Yesterday morning, I got the serviceberry shrubs, kiwi, lilies, and linum in the ground. I haven’t decided yet whether to stick the little apple trees in or not. Probably, but they’ll need some sort of miniature greenhouse or snow support.

As I plant something, I flag it with an orange wire flag. It keeps me from mowing them down, but also provides the visual landscape until the plants themselves are big enough to be seen. I bought a bundle of 100 wire flags in the beginning of the summer. As of yesterday, I have 4 left. That is a respectable planting season. I’m not done, either. Sometime today, if I get around to it, I want to get the onion starts into the ground and some garlic also.

I cleaned the bus out the other afternoon, but I still have to get it set up for my brother and sister in law before tomorrow. Their bed, the bathroom, some jugs of water for hand washing and tooth brushing.

I’ve gotten a few tomatoes from the garden that I will need to cook down before they go off on me. All the little things that need to be done. I should finish cleaning out the garden, too.

It’s definitely fall now. It is getting chillier. Not quite chilly enough to run the stove yet, but close. I still need to set up the log holder, too, and get it filled, and get the kindling and small wood upstairs into the loft to dry out. We will eventually lose the race against winter and I’d like to have as much done as possible.