Short is good. Sometimes length is a killer to a moment and the last thing we need do is beat the horse until it can't walk no more. 

So how are the thunderstorms treating you? We haven't had many this spring. They tend to show more during the fall here. 

And a weeping birch sounds beautiful. As does a garden. I keep staring out at my front yard and wondering if I'd not be better off rota-tilling half of it up and putting in something like radishes and lettuce and corn and tomatoes and the like. I would love to have fresh, out of my own ground food. Of course, then I'd have to work out where to put the horses though when they come to "mow" my lawn. *L* Still - the idea has merit. That and a couple of laying chickens to eat the bugs and feed me eggs.