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>>Which, accumulated, gives me some spare ability to withstand some time in the presence of some really awful phenomena without exploding.
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>Your gardening skills are obviously doing miracles ;-)
>How are those orchards of yours doing this year ? (and Why words 'Holly Spirit' are popping up in my mind right now ... :-)) )

There'll be lots of sour cherries, plums, apples, vineyard peaches and possibly pears. Apricots, fraid not so much. And yes, mullberies (white, unfortunately) promise to bear like crazy, too bad they're in a tight corner and only two of them. And black currants and raspberries in amount larger than a handful, finally. Grapes, too early to say.

Planted a few more peaches this year, and finally six quince (one male, five female, and got one old male holding the fence already), so in a few years, perhaps, he elixir of the gods, the quince brandy. They (the gods) should be invented just to have this expression at hand :).

I know, I know, after the two delegations I sent you, the next delivery I should do in person, eh?