Update #4 - May 2025

Still working on chapter 26. The framing is fine - Gwernin et al's visit to the Oldest Man - and I finally got the general outline of the internal Mac Criomthann story. Had to think about this one for several days, and I'm still thinking about the solution to the situation I've put him in. This may be the last new Mac Criomthann piece in this book.  The next chapter will take us back to Sliabh na Cailli for a couple of initiations. 

We had a mid-30s low Monday night, but no frost. Things are warming up nicely now, and I've planted several types of tomatoes, two zucchinis, and a cucumber -- all plants I bought at the farmers markets. I didn't try and start anything indoors this year - no room under the garage lights and no safe cat-proof place in the house. However I've ordered a couple of kinds of heirloom tomato seeds which I'm not likely to find locally, so might have a go with them even though it's late. Everything has leafed out now, although I lost one rosebush to the hard winter and three more effectively came back from their roots. Oh, and I'm planting bean seeds -- I missed having them last year, and I'll bet the humming birds missed the scarlet runner blossoms too.