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Anyone who clings to the notion of gardening as something that is done by ladies in afternoon dresses and big floppy hats: You should have come to my yard to help move three peony bushes. (I was going to move six but ninety degrees with similar humidity rather quashed that plan.) Due to extensive rains of late, the ground was soft and wet and heavy. It was easy to dig but not particularly easy to carry.

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I haven't done a finance-news post in a while. The mortgage and liquidity thing has been featured here a couple of times, along with the notion that lots of mortgage-backed securities are not worth half of what people say they are. Well. There was a lot of finance news this weekend and I'm sure you're all terribly interested in reading about it.

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