73  bar steady  30.18  1mph N  dew-point 47  sunrise 6:54  set 7:19  Lughnasa

Waning Gibbous Harvest Moon  rise 8:02  set 9:41

Got this one down without hitting the house, the fence or the glass table on the deck.  My merit badge is secure.

This work prepares the area for the orchard and fruit bushes.  Lindsay and Paula came today.  Lindsay’s plan fit our needs to a tee and moves us forward.  I’ll give you a detailed version of it later, but it includes cherries, apples, pears, plums, currants, gooseberries, serviceberries and other fruiting shrubs.  The orchard and the fruiting shrubs will extend from the kitchen bay window all the way to the edge of the woods.

Remember this one from Monty Python?

Oh, I’m a lumberjack, and I’m okay, I sleep all night and I work all day.

CHORUS: He’s a lumberjack, and he’s okay, He sleeps all night and he works all day.

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lava-try.

On Wednesdays I go shoppin’ And have buttered scones for tea.

Mounties: He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, He goes to the lava-try. On Wednesdays ‘e goes shoppin’ And has buttered scones for tea.