7-10-07 SHORT HILLS: Yes, back in the Garden State. I came down yesterday evening for Essex County jury duty today. The trip down was a breeze, but there are no breezes here. When I left the court house for lunch break, the car said the temperature was 101°. My cohort of jurors was called for a trial at 10:30 and sat down in the courtroom for jury selection, but were sent back out in the hall for some procedural matters and told to return at 11:15. After standing around for another 15 minutes, they sent us for lunch at 11:30 with instructions to be back at 1:30. [That’s not how my job worked.] At 1:45, they said go back to the jury room where we all sat and read and phoned home and slept and watched TV until 3:30 when we were dismissed and told no need to return tomorrow.
No new blooms here. The magnolia continues to turn out those immense flowers. I watered the house plants and the new plantings, checked the sprinklers and turned them on, moved a couple of dead branches and cut down part of a lilac with some sort of white fungual growth. Vermont tomorrow.
Southern Magnolia
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