Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Flat tire -- Millionaire -- The bad day -- Window robin -- Wren house -- Good-bye Goldie -- Wren house part two -- Lucky day -- Weird television -- Quotidian Asparagus -- Wisco loop -- Northern memorial -- Wren hatch -- Sunday night sads -- Roughneck revelations -- Garlic in -- Appropo Malaprops -- First hearse date -- Wildlife census -- North shore -- Perpetual portrait -- Nanette -- Memory hole -- Butterfly chickens -- Storm song -- Montaigne and mercy -- Dump rake Halloween -- Barnyard ballet -- Garlic again -- Sticky drum -- Dad suit -- Big buck -- Wedding dance -- Sausage time -- The piano tuner -- Contrails -- Christmas tree injury -- Faux fox -- Auditions -- Eclipse -- Garden master -- Safe travels -- Crowdsourced truck repair -- The age of pickleball -- Gotta guy -- Shoveling snow with Edith Wharton -- Snowshoes -- Waffle kettle -- Customer service -- Character test -- Cellphone connection -- Roadworthy -- Biosphere -- Tiny house marriage encounter -- Spring noise -- Inner peace and Lemmy -- Puffed-up partridge -- Apple blossoms -- Tiny dancers -- Homebound van -- Chicken in the night -- Vulnerability -- Fireflies again -- Gardening -- The bug is back -- Talent contest -- Picking berries -- Greg Brown (one more time) -- Cucumbers -- Plum effect -- Monarchs -- The rhyme -- Paean -- Bonfire stories -- Ol' Waylon -- Loner -- Three bucks -- Sleet warning -- Old guy discount -- Story time -- Hotel review -- Getting dizzy -- Kindling -- Dance party -- The good people -- Christmas lists -- Chickens back on board -- Packers go bye -- World events -- Old phones -- Arizona lockout -- Voltaire is dead -- Parent brakes -- Niche joke -- Sledding -- Dow wow -- Blithe -- The old stories -- The healing day.