... and how about S?

Dragon Mood? -- snorting love-of-my-life dragon fires

And while I was whiling away a weekend in Cheeseland, my dear partner, S, was busy.

Over the past three weeks, she has done this:

• completed our new 100-yard-long crescent berm, complete with 30 yards of soil and 90 (?) bags of mulch
• planted over 150 bulbs in aforesaid berm
• hauled and planted by hand two six-foot white pines
• planted a multitude of plants, including three foxglove, a wild-looking walking stick plant, one lone Japanese blood grass and three cotoneasters that are begging her to snuggle down in the ground before the snow flies
• planted, fertilized, immunized and basically sweet-talked back to health four rather sickly tea rose plants that the nursery *gave* her
• met with, interviewed and reviewed four contractors' bids to install a top-of-the-line furnace and air conditioning unit in the country house
• "supervised" the installation of the aforesaid furnace and air conditioning unit (which I neglected to mention ALSO included a top-of-the-line humidifer and air filtering unit)
  
• negotiated with Pottery Barn on purchasing the very last cherry red leather Sullivan ottoman in the entire nation (and sadly, that fish got away)
• hired a local survey company to survey the west and south lot lines of the country estate
• talked with the asshole neighbor and the cheapskate neighbor that share the aforesaid west and south lot lines
• convinced the asshole neighbor NOT to pull up the survey stakes that she (S) just paid the survey company to put in
• respectfully declined the cheapskate neighbor's offer to *split* the cost of removing eight dead pine trees when six of them clearly lie on HIS property
• arranged for her sons, Matt and Tim, to help her remove the two dead pine trees on our property and MAYBE help the cheapskate neighbor take down his six dead ones . . . maybe

I'd say S has been a pretty busy camper, wouldn't you? Besides working full time and taking a class? Sheesh!

So, on this Hallmark holiday -- Sweetest Day -- I take my hat off to you, honey. Not only are you the sweetest partner this side of the Mississippi, you definitely win the prize for hardest working woman and partner I could ever hope to love for the rest of my life. You are the best, baby! I love you!