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well, file last updated October, 2023 – whole new year and season – garden mostly memory – picked peppers, greens, butternut squash, tomatillo, dug potatoes – feasting on pesto, greens, beans from freezer, onions, garlic, potatoes, squash from cold storage – ground frosted, froze – house repair and painting project put on ice til spring – 4 cords of firewood reduced by over half – much of life spent in proximity to woodstove – Halloween usual melee – spent November weekend with son zach, wife lauren and new granddaughter talia – thanksgiving with Middleboro siblings – early December headed to Washington d.c. to work on appraisal and book call in Potomac, md – acquired collections of trade catalogs and type specimens – in long queue to be cataloged – decorated tree with edie and swapped usual comestible gifts – few days before Christmas hiked sugarloaf mountain with zach and family en route to lauren’s family home – Middleboro for Christmas with sister and family then boxing day in Winchester with brother and family – usual new year’s eve with edie in Greenwich – hello 2024 – we’ve had few snows – been cross-country skiing handful of times – rain, too, and warm days – sunny and cold currently with mostly bare ground – papermania been and gone – 266 finally ready to launch – mixed bag of recent acquisitions – sent with hopes you’ll be amused, perhaps appetized – cover: item 16 –
at your service – peter