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["Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

Happy New Year everyone.  I mentioned a bad back a couple weeks ago- well in spite of excruciating spasms that lasted over a minute, making it impossible for me to move and pushing me to call an ambulance for my first hospital appearence in decades, I was back on my feet the morning after recieving doses of morphine and muscle relaxant cocktails.  The next day I was reasonably mobile without drugs.

 

I'm now ready to go back to what I hope will be 3 months of solid fruit tree pruning- mostly big old apple trees.  Hope most of my clients still have enough money to afford my fees.  I also hope that most of you out there are weathering the general trials of our time well.  I certainly don't go into the next year with complete confidence but at least I have plenty of firm apples in my well-house and venison and blueberries in my freezer.

 

Good luck to all.  Alan Haigh