Hot today: sputnik reports 89°, NOAA says 88°.

Did a little yard work this morning: moved the sandbox & bench into the recently-reseeded play area, washed off the patio all the mud and worms that had been lurking under the sandbox all this time (euww).

And then I brought out the clippers and pruning saw to do battle – once more – with the weed tree growing against the back fence. I cut it down a few years ago, leaving a stump just a few inches high; it grew back, and was a good nine or ten feet tall again.

It’s about an inch tall now. That ought to keep it at bay for a while.