There has been progress this week.

I got the carrots canned up early Sat morning. It isn’t a lot, but 3 bottles is 3 more than I had before

We got the beginnings of the vineyard in. 2 concord and another red grape I can’t remember, for now. Later there will be more, but it’s a beginning.

This year’s wood arrived the other day. Husband had an unexpected day off today, so while I ran errands, he got a good third of the pile stacked. Once it is all stacked, we will tarp the piles and set it to drying. The small kindle-y stuff will be hauled up to the loft so that it at least is very very dry.

Then after lunch, he and I planted the quinces, the heather, the remaining hyssop, the astilbe. Of the potted plants (not counting tiny seedlings), all I currently have left to go in the ground is my two Issai kiwi.

Also started cleaning out the shed/tent. It has been kind of a catch-all for junk over the last year. There were 30-some-odd empty kerosene jugs alone in there, just tossed on the floor. They’re headed to the recycle.

So, over the rest of the week I have new wood to stack, old wood to split, assess and stack or discard as necessary, there will be more plants coming to put in the ground as mom thins out her orchard.( The seedlings will need to be winter-potted and protected before the snow flies) and I need to get the bus cleaned out and made habitable again, because my brother and SIL are visiting in a couple weeks’ time. They haven’t seen the place since July of last year when it was raw land without even a driveway yet. How things change…