Update #1 - June 2026

 Once more, only a little slow progress on chapter 5, once more folding in bits from Neirin's Dark Path in The Ash Spear. Slow progress is better than none at all. The latter part of the chapter will include a story Taliesin told Gwernin in The Well of Wisdom.

Hot weather the last couple of days - 90s. I don't care for July weather in early June, but next week should be a bit cooler. The tomato plants are blooming, and most of the beans have sprouted. Tomorrow should be cooler, and I can pot up the basil plants and the last of the marigolds, then start the geranium migration to the cold frame.

A little wildlife excitement earlier in the week - on two early mornings, Ruay caught two small half-grown rabbits. They didn't seem to be hurt, so I relocated them to other yards. May they be well!