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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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-107- of lichen covered rocks in one corner of the backyard. Too this may be added several areas of flagging and the stonework of the house and yard had been completed. And finally as a last step in tying the whole together into a unit of greenery and rockery came the making of an unirrigated cacti; bed and the sowing of the grass and the planting of the garden and trees. Those beautiful varieties of spruce, the pines, the junipers and vitae, and cedars, the ballenia poplars takes a few species of fruit trees -- two apples, live cherries and a peach -- that we would have. Of course when these grow as they will, we had too many as most everyone does. Only after all this had been accomplishes was then a breathing spell which permitted thoughts to be directed again to those other channels and to plans of another type. Thoughts were concentrated onto daily living and entertaining but not to painting because there was no time. Thus it came about that stomach symptoms already uneasy for a long period, become more vigorous and more persistently demanding than ever they had been. With them constantly and miserable. In ten months and less after we had moved into our new home there seemed nothing else to do but for me to go through another gastro-intestinal analysis. When we got ready for Rusnow they had watercolors.
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-107- of lichen covered rocks in one corner of the backyard. Too this may be added several areas of flagging and the stonework of the house and yard had been completed. And finally as a last step in tying the whole together into a unit of greenery and rockery came the making of an unirrigated cacti; bed and the sowing of the grass and the planting of the garden and trees. Those beautiful varieties of spruce, the pines, the junipers and vitae, and cedars, the ballenia poplars takes a few species of fruit trees -- two apples, live cherries and a peach -- that we would have. Of course when these grow as they will, we had too many as most everyone does. Only after all this had been accomplishes was then a breathing spell which permitted thoughts to be directed again to those other channels and to plans of another type. Thoughts were concentrated onto daily living and entertaining but not to painting because there was no time. Thus it came about that stomach symptoms already uneasy for a long period, become more vigorous and more persistently demanding than ever they had been. With them constantly and miserable. In ten months and less after we had moved into our new home there seemed nothing else to do but for me to go through another gastro-intestinal analysis. When we got ready for Rusnow they had watercolors.
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