14 August 2002
As you reported Auntie Nell, the no-see-ums are here. They have annoyed me but have not made me bitter.
A cultural note: The flowers in the washtub garden were dug up and scattered about. They were not eaten or harmed, just dug up. I cleaned up the massacre site and replanted the flowers. Two looked okay. Two looked not so okay. One was dead. I watered them for three days and I think they will live. To whom it may concern: this record is intended as a history of the cabin. If you look back you’ll see that most of it has been written by one person. This is not how history is done. The observations and comments of only one person skew the history in one direction. Comments by many people with differing viewpoints is what makes history what it is. Correct and encompassing, the history of all participants and not just the gabbiest one.
Uncle jim