mostly dead, but also some pruning

Sue wasn't feeling well this morning so, while she was sleeping in, I cut down the backyard's very dead desert willow. It wasn't a big willow, thank goodness, which allowed me to load all of it in the back of the minivan. Thankfully too, there was one tiny bit of green sprouting off the trunk's very bottom so I had an excuse for not trying to take the stump out of the ground. To the minivan's pile of debris I added a dead bush, plus branches I had pruned off a live sycamore. After moving some dirt to where the willow was, I was off to the dump.

Right now, I'm keeping Sue company while she's working on her fantasy novel "Black Ice". I'm also monitoring work's system, but things *appear* to be stable now so I should be able to resume reading Hugo finalist.