Good thing I am retired...

Yesterday was a BIG day. More than four hours time-on-task. That is not something I can do every day at my current fitness level.

Dragging hose, lugging water in 5-gallon buckets, cutting, carrying and stacking wood, pushing a mower, tilling-and-hilling potatoes.

I was focused on work and didn't take many pictures

 

This is a picture of a one-year-old Liberty apple graft. I removed the baby fruit. Allowing them to grow and ripen is likely to "runt-out" the tree.

Potato patch after tilling but before hilling

I have been taking generic loratadine (Claritin) to keep my pollen allergy manageable. It worked OK until about 12:30 when it was overwhelmed by the pollen from a neighbor's mowing. The eye-drops didn't seem to work. I finally took two diphenylhydramine (Benadryl) and that provided some relief.

Today's work-ticket is pretty light. Watch Quicksilver and assemble a weed-whacker (string trimmer). Of course, part of the assembly process is the final quality control check when I run it to trim all of the tall grass around our yard. I also expect to hill more potatoes while the dirt is still light and fluffy.

Please understand that I am not bragging. I am explaining why you are not getting long, thoughtful blog posts. 

The ducks

I did not save the male duck for dinner.

I was not expecting the uproar around the upset pecking order. His best-girlfriend, the Rouen duck turned into a roaring bitch and the other 5 ducks turned against her. I figure that they will be able to sort it out without my input.