Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Artemis Moon<\/p>\n
Easton and Ray, both soon to be seniors at Andover High, worked this morning, moving wood chips, laying them down on the paths Kate and I cleared of weeds yesterday.\u00a0 Both fit and energetic they kept at it, moving 9 cubic yards of wood chips with a wheel barrow.\u00a0 That’s minus the maybe one cubic yard I moved to mulch some parts of the further away vegetable patch.\u00a0 The orchard looks great and completes a job started by Kate a few weeks ago, one she saw through to a beautiful conclusion.\u00a0 The orchard looks its best ever.\u00a0 Right after Ecological Gardens finished the installation now 3 years ago, it looked pretty good, but the trees were small and the\u00a0 plants in the guilds around them were also young.\u00a0 Now the trees have begun to bear fruit, the guild plants have matured and the place looks like a real orchard.\u00a0 Pictures tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Working alongside the boys made me oddly competitive.\u00a0 I wanted them to see me as an old man who could really work.\u00a0 Not quite sure where this came from but it felt like the aging bull moose in the presence of young, high testosterone males.\u00a0 Instinctive rather than even subconscious.\u00a0 It passed, though.<\/p>\n
Now, after a day and a half of physical labor, I’m weary, in need of a nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Artemis Moon Easton and Ray, both soon to be seniors at Andover High, worked this morning, moving wood chips, laying them down on the paths Kate and I cleared of weeds yesterday.\u00a0 Both fit and energetic they kept at it, moving 9 cubic yards of wood chips with a wheel barrow.\u00a0 That’s minus … Continue reading An Aging Bull Moose<\/span>