pah-tay!

Pass! 93% - but let me be specific.

I got one wrong on the plant ID part. I wrote C instead of G. And I mean this sincerely - I wrote the letter incorrectly. minus 1

The tolerance level for crane fly larva in lawns: 25 in on resource, 40 in another. I said 40. minus 3, but those points would have been returned to me if I'd asked for them. I didn't bother.

The reason fruit trees are grafted to rootstocks: to reduce vigor and plant size. I said disease resistence. Oops. minus 3

So I guess it's really 96%. I even got the extra credit correct - and it was tough. We had to match three diseases to their type: bacterial, viral or fungal.

So I did the thing. Start to finish, A to Z. For once.

Then I came home to find out that my cousin Joe is in the hospital with an infection (and he has late stage prostate cancer), and that Aunt Grace, who was supposed to come home from the nursing home yesterday, is instead in the hospital with possible pneumonia. They hadn't been able, in the nursing home, to get her pulse under 114, so I'm not sure whether she'd have been able to take care of herself at all. I hope this epidode ends quickly for her. She's 92. She's more than ready.

So today, just like any other day, is the whole catastrophe once again. Gotta love it!