bad news good news

Today we drove from Las Vegas home.  Ming drove us.  We stopped in Keene and saw the Cesar Chavez museum.  We looked at the Tehachapi Loop.  We didn't take pictures--sorry.  I saw a tortise by the side of the road, but Ming didn't see it.  We drank slurpees and didn't talk much.  I dozed for hours.  We ate sandwiches.

Home, I have a stack of mail to read, good mail.  And I have a bunch of stuff to do.  But bad news: bee balm dead, yerba buena dead.  Something's eating the grapes.  But the peppers are growing.