diff --git a/tractor/_trionics.py b/tractor/_trionics.py
index 4bb7467..17ae548 100644
--- a/tractor/_trionics.py
+++ b/tractor/_trionics.py
@@ -177,33 +177,58 @@ class ActorNursery:
 
 @asynccontextmanager
 async def open_nursery() -> typing.AsyncGenerator[ActorNursery, None]:
-    """Create and yield a new ``ActorNursery``.
-    """
-    # TODO: figure out supervisors from erlang
+    """Create and yield a new ``ActorNursery`` to be used for spawning
+    structured concurrent subactors.
 
+    When an actor is spawned a new trio task is started which
+    invokes one of the process spawning backends to create and start
+    a new subprocess. These tasks are started by one of two nurseries
+    detailed below. The reason for spawning processes from within
+    a new task is because ``trio_run_in_process`` itself creates a new
+    internal nursery and the same task that opens a nursery **must**
+    close it. It turns out this approach is probably more correct
+    anyway since it is more clear from the following nested nurseries
+    which cancellation scopes correspond to each spawned subactor set.
+    """
     actor = current_actor()
     if not actor:
         raise RuntimeError("No actor instance has been defined yet?")
 
-    # XXX we use these nurseries because TRIP is doing all its stuff with
-    # an `@asynccontextmanager` which has an internal nursery *and* the
-    # task that opens a nursery **must also close it**.
+    # the collection of errors retreived from spawned sub-actors
     errors: Dict[Tuple[str, str], Exception] = {}
+
+    # This is the outermost level "deamon actor" nursery. It is awaited
+    # **after** the below inner "run in actor nursery". This allows for
+    # handling errors that are generated by the inner nursery in
+    # a supervisor strategy **before** blocking indefinitely to wait for
+    # actors spawned in "daemon mode" (aka started using
+    # ``ActorNursery.start_actor()``).
     async with trio.open_nursery() as da_nursery:
         try:
+            # This is the inner level "run in actor" nursery. It is
+            # awaited first since actors spawned in this way (using
+            # ``ActorNusery.run_in_actor()``) are expected to only
+            # return a single result and then complete (i.e. be canclled
+            # gracefully). Errors collected from these actors are
+            # immediately raised for handling by a supervisor strategy.
+            # As such if the strategy propagates any error(s) upwards
+            # the above "daemon actor" nursery will be notified.
             async with trio.open_nursery() as ria_nursery:
                 anursery = ActorNursery(
                     actor, ria_nursery, da_nursery, errors
                 )
                 try:
-                    # spawning of actors happens in this scope after
-                    # we yield to the caller.
+                    # spawning of actors happens in the caller's scope
+                    # after we yield upwards
                     yield anursery
                     log.debug(
                         f"Waiting on subactors {anursery._children}"
                         "to complete"
                     )
                 except (BaseException, Exception) as err:
+                    # if the caller's scope errored then we activate our
+                    # one-cancels-all supervisor strategy (don't
+                    # worry more are coming).
                     anursery._join_procs.set()
                     try:
                         # XXX: hypothetically an error could be raised and then
@@ -219,24 +244,44 @@ async def open_nursery() -> typing.AsyncGenerator[ActorNursery, None]:
                                 log.exception(
                                     f"Nursery for {current_actor().uid} "
                                     f"errored with {err}, ")
+
+                            # cancel all subactors
                             await anursery.cancel()
+
                     except trio.MultiError as merr:
+                        # If we receive additional errors while waiting on
+                        # remaining subactors that were cancelled,
+                        # aggregate those errors with the original error
+                        # that triggered this teardown.
                         if err not in merr.exceptions:
                             raise trio.MultiError(merr.exceptions + [err])
                     else:
                         raise
 
-                # last bit before first nursery block ends
+                # Last bit before first nursery block ends in the case
+                # where we didn't error in the caller's scope
                 log.debug(f"Waiting on all subactors to complete")
                 anursery._join_procs.set()
-            # ria_nursery scope
+
+                # ria_nursery scope end
+
         except (Exception, trio.MultiError) as err:
+            # If actor-local error was raised while waiting on
+            # ".run_in_actor()" actors then we also want to cancel all
+            # remaining sub-actors (due to our lone strategy:
+            # one-cancels-all).
             log.warning(f"Nursery cancelling due to {err}")
             if anursery._children:
                 with trio.CancelScope(shield=True):
                     await anursery.cancel()
             raise
         finally:
+            # No errors were raised while awaiting ".run_in_actor()"
+            # actors but those actors may have returned remote errors as
+            # results (meaning they errored remotely and have relayed
+            # those errors back to this parent actor). The errors are
+            # collected in ``errors`` so cancel all actors, summarize
+            # all errors and re-raise.
             if errors:
                 if anursery._children:
                     with trio.CancelScope(shield=True):
@@ -245,4 +290,7 @@ async def open_nursery() -> typing.AsyncGenerator[ActorNursery, None]:
                     raise trio.MultiError(tuple(errors.values()))
                 else:
                     raise list(errors.values())[0]
+
+        # ria_nursery scope end
+
     log.debug(f"Nursery teardown complete")