I have three hours of free time every day for the next three weeks and I've been asking the charges' folks to leave me chore lists. I don't like just sitting around. Today's list included a good two hours of gardening work. I could happily work as a gardener. At one point, I was knee-deep in some mint plants and I got the sensation that someone was watching me, so I turned around and there was a deer behind me, just on the other side of the fence. Very cool. We looked at each other for a few minutes, then I turned back to my work and a few minutes after that I heard him jump away.

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