


A few years ago I gave Kari the nickname of "Master Gardner" after she'd managed to kill a number of those kinds of plants that are supposed to be really easy to care for. In spite of the untimely death of so many of our poor plants, she still talked about big ideas to plant full vegetable and flower gardens in our front and side yards (at the old house). So "Master Gardner" was meant to be a loving joke not unlike calling myself a "master of spelling."