The yard work went on hold, of course, and the pigs, in my absence, mostly behaved. They ate the lemongrass I planted and ripped up a little grass in the front. But the rest is doing well. One of the day lilies already has flower buds on it and several of the Salvia greggii cuttings appear to be doing really well.
While away I did a lot more reading on the pizza oven and worked on a design. I have a rough sketch ready, page 2 still under construction, and have a concrete expert coming by on Saturday to lay out where to put the concrete pad. The rough drawings can be found here: http://www.matava.us/temp/pizza.oven.pdf
