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Wisest Sister has gifted me with wondrous generosity. Three books by Elizabeth Zimmerman, with DVD on ‘Assembling the Baby Surprise Jacket’! And cotton yarn, too! When I let her know that the package had arrived, she told me that the box was stuffed with packing peanuts when she rethought. Dumping out the peanuts, she replaced them with Sugar ‘n Cream yarn. Much more useful! The forsythia have opened up all over town this last week. Wonderful Guy and I are discussing, again, putting in our own. We have differing philosophies though. He prefers the trained look while I prefer free-range bushes. He is allowed to trim the mini lilacs and the barberry, but must not...MUST NOT… touch the old-fashioned lilacs. In trimming back a couple of perennials just this winter, in an effort to neat them up, I fear he has done them in. I love the look of wildness and freedom and spilling over the walks. He does not. Wonderful Guy likes the tidiness of trimmed plants. It is one of the few misalignments of philosophies we have. And while we usually do very well in living with the other’s opinions, if he croaks any more of my perennials, we may well have our first real fight!