Friday, May 29, 2009

The final frontier, garden and sleep.

I'm in the Courier this week -- see page 27.

1. Wherever you are, whatever time it is, there is always some form of Star Trek on television.

2. I like showing Nick's mother the containers of flowers and vegetables along our window ledges. Some of them are plants that she has given me.

3. With satisfaction he says: 'The alarm will go off in nine hours. Nine whole hours.'
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