All work and no play makes Joe a dull boy

On today's work-ticket

Plant a tree in Southern Belle's orchard. One of the pear trees I planted last year never grew. I will be planting a Galarina apple that is grafted on a MM-111 rootstock. Since the dead pear is in the north row, an overly-large tree will not shade the other trees in the orchard (at least not very much).

---Added at 11:00 a.m.: There were two pear trees that needed replacements. I planted a Winecrisp/MM-111 in the southwest corner and a Galarina/MM111 immediately to the north of that tree. That gives her two Liberty apple trees, one each of Winecrisp, Galarina, Melrose, Fuji, Gold Rush, Harrow Sweet pear, Contender peach and Red Haven peach. She also has five hazelnut bushes, mostly cv. Somerset.--- 

Share some trees with the gentleman who remodeled our bathroom. He is building his own personal house for his retirement years and one of his goals is to produce as much food on the three acres as he can. He also asked for pruning and grafting lessons.

---Added at 6:00 p.m.: This ticket was punched by 4:32 p.m. The gentleman was a quick student and very capable with his eye-hand coordination.--- 

Plant potatoes in the garden. At a minimum, I want to plant forty hills of Red Pontiac for early potatoes. The detail that makes it awkward is that I want to put them in the row closest to the path for ease-of-harvest. I am contemplating moving the path so it runs up the middle of the 100'-by-40' plot. 

---Updated at 1:15 p.m.: I was assisted by Quicksilver in the garden and the Red Pontiac early potatoes are in.

I gave her an 8" long stick to use as a gauge to space the potatoes but she was a little bit unclear on the idea.---

I also decided to split the 100' length into two, 50' sub-parcels for ease of management. The west half is about 4' higher and the soil dries out and warms up more quickly than the east half. The early potatoes will be planted in the west half. That is NOT where they would be planted if I followed my usual "Plant the first items closest to the entrance to the plot" habit or "Start along a fence so the rows are efficiently spaced".

Well, well, well, would you look at that!

 

Twenty-one broccoli transplants into the ground!

Those were not on the work-ticket. Updated 2:30 p.m.

Quicksilver Musical Moment

Dance Monkey How do you say "Joyous abandon"?

Bonus headlines

This hospital treats many patients with "mental health issues"

Evil! Crazy-people need attention the way normal people need oxygen. They are performing for their "tribe" to get the "fix" that they crave.  They do that by inflaming the outrage of "the other side". This will not end well.