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Thurs July 2- Sure enough, the deer did get into the flower garden sometime last night. Got phlox tips, eve. primrose buds, perr. pea buds & tips. [[strikethrough]]Must[[/strikethrough]]Sprayed repellent today on lily & mockorange buds, daylilies. The rest of the eve. primrose. Transplanted annual candytuft into new patch. 5 visitors to studio today including Tamara. Grey skies, cool air.

Friday July 3. A full & enjoyable day. Leonard & Judy Meiselman & Jeff & Anne Schlanger brought a cod freshly caught. Took May Werber purchase to Nick for framing. Walked to Burnt Head - below the high point & did 3 drawings in ink & acrylic, - very beautiful spot as ground & as outlook - gathered mosses & bog plants for terrarium, prepared supper of lemon-sauce cod, bok choy & zucchini, seaweed glop. Jeff came over at 6 to pick up salad I'd picked for them - 15 varieties of greens, an itemized list of which I wrote for them & signed L. Burbank. After supper I went over to road by Gussous to pick strawberries (large, very ripe) to add to seaweed pudding. Then at 9 we had Judy Young, Sandy (Mason), Muffy, Schlangers & Meiselmans for a good guitar-song evening. Jeff & Anne showed us their drawings & I showed Jeff mine, & also 2 of my poems. Afterwards we had the pudding, almond pound cake, date-nut bars & Jasmine tea. Around 11 I stepped out to the front porch with a flashlight to check on the tide (for Jeff) & spotted the 2 blazing eyes of a deer in the swamp. To bed at 1:30.

Sat the 4th - and the peony opened, true to schedule. A wet day, the grasses wet and bent by their weight of wetness. The earth very dark. The mist began to dissipate by the afternoon, when I dug up some plants for