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I'm off for a four-day hiatus, dear horticulture converts. But before I check out early for the week, I thought I'd leave you with these Wednesday through Sunday highlights:

Technically, I'll be in or near the twin towns to do stuff. So, one item on the to-do list is Torch Theatre's reprise of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which won raving reviews pretty much all around during its first run in July. The show reopens tomorrow evening.

On Sunday, my friends and certain family members will converge on Chisago City, where there's a fruit winery celebrating the release of its rhubarb wine. Now, before you turn up your nose and get all hoity-toity about the prospect of drinking fruit wine, or about the phenomenon of operating a winery in the northern exurbs for that matter, please remind yourself that living in Minnesota--in Minneapolis, in particular--ought to be an exercise in humility, for heaven's sake. We must make kind with our unpretentious surroundings, even when it comes to swilling hooch. And besides, I went to a similar such event at St. Croix Vineyards last fall. And although I could barely choke down the stuff they were serving, there was some live jazz, a pet goat. My friends and I made a picnic of the deal, and I remember it as being an idyllic day.