We planted some plants and trees and flower beds; a full pathway around will happen someday.
Somehow, we never could coordinate our times to be off and only got away for a short visit to friends in Portland.
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However, we were lucky to have some great visitors from Australia drop in for a few days, and now hope we can call them friends forever.

But I was so stupid and forgot to take any photographs! Good grief.
But I found out the meaning of swagman! Cool!

We had a few parties this year; here are some outtakes from halloween:
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We are grateful to Lennar for having put in a back patio to mitigate the slope and extend the back porch, and for a lot of other work they did, too.
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