I was busy yesterday

I participate in a crew that does highway pick-up three times a year: Spring, Summer and Fall.

The straw-boss divided up the two mile stretch of M-50 into four sections and assigned men to teams for each section.

Yesterday I worked with Dan and Mark. Mark was exceptionally chatty, which is fine because somebody talking makes the work less boring.

Mark listens to a podcast put out by a VERY young priest somewhere down in Texas. The last podcast he listened to was on Luke 8:4-15 which is the parable of the sower who sowed seed on a field and some of the seed fell on the path, some fell on rocky ground, some fell among the thorny and some fell on fertile soil.

The only seed that produced a harvest fell on the good soil and it produced "...a hundredfold...".

The priest's homily took an unexpected turn when he asked his listeners to considered hearing "hundredfold" as "one-hundred percent loving God". 

Then Mark shared that he was born on December 30...and of course he had to look up Mark 12:30 out of curiosity. It reads "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." 

Orchard reports

Saturday, I picked about a hundred pounds of Empire and Melrose apples to finish out the yearly canning of applesauce. I almost missed the Empire. The fell into my hand when I touched them. There were a lot more apples on the trees a week ago.

I got another piece of sheet metal hung on the deer blind. 

I dragged brush out of the tall grass where I had been unable to mow.

I got the mower-blade reinstalled. The "adaptor" I needed was a single 3/4" ID USS washer.

I set the mower deck to the highest setting and started mowing.

Dry and crispy

Image from NASA SPoRT-LiS

 

Close-up. I live somewhere within that white circle.

 

My door-to-door time was 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a 20 minute break to buy and gobble down a piece of gas-station pizza.

Good questions

Shamelessly borrowed from Midwestchick's blog.