Note well: the Yelm Farm Store, which is really close to Kaneke and she and I have mentioned in passing, has 50ft rolls of 1" poultry mesh for $27.00 and change, way less than anywhere else in Thurston County (< Lincoln Creek Lumber < Olympia Supply < Dels <<< Home Depot). They also have a few chickens wandering around, including a nice mongrelish Crele rooster.
Moment of sadness/ realizing my own luck at the Yelm Cemetary: I went to investigate a new big marker, a granite boulder strangely shaped, only to find it was for my friend Shelley's adult daughter, her only child who died (in a climbing accident, I think) a year ago; her parent's were killed by a falling tree in the Columbus Day Storm, and her brother is also gone. Seems like a lot of loss for one lifetime.
On the other hand, my husband was dispatched to put a few magnolias on my great-grandparent's grave and the grave of my mother's youngest brother, and it finally hit him that my grandmother lost her husband, her resident parents-in-law and her youngest child in less than two years.
It's been a bit of a push, today: I thought I had plenty of lilacs to take up to Yelm, but the sleet storm had mashed them to pulp. I had to cut a whole lot of blackberries which had jumped the fence into the garden and tip rooted before I could scrounge what flowers there were, and while I was doing that, Suzzy got out again because she WILL lay her egg where she pleases, thank you, which for some reason is under the giant trellis for my giantest rose: I may just as well give in and extend their run eight feet, I suppose, which is one reason I bought the wire. Easier than figuring out how to block a hole she's determined to unblock!
