to be let in, but when I put her in and go back outside, she follows me back out. Then she forgets where I am again and starts barking at the door again.

Today I told the little girl next door about Thirteen's deafness. I felt kind of bad for her (the girl, not Thirteen) because she likes Thirteen and keeps calling to her, but Thirteen totally ignores her. At least now she'll know not to waste energy on trying to get Thirteen's attention.